Posted on 10/09/2015 8:46:03 AM PDT by TigerClaws
“Will the Pentagon get its Toyota’s back?”
I don’t know. Is there some parlor marshal with soft, slight hands there who is authorized to buy scrap? Or are they all focused on drafting new transgender friendly MOS protocols, or drumming out soldiers who object to the war crimes of our fine and good allies sodomizing children? Or defending that valued NATO ally Turkey so that their air raids on the Kurd population may continue without being disturbed?
As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria
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The Pentagon should worry about this. Eventually it will be harder and costlier to deal with this situation and contain Russian expansionism. Weakness now will exact a far bigger price in the future.
Good questions all.
Our military priorities seems a bit skewed. /sarc
We are stuck behind the proverbial rock and a hard place, with Obama and Co in charge. I suspect he and Putin are actually in on the scheme for Russia to eventually take over the Middle East, despite his and Kerry’s public moans and groans.
I suspect he and Putin are actually in on the scheme for Russia to eventually take over the Middle East
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Except for the area to be controlled by the new caliphate in the region. ISIS was born - and expanded greatly - on Obama’s watch. That much is fact that he and Kerry can’t dismissively lie about. And it speaks volumes about U.S. foreign policy in the region that this was allowed to happen.
6 billion.
There are no “Moderate” Syrian rebels.
Except for the area to be controlled by the new caliphate in the region. ISIS was born - and expanded greatly - on Obama’s watch.
Sounds like these two might be using the same playbook, goal being for Russia to ultimately take control of the Middle East...
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Understanding Provocation [Provokatsiya]
One of the most powerful tools the Kremlin has in its secret arsenal of Special War is provocation, what they call provokatsiya.
While Moscow cannot claim to have invented this technique, which has existed as long as there have been secret services, there’s no doubt that Russians have perfected the art and taken it to a whole new level of sophistication and deviousness. At times, it can become a strategy all on its own (not always, mind you, with edifying results).
Provokatsiya simply means taking control of your enemies in secret and encouraging them to do things that discredit them and help you. You plant your own agents provocateurs and flip legitimate activists [in this case, dupe actual Jihadis -ETL], turning them to your side.
When you’re dealing with extremists to start with, getting them to do crazy, self-defeating things isn’t often difficult. In some cases, you simply create extremists and terrorists where they don’t exist. This is causing problems in order to solve them, and since the Tsarist period, Russian intelligence has been known to do just that.
While this isn’t a particularly nice technique, it works surprisingly well, particularly if you don’t care about bloody and messy consequences. ..."
http://20committee.com/2014/03/29/understanding-provocation/
Syria has been a Russian client state since the 1950s.
And yet, there has been no stream of weapons into the area -- and that includes the "thousands of MANPADS" that were smuggled from Libya [sic] -- these last four years. There's been exactly one purported training site (I think it was in Kuwait) and that was purported by some supposed grads who weren't vetted by the "journalist" reporting it.
It's almost as if the whole thing was another money-laundering operation, like ACORN, Solyndra, etc etc.
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