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US refused to sell Patriot missile system to Turkey. It also refused to sell it's F-35 fighter jets before Turkey formally requested to buy S-400 anti-air missi
by wheelerof4te 5y ago
US refused to sell Patriot missile system to Turkey. It also refused to sell it's F-35 fighter jets before Turkey formally requested to buy S-400 anti-air missile system.
US knows that it cannot keep Turkey on a leash like it can, for example, France or Greece. So it does not want to sell it weapons, in case Turkey ever becomes a "problem" (read too powerful to control).
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> in case Turkey ever becomes a "problem" (read too powerful to control) Is this honestly the line Turks are being fed? The concern is Turkey becoming a failed state and terrorist hotbed, for the U.S. and Russia, and a new migrant source, for the EU. If Turkey could reliably project force in the region, it would solve a lot of American strategic problems.
- wheelerof4te 5y ago"The concern is Turkey becoming a failed state..." Of course, there is a real danger of that happening. Turkey can indeed become a failed state...if USA attempts another coup or color revolution. Look, there are multitude of concurrent attacks, both military (inside Syria by using Kurds/SDF) and economic being made agains Turkey for it's failure to be a "good NATO ally". I don't like Erdogan, and I care not about what happens to him. Turks do, though. Many people will die if Turkey turns into another Iraq, Libya or Syria. And I don't want that to happen.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> if USA attempts another coup or color revolution The article this thread attached to is about home-grown economic orbital bombardment. If the Anatolian elite can keep the populace distracted by phantom foreign threats, they’ll succeed in extracting their wealth before the house falls.