Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Adventures in Gun Running: Iran || Peter Zeihan" video.

South Korean industry was handed to them by the US. They went from an agricultural society fertilizing rice paddies with their own feces to a little Asian powerhouse overnight. That was US tech delivered to them. I was stationed there and have deployed there since. It was crazy to see how much they changed in such a short time.
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@AliceinWonderlandzz Marilyn Monroe worked at a drone factory during WWII. The US had drones in Vietnam that no nation has caught up to still. We never stopped developing all types of different UAS and even Unmanned Space Systems with reusable/reentry capability.
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UAE had their own F-16E/F Desert Falcons developed specifically for them. Unit cost was over $200 million each, whereas an F-35A is $77.9 million. UAE went all-out on the F-16E/F, even got their own engine for it from GE with 32,000lb thrust. Test pilots who worked on other test programs said it was the most smoothly-run fighter they had ever been involved with for the development cycle, mainly because the Pentagon wasn’t really involved. It was just Lockheed and UAE working together.
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One problem with your premise though is that the Nation with the biggest budget developed drones of all types and has been working on them feverishly since WWII. It’s the only Nation that has everything from unmanned reusable re-entry vehicle drones that run lengthy space missions and high altitude/high endurance ISR drones, down to handheld micro drones deployed by soldiers....in addition to the thousands of fighters in its Air Force, Navy, and Marines, surface warfare vessels, super carriers, amphibious assault/light helicopter deck carriers, nuclear submarines, attack submarines, heavy lift transports, tanks, APCs, attack helicopters, etc. The little nation with a minuscule defense budget stands no chance against such a Nation.
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@goldiga3935 Inside job. Someone from Obama/Biden Administration helped Iran. Look at who was in the cabinet. Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran. Why? Because her dad was a Soviet asset living in the US on a watch list. He was tipped off that FBI was about to arrest him for espionage, so he packed up and fled through a rat line and went to live in Iran where he could evade extradition. The story about RQ-170 is very detailed and filled with layers most will never know.
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