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U.S. and Russian Jets Clash Over Syria
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Posted on 06/19/2016 7:33:05 PM PDT by traumer

American and Russian fighter jets had a tense showdown in the skies above Syria as the Russians dropped bombs on U.S.-backed rebels.

U.S. and Russian fighter jets bloodlessly tangled in the air over Syria on June 16 as the American pilots tried and failed to stop the Russians from bombing U.S.-backed rebels in southern Syria near the border with Jordan.

The aerial close encounter underscores just how chaotic Syria’s skies have become as Russia and the U.S.-led coalition work at cross-purposes, each dropping bombs in support of separate factions in the five-year-old civil war. The near-clash also highlights the escalating risk of American and Russian forces actually coming to blows over Syria, potentially sparking a much wider conflict between the world’s leading nuclear powers.

The incident began when at least two twin-engine Su-34 bombers, some of Moscow’s most advanced warplanes, struck what the Pentagon described as a “border garrison” housing around 200 U.S.-supported rebels in At Tanf on the Syrian side of the Syria-Jordan border.

The rebels had been “conducting counter-ISIL operations in the area,” the Pentagon stated on June 18, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.

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To: DesertRhino

If you really believe Russia, North Korea and Iran can defeat the U.S.A. with their propaganda and infiltration games, then proceed with what you’re doing. After all, it would be a shame to let so many years of research and development go to waste.

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121 posted on 06/19/2016 11:41:59 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Nifster

0bola wants to get us into a war. He wants to damage and destroy America by his actions.


122 posted on 06/20/2016 12:21:17 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: traumer

The McCain wing of the RINO party won’t rest until we’re at war with Russia and probably China too.

obama just wants war with Israel.


123 posted on 06/20/2016 12:21:31 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Why not just call them the Baboonic Plague!


124 posted on 06/20/2016 12:22:34 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: dfwgator

Clinton bombed the wrong side and things srarted going downhill.


125 posted on 06/20/2016 12:23:31 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: traumer

Obama’s determination to oust Hafez al-Assad and make all of Syria another radical Islamic terrorist state is going to get us in a shooting war with Russia.....


126 posted on 06/20/2016 12:59:24 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If liberals were in charge of the oceans, in 5 years the water would be gone.)
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To: traumer

Careful now. Russia is an invited guest. We are not. Those rebels our government is backing are questionable too.


127 posted on 06/20/2016 1:35:18 AM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: traumer

What is it with Democrats picking on Slavs??? First Bubba Clinton, between interns, blasts the Serbs to smithereens. Then our BOY in Washington (”I’ll be more flexible after the election:) picks a fight with Mr. Putin... In the end, the Russians win because they actually have functioning brains... Obama serves soup in Chicago. Putin serves bombs to crazy radicals in the Middle East..


128 posted on 06/20/2016 1:37:32 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

We’re learning how to fight a multi-front, semi-asymmetric war against religious zealots at home and abroad.


129 posted on 06/20/2016 1:38:44 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: DarthVader

The L in ISIL stands for Levant, which includes Israel. Obama has been trying to include Israel in this conflict as a scapegoat. But ISIS has always called itself ISIS with no L. This is just a Islamic conflict so far. Actually, the president’s attempt is puerile and shows his anti-Israeli bias.


130 posted on 06/20/2016 2:35:43 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (`)
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To: traumer

What insane rules of engagement did our pilots have for that mess? And how motivated were our pilots to protect Obama’s pet terrorists against an air force following orders from the closest thing we have to a leader of the free world?


131 posted on 06/20/2016 3:02:04 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Gosh, I don't remember *that* happening under the "warmonger" George W. Bush.


132 posted on 06/20/2016 4:08:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: traumer

A real USAF general would demand an order for “self-defense” or resign... publicly. This is BS. Some pilots - US or Russian - are going to get killed and this will have been entirely avoidable if the diplomats had done their job beforehand.


133 posted on 06/20/2016 4:13:06 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: entropy12

yup. Our pilots will not shoot and one of the reds will pull the trigger. Our guys will have to phone home to mama to ask permission to and all the time the reds will be shooting at them.


134 posted on 06/20/2016 4:18:18 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Read 1 Corinthians 15: verses 1-4. This is the Gospel of Grace, the ONLY WAY TO BE SAVED!!)
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To: sheik yerbouty

He is already doing that


135 posted on 06/20/2016 4:26:12 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

the rebels in question were not ISIS rebels

You have been duped into the belief that all rebels are ISIS


136 posted on 06/20/2016 4:31:17 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: bert

Yeah you and McShamey can live with all those moderates


137 posted on 06/20/2016 4:37:23 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ground_fog

me too


138 posted on 06/20/2016 4:43:05 AM PDT by ElisabethInCincy
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To: Future Useless Eater

Gee a covert war that could start WWIII, that sounds like something important enough to lose an ambassador over. Pass the server wipes.


139 posted on 06/20/2016 4:45:05 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist
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To: Helicondelta
I wonder where Obama got the authorization to wage this war in Syria.

Or take out Libya and Gadafi

GOP majority in Congress means nothing
140 posted on 06/20/2016 5:05:40 AM PDT by uncbob
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