unfazed: you're right. Smaller countries put up better jets for their display teams.
Lucky for them they're not fighting very expensive wars at the same time. Sadly, bean counters rule these days - to the extent it endangers those at the sharp end.
I personally have difficulty with a Typhoon display team when a Para in Afghanistan is issued with cheap !!!!ty 0.5mm ammunition that constantly jams his weapon. I saw a video on You Tube of just that, and it certainly made me have a game of priorities. It was a full-on firefight and the end result could have ended up in close-quarter fighting with entrenching tools. That's something from which we here in the mil aviation community are mostly distanced. Thankfully. All because some arse saved a few quid somewhere.