🚨 WHY GREECE GETS F35s DESPITE HAVING S300s AND WHY TURKEY SHOULD NOT NO MATTER WHAT 🚨
Here’s the factual difference most people in Turkey and beyond keep ignoring.
Greece did not buy S300s in a defiant anti NATO move like Turkey did with the S400 but ended up with them in the late 1990s as the direct result of a US & EU brokered diplomatic compromise to prevent war between two NATO members over Cyprus.
Facts:
▪️Cyprus bought the S300s from Russia in 1997 because of Turkish air superiority and overflights. Turkey threatened pre-emptive strikes and even war if they were deployed on the island
▪️Greece, bound by its defense pact with Cyprus, backed the purchase and said it would defend the island
▪️The US strongly opposed deployment on Cyprus but also warned Turkey against attacking. US diplomacy pushed hard for de-escalation.
▪️In December 1998, Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides announced the missiles would not go to Cyprus, instead diverted to Crete with the agreement of Greek PM Costas Simitis which was welcomed by the US and EU
This was not Greece thumbing its nose at NATO, it was a Western approved solution to stop a war between Greece and Turkey.
Turkey bought the S400 despite repeated, explicit warnings from the US especially from president Trump that it would:
▪️Violate CAATSA sanctions law
▪️Get Turkey kicked out of the F-35 program
▪️Create a serious security risk because Russian systems could potentially compromise F35 stealth and data links
Turkey’s leadership chose to proceed anyway. That’s why 🇹🇷 was removed from the F35 program.
Greece:
▪️Got the old S300s in the late 1990s under a US/EU-brokered deal during a specific crisis
▪️Has been a consistent NATO ally
▪️Is now buying up to 40 F-35s with full US approval
▪️Greece is actively de-Russifying its inventory and transferring its old S300s away
The situations are not equivalent, one was a 1990s crisis resolution deal that Washington and Brussels supported to keep the peace, t a he other was a deliberate 21st century choice to buy Russian strategic systems while ignoring allied red lines on a program Turkey was already part of.
You can call it whatever you want, but pretending these are the same thing is just selective history. Greece operated within a Western approved framework, while Turkey chose a different path and paid the predictable price.
NO JETS FOR TURKEY‼️
FWIW, DON'T DO IT
The sale of our top F-35 jets and jet engines to the terrorist-supporting, Putin ally, and Iranian aligned Erdogan is simply indefensible. He is actively threatening Israel and Greece (which is also a NATO member). The Islamist thug has destroyed Turkish society. He has been sanctioned by our Congress for acquiring S-400 advanced mobile SAMs from Putin. Is this sale in violation of the sanctions? I checked this morning. Erdogan has not returned the SAMs to Russia.
Hamas is not disarmed (Phase II of peace plan) and Iran is still kicking and receiving billions. Why arm up Turkey, which has greater ambitions in the region, and add fuel to the fire? Its NATO membership pre-dates Erdogan and is no excuse for selling him any of this advanced weaponry. His intention is to re-create something akin to the Ottoman Empire. Let's not do what even Biden wouldn't do.
Who is actually committing ethnic cleansing?
In 1948, around 100,000 Arabs lived in Israel. Today there are over 2 million Arab citizens with full rights.
In the same period, nearly one million Jews were expelled from Arab countries. Ancient Jewish communities in Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Syria, and Libya were completely wiped out. Almost none remain.
So tell me, who is really carrying out ethnic cleansing in the Middle East?
Remember that 19 Yazidi girls were burned alive in iron cages by ISIS for refusing to convert to Islam and become sex slaves.
ISIS paraded them through the streets of Mosul, then burned them in front of thousands of people.
Not a single Muslim or Palestinian activist protested for the Yazidis!
According to the Jerusalem Post, a major plan to topple the Iranian regime using Kurdish forces, backed by Israeli air support was ready.
Trump vetoed it at the last minute.
Israeli sources accuse JD Vance of leaking the entire operation to Erdogan.
A 41-year-old Vice President with zero experience in the region decided he knew better than seasoned strategists who have fought the Islamic Republic for decades.
This is not a policy disagreement.
This is a serious betrayal.
🚨BREAKING: The IDF has released new footage of the massive Hezbollah terror underground tunnel it destroyed yesterday, full of weapons.
The tunnel was just 6 miles from Israeli civilians.
Share this. The mainstream media won't.
⭕ This brilliant move by Rubio is basically sticking his finger in Vance's eye. Vance wanted Iran to control Lebanon; Rubio just neutralized that, and Iran can't do anything about it. Outstanding move by Rubio
BREAKING: Hezbollah terrorists are rioting in Beirut after Lebanon and Israel signed an agreement to engage in direct and formal peace talks for the first time.
Over 90% of Shia Muslims in Lebanon support Hezbollah. We’re talking about an entire community of terrorists.
No other Muslim group comes close in terms of terrorist affiliation. Even in Gaza, support for Hamas peaked at 70%, and it’s currently around half of that; in Iran, support for the Islamic regime is only 10%. Support for the Taliban in Afghanistan is just 20%.
The Shia Muslims in Lebanon are the most terrorist-minded group of Muslims in the world, and have the highest rate of support for a terrorist organization among all Muslims. Their support for Hezbollah has been consistently over 90% for decades, despite all the wars they start and lose, and the destruction they cause. It’s a cult of death.
@marklevinshow Insane. Would ultimately help Iran, Russia and China defeat the F35. The S400 could study the electronics. How low with this administration go for $$$? From a 3 time voter for Trump.
Congress needs to stop this. Turkey literally supports terrorists. A solid portion of my tweets have been dedicated to questioning why Turkey is in NATO. Turkey was about to go to war against the US in support of Iran and now we’re equipping their military? What!?
Insane. Would ultimately help Iran, Russia and China defeat the F35. The S400 could study the electronics. How low with this administration go for $$$? From a 3 time voter for Trump.
Congress needs to stop this. Turkey literally supports terrorists. A solid portion of my tweets have been dedicated to questioning why Turkey is in NATO. Turkey was about to go to war against the US in support of Iran and now we’re equipping their military? What!?
YES. Thank goodness for the sanity of this man.
Q: “Do you still believe Iran’s leadership are Religious Theocratic lunatics. Do you still believe that?”
Rubio: “It’s not just that I believe it. It’s fact. The Iranian system is led by clerics. Radical clerics. That’s what it’s always been led by and that’s what it continues to be led by.”