It’s not just the engines. The APU is a Honeywell, who is also supplying avionics. The FBW and active side-sticks is a French subsidiary of Collins. Thales are also involved on the avionics side, and I’ll bet it’s also western components running the flight control, pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
Yes the message out of Russia seems to be “We’ll just slap on a pair of vastly inferior dunks and, woop-de-doo, look at us go!"
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EDLB
...with the GDP of Spain..
And they’ve added a financial war with all of Europe to their military war in Ukraine, which was the major source of the Spain sized and almost completely energy based GDP.
A small p*rck, megalomaniac tendencies, a fascist streak and imperial ambitions never a healthy mixture was.