Posted on 10/13/2015 11:31:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin remarked that, instead of funding Syrian rebels, the U.S. should have just given the money to Russia. The U.S. halted its training program after many rebels defected and U.S. weapons landed in the hands of al-Qaeda.
“It would have been better to give us $500 million,” quipped Putin. “At least we would have used it more effectively from the point of view of fighting international terrorism.”
Al-Qaeda kidnapped or killed multiple “New Syrian Force” fighters, which left American weapons in their hands. The Pentagon also provided vehicles and ammunition to Nusra Front, a radical Islamic group linked to al-Qaeda, for safe passage, but officials quickly lost track of the items.
Putin said Russia’s campaign in Syria is more effective than the U.S.-led coalition. He insisted his government’s actions “are legal and reasonable because it followed a Syrian request for assistance.”
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RE: FR Putin fan club
I’ve seen similarly too, and it’s weird how some supposed critical thinkers could be duped so easily.
‘Specially in light of existential threat that Russia poses:
1. They have grossly violated signed nuclear arms treaties by building, concealing and deploying significantly more nuclear weapons than agreed to.
2. They aggressively test our national boundaries and our allies with nuclear threat from long range bombers, submarines, and ICBMs modernized ICBMs.
3. They continue to engage in joint military exercises with China, including naval fleet offense and marine invasion manuevers.
4. Russia has allied itself with Iran soon to be nuclear power.
I suppose some cannot help but to be blindly drawn to the strong father figure that Putin and Trump provides, in spite of their untrustworthy affiliations, and megalomaniac egos.
Yes, why not wish that Putin nuke the USA? I’m sure you represent a new way of conservative thinking.
I hold no allegiance to a country so depraved as to hold two homo pervs as the same legal and moral equivalent as a husband-and-wife.
Why don’t you move to Moscow then? What will you do when you find out Putin’s a fag?
Nope. I’m staying right here. Because when it all comes apart, I want to be ready to sink my fingers into the throats, and feel the warm blood under my fingernails, of those cretins who were responsible for transforming this country from the greatest acheivement mankind ever saw, into the festering, morally rotted cesspool it became.
Good luck with that. And please don’t go out and shoot up a mall or a school filled with children. God loves you.
putin vs islam
lemme think who would I rather give millions of dollars to?
That’s really twisting the knife in response to Obama’s feeble attempt to portray Putin as weak.
Hey Puty...dont confuse obozo with real Americans and we will get along just fine...
Sometimes it feels as bad as you're saying... I'm hoping you're wrong...
“It would have been better to give us $500 million,”
Obama is probably leaving office with a 5 ton truck full of hard drives with NASA files.
Just the opposition research on anyone who EVER thought of opposing.
Done deal...cash in your chits...he’ll buy and sell Trump in months.
And remember...you all loved NADA here!
Enjoy!
You think Putin speaks truth? Wow.
The problem wasn’t that the Russians were communists.
The problem was that the communists were Russians. :-)
No, Trump you misread
Hoping he doesn’t have a “conservative” mask on.
That’s my fear....
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