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Reuters: Putin sees chance circumstances behind downing of Russian plane in Syria
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the shooting down of a Russian military plane near Syria’s seacoast was the result of a chain of tragic and chance circumstances.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said earlier that the aircraft was shot down by Syrian anti-aircraft systems, but accused Israel of indirectly causing the incident, saying Israeli jets operating nearby had put the Russian plane in the path of danger. The ministry threatened to retaliate over what it called a hostile act.
Putin’s comments, made after talks with Hungary’s prime minister in Moscow, appeared to somewhat defuse the situation though he said Russia needed to look further into what happened.
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7 comments:
Fog of war? I doubt it but Putin has to worry about deeper involvement. Israel is fighting for survival, Russia just wants a nice peaceful sea base in Syria, which they already have. So why get between the kinetics going on between Iran and Israel?
De-escalation is the smart move, even if he knows the Israeli's took advantage of that downed planes location.
PUTIN ON LATEST STATEMENT
Lori,
The public reaction has been remarkably quiet. It seems no one is surprised that this has happened.
Putin's remarks have also been very restrained. My sense is that he does not want to escalate it publicly.
If an American plane were to be shot down you can forget Deescalation. People like Fred would call Trump a putin puppet, traitor and coward if he were to do what Putin does now and take some time to think things over and perhaps deescalate. The press outrage actors in the white house press briefing room would spit and foam and call Sanders all names in the book.. that's the state of what the left and Democrats allows to happen.
Anon,
There is a long list of things that WNU's liberal troll Freddy would do in such an event. Frothing at the mouth and cunt would certainly be a key part of his emotionally driven blind fervor. Everything is politicized, everything is batshit crazy emotional and careening off a cliff with the mainstream glob that is the democratic party. Thankfully we have a president with balls, less some brains, and a good Secretary of Defense to adequately handle that sort event. It would give the US a lot of leverage, conditions in context, and it would be interesting to see how foreign policy would be navigated in such an event.
anon you are hardly anon...your comments always give you away
stay on topic
Lapides,
"..your comments always give you away"
Really? You certainly flatter yourself.
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