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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We shouldn’t be trying to support the IS rebels
American foreign policy has gone from stupid (Bush-43) to Insane (Barack Hussein).
“The rebels had been “conducting counter-ISIL operations in the area,” the Pentagon stated on June 18, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.”
My a$$!
Al-Qaeda?
Active Duty ping.
One thing is virtually certain: Obama has our troops fighting on the wrong side.
Obama already signed over the US to ISIS
Yes im rooting for the russians..we are now the bad guys
Can someone point me to the Congressional vote for Authorization for Use of Military Force in Syria, similar to the one voted on for Iraq? No? THEN WHY THE HELL ARE WE THERE CONFRONTING THE RUSSIANS!?
I could NEVER want anything but EVERY Russian plane shot down if it turned into a dogfight, but we’re wrong.
Some of us have been saying, maybe most of us, that this is a fiasco and if this guy isn’t impeached he’s gonna start WWIII.
i’m glad they killed the guys we’re supporting. I hope Russia kills them all.
But it’s gonna come to a head. It must, i think.
I,wish they could drop bombs on the g-d muslims occupying our White House.
This crap started with Kosovo.
All dead Jihadis get their rewards. The fewer the better for the rest of the world.
I wonder where Obama got the authorization to wage this war in Syria.
Any chance Paul Ryan will sue him?
WTF? They don't even call themselves that.
Oh yeah, our Saudi owners whom the illuminati made powerful command it.
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