Posted on 04/14/2018 5:39:31 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
No. We made a stand on the chem weapons issue and we made the point that it is a non-negotiable stand.
“If Assad goes down Syria will go the way of Libya post Kadaffy, with a rabid Erdogen itching to take new ground.”
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He’s been taking new ground in Syria for some time.
Since the R and D Center for chemical weapons, and the storage facility were BANNED and not even supposed to be there, do you think the Syrians might have hardened it against things like a single missile attack :?
No, we don't and they don't either.
First off, we are not sure they launched any of the S-400's. Even if they did, based on the information gleaned from several reports and on scene videos, the Syrian based defense missiles weren't launched until after the Coalition Strike was over with.
Yes. Modern ones do not have to be launched in a straight line to the target, can actually detect threats and react to them (diverting), can fly literally nap of the earth on their own sensors, and can have multiple warheads.
They can also be launched from subs.
I don't think the S-400's were even fired. S-300's maybe and a mix of other defense missiles, but it appears to me that all the defense firing was done after the fact, (probably an agreement between Russia and Assad) to make things look good to their populace. The Russians certainly lied to their populace about how many they shot down.(Unless we believe that Trump and the Pentagon are lying to us).
You might remember this
After Mike Pence suggested in the vice presidential debate last fall that the U.S. should take a stronger stance against the Assad regime, Trump publicly dismissed this view, saying “Syria is fighting ISIS.” In an interview with the Guardian during the campaign, Trump said, “What we should do is focus on ISIS. We should not be focusing on Syria.”
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-syria-strike-is-trumps-first-big-break-from-his-campaign-rhetoric/
You may be right about his reasoning but I agree with candidate Trump and not President Trump on this one.
As usual Russia’s monkey model SA200 system is useless.
So am I.
I just don’t see Syria attacking the United States any time soon.
ISIS maybe will.
And I think it is ISIS that Assad is fighting with.
There is a Kurdish video out there showing IsIS owned refineries still manned by Assad’s state technicians still on Assad pay.
Assad promoted Saddam Baathists as leadership of ISIs and then opened the islamic prisons to man ISIs when the Alawite wanted to oust him, tired of being Iranian cannon fodder for this puppet
I say they used enough. The sat photos show the structures obliterated.
Assad is propped up by Hezbollah.
Do you really want to go on the record that Hezbollah has never attacked the US?
“There is a Kurdish video out there showing IsIS owned refineries still manned by Assad’s state technicians still on Assad pay.
Assad promoted Saddam Baathists as leadership of ISIs and then opened the islamic prisons to man ISIs when the Alawite wanted to oust him, tired of being Iranian cannon fodder for this puppet”
You have GOT to be quicker!!!
“I’ve been wondering all day whether the Rooskies had them stand down to save face or the local operators were just horribly incompetent.”
Or the Rooskies had them stand down so we would not get any EM signatures from them, which can be used to develop countermeasures. If so, the Rooskies are using the Syrians as cannon fodder.
We don’t have a need to know, but we could have had a bird in the area doing ELINT. If the Russians lit up the radars for the S-300 and S-400 sites, that would have given us a wealth of data on their systems.
“So am I.
I just don’t see Syria attacking the United States any time soon.
ISIS maybe will.
And I think it is ISIS that Assad is fighting with.”
Who are you to question Lockheed’s tactical genius? Next thing, you’ll be complaining about the price.
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I heard if you buy 9 cruise missils, the 10th is free.
This war has been something like one of those goofy "pro" wrestling matches where you load a bunch of people into the ring and everyone fights everyone else, with alliances constantly shifting, and so on. In this case, with a few exceptions, for the most part Assad has not been fighting ISIS, and those two sides have not even been physically placed to engage directly in most instances.
The heavy lifting against ISIS has been mainly done by the Kurds, with US assistance.
This.
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