It became known why Türkiye agreed to allow Sweden into NATO. Ankara will be sold 40 new F-16 fighters and 79 old ones will be modernized. $23 billion deal

by ua-stena

32 comments

  1. The title makes it sound like a bad thing but it’s how politics works in some aspects. It’s how the game is played – you use something one side wants as leverage to achieve something you want.

  2. Money money chicken is funny…they approve IF they get something they wish 🤮

  3. Oh no!!! Politics is give and take!!!

    Clearly somebody needs to be liberated and given some fresh doses of democracy like Iraq and Iran right!

  4. Thanks for the deepshits to try and turn the entire muslim world against us just to get some jets. Probably needs em to liberate more of Syria for the the Turkish empire.

  5. “It’s become known”? Eh it’s been an open part of the negotiations since day one.

  6. that’s chill though, two NATO members having a deal with each other is never a bad thing 🙂

  7. Great, they can start violating Greek airspace again!

  8. The US gets Sweden’s ascension to NATO and $23 billion, and Greece gets to maintain a technologically superior airforce compared to Turkey

  11. To all the “politics is give and take” dudes thinking they’re saying something profound – what did all the other NATO countries except Turkey (and Hungary) demand from Sweden? What did the Netherlands, Canada and Portugal demand? Maybe they don’t have “politics” in those countries? You’re glorifying store brand tyrants like Erdogan and their hijacking the NATO ratification process for unrelated personal gain with your twaddle.

  12. There’s no way it’s 23 billion. That will be 575 millions per plane, which makes no sense because is 7 times more than F-35.

    Probably is 2.3 billion

  13. They should tell Turkey to fuck off and give them mixed signals for a few years.

  14. Weaponizing our future enemy if they keep up this kind of behavior.

  15. Hungary got 2 free coffees and a coupon for not getting kicked out the next year. Sounds like a good deal

  16. This was the main motivation behind it from day one. It just wasn’t so publicized. Well, at least Erdogan had a meaningful motivation. Orban has none, besides the wish to give everyone a headache.

  20. This is a lot less than what turkey had to pay to join, thousands of its young men shipped across the globe to die on a conflict they had no interest in.

  23. Greece will take f-35 and will be superior to Turkey. and some Turks still say it is a good deal. well it is not.

  24. I wonder how Greece will react to this. Seems like a destabilising factor on the Balkans to have that many jets.

  25. It’s Turkey, not whatever you wrote there.

    Just like you wrote Sweden not Sverige, Greece not Ελλάδα etc

  29. It became known? They literally said openly the whole time. Everyone knew this was quid pro quo.

  30. That’s fine. Welcome to NATO, Sweden! 👍👌👏

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