No one criticized Turkey for protecting its borders, the problem was escalating things by shooting down a non hostile plane which was in your airspace only 10 seconds.
There is a huge difference between killing the petrators or shooting them and arresting them for hours, not even considering the fact that Iran and U.S are enemies, Turkey and Russia were not, before that incident.
Do comparing these 2 situation is not the wisest thing to do I suppose.
Mate, let me share my opinion on that matter.
You know Syria downed our jet 2012 for briefly violating Syrian airspace. You know, you normally warn the tresspasser, send your jets to intercept and escort the violator out of your airspace. So, when these guys downed our Jet, we changed our RoE regarding Syrian border only. After that we shot 1 Syrian Helicopter and Jet for trespassing into our territory.
Things got complicated when Russians joined the war...You know some Russian Jets removed their country flag from their Jets.
So, you have a Fighter jet closing into your airspace, your rules of engagement is to bring down Syrian jets that trespasses into your airspace... you can't identify the incoming jets nationality....It can be Syrian or Russian...what to do ?
To remind you, months ago a Russian reconnaissance aircraft breached our space in the Black Sea cost....we didn't shoot it down, just send two F-16s to intercept and escorted it out of our airspace.
And i don't understand you did we escalated things or Russians escalated by violating our airspace for 3 times despite protests and warnings ?
What would you suggest, to let Russians violate our airspace once a week, and fill complaint about it, every time ?
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I don't understand my American friends on this thread, don't violate their territorial waters, airspace and there will be no problems. You can't complain about the consequences when you are the violator.
First...It is allegiance to country, not to a political party and/or a figure.
So, Wehrmacht was not an professional army ?