To make this extra clear, the F22 is an actual modern warplane. The f35 is a giant transfer of money to the military industrial complex, a plane that can't actually fight off a real enemy but it can bomb the shit out of whatever poor schmuck the US wants to kill that day.

By not buying the F22 and focusing on the f35 the Americans are making it abundantly clear they are not building weapons to defend themselves but are building weapons to oppress others.

The F22 is a plane vs plane type of fighter, it's purpose is to defend against an enemy that can genuinely hurt the people of the United States (China and Russia mostly). The f35 is only good at bombing poor people who opposed American imperialism in some way (good or bad).

By getting rid of our f22s Ava buying more f35s the American administrations are making it abundantly obvious that the American government has no care whatsoever in defending it's people from attack (aka the entire point of a military) and only cares about subjugating people around the world (or in America itself).

This is one of the most obvious and impossible to deny arguments I've seen when it comes to convincing normies (yes I hate that word too) of what the actual goals of US foreign policy are I know it may seem obvious to some of you but it really isn't to them having grown up in propaganda daily.