My read is this isn’t casus belli on it’s own, even if the jet was in Turkish airspace, but that this could easily lead to an escalation up to the point of armed conflict. Turkey has been the country to watch in it’s interactions with Syria this whole time; the only country that could plausibly intervene. As this article reminds us though, Turkey is a founding NATO member and an attack on one is an attack on all. If Syria acts too aggressively or attempts a preemptory strike then that could trigger one hell of a response.
shit you guys, Syria shot down a Turkish fighter yesterday. This could lead to a whole new phase of escalation. Might even be a pretense for military action against Syria if the jet was in Turkish airspace. Story developing…
I watched this last night and i noticed a few things.
In it they tried to say that the iraq war “mistake” was solely down to one iraqi informant “curveball”, who appeared on the program and confessed everything he said was a lie. Can you really believe that the U.N and NATO made their decision on…
Neither NATO nor the U.N. invaded iraq, so maybe that actually shows that they’re more credulous than you take them for. As for Cuveball’s effects on the US, he hardly caused the war just enabled. It wasn’t that he was a good lier, it was that he was telling them what they wanted to hear. As far as a post cold war treaty on spies I’m not sure exactly what you’re talking about, please elaborate which treaty you’re talking about.
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