Two U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs, assigned to the 4th Fighter Squadron from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, conduct flight training operations over the Utah Test and Training Range on Feb 14, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Lee)
Reuters: Exclusive: U.S. may soon pause preparations for delivering F-35s to Turkey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States could soon freeze preparations for delivering F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, officials told Reuters, in what would be the strongest signal yet by Washington that Ankara cannot have both the advanced aircraft and Russia’s S-400 air defense system.
The United States is nearing an inflection point in a years-long standoff with Turkey, a NATO ally, after so far failing to sway President Tayyip Erdogan that buying a Russian air defense system would compromise the security of F-35 aircraft.
“The S-400 is a computer. The F-35 is a computer. You don’t hook your computer to your adversary’s computer and that’s basically what we would be doing,” Katie Wheelbarger, acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, told Reuters.
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Good. No idea why Turkey should get those after throwing hundreds of teachers - often after just 5min mass trials - into jail. Not even mentioning the torture and disappearing of reporters. Until we have a better understanding of the direction Tutkey is taking - we shouldn't give them these high tech weapon platforms. Erdogan will sell 1-2 to China each for a billion profit. A week later China announces breakthrough in 6th gen fighter. Two weeks later CNN ads tell me to invest in China. No thanks.
Oh I know. .lets sell cNN to Turkey! CNN Turk - their Turkish spin off they control together with Erdogan alreawy wanted us to drop the $100,000,000,000 (100 billion) arms deal with Saudi Arabia over the murdered journalist. Remember how they told us it's the right thing to do? Well..there's only two countries in the entire world that could have filled that order in place of the US. China and Russia.
Again and again I find cnn is always on the side of what makes America weaker. Weak borders. 20+ million illegal immigrants and fentanyl killing tens of thousands of Americans. Dropping a $100bn deal after Erdogan meddled via cnn turk, the Russia collusion hoax that distracted and viciously divided the entire nation. Cnn is at the centre of all of this. Now they even push socialism and a green deal that would bankrupt this country. Freedom of speech? Not on cnn. They are the mind control types. remember when they even talked down guests on their show for calling mobs 'mobs'? This is not a mob. The fbi didn't spy on Trump.
Guys. Cnn needs to be investigated.
If the Pentagon wants a direct F-35 tech pipeline to Russia, Iran and eventually China, any transfer of that plane to Turkey would be a fine start.
anon
stop being so stupid
known by whom? trump and you
google Fox and CNN and see who has more distortion, lies, errors in reporting! I dare you
Politifact and FactCheck.org have both been fact checking the Cable Networks that you mentioned. They do this regularly, and have for years.
According to Politifact, 60% of all of the statements one is likely to hear on “Fox News” are lies. Not just Half-Truths (which are 18% of their statements). But, lies. False statements, or “Pants on Fire Lies.” 60%.
More than half of the statements.
Sad evidence that the establishment in the US is becoming even more demented.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/teachers-shot-active-shooter-drill_n_5c93fc99e4b0a6329e142b5a
You know they could have had the National Guard defend the schools against shooters, but then the National Guard's biggest claim to fame is actually, shooting students.
Unlike the pusillanimous Bobbie, my old man was in the army. He was also a college grad. He lived in and saw both world.
His comment on Kent State. You have these privileged kids with an average age of 20 or 21 surrounding, harassing, and fighting a much smaller group of younger soldiers with an average of 19 and who are not privileged.
The students were throwing stones, which can very easily kill.
You just know that, if the coward was hit by more than one stone and he had a gun, he would fire his gun.
A male can throw a s stone at 40 to 90 miles an hour. That has enough kinetic energy to kill.
Kent state was 49 years ago almost 1/2 a century. Bob lives in the past in the halcyon days where The Weathermen robbed banks, murder policemen and where campus radicals burned buildings and generally shat on America.
Generally I see the National Guard more often than not being called out by governors to fill sandbags to prevent flooding. Some of them are college students in the National Guard. But pure college students of the Leftist bent filling sandbags? Not so much.
Australia: Section 49A of the Crimes Act provides a maximum 5-year prison sentence for "throwing rocks and other objects at vehicles and vessels".[
United Kingdom: expansive legislation on public disorder introduced in 1986 allows stone throwers to be sentenced on average to 3 1⁄2 years in prison if the criminal justice system can prove that the action took place in a riot.
New Zealand: individuals who throw rocks at cars can serve 14 years for endangering transport.
United States: rock-throwing can be a felony.
Too bad we did not have cameras and facial recognition software at Kent state, We could have rounded up all the trouble makers and put them in the pen.. They obviously weren't learning how to be an accountant or anything useful.
Because rocks are dense, hard objects, a forcefully thrown rock can do substantial damage to a target, particularly if the rock has sharp or jagged edges.
Maybe thew whiner about Kent State could do a little calculation and see how lethal a thrown stone is.
