Posted on 09/10/2015 9:17:09 PM PDT by Nachum
When Zero Hedge first reported ten days ago that Russian troops, in their bid to support the Assad regime in its ongoing confrontation with various ISIS, Al Nusra, and other US-supported groups in what has become the proxy war of 2015 (one which even comes with thousands of refugees for dramatic media impact) had been quietly massing in Syria and have set up a forward operating base near Damascus, there were those who were openly skeptical.
Then, just a few hours ago, Bloomberg finally confirmed that "top officials were scheduled to meet at the National Security Council Deputies Committee level to discuss how to respond to the growing buildup of Russian military equipment and personnel in Latakia" and that Russia is "set to start flying combat missions from a new air base inside Syria."
So yes, for whatever reason (and the reason as we explained is clear: natural gas pipelines) Russia is making not only its increasing support for Assad known, but also that it is in Syria and that any further US-funded and supported incursions by ISIS or whatever is the media scapegoat terrorist organization du jour, will not be tolerated.
To be sure, none of this is in any way a surprise to the US - just as the US is using ISIS as a pretext to invade or pressure any mid-east nation it desires "in order to hold the jihadist terrorist scourge", so Russia is now using ISIS as a comparable excuse to intervene. After all, if ISIS is the friend of humanity, then surely Russian aid will be welcome. That it is not, had made it abundantly clear that not only is ISIS just a convenient diversion, but the reasons for a Syrian invasion and deposition of Assad, are purely political and entirely in the realm
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Please America,
Never put another girly-man in the WH.
Some of you here at FR had a hand in it. Curse you.
Obama doesn’t feel any humiliation when something bad happens to the USA or US citizens.
the correct word for what he feels is jubilation.
Surprise meter at zero
What’s Obama trying to do to the Syrians? “Round ‘em up!” (Sorry Mark but I love the way you say that! LOL!)
Just wait for our courageous Congress to weigh in.
Bloomberg also reporting the Russian aircraft will be Mig-31 and SU-25.
Darn shame if the planes blew up on the airfield.
I don’t think Obama is capable of feeling humiliation.
I think you meant to respond to someone else’s post.
What I said was that we should never put another girly-man who no one respects in the WH. And some here at FR had a hand in his re-election and curse them, every one.
That’s what I said.
Things that make you go Hmmmmmm.
OK, if we have warned the Russians about Syria, and Iran is sending troops to help the Russians in Syria, and we have promised to defend the Iranians ... if the Iranians, and by extension the Rooskies, attack American assets and they defend themselves, would we be obligated to order air strikes on ourselves?
I don’t think Obama is capable of feeling humiliation.
I may be wrong but I understand narcissists are easily humiliated. The POS Obama is very thin skinned.
I agree with you 100%.
“In Major Humiliation For Obama,......” HUNH!
C.S. Lewis: “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”
I can’t place that headline, and the name Obama within that headline. It doesn’t work.
Bless you, my child.
Only if those airstrikes featured the first combat ops by Transgender pilots. That would be another couple of historic firsts for the current administration. We attack ourselves and advance the Rainbow agenda!
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