{"id":14829,"date":"2015-11-27T06:59:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T11:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14829"},"modified":"2015-11-27T06:59:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T11:59:41","slug":"the-russiaturkey-clash-some-relevant-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14829","title":{"rendered":"The Russia\/Turkey Clash\u2014\u2014\u2014Some Relevant History"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/the-russiaturkey-clash-some-relevant-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Russia\/Turkey Clash\u2014\u2014\u2014Some Relevant History<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p>Turn to page 214 in the book \u201cWar-making for Dummies.\u201d You will find: \u201cplan air operations right on your neighbor\u2019s border, zig in and zag out, make rude gestures at enemy pilots, and shoot them down if you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday this week, the inevitable air clash occurred on the Syrian-Turkish border west of Aleppo.\u00a0 From what we know so far,\u00a0 two Russian SU-24 bombers that had been pounding\u00a0 anti-Damascus\u00a0 forces on the border\u00a0 briefly\u00a0\u00a0 intruded on Turkish airspace for all of\u00a0 17 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish\u00a0 F-16 fighters, clearly pre-positioned in the area,\u00a0 pounced on the Russians and downed one Sukhoi with an air-to-air missiles. One of the Russian pilots was killed \u2013 probably by pro-Turkish Syrian tribesmen while parachuting to earth. A \u00a0Russian Marine was killed when the helicopter in which he was flying to recuse the downed\u00a0 airman was hit by a US-supplied TOW anti-tank missile.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey claimed it had warned the Russian warplane 10 times\u2019 before shooting. How the Turks could\u00a0 pre-position its F-16\u2019s and issue ten warnings within 17 seconds was not explained.\u00a0 Russia\u2019s president Vladimir Putin furiously accused the Turks of murder and supporting ISIS extremists.<\/p>\n<p>The US-led NATO alliance rushed to back up member Turkey, which moved forces to its long border with Syria. Putin ordered lethal, long-ranged S-400 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria and missile cruiser \u201cMoskva\u201d to station off Syria\u2019s Mediterranean coast. Both systems can cover large parts of western Syria, including areas routinely intruded upon by US, French, British\u00a0 and Israeli aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>In short,\u00a0 a perfect witch\u2019s stew for the beginning of a real war\u00a0 between Russia and the West that has been simmering in Syria and Ukraine. US forces are now operating in both nations within spitting distance of Russian troops.<\/p>\n<p>The location of this Russo-Turkish\u00a0 clash was very interesting, though unnoted by western media. It occurred along the southern end of a small, narrow salient of Turkish territory jutting into Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russia\/Turkey Clash\u2014\u2014\u2014Some Relevant History Turn to page 214 in the book \u201cWar-making for Dummies.\u201d You will find: \u201cplan air operations right on your neighbor\u2019s border, zig in and zag out, make rude gestures at enemy pilots, and shoot them down if you can.\u201d On Tuesday this week, the inevitable air clash occurred on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5979,553,694,776,818,821,827,857,965],"class_list":["post-14829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-contracorner","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14830,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829\/revisions\/14830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}