Posted on 05/19/2016 7:15:11 PM PDT by MtnClimber
The United States and Russia are now proposing to drop food and other emergency aid from the air if President Bashar al-Assad of Syria does not allow trucks to deliver supplies to his besieged cities. Airdrops are a risky and desperate move — costly, hard to deliver accurately and, if poorly targeted, a threat to kill or injure the people they are supposed to help.
On the surface the move seems a humanitarian gesture from two nations that are supposedly partners in ending Syria’s bloody civil war. What it really does is highlight, once again, the duplicity of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, in Syria and elsewhere. Mr. Assad remains in power largely because of Russian military assistance. It is hard to believe that Mr. Putin, who fancies himself a man who can get what he wants, could not persuade Mr. Assad to let aid get through to the cities if he chose to try.
While promising Secretary of State John Kerry that he would work with America to end the war that has reportedly killed up to 470,000 people, Mr. Putin has been unable or unwilling to stop Mr. Assad from shelling civilians and, according to reports, is continuing Russian airstrikes as well. A temporary cease-fire that raised hopes for a more durable peace has now largely collapsed, talks between the Assad government and opposition forces have broken down and plans to begin a negotiated political transition to a more inclusive government by Aug. 1 seem ever more remote.
Syria is just one arena where Mr. Putin’s obsessive quest to make Russia great again has fueled instability and reawakened political suspicions and animosities that faded after the fall of the Soviet Union.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Our rogue Deep State/shadow government is the world’s #1 mischief maker and the NY Times is one of its primary propaganda organs.
Obama is just a puppet and creation thereof. There’s a reason all his background documents are hidden and/or destroyed and nobody remembers him in any of the places he says he’s been.
And in Ukraine as well... and of course, as you know well, many of the same criminals were involved in creating the war on Serbia as well.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to discern btwn the NYT and The Weekly Standard; they both vilify Trump on a regular basis.
Apparently Putin is not behaving according to the Globalcrats script. He is off the NY Times reservation ! The horror.
The NY Slimes says one thing: that Vladimir Putin is a homophobe of the first order,who is getting worse!
How dare Putin be duplicitous and deceptive? Buggery is the answer!
Yup!!!!
Of course in the case of Ukraine, they had the help of Noodlehead Nuland!!!!
PHOOEY again!!!!
I believe that I was the one who started calling Nuland “Noodlehead”. But the name has now—in various forms—stuck!! Just like “Crooked Hillary”!!!!
The US wants to airdrop food and supplies not into “a besieged city’, but into an enemy ISIS stronghold.
I never thought id be rooting for MiGs with a Red Star.
Russia will be dropping food for civilians, and the US will be dropping the "other emergency aid" consisting of arms, ammunition, MANPADS and anti tank weapons to the Sunni ISIS terrorists they describe as "rebels".
But of course, the Homos at the times knew this when they wrote this propaganda.
“The NY Slimes editorial board (nearly ALL flaming homosexuals) are far worse than Putin and Assad.”
MAybe we could air-drop them into Syria
I support the Christian defending but autocratic and repressive Assad regime massacring all the Sunni rebels.
I can’t be the only one that doesn’t care about what happens in Syria.
“The NY Slimes editorial board (nearly ALL flaming homosexuals) are far worse than Putin and Assad.
Anything they put out to the public should be taken with a grain of salt. The board would make the demon filth living in Sodom and Gomorrah look like Saints.”
I’m sure that I’m not the only one who has noticed that the left’s love affair with Russia started souring after Putin started clamping down on radical homosexuals & homosexual propaganda in schools.
BTW, I’m under no illusions about Putin but you have to give him credit. I support Russia protecting Assad because Assad, as bad as he is, actually protects Syria’s Christian minority.
Assad is bad but the other options are much, much, worse. The NY slimes would like to see Barky’s islamist friends come to power in Syria and the remaining Christians slaughtered.
IMHO the Last Days are approaching..
ANYBODY NOTICE THE SLEAZY NY-SLIMES ATTEMPT TO LINK TRUMP TO PUTIN:
-—”Syria is just one arena where Mr. Putin’s obsessive quest to make Russia great again has fueled instability”
Make America great again is Trump’s slogan, not Putin.
I love that!
This calls for heavy carpet feeding.
Drop canned hams.
From ten thoussnd feet.
Made my day, thanks.
But have you looked into his eyes and seen his soul?
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