Good. It’s nice to see some country standing up for its military and citizens unlike our cowering Child-In-Chief.
Around siding with Turkey in this is in bed with ISIS.
Moskva and Charles de Gaulle close together, while Obama is doing his best to protect his pet terrorists from military attack. This could get ugly.
My concern is about Putin using a theater nuke on Raqqa, after his pilots were murdered. We would be at a whole new level then.
While I’m not exactly a fan of Putin’s - or Erdogan’s for that matter, in a situation like this, in which Russia and (presumably) Turkey are trying to destroy ISIS, a brief overflight of a corner of Turkish airspace shouldn’t necessitate the downing of a Russian aircraft. During the Cold War, we and the Russians violated one another’s airspace along the German border on several occasions and, while we locked on to one another’s aircraft, we never actually shot one down.
Given Turkey’s increasingly fundamentalist direction and allegations that they’re supporting ISIS from behind the scenes, I’m not necessarily inclined to side with Turkey, especially given that the Russians and now the French are the only ones putting a hurt on ISIS.
I do not see why the use of a tiny bit of airspace is a big deal. Why are they not on Russia’s side int he war on terror?
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A perfectly reasonable reaction on Putin's part. Not it's Turkey's torn to be macho. This is how things get out of hand.
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