Russia's ambassador to US comments on strikes against Syria

Russia News Agency Tass ^ | 4/14/2018 | TASS

[StAnDeliver]

"Syrian checkpoint with activity now https://www.geocam.ru/en/online/mukhayyam/ "

Can't tell if that roadblock was rubble before, or rubble after. The whole freaking country is rubble...

[Mariner]

I didn’t say they could challenge the US Navy.

I said they were the second best in the world.

Besides the US, can you name one better?

[b4its2late]

[jpsb]

Bush’s invasion of Iraq destabilized the entire middle east. 15+ years later and we are still fighting there. Taking out Saddam also led to the rise of radical Islam (ISIS) and millions of refugees invading Europe. I’d call that a huge blunder. Oh, and as a bonus we got Obama too. All because W had it in for Saddam after Saddam tried to assassinate daddy Bush.

[Parley Baer]

“We’ve been invaded by a band of DU refugees trying to pose as Freepers.”

It sure seems that way.

[Mariner]

They would still prevail against any navy but the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Navy

64 subs, half of them nuclear. Even their Kilos are pretty good compared to everyone except US.

Some of the best corvettes in the world punching way above their weight.

[SaveFerris]

yep

[StAnDeliver]

"Bottom line is that Russia blinked. They have backed down from aggressively defending the Syrians because they think they would be defeated."

It's more about Russia selling Assad the sos hardware that didn't work last night.

"Da, comrade Assad, we have many more of those anti-meesell batteries in Dubrovny warehouse. Weel have them here faster dan you can cop Soviet squat..."

[b4its2late]

Yep. Big mistake that was. He called the axis of evil correctly. But taking out Saddam because of Daddy was not very smart, but W was never accused of being very smart.

Obama and Hillary though got the ball rolling to topple the middle east without thinking (or maybe it was intentional) what that would do and who would take their places in that power vacuum.

And Bush has the gaul to criticize Trump when he kept his trap closed through the disastrous 8 years of Obama? SMH.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Tolstoy wrote about the possible causes of war in War and Peace. One of them was that the military had to have something to do.

[pghoilman]

Ain’t Amb. Haley great? She’s ripping Russia a new a$$hole.

[SaveFerris]

[ And Bush has the gaul to criticize Trump when he kept his trap closed through the disastrous 8 years of Obama? SMH. ]

W and pals - he said he was gonna spend some political capital - and boy, did he ever

[Irish Eyes]

Thanks for the link.

[Lean-Right]

You’re welcome...

[Bikkuri]

[b4its2late]

Wow. I guess so. NWO in full swing so to speak.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I hope you’re right.

[SaveFerris]

Some were wondering if he was back on the sauce....

[Peter ODonnell]

this is the sort of conversation I imagine around the Assad headquarters ...

“I miss the constant roar of cruise missiles.”

“So do I.”

“What can we do?”

“I know, drive over to the chemical weapons lab and grab a few canisters. We’ll let them off just when the journalists arrive on their bus tour.”

“Excellent idea, we’ll have cruise missiles above us tonight, Sayed.”

“And we’ll get rid of that awful chemical weapons dump too, can’t stand the sight of that place, brings down my house resale value.”

“Tell me about it, my place is still listed for $500 and no offers.”

[hawkaw]

I guess we will have to just agree to disagree as I do remember how bad it was with Saddam and the terror he caused. It might have taken a while to stabilize Iraq but it no longer is a big problem for the world.

I have to give the US military huge credit for not giving up, working with its allies in the region, taking Iraq back from the bad guys and taking the fight to the bad guys in Syria even when political mistakes were made.