Lockheed Martin’s $1.7 Trillion F-35 Fighter Jet is 10 Years Late and 80% Over Budget—and It Could Be One of the Pentagon’s Biggest Success Stories

One Sunday in early 2022, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave a speech that reversed more than 70 years of pacifist foreign policy in his nation. Vladimir Putin had just invaded Ukraine, and Scholz’s address to parliament was short, urgent, and written for the ages.