Posted on 10/03/2024 7:48:59 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Israel has reportedly struck a Russian airbase in Syria, causing a huge fire to break out.
Thirty missiles are reported to have hit the Khmeimim airbase in the early hours of Thursday morning. The IDF has not claimed responsibility for the attack.
The strike lasted 45 minutes and is believed to have been carried out by naval warships. Unverified video images show a huge fireball and flashes on the horizon.
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Khmeimim airbase is located southeast of the city of Latakia and has been operated by the Russian military since 2017.
Syrian TV journalist Abdullah Almousa claimed a warehouse on the airbase had been targeted in the strikes.
He said the attack was connected to the delivery of Iranian cargo to the airbase in recent days by the Qeshm Fars Airlines.
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Tell Putin to condemn Iran instead of condemning Israel.
Tell Putin to stop supporting Islamic terrorists.
I can only have pity for a rape survivor. I only hope that Russian wasn’t so large that he permanently damaged your backside. Virtual hug!
It wasn’t a Russian airbase. They made that up. It is near one.
If Israel attacks a Russian airbase, they are suicidal.
Fortunately, the Obama era may soon be done. Even many American Jews seem to be waking up after the October 7 attack last year on Israel, the blossoming of woke Jew hatred, and America’s growing internal decay due to the Left.
Putin hearts Iran.
[It wasn’t a Russian airbase. They made that up. It is near one.
If Israel attacks a Russian airbase, they are suicidal.]
More such humiliation should convince Putin of the folly of war with the West.
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Aren’t you forgetting a couple of other nuclear adversarial bloc players in your equation? Time will tell.
Yup. Russia can’t even defeat the Ukes, let alone take on a first class military like the IDF. Conventionally, Russia is a joke. And if the poster was talking about nukes, well, as you said it would be mutually assured destruction. Not going to happen.
Putin knows that going nuclear will be the end of his life and his country. I do not think he is that irrational. Putin will be hated in Russia for generations anyway. If he fails spectacularly in Ukraine, he is probably a dead man, so he has to keep up the fight. He is a cornered rat, and may feel he has little to lose.
Redneck you are an arsehole. Why not move to some other service. You would be doing FR a favor.
You don’t get my sense of humor. Too bad.
So, how long have you and marcimaxipad been dating? Who is the beard?
The original plan was to rapidly occupy heavily Russian regions in the three eastern Ukraine territories and Crimea.
If Ukraine counter attacked, large numbers of ethnic Russian civilians would be killed or displaced, which would have extinguished much of the sympathy for Ukraine in the USA and NATO countries.
Instead, Biden publicly revealed Putin's plan before the War started and boisterously warned Putin not to do it.
Putin took the bait, decided to make a show of force, and ordered a Russian army to attack on a straight line at Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
Nothing but bad news for Putin ever since.
If Putin had stuck to the original plan, he could have stuck to the original narrative of Russian soldiers protecting ethnic Russians from Ukraine nationalists.
Instead, Putin and Zelensky decided on a real war, at least 100,000 people are dead, and it will cost $1 trillion to rebuild Ukraine.
And, we don't?
Ukraine is a dictatorship. Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship.
How many of our politicians, like Tim Walz and Eric Swalwell, have been in bed with China and Chinese spies? How much of our manufacturing is China doing?
We've worked with Islamic terrorists like those that formed ISIS.
There are considerable differences between admittedly flawed democracies that become wartime dictatorships (Ukraine) and innate autocracies and dictatorships (Russia under Putin; and Saudi Arabia in general).
Further distinctions are whether such regimes are defensive or status quo in their foreign and security policies (Ukraine and Saudi Arabia) or aggressive and revisionist (Russia under Putin and Iran under the mullahs), and whether dealings with terrorists and bad actors are rare and driven by circumstances (the US) or if they are a routine part of national policy (Russia for many decades and Iran under the mullahs).
I do not mind that you take shots at Swalwell and Walz or China manufacturing, but those are just opportunistic diversions, are they not? I struggle to see any relevance to the discussion.
Ukraine has been a tyrannical hellhole since the illegal coup that was orchestrated in 2014.
The illegal-formed government, which included neo-Nazis, went onto to persecute and kill the ethnic Russian population in Donetsk and Lugansk.
Under Zelensky, Ukraine has banned opposition parties and media outlets, imprisoned opposition leaders, imprisoned and murdered dissents like American Gonzalo Lira and destroyed churches.
I couldn't give a hoot, however, if we hadn't spent $200 billion on Ukraine under the false premise that we were defending freedom and democracy.
Our involvement in Ukraine is solely about our elite getting their grubby hands on the $10 to 12 trillion of resources there.
It's disgusting anyone would defend what the Biden and Obama regimes have done in Ukraine.
NATO turned Ukraine into an offensive regime, one that cut the water off to Crimea and persecuted and killed ethnic Russians in Donetsk and Lugansk.
The goal was for the Western elite to get its hand on the $10 to $12 trillion of resources in Ukraine. Biden, George Soros and BlackRock have made fortunes in Ukraine.
Its odd how any reference to Ukraine elicits smears and distortions against that country that reflect Russian propaganda. As always, gangsters find allies among the weak-minded and ignorant. Or maybe, as the name of a Russian city suggests, a Russian troll farm is at work.
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