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"We needed it urgently because we did not have an air defense system. We even had troubles with buying simple rifles from the US due to concerns of the Congress. We had to buy it from someone," Cavusoglu told the Zeit newspaper, in an exclusive interview.
The S-400 Triumf is the most advanced Russian anti-aircraft system, designed to engage aerodynamic targets at a range of up to 400km and ballistic missiles up to 60km away. The launcher can use at least four interceptor missile types, suited to different targets. An S-400 division can engage up to 36 targets simultaneously.
Comment: Taking Putin's remarks completely out of context in order to make him appear anti-semitic is very cheap on Newsweek's part. Happily, we have access to the full transcript of the interview, where we read: Obviously, Putin was desperately trying to get the point across to Megyn Kelly that the Russian 'trolls' were not part of the Russian government and in no way represent it, and that they were working on their own initiative or for third party interests. As an example, he mentioned Ukrainians, Tatars, Jews and even Americans. But he was clearly not trying to push forward a 'Jewish conspiracy theory' as Newsweek suggests. Nobody is taking Putin's comments to mean that he is anti-Ukrainian, anti-Tatar or anti-American. So why should we think they were anti-semitic?
Why did Putin choose these groups of people as examples? Simply because those are people who may have loyalties to other countries while holding a Russian nationality - and once again, this was said to stress the point that they did not represent the Russian government. In the case of the Jews, it is a fact that many around the world are loyal to Israel while holding a different nationality. Is it anti-semitic to make a passing reference to this fact?
It is surprising that something so obvious even requires an explanation, but that is the sad state of affairs when we encounter malicious mainstream media headlines and articles such as this one.