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Trump Backs Away From Deal to Let Ukraine Build Patriot Missiles (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 points 5 hours ago

And the US giving Ukraine a license to make Patriots could have had the effect of diverting resources from the sovereign interceptor programme to the tried and tested one, ensuring US influence and licensing revenue for years to come, not to mention reducing the risk of competition in the export market (the Ukrainian-European venture that makes whatever replaces Patriot will have ready export markets for it, in Taiwan/Japan/the Philippines and the Persian Gulf to name two regions).