Even though I'm no expert AT ALL regarding Military equipment, common sense tells me that no surface ship can survive in the Aegean or Eastern Med against Türkiye if Türkiye goes full force.
What I want to say is that we don't need to make panic. We all saw what the max conventional power of...
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.
But still, no matter what. Orthodox people dream about conquering Istanbul and only having Nukes will give a real safety net. The sooner Türkiye has it, the better.