Posted on 04/15/2018 3:21:08 PM PDT by McGruff
FULL TITLE: Russian reinforcements head for Syria: Warships laden with tanks, military trucks and armoured patrol boats sail towards the Middle East as the world awaits Putin's response to airstrikes
Project 117 Alligator-class landing ship was spotted at Bosphorus, Turkey en-route to Syria on Sunday
The Russian vessel was laden with tanks, ambulances and IED radar after Friday's US-led Syrian air strikes
A RoRo Alexandr Tkachenko was also seen carrying high-speed patrol boats, temporary bridge and trucks
US, UK and French forces backed strikes that obliterated three targets in response to chemical weapon attack
Vladimir Putin warned there would be 'consequences' to military action against him and Bashar al-Assad
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But to hear all the naysayers, there’s lots of buyers remorse over their vote for Trump.
This is way bigger than anything they have a clue about.
I was trying to be subtle and spur some thought.
Turkey’s Geographical position as an ‘Islamic’ trade and energy corridor to Europe is very important to Erdogan and a big advantage, he’s a major player in energy but not as a producer, rather as a Hub, ...couple in China’s One Road One Belt Initiative that will connect ‘land locked’ countries in to Turkeys energy hub,......
In the end if all that happens you have ‘Islamic Power’ running the Energy show into Europe.... “Bow to Islam or freeze!”
President Trump is the best President since Ronald Reagan and will be in my opinion a more successful President than Reagan.
I look at the long view and seldom get stirred by the short-term events.
If history is any guide, President Trump will be reelected by a landslide in 2020.
The history of Reagan is a good guide. It took two-plus years from January 1981 into 1983 before the GOP finally became the Party of Reagan. Before that, they thought he was a disaster on the economy, a disaster on foreign policy/ Then they saw the country start to regain confidence and optimism, and by 1984 the Reagan Revolution was emerging and would last into the 1990s to 1994 when the GOP led by Newt Gingrich took the House for the first time in 40 years. That was all made possible by the momentum of the Reagan Revolution.
The Trump Revolution is just getting started and it is going to be sensational.
Yeah I think it has to happen pre too - at least 3.5 years pre - because Israel’s gonna be on the run during the last 1/2, the Great Tribulation to Petra.
Thanks for mentioning Sudan - I neglected to mention them the last couple of times - years ago, the IAF went and bombed in Sudan since some weapons were coming in that way.
I completely missed it when it happened.
Yes, the conflict in Syria is ultimately about pipelines to Europe. All pipelines go through Damascus :) - now who is going to be converted like St. Paul was? Trump seems to be converted, and just wants out of that quagmire.
Note that temporary bridges transited the Bosporus last weekend. And what rivers do the Syrian army need to cross? Obviously the Euphrates, near Deir ez-Zur, where not coincicentally US forces are based. I’d guess the consequences of the (illegal) US attack on Syria is an attack by the Syrian army in this area, with Pantsir-S1 air defenses (they’re tracked vehicles, which need a temporary bridge to cross the Euphrates).
I remember the grief he took. He was mocked and criticized over EVERYTHING.
Especially over the Star Wars initiative.
And we constantly heard about *Bedtime for Bonzo*.
I don’t lay the eggs; I just color them.
I've found NOTHING that they DO like!
And I'd bet that there are a lot of OTHER 'buyers' that wish they could have saved their money, energy and time that they wasted on the OPPOSITE product; too!
The Use By Date was long expired on that one!!
Really?
What's there??
Did you look at the Bloomberg articles?
If you did, you will see that the Bloomberg data and the Wikipedia data are referring to different items.
I am guessing the argument is over who launched the chem attack? That the Trump Admin wrongly accused the Assad government of initiating the chem attack?
Why should it matter? The chem weapons factory is destroyed. Whoever would make ad use such weapons won’t be able to do anything now.
The use of chem weapons is an atrocity. The President just removed such future atrocities with a missile attack that did not kill innocents, that was announced ahead of time so that people could clear out of the area, that was therefore humane, and which sent a strong message that the killing of children and the parents of those children by such horrible weapons of mass destruction will not happen again.
No US troops died as a result of the missile attack. No coalition troops died as a result. No Russian troops died as a result. No people on the ground, at least no innocents died as a result. All people on the ground were given a heads up that missiles would be coming.
The result is that a factory that produced horrible weapons of mass destruction, weapons used on innocents, is now is destroyed, Unless my information is completely skewed or outright false, that is the result.
So what is wrong with the result?
The issue is not the EXISTENCE of a pipeline. It is the CONTROL of a pipeline.
The oil mostly originates in the Saudi regions. Russians backing Assad’s Syria control the volume and pricing of the oil passing through the Syrian pipelines. Combined with oil and gas passing through Russian pipelines to Europe, they hope to corner the market.
The Euros are at the mercy of Russian oil and gas pricing.
I was posting years ago that construction and upgrade of LNG and oil ports in the US would be necessary as hydraulic fracturing technology would be making the US the largest exporter of oil and gas in the world.
And here we are.
I was actually working with a US NG company (a T. Boone Pickens company) to close contracts with S. Korea and Europe via Rotterdam. The S.Koreans KOGAS were ready to fund construction in the US for new or expanded LNG facilities.
And the Obama Administration would not grant the export license.
That business plan would have supplied the Euros with NG to provide relief against Russian dominance. My Euro contacts were begging, pleading for relief.
You can research the news of the Euro predicament with Russians and NG. Euros need NG to survive the winters and for power generation. It’s essential to them.
So oil and gas pipelines into Europe are a BIG DEAL and that’s why the Russians are trying to corner the market by controlling the ground in Syria.
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Sure looks like you laid this one!
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>> “This is way bigger than anything they have a clue about.” <<
Especially since they refuse to have a clue.
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Works for me.
I saw posters complaining about what *side* was involved and I figured it didn't matter which side it was. The weapons were destroyed.
I'm with you on that line of thinking.
I wasn’t really asking you those questions, I was remarking to viewers of the thread.
Someone had sent me a clip of Tucker Carlson who I usually respect but who went off the rails on the Trump Administration for General Mattis’s response to a question of who launched the attack which he said to the effect there was still an ongoing investigation.
Then someone pointed out that Alex Jones had a meltdown about it. I peeked at Alex Jones’s meltdown and it was bad. Before I seldom looked at Alex Jones but now I have decided to never look at him.
I think we both are confused at the reaction to Trump’s actions.
Yeah I lean towards agreeing with you on this one.
Those that think this is all in the past....oh well.
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