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If half of the world can be at war at once because of a single soldier being killed in those countries, then haven’t we repeated the 1914 mechanism?
by laurent92 5y ago
If half of the world can be at war at once because of a single soldier being killed in those countries, then haven’t we repeated the 1914 mechanism?
- ceejayoz 5y agoNo; we've tested this numerous times. Turkey shot down a Russian aircraft in 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shoo...) without a world war; there've been US on Russian engagements in Syria as well.
- fmajid 5y agoThey did wait for him to (probably inadvertently) fly for a few minutes over sovereign Turkish air space. They wouldn't have dared if he had stayed entirely on the Syrian side. More interesting is that just a couple of years later all is forgotten and Russia is selling Turkey its most advanced S-400 air defense system, thus precipitating a diplomatic crisis with the US. Middle Eastern politics: never a dull moment.