What I'm waiting for is Russian drones popping up in the skies over Damascus. What are we going to do when the next major power starts using drones in ways we don't approve of?
That's the only possible venture that would make an intervention acceptable. If you're going in on a food war who can argue with that?
Those clowns are calling it a "war crime".. As if our air force was trying to take out that facility on purpose...Morons.
doesn't really matter, as this is shaping up as a huge failure by Obama and Co. Popularity of 'Putin the Shiite' sky high in Iraq
Foreign Policy was never an Obama strong point. I'm ok with the Russians in Iraq. Let them do some bleeding for once. Spend millions of rubles they don't have and pile up debt.
Huh, lying constantly about Ukraine doesn't really matter unless you had a preconceived notion that it doesn't matter what the truth is as you and many folks in this country are buying whatever that dictator is selling. Funny how many folks priorities here isnt taking care of fellow Americans but rather would spend money overseas in the useless Middle East. Check the planned parenthood 500 million dollars fight vs trillions in Iraq and Middle East. Many care about the former but don't give a shit about the latter. American Foreign policy requires spending dollars via Chinese debt... No thanks. Keep up the Putin love fest. It's the in thing among many "Americans" these days. I didn't know you had to be popular in Iraq was a requirement of running this country.
This has nothing to do with running this country. If they were really concenred about that, they wouldn't have orchestrated the whole Arab Spring fiasco. Yet they tried, spent who knows how much money and completely failed. Putin's actions are a mere consequence of the US failures.
Let's see...Russian propaganda or the Secretary of Defense... http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wire...nfirms-russian-missiles-crashed-iran-34365006
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world...e-shot-down-airspace-Syria-ISIS-Islamic-State Turkey might have just upped the ante.
WWI started because the great powers were locked into treaties that had no flexibility. When their minor allies were pulled into war they had to follow. If Turkey is actively involved in northern Syria and sheltering some anti-Assad forces in Turkey near the border we're on a precipice here. All it takes is a bad decision in the heat of the moment by either Russia or Turkey and the US is going to find itself at war. A real war, not an intervention in a region we barely understand.
That's a BS report. Even if they did shoot down a MiG-29, it wasn't a Russian Air Force one. The only country that operates the MiG-29 in that region is Syria. The Russian Air Force group that's currently in Syria uses only Sukhoi jet fighters: Su-30, Su-34, Su-24 and Su-25.
Even Syria and Turkey shooting at each other while both the US and Russia have major deployments in the area is dangerous. I'm hoping NATO has established firm rules of engagement for Turkey so that there are no misunderstandings if they get themselves in deep and then find that we're not willing to go swimming in the deep end with them. The thing that's really dangerous here is the opacity of the overall situation. You have a minimum of 5 states in the region that are fighting in this conflict, in Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Iran. Then you have at least two very organized non-state actors in the Kurds and Iraqi Sunni's. Then you have a bunch of what are effectively militias, some of them tribal. Then on top of all that you have The USA and Russia trying to (de)stabilize the region, in parens because who knows what the agenda really is for either major power. Then you have the interested parties who don't actually have boots on the ground, in Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. And, oh yeah, Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups woven into all of this but not on the surface yet. It's an extremely dangerous and volatile conflict at this point. Probably near the level of North Korea invading South Korea and firing missiles at Japan, which at least would present a clear target for operations.
Putin's actions are part of a long-term campaign to put Russia back on the map as a superpower. This has all been brewing since Iraq began to go south on us in 2005. It's not going to work. I'm 50/50 that we stumbled into the Syrian thing as part of a plan to get Putin to overextend somewhere not on his borderlands. Then again, Putin may have knee-capped Assad just to get us to stay in the region and keep bleeding funds. It's like LeCarre's wilderness of mirrors. We're all going to want out of the region in a couple of years and we're still going to be sucking each other back in.
ISIS Makes Gains in Syria Territory Bombed by Russia http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/w...in-hamedani-iran-general-killed-in-syria.html Time to split up Syria and Iraq among the Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis. Been a 100 years in the making that this needs to be done.
