Roger Zakheim on Turkey: ‘It Is Not Appropriate … for an Ally to Take Our Technology and Give Our Adversaries an Advantage’

RUSH EXCERPT:

ZAKHEIM: “Turkey and Erdogan are deeply flawed ally. As you pointed out they flirt, support Hamas, actively work against our interests in the Middle East. It’s geopolitics that keep them in NATO for the f35 is actually a story of why Turkey is a flawed ally in Israel according to her secretary our secretary o Hegseth is a model ally. Turkey one of the f35 as you pointed out they bought the as/400 from Russia our deep adversary in Europe and across the world who worked for the people’s republic of China and Iran is we as we know. The as/400 is designed to undermine the f35. It is eight stealth killer. The technology that makes f35 so exquisite that defines it as a fifth generation fighter the as/400 is designed to defeat. What our administration with the Trump Administration called originally after this purchase from Erdogan is it’s an intelligence collecting platform that’s what the as/400 was would have given the fifth generation technology to Russia, tour adversaries, to Iran. Now let’s flip it Israel which is in f35 partner, what did they do the f35 they enhance avionics they partner with the United States in it matters not just in terms of the technology development, and had geopolitical impact."