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The United States warned Turkey against moving ahead with plans to buy a sophisticated Russian missile defence system that the Pentagon believes would threaten its advanced F-35 fighter aircraft.
The State Department made the remarks on a day when the head of US European Command spoke to politicians on Capitol Hill and said Turkey should reconsider its plan to buy the S-400 from Russia this year.
"We've clearly warned Turkey that its potential acquisition of the S-400 will result in a reassessment of Turkey's participation in the F-35 programme, and risk other potential future arms transfers to Turkey," said deputy spokesman Robert Palladino on Tuesday.
The US agreed to sell 100 of its latest fifth-generation F-35 fighters to Turkey and has so far delivered two of the aircraft. But Congress last year ordered a delay in future deliveries.
[...] The S-400 can track a large number of potential targets, including stealth targets such as the US F-35 fighter jet. Other advantages included its high mobility, meaning it can be set up, fired and moved within minutes.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 06 2019, @07:13PM (6 children)
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If a majority of people in a country vote for something the US doesn't like, then can that country really be called a democracy?
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The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 06 2019, @07:23PM (2 children)
No need to be a dick in response to Runaway's valid post. He didn't even throw in some allegedly ironic racism :D
Democracy in the US is indeed in trouble, but we're far from a true lack of democracy. The current subversion of the system is done through gerrymandering, voter suppression, and good old election fraud.
We need ranked choice voting to replace the electoral college and voting days should be official holidays. I'm sure there are other things to be worked out, but those are the easy ones.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 06 2019, @09:20PM
I agree with ranked choice voting.
I am not trying to be a dick. I did include sarcasm tags which I usually do not do. And I do not intend any disrespect towards Runaway.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by GlennC on Thursday March 07 2019, @12:39AM
FTFY
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday March 06 2019, @08:13PM
That has been America's foreign policy for more than a century.
See Guatemala, Iran, Cuba, Chile, Congo, Nicaragua, etc, etc, etc. No sarcasm needed.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday March 06 2019, @08:59PM
Well, a decent FTFY might be
This sig for rent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @04:05PM
Really? Go ahead and look at post 9-11 news. Bush was obsessed with his "approval rating" which is ironic considering how unpopular he'd eventually become. He was obsessed with this because the snakes in his cabinet were using his popularity as a proxy statistic to gauge support for the wars.