Oh, but I assumed someone in the insane clown posse running DC has a strategic thought in their heads.
We have a winner: now would be a good time to clean Assad’s clock and get the Russian fleet out of the Med also.
Oh, but I assumed someone in the insane clown posse running DC has a strategic thought in their heads.
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I’ll go you one further; have Turkey close the Bosphorous to Russian warships (but not commercial ships), then clean Assad’s clock, as you put it, thereby depriving Russia of that port in the Med, and then sic Israel on Iran’s nuclear installations.
BOOM. One, Two, Three. Putin’s allies rendered impotent, loss of the Russian Navy’s Med port, Iran’s nuclear ambitions hit hard and the Black Sea Fleet bottled up in, well, the Black Sea.
Granted, this would require some actual leadership in DC, but it’s nice to dream, isn’t it? And if you’re gonna dream, dream big. I dream of that pipeline running from the ME to Europe, supplying natural gas to the EU (along with shale gas extraction in Poland) and blowing a nice big hole in Russia’s economy.
“...I assumed someone in the insane clown posse running DC has a strategic thought in their heads. ...”
Nope. That posse is more concerned with how many guns YOU have, and who they perceive the REAL enemies to be. And it ain’t the Russkies...