President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in the Oval Office of the White House, Oct. 16, 2019, in Washington.
Air Force Times: Trump expresses confidence when asked if nuclear weapons at Incirlik are safe
In response to a reporter’s question, President Trump on Wednesday said he was “confident” about the safety of U.S. nuclear weapons at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey.
During a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in the Oval Office, a reporter asked Trump how confident he is — amid increasing tensions with Turkey over its invasion of Syria, targeting of Kurdish forces and possible U.S. economic sanctions — about the safety of nuclear weapons reportedly housed at Incirlik.
“One of the things that has been exposed by this Turkey situation is that as many as 50 nuclear weapons are at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. How confident are you of those weapons’ safety?” the reporter asked, according to a transcript of the exchange provided by the White House.
“We’re confident, and we have a great air base there, a very powerful air base,” Trump said in response. “That air base alone can take any place. It’s a large, powerful air base.”
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WNU Editor: I do not share President Trump's confidence.
7 comments:
Who is to say they're not already gone? Would it be so hard to exfil these weapons surreptitiously?
Wasn't the hydro cut off to the base a year ago?
Can you say "Broken Arrow".
The response would dwarf anything in history.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1455584/us-airbase-in-lockdown-and-power-cut-by-turkey-in-revenge-for-harbouring-coup-mastermind/
I was saying, what stops the US from already extracted these weapons from the base without Turkish / world knowledge?
I'm glad we're leaving the gamers though a bit disappointed over the Kurd situation. They were good partners against ISIS.
I would have liked to see some clampdown on this PKK group and I think the pullback will have cause this to happen. Erdogan is invading for more than the pinpricks of them.
Trump is right in his criticism of the other countries who didn't take back their clowns. Now the remnants of them are in the hands of hospital and infrastructure demolishing Assad, Russia, and now Turkey and to some extent Iran's militias. We owe nobody no thing in my mind. Without us and a few allies the caliphate would still be more than the memory it has become.
Remember we still have a base south of Turkey's land grab to keep an eye on the players. Let them take over and foot the bill. We've paid enough for long enough.
Any evacuation would surely be noticed. unless the bombs were gradually evacuated on routine flights over several years, who knows. It would be classified in any case
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