Do they have an Oil/Gas deal ?
If somebody shot down my plane I sure as hell wouldn’t pay ‘em for it.
THAT is going to hurt!
Hitting them in the pocketbook.
Sounds like something a President Trump might do.
Yup. Ex KGB chiefs know how to make someone pay without having to start a shooting war.
Look for Obama/Bush to push to send Billions to Turkey.
3...2...1...
So, he’s undermining the Turkish economy, creating lots of unemployed Turks who will then bring down Erdogan?.............
Putin has Reagan blood...
I’m glad that Russia is taking a path, regardless of where you fall on the issue, of not escalating the situation in a way that will cause more grief than anyone needs.
President Barak Mohammad Mohammad will probably write a check, out of our bottomless Treasury (bottomless because we make money out of thin air), and send it to his Turkey buds to compensate for their loss...
ouch!!!
Since when did Russia send billions in funding to Turkey? So far as I can see, there’s some minor import restrictions and tourism restrictions that were put in place, but nothing coming close to millions, much less billions.
Is there another source for this story? Like a real news site?
Not wise to poke the bear.
“Russia is terminating military cooperation with Turkey completely. Joint commercial projects will be closed down as well. Final solutions will be developed as a result of expert consultations. Russia’s Gazprom will have to assess the feasibility of building the Turkish Stream pipeline - the company had signed the memorandum of building the pipeline with Turkish company Botas.
“Turkey’s 22-billion dollar contract with Russia for the construction of Akkuyu nuclear power plant is in jeopardy.”
"Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has threatened Syria with retaliation for shooting down a military jet, and warned that Turkish armed forces will respond to any Syrian encroachment on the border.
Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance stands by Turkey but is not considering a military response."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/middle-east-live/2012/jun/26/syria-crisis-nato-meeting-live
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Graphic showing where the Turkish F-4 Phantom went down
And THAT is how it’s done, folks!
Among the victims were the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, the former President of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Polish Government officials, 18 members of the Polish Parliament, senior members of the Polish clergy and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre.
The group was arriving from Warsaw to attend an event marking the 70th anniversary of the [Katyn] massacre, which took place not far from Smolensk."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash
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April 2014...
Did Putin Blow Up the Whole Polish Government in 2010?
A Second Look
A plane crash at Smolensk in Russia four years ago wiped out the Warsaw leadership. It used to be seen as an accident. Now, after Putin's games in Ukraine, people aren't so sure.
Four years ago this week, Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane crash near the Katyn Forest in Russia where he was flying to honor the 22,000 Polish officers, lawyers, priests and professors slaughtered there by the Soviets 70 years before.
Ninety-five other military, political and public figures including his wife died on that plane.
One of the more heartbreaking details to emerge was that First Lady Maria Kaczynska's body could be identified only by her nail polish and the inscription inside her wedding ring.
Less than two years before the crash the late president had given a speech warning that if Russian aggression was not stopped in Georgia, which Russia had invaded, it would extend to Ukraine, the Baltics, and possibly Poland as well. "We are here to take up the fight," he said. And many Poles still believe that their president died in the cause of that effort. Physicist Kazimierz Nowaczyk is one of them. ..."
(BIG SNIP)
He makes his case at the link...
Did Putin Blow Up the Whole Polish Government in 2010? A Second Look:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/11/did-putin-blow-up-the-whole-polish-government-in-2010-a-second-look.html
That's what you get.Russia is quietly evacuating it’s citizens from Turkey, as well.
I think this round is over. The next is just beginning.
That's for sure...
Nov 2015...
Vladimir Putin's media Svengali who was found dead in DC hotel was 'murdered for being an FBI informant'
"Nicknamed the 'Bulldozer', Lesin was one of the key props of the Putin presidency, personally masterminding a wide-ranging media crackdown which has left the vast majority of Russian TV stations and newspapers obedient to the Kremlin."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3315994/Vladimir-Putin-s-media-mastermind-dead-DC-hotel-murdered-FBI-informant-alive-claim-Russians.html#ixzz3rOUopg7Q
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List of journalists killed in Russia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia#A_list_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia