Posted on 11/26/2015 3:13:53 PM PST by McGruff
Russia has rejected Turkey's claims that it did not know the plane it shot down on the Syria border was Russian.
President Vladimir Putin said Russian planes were easily identifiable and the jet's flight co-ordinates had been passed on to Turkey's ally, the US.
Turkey's president said earlier if it had known the plane was Russian "maybe we would have warned it differently".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
How often do American and Canadian jets warn and escort Russian aircraft away from our airspace around Alaska and the Yukon and Northwest Territories? A lot.
Who else would be flying in that direction in that area a that height and speed? Can't be a long list.
I bet Obama apologizes to Russia.
Now Putin knows what our “Great ObamaNation” meant when he said he would be “ . . . more flexable after the election”.
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