This deal is enormous. It's similar sized to the ones Russia usually get India into.
That's a big coup for the South Korean defense industry. Usually, deals of this magnitude are won by the USA or Russia. The South Koreans are gonna be very smug about this defense deal.
So is this the Jai Poland agenda that the Polish leadership is talking about? I wonder if the Polish economy can hang-on till 2026.
Blaszczak should be careful about his statement. It's not Russia he has to worry about. The US had just lost out on this mega deal, how would they take it? America could interpret Poland as doing a deal with South Korea behind their backs.
C'mon are you gonna play white supremacy with the Koreans? Must be the butthurt that the British and the US failed land a mega defense deal like this.
America could tolerate South Korea taking some small slices of the defense market pie. But now that South Korea managed to land a mega defense deal, its gonna attract some American envy. America hates to share, even if you are its ally. Could America sanction the South Korean defense industry one day? Its not as far-fetched as it sounds.
Maybe after China has dealt with intruding US forces, it would be possible to con Poland into buying some aircraft carriers. After all, the PLA is also proven from the challenge of its cross Pacific neighbor, who conduct aggressive diplomacy.
And if the lifts happen to be a few sizes too small and can't fit anything except special J-31 export model... That would be an unfortunate accident.