the video is on zerohedge of the shootdown. its definitely no drone...unfortunately
also it looks like the plane crashed in syria. it seems turkey has said 5 miles inside syria is considered turkish airspace...not too sure putin will agree with that.
all conspiracies aside...this does have to possibility of escalating ala WW1 and getting real ugly real fast. turkey will play the NATO card (altho if i reclall they didnt support the iraq war with invasion forces so maybe they could be told to go pound sand)...i just pray that cooler heads will prevail
also i pray the pilots are okay...thats the last thing the world needs is a isis murder video of them...
They cant claim another nations airspace
“i just pray that cooler heads will prevail”
praying with you.
Putin’s forces have been violating the airspace and territorial waters of many nations in the last three years. Their pilots have turned off their transponders. This is all well known. I would not give Putin the benefit of the doubt. Let the facts come out and I suspect we’ll see that Putin’s forces were acting arrogant and without regard to Turkey’s airspace. The chauvinism Putin encourages in Russia today leads to these types of miscalculations.