Putin: "Care about it."
Posted on 10/05/2015 9:44:17 AM PDT by keat
The United States and its NATO allies denounced Russia on Monday for violating Turkish air space along the frontier with Syria, and Ankara threatened to respond if provoked again, raising the prospect of direct confrontation between the Cold War enemies.
NATO held an emergency meeting of ambassadors of its 28 member states to respond to what Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called "unacceptable violations of Turkish air space" after Turkey said a Russian jet had crossed its frontier.
NATO members "strongly protest" and "condemn" incursions into Turkish and NATO territory, the alliance said.
"Allies also note the extreme danger of such irresponsible behavior. They call on the Russian Federation to cease and desist, and immediately explain these violations," it said in a statement released after the meeting in Brussels.
Russian war planes and those of the United States and its allies are now flying combat missions over the same country for the first time since World War Two, with Moscow repeatedly targeting insurgents trained and armed by Washington's allies.
Turkey, a NATO member with the alliance's second biggest army, scrambled two F-16 jets on Saturday after a Russian aircraft crossed into its airspace near its southern province of Hatay, the Turkish foreign ministry said.
In a second incident, the Turkish military said a MiG-29 fighter jet - an aircraft used both by Russia and Syria's own air force - had harassed two of its F-16s by locking its radar on to them on Sunday as they patrolled the border.
By Monday afternoon, Russia had not given its own public account of the incidents. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the Russian ambassador had been summoned and said "some facts were mentioned there which are to be checked", but gave no further details.
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Putin: "Care about it."
Turkey should not be protecting ISIS.
Or anyone else, especially America...obuma, go back to Kenya....
Speculation around here for a long time was (1)Turkey, the US, and Saudi Arabia actually support and enable ISIS and (2)Turkey being in NATO could get NATO in a war not just fighting Assad, but fighting the Kurds.
It is not fun when the US, it just might be, is part of the Axis of Evil.
Another limp-wristed, Euro, Hissy Fit.
No worry - Obama's got their backs.....
USA is seeming extremely wimpy with all this.
Russia supports Assad: USA complains it’ll help ISIS.
Russia bombs ISIS... USA warns they might kill civilians.
Russia flies in Turkey air space...USA denounces!
Russia sends troops to Syria: USA complains some more.
".. I got yer 'strong protest' right here..."
Yes...and NATO should have kicked out Turkey for supporting ISIS, attacking the Kurds, Armenians, etc. But they didn’t. So now, are the pussified Euros going to jeopardize their failing welfare states with unstable resources in the winter to go up against Vlad who could shut the gas valve?
Turks do not much like the Russians, anyway, considering the common border that once existed between Turkey and the Soviet Union (since Georgia broke away from the old Soviet Union, there is no longer a common border), and Turkey’s control of the Bosporus from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
The Islamic rulers of Turkey are really in FAVOR of a Caliphate being reestablished, as they think they can take control of it, and rebuild the old Ottoman Empire, this time doing it right. So darned right Turkey is an ally of ISIS.
There are a lot of issues, but this just might tip the balance to the sort of armed truce between Russia and Turkey.
LOL
History has shown that some of the biggest wars started with the smallest of miscalculations.
I wonder if all of these diplomatic and military miscalculations end up playing out on the plain of Megiddo.
5.56mm
That is the best caricature I have seen in a long time.
Thanks for posting it.
Ping.
;-)
Thought folks here would enjoy.
LOL...I love that. I posted, recently, that 0blama couldn’t even see Putin charging in on his backside.
Great minds! LOL
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