fricked up flying dorito lmao

Soviets during the Cold War: "you want to buy jets? Here's a shittier version of our already cut-rate jet, we sacrificed all creature comforts, pilot visibility, and electronic features to hit key performance measures. Also we lied about the performance."

Americans during the Cold War: NOOO YOU CANT GET ANYTHING GOOD THE F4 IS TOO DANGEROUS FOR YOU TO BUY YOU HAVE TO BUY THE LOCKSNEED F104 BECAUSE THEY BRIBED YOUR ENTIRE GOVERNMENT AND YOULL OWN THE F5 AND BE HAPPY (unless your are Iran, in which case please buy lots of expensive and high performance jets to arm your future extremist regime in a very predictable way)

The French during the Cold War: "oui oui le Mirage is excellent for le removal of your enemies. No I literally do not care who you are or who they are, the check cleared this morning"