Will the downing of the Russian fighter jet by the Turkish armed forces over Turkey’s war-torn border with Syria on 24 November go down in history as the ‘Franz Ferdinand moment’ of our century? Could it trigger a chain of events culminating in the next big confrontation between great powers? The short answer is no: despite the severity of the crisis (this is the first time a NATO member has shot down a Russian war plane in over fifty years) none of the actors involved have an interest in escalating military tensions. Yet those tensions do not seem to …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
