It does not matter whether the Russians had been in the Turkish territory
for eighteen seconds, or for two seconds, or not at all. Every knowledgeable
person, honest or dishonest, every reasonable human being is well aware of the
fact that the Russian jets never posed any threat to the national security of
the Turkish Republic. The only reason why one of these jets was shot down was
in retaliation of the Russian bombing of the anti-Assad rebels, whom the
Russians justifiably call “terrorists” and whom the Turkish Government
considers its allies in the war against Assad, and, to pacify the critics,
calls “moderate opposition.”
These days it is fashionable to forget, in the Western media, that only
recently most Western experts concurred in the opinion that the only
combat-capable anti-Assad rebel forces were either ISIL-affiliates, or
ISIL-accomplices, and that the so-called “moderate opposition” were a bunch of
toothless incompetents, in other words, a chimera.
What happened was that after the Russians had become directly involved in
the fight against the Islamic extremists in Syria, the simple fact of life that
it is either Assad or the ISIL had become politically inexpedient. Very
unfortunately, President Obama and the Russophobic element in the United States
Government, plus several other Western leaders, have preferred to see Russia,
rather than the international terrorist organizations, as the greater enemy,
and that – without a good cause, except for the deep misunderstanding of the fact that
Putin’s Russia is no longer Yeltsin’s Russia. (I suspect that Yeltsin’s Russia,
with all my revulsion for it, had never really been what the West had thought
it to be…)
Turkey must have taken this Russophobic attitude of the West as her cue
in her private battles in the region, where Russia was now creating a
hindrance, hence the shootdown…
There is no doubt in my mind that sooner or later Daesh will be defeated
in Syria. No matter how that may occur, Turkey is not going to be among the
winners. The sad irony is that the Turks must have known this all along. But
they must have put their bet on the United States, not realizing that
Washington was bluffing.
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