Will Recep Tayyip Erdogan get a refund on his S-400 air defense systems? Did he keep the receipts, and does Vladimir Putin offer cash or store credit?
Speaking of credit, this apparent reversal by the dictator in Turkey should put a little more of it in Donald Trump’s political coffers. After some apparently tough negotiations with Ankara over their desire for modern fighter aircraft, Bloomberg reports that Erdogan will ask Russia to take back those systems and refund at least some of the money spent on them. That will not only represent a shift to the West from Erdogan, but at least a somewhat embarrassing setback for Putin:
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