Posted on 06/04/2016 5:41:47 PM PDT by Trumpinator
After imposing Moscow’s will on the situation in Syria, Putin is moving on to Libya. And this new proxy conflict he is waging with the West has many of the same hallmarks of the last one: the West backs a pitiful attempt at a ‘democratic’ government with unfortunate Islamist leanings, Putin backs an authoritarian, militaristic autocrat, and ISIS sits squarely in the middle, a target of everyone’s rhetoric but too rarely of their weapons.
And once again, the West is being outmaneuvered. The Western-backed government of National Accord ruling from Tripoli is anything but democratic, and is barely held together with the ‘protection’ of Islamist ‘Libya Dawn’, a coalition which includes former Al-Qaeda jihadists, amongst other interesting characters. And the ‘protection’ also comes at the cost of Dawn steadily usurping the institutions of this government recognized by the West and the UN. A very thin veil of civility is masking a very chaotic and merciless struggle for power between groups that have very little in common and very little shared notion of what Libya should look like in the future.
Meanwhile, in the eastern city of Tobruk, the elected parliament of Libya, the House of Representatives, increasingly alienated from the government by the intrusion of Dawn into the political process in Tripoli, is being attracted into the sphere of influence of the rebel General Haftar who controls the East of the country, most of the oil fields, and who is backed by Russia.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...
Lockheed Martin?
Putin is saving Assad’s Syria which means he is saving Christians so his side is my side in that fight.
I like Lockheed Martin on principle. Not sure what you mean, but would love to learn ;)
That is true. Too bad Assad hates our guts and wishes our destruction (which is not a thing I can exactly ignore).
I personally wish Assad no harm but regret that the feeling doesn’t seem to be mutual.
can’t
Last time it was for godless communism ... this time for Putin, Mother Russia and Orthodox Christianity?
(Did anyone else take note of him sitting in the chair reserved for the Byzantine emperors?)
Not entirely the same as in the past given how godless heathens, progressives/socialists and (as a matter of influence in culture and now laws rather than numbers) faggots overrunning the West at this time, sapping its collective will to fight any foe but Christians in society.
I don’t trust Putin any more than this: he’s shamelessly for Russia and things Russian. That doesn’t necessarily make him a good man by any measure, he is KGB after all, just one with natural affections. Still, it does mean that there is a reference point, some circumstances when in his interest, that he might be trusted ... and in that a better man than those whose affections run to support the unnatural and international, like Obama.
That’s bull. Assad wanted to make deals with the west.
She’s running for President and he’ll put a reign on his Justice Department to keep her from getting charged.
Well hopefully he will able to with a President Trump. Personally, I’ve never heard of this but I hope you’re right. Please let me know a time frame so I can go hunting As far as I know, Assad’s always been hostile.
http://easydamus.com/lawfulevil.html
If US policy is under Obama is to arm jihadists in the name of Arab Springism then I can't fly the flag up high for that one.
I think people merge the father Assad with his son.
Just give me a time frame. If it exists I will proclaim it from the rooftops. If not, wishfful thinking isn’t an asset to any organization if you get my meaning.
Assad told me in late February 2011 that he would sever all anti-Israel relationships with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas and abstain from all behavior posing threats to the State of Israel, provided all land lost by Syria to Israel in the 1967 war—all of it—was returned.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/syria-civil-war-213242#ixzz4AfMVMMJX
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Thank you :)
Dear lord, what a mess.
nails it!
While we were at war with Italy.
100% correct.
We either are in the last days or we are not. Makes no difference what i think or you think. So no worries
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