For a regime infected by the Muslim Brotherhood, an extreme movement that hates America and chance death to America from that side of the spectrum, I don't think they should be given F-35s or the engines for their, for their fighter jets, because that will upset the power balance in the Middle East, which is ultimately guaranteed by Israeli air superiority and also by, I think, by America's

posture in the Middle East.

And that is Benjamin Nahu with me earlier this week.

I think on Tuesday, where he said, do not sell the F-35s to Turkey and the president

indicating he might.

Michael Rubin joins us now, Director of Policy Analysis for the Middle East Forum.

Michael, welcome back.

You think the president should sell those F-35s?

No, Brian.

I actually think the president shouldn't, but I'll actually give a different reason than Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Iran, Turkey has a growing defense industry, and they haven't been shy about their desire to compete

with American arms.

When President Obama transferred drones to Turkey, they were reverse engineered, and now Turkey sells tens of billions

of dollars worth of drones, not only to our allies, but also to our adversaries. What I'm afraid,

as Turkey talks about its own stealth jet fighter, that it wants to reverse the F-engineer, the F-35, and use everything which the

Americans have invested in for their own industries. I don't think that's making America great.

That would give it to Iran, perhaps, because they're friends with Iran, right?

Well, Trump himself said, Brian, that he talked Erdogan out of joining the war on Iran's side.

But if we want to go back, the Turkish Air Force has run war games without forewarning NATO first,

with both the People's Republic of China and also with Pakistan. That's not the type

of ally that we should be allowing to have the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Have you heard that

before that Turkey wanted to join the war with Iran? I'm not sure whether I believe it, but President Trump himself had said that in the context

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