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Despite their success with modern drone technology, they are insistent on trying to buy flying junk like the F35 and now the F16. Clearly their military brass i
by 1cvmask 5y ago
Despite their success with modern drone technology, they are insistent on trying to buy flying junk like the F35 and now the F16. Clearly their military brass is full of boneheads as well. Seems like a universal attribute or a job requirement.
And separate from the technical merits of how bad the F35 and F16 is the only country that has placed arms embargoes on Turkey is the US. And the US openly arms terrorists in northern Syria with weaponry to bomb and attack Turkey. And their military STILL want to buy F16s from the US. Either they are real real dumb or financially incentivized. To paraphrase and mangle Hanlons razor don’t ascribe to stupidity what can be explained by corruption.
- mrtksn 5y agoMaybe they want to buy a few so to improve the relations with US and NATO? Many believe that Turkey bought S-400 for political reasons(to fix the problems with Russia after downing a Russian warplane back in 2015) and not to really use them. Historically, Turkey's primary rival is Russia. Whatever the reason is, I don't like the "If the people in power must know what are they doing" mentality. Many times they don't or do it for way different reasons than the apparent one. Turkey is also developing its own fighter, with support from the UK.
- 1cvmask 5y agoThe only open enemy of Turkey is the US. The US has been covertly arming terrorists against Turkey since Kissinger. Since Obama they have been openly arming terrorists against Turkey. Russia may not be an ally but Turkeys enemy has always been the US since Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.