They found out s400 is nowhere near to what was advertised.

Come on, everyone knows Erdogan just wants to play pretend war, holding the American plane in one hand and the Russian air defense truck in the other going “neeeeeeeer… BOOOM!”

The credible subtext is that everyone knows Trump will about-face and sell them to Erdogan anyways, security issues be damned, so might as well try to thaw erdogan’s perception of Biden and the DNC since Turkey is (frustratingly, given their behavior) a key strategic ally.

Oh? But I thought the KAAN was superior in every way to the F35, and not at all a desperate lie they came up with to sell the worst plane outside of Russia