Trapped in Sinai, proud of Putin
Posted on 11/18/2015 7:39:54 AM PST by Trumpinator
Moscow’s brazen intervention in the Syrian civil war on behalf of the beleaguered Assad regime was laughed off by Western leaders as folly. In another effort to deflect from his myriad failures in the region, Barack Obama insisted that Putin had committed Russian soldiers and heavy weapons to a “quagmire.†American political commentators suggested that Russia might have stumbled into a second Afghanistan. Support for Putin’s regime would ebb, they said, as the Russian Federation bled itself white on Syria’s battlefields. These commentators forgot that Russia would only experience a second Afghanistan so long as the West was willing to make Syria into a killing ground for Russian troops. It was not.
The hope that the Western world might impose on Syria some punishment for violating the norms that prohibit the battlefield use of chemical weapons is forever lost now. Putin’s ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, too, is unlikely to be resolved now on terms favorable to the West. The hundreds of Russian souls who perished over the skies of Egypt after an ISIS-linked bomb destroyed their civilian aircraft render Moscow a functional ally in the war against ISIS, but that is a temporary alliance borne out of convenience. Russia and the West continue to be at cross purposes in the region, and Moscow now finds itself holding the best hand.
"Mr. Putin had to go into Syria not out of strength, but out of weakness," Obama averred in October. He was only fooling himself. In the short term, it is Putin who is operating from a position of strength in Syria while the American-led alliance finds itself on its heels.
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
Vladimir has balls of steel, and Barack is neutered. End of discussion.
This writer is bummed because Putin is helping Assad stay in power. This writer prefers the jihadists, I guess. This writer is an idiot
Yes, Putin knows how to cover his rear. Obama presents an open invitation. /double entendre alert...I know. I get it...I wrote it.
Why should his annexation of Crimea concern the US?
Here’s a clue:
Nobody is asking whether Obama has won!!!!!!
I wouldn’t agree but he is making Obama look like an unqualified affirmative action president. I often wonder how a President Trump and Putin would get along.
How would those on plane answer the question? Or their families and friends?
The Russian victims would blame the West for arming Syrian jihadists against Assad. Would they be wrong?
Because we and the European Union still have economic sanctions against Russia for their actions in the Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Ukrainian_crisis
For how long?
If these Putin-gasms continue, I’d say not for very much longer.
Putin has discovered that the Junior Varsity is not ISIS. It is Barack Hussein Obama and his incompetent team. Maybe even calling them the JV is giving them too much credit.
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Putin Laughs Off Obama At G20 Summit: "He's A Child He's A Child."
Obviously yes, but probably not your demented mind.
The issue is that Puntin entered the war on the side of the Shia. The fact that bomb was "homemade" indicates that a local sunni, not ISIS, built the bomb locally. I haven't heard Puntin blame the West.
The NeoCon who wrote the article doesn't even mention the airliner, much less that Paris is/was an exceptionally soft target while the airliner was an exceptionally hard target.
When you read the article you have to get to the last paragraph before he mentions that Congress is not likely to issue a new AUMF. The issue of a Syrian AUMF has been at the forefront for over 2 years, and has been the focus of debate in Congress 4 separate times. Just a week ago the AUMF was discussed in Senate committee and on the floor of the Senate.
They even asked Hillary about the Syrian AUMF in the democrat debate last Saturday.
Obviously yes, but probably not your demented mind.
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Your view is just opinion and not fact. I don't see the Russians empowering Sunni jihadis in Syria and beyond.
You know things have changed when you find yourself cheering on the President of Russia and hoping that the President of the United States falls flat on his face.
How would those on plane answer the question? Or their families and friends?
-—Already posted actual responses from Russian tourist to Egypt:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3359442/posts
This week, The Times painted a characteristic reaction, quoting a Russian tourist in Egypt:
They shrug off the risks, exhale cigarette smoke and talk about destiny.
“Russia is dangerous and not safe either,” said Svetlana Golobitz, a pediatrician from St. Petersburg sucking on a cigarette just outside the terminal gate. “You can have an accident driving in a car or walking in the night; this is your fate,” she said. “I like this place, so I want to spend my winter here.”
Trapped in Sinai, proud of Putin
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