Mashable quotes Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Resident Senior Fellow Anders Aslund on the expectations of conflict between Russia and Turkey in the midst of the Syrian conflict:
Another option is for Putin to simply chalk things up to the price of doing business in Syria, so to speak.“This was an accident waiting to happen,” Anders Aslund, a Russia expert and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told Mashable, adding that Putin must have considered something like this might happen.