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发帖数: 1 | 1 As Turkey beamed out images of Russian S-400 air defense systems being
delivered, US lawmakers demanded immediate sanctions against Ankara, while
the Pentagon and the State Department remained strangely silent.
House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Eliot Engel (D-New York) and ranking
member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) reacted to the delivery of the missiles
by declaring that Turkey and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “must
face stiff consequences.”
“President Erdogan was given a very clear choice. Unfortunately, he has
clearly made the wrong one. That a NATO ally would choose to side with
Russia and Vladimir Putin over the alliance and closer cooperation with the
United States is hard to fathom,” the duo said in a statement on Friday.
They demanded of the Trump administration to “terminate” Turkey’s
participation in the F-35 stealth fighter program and “sanction Turkish
individuals doing business with the Russian defense sector, as required by
law.”
Under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA),
passed in 2017 over President Donald Trump’s objections, the US has to
penalize countries that buy weapons systems from Russia.
Their pleas seemed to fall on deaf ears at the Pentagon and the State
Department, however. The Department of Defense only confirmed that the
subject of the S-400s came up in the 30-minute conversation between Acting
Secretary Mark Esper and his Turkish counterpart, but offered no further
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