Posted on 07/30/2024 8:19:17 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
The true scandal, however, is that if Turkey were to act against Israel, it likely would do so with American weaponry. Certainly, Turkey has its own domestic military industry, largely built on cribbed and stolen American technology, but Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan pushed through Congress a significant upgrade of Turkey’s airpower, essentially rewarding Erdogan’s NATO extortion. Sullivan thought the deal sophisticated and Kissinger-esque, but in actuality, it reflected his ignorance of Erdogan’s true motivations and his failure to understand that Kissinger’s legacy was a net-negative in the Eastern Mediterranean. Certainly, Israel’s F-35s trump Turkey’s F-16s, but the avionics upgrades Biden blessed still mean Turkey has significant lethality. Rewarding Erdogan’s antics rather than tying military relations to an end to Turkey’s northern Cyprus occupation also gives Turkey a forward pad from which to launch its drones or missiles. Indeed, Turkey has already bragged that Geçitkale, as it renamed the occupied Lefkoniko Air Base, will be a drone base from which it can strike all of Israel.
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Scripture might be inerrant. People’s interpretation of Scripture isn’t.
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Good to see you are at the very least consulting Scripture.
The ONLY people who win in war are the MIC...and the elites who want you dead.
Greece would likely help some, yes (but it wouldn’t be needed as the job would be essentially completed very quickly)
Their notes explaining Scripture are at odds with Dispensationalism.
Only effective against low flying aircraft.
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