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Originally Posted by mapuc
I was thinking more in a military term.
I guess, as mentioned by others here in this thread some economical boycut will be Putin's answer to this.
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I think that for the Russian people there has to be a military response, as ikalugin put it, the Russians are rather upset by this, especially since the pilots were killed by Turkish allies, the Syrian Turkmens.
The best bet really for Putin would be to bypass Turkey and talk to Europe and the US direct in dealing with Daesh, but the big snag is that Russia is not just hitting Daesh but basically hitting anyone who isn't Assad loyalists, and that's really the sticking point between Russia and the West at the moment.
So yeah, I think that there will be a response and it will most likely take the form of a Turksih F16 going down in flames the next time it tries to cross the Syrian border. Turkey won't be able to pull Article 5 on it because it took place in Syria, and so Russia will get its revenge and not start a war between Russia and NATO.