Unlike two months ago when a Russian 3-star general walked across street to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and told them “We bomb in 1 hour. Stay out of our way”; this time the Russian had given prior information to the U.S. of the flight path of its Su-24 fighter jets. Surprisingly, a Russian jet was shot down when it shared information as compared when it didn’t.

 

Finally, something which could spark a World War III has occurred when a Turkish F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24. Not only an ejected pilot got sprayed with bullets by rebels Turkmen fighters (backed by Turkey) while parachuting, a Russian search and rescue helicopter that arrived was attacked and destroyed by rebels brandishing a US-made TOW anti-tank missile.

If the downing of Malaysian Flight MH17 was blamed on Russia immediately simply because it was shot by Russian-made BUK missile system, it’s only fair to blame U.S. when an American-made TOW anti-tank missile was used to attack a Russian search and rescue helicopter. As much as Turkey and U.S. play dumb on the crisis, it’s hard to deny both countries’ involvement.

 

Furious, President Vladimir Putin called the shot down a “stab in the back by the terrorists’ accomplices” and warning that there would be “severe consequences”. Unlike Prime Minister Najib Razak who was clueless as to the actual reasons to the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370’s disappearance and MH17’s downing, Russia has the technology and expertise to know precisely what had happened.

The Turks shot down the jet and did so within 17 seconds, with the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan admitted to giving the order himself. He didn’t bother to offer a clumsy excuse that it was a Turkish pilot mistake or something along that line. Turkey, however, offered its reason for shooting down the Russian jet – Putin’s boy had allegedly entered Turkey’s airspace.

 

Not only Turkey claims that its F-16s were simply defending the country’s sovereign territory, to which Russia denied, but it further justified that it had given “10 warnings“ to the Russian plane before it was shot down. Of course, one of the two Russian pilots who ejected and survived claims there were no warnings received whatsoever.

Even if Turkey is right that the Russian Su-24 strayed into its airspace, the plane was within Ankara’s borders for just 17 seconds before being attacked, so how could there be 10 “repeated warnings” before a decision to unleash missile from F-16 towards Su-24, a first of such attack since 1952? The plan was too perfect that Turkey’s minions were tipped to wait and record the jet being hit.

 

Putin has suggested that Turkey somehow knew beforehand of the Su-24 flight path because Obama administration had deliberately leaked the location and time of the Russian fighter jet’s information. Perhaps that was precisely what had happened. The very fact that Turkey dared to challenge mighty Russia for a war goes to show that it has the support and blessing of a superpower.

In a situation like Syrian War, it’s perfectly normal for a Russian Su-24 breaching certain airspace of Turkey. It wasn’t like the Su-24 was behaving in a hostile way towards Turkey. After the incident, amusingly, Ankara claimed it wouldn’t have had shot down the plane if it knew it was a Russian jet. But ISIS doesn’t fly a single jet fighter, do they? So, every fighter jet can be considered “friendly” plane, no?

 

Russia asks for an apology but Erdogan arrogantly warned Putin “not to play with fire”. Moscow is now using a popular Western tool – economic sanction. A plan to build a gas pipeline and a US$20 billion nuclear power plant construction in Turkey are two projects to be affected. Based on figures from 2014, Turkey is to lose roughly 4.5 million Russian tourists, the second biggest group after Germans.

The last thing that Turkey wants is more impacts on its economy, considering its Lira has fallen about 20% against the dollar this year, making it harder to service its US$125 billion in foreign debt. But the lucrative “secret business” of oil trade with ISIS, at least 50% cheaper than market price, is too good for President Erdogen’s son to ignore.

 

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see why Erdogen personally issued the order to shoot down Russian Su-24 after Russia began delivering airstrikes against the ISIS infrastructure and destroyed more than 500 trucks loaded with oil, ready to be smuggled into a Turkish oil company, allegedly owned by the president’s son, Bilal.

Turkey wanted revenge for the business lost while the U.S. wanted revenge after it was humiliated in the annexation of Crimea, not to mention Russia’s success in bombing ISIS. Washington must have thought that Putin could be trapped into declaring a war on Turkey, a fellow NATO member, hence giving the Western countries a legitimate reason to punish Putin, the same way they did to Hitler during World War II.

 

Unfortunately, Putin is too smart for both Obama and Erdogan combined. Perhaps he knew all along that Obama would pass the flight information to Erdogan. And he pretended to be furious at the barbaric act of Turkey in shooting down its fighter jet and search and rescue helicopter. If social media comments are any indicator, global supports seem to be on Putin’s side.

Putin doesn’t want a war with Turkey, not that it doesn’t have the nuclear power to finish the country once and for all. When was the last time Putin cares about his men’s life? But the pilot who was killed – Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov – is awarded Russia’s highest honour of the Hero of Russia medal, not to mention his family’s mortgage to be fully paid off.

 

Vladimir Putin has done a great job in marketing for global public supports, by playing the innocence cards. He is now seen as a hero while both Erdogan and Obama the villains. Most importantly, Turkey and U.S.’ idiocy has presented a legitimate excuse for Putin to deploy any military machines into Syria under the pretext of protecting its personnel.

Thereafter, Russia publicly announced the deployment of its cutting-edge S-400 air defence system, which arrived a day ago, to protect the Russian Hmeimim airbase in Latakia, Syria. With a range of 400 km and speed of Mach-14, it could hit bombers such as B-1, B-52; fighter jets F-16, F-22, F-35; stealth planes F-117A and even U.S. mighty Tomahawk cruise missiles.

 

Thanks to Turkey and U.S.’ arrogance and stupidity, neither country has justification to object Russia’s latest (and possibly future) gadget deployment to Syria. Suddenly, Moscow possesses a strategic base with ability to hit Turkey-US Incirlik airbase and British bases in Cyprus. What a sucker Erdogan and Obama have been for underestimating Putin’s intelligence.

Perhaps realizing what a fool he has been for starting the tension, Mr. Erdogan is reportedly seeking a face-to-face meeting with Putin, presumably to make up and suck up to him. So far, the Russian president hasn’t find it fit for such meet up while the Turkish president said his government is “really saddened” about shooting down the Russian warplane.

 

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November 29th, 2015 by financetwitter

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