Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Did World War 3 just start?

Turkey 'downs Russian warplane on Syria border'
Russia's defence ministry said an Su-24 had crashed on Syrian territory after being hit by fire from the ground, and that its pilots had managed to eject.
But Turkish military officials said Turkish F-16s had shot down the plane after repeatedly warning its pilots they were violating Turkish airspace.
"Efforts are being made to ascertain what happened to the pilots. According to preliminary reports, the pilots have managed to self-eject," the [Russian] ministry was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
Turkish news website translation... "Reduced airborne images of the Russian pilots were released"
Turkey is a member of NATO.  
Tweet from someone claiming to be an adviser to the Turkey Prime minister...


11 comments:

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

World War III now trending on twitter.

AllenS said...

World War III will start with a mushroom cloud. Not to worry.

Known Unknown said...

We are in the midst of World War IV.

WWIII was the Cold War, fought primarily via proxies in SE Asia and other areas around the globe. (Cuba, to an extent.)

World War IV has been going on since 1979 (at least) It's basically Western Culture vs. Radical? Islam.

ricpic said...

WW III? Who cares. What I wanna know is where's the Thanksgiving posts?

In honor of Turkey I'll start: Gobble Gobble

AllenS said...

Gobble Gobble --

BOOM!

Let's eat turkey!

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

So World War III was like Windows 8.1.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

To make matters worst, a helicopter sent to retrieve the downed pilots was also shot down.

bagoh20 said...

WW 3.1

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

BREAKING: Russian defense ministry says suspends military contact with Turkey: Interfax

AllenS said...

Well, that'll teach those turkeys!

edutcher said...

WWV, if my count is right. And, yeah, there's a Gavrilo Princip-Franz Ferdinand feel to this that is a little scary.

EMD is right WWIV is the War Against Islam.

PS WWVI is the one we'll soon be having with Red China.