“Do you support Turkey shooting down the Russian attack aircraft?”
A Russian warship shot down a Turkish F-4 Phantom reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace over the Mediterranean Sea, murdering the Turkish aircrew. I have yet to see you protest those Russian and Syrian actions that were a clear and illegal act of war. I see no evidence of you protesting the numerous incursions of Syrian and Turkish warplanes into Turkish airspace with hostile intent as they locked-on their weapons preparatory to launching them against Turkish air defense aircraft located far inside of Turkish airspace, greater than 50-100nm. Given your posting history, it appears to me that you are either volunteering to serve as an apologist for Putin’s regime or you are one of those paid Russian trolls serving Putin’s regime to disseminate that regime’s official program of disinformation.
“And, if Russia retaliates militarily, do you support war with Russia in accordance with the NATO compact?”
Congratulations on your ability to parrot the Putin regime’s official program of disinformation designed to sow doubt and distrust for the purpose of dividing the NATO alliance in preparation for Russia’s imminent resumption of the offensive against the Ukraine. No doubt you will read from the script provided by Sputnik, Pravda, and so forth in an effort to persuade Westerners that every member of NATO is supposedly guilty of something which is supposed to make them disqualified to defend their own airspace and aircraft against hostile Syrian and Russian actions.
Note, Russia cannot retaliate, because Russia is the aggressor in this situation and Turkey is the defender in this situation, regardless of any faults Turkey may have otherwise. You simply are not going to get away with falsely trying to shift the blame for Russia’s aggressions to the victim of Russia’s aggressions. If Russia escalates its unilateral war against the NATO alliance, you leave NATO no choice but to use its defenses to defeat those aggressions when and where it is possible to do so. Putin and Russia had better heed those warnings. If Putin fails to heed those warnings, the people of Russia had better take action to keep Putin from getting too ambitious to the point NATO must act to defeat his acts of war against them.
Well, there IS one person on this board that thinks I'm a Russian troll, or paid activist, after all.
It just goes to show FR does not discriminate.
Idiots are allowed to post too.
Now that I have reviewed your posting history, would you please enlighten us on your service?
Do you have any campaign ribbons or expeditionary medals to show for it?
The reason I ask, is that I see several times where you are accusing battle veterans of being Putinistas and agents of the Kremlin.
Do you have an honorable basis for such defamatory and inaccurate accusations?
Did you serve and did you help win some war?
Or, are you another of those armchair pu$$ies that like to dishonor vets and their sacrifice?
WhiskeyX has been here a long time and is a good poster.
Thank you, WhiskeyX for enlightening us, mere mortals on all important aspects of current ME affairs. I remember your expertise from the glorious days of July 17, 1996. Hope you are OK, paychecks and promotions are coming in, benefits are lined up as well. Keep up the good work.
So you are bed with ISIS like your buddy nation Turkey ?