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U.S. deciding how to punish ally Turkey over Russian arms deal

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America please impeach or vote out this cretin in the next election.

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Another big foreign policy win for Trump. Having decimated morale at the State Department and pushed out multiple country experts to personally handle foreign policy, this deal between two of Trump’s anti-democratic patriarchal besties is yet another setback for America and its true allies.

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Another big foreign policy win for Trump. Having decimated morale at the State Department and pushed out multiple country experts to personally handle foreign policy, this deal between two of Trump’s anti-democratic patriarchal besties is yet another setback for America and its true allies.

Turkey is a true ally.

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By kicking them out of NATO, and returning Tsarigrad, mistakenly known as Istanbul, back to its rightful owner Bulgaria.

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Yet another deal that Trump couldn't negotiate. He's useless on the world stage.

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Turkey has the requisite to purchase the S-400

But the US also has the requisite not to sell the F-35 to them

So Turkey does not have the requisite to whine if they can't have both

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Go ahead, pile on the crybaby sanctions, everybody seems to be ignoring them anyway.

Donny approves the sanctions. You know, the incompetent imbecile you constantly praise.

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Turkey again. You know the U.S. government started the Cuban Missile Crisis by putting nukes in Turkey up in Russia's face. So Russia responded with nukes in Cuba up in in America's face. And the whole deal was resolved by the Kennedy brothers agreeing to take the nukes out of Turkey.

Episodes like that, which our press and history books backwardly paint as some glorious moment in American resolve and diplomacy, taught me not to trust what I am told by the government and press. Who knows why this is happening? Can we expect to even be told any of the truth? Maybe Turkey decided the Patriot system was garbage? It sure has a garbage name.

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Turkey and the US signed a contract and Turkey already paid a huge deposit.

Akin to signing a deal for a new Chevy and paying the down payment, but then Chevy says "We refuse to deliver your car because your other car is a Ford".

Turkey is a paying customer, they did nothing wrong.

Wrong can also be in the eyes of the business owner - just as a shop can refuse business to a customer whom the shop later finds out is trying to undermine the shop's product.

The US is completing the training of the Turkey pilots that's already in the US, but nothing more beyond that. The F-35 planes aren't yet delivered to Turkey, so the transaction has not yet rendered (just as Amazon can cancel your preorder and return you any money owed, within the bounds of the law).

Similarly, Turkey can't stop the US simply returning any money received and canceling the delivery. Yes, it'll affect bilateral government relations, but who are they gonna sue in what court? NATO? The WTO? The UN?

This is not like a business-to-customer relations overseen by the government and the courts - this is government-to-government relations. Just as Russia has the wherewithal to cancel the S-400 delivery and returning Turkey's money if, say, Turkey shoots down another Russian plane and angers Russia. There's nothing Turkey can do to stop Russia or the US from withdrawing from the delivery.

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Perhaps Turkey wanted out of the F-35 purchase and this was the easiest way to do it.

Glad I visited the Turkey already, though when the govt there tear gassed my group at lunch, it wasn't so nice.

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Actually, the US has blame for this predicament too:

Turkey actually has been asking for the US Patriot System for years - but the Pentagon stalled all that time trying to decide whether to sell it to Turkey or not. One key issue is that Turkey wanted a technology-sharing pact along with the purchase.

After awhile, Turkey couldn't wait no longer, and they got that technology-sharing pact demand from Russia with the S-400 purchase.

So here we are. Still doesn't mean Turkey can stop the US from withdrawing from the F-35 delivery and returning their money.

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"By accepting delivery of the S-400 from Russia, President Erdogan has chosen a perilous partnership with Putin at the expense of Turkey's security, 

I dunno about that. The S-400s are pretty darn good at securing an airspace.

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IloveCoffeeToday 07:43 am JST

By kicking them out of NATO, and returning Tsarigrad, mistakenly known as Istanbul, back to its rightful owner Bulgaria.

You can't beat a good laugh to start the day! Have a nice weekend.

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Turkey is a true ally.

actually it should read America is a true ally!?

How is it that Russia is prepared to offer a better deal on weapons than their so called ally America . Yes the S400 is an excellent missile system, good enough that America planes wont fly anywhere near where theyre deployed.

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Use the standard US foreign policy: sanctions and then invade and topple government.

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zichi: NATO is only there to protect the US and to benefit the US arms industry.

The US wants to pull out of NATO but still wants NATO alliance to purchase US weapons to prop up the US economy. India is also considering purchasing from Russia rather than the US and, again, the US is threatening sanction.

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zichi: "NATO and the EU have kept peace in Europe for 70 years."

Really, have you forgotten: Balkans, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia? and what about the Middle East, Africa, Asia?

The US has used NATO for its own military advancement, to advance its imperialism.

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Are they mad because only Taiwan is buying from the US?

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So much for economic freedom.

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None of those countries were members of NATO or the EU, false claims. NATO went to the aid of Bosnia/Kosovo/Serbia

NATO planes bombed Yugoslavia / Serbia, then NATO robbed Serbia of its integral part - the province of Kosovo,

And don't forget about the NATO aggression against Libya. It's not Europe, nethetheless it demonstrates the true colors of this criminal organization.

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we know Putin/Russians fear NATO

They do not fear, but they are concerned. Everybody should be concerned when dealing with a criminal gang that invades other countries (Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya), occupies parts of other countries (Kosovo), stages coups d'etat (Ukraine), covers crimes of their clients (shooting down of MH17 by Ukrainian regime forces), provides for terrorists (Syria), stages false flag provocations (Novichok fiasco), interferes in internal affairs of other countries. And yes, at least one NATO member state (Latvia) is governed by open Nazi symphatizers, they even hold annually a parade in memory of locally raised Waffen-SS units. D-Day soldiers are spinning in their graves.

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Putin's two biggest fears are NATO and traitors like the ex Russian spy he poisoned with Novichok in the UK

Obviously you did not read my previous post carefully. Putin's biggest concern is not NATO itself but stupidity of NATO leaders who tend to start wars first and regret these wars second.

And it would be nice if the UK government presents the evidence of the Novichok attack. I mean real, hard evidence, not the usual official blah-blah. Show medical records, results of chemical analysis, show Skripal and his daughter. The truth about Novichok, not even Brexit, is Theresa Mayday-Mayday's biggest fear.

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If Turkey wants to purchase weapons from other countries, why should USA get angry. If USA wants to export all countries, all and everything, what is the need for other countries to earn, work, live and grow?

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