Saker is attending his mother funeral at this time. Scott and myself (webmaster) have been tasked with providing support during this time. Early this morning an open thread post was open so that the Saker community could discuss the downing of the SU-24. Scott followed by posting a SitRep. While we await Saker’s analysis I found the following links quite interesting.

This article provide a military tactical explanation for the actions of Turkey and NATO.
http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/24/russian-warplane-down-natos-act-of-war/

Historical explanation of conflict between Russia and Turkey
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-motive-how-russias-enemies-benefit.html

This site is in Russian. I suggest using translate.google.com or translate.yandex.com. Its a moment by moment account of downing plus information on the power outage in Crimea.
http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/

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