US Jet Shoots Down Turkish Drone Over Syria After Attack On Occupied Oil Field
Rare NATO vs. NATO shooting war over Syrian skies…
Turkey immediately claimed the drone wasn’t operated by its forces, “But one American official described it as an armed Turkish drone and said that the U.S. was aware of that before it acted,” WSJ continues. Unverified footage of the drone shootdown is widely circulating:
I don’t know if Turkey will remain with NATO much longer
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-erdogan-putin-russia-west-25ac6174d5cfde41ccfc56758e3477db
They’ll stay as long as they can benefit. NATO is finished five minutes after the SMO ends, but Putin has been pulling Erdogan away from Europe for a while now. No doubt they have a loose arrangement that allows Turkey to be rewarded for screwing the west. Erdogan’s stock in trade is to play both ends against the middle. Putin understands him, and Erdogan understands the west.