Posted on 03/04/2024 6:23:35 AM PST by RandFan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Thursday soundly defeated an effort to stop the $23 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets and modernization kits to Turkey, which President Joe Biden's administration approved after Turkey approved Sweden's joining the NATO alliance.
The Senate voted 79 to 13 against a resolution of disapproval of the sale introduced by Republican Senator Rand Paul.
Before the vote, Paul criticized Turkey's government and said allowing the sale would embolden its "misbehavior." Backers of the sale said it was important for Washington to keep its word to a NATO ally.
The Biden administration formally informed Congress on Jan. 26 of its intention to proceed with the sale of 40 Lockheed Martin F-16s and nearly 80 modernization kits to Turkey, a day after Ankara fully completed ratification of the NATO membership of Sweden.
The sale had been held up for months over issues including Turkey's refusal to approve Sweden's accession to the military alliance. Turkey first asked to make the purchase in October 2021.
The U.S. Arms Export Control Act gives Congress the right to stop a major weapons sale by passing a resolution of disapproval in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Although the law has been in effect for half a century, no such resolution has both passed Congress and survived a presidential veto.
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The voting should be towards any efforts to remove Turkey from nato and keeping advanced technologies out of Islamic hands.
Turkey joined NATO in 1952. At the time, it made a lot of sense. Things have definitely changed, but how to deal with that is the question.
Erdagon is perhaps the most dangerous man on planet Earth. He has taken Turkey from a Republic to a religious dictatorship. Not just any religion but the most evil one of all. He even had American protesters beaten up on America soil while he was here.
In which case they could disable them?
I can’t answer your question, but I do remember thinking it was pretty amazing that I was actually watching a coup take place ON LIVE TV.
That’s a good thought. Think the US has considered that?
My view? A vile horrible place, with nice tourist attractions.
That article is mind bending. “Defeats bid to stop.” Can someone put that in simpler language? Thanks.
The F-16 was ‘advanced’ technology...in 1978
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the 2024 version is a totally different plane that the 1978 version.
The F-16 has been modernized a lot! so there is advanced tech in the latest NATO/US version that the Turks will be getting.
Whatever happened to all those military officer coup plotters in Turkey?
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DEAD
I suspect so..................
I’d bet you the “modern kits” for it wont work without some help
Why does Turkey want these so badly anyway?
Turkey will be getting the same plane as NATO/US. Its not the same as non-NATO countries get.
I suspect so
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Its Turkey, there is no suspecting.
I didn’t want to actually say what happened to these poor souls................
NATO wins another.
NATO is largely running US foreign policy, and the IC.
Is this a double or a triple negative? Defeated the bid to stop the sale ... double cancels each other out so the sale is going thru? I realize this is how DC speaks, but you would think journalists would translate for us.
I no longer care who else is in NATO, but the US needs to get out.
Period.
NATO is actively working against America’s interests.
With the Baltic Sea now a NATO lake, there is no reason to include Turkey as a NATO member. Turkey is no longer a strategic state against Russia considering the Black Sea fleet has been decimated.
” . . . keeping advanced technologies out of Islamic hands.”
AGREE!
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