How stupid do they think we are?
Now this is coming from the CHP, the Kemalist. A real threat to Erdogan's power.
Remember, one of the CHP leaders lead a march from Ankara to Istanbul not long ago under the banner of "Justice" (Turkish: "adalet"). 1 million people gathered near Istanbul at the end of that march.
How stupid do they think we are? Some times, we’re very stupid, unfortunately. We have a strategic air base there to keep closer to the southern Russian border, hence a bargaining chip on the part of the turks, who I believe are still a part of NATO (because of their locale and previous non-islamic government; that’s changed). We’ll see how this plays out, i’m not optimistic at this point.
How stupid do they think we are? Some times, we’re very stupid, unfortunately. We have a strategic air base there to keep closer to the southern Russian border, hence a bargaining chip on the part of the turks, who I believe are still a part of NATO (because of their locale and previous non-islamic government; that’s changed). We’ll see how this plays out, i’m not optimistic at this point.
Turkey is too unstable and power hungry to be selling them any more advanced technology defense / offense systems.
... admission to NATO?
... admission to trading with the west?
The caliphate just wants to break out of history’s refuse bin, but has no productive contribution for mankind benefit. Just more savage piracy
This has been going on for a long time. On 09 Sept 2009 DSCA notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale of nearly $8 billion worth of Patriot missiles, fire units and associated hardware.
Their insistence on receiving all the technology and joint production has been SOP for a long time too, even though they’re aware that’s not going to happen.