This file photo shows an F-35 joint strike fighter, marked AA-1, landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California, on Oct. 23, 2008. (Photo: U.S. Air Force / Senior Airman Julius Delos Reyes)
Axios: Turkey's Erdoğan criticizes Biden, asks for money back on F-35
Fresh off his first visit with Vladimir Putin in over a year, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused a top Biden official of "supporting terrorism" and demanded the U.S. pay $1.4 billion for kicking Turkey out of a stealth fighter jet program.
Why it matters: Erdoğan's belligerence and deepening cooperation with Russia is sending a key U.S. relationship in the wrong direction, serving up yet another foreign policy headache for President Biden.
Driving the news: Speaking to reporters on his way back from Sochi, Erdoğan condemned Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa and former anti-ISIS envoy, for allying the U.S. with Kurdish militias in Syria that Turkey considers a top threat to national security.
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Update #1: Turkey wants compensation for ouster from US-led jet program (AP)
Update #2: Turkey Demands U.S. Deliver Fighter Jets or Return $1.4 Billion Payment for Them (Newsweek)
WNU Editor: Turkish President has calculated that the benefits of buying weapon systems from Russia is worth having a troubled relationship with the U.S. .... Erdoğan believes S-400 purchase worth tensions with US (Daily Sabah).
4 comments:
Fruits of Biden’s wonderful Afghanistan debacle. Turkey is seeing wide running room in the Middle East now that the US has lost all credibility from Pakistan to Amman. Turkey needs Russian gear to avoid US sanctions as it makes aggressive moves in the Mediterranean and Kurds.
It’s amazing the way Biden bragged back in January “The adults are back in charge”. Definitely not in DC.
"The adults are back in charge". Don't recall it but then I don't go deeper than the headline and may not finish even that when it's a joe headline. Yes indeed, this is presidential indeed.
Just not much.
2:04 learn how to read.
Erdogan signed the agreement to buy S-400 four years ago in 2017. So why make the demand now? Because there is a resident at the White House and no one is home.
That said Turkey paid 1.4 billon, so I think we should give it back soon minus the time and cost of having to move production from Turkey. Say deduct 1 or 2 hundred million.
I do not take Axios at their word that relations improved when Joe and Erdogan met in June. Why? Simple because they met? Erdogan was charmed by the gracious manner of an Alzheimers patient? I believe Axios included, because they like other outlets are pushing the narrative to make Bidet look good to the American public.
Philotectes is triggered at 11:06
We do have a proven liar in the house Joe lied about the advice the generals gave him.
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