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The Grand Turk
US says it will force Turkey to choose between NATO and Russian systems - report
2019-03-22
[Rudaw] The United States may soon halt talks on the sale of its F-35 multirole fighter jets to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the most dubious NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
ally....

, if the NATO member continues to pursue a Russian-made missile defense system, a Pentagon brasshat has said.

"The S-400 is a computer. The F-35 is a computer. You don’t hook your computer to your adversary’s computer and that’s basically what we would be doing," Katie Wheelbarger, the acting assistant secretary of the Department of Defense for international security affairs, told Rooters.

The Ottoman Turkish Air Force is currently training at an airfield in the United States, and state-run Anadolu Agency reports the first two F-35s are set to be delivered in November.

However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
Ankara's insistence on obtaining the S-400 system from Russia has US officials reconsidering the sale.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4   How about NATO and Russia put on a demonstration by attacking Turkey?

That would be amusing. I suspect there are still some bad feelings over that Russian pilot who got shot down when he strayed over Turkey and then killed on the ground.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-03-22 22:12  

#3  How about NATO and Russia put on a demonstration by attacking Turkey?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-03-22 17:33  

#2  Coalition of the willing. UKFranceGermany axis of stupidity cannot be helped. Time for them to fish or cut bait.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-03-22 17:23  

#1  The US has slow-walked Turkish expulsion from NATO in the belief it would soon be followed by Germany leaving, and then France. This would result, some believe, in a "hollow shell" in Europe. Others see the departures as inevitable and the re-creation of NATO as necessary in order to surround and minimize Germany's fascist inevitability.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889   2019-03-22 08:27  

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