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| Turkey says will retaliate if U.S. halts weapons sales |
| 2018-05-06 |
| Turkey will retaliate if the United States halts weapons sales to the country, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday. In an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk, Cavusoglu said a proposal by lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives to temporarily halt weapons sales, including F-35 jets, to Turkey was wrong, illogical and not fitting of the alliance between the NATO allies. U.S. lawmakers released details on Friday of a $717 billion annual defense policy bill, including efforts to compete with Russia and China and the measure on weapons sales to Turkey. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #14 Surely the French and the Germans will be more than happy to fill the void. Isn't NATO just one happy, functional alliance? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-05-06 23:10 |
| #13 #9 = Let em sell to Aussies or Brits? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-05-06 19:44 |
| #12 Just back from NRA convention. I tell my friends, "Don't be a jerk, just avoid buying Turk." Not all of them appreciate that thought. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-05-06 19:37 |
| #11 *puts on Doc Holiday voice* Why, Erdy, whatever do you mean? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-05-06 19:26 |
| #10 #7 yep. When Nixon had a enough and was bombing the crap out them, suddenly they had an urgent need to actually negotiate a peace treaty. Less to do with Sun Tzu, more with Machiavelli. After the pull out their first conventional invasion was blunted. The second convention invasion succeeded. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-05-06 18:49 |
| #9 Well to be fair, Turkey exports some nice shotguns to the US. So how many scatterguns would they need to not sell to offset an F-35? |
| Posted by: Choting Elmusomble6855 2018-05-06 18:36 |
| #8 Ok, go ahead. No F-35s for you! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-05-06 16:41 |
| #7 Bosoeker Sun Tzu 1969. Very good knowledge you have. NVA out lasted our much superior forces in SE Asia due to the ancient military art of Sun Tzu taught to all North Vietnamese military officers. |
| Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 2018-05-06 15:56 |
| #6 About that Armenian genocide . . . . |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-05-06 15:40 |
| #5 Sun Tzu? Sun Tzu? Sun Tzu? ....Fort Lewis? 1969? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-05-06 15:40 |
| #4 You are now a foe. Diminishing the quality of your bow is our 'Shih'. Your 'Tao' will be limited because your bow will be as if it is unstrung while we will be 'Spiritlike' (stealthy, unseen). The Art of War, Sun Tzu, 650 BC |
| Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 2018-05-06 15:29 |
| #3 Embargo Turkey. Arm the Kurds. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2018-05-06 14:29 |
| #2 ...They don't seem to understand that LockMart can quite literally brick their F-35s if we tell them to do it. Mind you, that will be the end of ANY further sales of the F-35, but we'll have proved our point. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-05-06 14:17 |
| #1 "We'll boycott your non-sales. Except for spare replacement parts. Can we buy those?" Let the word go out to anyone willing to resupply the Ottomans that they could be the next Iran with F-14 doorstops |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-05-06 13:24 |