>rfk jr is billions of light-years ahead of trump on this issue
What makes you think that?
History repeats
Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero-sen
Western nations had convinced themselves anything the Japanese had was an inferior copy of a Western design. The Curtiss 75 Hawk and Brewster Buffalo were considered more than a match for anything the Japanese could throw into a fight. Even when the "Flying Tigers" encountered the Zero and sent intel back to the States, the reports were blown off as exaggerations. The garrisons at Wake Island and the Philipines found out the hard way