[CondoleezzaProtege]

That is a large part of what the war games theater extravaganza was about. Sales pitch for their weaponry.

[MichaelCorleone]

The finger should be pointed at Turkey for doing this. They are (supposedly) part of NATO and has no business to make these types of purchases from anyone but a NATO ally.

The Deep State/NeoCon cabal overplayed their hand with almost daily propaganda to turn public opinion in favor of war, or a proxy war in Syria, with Russia.

A lot has to be taken with a grain of salt.

[piytar]

(1) Turkey is not an ally.

(2) Turkey should be kicked out of NATO.

(3) If Turkey disputes (1) or (2), they should give the US full access to the S-400 for intel, reverse engineering, and other purposes.

[Robert DeLong]

There’s another way to look at this, though given that it’s Turkey that bought it probably not the case, but it gives us a chance to examine the weapon closely and determine its weaknesses.

[rlmorel]

Turkey is not our friend and has not been our friend for a long time.

[familyop]

Well, look who just showed up again: the most trusted names in journalism.

[thoughtomator]

> Turkey is a NATO ally

Turkey is in NATO yes, but “ally” is highly disputable.

[Redwood71]

You can only destroy the world and kill everyone on it once. Selling everyone a weapon is a redundant effort to get to that point. If you give it to enough people from third world countries that have nothing to lose like North Korea or Turkey, and they have a nitwit leader that wants to go out with his name on TV, for about a a minute, then we really can’t do anything to stop it, can we, except make sure they don’t get it? Wasn’t that what was decided with Russia

U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower called for the creation of an international atomic energy agency Discussions on a nonproliferation treaty at the UN in 1959, and after multiple rounds of drafts, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is signed on July 1, 1968. The measure recognizes the five existing nuclear-weapons states at the time—China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States—and guarantees other signatories the right to civilian nuclear technology subject to IAEA safeguards, but prohibits them from acquiring nuclear weapons capabilities. Lot of good that did.

So it has nothing to do with what they have, but who within them has it for use. And again, we. nor anyone else, has any say in it.

rwood