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📰 France Tries to Trade Greece’s Old Mirages for New Rafales — and Ukraine Gets the Tab Paris is pressing Athens to hand over its Mirage 2000s to Ukraine in exchange for discounted Rafales, which is a neat way of turning an ally’s air force modernization into a weapons brokerage deal. Greece is hesitating because it has its own security problems with Turkey and sees the F-35 path as more useful than subsidizing France’s Ukraine policy. This is not just arms diplomacy. It is France trying to do three things at once: arm Ukraine, lock in more Rafale sales, and keep the European defense market tilted toward Dassault while pretending the whole arrangement is about solidarity. Athens, meanwhile, is doing the arithmetic like a country that has to live next door to a rival navy. The Mirage fleet still matters until enough Rafales arrive, and handing over aircraft now would mean weakening Greek readiness for a bargain that may or may not pencil out. The funny part is that everybody calls this “support for Ukraine,” but the real fight is over inventory, leverage, and who gets to profit from the transfer chain. Ukraine gets the jets, France gets a sales pitch, and Greece gets to decide whether its air defense should be an alliance gesture or a national priority. #France#Greece#Ukraine#Rafale#Mirage2000#F35 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