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See, the F-35 program is not seen as a big deal. The US said that Turkey can be allowed back in if they don't activate the S-400, Turkey went ahead and publicly began testing it.

Also, as it Turns out Turkey does have its own flourishing defence industry and the Brits are helping Turkey to actually build it's own gen 5 warplane and Russia is offering to sell some.

That's the catch with nationalism and authoritarian governments: The citizens are willing to endure economic pain in the name of patriotism and the US doesn't seem to bring much of that anyway.

The US-led world order seems to be vanishing and it's scary when you know some of the alternatives.