I don’t want to fight Russia to defend Turkey air space. It is air. They are fighting ISIS nearby. Does that really require shooting down their plane?
Turkey is showing they will protect their airspace. Russia was pushing to see what they could do.
Americans have cleared the skies when Russians are nearby and they’ve buzzed our drones already. We did nothing.
Turkey is showing they aren’t girly men like Obama.
I imagine it’ll be swept under the rug and the two nations will agree to shut up about it with Russia not entering their airspace again.
But, yes. NATO is involved and things can escalate quickly.
What if Russia shot down one of our planes (manned or drone)?
Russkies have been locking in to Turkish targets for days now, clearly doing their best to be provocative. Russkies do it to our forces all the time, but we never shoot them down. The Turks called the Russkie’s bluff and sent a Russkie on his way to hell, but one wonders if Putin will retaliate now? We’ll see. If he doesn’t, assuming the story is even true, then there is hope for America because it’ll mean Putin is a Puss.
First to fight for Nato will be the French air in the region