Türkiye should be it's own power sphere, can work with all relevant countries but isn't in any club (maybe the Turkic world) but for that we need to have a huge Military and energy independence.
I meant it more in a defensive way, like "the bigger your gun" the lower the probability of you getting invaded. I wasn't looking from the US perspective.
Edit:
Having your own massive weapon production base is ofc a must, buying weapons doesn't make a Country strong, not at all.
Whatever that is not a must but eats a lot of money, needs to take a backseat and more money needs to be put into weapons production.
The world is getting a lot more dangerous and we all know that you fight wars with weapons that you have not with prototypes.