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>Russia flirted with Turkish airspace in 2015; Ankara shot it down [1]. Zero further provocations. You can’t appease a bully by lying prostrate. Even if the bul
by joseppudev 2y ago
>Russia flirted with Turkish airspace in 2015; Ankara shot it down [1]. Zero further provocations. You can’t appease a bully by lying prostrate. Even if the bully has big guns at home. We aren’t risking nuclear war by drawing clear lines, we’re inviting it by clumsily blurring them.
Zero further provocations doesn't seem right [1] [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Russian_Air_Force_Al-Bab_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Russian_Air_Force_Al-Bab_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Balyun_airstrikes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Balyun_airstrikes
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoFair enough. (2020 yes, 2017 credibly an accident.) Revise to a single provocation enacted on foreign soil with plausible ambiguity.
- GoblinSlayer 2y ago2020 was in Syria, not Turkey.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoYes. Syria is foreign soil to Turkey.
- Prbeek 2y agoI remembered those airstrikes that killed Turkish troops and thought he just didn't make sense about "zero further provocations"