Is there a Moderate Form of Political Islam?

[Anomalocaris]

 

   Anomalocaris:

 
- Yes: That’s what I am talking about. If we want it to not end up becoming something even less useful than our older fleet of F-16’s, we’ll have to keep investing in it and work to make it even more efficient. That’s why I am tarring my hairs out here:
 
We were a part of the F-35 program. We had pilots who were being trained in the USA + we were producing key components of that airplane. So these were all know-hows and technologies we could have adapted to or integrated into the Kaan airplane.
 
+ It will be at least a whole decade before we are able to mass produce this airplane (and it is not a piece of Junk, Countries like Ukraine and Azerbaijan are already interested). Greece is getting its 40 F-35’s now.
 
So there is this difference between really boosting our defensive capacities and this populist “gas lighting” that is actually serving one purpose only: to get more fools to vote for the 73 year old president who is already winning all elections since 2001

 

Many countries are interested in any nominal G-5 fighter program that is is going on with any of minors powers with ambition to make one, however realistic or unrealistic the ambition is, because the need to hedge against the high handed attitude of the U.S. towards participation in the F-35 program.    The F-35 program is structured to give the U.S. unprecedented leverage over its adopter countries to a degree many countries find totally unacceptable.    The exclusion of turkey from the F-35 for the nominal reason of purchase of Russian S-400 is case in point, another is the threat to withhold F-35 from gulf states in retaliation for their use of Chinese equipment in their civilian telecommunication infrastructure,     The only alternatives available to minor powers from other established aeronautical powers are fraught with political and practical problems.     Russia’s ability to deliver either Su-57 or Su-75 is as questionable as the deliverability of any of the small power G5 projects,  and the adoption of a Chinese G5 fighters like the J-20 or J-35 will set the adaptor up for a serious political confrontation with and black mailing by the U.S that countries like Ukraine would find it imprudent to do.   

So interest in the Kaan is in no way an expression of real confidence in the ability of Turkish program to deliver a truly competitive G5 fighter.   It’s just a political game to keep any potential options open in a world dominated by U.S. Russia and China rivalry and the overbearing attitude of the U.S. in forcing minor powers to explicitly chose sides using any leverage it can excert.