US reaffirms Turkey remains barred from F-35 Program

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The State Department said Turkey’s acquisition of the Russian-made S-400 missile system remains the central obstacle to any transfer of the jets.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

The United States confirms that Turkey remains ineligible to purchase or receive F-35 fighter jets, telling Congress that Ankara has not met the legal requirements for lifting restrictions tied to its acquisition of the Russian-made S-400 missile defense system.

In a formal letter to Congress, the US State Department said Turkey continues to fall short of the conditions required under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) and the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.

The statement follows comments by President Donald Trump earlier this month during the NATO summit, where he indicated the United States could consider selling the aircraft to Turkey.

“That’s a decision we’re going to make… it’s a great plane, the best plane by far, and it’s certainly something we will consider,” Trump said while sitting alongside Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after landing in Ankara for the summit.

The State Department said Turkey’s acquisition of the Russian-made S-400 missile system remains the central obstacle to any transfer of the fifth-generation fighter jets.

Washington maintains that operating the S-400 alongside the F-35 could expose the aircraft’s sensitive stealth technology and classified capabilities to Russia.

Under US law, Turkey cannot receive the aircraft unless it completely relinquishes possession of the S-400 system, guarantees it will not acquire similar Russian systems in the future, and satisfies all statutory certification requirements.

“Turkey has not yet met these conditions,” the State Department wrote.

The department added that any effort to resolve the S-400 dispute must be “transparent, lawful, and consistent with our national security interests.”

Referring to Trump’s recent bilateral meeting with Erdoğan in Ankara, the letter said Washington will continue engaging with the Turkish government to address the S-400 issue while strengthening NATO cooperation.

Although Trump previously expressed support for lifting the 2020 CAATSA sanctions and backing a potential F-35 sale, the State Department said official US policy has not changed and that the legal requirements remain in effect.

Turkey was formally removed from the multinational F-35 program in 2019 following its acquisition of the S-400 system and was subsequently sanctioned in December 2020.

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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