If the Americans thought that BAE was anything other than an American company, then not only would it have no privileged access to the American defence market, but it would have no access whatever to the American defence market. The existence of that access manifests our status as a vassal state.
The British public used to own BAE, indeed it was created by the action of Her Majesty's Government. Yet the only question around it now is whether it should be owned outright by the French Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany, or treated for all practical purposes as the property of the United States of America.
Why can it not be both? Some way may yet be found. But in any event, what a perfect illustration of the condition to which this United Kingdom has descended.
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