I imagine the corporations don't make those sales directly, they go through the government. The budget isnt just buying the air craft, theyre developing it, which means the design is technically government property.

That means less cash flow in, reduced RoI, and ultimately smalled budgets

Perhaps, but greedy people who are willing to make weapons that kill children will definitely at least be annoyed that they're losing billions internationally. They're greedy corporations, after all.

The cold war took a while to end and people saw it coming.

If you had asked about f35 sales two months ago, no one in the industry would have predicted this shit

Give 'em a few months. Gotta find the right patsy afterall

There's a third way where we still lose.

Billionaires losing billions of foreign government investment lobby to have their losses made up by domestic government investment with funds derived from cuts to social services.

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follow up question, how is this on a mixroblog