The delivery of The Russian S-400 systems has for a while now been the hot topic closely followed by economy circles.

Because it is well known that with Turkey’s purchase of the defense system, its economy will be directly targeted by sanctions imposed by the U.S. Congress.

Let’s rewind a bit: When the Syrian civil war first broke out, dangers Turkey was susceptible to had increased. One of these was a possible missile attack. Just as these threats toward Turkey reached a fever pitch, NATO re-deployed the U.S.-made Patriot missiles located in Turkey. This was followed by Turkey entering into negotiations with China to procure an air defense system.

When an agreement could not be reached, Turkey sat down with Russia. First contacts with Moscow were made a mere three months after the deadly July 15 coup attempt. Turkey has also made attempts to purchase the Patriot missiles a few times from the U.S., however it had been turned down.

In conclusion, just as U.S. President Donald Trump admitted at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Turkey has been in the right all along.

This left the U.S. in a pickle, with it having to sing a different tune every time.

When the S-400 subject first came up, the U.S. immediately expressed that it would impose sanctions on Turkey. It could not follow through.

Then it said that if Turkey purchased the missiles, it would impose sanctions. Again, they did not make good on their word. Then they said they would impose sanctions if Turkey took delivery of the S-400s. In the meantime, Trump admitted that Turkey was right.

Now, discourse such as “Take delivery of the missiles, but don’t use them” is circulating.

In summary, Turkey, which rationally handled the whole process, proved to the world through the U.S. president that it was right, and since then has started taking delivery of the components of the defense missiles.

Long and tedious analyses have been made on the subject of the S-400s. This is what I personally believe is the summary of the whole debacle: Turkey’s purchase and it taking delivery of the S-400s is a victory of the technical mind.”

The process has also disclosed many peculiarities. For example, it has blatantly been revealed how international law can be undermined. Let’s open up parentheses here: if we take up the subject on the pre-condition that “there is no such thing as international law but the law of the powerful,” we will have lost before we venture to begin.

This is called “learned helplessness” and if this is the case, it means that all of Turkey’s successes spanning over the past 15 years have been completely disregarded.

As I have repeatedly expressed in the past, in both the agreements of NATO and the United Nations, there are resolutions banning “allies” from sanctioning each other. Furthermore, they are not even supposed to threaten each other with sanctions.

Within this context, what Turkey is up against is completely “unlawful”. And it’s funny too. However, the matter does not end there; what’s even funnier is that now the U.S. has been circulating reports that it will impose one of the three sanction packages of CAATSA in Turkey. The situation turns tragicomic here because the U.S. and Turkey are supposedly allies but CAATSA stands for: Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act.

Turkey is located in one of the world’s most critical regions. It has to protect itself in every field. Furthermore, especially recently it even has to protect itself against its allies. So it procured the S-400 air defense system. I would like to point out that we are saying “defense system” not “offense.”

I had previously stated that some figures only perceive, write and comment on the economy from the perspective of the exchange rate, the market and interest rates.

So I find it normal that they are the ones most concerned about possible U.S. sanctions.

However, Turkey’s current state requires deep and strategic analyses of the situation rather than a shallow one.

Hence, it would do good to reiterate what a lowly approach it is to turn a blind eye to the U.S. supplying the PKK with arms, accepting the U.S. declaring us as “adversaries” and seeing us as an enemy just because Turkey’s lira might decrease in value.