NATO held an emergency meeting right after this happened. They emerged from it declaring their support for Turkey, and called for de-escalation and calm.


Turkey acted like a child, yeah. There's no room for this sort impulsive action in such a high-tension theatre. I'm thinking perhaps, that they played into Putin's hand. Turkey had warned Russia back in October about violating their airspace, and before then (numerous times) Turkish and Syrian planes had been shot down over the border because they breached each other's territory. In other words, there's a history of aircrafts being shot down for territorial incursions in that specific border region. It's not like it's unexpected that Turkey responded today the way it did. If you take that into account, and you also take into account that Putin's all about game theory, then I think it's possible that Putin expected and wanted this to happen. Why? Time will tell.