They should have let it go. The fact that they didn't says alot. Expect consequences.
Posted on 11/24/2015 12:24:23 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Turkish F-16 fighter jets shot down a war plane of unknown origin on Tuesday after it violated Turkish air space close to the Syrian border and ignored warnings, a Turkish military official told Reuters.
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If the plane fell on Turkish side of the border then Turkey would have a case. They shot down a plane leaving their airspace and over Syrian airspace after the fact - if ever the Russian plane was in Turkish airspace.
They should have let it go. The fact that they didn't says alot. Expect consequences.
Why were the Russian turds flying in Turkey’s air-space? To get at Turkey’s Islamist terrorists that’s why.
Zero apparently disagrees with your take on this,
Creds just went down a few notches.
Get off it - you are as pleased as al-Qaeda that Muslims got the Russians.
Funny. Russia and their supporters spent many hours going on about how America would never stand for Russia getting involved in their sphere of interest.
Yet here you can’t equate that Russia would never allow another country’s warplane to fly through their airspace.
Red on Red.
And who would protect the Syrian Christians if not the Russians? And again, you root for the Muslims.
You want a war with Russia. Congratulations, Turkey just might have started one.
You mean who would protect Russia’s oil interests.
I don’t want a war but you are quick to make one for Russia. Because what... Putin’s plane was shot down...boo-hoo.
“A Syrian insurgent group, recipient of U.S. Tow missiles, said its fighters hit the helicopter with an anti-tank missile while it was in the air and put out a video showing the helicopter being blown up after one of its fighters struck it with another missile.”
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0TD1KQ20151124
But good to be skeptical.
Did the US arm the FSA or not?
” Putin has a lot more personal wealth to lose than any Soviet leader ever did”
Great point, and not to be ignored.
The US government has been funding and equipping these bastards despite what guys on the ground are doing.
We need to wake up to that fact.
I’m also a vet and did three tours. Not against ISIS but Islam all the same.
Yes.
That video was filmed from the Syrian side -- those were not Turks.
Syria has a Turkish population called “Turkomens”.
Okay got it. Thanks
Some empires are "good" empires like the British and Romans and tend to leave the people and places they rule better off. But Turkey's empire was a horrible empire - built around Islamic slavery and fear. It will never be right over there as long as this fact is not realized and addressed.
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