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If a former NORAD commander interviewed by Fox says the action was unjustified, it surely was...
For what it's worth, a Commander with the media group of the Norwegian Defence University College said something similar on national
TV Tuesday night. More precisely his comment was that "many would say it was an overreaction" to shoot down an aircraft transiting a tiny bit of airspace with no hostile intentions. He also said it has to be regarded as a Turkish action more than a Nato action. He also said Russia has been provoking Turkey for the past month and a half, but this incursion may well have been a mistake. Hardly a Nato spokesperson, but I wouldn't think the Secretary General's home country put a dissenter on the screen either.