President Donald Trump says the U.S. is not going to sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey after Ankara decided to buy a missile defense system from Russia.
The Trump administration has repeatedly told Turkey that it will be cut off from buying F-35s if it buys the S-400 Russian air defense system because it’s incompatible with NATO defenses and could jeopardize sensitive information about F-35 technologies. Turkey is a member of NATO.
Trump blamed the Obama administration for never reaching a deal to sell an American missile defense system to Turkey.
He says Turkey had ordered more than 100 F-35s but because it bought a Russian missile system, the U.S. can’t sell it billions of dollars’ worth of aircraft.
Trump spoke Tuesday during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
(AP)
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Baruch HaShem that virulent anti Semitic Turkey will not receive F35. They would share it with Iran etc.
I think Trump won’t sell jets to Turkey because his pal Putin wants to make the sales, and Putin ordered Trump not to compete with Russia.
huju is conspiracy theory nutcase. Typical Democrat.