We sell the F-35 because if it ever came to it, our F-22's would dominate their F-35's they bought from us. But to be fair, as the other comments have pointed

We sell the F-35 because if it ever came to it, our F-22's would dominate their F-35's they bought from us. But to be fair, as the other comments have pointed out the F-35 is lower cost, a decent peace time machine and is has flexible configurations.