Posted on 04/05/2019 4:49:43 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan24) – On Thursday, US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, reaffirmed the State Department’s tough language in its read-out, summarizing Pompeo’s meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu the day before.
The statement issued by the State Department on Wednesday included wording that suggested the US was prepared to respond militarily to any Turkish attack on America’s Kurdish allies in Syria.
According to the US read-out, Pompeo warned Cavusoglu “of the potentially devastating consequences of unilateral Turkish military action” in northeastern Syria, while Pompeo also complained about Turkey’s plans to purchase the S-400 and its unjustified detention of US citizens.
Without offering any specifics, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy charged later on Wednesday that the US read-out failed “to reflect the content of the meeting” and included “matters that were not even raised.”
Yet the following day, on Thursday, Pompeo unequivocally dismissed Turkey’s protest.
“I saw the comments of my Turkish counterpart,” Pompeo said, and “I re-read the read-out of our meeting.” He then paused, before affirming: “Spot-on. Stand by every word of it.”
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He just keeps digging the hole deeper.
Lying muzzies. Time to get hostages (troops) out now.
What is a deeper hole? Not a fan of current Turkish leadership but the current development is in large part a failure of American diplomacy. Turkey is already involved in literally every Russian-led group right now and that after bitter rivalry and fifteen wars over last six centuries. Ask yourself how could it happen.
Start by kicking Turkey out of NATO.
Start by getting us out of NATO.
I am not saying he is a good actor but generally there is no problem with Saudis aiding ISIS and they are brutal to opposition too. Such US allies as Greece and South Korea has a 50/50 mix of US and Russian military equipment in their inventory and East European NATO allies actually has more Russian than Western stuff.
“Such US allies as Greece and South Korea has a 50/50 mix of US and Russian military equipment in their inventory and East European NATO allies actually has more Russian than Western stuff.”
The Russian equipment is primarily a radar. Having the two systems together F35/S-400 (or 300) would allow the users to determine the deficits of the radar and allow a laboratory to fix those deficits, thus neutralizing the advantages of this overpriced golden calf.
I suspect the shelf life of the F-35 will be short. It is too expensive for the benefits gained. It sacrifices other attributes for those stealthy attributes. Once its stealth is penetrated it will prove an easy mark for earlier, cheaper generations of fighter.
Rumors pilots are loving it.
“Rumors pilots are loving it.”
That has little to do with how survivable it will be if the Russians or Iranians have the ability to discover how to counter the one thing it does well. Allowing it to coexist in the same military as its adversary’s best defense against it will shorten the F-35’s service life.
The F-117’s service life was shortened because Jimmy Carter felt obliged to explain why he cancelled the B-1. It would shortly be replaced by radar-invisible planes. This gave the Russians a head’s up and they began networking radars, which rendered the F-117 visible and therefore useless a decade ahead of when it would otherwise have become so. Notice also that the F-117 frames were removed from inventory long before they were worn out. This is because the ONLY advantage they had was invisibility gained at the expense of speed and maneuverability. The same could happen to the F-35. That would be one very expensive loss.
That won’t be the first step, but I think it may come. Unless Turks remove Erdogan the Islamist.
Turkey is a dictatorship. It has always been guilty of ethnic cleansing, genocide and brutal repression of anything out of the mindset of a few. Turkey was never a good candidate for NATO, but they were anti Communist.
USSR is dead. The Russian Federation is all that remains. They are not a friend of freedom and they hold Democratic elections in contempt. So does Erdogan the Islamist.
Erdooo has neo Ottoman dreams, he really imagines himself leading the Muslim world in battle against Israel. (hence with the USA too)
Russia has ties to Israel, not like the USA, but none the less they have an understanding and some limited trust.
Not look hard at who Russia partner’s with. That should tell you they are calculating for their own agenda and have no issues with dealing with horrible regimes. Long history shows just that.
We wait now.
I don’t think Turkey will fire on the US. They (many besides Erdooo) know what we are capable of.
Not sure how it is going to play out, but suspect the Kurds and their allies will make a move to liberate Efrin (Afrin) from ISIS and al Qaeda. (Turkey’s Jihadi forces, FSA)
If we prevent Turkish jets from stopping them, Kurds will mop up the jihadi’s and retake that portion of Syria.
I seem to recall reading reports that during the attempted coup there was concern about the safety of our troops and the possible presence of nukes at Incirlik air base. I don’t consider Turkey to be an ally. We would be better off with our forces out and them out of NATO.
I’m not arguing that is not true, I’m saying we are there and probably will not leave soon.
Where did you read that? The WaPo? My bet is there was never anything said by the military or the President at the time. The MSM is totally clueless about things like that. They are no longer there.
As far as our troops are concerned, they were locked down at the base. Every person I've ever met that served at Incirlik told me the same thing, they hated that duty.
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