[mkjessup]

Turkey kinda sorta violated almost all of NATO’s ROE
Or maybe all of it

Exactly correct. And one of the reported questions to Turkey today at that NATO meeting was "why didn't you just escort the Russian plane OUT of your airspace?"

Apparently the order to shoot down the offending aircraft was issued by Erdogan himself.

[Dr.Deth]

Apparently the order to shoot down the offending aircraft was issued by Erdogan himself.

I've read that Erdogan is fluent in Arabic. So is the leader of one other NATO country, IIRC.

You know, for the times they want to talk about things without others understanding.