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Russia ups ante by freezing communications with US in Syria
AP via Yahoo ^ | April 7, 2017 | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Posted on 04/07/2017 8:13:03 AM PDT by Leaning Right

Russia reacted to U.S. military strikes on its ally Syria Friday by cutting a hotline intended to prevent midair incidents, a response that demonstrates Moscow's readiness to defy Washington and could even put the two nuclear superpowers on a course toward military confrontation.

President Vladimir Putin signaled he was ready to risk a clash with the U.S. and abandon hopes for mending ties with the U.S. under President Donald Trump, rather than accept the humiliation of standing by while his ally is bombed.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: communications; russia; russiawarship; trumpsyriastrike; usrussiahotline
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To: dfwgator

It’ll be interesting to see this play out. Trump can see 5 moves down the game... most of us are lucky to see three.


81 posted on 04/07/2017 10:18:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (Unmasked reports transferred face-to-face at obscure airport: Obama to Lynch to Bill Clinton?)
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To: GOPJ
Trump can see 5 moves down the game

I hope you're right, we will see about that.
82 posted on 04/07/2017 10:19:13 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Robe

>>I’m very partial to the Scouts.

Me too. Unfortunately it’s no longer the same organization.

The writing was on the wall in 1976 -

http://www.turnto23.com/news/boy-scouts/document-trail-floyd-david-slusher

It turns out the Council knew about Slusher’s perverted antics at a camp over in Germany.

But the Mormons running the show turned him loose on Colorado anyhow.

Today? No sane parent would put their child under purview the purview of the organization.


83 posted on 04/07/2017 10:51:54 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: sagar

I hope you’re right. Depends on how pragmatic the Russians are. Both countries could survive a conventional war, but not a nuclear one.

Russia has bee drilling for the nuclear scenario. We should have been, too, but with our luck, it would be: “Please go to the basement so you can cook to death when the bomb goes off.”


84 posted on 04/07/2017 10:53:37 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan: http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: vooch

AN ally that must be kept at arm’s length, I really don’t understand all this misplaced trust in Putin.


85 posted on 04/07/2017 10:57:41 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: dfwgator

There is all kinds of statesmanship, good or bad, playing out behind the scenes. People are just losing their minds and aren’t even waiting for the smoke to clear before drawing conclusions.


86 posted on 04/07/2017 11:00:37 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I like my nuclear winter as anyone, but I am also not for “ducking and covering” upon a nuclear blast. Time to go out in full glory. Return to the Atoms.


87 posted on 04/07/2017 11:14:44 AM PDT by sagar
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To: bar sin·is·ter

“There is all kinds of statesmanship, good or bad, playing out behind the scenes. People are just losing their minds and aren’t even waiting for the smoke to clear before drawing conclusions.”

It does not require a genius to find out that 3D chess is being played while us checker peasants wondering and bickering.


88 posted on 04/07/2017 11:18:09 AM PDT by sagar
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To: sagar

Do you suck at checkers?


89 posted on 04/07/2017 11:25:02 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: bar sin·is·ter

“Do you suck at checkers?”

No, but I will let you win.


90 posted on 04/07/2017 11:39:38 AM PDT by sagar
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To: sagar

Well fancy that! Let’s play then, you set up the board while I sit here and laugh at you.


91 posted on 04/07/2017 11:43:57 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: sagar

Yeah, hopefully I’ll be at work (next to DC) when it happens, so that I can stand in front of the windows and bleed out from a shard of glass to the neck as they’re blown in. That’s how I look at it. Or else I’ll starve to death.


92 posted on 04/07/2017 12:39:35 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan: http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: TheStickman

Amen Brother..


93 posted on 04/07/2017 1:10:10 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (------>VMFA 235- '69-'72 KMCAS <------- "Death Angels")
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To: Leaning Right

More likely cover for Russia “accidently” hitting our soldiers over there.


94 posted on 04/07/2017 1:13:40 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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