Posted on 11/24/2015 7:17:17 AM PST by Biggirl
President Vladimir Putin has accused Turkey of funding ISIS, and using its military to protect the terrorist organisation, after a Russian fighter jet was shot down near the Syrian border on Tuesday morning. The two-pilot Sukhoi Su-24 jet was shot down by F-16 fighter planes just after 9am this morning, after it violated Turkish airspace and ignored nearly a dozen warnings by the military, Ankara officials said.
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Yup.
And the mini countries would be fighting each other, while being rallying points for members of those ethnic groups in the surrounding countries.
Ironic that the exact opposite technique the British used to keep the ME self contained (cramming the ethnic groups together into internally conflicted countries) would work to the same goal of keeping the ME from bothering the rest of us.
....Yet the British idea, in this age of the internet and instant communications, just does not work.
It worked quite well for generations. Can’t blame them for having a cloudy crystal ball.
>Russia got what was coming to it.
Yeah, how dare Russia try to eliminate islamo scum. /s
I actually had a freeper admonish me that calling ISIS Daesh was politically correct and wrong
Isn’t that funny?
ISIS or IS is what the killers like to be called
Daesh is a slur on them and they dislike it so much they kill those who use the term
Yet this freeper refused to figure it out
Some here even when confronted with truth just can’t give it up
Unlike Obama, Putin puts his money where his mouth is. Erdogan had better watch his step.
Yep, because you cannot mess around with Putin.
“Turkey must have lost its collective mind.”
Russia has been routinely illegally overflying the airspace of NATO allies for years now. Turkey has repeatedly warned Russia to stay out of their airspace and finally lost patience with the game. Russia doesn’t have the resources to fight Turkey conventionally and any direct conflict at all would give the Turks an excuse to close off the Turkish Straits hamstringing the Black Sea Fleet. Russia has no cards to play here. They’re going to be publically outraged and privately seeking to not escalate.
Russia has been warned over and over and over again to stop overflying Turkish territory. This is what happens when you do not heed those warnings. Russia could expect the same result from pretty much any other country (that doesn’t fear it) for repeated airspace violations - including the US.
Lol, Russia does not have the means to declare and enforce a no fly zone over Syria. The US could do it, but not Russia.
Sorry for the Putanista’s reading this, but Russia’s military isn’t really all that strong. Only a fraction of it is considered 1st world and even Turkey could chase them out of Syria is they wanted.
France was looking to ally with Russia. Damn well sure there are people in the White Hut who want to make sure this does not take place.
Go back to Mecca.
So can Greece shoot down Turkish planes that violate her airspace now (both in NATO) and expect NATO back up?
Russia places a few S300 batteries in Syria and now you have a no fly zone from Turkey to northern Iraq and all of Syria. End of game and Putin has balls to do it and now Turkey given a good reason for Russia to arm the Kurds heavily. We should already have been arming the Kurds.
Turkey is in bed with ISIS. I see where your loyalties are.
I wonder if there will be ZERO civilian casualties when Putin strikes Turkey?
My thoughts too.
Fairy boy needs a diversion and a break from Russia’s bombing. What better way than to get the Turks who are and have never been a friend of ours to shoot a Russian plane down, thus hide behind NATO.
This all stinks of the white house yet again protecting ISIS and their crony pals.
GOOD!!!
Thanks Biggirl.
This is the most important post of the day!!!
Let Americans know what they chanted over dead Russian bodies.
Like they chant over dead American bodies!!!
Not one drop of blood defending muslims anywhere anymore!!!!
and @$#@#$ the term “moderate rebels”.
What does that mean anyway? will someone PLEASE explain that to me.
Is that admitting that there are extremist muslim rebels? Obummer never uses that term, so what’s a moderate muslim look like.
If they are moderate, they must be a moderate SOMETHING.
Are the moderate baseball players? moderate cooks?
If they are moderate muslims then that means there are extremist muslims, obama. you piece of @#$
Really? Why do you think countries like Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania were so eager to join NATO? Have the Russians lost their appetite for Empire? How reassuring is it to have a KGB thug in charge of Russia?
Kurds are just more moslems. Isolate the entire area, and let them figure it out.
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