MOSCOW, February 5 – RIA Novosti. The world today is no longer what it seems to the United States, and Washington’s last trump card is the language of threats, and even that is no longer as effective as it used to be. says In an article in the Turkish newspaper Sabah.

As the author of the material points out, US foreign policy has been gradually losing its “impulse” in recent years. “The biggest piece of evidence to support this thesis is that Washington, which boasts of its soft power at every opportunity, now has only one trump card: the language of threats.”

The United States has used many options over the years, from unilateral sanctions to international isolation and even military invasion and coup d’etat. The United States tried to use some of these tools against Turkey, but after the coup attempt in July 2016 they were faced with a “different” Ankara, so the language of threats and conditions is now frequently used against Turkey. There are no other “weapons” left.

“We encountered such statements a lot during the purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems in the spirit of ‘If you don’t do this, we won’t give you that, if you don’t stop, you’ll pay the price’,” Morning notes. The author emphasizes that this method has recently come into play again.

Now, a similar process is taking place for the F-16 warplanes demanded by Turkey. As the agreement reached the congressional approval stage, US senators took the stage and tried to condition Ankara’s approval of Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership on the sale of the planes.

Turkey then made it clear that these efforts would be futile, noting that the country continued to evaluate other alternatives and develop its own capabilities. The publication summarizes the publication as “As long as there is such a vision in Turkey, no threat can scare us”.

On Thursday, a bipartisan group of US senators asked President Joe Biden to delay the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey until Sweden and Finland approve their NATO membership bids. In response, the official representative of the President of Turkey, İbrahim Kalın, said that preventing the sale of F-16s would only harm the United States, in which case Ankara would continue to develop its defense industry. According to Kalyn, if Congress ties the sale of the fighter jet to the entry of the two countries into NATO, then they can wait a long time.

The United States had previously removed Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program because it had purchased S-400 air defense systems from Russia. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan later announced America’s offer to buy other fighters, but not the fifth, but the fourth generation – the F-16. The deal will need to be negotiated in Congress, where it has strong rivals.

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