Moscow Declares “Imminent Threat” After US Actions Down Russian-Israeli-Turkish Aircraft Over Syria
Under guiding provisions outlined in The Military Doctrine Of The Russian Federation, the United States now poses an “imminent threat of aggression” to the Union State (Russia-Belarus) due to its unprovoked “armed attacks” in the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR) that over the past week have led to the downing of a Russian fighter aircraft and death of its pilot, the downing of a Turkish military helicopter and the death of its two pilots, the downing of an Israeli military fighter aircraft whose pilots fate is unknown, and a US military air assault on Syrian government forces operating legally within their own borders that killed an unknown number of Russian contractor-advisors. […]