Lol, why would you assume that? You think Putin is above lying to the world?
The thing is, Putin’s story does make sense. We know that ISIS sells its oil to Turkey. Convoys go into Turkey. If anyone doubts it, please look at a map and tell me where someone in the ISIS part of Syria takes their oil.
And if we accept that Turks are in the stolen oil scam, we know that ISIS is not the enemy of Turkey. Borne out again by the fact the Turkey only attacks Kurds that bother ISIS.
Next, we know that the USAF just sent a squadron of F-15C’s to Turkey. This is only used for Air Defense, so its a safe bet that US forces are fully wired into the Air Defense of Turkey. They really don’t need an excuse as a NATO partner.
Last, its been announced by us and Russia that we get their mission routes to avoid blue on blue.
So to review. ISIS sells to Turkey. Turkey is angry Russia is interdicting that. We are involved with Turkey and had the Russian routes. The Russian bomber was ambushed. Obama came right out and said this is because they were supporting Assad.
This all dovetails in with us flipping sides and partnering with Al Qeida after Libya.
Against that, we have Erdogan and Obama all over the map. It was protecting Turkey from a 17 second incursion. Then Turkey said they had no idea it was Russian. Then Obama said it was because of Russia being for Assad. Erdogan is saying nobody in Turkey buys the oil. And he just arrested 2 journalists who broke a story of police escorted Turk trucks taking weapons to ISIS. Last, the people who shot down the rescue chopper used a TOW we just gave them and trained them on.
Putin is telling the truth... and we are the bad guys over there. Literally doing what the USSR did in the 60s and 70s.