Paphitis:
I find your jubilation over the downing of the Russian SU quite sickening and not much different to the euphoria exhibited by Islamic extremist animals like DAESH with their ‘
Allahu Akbar’ war cry!
Will you have the same attitude if the Syrians/Russians bring down a coalition jet, using the same legal argument that ‘....
they have a legal right to protect their air space.’? Or maybe either bringing down a couple of Israeli jets, which of course make almost daily incursions into their air space deliberately to attack ground targets within Syria?
Unlike a US response to plane crashes or airliners being shot down, have you noticed how Putin does not leap in with threats based on unconfirmed intelligence? The measured response of a real statesman as he waits for confirmation rather than making knee jerk accusations he could later have to retract. But the US never retracts their accusations, do they, irrespective of lack of evidence to support them. (
MH17, Assad's Sarin attacks on his own people .... ring a bell?)
Even using the Turkish RADAR plots of the aircrafts track, the incursion would have lasted around 15-20 seconds at most ........... hardly a threat to Turkey is it? I think Turkey will either end up having to apologise for their ‘
mistake’ , which of course Russia would accept (
with some compensation?) to defuse the effects of the attack, or they will live to regret their mistake.
