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.
Do you know or anyone else for that matter know that the Chinese know our defense satellite technology? I’ve seen it.
Its always worse than you think when politics/treason is involved.
Lest we forget Slick Willy and MRV tech and Chyna.
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!!!
But we’ve got the Right To Repair laws now.
*laughing*
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”.
Intel is on a need to know basis. Loose lips sink ships!
In God we trust, all others get monitored!
Good question
Does Qatar have one on the new Air Force I?
I assuming 🤞they went over that thing with a fine-toothed comb.
SOP (Standing Operating Proceedues) has no room for assumptions!
AF-1 is one of a kind!
Very likely – possibly through a maintenance channel from the manufacturer to the airframe. I have seen some online complaints about the F-22 being tied back to Lockheed Martin servers to do simple maintenance on the airframes. My understanding is that you cannot just walk up to the airframe with a laptop and get a log dump or recall errors. No, the airframe has to attach to the servers at Lockheed Martin, to their sync and then the personnel can get the data the server. Typically MIC/prime contractor crap to lock themselves into a forever sustainment contract with the DOD.
Hopefully we do have a deadman switch on the nukes we loan the UK. Those asses might just find a way to launch them against Russia.
When the mullahs lead the UK in a few years, they will control their nukes. Yikes…
Which means that Iran will finally have access to nukes! Yikes!
Yes, Pelosi was pushing for it hard. Oh, wait, no, that was for our cars, never mind.
She should push to have one on her husband Paul’s car..
Pelosi needs to have a deadman switch installed on her big, fat, lying mouth!
Technically, they’re effectively hostage to parts, electronic suite upgrades, etc. from the USA.
Is that similar to being hostage to parts, electronic upgrades for German made cars here in the U.S.? Asking for a friend.
I read a story in the early days of Operation Epic Fury or the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites that the US disabled systems that had been purchased by the Gulf states.
If not, I’m sure we could get them upgraded by any major car manufacturer.
Seriously, there’s a recent story about F-35s being delivered (to USAF) without radar installed. Most likely that means there’s a major upgrade over the existing radar about to be released.
Our “kill switch” is always going to be superior target acquisition and/or munitions range over our export versions.
I would imagine the availability of maintenance parts would provide a non-immediate way to end the functionality of the F-35s.
Same way they disabled all the F4 Fantoms when the Shah of Iran fell, the contractors just “pulled the switch” Yes, NO ONE knows but some do. Just like the “football” , its NEED TO KNOW and we have no need.
“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.
AND
the MIC WOULD Be PISSED !
( Military Industrial Complex )
Germany open to Buying MORE F-35s while Canceling the ” NGF ” ( Next Generation Fighter )
https://theaviationist.com/2026/06/12/germany-team-gen-6-to-develop-fcas-alternative/
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
Dirty birds or a stool pigeon.
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.
according to SOME Videos out of Venezuela – THERE ARE PALLETS of $100 USD Bills Available…
GOLD ( verified for Purity ) IS BETTER
The gold that Maduro shipped to Turkey.
Maduro Regime Unlawfully Sent Tons Of Gold To Turkey, Iran, Russia Over The Years: Report
Zelenskyy will loan them the money
“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
I think the correct interpretation is because much better radar systems are about ready to be released–all good!
How much of and how carefully did you read that article? Did you review any of the related/ supporting links in it?
“…When it comes to the continuing saga of the AN/APG-85, F-35s are now being delivered without any radars, and it could be years still before that changes…”
The Reload War
How Firepower Became a Permissioned Asset
Shanaka Anslem Perera
Jul 07, 2026
The Arsenal Is No Longer a Stockpile
“…The claim, in one breath. The 39-day war with Iran drew down between one quarter and four fifths of seven critical American munition inventories. The contracts and supplemental requests arrived within months. The missiles will not. Budget documents place the first deliveries from the FY2027 replenishment requests in mid-2029 for THAAD, May 2029 for Patriot, and March 2030 for Tomahawk. Between now and then, the covered magnets inside those weapons must clear two legal regimes closing from opposite directions: Beijing’s export permission architecture, whose key suspension expires November 10, 2026, and Washington’s own provenance law, which hardens on January 1, 2027 and demands a clean supply chain that does not yet exist at proven scale. For the next three years, deterrence is not a stockpile. It is a calendar.
One proof point, before anything else. In 2022 the Pentagon stopped accepting delivery of the F-35, America’s most expensive weapons program, because a single magnet inside one engine component was found to contain an alloy of Chinese origin. Deliveries resumed only after a national security waiver was signed. One alloy. One part. One halt. That was a rehearsal….”
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-reload-war
So glad I’m so old. I do worry about what the younger generations are going to have to face.
