Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Turkey's 'White Elephants': S-400s Or Patriots?
Turkish President Erdogan reaffirmed to his American counterpart that his country won't completely abandon its purchase of Russia's S-400s like Washington wants but that Ankara would buy its Patriot competitor as well if an offer was made "under suitable conditions", suggesting that one or the other air-defense system would become a 'white elephant' under that scenario, with the odds being likely that it would be the Patriots which would fulfill this expensive but useless role and not the S-400s.