Posted on 10/03/2015 10:26:01 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar al-Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a sign the civil war is turning still more regional and global in scope.
Russian warplanes, in a second day of strikes, bombed a camp run by rebels trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the group's commander said, putting Moscow and Washington on opposing sides in a Middle East conflict for the first time since the Cold War.
Senior U.S. and Russian officials spoke for just over an hour by secure video conference on Thursday, focusing on ways to keep air crews safe, the Pentagon said, as the two militaries carry out parallel campaigns with competing objectives.
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putting Moscow and Washington on opposing sides in a Middle East conflict for the first time since the Cold War.
Starting to look like Obama is going to get his dream come true, a chance to SURRENDER!
“Iran troops to join Syria war, Russia bombs group trained by CIA”
What could possibly go wrong?
Not much that hasn’t already.
Whatever moral force and rectitude the nation once known as “the United States of America” used to have, is now entirely squandered.
Nature abhors a vacuum. It is being filled most rapidly.
They can’t F Up the Middle East any more than we already have.
The CIA has a habit of training and arming the wrong side. Not that this doesn’t offer plenty of chances to stir up trouble.
It all lends credence to the speculation that the US has no interest in destroying ISIS.
It all lends credence to the speculation that the US has no interest in destroying ISIS.
Wildly sepculative but I think ISIS is zippY and his a##clowns creation
Things just got real.
From Twitter:
RUSSIA SENDS FURTHER REQUEST FOR US TO CLEAR SYRIAN AIRSPACE - AHEAD OF NEW ACTION
“The adults are now in charge.”
ISIS or ISIL has become ISUS Islamic State of the US.
***trained by CIA***
Did they get all FIVE of them?
ON top of the hospital bombing = pretty bad headlines for dear leader today -
wonder how they holding him down in the WH - he must be raging.
The gloves are off - and the world is watching - and they are all threaten3ed by ISIS.
Who are they going to depend on to save their hides from ISIS?
The CIA should be destroyed and scattered to the four winds. Cold war era spooks that haven’t done anything right in forty years.
Persian Empire # what 4 or 5 ?
When was that put out?
5.56mm
Was this the CIA trained group that after training promptly turned over all of the newly acquired equipment to ISIS?
Or the group that dropped everything pretending to be civilians?
Or the group that ,,,
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