There is never enough money for the military. Shockingly, a very large part of the budget should be voted in solidarity. The new planes will not be enough, the existing ones are not up to the requirements. Almost all of our aircraft do not have any interoperability with partner aircraft.
This is what Boyko Stankushev from the "Anti-Corruption Fund" said. in the show "On focus" on NOVA. "Our neighboring NATO countries have long been with the F-16. Our pilots, good as they are, are still worried. The state has not given them what they need for decades, and they are performing feats. The problem for me is moral - as the state is, so is its defense capability," he said.
Journalist Viktor Ivanov from "24 hours" for his part, he pointed out that the age of combat aircraft is not necessarily linked to their quality. "The crashed plane is not the latest generation, but that does not mean it is broken. It returned from a major overhaul in June this year. The problems in the SJC are that extremely little funding is allocated for training, they cannot carry out their exercises, but they have to cope", he pointed out.
Regarding the Foreign Agents Act of "Revival" Stankushev commented that Kostadinov had a different opinion years ago. "His family benefits from Western money," he added.
In turn, Ivanov called ironically for the law to be passed - so that the leader of "Revival" to register as a foreign agent "because of his excursion to Moscow". "This way he will be denied access to public institutions," he added.
On the subject of the conflict in the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Stankushev noted that there are actually 5 factions. "At the moment, two of them are bigger and louder, but there are actually three more smaller ones. They will not pass the 4% barrier. Talking about DPS is useful because the discord is caused by division and control of cash flows. These are two oligarchic wings with a common genesis," he expressed his opinion.
For Viktor Ivanov, it is completely unclear what will happen with the internal party dispute in the DPS. He predicts another early election - in April 2025.