Video of Russian helicopters flying SAR at this moment.
http://www.cnnturk.com/video/dunya/suriye-sinirinda-savas-ucagi-dustu
Militarov wrote:
Video of Russian helicopters flying SAR at this moment.
http://www.cnnturk.com/video/dunya/suriye-sinirinda-savas-ucagi-dustu
PapaDragon wrote:GunshipDemocracy wrote:PapaDragon wrote:
One pilot dead. Any Russian politician who suggests moderation now will kiss his career goodbye.
WWIII then?
Meh, who would go to WW3 over today's Turkey?
Cruise missile/Kurdish republic "diplomacy" more likely...
Monarchist wrote:This is your only fcking answer whenever russians die. Or someone attacks Russia. Your brainwashing from Putin's liberal media is astoundishing. If the doesn't retaliate he should just resign.GunshipDemocracy wrote:PapaDragon wrote:
One pilot dead. Any Russian politician who suggests moderation now will kiss his career goodbye.
WWIII then?
OminousSpudd wrote:Auslander called it... Although I'd say it's not how he envisioned it happening.
Karl Haushofer wrote:If and likely when the Russian jet was shot down in Syrian air space the Russian retaliation (or lack of it) will determine how the West sees Russia in the future.
We have three scenarios:
3. Russia retaliates militarily. Russian AA system shoots down one or more Turkish jets near Turkey-Syria border (it does not matter if they were in Syria or not). At the same time Russia starts a program to arm the PKK fighters with modern Russian weapons. Russia will also make it clear to Turkey (and other NATO members) that if more Russian jets are shot down Russia will retaliate with cruise missile strikes against Turkish infrastructure targets (military bases, important power plants) from the Caspian Sea.
Maybe Turkey shooting down a Russian jet was a pre-planned test to see how Russia reacts and to make Russian military campaign in Syria so much more difficult?
Rodinazombie wrote:Fuck erdogan and fuck turkey and its terrorist sympathies.
You can argue about blowong up power lines, but shooting a fucking plane down is very clearly an act of war. And make no mistake, dont pin this just on turkey, if nato are crooning about it then the responsibility is on them too. They are the ones who made such a massive issue of this even when turkey had kissed and made up with russia after the border incident.
Russia must respond now in equal measure, it has to. If it tries to brush this under the carpet the turks will start doing this more often, and the next time they send a bear to fly close to british airspace who knows what will happen, if nato countries will know that they can shoot down russian planes with no response.
GunshipDemocracy wrote:Well those 12 extra Sukhois sent 5 days ago were meant to do something... Turkey did it on purpose -once Kruds will be strong and autonomous bye bye Turkey. Hope answer will be painful like hell. Both on personal and state level
Khepesh wrote:Time to finish the task, and this time on to Konstantinopolis.
The deputy speaker of Russia’s parliament, and a member of its international affairs committee, accused Turkey of supporting Islamic State [Isis] and shooting down the Russian plane over Syria, writes Shaun Walker.
In response, he suggested that Russia should cancel flights to Turkey and evacuate all its citizens. Nikolai Levichev compared the attack to the bombing of a Russian Airbus over Sinai last month, apparently carried out by ISIS. The attack killed all 224 people on board and led to the cancellation of all flights between Russia and Egypt.
As individual politicians continue to speculate on the response, the real clues as to how aggressively Russia will react are likely to come only when we have heard Vladimir Putin speak.
GunshipDemocracy wrote:
Cruise missiles good but this is an attack on NATO. Must be pretext to retaliate. In a painful for kebabs way. Kurdish card. I hope this is not only physical appearance but also the spirit.
Militarov wrote:
I measured this wedge on Google Maps... on widest its less than 3km.