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Missile Dispute – Trump blames Obama. Top U.S. officials have spent months warning Turkey that moving forward with a plan to procure a sophisticated Russian air defense system would trigger harsh sanctions and jeopardize Ankara’s participation in the F-35 fighter jet program. But sitting next to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of a bilateral meeting at the G20 summit in Japan this weekend, President Donald Trump struck a conciliatory note, blaming the Obama administration for the dispute.
“We have a complicated situation because the President was not allowed to buy the Patriot missiles,” Trump said, referring to the Raytheon-built alternative to the Russian S-400 the administration offered Turkey late last year. “So he buys the other missile and then, all of a sudden, they say, ‘Well, you can now buy our missile.’ You can’t do business that way.”
