Posted on 06/19/2016 7:33:05 PM PDT by traumer
American and Russian fighter jets had a tense showdown in the skies above Syria as the Russians dropped bombs on U.S.-backed rebels.
U.S. and Russian fighter jets bloodlessly tangled in the air over Syria on June 16 as the American pilots tried and failed to stop the Russians from bombing U.S.-backed rebels in southern Syria near the border with Jordan.
The aerial close encounter underscores just how chaotic Syria’s skies have become as Russia and the U.S.-led coalition work at cross-purposes, each dropping bombs in support of separate factions in the five-year-old civil war. The near-clash also highlights the escalating risk of American and Russian forces actually coming to blows over Syria, potentially sparking a much wider conflict between the world’s leading nuclear powers.
The incident began when at least two twin-engine Su-34 bombers, some of Moscow’s most advanced warplanes, struck what the Pentagon described as a “border garrison” housing around 200 U.S.-supported rebels in At Tanf on the Syrian side of the Syria-Jordan border.
The rebels had been “conducting counter-ISIL operations in the area,” the Pentagon stated on June 18, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.
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0bola wants to get us into a war. He wants to damage and destroy America by his actions.
The McCain wing of the RINO party won’t rest until we’re at war with Russia and probably China too.
obama just wants war with Israel.
Why not just call them the Baboonic Plague!
Clinton bombed the wrong side and things srarted going downhill.
Obama’s determination to oust Hafez al-Assad and make all of Syria another radical Islamic terrorist state is going to get us in a shooting war with Russia.....
Careful now. Russia is an invited guest. We are not. Those rebels our government is backing are questionable too.
What is it with Democrats picking on Slavs??? First Bubba Clinton, between interns, blasts the Serbs to smithereens. Then our BOY in Washington (”I’ll be more flexible after the election:) picks a fight with Mr. Putin... In the end, the Russians win because they actually have functioning brains... Obama serves soup in Chicago. Putin serves bombs to crazy radicals in the Middle East..
We’re learning how to fight a multi-front, semi-asymmetric war against religious zealots at home and abroad.
The L in ISIL stands for Levant, which includes Israel. Obama has been trying to include Israel in this conflict as a scapegoat. But ISIS has always called itself ISIS with no L. This is just a Islamic conflict so far. Actually, the president’s attempt is puerile and shows his anti-Israeli bias.
What insane rules of engagement did our pilots have for that mess? And how motivated were our pilots to protect Obama’s pet terrorists against an air force following orders from the closest thing we have to a leader of the free world?
Gosh, I don't remember *that* happening under the "warmonger" George W. Bush.
A real USAF general would demand an order for “self-defense” or resign... publicly. This is BS. Some pilots - US or Russian - are going to get killed and this will have been entirely avoidable if the diplomats had done their job beforehand.
yup. Our pilots will not shoot and one of the reds will pull the trigger. Our guys will have to phone home to mama to ask permission to and all the time the reds will be shooting at them.
He is already doing that
the rebels in question were not ISIS rebels
You have been duped into the belief that all rebels are ISIS
Yeah you and McShamey can live with all those moderates
me too
Gee a covert war that could start WWIII, that sounds like something important enough to lose an ambassador over. Pass the server wipes.
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