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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Anyone else scared as to what may happen this summer and fall during the last months of the moron in the White House?
You mean he missed his target or didn't fire???...."policy"???
It’s just a knee-jerk reaction, actually. If we are to accept “Russian” excuses for invading whatever country they’ve invaded last “because Kosovo,” then the Kosovo intervention was ok, too. Something is either good or bad, not both.
Because we are no a free people, GOVERNED by our citizen-elected leaders.
We are RULED OVER by tyrants, war-mongers who enrich themselves within their global elite system.
No one was able to stop them from destroying our formerly Free Republic.
“... using an alternative acronym for ISIS.”
I guess the plan is to repeat that until people believe it, but it is not a fact.
You are correct.
I used to refer to us as “we”.
Now I make a distinction between the U.S. Government Mafia, and We the People.
Big Difference, IMO.
TERRIFIED but ready to fight if needed.
Nobody lives forever anyway.
What do you do when in this case, they’re right and we’re terribly wrong?
Dunno. But I won’t think of Kosovo. Kosovo might be the 30th thing I think about, if you are correct.
Well then dont worry. I’m hardly ever correct :)
>as the Russians dropped bombs on U.S.-backed rebels.
Good! Now let them have at the islamo scum and the USA was NOT invited into Syria to protect the islamo trash.
We should be eradicating the islamo filth here at home that bath house barry let in.
Assad and Russia are cleaning out the trash.
Did we have a woman pilot who pooped herself?
“THEN WHY THE HELL ARE WE THERE CONFRONTING THE RUSSIANS!?”
It’s a follow on of the Hitlery policy of over throwing a stable, legally elected and UN recognized government like she did in Libya. It drives more refugees into Europe so it can be fundamentally changed.
UN resolution or something? Certainly not with Assad’s permission.
Probably an invasion of Kaliningrad over LGBT rights.
Because the folks at Foggy Bottom are upset since their gravy train called “The Cold War” went away.
There’s now talk of attacking Russia with NATO over the grab of HRC’s emails.
Exactly what many of us are thinking right now.
Would you have ever thought in your life you would say that? Neither had I. I feel like a traitor of my country, but it is just the government that I don’t support. It puts me such a pickle because I love my country, I fear and hate my government.
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