France lets us pay the price for Iraq (4000 dead) with no help; then they attack Microsoft and fine them 1.3 BILLION! dollars, so naturally we give them a $40 billion contract.
We are total fools/chumps. Politicians are ruining this nation.
It’s a miracle this country is still around.
I agree with you. This is not a simple bottom line deal. With the infusion of money from the USAF, Airbus will use it to strengthen their commercial development to take the commercial air business from Boeing. You do not see France buying US weapon systems for their military, when it is probably cheaper for them to tap into are larger production volumes (French military buys at lower volumes than larger US DoD). France understands that profits from the military side of a business can be applied to the commercial side also.
There is still hope...for the liberals. They are giving it away at a prodigious rate. And the conservatives are trying to match them!