Yes, it concerns me greatly what kind of world my granddaughters will inherit someday. I pray for God’s grace and peace on them and millions of others in the years to come!
Perhaps quite true, since the F35 was a committee collaborative effort amongst many nations.. each with particular support.. and the beast of a project couldn’t be killed.
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.
A truth, taspok, which some Western minds seem to not understand because they do not have historical knowledge of Islam…and have stopped their ears to what Islamist themselves continue to spew and threaten day in/day out.
Politics and geography aside, I fear President Trump is one such. I would love to be wrong, but his actions…even inactions… seem to indictate otherwise (as with the F-35s).
I wonder about it also. A deal can appear acceptable to both parties if one or both lie. Lucifer (the father of lies), feigned worship but had pride, so he will lose, but still fights.
There seems a certain familiarity with Islam.
A performance based deal seems a worthwhile attempt, but how many failures does one need to figure out that it is not a good deal?
One of Gibb’s rules is that when you feel like you are being played, you are.
Wicks trimmed, Best regards!
Their “rules” and there are no others as far as they’re concerned.
I despise the word “deal” as far as this or any other negotiation is concerned. As you say, if both sides are playing by different “rules”, how can there be any legitimacy to any ” agreement “?
And herein is the biggest problem. No matter where an Islamist rules or who he is.
It’s simply the way things are…and have been for 1400 plus years.
Trimmed, filled, and Armour on.
I agree with all this.
I think the problem in part is that ‘deal making’ has become the goal, it’s seen as admirable, valued, as goals and maybe in some case it shouldn’t be- maybe we all should agree to disagree and stay away from eachother- why that isn’t okay to do is all because of money that can be made of ‘the deal’, but look at the price we pay for that deal.
I’m quite a fan of Washington’s isolationist ideas. Had we taken that route we’d certainly have a lot fewer elites to deal with.
I get the feeling sometimes that the Divine hand has dealt Itself in here, sis.
I am in agreement with you.
Islam requires lying. The “prophet” and the Koran demands it.
Islam is an evil, wicked, destructive, heathen cult from hell and it’s time we started treating it as such.
Thank you for not classifying Islam as a religion! All religions I know preach love for one another, not hate, lying, and kill the non-believer like Islam! Just remember, our Constitution states freedom OF religion, NOT freedom FROM religion! Big difference there!
Gut feelings never lie! The body/soul knows instantly, what the brain needs is analogy which takes time!
Possibly getting some bad advice? It wouldn’t be the first time.
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.
just ask chat:
Yes, the United States still maintains approximately 50 B61 nuclear weapons at the Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey.
Having NO knowledge about the topic of weapons storage at Incerlik or anywhere else, I would remain skeptical about any assertion of actual weapon locations from open source commentary.
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.”
Yee of little faith! Don’t sell our IC short! We are on the cutting edge of most everything!
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 use the Google speech to text on my Android due to hearing issues that my hearing aids can’t handle -it’s great – almost instantaneous.
It also accurately transcribes both sides of crosstalk that can happen when I’m talking to family. It doesn’t separate the “voices” – it’s all a run together sentence, but all the words are there.
Of course, now I have to remember to grab my glasses when the phone rings. Funny.
Glad that works for you.
I used to get long, rambling late night text messages from someone that used that speech-to-text feature when they were intoxicated. They are no longer in my life and removed from my contact lists.
I will have no respect for AI until YouTube can get the subtitles right.
If you use twitter links that are common on sundances twitter feed you get translations.
Trump is about relationships and problem solving. He can get along with almost anyone, and the relationships that seem to be an odd fit on the surface usually make sound geo-political sense in the grand scheme of things.
Turkey has relationships with Iran (but doesn’t want a nuclear Iran). And Turkey has a relationship with Russia (though not always aligned on global affairs).
Two areas Trump is trying to resolve global issues about that have geopolitical impacts on America.
Some background:
Turkey’s Limited Role in the Iran War
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/turkeys-limited-role-iran-war
I’ll say it. You cannot trust muslims.
Two of the four Alpha Males on the geopolitical stage today.. the other two being Putin and Zi…
Laughable to imagine Biden or Obama conducting a bilat like this without the “handlers” having a heart attack….
At least Biden and Obama are not for Islamic Law.
So, there is that anyway.
