“Why do ppl side with Turkey and ISIS on here? Russia are our allies against ISIS. Hindering Russia = hindering our objective to destroy ISIS”
Turkey is our actual ally, for better or (mostly) worse; and Russia did not enter Syria to fight Isis. We clearly don’t have a strategic “objective” to destroy Isis, or we’d have done it already. Pulling for the Russians to accidently accomplish something our own government is mostly ignoring is a bit pathetic. And Russia has been routinely violating the airspace of NATO countries and finally stepped over the line with the craziest of them. IF Russia overflew Turkey again after being warned repeatedly formally and informally, then they can’t claim to be a victim here. I take Turkey’s word for it on the location of Russian aircraft given the fact that they’re using our equipment to do the tracking.
This isn’t going to go well. Putin isn’t going to adhere by the rules of ‘appropriate response’.
Obama should resign. His own party should be calling for it.
Seems pretty obvious Putin was trying to manufacture an incident. Presumably to get US aircraft out of Syria. Now that he’s got a couple of shish kabob’d Russkie pilot martyrs I imagine Russian AA radar will start engaging US aircraft in Syria, etc. Then kenyan will run so fast from Syria it will make your head spin.