[Livia]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

The fact is that Turkey did nothing out of the ordinary.Russian jets and subs are constantly pushing the boundaries of what they can get away with.They've done it here and in other European countries.Luckily they have taken the warnings and been escorted away by our air force.Britain,America or any other country would have no option but to shoot down an unauthorised jet in their airspace which ignored repeated warnings to leave.Turkey warned them last time and they've done it again.Whatever the rights and wrongs of Turkey or Russia entering a country's airspace without permission is seen as agression.

The UK send up the RAF if someone strays into our airspace to warn the other aircraft, we don't shoot them down from the ground. If only Turkey was so stringent in its stance on terrorists.