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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @02:53AM
When the Jews came over they developed the land and settled in previously uninhabited areas / inhabitable swamp land: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)#British_Mandate_era [wikipedia.org]
Both the British and the Ottoman tax survey in the region records aren't disputable: There were a few fishing villages. Some goat herders. A few tourist attractions. But no industry or agriculture. And no exports except the "holy relics" industry and funeral services serving old people coming over to get buried in the holy land. The most commerce the area saw was the ports where ships going from Egypt to Turkey made a pit stop... Literally a grave yard.
Regardless, Muslims and Arabs genocide each other over Sunni vs. Shia or whatever in every region of the Muslim -/+ Arab world so any person that claims a strong opinion with regards to Israel that doesn't have similar opinions towards at least a dozen other nations in the region (and can names them and similarly recite some bullet points) is just a self-deluded antisemitic fool. In the end it's just a tiny regional power that has no economic relations to its neighbors and the Palestinian refugees aren't numerous enough to make any difference on the local geopolitics.