Turkey

This is an extremely disturbing story - and not at all surprising. Turkey under Erdogan is not to be trusted [hell, his assistant PM yesterday blamed recent protests there on the Jews - I mean, c'mon, this is an ally of ours? This is Obama's good buddy? It's farcical] and they should absolutely not be getting the F-35. Now of course Dear Leader will be useless per usual as far as doing anything constructive here so it's gonna be up to congress and it'd be nice if some sensible Democrats spoke up as well - no F-35s for Turkey. The antagonistic forces are lining up against us - they do the kabuki dance of 'we're all friends here' in public but behind the scenes the pieces are being moved into place - China's strategy is increasingly obvious - tendrils everywhere in order to increase leverage, undermine American influence and poach technology - if this story is true and we go ahead with an F-35 sale to Turkey, it'll be proof that America as a superpower is being woefully mismanaged.