Saudi Arabia requests the anticipation to acquisition 48 F-35 versions A aircraft and preliminary consent was given by president Donald Trump. Previously, the closest acquisition of these machines was the United arabian Emirates. At the end of their first word [Donald Trump and his cabinet agreed to sale Lightning II to that country](https://defence24.pl/geopolitics/non-only-f-35-large-shopping-unified-emiratow-Arabic-commentary), but yet all [the process was cancelled by Joe Biden's administration](https://defence24.pl/industry/emirati-without-f-35-dubay-non-gage-on-conditions-bidena-commentary). The UAE's military cooperation with China raised doubts, from which the Emirates presently import large quantities of weapons of different classes. It is besides worth adding that in many conflicts in the world, the UAE is on a different side than the collective West, for example in Libya and that is the case in Sudan. However, the UAE agreed to normalize relations with Israel, and this, alongside the anticipation of declaring commercial success, was the most crucial for Donald Trump's first cabinet.