[ScottinVA]

This one is going to have some interesting turns.

[Enlightened1]

Sounds like Turkey is about to get hit back.

This is Turkey’s fault, and they started it.

[Alberta's Child]

The Russian leader stressed that the Russian Su-24 fighter-bomber was posing no threat to Turkey.

It speaks volumes that he did NOT say the Russian Su-24 hadn't violated Turkey's airspace.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I understand each country has its own regional interests, and we have always respected that.

President of Russia and yet he still manages to squeeze-in time for doing stand-up. How does he manage it?

[PGalt]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting. The winds of war are swirling.

[HamiltonJay]

Make no mistake about it, Turkey is no longer a secular muslim nation, radicals have been slowly moving that nation away from its secular foundings and toward theocratic rule.

That said however, I have little doubt Russia has been flagrantly violating their airspace in their air war in Syria.

This one will get interesting, Putin is not Obama, if he makes a threat, he’ll follow through... Last thing we need is Nato having to step in to help defend Turkey from Russia and start WWIII, particularly when the primary threat is fundamentalist islam that both sides should be trying to destroy.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

"They [the pilots] were fulfilling their task," the president stressed

Same could be said about the Turkish F-16 pilots.

American weapon superiority. Nobody is speaking about that. lol

[PGR88]

Turkey is a NATO member.

Perhaps is some kind of trigger Obama (or those pulling his strings) has been looking for?

NATO should have been disbanded at the end of the cold war and replaced with a few key bilateral agreements with Germany and the UK. The fact NATO is on a trigger with such stalwarts as Albania and Turkey makes it very dangerous indeed.