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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 69%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  The US Congress cannot support the $20 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey until Ankara ratifies the NATO memberships of Sweden and Finland, a bipartisan group of senators said on Thursday.
  In a letter to President Joe Biden, 29 Democratic and Republican senators said the two Nordic countries were making "Full and good faith efforts" to meet the conditions for NATO membership that Turkey asked, even though Ankara says Sweden needs to do more.
  Turkey has said it could approve Finland's NATO membership application ahead of Sweden's, but the Finnish president and foreign minister have both rejected this idea, arguing that the security of the two Nordic countries is mutually dependent of NATO's 30 members, only Turkey and Hungary have yet to ratify the Nordic countries' memberships.
  
  
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context: I'll take those if Turkey doesn't want them. I might need some long repayment terms. >
  
  Sell them to Pepsi to have another fighter jet giveaway. But actually give them away this time.... >
  
  This is unfortunately how the game with Turkey has to be played.   Frenemies with everbody. >
  
  Ya if they gonna pull this shit.  We will too. >
  
  Turkey got kicked out of F-35 program for going against US and purchasing Russian S-300 missile system.  Turkey can do without F-16 if it is adamant against Sweden.
  The ball is in Turkey's court. >
  
  
  40 Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighters and nearly 80 modernization kits for its existing warplanes
  
  Want to be nasty, here's nasty.
  Suck it, Türkiye. >
  
  At the end of the day, they depend on more foreign inputs than they are able provide. When push comes to shove, the watermelon merchant knows what his only option is. >
  
  If only they could get their shit together in turkey. Really a perfect location with like 80 million people and access to the two most strategically important seas in the world. >
  
  Location is inseparable to mentality.
  Mentality is a product of the location.
  It is what it is. They’re on their own journey, and it happens at the pace their society is real-world able to pursue. Like many other things in life, it’ll not happen in a straight line, but it will be guided to the right path by healthy self-interest, global forces made stronger by virtue of cooperation. They’ll get there. It’s why despite the ugly, it’s good they’re in NATO. We have our hooks in them and can help guide their growth to planet better. Even if it means outliving an autocrat or two. >
  
  If Russian air defense systems are good enough for the Turks I'm sure they can buy Russian fighters. >
  
  Good lever.