They could easily steamroll over Georgia and invade Turkey.
“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 doesn’t have the resources to fight Turkey conventionally “
Yes, they do. In fact, they probably wouldn’t mind it. Turkey has always been against Russia. Not that being against Russia was bad, but Russia may want payback.
Nice analysis.
I wonder, though, if the steely Putin might not do something wild ‘n’ crazy....
They could easily steamroll over Georgia and invade Turkey.
Putin gets approval from Assad to destroy the Turkmen forces who murdered the Russian pilots.
What cards do Erdogan and Obama have?