Posted on 09/23/2015 4:33:45 PM PDT by Enlightened1
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday Russia's military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could raise the risk of confrontation with coalition forces fighting Islamic State there.
In an interview with Italian newspaper La Stampa, Kerry said he had told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the United States was worried by Moscow's military backing for Assad in Syria's civil war, now in its fifth year.
"These actions could provoke a further escalation of the conflict and lead to the loss of more innocent lives, increasing the flow of refugees and risking a confrontation with the anti-ISIS (Islamic State) coalition operating in Syria," Kerry said.
He did not spell out what he meant by the coalition. But the United States and allies have been launching air strikes against positions held by the Islamist militant group in Syria, and in neighboring Iraq.
Israel has also raised concerns that Russian involvement on Assad's side in the conflict in Syria could accidentally lead to confrontations between Russian and Israeli forces there.
Russia has built up naval infantry forces and heavy equipment including tanks and helicopters at Syria's Latakia airbase, U.S. officials say, raising the possibility of air combat missions in Syrian airspace.
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Ah, I remember fondly that Christmas Eve of 1968, spent on the misty banks of an unnamed river in Cambodia. Me and Genghis. I called him Jen for short, he just called me John.
Anyway, we spent the evening singing carols, drinking rice wine and dodging Khmer bullets. Jen was a bit of a prankster and he may have gone too far when he rigged a fragmentation grenade in the rice sack I was sitting on.
Man, I was pulling grains out of my ass until Martin Luther King Day....
Why the long face, John? Is the Russians’ success exposing you and your idiot boss as the feckless clowns that you are?
Armageddon, Kerry you are laying the groundwork. Who is you master Kerry?
Kerry will shoot himself in his nether regions again and expect a medal..
Geopolitics 101. Power abhors a vacuum. Obama created one. Isis tried to fill it. Putin will fill it.
When Putin heard this statement from John Kerry
Putin immediately wet his pants
and then had to be put to bed heavily sedated.
“Killing terrorists is just causing trouble, mannn!” - Jean Fn Kerry
Poor old lurch must of dropped his white flag.
Plus those two guys @ 500 million apiece....
So it’s Assad and Putin plus Iran, vs Obama, Kerry and some schmoe who runs a fruit stand in London and wants a western democracy in Damascus with a bit of help from ISIS and Saudi Arabia.
That reduces to three against one.
John Kerry has reported for duty.
Provoke who, exactly? The only thing this administration has ever been provoked to take action against is the Tea Party.
There are moderates, but they are also realists who after seeing out betrayal of Iraqi moderates and after being betrayed themselves when Obama’s red line turned yellow, know better than to stick their necks out when they know that no one has their back or worse, know that the administration is so leaky and infiltrated that the odds are the admin will do worse than neglect them, it will knife them.
If Assad was North Vietnamese, John would have his Knee pads on and be salivating.
Russia is not on the side of “freedom,” Russia is only interested in promoting its national interests. That’s it.
And as it happens, its national interests coincide with Assad, Iran and Hezbollah.
So can allowing Iran to build nukes.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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