I've read quite a few reports by Americans on the effects their weapon embargoes had on Turkey, all of them came to conclusion that they only propel Turkeys domestic defensive industry forward. The best they got were short term hindrances on Turkish operational capabilities but within the mid term it made Turkish defensive industry better, and as the industry got better Turkey pursued her national interests more vigorously. and Americans/Europeans hate that, when you protect yourself and refuse to be their victim. They love to be able to destroy and ruin you, but they hate seeing you do good for yourselves.
The greatest benefit of the Cyprus liberation of 1974, were the american weapon embargoes. That was the catylst, the great moment that woke the Turks up to the importance of a domestic defensive industry. A Turkish general once commented on the american embargoes, saying "the embargoes gave us character".
So basically what they are doing now is creating as much harm as possible, while leaving the door open enough that the Turks don't jump ship completely. Its a bit like the opportunistic British backed invading Greek army at the end of world war 1, once their army had been crushed by Ataturk and was on the run, they made sure to kill all live stock and burn everything to the ground as they were retreating, only to either swim to Athens or be saved by the American navy. The Greeks knew they were finished, they knew they were completely defeated, but they still had the chance to create damage so they did. This is the European way throughout history. Most of the world suffering European occupation don't need me to tell them how evil and violent their occupations were.
Turks, Muslims and in general any non-white race must treat the american political establishment as a hostile and insidious foe and navigate accordingly, these people are more dangerous then the Russians and far more cunning.
That is a dangerous view, the Americans themselves are not to blame for the misery. It is their government that cannot be changed.
There are only two major parties, the Democrats and Republicans, and both are largely controlled by the military-industrial complex, which is what US foreign policy is geared towards.
The US economy is based on war/crisis, without that there is no money in their ecosystem, so these corporations determine US policy.
Since the normal industry is also the supplier of the defense forces, there are dependencies and extremely many millions of jobs are involved.
The military expenditure of the USA is almost 900 billion US dollars a year!
No other country in the world has so much defense spending. Even if you add up the defense spending of China, Russia and Europe, you only just reach what the USA spends per year.
Eisenhower foresaw that the USA would change and that it would have a negative impact.
Turkey must also be extremely careful, the military-industrial complex currently serves the government and the country/state as it should, and not the other way around as in the USA.
However, if an extreme imbalance arises due to a world war, such as in the Second World War, and the entire industry switches to the war industry, then it is very difficult to switch back completely, as supply chains and dependencies arise in their ecosystem/economy that are difficult to resolve.
