Are we missing somethings. It’s Americans killing Russians. OK it’s in Syria. Slippery lope to WW3. Even Obama wouldn’t go there. Payback for Russian meddling? Waiting for Buchannan’s response. Strangely silent.
Russian mercs call their guns “assault rifles?” Really? Are we sure they aren’t recruiting American progressives?
Apparently we gave Moscow weeks of warnings when we saw the buildup. They claimed it was not them. I bet the Kremlin Planners are getting a similar beat down by Putin...
This is like Russian Blackwater guys derping around against a real military.
BTW- Mattis loves artillary... it’s very demoralizing.
I think we made our stance crystal clear...
These Russians are just a little behind the times. Had they tried this two years ago, the Americans would have been the ones running for their lives, their futile calls for support and extraction unanswered.
There's a new POTUS now, and if you annoy him he's not going to send you apologies and pallets of cash.
There’s a video on a Ukrainian channel on Youtube that has a very lengthy radio interview with Russians about it. 80-90% of Russian materiel destroyed, 70-80% of two battalions dead.
It’s quite fascinating, and 1) no lefties know that this has happened 2) Putin can neither affirm (and reveal that he’s operating mercs illegally) or deny (as there are over 150 dead ) that this occurred and 3) people see the strength in US and weakness in Russian forces as the US shut down all radio comms on the Russian side while blowing the hell out of them with focused artillery and air power.
Putin won’t mess with us for a while.
"“Just had a call with a guy — so they basically formed a convoy, but did not get to their f— positions by some 300 meters. One unit moved forward, the convoy remained in place, about 300 meters from the others. The others raised the American f— flag, and their artillery started f— ours really hard. Then their f— choppers flew in and started f— everybody. Ours just running around. Just got a call from a pal, so there are about 215 f— killed. They simply rolled ours out f— hard. Made their point. What the f— ours were hoping for in there?! That they will f— run away themselves? Hoped to f— scare them away? Lots of people f— so bad [they] can’t be f— ID’d. There was no foot soldiers [on the American side]; they simply f— our convoy with artillery.”"
They don't call artillery the king of the battlefield for nothing...
Putin is so pathetically weak. A truly strong leader doesn’t have to give a TWO HOUR speech to try and prove how tough his nation is, and how “unstoppable” his nukes are (they’re not). Meanwhile our troops massacred 300+ Ruskies in Syria without so much as a press release. THAT is strong. I don’t think Putin will be in power 2 years from now.
“Mercenaries all know the jambo” -— what movie is this from?