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Well, how much of the money they spend on them came in the form of U.S. foreign aid in the first place?

Who are the suckers?

The UK kind of has to buy them because a carrier without aircraft looks a bit silly.

We have an aircraft carrier again?

It's actually a milk float

Japan for one. When it comes to national defense why would one let another country dictate the defensive posture? That is suicide.

Atleast Japan is trying to actually have a viable solution:

Japan isn't just buying F-35s, they are building them at Nagoya.