let there be no quarter with these savages.
Whatever happened to escorting the plane out of your territory (if the Russian plane actually was in Turkish airspace)
Turkey should have been kicked out of NATO when they refused the U.S. access to move equipment during the second gulf war
that last paragraph has a lot of heavy implications given 0's military actions.
This is the worst kept secret in the region, that IS funding comes from hauling oil to Turkey, where it goes to the world market. Doubtless, there is plenty of meat on the bone every step of the way, so someone in Turkey is making millions, too, off of this oil trade.
I wonder if Turkey would have shot at a French jet as quickly...
He was even madder than this when the Soviet Union collapsed and when the US supplied Stinger missiles to the Afghan rebels. Boy, was he mad. He could have been a KGB General if not for Reagan, Thatcher, the Poles, and Pope John Paul II.
I am a little surprised by this. They surely cannot let Russia run roughshod and I know they gave warnings, but they still could protested diplomatically and warned that ‘next time’ we will shoot.
Until now I would have thought Turkey could play both sides against the middle, with NATO membership secure they could move very aggressively towards being a Russian ally in all but name only and maybe get the best of both worlds. There is an axis that runs Moscow - Ankhara - Damascus - Tehran, should be beneficial to Turkey. Maybe this was the army acting without explicit political support? But now I am reminded of how angry they were when Israel boarded their Gaza blockade running ships. Turkey isn’t in a spot to complain about aggressive defense of territory anymore.
Turkey has been aiding and abetting ISIS all along. The only shots they fired in anger have been at our Kurdish allies. And now the Russians.
What implications are there vis a vis our NATO ties to Turkey if Turkey's attacked by Russia since Turkey was the original aggressor?
If Putin doesn’t start using his nukes, he will be replaced or killed. I say go ahead and nuke Turkey and ISIS...That leaves Iran but two out of three ain’t bad. Israel can do the Iranglow thing.
Turkey has shown that they are moslum first, anti terrorist second. Time to kick them out of NATO.
I thought for a second there that KGB Putin was admitting that the Russians had terrorist accomplices.
Turkey’s government is complicit with ISIS. They should not be a part of NATO...................
Finally the KURDS will get the weapons they’ve been needing.
It appears it is possible - even likely - that the Russian plan overflew Turkish airspace, but that it was shot down after it had left Turkish airspace.
Shooting it down in Turkish airspace would not have been strictly an act of war; shooting it down outside Turkish airspace almost certainly would be.
The muslim led/controlled Turkey is no longer the firm/good US ally that it used to be.
I say NATO cuts Turkey lose.
Don’t know how accurate this report is?
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