The US might soon cut Turkey off from the F-35 because of its interest in Russia’s advanced S-400

Source:Business Insider Date:23Mar2019

This issue will be the cause of the next currency tremor:

 

The United States is nearing an inflection point in a years-long standoff with Turkey, a NATO ally, after so far failing to sway President Tayyip Erdogan that buying a Russian air defense system would compromise the security of F-35 aircraft.

“The S-400 is a computer. The F-35 is a computer. You don’t hook your computer to your adversary’s computer and that’s basically what we would be doing,” Katie Wheelbarger, acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, told Reuters.