{"id":5423,"date":"2012-06-22T18:29:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T23:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2012-06-22T18:30:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T23:30:05","slug":"so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=5423","title":{"rendered":"So it begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/turkish-plane-erdogan-statement-543\/<\/a><\/p>\n

This Russian Times story unfortunately has a vague title at a time that ambiguity is not a good thing.<\/p>\n

“Syria downed Turkish fighter jet over its<\/strong> territorial waters”<\/p>\n

The plane believed to be shot down was an F-4 <\/a>– an American made plane widely used in third world countries.\u00a0 It’s old, slow, and easy to shoot down – it is a Vietnam War aircraft.\u00a0 Turkey has many state of the art military aircraft, including planes it make itself.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sending in an F-4 could be bait to provoke a shoot down and a justification for war.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s also possible it was watching the natural gas drilling boat off the coast of Cyprus (or both).<\/p>\n

The “its” in the headline is Syria.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Russian view (at least currently) is the military jet from Turkey was flying in Syrian territory without permission.\u00a0\u00a0 Time for a map.<\/p>\n

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Where boundaries are between countries in places like this is very messy.\u00a0\u00a0 Syria claims about a 40 mile airspace into the Mediterranean, which is roughly the shaded area.\u00a0 I believe the general approach is you draw a line from the two end points and draw a line at 90 degrees outward to define the boundary – but irregular bodies of water (like Libya’s Gulf of Sidra) are a great example of a way to start wars over this type of dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/turkish-plane-erdogan-statement-543\/ This Russian Times story unfortunately has a vague title at a time that ambiguity is not a good thing. “Syria downed Turkish fighter jet over its territorial waters” The plane believed to be shot down was an F-4 – … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-not-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5426,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions\/5426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}