{"id":2753,"date":"2025-12-29T07:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2025-12-29T07:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:21:23","slug":"turkiye-breaking-natos-old-weapons-hierarchy%c2%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2753","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye breaking NATO\u2019s old weapons hierarchy\u00b9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>American economist Jeffrey Sachs on T\u00fcrkiye breaking NATO\u2019s old weapons hierarchy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NATO was built on a tech hierarchy. The US and big Europeans made the weapons, everyone else bought them, and power followed technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s defense industrial rise disrupts that hierarchy. They\u2019re no longer dependent on technology transfers from other NATO members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some areas, particularly drones, they\u2019re ahead of most NATO allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When T\u00fcrkiye launched military operations in Syria\u2026 they used domestically-produced equipment.. When European countries restricted arms sales, T\u00fcrkiye wasn\u2019t constrained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This technological independence enables foreign policy independence. And that makes some NATO allies deeply uncomfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2004651963439370576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2004651963439370576<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American economist Jeffrey Sachs on T\u00fcrkiye breaking NATO\u2019s old weapons hierarchy: NATO was built on a tech hierarchy. The US and big Europeans made the weapons, everyone else bought them, and power followed technology. T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s defense industrial rise disrupts that hierarchy. They\u2019re no longer dependent on technology transfers from other NATO members. In some areas, particularly drones, they\u2019re ahead of most NATO allies. When T\u00fcrkiye launched military operations in Syria\u2026 they used domestically-produced equipment.. When European countries restricted arms sales, T\u00fcrkiye wasn\u2019t constrained. This technological independence enables foreign policy independence.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}