xlinknz:

Fred99:
And the end result for Russia that economic sanctions will hurt them too, and they'll have to pull their heads in with regard to their frequent excursions of military into foreign airspace, in Europe, not just in that area.  In goods and service trade. Russia exports to Turkey 4x what they import.
Stupid childish behaviour by "leaders".  Not what the world needs.

It just got better now according to the BBC Turkey's president said [earlier] if it had known the plane was Russian "maybe we would have warned it differently". The Russians have said they did know. It seems these "leaders" cannot help themselves not to dig themselves into holes

So it now seems 'protecting ones airspace and border integrity' is selective [which of course has always been the case]