It is spelled Rafale (squall) not Rafael. And for the moment a sale of Rafale to Lybia is just a rumor, like there are other rumors about Eurofighter going to Lybia or Sukhoi and Mig going to Lybia.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Concerning the Rafaels, arms trading always is trading of weapons, and no "funding of further developements".
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I disagree, arms trading is about trading weapons AND funding of further developments lol.
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Trading military goods and wapons I always consider not only to be totally immoral, but a huge mistake. You do not give somebody else the knife that eventually lands between your ribs, or kills other people you do not knopw and have no quarrel with. That is no Realpolitik, that is simply silly. And it has caused the world a whole heap of troubles and wars and mass killings and support of dictatorships and tribal wars and ethnic cleansings and the whole bloody mess you see in places like Africa. that are Russian, Chinese, european and american weapons people in Darfhur get slaughtered with.
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I am afraid the whole world is immoral and that is not going to change anytime soon. You must not be very happy with the sale of Eurofighter to Saudi Arabia then.