K.E. = (1/2) * M * V * V
I'll Let the moron coward decipher the equation. He might actually learn something for once in his life.
Sorry, dude -- I'm actually ivy league educated. And yes, I watch Fox news... proudly so.
I used to watch cnn though, but if you haven't noticed how these two have changed over time, then I feel sorry for you.
Aside from the above reasons, think of this:
Donna Brazille, a Democrat operative and CNN employee during the 2016 election was actually found guilty of manipulating the election process by passing on town hall questions she was able to get through her cnn role. The two reasons why you don't seem to notice this, as much as you frankly should, are: a. CNN fired her quietly and barely reported on it, as they so often do. But you wouldn't know, would you? And b. Because she didn't go to prison. And why didn't she go to prison for manipulating the election process and spitting voters of both parties in their faces, you ask? Because
the DNC is a private organisation and didn't press charges. They also promised Bernie to make up for it this season. If you don't even know what your own party did and currently does, then you sir are the moron. Keep watching cnn. Keep hating half the country. Be a good foot soldier. March on, march! Don't ask questions. Obey!! Mobs are not mobs! Civility can be restored when we're back in power! Get in their faces and harass them. Tell them they're not welcome anywhere. That's just a fraction of what high ranking members of the cnn/Democrat cabal said. And they called our president for two years an unstable Nazi super racist who uses dogwhistles to communicate with his racist, evil enablers and voters.
And you don't see anything wrong with it.
.. I could write a hundred more reasons. But you'd just shrug me off as another hillbilly fox news watcher..or whatever racist or derogatory terms you find fun to use for us. We're all racist deplorables to you.
It's just sad, honestly. It's mostly sad.
Quoting Huffington Post when you're trying to make a point about being demented. I like your humour. Haha I get it. You crack me up.
Oh right...yeah I'll totally believe what they tell me. Right. Fact checkers. Right. Non-Partisan. Got it. They're never wrong.
Oh remember how some very very famous fact checkers all in a synchronised manner told us hillary would win and that "there's no path to victory" for Donald Trump and how he should basically give up and his voters should stay home?
I remember.
I somewhat agree. I don't actually really think cnn viewers are low IQ. And it shouldn't matter anyways. Your person, who you are matters to me. Not your skin colour or income or IQ. And what I hate most about cnn types and current Democrats (they used to be OK!).. they are this obnoxious mix of obeyed, group thinkers and parrots. And I know why. I used to be like that too. I'm ivy league educated so very much indoctrinated and I have mostly Democrat friends. They're not bad people. They are good people. But they're being lied to by people they trust. Then they don't question if those people lie to them, like Hillary, like Maxine, like Biden..when they say the most outrageous things about forming mobs and harassing people. They parrot along when they shouted for an end to due process and almost ended a good man's life. Democrats are being told we are evil. And it takes guts to wake up and see how this party -my former party, I used to be Democrat all my life, born into it, is dividing us and calling half the country racist and evil and deplorable. It's not OK and people are waking up. But it's hard because they control so much of airtime. Sure, fox has the best ratings and highest number of viewers for an individual channel. But the rest is controlled almost exclusively (~87%) by leftist or Democrat groups. And on top, think about this: the head/ceo of CNN, Zucker, is a raging Democrat and considered running on the Democrat ticket in 2020. Let that sink in. And further still, Jeff Bezos who owns the Washington post, is exactly the same. A Democrat who wants to run for president and uses his media power to influence what is talked about and how. 87%... one fox news is gone, we're basically mind slaves.
Typos@phone
Aizino smith? ^&
all one need do is look at the current elected gop!
they butt kiss the moron president as he insults everyone and go along with everything, no matter how insane. then, when he insults a war hero, they remain silent
compare what the Dems have given this nation in significant legislation and programs with that which the GOP has done!
Of course there are bad people in leadership roles that you could name in each party, but CNN versus Fox? hands down easy
Washington Post? do not like it? ok...but it remains a central paper for DC and national doings, as too, the Wall St Journal
why badmouth the owners? dislike the liberal msnbc? owned by? GE!
Or do you remember when Adam Schiff, Clapper, Pelosi and other highly established democrat and cnn fact checkers and holders of truth told us for more than two years on several hundred documented occasions that they have some sort of evidence that Donald Trump - our president!! - colluded with Russia and is a Russian agent perhaps? Some of these fact checkers on cnn also suggested to hang him for treason. On air.
Now you either wake the f up or you keep doing what you're doing. But know this: I am not your enemy, neither is our president. And all these people who spread these lies, they are guilty of dividing this nation, smearing half the country as deplorable racist and holding back our president and what we voted for. Do you think this is democratic? Where is your intellectual honesty and curiosity? Or is cnn just easier because it never challenges to and tells you what to think? There's no discourse on cnn. Fox news has more Democrats on than cnn has republicans. They even banned fox news from hosting a single presidential event, all but casted away. Don't you see this? Ffs
Liberal attempts to murder priest in Canadian Church
Anon
All of your rambling considered, justified or not the National Guard is best known for shooting students.
