[Nachum]

Things are heating up

[svcw]

Good

[vpintheak]

Dang! The British found thier stones? How about the US Administration? Didn’t think so.

[upchuck]

I would have loved to be fly on the wall in the room where nobama and Putin met for two hours today. I doubt nobama speaks Russian. Does Putin speak English nobamaese?

[molson209]

Putin will remove his shirt and point at the British ,that is all

[andyk]

The British marine insurer Standard Club said it had withdrawn cover from all the ships owned by Femco, a Russian cargo line, including the MV Alaed.

What an odd technicality. Is anyone else surprised they the Russians would ship their military cargo to Syria on a ship where this could even be possible?

[GreyFriar]

I’m sure that bH0 will call up George Soros to personally provide insurance for the vessel so that his pal PutyPutin can deliver the cargo of rescue helicopters and lifesaving munitions.

[VanDeKoik]

Britannia still rules the waves?

Someone has to to it.

[Calusa]

Things are heating up

Tempest in a teapot. No Alpha dog at this time!

[alloysteel]

Unh-oh. The protesters will be out in force tonight.

How dare the Western powers put any limits on the right of Bashar al-Assad to choke down the local version of Arab spring. After all, everybody knows that the Muslim Brotherhood, a purely secular organization, has only the interests of the downtrodden majority at heart, and this is the avenue to the rise of democracy in the Middle East.

Of course, unseen below the surface, the death match between the Sunnis and the Shi’ites is going on full force, and any dispassionate opinion about the situation would be to let them muscle each other around until neither side has sufficient strength to force its will upon the other. Apparently Middle Eastern power struggles are largely predicated on neither side actually winning, but only continue to cull out the less effective and adaptable fighters on each side.

Of course, a lot of women and children end up as collateral damage, but what you want the Western powers to do? Bomb them from 30,000 feet like they did in Kosovo and Bosnia?

[Jet Jaguar]

ping

[Repeat Offender]

It appears even tyrants are at the behest of an insurance agent. How long until there is an individual mandate for arms traffickers? /s

[Red_Devil 232]

What is to keep the ship from sailing without insurance?

[demsux]

Can’t the Russians or even the Syrians just self insure?

[moviefan8]

Good going Zero. You just started WWIII.

[WKUHilltopper]

Russian isn’t considering this an act of war?