The title of this post indicates the outcome of the UK MoD's decision to sell Harriers to the US at bargain basement prices.
We win. They lose. BIG. From the Sun (via Phoenix Think Tank).
Ex-Security Minister Admiral Lord West said that whoever was behind the "joke" £34million sale was "as mad as a box of frogs".
UK taxpayers forked out more than £1BILLION for the iconic jets - up to 40 of which are going to the US Marine Corps for the knock-down price.
Lord West, 63, stormed: "We're in a land of complete madness. Selling these Harriers in this way - well, what a stupid, extraordinary decision.
"It makes one feel that whoever is behind this is as mad as a box of frogs. We're in the extraordinary place where we rely more and more on the US.This is how freedom ends.
If you depend on another for your protection then you're not a Man...or a nation. You're a slave or in the case of a nation a protectorate.
The UK has/is in the process of losing all leverage with the US.
Its not yet too late to turn this around, but its getting close.
But in the meantime, the UK can be proud of one fact. Between the US purchase of the Harriers and the Australian fleecing them on the buy of the Albion class ship, they're at least strengthening allies.
