Tensions are rising between Turkey and the U.S. Last year Donald Trump acknowledged that “our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!”, stemming from “ disagreements over defense policy and the detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson,” who has now been freed, although that did not improve relations. Now, in complete disregard of American warnings, nine Russian planes “carrying components” of the Russian designed S-400 air-defense missile-defense system completed their first delivery to Turkey on Monday. Final delivery is scheduled for Spring 2020.

The S-400 “shoot down aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles including medium-range missiles, it can also target ground systems,” and its “surface-to-air missiles can strike targets at altitudes of 10,000-27,000 m. and ballistic threats at altitudes of 2,000-25,000 m.”

The US has warned Turkey to pull back from the deal, “warning that it could face economic sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act and be removed from the F-35 project. A full partner in the F-35 program, Turkey has ordered 30 of the stealth fighter jets and sent pilots to the United States to train on the aircraft.”

Turkey should have long been expelled from NATO. Its President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is aggressive and hostile to the West; his goal is a revived Ottoman Empire, making Turkey more of a threat to the NATO alliance than ally. Then there are Turkey’s increasingly warm relations with Russia, Iran and Qatar.

The latest 2.5-billion-dollar deal with Russia to purchase the S-400 systems will likely have “major ramifications” for the U.S.-Turkish relationship. A former Pentagon official, Michael Rubin, has warned that America should “no longer view Turkey as an ally,” but as a “liability.”

Turkey is an opponent of democracy, made obvious by its record. A few points:

Over the past couple of years, Turkey has experienced a rapid re-Islamization and the destruction of secularism.

In a breach of U.S. sovereignty, a spokesman for Erdogan announced that Turkish intel will continue “operations” against foes inside the US, with a focus on Fethullah Gulen.

Turkish imams have been acting as intel agents and violating sovereignty of Germany.

Turkey has a complicated relationship with the Islamic State, even aiding it actively.

Turkey pushes the Islamophobia subterfuge.

Erdogan declared that there would be a clash between the cross and the crescent over burqa bans in the EU.

A Turkish “human rights” committee visited Europe to investigate “Islamophobia.”

Erdogan has been indoctrinating Turkish youth with claims such as the one that “Jews in Israel kick women and children,” and has called for an Organization of Islamic Cooperation army to attack Israel.

A Middle East analyst, Diliman Abdulkader, has advised that the Trump administration should levy sanctions on Turkey that will “bring negative financial consequences for Turkey, which may be headed for an economic collapse similar to Venezuela, according to analysts.”

Turkey, Iran and other Muslim countries have long infiltrated free societies, spread dawah in them, promoted the hijrah globally, and allied with Leftists to curb the freedom of speech. The subversion of the U.S. was made easy by the Obama Administration. Now Trump is left with the fallout.

“Turkey’s Use of Russian S-400 System May Have ‘Major Ramifications’ for U.S., NATO,” by Jackson Richman, Jewish News Syndicate, July 15, 2019: