Paging Franz Ferdinand... please pick up the courtesy phone
I sure as Hell hope not.
It’s amazing to an old Cold War Marine like me to see a member of NATO should down a Russian aircraft and the reaction of the US, more or less, has been a shrug.
Turkey wants a rebirth of the old Ottoman Empire, and Erdogan probably sees himself taking control after ISIS does some of the early heavy lifting for him. A Russian puppet Syria fulfills the age old dream of unfettered access to the Med.
It’ll be interesting to see how much intestinal fortitude Obama exhibits on behalf of whom. I predict Erdogan is going to be disappointed and Putin has already taken his measure.