getting shot down doesn't do well for exports either
Posted on 10/17/2015 1:39:29 PM PDT by lbryce
Frame grab shows Russian fighter-bomber dropping bomb over Syria.
The skies over Syria are dangerously crowded these days with the US, Russia, and the Assad regime all bombing various actors on vaguely opposite sides of the country's multidimensional conflict. In both Iraq and Syria, the reality of overlapping aerial operations among countries with little geopolitical fondness toward one another has already led to claims that British aircraft have been authorized to engage Russian aircraft over Iraq if threatened.
The British government denied these reports, but they still underscore the possibility of confrontation between allied and Russian military aircraft.
Several presidential candidates, including Democratic front-runner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have called for an allied-enforced no-fly zone in northern Syria — a development that would be partly aimed at containing Russian operations.
In Politico, former State Department official Frederic Hof recently advocated a robust US response to any deliberate Russian provocation: "But if Russia seeks out armed confrontation with the United States in Syria, it would be a mistake for Washington to back down," Hof wrote.
"People like [Russian president Vladimir] Putin will push until they hit steel."
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I doubt the Russians “want to pick a fight with US planes over Syria” at all. If anything it’s some dumb American politicians who want to pick a fight with the Russians, just because they are there.
Rather than “Putin pushes until he hits steel”
Could that not be “Putin pushes until he s**ts Obola” ?
Putin can push Obama and the hardest thing he’d ever hit would be Reggie Love.
getting shot down doesn't do well for exports either
The clown in the White House will set the “rules of engagement.” Given his hatred for America the “rules of engagement” shall allow the Russians to sweep the skies of American aircraft.
“Here’s one surprising reason Russia might not want to pick a fight with US planes over Syria “
Ok I give up. What is it?
Democrats like starting wars but can’t finish them. They bail and turn it over to others, then call them “war mongers”.
Since the Soviet Union was the US’ primary conventional foe, that information led the US to build specific counter-capabilities into its own aircraft — ways of evading advanced Soviet aircraft radar or of exploiting gaps in radar coverage.
“This intelligence went right into electronics that were deployed, but never mentioned in anyone’s National Intelligence Estimate,” Hoffman explained to Business Insider.
Dear Hof,
Washington is planning to back down.
Signed,
Dear leader would tell our airfare to stand down while they are being attacked
Business Insider doesn’t seem
to report much on business, do they?
You noticed that, did you?
Let me explain, spinning Obama's monkey business is considered Business Reporting, there.
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