Posted on 01/27/2024 3:55:42 AM PST by FarCenter
Ending months of negotiations, the US government on Friday approved a $23 billion deal to sell F-16 warplanes to Turkey, after Ankara ratified Sweden's NATO membership, the State Department said.
As required by US law, the State Department notified Congress of the agreement, as well as a separate $8.6 billion sale of 40 F-35s to Greece.
Turkey will get 40 new F-16s and upgrades to 79 of the jets in its existing fleet, the State Department said in a news release.
The United States did not green light the transaction until Turkey's instruments of ratification of Sweden's membership had arrived in Washington, a US official said, highlighting the highly sensitive nature of the negotiations.
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That three pounds of plastique in the nose cone will last for years awaiting a detonator signal from a NASA satellite.
Why not sell some nukes to Iran while your at it Biden???
Hey, no problemo. I’m sure Erdoğan will be just a faithful to NATO as Biden is to the US ... oh wait, I’ve warped onto the wrong universe again.
So we just sold more hardware to Erdogan. Getting ready for Ezekiel 38.
Yeah...we’re gonna regret this.
Blackmail is such a negative word.
Turkey continues to play us. We can land there but only by paying through the nose. And that payment rises each time. When the time comes, Russia will slip them a few extra rubles and they’ll immediately turn their backs on the US.
Selling weapons to Turkey is great for the military industrial complex.
Mysteriously those weapons will show up in the hands of folks who shoot at us—then we need to fight another country or gang of terrorists.
“Turkey is our friend” is absurd on its face.
Rubles are worthless. Russia is in economic trouble
The money Could come from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but Erdogan refuses the attached strings.
He is somehow muddling through with a 70%+ inflation rate
I hope you are not in a professional position that deals with life or death situations. Your ideas are as dangerous as transing children.
NATO is a clear and present danger to the US. Turkey is clearly aligned more with Islam than Christianity, and selling arms to foreign nations is the exact act that Kruschev describes. “Selling our enemy the rope to hang us with”.
The more weapons in OUR hands, make us safe. In OTHERS HANDS? Insanity. America is the most hated nation in the world.
When the goods and money stops, those within our borders, likely 50 million with no tie to History. 100 Million, my estimate, or the production from our School systems HATE THEMSELVES. How does defending, or actually O’ffending others bring us to safety? It hasn’t worked since WW1. Every act we commit, makes us more hated. The only thing others want, is OUR MONEY.
Internationally, we as taxpayers are funding a worldwide Gestapo, that when our run is over, there will be internationalists judging us as War criminals.
The only thing that really matters for a Nation to do, is to care for their own people. On that yardstick, the Untied States of America INC, has failed miserably.
What we need is a re-entrenchment at home, and let the world hang itself.
One thing about what you write, is you shut down more threads than anyone I know. LOL . I guess people are afraid to call for the US to quit warmongering, and to demand to our fearful leaders, it is time to make the homefront safe and happy.
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