Maybe it is because Yemen is an anti-Syria in a way, with Sunni minority governing a Shia majority country, so viloence against them is not considered bad.
It is all very well but... according to what Ergodan lately said, Turkey was not bold at all, they just did not know it was a Russian plane until Russians said so.
Of course, there were telltales – transponders switched off, no identification marks on it, no answers to warnings (or Russian radios did not have international frequencies).
On the other hand, that is exactly how Russians military aircraft usually fly, be it above the Baltic see, or on the Canada or USA shores – no transponders, no answering to any calls, totally invisible to any civil aviation, so that NATO (Canada, US) fighters have to escort them to make them visible to civil radars...
- the Syrian people and the government will hate the US.
Agreed.
- the Syrian people and the government will hate Israel.
Agreed.
- the Syrian people and the government will eventually forcibly take back the Golan from Israel.
Not so sure.
– It is also likely that the government will be friendly with Lebanon and maybe even Iran.
No. Rebels are Sunnis fed up with Shia "dictatorship" (to them, Assad=Hisbollah=Iran).
Maybe it is because Yemen is an anti-Syria in a way, with Sunni minority governing a Shia majority country, so viloence against them is not considered bad.
It is all very well but... according to what Ergodan lately said, Turkey was not bold at all, they just did not know it was a Russian plane until Russians said so.
Of course, there were telltales – transponders switched off, no identification marks on it, no answers to warnings (or Russian radios did not have international frequencies).
On the other hand, that is exactly how Russians military aircraft usually fly, be it above the Baltic see, or on the Canada or USA shores – no transponders, no answering to any calls, totally invisible to any civil aviation, so that NATO (Canada, US) fighters have to escort them to make them visible to civil radars...
- the Syrian people and the government will hate the US.
Agreed.
- the Syrian people and the government will hate Israel.
Agreed.
- the Syrian people and the government will eventually forcibly take back the Golan from Israel.
Not so sure.
– It is also likely that the government will be friendly with Lebanon and maybe even Iran.
No. Rebels are Sunnis fed up with Shia "dictatorship" (to them, Assad=Hisbollah=Iran).