President Trump and Turkish President Recep Erdogan hold a bilateral meeting in Ankara, Turkey, ahead of the beginning of the NATO summit. President Trump and President Erdogan exchanged pleasantries, appreciation and mutual respect in their introduction with the media. Video Prompted to 01:45
The first question to President Trump was about selling F-35’s to Turkey. President Trump notes the issue should not be controversial as Turkey is a NATO ally. People who are concerned about F-35 sales, should publicly explain why a NATO member should be denied an allied weapon.
President Trump also noted there is a chemistry of honesty between himself and President Erdogan. He said directly if the NATO summit were not being held in Ankara, there is a strong possibility President Trump would not have attended. This positions Erdogan with strong respect as expressed by President Trump.
Again, President Trump outlines the specifics of why the European members of NATO are no longer reliable allies. In a weird way this is the exact same long-term position of Turkey and explains the synergy between the two leaders on the issue.
Does anyone know FOR A FACT if the US has a deadman switch hidden in military hardware we sell (like a software back door) where we can disable a jet, a missile, etc. if it was used against us?
Well, I’m no help as an ‘anyman’ that has no idea and no answer to your question, but I do have suspicions and sure hope we do.
Yes, someone knows, just not the rest of us.
The way it should be.
For if we knew, then so would the other guys, who should not know.
Ya know?
🎶 “Yes. Yes.
My baby said Yes, Yes!
I’m glad she said Yes, Yes,
Instead of Know, Know” 🎶
Moot question?
Seems to me that the maintenance contract alone is a bit of a control point.
Let alone the back-end services it connects to.
Remember, it is a server with a cockpit and some engines. It ain’t your Dad’s F-150.
Exactly… maintenance is the key.
Excellent point!
You win an F-35!!!
If someone knew that state secret, they could not tell anyone.
We used to joke: “If I told you, I would have to suck your brains out”.
Good question
Does Qatar have one on the new Air Force I?
I assuming 🤞they went over that thing with a fine-toothed comb.
“People who are concerned about F-35 sales, should publicly explain why a NATO member should be denied an allied weapon.”
All the more reason to deny the Little Twerp admission into NATO!
If the US were to WITHDRAW from NATO…questions moot.
No longer reliable partners…..Snobs they are with duplicitous language. They are generally the equal to the doctrine of deception taqiyya.
You Can’t Always get what you want. Trumps rally ending song was most accurate.
<No longer reliable partners…>
Turkey has always displayed a fowl attitude towards the U.S. 🙂
Foul scowl?
But they’re not a chicken or a ‘fine feathered, perfumed prince talking friend’ like many NATO members.
Hence their country’s name, Turkey?
NO IT’S TUKIYIE!
Kidding. Nobody is doing that.
Expect it from Turkey also, but I it applies to most of the NATO leaders…… our such good friends. /s
What will Turkey use to pay for F35s?
Turkey’s annual inflation rate eased to 32.1% in June 2026, with moderate GDP growth following a 3.6% expansion in 2025.
Two-year government bond yields hover around 40.2%.
Turkey’s central bank offloaded approximately 58.4 to 60 tonnes of gold over a two-week period in March 2026.
This temporary liquidity management mirrors tactical drawdowns seen during prior economic strains in 2018 and 2023 rather than a permanent liquidation.
Total net official reserves sit closer to 535 tonnes due to ongoing commercial bank swap liabilities.
If Turkey pays for equipment with gold up front, then sell them anything. If they dont pay in gold, they are no better than a LEARING CENTRE in Minneapolis.
USA taxpayers, like Canadian taxpayers, pay for most of these foreign sales.
Gold or US Dollars. US dollars are easy to acquire.
The U.S. dollar remains the primary currency for world trade, thanks to President Trump.
The gold that Maduro shipped to Turkey.
Maduro Regime Unlawfully Sent Tons Of Gold To Turkey, Iran, Russia Over The Years: Report
“People who are concerned about F-35 sales, should publicly explain why a NATO member should be denied an allied weapon.”
Perhaps because we will need them ourselves?
The past week or so, I read something on line that we have a hard time keeping the ones we have flying. It is so bad with parts, etc. that allegedly only 25% of what we have in inventory is 100% mission capable over ALL weapons platforms it is suppose to be able to carry out.
Sorry, no link. I did not bookmark it and cannot recall right now what site it was on. It may have been a site or substack that is not exactly PDJT friendly, such as Global Research or Simplicius.
Found it
https://www.twz.com/air/its-official-f-35s-are-now-being-delivered-without-radars
Greek Genocide Resource Center
http://www.greek-genocide.net
One of the few glimpses into the Korean War which my Army surgeon father told my mother of his brutal days in front of the front lines in a MASH unit was this…
Having operated upon a Chinese soldier and a Turkish soldier, both in the limited recovery areas, staff found the next morning that the Turk had been able to slit the throat of the man from China.
A story which has stuck with me ever since.
There is no moderate Islam.
Only Islam.
Erdogan may wear a suit and a political face, but he is still, and forever will be, a Muslim.
They want to kill whom they consider infidels, sooner or later….it matters not when.
Holy Orthodox Christian New Martyrs under the Turkish Yoke pray for us!
“People who are concerned about F-35 sales, should publicly explain why a NATO member should be denied an allied weapon.”
I’m concerned. Also would like a public explanation from NATO why they let a Muslim Brotherhood supporter in NATO and now want to sell F-35’s to him?
Does the United States still have approximately 50 of America’s nuclear weapons stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey?
Likely so. There was quite the controversy a few years ago when the electrical power to the base was threatened. As I recall, there were also threats about the nukes. Perhaps there are fewer there now.
We are protecting London through NATO but it is being run by Iran. Why?
Just my silly opinion but I don’t think anyone on this earth should have our military tech.
Unfortunately that train has left the station.
Turkey cant afford to buy them, let alone own them.
Maybe it is better to think of them as “deployed forward.”
Okay, maybe off topic-but I’ll let ya’ll decide–
Why on earth is real time close captioning and translations of foreign language so dismal and lagging behind other technological advancement?
News and movie close captioning mainly started in the late 1970’s and my deaf father and me use to laugh at how inadequate, incomprehensible, and incompetent it was. And dang if 50 years later it is still dismal, lagging, inadequate, and incompetent! Why is that?
Whether it is at world leadership events as presented here, Cspan, movies, news, etc., it is horribly slow and inept compared to a court, congressional, or business stenographer/recorder of the early/mid 1900’s. Why is that? Why has this area lagged so far behind all the supposed advanced computer technologies and now “AI” and huge data processing center sites?
Why can we not have real time or even 30-60 second delayed correct translations of meetings like this when Wall Street computers can process 100,000+ trades in micro-seconds?
I really would have liked to know what Erdogan actually had to say during this meeting. I’m sure that the Turkish people (and many other foreign governments/peoples) would like to know what PT actually said during this meeting at the time it happened.
Okay, rant over! <sighs and smiles and sighs>
“Why on earth is real time close captioning and translations of foreign language so dismal and lagging behind other technological advancement?”
Your absolutely correct. The Google “speech to text” engine on Android smartphones supposedly does OK for other people. IDK, I do not use it.
I will have no respect for AI until YouTube can get the subtitles right.