Posturing is easy. Facts are more challenging.
The US shut down Israel's Lavi fighter program for two very simple reasons:
1. It was an extraordinarily expensive program and the US was expected to pay for it.
2. It relied on key US components and technologies. It literally couldn't taxi out of a hangar without these US inputs. Yet it would have directly competed with US aircraft, inflicting yet further losses on the US economy.
Short version: The US shut down the Lavi because it was basically a US program.
Next time also have the integrity to tell your readers how Israel sold key technologies involved in the cancelled Lavi program, including US technologies, to China.
For further details see Dov Zakheim, Flight of The Lavi (1996). Zakheim was a senior Pentagon official during the Reagan administration tasked with investigating this program and played a key role in shutting it down.
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