The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

Turkey shoots down Russian jet: War of words rages on as Nato convenes emergency meeting in Brussels What will downing of Russia jet mean for relations with Turkey? The Russians had it coming to them Pentagon: Turkey’s Downing of Russian Jet ‘Not an Issue Involving’ United States - Washington Free Beacon NATO faces new Mideast crisis after downing of Russian jet by Turkey - The Washington Post How Russia felt Turkey’s wrath over incursions - Telegraph NATO Should Tell Turkey: ‘This Thanksgiving, You’re Dumped’ Taliban seize Afghan soldiers after helicopter crash | News | DW.COM | 24.11.2015 Russia Expects NATO to Comment on Turkey's 'Provocative' Actions / Sputnik International How the U.S. campaign in Iraq has escalated with a new weapon: rocket artillery - The Washington Post Moscow could place nuclear weapons in Syria to counter Turkey: analysts A Psychological Warfare Casebook | Intelligence Analysis and Reporting TASS: Russian Politics & Diplo

Who plays in the "Bunny Friend Playground"? The groundhogs. To address the bottom line, and as always IMVHSPO (in my very humble and strictly personal opinion).  Russia and Russian military eventually will be (and have to be) admitted into the Western sphere of influences, powers and alliances, to which Russia belonged historically and culturally, if only, always and highly ambivalently, with "mysterious Russian soul's" artful rending of peasant garments and gnashing of sharp noble teeth, endless  erasianistic conflicts , Orthodox Byzantine and unorthodox Marxist cries and prolonged and the most sincere  moanings .  But we do not know when and how it will happen.  To proceed with this process now and under the current circumstances, under the aura of "emergency", with  Putin's  Russia,  which  is essentially a criminal enterprise  masking as a state, (in the opinion of great many, if not all Russia watchers), is equivalent to surrendering t