Alright, so this is partly speculation, but looking at things as they've happened and taking a step back, here's what I see as the big picture:
Russia begins ramping up attacks against ISIS, so IS bombs a Russian commuter plane.
Russia is un-fazed, continues bombings, targeting specifically the fleets of oil trucks that IS has been using to smuggle crude to middle men who sell it to other markets.
All of a sudden Turkish fighters rapidly down a Russian warplane that they claim violated their airspace after "10 warnings within 5 minutes without response."
Russian-Turkish geopolitical relationship begins to tank, and so I start researching the Turkish leadership.
According to this article, Bilal Erdogan (son of the Turkish President) was educated at Harvard before returning to Turkey to start his Marine transport business. Said business has been traveling to Syria for commerce since April 2014, at least.
Then in May of this year, an article was published in Turkish media showing alleged photographic and video evidence of trucks with ties to the Turkish intelligence apparatus smuggling weapons into Syria. Said weapons were at first stated to be headed to Kurdish rebels to be used against Assad, but that was later vehemently denied. Those reporters were recently arrested.
All in all, there is very real credence to the Russian claims of Turkey's implicit aid to the Islamic State. The question now, in my view, becomes: How much have NATO, the CIA and the US State Department been aware of and/or a part of all this?
And I think we may actually be able to find ties between them.
2drunk ago
Don't forget the United States of Corporations. Pretty sure we gave ISIS money, weapons, and Toyota trucks.
pray_the_gay_away ago
The US is just as guilty of funding the the terrorists, if not even more guilty than Turkey. Erdogan just does a bad job of hiding it.
The scariest part in all of this is that we know our government is over there funding and training ISIS using our tax payer funds, funnelling in "refugees" and doing any number of illegal and dangerous activities to accomplish God-knows-what foreign policy goals (besides maintiang dollar denominated oil markets of course) while the collusive corporate media covera for them, and there is literally nothing we can do about it.
6double5321 ago
The USA spent over a year "bombing" ISIL/ISIS/DEASH.(With many EU countries)
What came of it? Not much. The US crazies want everyone to lay down and obey in the middle east.
Iraq has woken up, after russia started it's bombing campaign. (actually getting shit handled, allowing them to actually defend themselves.) Russia (iran, china) is now pissing off the general world populous,(Cause the news says so...) because it is getting shit done, and seriously wounding ISIS/ISIL/DEASH in syria.
This hurts turkey, because the president/pm/god-king is losing money from oil transfers that don't happen.(For his son.) So basicly: Russia bombs some oil field/taqnker shit, It scares/hurts turkey from loss of income, As well as fucking up the USA's plans of usurping the whole syrian government.(Cause their "moderate rebels" are getting ass-raped) Suddenly Turkey will try to play the hard-ass, and shoot down a plane, because "Who will fuck with a NATO backed country?" Russia's response is a great big "FUCK YOU!" To anyone who doesn't have their newest, top of the line, anti-aircraft/missle/icbm batteries, or jamming tech.
End response(?): The USA will dump even more stolen taxpayer cash to try to destabilize the planet to their ends. "Conspiracy?" You tell me...
iamrage ago
Conspiracy? No way. This subverse should be called /v/truth. It's pretty damn obvious what the west is trying to do.
oswald_spengler ago
The land occupied by the turks belongs to the greeks, assyrians, armenians and kurds.
Running_Bear23 ago
Lol. They buy ISIS oil. They're trading partners.
WackyModder84 ago
Why is there still doubt?!
At this point, it's pretty much obvious that they are.
valkilrie ago
Yeah I have been saying this for a while now. Turkey is the culprit here.