Posted on 04/07/2017 2:32:45 PM PDT by Enlightened1
In a statement on Friday morning, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the US missile strike violated not only international, and added that the attack “was on the brink of military clashes with Russia.”
“Instead of their much-publicized thesis about a joint fight with a common enemy, Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL], the Trump administration has proven that it will fiercely fight against the legal government of Syria,” Medvedev wrote on his Facebook page.
Ealier in the day, the Kremlin released a statement according to which "President Putin views the U.S. strikes on Syria as aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law and on a made-up up pretext. This step by Washington will inflict major damage on U.S.-Russia ties."
"President Putin views the U.S. strikes on Syria as aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law and on a made-up up pretext," said a Kremlin statement. "This step by Washington will inflict major damage on U.S.-Russia ties."
Moscow suspended communication with U.S. forces designed to stop planes colliding over Syria. A Russian frigate carrying cruise missiles sailed through the Bosphorus Strait into the Mediterranean Sea, although there was no indication it was directly in response to U.S. action.
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Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Criss told Reuters that the situation in Syria "amounts to an international armed conflict" following U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian airbase.
"Any military operation by a state on the territory of another without the consent of the other amounts to an international armed conflict," ICRC spokeswoman Iolanda Jaquemet told Reuters in Geneva in response to a query.
"So according to available information - the U.S. attack on Syrian military infrastructure - the situation amounts to an international armed conflict."
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It was an existential threat for many men. 58,000+ died. What it was not was an existential threat to this country as evidenced by the lack of any harm to us after we pulled out. It was a side action of the Cold War, the Third World War, the war between two nuclear armed super powers. Afghanistan was never an existential threat for the Soviet Union either. Just another skirmish in the global war then going on between us and them. Do you really think we are “at war” in Afghanistan now? I think we have different definitions of what war is. In my view, if you are not fighting with the intention of winning then you are not in a war.
FYI - Ezekiel 38 allies info
“Russia and Iran released a joint statement promising to respond to US aggression”
[Which side now democrats are going to be on, eh?]
They’ll have to check with their boss George Soros and get back to you on that one.
More Ezkiel 38 allies info Russia and Turkey did a joint Naval exercise in the black sea last week.
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