Turkey should prove it is ready to embrace NATO

Turkey was thrown out of the F-35 combat aircraft program because of its actions which embraced Russia and were antithetical to NATO. The US drew a clear line in the sand by removing Turkey and cancelling their orders of aircraft.

We are now back to square one: the Biden administration seems committed to finding any way to bring Turkey back into the F-35 program. The world got wind of this in early 2024, when the then US Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland stated, "if we could get through this S-400 issue, which we would like to do, the US would be delighted to welcome Turkey back into the F-35 family."
 
New revelations now indicate that senior Biden administration officials visited Turkey, met with Erdogan officials to see how Turkey can be brought back into the F-35 program. Negotiations have focused on asking Turkey to place its S-400 inventory into...