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>Russia flirted with Turkish airspace in 2015; Ankara shot it down [1]. Zero further provocations. You can’t appease a bully by lying prostrate. Even if the bully has big guns at home. We aren’t risking nuclear war by drawing clear lines, we’re inviting it by clumsily blurring them.

Zero further provocations doesn't seem right [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Russian_Air_Force_Al-Bab_... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Balyun_airstrikes




Fair enough. (2020 yes, 2017 credibly an accident.) Revise to a single provocation enacted on foreign soil with plausible ambiguity.


2020 was in Syria, not Turkey.


Yes. Syria is foreign soil to Turkey.


I remembered those airstrikes that killed Turkish troops and thought he just didn't make sense about "zero further provocations"




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