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Ankara's S-400 Hustle: How Turkey Just Rewrote the Rulebook for Buying Its Way Out of a Western Sanction

Ankara has reportedly offloaded its Russian air-defence system to a Gulf state, clearing the ostensible obstacle to rejoining the F-35 programme. The deal reveals more about transactional alliance management than about strategic alignment.

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