Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "United States F-35 vs French Rafale - Which would win?" video.

@zzaronn Except you do. France literally ran out of bombs in its campaign with Libya and ran to the US pleading for support. France can't do anything without US aid, currently.
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@zzaronn France and the UK were the ones to initiate the war, smart one. France begged the US to come in later when it proved it couldn't do it by itself. The US tried to stay out, but the US has an eye on pleasing its allies every now and again so entered just to please France's government. Even now, the US helps France's geopolitical goals in West Africa by handling almost all logistics for it. Again, France is utterly dependent on the US. There is no getting around this fact. If the US tried hard to make Europe shitty, then it'd have simply never done the Marshall Plan and just dominated Europe economically like Europe had to the rest of the world while inundating it with propaganda and troops to keep it in line. The US had the ability to do MUCH to keep Europe done, but chose to treat it as relative equals.
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@Sylgwael US at no point considered actually splitting Germany into pieces, you weirdo. There were suggestions of it, but it never actually reached consideration. The only one seriously considering that was France, and can you blame it? And blaming the US for Germany having a shit nuclear aptitude is just childish. That's all Germany's fault, not the US'. Compared to what Germany would have done, the US is a literal saint Post-WW2. Not to mention the US doing its best to care for Germany in the Inter-War period for humanitarian reasons. But Germans don't give a shit.
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@fl00fydragon It's unlikely the EU can do even half of what the US could in terms of military production with the US budget. Look at the ESA for proof of that, where considerations of where certain equipment/infrastructure/parts comes from is even more important than efficiency. In short, instead of paying for cheap in, say, a high manufacturing area like Germany -the ESA has to purchase parts from more expensive areas in the EU to maintain support from the member states to the ESA. That plagues any sense of efficient spending far more than the US ever could. Fact is, the EU is a bureaucratic nightmare. Though to be fair, many countries within the EU are also that when it comes to discretionary spending in things like military or space. Think Germany and its issues with military spending ACTUALLY reaching its military.
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@antoinedalens6859 Actually, arguably, the US saved France three times. First in WW1 when Germany's Eastern Front collapsed led to reinforcements reaching the Western Front. Germany had the ability to last several more years with that event, and France's lines were on the verge of collapse due to mutiny and endless war. It was the US joining in the war that elevated French morale, supplies, and vigor and forced Germany to recklessly attack and break the French liens before the US arrived in greater numbers. WW2 is obvious. And the third time was shielding Western Europe from the Soviet Bloc. I'm not really being snide here, that's just history.
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