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Sorry @heissenstat - this “take” is not only off, it is quite clear that you are not dealing with the actual policy debate.

Since you appear on/listen to the @GreekCurrent, it is easy to detect that the #NoJetsForTurkey campaign IS NOT aiming for a “full break” with 🇹🇷,
NOR does it present a laundry list of “vague” demands. Also, you’ll hear us quoting @stevenacook’s description of “Neither Friend Nor Foe,” so your charge that the campaign is just tagging 🇹🇷 as an “enemy” is similarly way off.
You restate the case that those who want to trade F-16s solely and entirely for Sweden’s accession and seem to be making zero effort to present the opposing view. That is your right - and clearly your choice - but to throw around the epithet “dumb” is pretty disingenuous here.
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ICYMI:

@SenatorMenendez to @SecBlinken:

“What do you call a country:
 
That violates another country’s airspace and territorial waters without provocation?

Drills in another country’s Exclusive Economic Zone?

Buys Russian military equipment in violation of U.S. law?

That has more lawyers and journalists in jail than almost any other country and jails it main political opponent right before elections?
That seeks by force to block the rights of an EU country to explore its energy deposits off its outer continental shelf?

Has not only NOT joined EU led sanctions against Russia but HAS exported roughly $800 million worth of goods to Russia?
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“Politics stops at water’s edge” is a famous saying in 🇺🇸 foreign policy. Clearly this is NOT a principle for SYRIZA.

They are deliberately misrepresenting the NDAA and hoping to mislead a Greek public that isn’t familiar with the nuances of the American legislative process.
They are also tragically regurgitating Turkish talking points by assigning responsibility for the #NoJetsForTurkey campaign to the Mitsotakis government. #Nonsense.

This campaign-which incidentally had a counterpart during their tenure in government-was and is driven by
Hellenic and philhellenic advocacy groups (including @AJCGlobal, @ANCA_DC, @indefchristians, @AFKurds, @philosproject, @HinduAmerican) and philhellenic members of Congress (@SenatorMenendez, @ChrisVanHollen, @RepChrisPappas, @RepGusBilirakis, @FrankPallone and others).
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The Turkish propaganda continues, the treaty of Lausanne never said that our islands should be demilitarized only that no naval bases should exist on them.
On the other hand that was the case for the Asian Minor Aegean coast, now turkey has stationed there...
#NoJetsForTurkey
...entire armies and invasion forces which are targeting the Greek Islands. Erdogan and his ministers launch on a daily bases threats against Greece going as far as to openly question the legitimacy of the Greek Islands in a style that would even impress Joseph Goebbels himself
What turkey also never mentions is that the treaty of Lausanne have autonomous status to the islands of Imvros and Tenedos where Greeks were the majority and also protected the Greek minority of Constantinople, today the Greek minority of the city numbers less that 1000...
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Erdogan said:
We don't want to see any more dead babies like Aylan wash up on our shores.
Someone please tell him that Aylan died cause the boat departed from Turkey
Refugees & illegal migrants die in the Aegean cause deliberately, Turkish coast guard,gendarmerie & smugglers
are pushing towards Greece these people by making millions of $ and at the same time putting extra pressure on Greece's and EU's backs to receive additional funds & impose its agenda.

#turkeyisaterrorstate
#NoJetsForTurkey
Kind reminder about the truth.

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