Erdogan’s goal is to recreate the Ottoman Empire, taking over Cyprus, Greece, Jordan, Syria and within the past week, he and his ministers have threatened Israel with annihilation and said that they are a threat to the entire world and calls for a genocide. It is one libel after another against Israel and our President did not say one word against that. He thinks this man is a great, strong leader. Please tell that to the thousands of people that he’s murdered in his own country and the countries around that are no longer alive due to this man. He has jailed and murdered doctors, lawyers, journalist, people in the opposition party and not one word from anybody. What does President Trump see in this person that he calls him his best friend and a great person. When Erdogan passes away, I believe his son will step into his place and President Trump will be out of office. All bets are off. I’m sorry, NATO or not, this is not a recipe for peace in the reason. President Trump is doing so many great things for America, but he is stoking a fire in the Middle East, a place where a fire is always smoldering due to the hate of the Muslim Brotherhood (Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah etc)
There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger.
Plenty of reasons not to sell him F-35’s. Can’t say his attitude toward Israel is any different than many other terrorists, including many so-called pro-Palestinian (pro-Philistine) protestors in the U.S.
Your last sentence nailed it perfectly! Very hard to justify this action.
Hold your enemy closer!
Erdoğan has made several notable remarks affirming his support for Islamic law (Sharia):
In 1994, as Istanbul mayor, he declared: “I am a follower of Islamic law.”In 2024, he equated hostility toward Sharia with hostility toward Islam, criticizing efforts to detach Turkish identity from its Islamic roots.
While Erdoğan has not officially replaced Turkey’s secular legal system with Sharia, his government has:
Expanded religious education and reopened Quranic courses. Increased the influence of the Diyanet (Turkey’s religious affairs authority) in public life.Appointed loyal religious organizations to shape a new religious generation aligned with his vision. Proposed a new constitution that could reduce secular safeguards from the 1982 military-era charter.
America’s Founding Fathers would dispose Erdoğan even more than they did King George.
Photo caption:
” Two survivors of CIA-backed coup attempts share their mutual respects “
Turkey, and Erdogan in particular, is openly, viciously, hostile to Israel and has made no move to renounce his position on Israel’s right to exist, namely, according to Erdogan’s frequent attacks, “it doesn’t”.
Turkey has historically been a violent, rabidly Islamic country. If they choose to attack Israel (not out of the question) we will have supplied the means for them to do so. As President Trump points out, “Turkey is a NATO member”. Israel is not (geographically they do not meet the requirements to be considered for membership). As a NATO member, we would be obligated to support Turkey’s position.
So, President Trump and Erdogan are now good buddies. President Trump is also “good buddies” with Prime Minister Netanyahu, but with shared commitments, blood spilled and support in a region of the world where there was none other to be had, since Israel’s founding. Turkey has NATO backing. Israel must, once again, like Blanche Dubois, rely on the kindness of strangers.
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Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer!
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan maintains a longstanding ideological and political affinity with the Muslim Brotherhood, viewing the movement as a legitimate ideological organization rather than a terrorist group.
Following the Arab Spring in 2011, Erdoğan actively championed the Brotherhood, most notably supporting Mohamed Morsi’s government in Egypt. After Morsi’s ouster in 2013, Turkey became a primary haven for exiled Brotherhood leaders, granting them asylum and allowing them to operate media outlets against the Sisi regime. Erdoğan famously refused to recognize Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as Egypt’s legitimate leader for years, labeling him a tyrant and maintaining that Morsi remained the rightful president.
Trump likes talking to Erdoğan because he is not a proxy, and he attempts to do whatever is best for his countrymen (of which there are many distinct interest groups).
A cooperative, nationally led Iran, and a cooperative Israel in the Abrahamic Accords would greatly simplify Erdoğan’s task, while elevating his nation’s importance, and maybe allow it to free itself from a NATO with homocidal intent to start WW3 (the kinetic version).
Just look how Trump has been treating every nation led by a proxy leader representing the interests of cartels, international financiers, or multi-national organizations like the EU.
Like, walking in and announcing, “I’m the boss.”
Like, telling Starmer when to resign.
Can anyone give the gist of the questions that were not asked and answered in English? President Trump had a translator but I do not 😅
For years the Kurds were often allies of convenience in Syria and Iraq.
I believe that President Trump has said that the US had attempted to deliver weapons to the Iranian resistance through the Kurds but the Kurds kept the weapons for themselves. IIRC, at that point President Trump characterized them as bad people.
Given the Turks’ hostility to the Kurds, I wonder to what extent President Trump’s sharp sense of betrayal has figured into the apparent warming of ties.
What a deep mistake sell any type of weapon to the muslim brotherhood.
Wow.
The main reason Turkey did not get F-35s is because of the purchase of Russian S400 SAM systems.
They contracted for the S400s in 2017 and Trump warned that if they took delivery they they would be cut out of the F35 program. They took delivery in 2019, and what do you know, they were cut out of the program.
Now Trump has expressed openness to selling F35s to the Turks if they sell their S400s to another country, but the Turks need Russias permission to do that. Buying the S400s was originaly a way to appease Russia after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter on the Syrian boarder near Aleppo.