CNN: China to Supply Iran With Man-Portable Air Defense Systems

We could have sent more!

I mean Ukraine has also been a testing hot bed for a lot of european countries too.. MBDA and Rhinemetal have tested a lot of stuff out in Ukraine.

[Historical context](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z04vqrSNaB4)

Germany is by far the biggest supporter of Ukraine…. That first helmet shipment was a direct order from Ukraine too.

Face it, after years of insults and tariffs from trump they aren’t the ally you think they are. Only trumpers will keep sucking his c*** after he degrades and insults them. #bebest!

There can be 2 bad guys simultaneously

There were no good guys in Cold War I, there will be no good guys in Cold War II

Weapons testing and a chance to thin out your adversaries military without having your kids do the dying.

Not how it works. The West has a bunch of outdated techs that will need to decommissioned anyway, and shipping it to Ukraine for field usage before just scrapping it was a cheaper option. The US would happily give it away for free. In fact it was a great win for US, because the western nation were sending cheaper, older generations F-16s to Ukraine, or selling it to ex-Soviet nations who is having a hard time buying Russian parts, so the west can buy more F-35s from the US. The US even resurrected the F-16 program with cheaper options and builds to sell to east Europe or South East Asia markets. The mineral right is just smoke and mirror: Trump made an optic out of Ukraine being a ploy of globalists to launder money and cheat Americans out of their money, so negotiating mineral rights is Trump posturing about his brand as a deal negotiator, clawing back the money wasted away by Biden. Seriously, this argument about mineral makes zero sense: the reserves are located mostly in the eastern front of Ukraine which means any infrastructure built for extraction risks getting bombed by partisans from either sides. The fact is that despite getting the rights, no American company is seriously thinking about investing into extracting it, nor is Trump sending more weapons to protect that right. The support of Ukraine was a bipartisan issue, with support from both sides, until Trump ran his mouth and used it as a narrative about Biden's weakness and corruption to get re-elect.

No, it's just advantageous for Russia's enemies to bleed it out over as long as time period as possible. The prolonged conflict hurts Russia the longer it goes on and means it won't open a second front (since it's preoccupied in Ukraine).

There’s also the added cost of the enemy (US in this case) gathering data on the tech you’re sending and potentially capturing some in the field. You don’t risk losing a potential competitive edge over a relatively small payout, especially if you have the economy of China.

China may be a totalitarian oppressive government, but they love their stability and Donald Trump represents chaos. He loves to weaponize economies for fun and personal profit. I wouldn't be surprised if the current opinion of China's government is they actually consider him personally more dangerous than NATO, because at least NATO is a stable body they can work+plan around.

Google tells me a single F35 is $100 million. Thats a lot of money to stake it by flying low.

Absolutely. 

And that’s probably the point “They can be defeated by just flying high, but that comes at the cost of making finding anything on the ground much harder.” Deterrence. Their win is probably just getting the f35s to leave rather than downing them.

Was the F-35 hit confirmed? In any case, yes I wouldn't be surprised if these things can down a stealth jet, if it flies close enough. And given that any bloke hiding in a shed can pop out and fire one in seconds, you can't exactly be sure that the field is clear.

> a manpad Minor nitpick: The "S" in manpads stands for "system" and does not make the word plural.

Yeah that was quite the feat. Not at all what these weapons were designed for nor likely to ever be replicated again, definitely not against a fighter jet.

And yet everyone of our political leaders is doing jack squat to stop him. Our military is putting our troops at risk for Trumps urge to please Putin.

More like japans invasion of manchuko in 1931 or 1932

I thought it was more the Spanish Civil War in the early 1936. That was the testing ground for propaganda and all of the new technology, including airplanes. Guernica isn't just a famous Picaso painting, it is about the horrific bombings that became common in World War 2 with London, Dresden and others.

1937*

Japan be like: “Hey, I dunno what you saying but don’t get distracted with old story and go back to talking about China giving Iran military support.”

More like Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. That was the moment that demonstrated that the international order had no answer to expansionist wars of aggression.

I hope Europe this time will not be involved, at least in the EU territory. I think is time this time Poland won't be 3rd time Frontline. We are still rebuilding our shit after WW2

Wouldn’t the knowledge of “mutually assured destruction” make all superpowers more reluctant to ever use thermonuclear weapons in war?

Nuclear powers will definitely fight each other if a truly global war breaks out but I seriously doubt anyone is going to jump in with nuclear weapons from the outset. I could be wrong, of course. With the upside being that if it does open with nukes, I won't be around long enough to feel like a dumbass for doubting it.

Just because the first 2 involved extensive fighting in Europe doesn't mean the 3rd one has to. I'm sure they'll be involved in some way though

Everyone with a weaker neighbor will start there. It will continue until 3 or 4 powers have conquered all the independent countries and an uneasy stalemate is in force between the superpowers. Remember we have always been at war with ~~Eurasia~~ Oceania.

AMC and Nicole Kidman

Right? But no one cares about Africa until they affect rich countries’ interests.

Disaster capitalists at their finest. Farage and Johnson probably only made a few million off the multi billion catastrophe that was brexit.

Nope, like history's repeat button is stuck.

>"A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."

Yeah but the Chinese dont even have the decency to launder it through narco terrorists.

Number 2 tractor prostitute in all of Kazakhstan.

Nah they're all about potassium exports

You are right, it's just that if someone was shocked that China would have any kind of manpad that they made it's obvious they don't know what they are talking about.

And what France did in the American Colonies

I wouldn't go that far.... The US has clearly been annoyed at Russia at least as far back as when they were meddling in Syria during Obama, or attacking Georgia during Bush.