Bill Sweetman reports at Aviation Week‘s Ares blog that U.S. demands that the Netherlands uphold their obligation to purchase two Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft this year may well bring down the current government. The Defense Minister has made his case to the Dutch Parliament in favor of the purchase, but the opposition is threatening a motion of no confidence over the matter. One MP critical of the purchase is quoted mocking the defense minister: “We are not speaking with the Secretary of State for Defense, but with a lobbyist for Lockheed Martin.” All of which leads Sweetman to ask:

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