[Vendome]

a response that demonstrates Moscow’s readiness to defy Washington and could even put the two nuclear superpowers on a course toward military confrontation.

Stupid. There will be no military confrontation with Moscow...

But, they get paid by the word for their idiotic Hyperbole...

[Leaning Right]

> a response that demonstrates Moscow’s readiness to defy Washington and could even put the two nuclear superpowers on a course toward military confrontation <

You said that was hyperbole, and you are right. But still...if the report is true, the chance of a US-Russian accident over the skies of Syria has increased. And different people respond to such accidents in different ways.

The risk-reward of all this is not favorable, in my opinion. Time will tell.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Hopefully, you're right, because if Trump and Putin are both too prideful for a graceful exit, we could be winding up to . . .