Anon
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/nyregion/john-capparelli-priest-killed.html
Source: Fox News has normalized a lie about the Steele dossier - Vox
Source: President Trump Continues to Bash Dead War Hero John McCain
Source: Jared Kushner's Using WhatsApp for White House Business Is 'Far More Egregious' Than Hillary Clinton's Emails, Cybersecurity Expert Says
Source: Trump administration losing 94 percent of lawsuits over illegal policy changes | Salon.com
Source: Robert Mueller Has 'More Indictments Coming' and 'There'll Be a General Conspiracy Indictment,' Says Former Watergate Counsel John Dean
Source: Trump's own economists now agree: GOP tax cuts are failing to spark growth | Salon.com
Source: Trump reverses latest North Korea sanctions because he 'likes Kim' – live news | US news | The Guardian
Source: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Republican Congressmen Watch Fox News, Believe It Uncritically
Source: Senate GOP budget ignores Trump, cuts defense | TheHill
Source: Hope Hicks, former Trump confidante, to cooperate with House Democratic probe into Trump - CNNPolitics
Source: Steve Bannon, WH Staff Accused of Using Personal Email to Discuss Sending Sensitive Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia
Source: Trump surprises by revoking North Korea sanctions immediately after Treasury imposes them | Fox News
Source: Donald Trump's new, confusing closing argument against the Mueller report - CNNPolitics
Source: Trump sparks confusion with tweet on North Korea-related sanctions - CNNPolitics
The old look over there trick.
You have nothing. You should walk into the wind.
According to an analysis by Forbes, President Trump's businesses have earned $1.3 million from his reelection campaign. The president charged his campaign for rent, food, lodging, and other expenses totaling over one million dollars since he took office. The majority of the funds went to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, according to campaign filings. The holding company took in $800,000 from his campaign and an additional $225,000 in rent from the RNC. — FORBES
House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings pressed the White House on security concerns involving Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. In a letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, Cummings inquired about Jared Kushner's alleged use of an unsecured messenger application, called Whatsapp, to communicate classified information. In December Kushner's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, told Congress that the president's son-in-law used the messaging service as part of his official duties. The chairman also noted that Ivanka Trump has continued to use her personal email account for White House business. — YAHOO
Source: Fox's Roberts: Trump 'glared at me like I've never seen him glare at me before'
Source: Monthly deficit hits record $234B | TheHill
Source: Trump administration withholds report justifying 'shock' auto tariffs -
Source: Aides struggle to see strategy in Trump’s Conway, McCain fights
Source: Pompeo says ‘it’s possible’ Trump was sent to save the Jewish people
Source: Betsy DeVos strikes out — in court -
When I visit relatives, I always tried stay at a hotel whenever possible to put as much $$$ in someone else's pockets.
Because that is what life is all about!
who broke which laws?
dummy
Kent state
there is a photo, seen at History Porn, showing a national guard soldier sticking a rifle through the open window of a car driving by a student. the rifle is pointed at the head of that driver
5:54
There are several iconic photos of Kent state.
That is not one of them.
Therefore I call you a liar.
You can't reason with these people, they only know how to call you uneducated or racist. Its symptomatic of the ear beating they receive daily from Rick Maddow and the bunch..
Just a carpenter
I agree there is no reasoning with some of these posters. But hey, I am 73 and my grand kids are tired of me teasing them so I play with these simpletons a bit.
There have been some very good commenters, some with military experience and knowledge of weaponry etc. but have moved on. I wonder at times if Anon in all of his manifestations isn't a plant to keep the volume down.
I wonder at times if Bob Huntley isn't a plant to keep the volume down.
You come across as consistently anti-American.
You are also a liar. Probably lied about your age along with your job and your marital status.
Everything you write is suspect and subject to a different version the next month. This has been happening for 4 years. The Internet is a database and all your quotes are catalogued on the Internet. You are the one that put them there.
Before you start with the clever I did it to put one over you, you did not come up with that line until you were called out. When you specifically addressed WNU, did you mean to feed him a line of bull too?
Everything you have done, has been done by you under your own name (maybe) in a public forum.
About manifestations. Jay counted 4 or 5 different anons. There is provably more. Maybe your problem is that you cannot count past two.
Anon
First, I wasn't talking to you.
Second, what you fail to apreciate is that you actually come across as being anti American. The government of the day and the military do terrible things to innocent people in the world and you defend that. No country is perfect and in fact even your President recognizes that America is not great. If you cannot take criticism without defending illegal and criminal actions, and calling people names for knowing the truth, and mentioning it you show that you part of the problem.
You should stand up to your government and military and hold both accountable. If enough of you did it just might MAGA or maybe even MAGFO.
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