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Prairie Gates

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9. Trump very spooked

Reply to hookaleft (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2026, 04:40 PM

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They did not want to fly out of Ankara on that jet, period.

Maybe its defense systems are weak or not modernized. It sounds like they were a little spooked of leaving Ankara even in the old AF1, which surely has all the needed anti-missile and anti-drone technologies. This is actually kind of crazy.

I think the whole Trump admin was spooked by Khamenei's funeral.

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