As America attempts a quid pro quo with Turkey despite its demands (it wants fighter jets as a reward for allowing Sweden to join NATO), another question is whether America should be selling fighter jets to Turkey at all, considering how they may be utilized by Turkey’s hostile President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Reuters reports:
U.S. President Joe Biden said Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a call on Monday repeated Ankara’s desire to buy F-16 fighter jets from the United States, while Biden told him Washington wanted Ankara to drop its objection to Sweden’s joining NATO.
The exchange took place when Biden called Erdogan to congratulate him on his victory in Turkey’s presidential election on Sunday.
“I spoke to Erdogan. I congratulated Erdogan. He still wants to work on something on the F-16s.
Erdogan’s ambitions are troubling. He seeks to revive the Ottoman Empire, and has declared that Turkey has nothing that contradicts the Taliban’s beliefs. Turkey oppresses the Kurds. NBC published a report, “Turkey’s attack on Kurds in Syria betrays those doing the fighting against ISIS — and dying.” Erdogan bullies Greece, and is doggedly determined to enforce Islamic blasphemy laws globally — hence his blocking of Sweden from NATO over the burning of a Qur’an by Rasmus Paludan. In fact, Turkey has demanded that Swedes must fight those who “target Islam’ if it wants to join NATO.”
Turkey has no place in NATO to begin with. Nor should it be further armed by America in exchange for Turkey acting in NATO’s interests and expanding that alliance to include Sweden, as opposed to Turkey attending to Islamic interests. Nonetheless, the Biden administration, which has been marked by its repeated counterproductive actions, including leaving billions of dollars worth of American military equipment in Afghanistan at the Taliban’s disposal, is advancing a quid pro quo arrangement with the likes of Erdogan, while denying that the deal is actually being framed in such terms. America hardly needs to be arming more Islamic enemies.
Perhaps Biden et al hope that any deal brokered by America to bring Sweden into the NATO fold might somehow ease America’s sunken reputation, while boosting sales for Lockheed Martin. The issue is far from settled among American lawmakers, some of whom support the Biden strategy, despite Biden’s historical efforts to sell fighter jets to Turkey even prior to the Sweden-NATO issue. According to Congressman Gus Michael Bilirakis in 2021:
Turkey’s illegal and unfettered actions are indicative of President Erdogan’s transformation of Turkey to a rogue state led by a leader with a nationalistic philosophy, Neo-Ottoman ambitions, and a complete disregard for following international law.
A year later, in 2022, Bilirakis and Rep. Chris Pappas lead bipartisan opposition to a Biden administration proposal to sell weapons to Turkey.
Appeasement of enemies only weakens America. But that has been the strategy of the Biden administration on every front. Only now it is using the Sweden-Turkey-NATO stalemate opportunistically to further the same appeasement strategy.
Meanwhile, no matter what the Biden administration decides, Erdogan is already looking at other options from China and Russia.
somehistory says
As Mr. Spencer asks so often, “What could possibly go wrong?”
er dirty-dog a wan and U.S. fighter jets. Like the taliban and the weapons of all kinds, along with the data on those afghans who may have helped U.S. military, turkey with fighter jets shows a total lack of morality and ethics.
After whom will these jets be flying? Not mozlum terrorists for sure.
But like the guys singing that they “don’t care what Mama don’t allow,” biden will sell to terrorists, including er dirty-dog a wan, “anyhow”.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, we should be the ones leaving NATO. The EU is contemplating having an army of its own, and that’s well & good. They can put that together, and then deal w/ defending their continent. So far, they’ve not admitted Turkey, so it’s likely that they can defend Greece & Bulgaria as well
Don’t worry, DoD – the Indo-Pacific alone will have our hands full. As it is, recruitment is way down, so you might wanna recall all the troops we have in some 150 countries
Deodata says
Please don’t include the UK in that. The EU is incapable of making the decisions needed and would be conquered by that time. You can’t get 28 countries to agree on anything.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That then is their problem: it’s not the responsibility of the US to keep free nations unwilling to keep themselves free
The Past says
Whatever we send to Turkey, they will use against Israel! Do not trust Turkey!
Halal Bacon says
F-16 are 2 generations behind…
born saturday says
i would like to inform you and the public that reads these comments… turkey already has hundrends of f16s… the blackmail is for turkey buying new refurbished latest technology f16s viper edition which are significantly updated and upto date with the latest technology lockheed martin has….
turkey is asking for upgrade kits for up to 80 f16s it already has and also another some new ones readily upograded….
born saturday says
i would like to kindly correct the article publisher by reminding the mere fact that turkey has been vetoing sweden joining nato long before the burning of the quran by rasmus paludan…. in fact for more than a year now…. initially the refusal has been another blackmail from turkeys president in order to have exclusive treatment and support on the invasion of turkey in syria iraq armenia and the future invasion of greece….
born saturday says
which it has achieved….
tgusa says
Slo joe and the democrats are offering F-16s because they are saving F-15s for use against Americans who disagree with them. Do we make trans F-16s or are those still in the planning stage?
somehistory says
He did say that is what he has, as opposed to those of us whom he describes as domestic, White super terrorists…not those exact words…and some of us having weapons, but which can’t compare to his fighter jets.
If we don’t travel in convoys, don’t huddle in bunkers, don’t gather in the thousands/millions, we can force him to use a lot of ammo getting each of us…one by one.
David M says
There is a rumour Joe & the Deep State are going to shut off the power grid & internet & blame it on conservatives.
somehistory says
There is a lot of Truth in some rumors. Conspiracy theory, or actual conspiracy? We will likely know in six months…maybe less.
tgusa says
The democrats can get all the supplies they need, food fuel water etc etc, from their cities. Should work out great. I’m sure all the people surrounding any attacking bases will just let them carry on with their wicked plans. Never mind that they would be attacking the families and communities of many servicemen and women. I’m sure none will have a problem with that. Do the democrat establishment communities have 30 foot walls surrounding them with weapons mounted all along the walls? Just wondering.
Calling us super terrorists, well, at least they haven’t resorted to calling us renegade Indians, yet.
tgusa says
And don’t travel in convoys, don’t huddle in bunkers, don’t gather in the thousands/millions. Use the whack a mole approach. Wherever they are you are somewhere else getting down to business.
tgusa says
Any thinking democrat should be contemplating the lines from a movie. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it. If it was me doing that ****, I would be, thinking about that, that is. Of course they could always call in a nuke strike on their own positions, so there is that.
somehistory says
I wrote “super terrorists” because the computer I was using at the moment, didn’t allow the other word we are called for being “White.”
But a person with a thinking organ in the head, could probably do a worse terror attack than non-thinking brains of mozlums.
VictorMc says
Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s too early in the day (for me) but Turkey is NOT a member of the (worthless/expensive) NATO. What is this article about? Beyond me.
By the time these planes are delivered Biden’s criminals will no longer be in power.
James Lincoln says
VictorMc,
Turkey is a member of NATO.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/nato_countries.htm
rp says
President Tayyip Er dog an , He is todays Islamic butcher of humanity, as simple.
Patriotic American says
Turkey already has about 250 F-16s. That’s too many in my opinion.
OLD GUY says
Why are we supplying weapons to muslim countries? Turkey is not our friend nor will they use the fighter planes to protect us, they may use them against us. But somebody here in the U>S>A> will make a nice PROFIT.