KAAN Took-Off: What Now?

The US Senators kicked Türkiye out of the F-35 program in December 2020. In February 2024, Türkiye's fifth generation replica made its maiden flight. What is wrong with this picture?

I warned this in one of my posts in 2020 when I posed the question: What were the US Senators thinking when they kicked Türkiye out of the F-35 program? Now, voters must pose the same question to their US Senators! First, how did they not know that the F-35 program will go kaput because of their action?

Second, today, the Turkish F-35 KAAN took-off: What Now?

US AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION

“In 1939, total aircraft production for the US military was less than 3,000 planes. By the end of the war, America produced 300,000 planes. No war was more industrialized than World War II. It was a war won as much by machine shops as by machine guns.”

In 2019, the US had plans to produce more than 3000 F-35. In 2024, only 500 of them are in the US inventory and most are not in the air, broken in the hangars. The US has never been this dysfunctional, killing its own trillion-dollar industry so easily.

KAAN Took-Off: What Now?

Turkish fifth generation fighter KAAN took-off today. Now that 13 minutes long maiden flight is in the books what will happen to the US F-35 program?

The US F-35 Program

Ever since Türkiye was kicked out of the US F-35 program, the production of fifth generation aircraft in the US practically stopped. Until today, there was a hope that the program somehow could be revived. 21 February is the day to write the obituary.

80 years later, it is a turning point for the US. In 1939, the American spirit, ingenuity, determination, and hard work were at its peak. In 2021, economic decay in America marked an end of an eight-decade long prosperous journey with a big bang.

The F-35 Program in Türkiye

I call it the Turkish F-35 for no reason. However, comparatively, it is, reportedly, a better aircraft than the US F-35 but also the US F-22 Raptor: From stealth superiority to radars to the combat capabilities to je ne sais quo.

Türkiye is a rapidly rising Eastern power. It is known to develop indigenously, and mass manufacture with German quality and Chinese prices. In light of KAAN is already in the air, what now for the US then in the face of this calamity?

KAAN Took-Off: What Now?

I authored “GameChanger Trump Card: Türkiye and Erdogan”, published in the US and Australia in 2020. There, I argued that the US must collaborate with Türkiye. We are into the fourth year ever since. Apparently, no one from the Biden Administration must have come across to a copy of my book. In the interim, KAAN took-off: What now is now obviously the urgent question that needs an answer.

What Now?

At this stage, I have no idea. First, why should Türkiye cooperate with the US when it has a better replica flying. Two, what could the US bring to the table that could entice Turkish cooperation?

Since I know a little bit more than a lot of people about Türkiye and the US and their minuses and pluses, here is an argument. The bond between Türkiye and the US has always been strong: Why would not they find a common ground to collaborate?

Since I am also a Capricorn that does not trust Globalist stranglehold on the Republic we love in North America: So, how would this collaboration work in this election year when there is no one at home in Wash DC?

Yet, Hope Shall Never Die with Trump!

Donald J. Trump, the 45th President, practically begged the US Senators in December 2020. Unfortunately, they did not listen to him, Democrats and Republicans alike.

That is why I insist it is the voters in the US that must pose questions to their US Senators, now: Why did they vote for CAATSA 231 to kick Türkiye out of the US F-35 program then?

Don’t we in the US elect the best of the best as the US Senators? Aren’t we electing the best and the brightest anymore or are these best and the brightest betraying us?

As for Donald Trump, I recently talked with him about his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan when I met him privately in Florida.

We reminisced our private encounter in 2018 when we talked again about the Turkish president.

In that regard, that’s how I know, when he will be the 47th president, he will do the right thing for the US again, regarding Türkiye, much like he did when he was the 45th.

Ever since, he had a frank conversation with his counterpart in Buenos Aires, in 2018, that is.