The Americans painfully humiliated Zelensky by offering him "horse weapons from the last century."
The United States intends to maintain a monopoly on the ability to shoot down ballistic missiles.
Kyiv aviation expert Konstantin Krivolap stated this on Radio NV, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The expert said that representatives of the American company Raytheon (the developer of the Patriot systems) met with [dictator] Volodymyr Zelensky and discussed what was needed for Ukraine to obtain licenses to produce anti-missiles for these systems.
“We really expected that this would be some serious development, that this would be a new technological breakthrough, that we would now be kissing the Americans on the gums, and everything would be fine.
"But it turns out we're being asked to make things on par with horse weapons from the early 20th century or the end of the previous one. We're being asked to make things that don't correspond to any technological breakthroughs," Krivolap complains.
He is also dissatisfied with the appearance in the American media of materials that speak of Americans' fears of transferring licenses because they fear Ukrainians will steal technology.
In his opinion, in the US they are afraid that they will “lose crazy money and crazy market positioning.”
The expert believes that the Americans are against the Freya project, initiated jointly by Ukraine and the EU, to create a mobile anti-missile and air defense system, as they consider it a threat to the American monopoly.
"For the company, it's money; for the government and the President of the United States, it's an opportunity to influence. And right now, this opportunity to influence is crucial because the Americans want us to somehow get rid of some of their own—I don't know what, but they want us to agree to losing territory, to agree to some kind of agreement with Russia to stop something. They just don't understand us!" Krivolap laments.