Posted on 11/24/2015 12:24:23 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Turkish F-16 fighter jets shot down a war plane of unknown origin on Tuesday after it violated Turkish air space close to the Syrian border and ignored warnings, a Turkish military official told Reuters.
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Like it or not, Russia is on the right side of this thing. The U.S. is not.
Not to get involved in your dustup, as I am trying to get hard information in the rest of this thread -- but I'd suggest Putin's "permission" to invade and annex a portion of the Ukraine was ultimately due to whatever autof*llatory pig-f*cker persuaded the Ukraine to give up their nukes...
“Like it or not, Russia is on the right side of this thing. The U.S. is not.”
Putin now has EVERY excuse that he needs to declare a no-Fly Zone over Syria.
Yes he does, and I bet he is torqued off this morning.
Putin may make a move on the Bosphorus.
Media is saying Putin to make live statement in the next few minutes.
It’s safe to say that the Russians are PISSED...
Putin to make live statement in the next few minutes.
Unconfirmed Twitter chatter says the Russians may have told the Turkish Embassy to close, and be out of the country within 24 hours.
Vijay Prashad â€@vijayprashad · 38m38 minutes ago
Putin has called for emergency meeting of UN Security Council.
The US does not support ISIS and never has. Only Russian trolls and their websites claim such. The intent is to ridicule the West’s efforts in order to substantiate Russia’s intervention and goals.
Turkey, Saudi and others supports ISIS. We’ve had unsuccessful discussions with the Turks regarding their cross-border support of ISIS. So it’s going to the next phase.
The Western allies are trying to protect the Kurds from ISIS, Turkey and Assad as they fight against all three.
‘The West’ has people inside Syria supporting actions against Assad and ISIS. Both of them are terrorist organizations intent on de-stabilization and regional conflict.
We are not on Turkey’s side wrt ISIS. We are on the Kurds’ and Iraq’s side to degrade and then defeat ISIS in northern Iraq.
“Fox reporting one of the pilots DEAD, in rebel hands.”
Boy, this is getting ugly.
All joking aside, this is a step to war.
Letting the Turks into to NATO made some some sense back in the day, but they have been a very poor ally. Russia has a grudge against Turkey dating back to 1454, and more recently the early 1900’s when they killed a large number of there coreligionists.
For years I have been curious of when Russia would restart their long term goal of retaking Constantinople. It appears that the Turks may have just handed them the justification. Honestly, I don’t think they will make a move yet, but this puts huge pressure on the West. Not to mention escalates the risk of NATO getting involved (though the Turks haven’t been the closest allies in the past, and have been positioning to go after Greece.)
Andrew Roth @ARothWP
Vice-speaker of the Duma suggests evacuating Russian tourists from Turkey following “act of aggression.”
Twitter:
FURTHER REPORTS NOW THAT RUSSIAN HELICOPTER WAS SHOT DOWN IN RESCUE OPERATION - CREW REPORTED KILLED - NO OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION YET
“The US does not support ISIS and never has.”
Wrong. ISIS is the radical offshoot of Al-Qaeda. 0bama has been arming this group and encouraging it to topple governments in his Arab Spring initiate, which Syria was to be his last chapter. Thing is, ISIS got out of control, and became its own force for SUNNI muslim conquest.
0bama is on record supporting these people in his aim to topple Syria.
I am not a putinista or whatever you call folks that actually understand what is going on, and your attempt to ignore and rewrite history is nothing but blind allegiance to the 0bamna regime.
Conflicting reports now:
BREAKING UPDATE - SYRIA: Emergency landing by Russian helicopter moments ago in Latakkia area, all crew members reportedly safe.
“The US does not support ISIS and never has”
Russian Officials don’t refer to ISIS as “Obama’s Terrorists” in public, for nothing.
Apparently the Turkish army released a radar path of the jet showing it crossed a small sliver of Turkey. But how did anyone have time to send the warnings that Turkey said they sent?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-24/turkish-f-16-shoots-down-russian-su-24-warplane-near-syria-border. (amazing photos)
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