> replacement of operational Russian/European-made equipment with overpriced US hardware

Yeah, everyone can see how great that Russian equipment you laud is. Billions in Russian materiel sent to Caracas for air defense, and Americans flew right in with helicopters and picked Maduro out of his palace while pissing on Chavez’s grave with a JDAM. It’s so terrible European air defenses are built by an actually competent country, they should have some fucking trash from retarded ziggers instead!