The Swiss government will ​continue to withhold payments to the ‌United States for a Patriot missile system order until Washington provides binding delivery dates, adding that terminating the purchase ​is an option, it said on Wednesday.

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        I hope one day we mature as a species and abandon militarism. It’s a VERY faint hope. Until then, yes. Build your own.

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        They are good if experienced Ukrainians operate them. In the gulf they suck.

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          They’re incredibly expensive to use, drones aren’t. They’re using patriots to fight drones because our military is a bloated corpse that hasn’t won a large conflict in decades. We’re going to burn billions and it’ll cost the Iranians millions. The Iranians learned from Ukraine, the US appears to have not.