Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Turkey’s decision to down a Russian warplane near the Syria border a “stab in the back.”
Speaking at a meeting with Jordanian King Abdullah II, Putin on Tuesday accepted his condolences on the death of a Russian pilot who was reportedly captured and dead.
Putin said the Russian Su-24 jet was shot by a missile from a Turkish jet over Syria about 1 kilometer (just over a half-mile) away from the Turkish border, which he described as a “stab in the back by the terrorists’ accomplices.”
Putin warned that the incident would have “significant consequences” for its relations with Turkey and criticized Ankara for turning to NATO to discuss the incident instead of first explaining to Russia what happened.
Things just got a whole lot sticker for Putin.
Coming from a man who knows all about back stabbing…
Assad has been supporting ISIS by buying their oil, and they are letting ISIS terrorist out of jail. Putin is supporting Assad who could have let one of the terrorist out of jail who blew up a Russian airliner. How does Putin justify supporting Assad? The US should go after Putin hard.
Putin justifies supporting the Assad regime because they have Russian interests in the region (i.e. a naval base.) In addition, neither Russia nor the US wants to see the Assad regime fall and THEN you get Libya 2.0.
Putin’s angry because the Su-24 bomber was a rent to own…