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2020-11-17 Europe

Greece has submitted an official request to buy F-35 fighter jets from the US

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Posted by Fred 2020-11-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 Every Greek F-35 should be delivered with a kill marking for the F-35 Turkey didn't get.

Posted by Marilyn Hapsburg2880 2020-11-17 04:16|| 2020-11-17 04:16|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Get the money up front. Otherwise, go for it.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-11-17 04:25|| 2020-11-17 04:25|| Front Page Top

#3 To this day I have never understood why NATO and/or U.S. planes from the Hellenic (Greek) Air Force Base at Crete were not used to respond to the attack on US compounds at Benghazi.

Posted by b 2020-11-17 08:31|| 2020-11-17 08:31|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Benghazi was a Clinton-Klingon operation/cock-up. The 'Dogs of War' were called off. The now 'memory holed' Egyptian Coptic Christian Mr. Nikola Basseley Nakoula was set up to take the blame. Susan Rice, a supportive media, and the FBI were on top of it, as directed.

Denial, damage control, obfuscation, the fog of war. "What difference does it make?"

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-17 08:39|| 2020-11-17 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 You imply that Gen. Martin Dempsey, JCS, was on the take. Right?

Posted by b 2020-11-17 09:29|| 2020-11-17 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 So is Merkel gonna lend them the money for it?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-11-17 11:42|| 2020-11-17 11:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Ref #5: I have no idea b.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-11-17 11:50|| 2020-11-17 11:50|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought Greece was surviving on cash infusions from Germany. How can they afford F-35s?

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-11-17 12:34|| 2020-11-17 12:34|| Front Page Top

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