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stas ([personal profile] stas) wrote 2025-05-18 04:26 am (UTC)

Which Trump policy? Which reversal? You can't just say "reversal" without specifying - which policy was reversed to which. There's no such thing as "Trump policy" - which policy specifically?

US is of course much closer ally with Israel than with Qatar (though under Obama and Biden that was on shaky grounds) but yes, US was Qatar's ally too for decades, there's a huge US base there.

so either fasten the fabrication

Like, pull out the magic wand and yell "fastenio fabricatio!"? Or how do you see it?

rent/buy something temporary in the interim,

That's what he's doing. Except for some reason you insist the US people must pay for it as much as theoretically possible. I am frankly stunned why there's such an insistence on spending taxpayer's money to finance Qatar. I'd rather find some better use for that money.

cancel the one purchase and forward the money ALREADY put aside on this plane

That money is already paid to Boeing. It's gone. If you cancel the contract now, you can of course pay the same money anew for the new contract - from whom? Who else stands in line to build huge airliners and has top secret security clearance? Name me three alternative companies, please. Not from Boeing, from whom? When it would be ready? What do you propose to do until then?

to accept a "gift" from an enemy

Qatar has never been an enemy of the US. For Heaven's sake, check the facts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Udeid_Air_Base - largest US airbase in the Middle East. You may not like it, I am not ecstatic about it either, but presenting it like US were enemies with Qatar for years and then comes Trump, takes bribes and turns all the policy around is diametrically opposed to the truth. The policy has always been like that, and Trump never ever promised to turn Qatar into the enemy of the US.

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