Paid off ? The loss is immense. Turkey lost its F35 jets & Turkish companies developing and/or producing F-35 / F135 are kicked out of the F35 program. Turkey paid US$2.5billion to Russia but lost $12B from its immensely valuable & prestigious role in the production chain of F35
This FT piece by @laurapitel sums it up well - #Turkey's Erdogan has bet on Trump and his views, often diverging from those of his own government, & upped its own strategic importance as a NATO ally. And that strategy has paid off - for now.https://www.ft.com/content/326f545e-b9c5-11e9-96bd-8e884d3ea203 …
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Compared with heavier CATSAA sanctions that would target
#Turkey's economy, indeed the current situation has turned out to be better than expected. The F-35 expulsion is yet to be fully materialised and until that is the case, everything is still part of a bigger negotiation. -
In the sense that if you shot yourself in the foot but you were still able to walk afterwards and the doctor said your foot might heal you could say it paid off because it turned out better than expected :)
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wonderful analogy. Though the Sarikamis story doesn't fit.
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i just mean at the point you call that a win, you can pretty call anything else a win too.
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Thats the thing - i did not call it a win. It is a bet that paid off, in making it slightly less of a disaster, and with a big caveat of 'for now'.
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