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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The Kr@|) started with Mad Mo’.
No. But feel free to make all the excuses you wish.
You, sir, are right.
Agreed. It’s absolute insanity. They have made it perfectly clear they intend to attack us on our own soil and openly encourage others (San Bernardino and Orlando) to do so.
Obama, Jarrett, and Human are Muslims and traitors to this nation.
” the F/A-18s ran low on fuel and left the area in order to link up with an aerial tanker. That’s when the Su-34s reportedly returned to At Tanf —and bombed the rebels again..... “ :o)
Why the hell are we involved in this? Stop!
If we are going to shoot down any Russian planes, we better be prepared to attack and take out any Russian aircraft and ground to ground missiles within range of our aircraft carriers before the Russians try to sink them in retaliation.
“you talk treason!”
“Fluently”
:)
The Russians are bombing Al Qaeda factions and our jets are ordered to protect them
God bless our troops
At least they are being lied to by the pentagon and made to feel they are acting nobly
How exactly were they going to try and stop the Russians from bombing? Were the American aircraft going to run interference? They thought the Russians would get scared and turn back? Seriously, what was the point? This is insane.
I opened FR and thought WWIII had begun!!! Good yellow journalism in the title, I’ll give them that.
Btw, by what international or national authority are we flying CAP over SYRIA?
We are so screwed.
Yes aka Al Nusra or just IS
Putin is willing to kill radicals and let God sort it out
I’ve ben asking the sa question for well over a year, maybe two. Yemen also.
We have become the Axis of Evil.
Damned right!
SO good! They got him!!!
Note the new emphasis on the US calling them ISIL and subtly justifying their claim of a caliphate in the entire Levant
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