[McGruff]

Shaun Walker reports more sabre-rattling in Moscow.

Writing on Twitter Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian parliament’s international relations committee, said: “Ankara clearly did not weigh the consequences of its hostile acts for Turkey’s interests and economy. The consequences will be very serious.”

[Trumpinator]

Has Obama checked out? This Turk vs Russian exchange was a possibility which can end in a nuclear war - sleepwalking into a world war is as possible now as it was in 1914 - maybe even more so with nukes.

As soon as Russia showed up in Syria a president who was not a diplomatic idiot with an idiotic state dept would have initiated the end to Syrian hostilities - or been on the ball enough to prevent Russia getting involved in the first place.

[McGruff]

NATO’s governing body, the North Atlantic Council, said it would hold an emergency meeting in Brussels at 5 p.m. (11 a.m. ET) on Tuesday. The council is made up of the NATO ambassadors of the 28 countries that are members of the alliance and is NATO’s highest decision-making body.

The chicken hawks will be screeching.