Echoing Turkey’s justifications for its contentious S-400 acquisition completed the year before, which led a ban from the F-35 program and CAATSA sanctions slapped on Ankara, Iraqi officials claimed America offered no viable alternative.
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Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2026
And in many cases, the same justifications elucidated by Douglass remain.
But the bold pronouncements that will accompany Jaissle’s appointment — and perhaps some long overdue stadium update sooner rather than later — will be met with a measure of caution on Tyneside.
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Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2026
The dissonance is reflected in the gap between the confident pronouncements of Chinese leaders — aimed at an international audience — and their domestic anxieties.
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