However if Putin ends up mopping the deck with ISIS, that isn’t a bad thing. Everyone knows that Russia has traditionally wanted warm water ports and to extend their influence into the Middle East in a major way, stopping that now may not be possible.
What would you recommend as the U.S. response?
I saw your post #43 which answered my question in my #50, so we put a couple of aircraft carriers into the region, how do you think that plays out if Putin decides he isn’t going to back off?
Think logistics. Putin is not that far from Mother Russia, our forces on the other hand are half a world away. Our armed forces have been slashed and minimized to the lowest level of readiness since World War I, and that is no way to prepare to confront the Russian bear.
Byproduct.
Everyone knows that Russia has traditionally wanted warm water ports and to extend their influence into the Middle East in a major way, stopping that now may not be possible.
If that were true, why does Russia not have a warm water port in Cuba?
What would you recommend as the U.S. response?
See post #43.
Needs assessment....focus group.....check with Valerie...load teleprompter.....blaaa...blaa...bla....and away to golf.
What would you recommend as the U.S. response?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
With Obama in office? Get out of Syria. We do not have the necessary command personnel to engage Russia militarily.Russia is not fighting ISIS. Russia is fighting anyone who is a threat to Assad. Big difference.