• SarcasticMan@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I don’t get the whole uproar on this one. Trump made a deal with Qatar in 2017 for F-15s and training. Biden made a deal with Qatar in 2022 for drones and training. Now they are coming to train as per the two deals. Am I missing something?

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      14 days ago

      We don’t even have an Israeli air force base.

      We have no foreign bases.

      If I’m wrong about that this is the first I’m hearing of it in the 30 years of whatever the fuck this not reality experience is.

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        14 days ago

        Singapore has had a contingent in Mountain Home since 2008. They train on F-15s.

        The Qatar deal is similar it just seems they are going to have their own facility unlike Singapore which is embedded with the 428th fighter squadron.

        It is my understanding that this isn’t the Qatar government building an airbase in Idaho but a facility inside a US base in Idaho.

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      13 days ago

      I’m guessing racists don’t want no ay-rabs setting a base up near them, and prob feel betrayed that their orange idol would allow such a thing