america wants total dominance, including of its allies. their method of war is based on air strikes. allowing land based long range air is a threat to that dominance.  burger naval forces were allowed to develop medium range aa weapons (sm2, sm6, sm3) because of the soviet bwar, backfire and sunburn weapons systems. selected occupied nations could buy monkey models such as the sm2c that are unable to be fired at american aircraft, ships or drones.
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