As we sit to enjoy our meal and the friendships that we have made the last year and those that have endured for decades, one worry crosses my mind ... the Turks & the Russians.
This latest development in the Syrian civil war and the war on ISIS is very worrisome. It was inevitable that with multiple air forces operating in the same theater of war that there would be a mistake and someone would shoot down a "friendly". But that's not the way it happened. The Turks shooting down the Russian warplane was deliberate, a result of a violation of Turkish airspace. This could bring troubling consequences as we know Mr Putin is not accustomed to being made to look like the weakerer party and will certainly retaliate in some way. Add to this the near accepted fact that Putin does not respect nor fear President Obama and we could have a problem. If Turkey is attacked and Article 5 of the NATO charter is enacted then we are obligated to enter the conflict vs. Russia. And therein lies the potential for World War III.
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