Posted on 06/15/2018 1:21:06 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
It would be “inconceivable” for the United States to go through with a deal supplying advanced F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, 44 members of the House of Representatives have warned in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
Turkey, a NATO ally of the United States and a low level partner in the jet’s production, is set to receive the first of 100 of the jets on order at a rollout ceremony in the United States scheduled for Jun. 21.
However, the deal has met with intense resistance from congress, both houses of which have produced bipartisan motions to curtail U.S. weapons sales to Turkey as a reprisal for a growing list of problems souring the countries’ relations.
The senate is expected to vote on a bill to suspend all weapons sales to Turkey before the July 4 holiday period; since the first F-35s could be delivered before then, the letter can be seen as an urgent call to Mattis to stop the deal.
“Contrary to its NATO obligations and the expectations that should govern a responsible ally, Turkey is actively operating to undermine US interests around the world,” the signatories of the letter said.
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Evict Turkey from NATO and never again sell them any US military hardware
I have friends that went their and noticed the changes, and said they would never go back. Why? It was a cosmopolitan fun place to get away as a couple, however one of the couple is Jewish and they saw what was going on and realized they were going to the dark side. I put 2 and 2 together when I read Turkey was a partner on the F-35's engine. Are you freakin' kidding me? How classified is that and you are gonna let them have access to that knowledge and the entire airframe?
Please General, Can this deal and if so thank you!
Amen! No more technology to them. Give them 2nd class NATO status, no top secret sharing, then boot their ragtime fannies out of the club.
Every time someone uses the word ‘inconceivable’ I see that bald guy from The Princess Bride in my head.
For gods sake they murdered many Armenians and now they are trying to do the same to our real allies the Kurds....They also told us to go to hell when we tried to send the 82 airborne thru Turkey to kick the crazy Iraqui ass but they told Powell get outta here time for us to kick them out of NATO and bring them up on charges in the UN...
Bump.
Praying Erdogan will loose badly on the 24th.
Good God, no. But then we stupidly sell to the Saudis as well.
You can all trace them back to them donating to the Clintons. She made a few Billions selling access to America's secrets AGAIN.
Remember how Bill Clinton gave China our most secret nuclear weapon designs via a bunch of uncleared workers ended up at Las Almos Labs and then the laptops that held the designs went missing.
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