Posted on 04/11/2018 7:47:48 PM PDT by Mariner
On Wednesday, a day of growing peril in a part of the world where Russian and American forces sometimes confront each other, the president who campaigned on never telegraphing his intensions to adversaries decided to taunt Russia with the threat of a missile attack. Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria, President Trump tweeted Wednesday morning as an anxious world watched to see if the Syrian crisis will escalate out of control. Get ready, Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and smart.
President Trumps tweets fly in the face of the norms that even during the Cold War kept the two great nuclear powers from needlessly provoking each other. They risk further inflaming a conflict that has already drawn in regional and world powers in a dizzying nest of alignments. With the common enemy the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on the brink of defeat, those opposing forces are increasingly coming into conflict as they jockey for position and territorial control inside Syria.
Just this year, U.S. forces in Syria have battled Russian mercenaries who attacked their base, reportedly at the direction of the Kremlin, and killed more than 100 of them. In northern Syria, U.S. troops and their Kurdish allies remain engaged in a tense face-off with the military forces of Turkey, a NATO ally. This week, Israeli warplanes attacked a military base in Syria, where Iran coordinates its militias, killing four Iranian military advisers.
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The tweet I believe at first was a fake was: “The missiles are coming, smart ones”, or words to that effect.
I can’t see how any good came from that one. And I have been a Trump supporter from day one.
And he HAS to do something to bring Haley under control. She’s just making unsubstantiated accusations at this point, asserting things not in evidence.
Idiots writing for idiots.
“Tamping down Iranian hegemony seems to require confrontation with the Rooskies.”
Perhaps, at some point. But first cancel Obama’s “Iran Deal”, and then deal with Iran first. That’s how we did stuff in the past to specifically avoid a confrontation with Russia.
Guess what? Its ALL talk.
Youll see.
Putin and Gasser Al Assad are such paper tigers, they are good at killing children, they didn’t do squat against ISIS, so thanks for the Russian propaganda laughs, the country that is 142nd in freedom of the press, nothing but lies.
https://historyxisis.com/2017/01/18/did-assad-really-help-build-isis-an-examination-of-the-evidence/
Haley’s doing a great job, all Trump said was matter of factly, the missiles are coming, not a threat, just what to expect.
Putin’s the biggest bully around and talked about using nukes over Crimea.
Trump issues tweets for effect. I think he’s been pretty effective with them.
Trumps been very effective...
Agreed.
Let’s see how it pans out.
Already in stock on this end.
Oh, Yahoo news. In that case, pthbbbttt!
A false flag operation by whom?
and if Haley isn’t careful she’s going to fall off the stage.
Why was Wetern Europe and Japan in our interests then but not now?
Im still trying to figure out why having a relative handful of Putins military in Syria is a threat to us...
How about a 'handful of Putin's military' in Georgia? Ukraine? Lithuania? Latvia? Poland? Romania? It's going to keep coming up, one country at a time, until someone tougher than Putin puts their foot down.
Reminds me of that apologist song about Hitler just wanting a little peace... "a little piece of Poland"... A world war would have been avoided if he'd only been stopped on his first or second adventure.
and such a threat that its worth trading cities over.
There's not going to be any "trading of cities" ...Putin's ambitious, but not stupid. Like a fart, he will expand to fill the void, no more, but definitely no less. The size of the void isn't his to choose, but it is his nature to stink up any space he's allowed to fill.
I don’t claim to be able to read Putin’s mind, so I really don’t know how far he’ll go if prodded...I guess you have some special capability there.
I wasn’t aware that Putin is threatening Western Europe and Japan the way the Soviets did - perhaps you have a link to that.
As to the other countries, we’ll respond when he actually DOES SOMETHING, and that will depend on the country. Ukraine is a done deal - unless we’re ready to send 500,000 troops there (yea, I know, a wet dream for the Neocons here, but not going to happen). As for the other countries, nothing much happening there.
As to starting a war with Russia for the heck of it. I suggest we first rebuild our military so that we at least have a chance at winning. We’ve sat on our assess for 25 years and handed them virtually all of our technology for the first 20 years of that. If we really need a war to feel better - let’s first try to have one that WE CAN ACTUALLY WIN. Please.
“Whos threatening Israel?
Just about every Islamic with a rocket.”
And let’s not forget that fat Gambian Chief Judge at the ICC in the Hague, the one with the Nigerian University Law Degree. She looks like she just “hoovered” an entire McDonalds franchise.
Yes, Yahoo makes everything ridiculous.
It is a terrible shame this twit at Yahoo things Trump tweets are actual policy. Narrative and policy are two different things. Also funny to see all the libs declaring we should be bombing Syria etc. These folks are typically anti-military....show them some poor kids and they change their position instantly. Typical libtards. They only believe what they see.
Our Saudi Hessian army!
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