There is no such thing as a regional superpower. Even if you are the strongest in your region that still means you are a regional power, or maybe the regional power although with US and russian troops in the area and iran as well There have been hangups for turkey. You say you don't care but...
How would they go about that?
Turkey is a regional power whos job it is to keep a lid on the middle east, stick to kicking around the kurds when we give you the go ahead.
Those rebel kurd wamen will keep you occupied for another 30 years. Is that considered matching?
It has nothing to do with capability, we could make syria the 51st state if we had the will, but that sand is not worth the hassle. We just want to make sure it's not exporting terrorism and then leave.
You can't do much with it otherwise we wouldn't give it to you. If you did you would never get such good weapons again. Turkey will make itself useful or be cast out of nato. You can't always be the monkey in the middle at some point you have to choose where your loyalties lie. I'm sure we will...
Why couldn't I point out that troll is the lazy default response by those with a weak argument, even if I was a professional troll that doens't make sense. Why engage in some sort of character assassination just address what I say.
The opponent will have all that and more plus a gun, that's the...
A gun allows you to take out targets you sneak up on without wasting a missile, is insurance in a dog fight, and allows strafing for air support. All at cheap cost.
The rules of this forum are either agree with me or you're trolling apparently.
Do I need to spell it out? You losers have no room to talk down to us. I like how even you don't even try to refute what I said. if we are in decline than who isn't? Chinas economy is shaky right now.