Michael
It is difficult to say whether this is all a big bluff. Sending lots of troops is easy enough. But the remain with little air cover support. Turkish troops have now been bombed and several soldiers killed, twice with no retaliation and any serious retaliation may lead to Russian casualties and perhaps a military defeat for the Turks being invaders with longer U.K. era me supply lines unless the escalation is massive. b of the Moon of alabama It thinks it is bluff. The reaction from NATO has been lukewarm and tge economic fallout for Turkey in a major fallout with Moscow will be very serious.