It’s time to talk about Trump’s ‘Kill Switch!’ The switch that will bring an end to EU’s warmongering against Russia once and for all.
We know that US supplies Europe with a lot of weapons, jets and missiles. Who gets to earn money from that?
The MIC or the military industrial complex.
Trump from day 1 is on a mission to destroy this MIC and the US deep state. Once this MIC is dismantled, the flow of weapons to Europe will stop.
And that’s where the things are heading right now. German policymakers are increasingly worried that the US could remotely disable the F-35 fighter jets being delivered to Berlin, similar to how it recently froze intelligence and military support to Ukraine.
Germany’s Air Force is set to receive 35 American-made F-35A Lightning jets starting next year under a $9 billion deal. However, some German officials fear that US President Donald Trump, who has clashed with the EU on various issues, could use a ‘kill switch’ to ground the aircraft if Washington and European capitals disagree on handling a potential conflict with Russia.
Joachim Schranzhofer, head of communications at German defense firm Hensoldt, told Bild newspaper of Germany that “The ‘kill switch’ in the F-35 is more than just a rumor.
Wolfgang Ischinger, former president of the Munich Security Conference Foundation, has raised concerns about the F35 contract’s future.
He said, “If we have to fear that the US could do with future German F-35s what they are currently doing with Ukraine, we could consider killing the contract.”
Similar concerns were echoed in a Financial Times report. Defense analyst Richard Aboulafia suggested that while the existence of a kill switch has never been confirmed, “If you postulate the existence of something that can be done with a little bit of software code, it exists.”
Other experts pointed out that modern fighter jets are highly dependent on their original vendors. Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, noted that most European militaries rely heavily on the US for communication systems, electronic warfare support, and ammunition resupply during conflicts.
These concerns and doubts over US credibility emerged after the US halted military and intelligence aid to Ukraine following a heated exchange between Trump and Zelenskyy late last month.
The F-35 program is the most expensive military project in history, with lifetime costs projected to exceed $1.7 trillion. Since the first F-35 flew in 2006, the program has faced cost overruns, delays, and reliability issues. Over 1,100 jets have been produced, with many supplied to US allies.
But here is the thing whether one likes it or not, Trump wants to deliberately make US a less-reliable defence ally of Europe. He has had enough of this NATO’s nonsense, where US is left alone to foot the bill of EU’s security. To have peace in this world, EU’s constant war-mongering attitude needs to be tamed. And that’s exactly what Trump seems to be doing here.
What if the defence trade between US and EU collapses? The MIC will be the real loser here.
And Europeans can any day focus more on developing indigenous jets and missiles. And if they can’t, they should just stop roaming around the world thumping their chest and shed their provocative, war-mongering policies against Russia.
