While, lets say, these aircrafts are in production for the air force, what past bond of trust makes us think that the US will continue to provide these engines when the need arises to hot-contact in Greece, the western-backed structure in south Cyprus or, in a much more extreme example, in Armenia, or even, in a much more grave example, when a complete sweep operation is required against the terrorist organization in our southeast?
Technically, as long as you are dependent on the US, you cannot use the systems you have against US interests. You can throw away license agreements, you can act outside the international system. But that doesn't change the meaning of anything: You are equally constrained in your ability to act outside US interests as you are in your ability to export military strategic exports that are not in US interests. To emphasize one and completely ignore the other is pure Atlanticist thinking. Don't sell to anyone, keep buying from me, and if you need to use it, then we'll talk.
Reducing security dependency is first and foremost a question of survival. Some 20 years ago, the EU region combined was about twice the size of the US economy. When the time came, the US moved a few stones in the security paradigm of regional geopolitics and pulled the EU's strings wherever it wanted. This is actually the most exemplary event in the political history of the last century.
Technically, as long as you are dependent on the US, you cannot use the systems you have against US interests. You can throw away license agreements, you can act outside the international system. But that doesn't change the meaning of anything: You are equally constrained in your ability to act outside US interests as you are in your ability to export military strategic exports that are not in US interests. To emphasize one and completely ignore the other is pure Atlanticist thinking. Don't sell to anyone, keep buying from me, and if you need to use it, then we'll talk.
Reducing security dependency is first and foremost a question of survival. Some 20 years ago, the EU region combined was about twice the size of the US economy. When the time came, the US moved a few stones in the security paradigm of regional geopolitics and pulled the EU's strings wherever it wanted. This is actually the most exemplary event in the political history of the last century.