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Russian reinforcements head for Syria: Warships laden with tanks, military trucks...
Daily Mail ^ | 15 April 2018 | Jessica Finn

Posted on 04/15/2018 3:21:08 PM PDT by McGruff

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To: Hostage

But to hear all the naysayers, there’s lots of buyers remorse over their vote for Trump.

This is way bigger than anything they have a clue about.


201 posted on 04/16/2018 5:50:11 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Paul R.

I was trying to be subtle and spur some thought.


202 posted on 04/16/2018 6:19:24 PM PDT by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: SaveFerris
I agree very much with what you said in Post #92. We should keep an eye on Libya and see if suddenly they're in the news. At the present time both Libya and Sudan seem to be outside the developing Russia/Turkey/Iran coalition or maybe just inconsequential players.

But for years I looked at Turkey's NATO membership, its coalition with the West, and pro-Israel policies to be inveighing against the Gog/Magog prophecy. Then Erdogen showed up. How things can change, and change seemingly overnight!

Remember that the destruction of the Gog weaponry will occur over seven years. It's highly unlikely that this would be something to blight the Millennial Reign of Christ. That's why I feel it's a pre-tribulational event.

2 Timothy 4:8
Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day--and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
203 posted on 04/16/2018 7:59:45 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: familyop

Turkey’s Geographical position as an ‘Islamic’ trade and energy corridor to Europe is very important to Erdogan and a big advantage, he’s a major player in energy but not as a producer, rather as a Hub, ...couple in China’s One Road One Belt Initiative that will connect ‘land locked’ countries in to Turkeys energy hub,......

In the end if all that happens you have ‘Islamic Power’ running the Energy show into Europe.... “Bow to Islam or freeze!”


204 posted on 04/16/2018 8:25:00 PM PDT by caww
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To: metmom

President Trump is the best President since Ronald Reagan and will be in my opinion a more successful President than Reagan.

I look at the long view and seldom get stirred by the short-term events.

If history is any guide, President Trump will be reelected by a landslide in 2020.

The history of Reagan is a good guide. It took two-plus years from January 1981 into 1983 before the GOP finally became the Party of Reagan. Before that, they thought he was a disaster on the economy, a disaster on foreign policy/ Then they saw the country start to regain confidence and optimism, and by 1984 the Reagan Revolution was emerging and would last into the 1990s to 1994 when the GOP led by Newt Gingrich took the House for the first time in 40 years. That was all made possible by the momentum of the Reagan Revolution.

The Trump Revolution is just getting started and it is going to be sensational.


205 posted on 04/16/2018 9:47:52 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: EliRoom8

Yeah I think it has to happen pre too - at least 3.5 years pre - because Israel’s gonna be on the run during the last 1/2, the Great Tribulation to Petra.

Thanks for mentioning Sudan - I neglected to mention them the last couple of times - years ago, the IAF went and bombed in Sudan since some weapons were coming in that way.

I completely missed it when it happened.


206 posted on 04/16/2018 9:52:11 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Trump20162020

Yes, the conflict in Syria is ultimately about pipelines to Europe. All pipelines go through Damascus :) - now who is going to be converted like St. Paul was? Trump seems to be converted, and just wants out of that quagmire.

Note that temporary bridges transited the Bosporus last weekend. And what rivers do the Syrian army need to cross? Obviously the Euphrates, near Deir ez-Zur, where not coincicentally US forces are based. I’d guess the consequences of the (illegal) US attack on Syria is an attack by the Syrian army in this area, with Pantsir-S1 air defenses (they’re tracked vehicles, which need a temporary bridge to cross the Euphrates).


207 posted on 04/17/2018 1:41:49 AM PDT by ContrarianView
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To: Hostage

I remember the grief he took. He was mocked and criticized over EVERYTHING.

Especially over the Star Wars initiative.

And we constantly heard about *Bedtime for Bonzo*.


208 posted on 04/17/2018 3:33:55 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: editor-surveyor

I don’t lay the eggs; I just color them.


209 posted on 04/17/2018 4:58:27 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SaveFerris
BUT, I’m sure the muslims are NOT going to like it one bit. NOT ONE BIT.

I've found NOTHING that they DO like!

210 posted on 04/17/2018 4:59:19 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom
But to hear all the naysayers, there’s lots of buyers remorse over their vote for Trump.

And I'd bet that there are a lot of OTHER 'buyers' that wish they could have saved their money, energy and time that they wasted on the OPPOSITE product; too!


The Use By Date was long expired on that one!!

211 posted on 04/17/2018 5:02:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SaveFerris
Yeah I think it has to happen pre too - at least 3.5 years pre - because Israel’s gonna be on the run during the last 1/2, the Great Tribulation to Petra.

Really?

What's there??


http://www.visitpetra.jo/

212 posted on 04/17/2018 5:07:42 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: BobL

Did you look at the Bloomberg articles?

If you did, you will see that the Bloomberg data and the Wikipedia data are referring to different items.


213 posted on 04/17/2018 7:56:25 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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To: metmom

I am guessing the argument is over who launched the chem attack? That the Trump Admin wrongly accused the Assad government of initiating the chem attack?

Why should it matter? The chem weapons factory is destroyed. Whoever would make ad use such weapons won’t be able to do anything now.

The use of chem weapons is an atrocity. The President just removed such future atrocities with a missile attack that did not kill innocents, that was announced ahead of time so that people could clear out of the area, that was therefore humane, and which sent a strong message that the killing of children and the parents of those children by such horrible weapons of mass destruction will not happen again.

No US troops died as a result of the missile attack. No coalition troops died as a result. No Russian troops died as a result. No people on the ground, at least no innocents died as a result. All people on the ground were given a heads up that missiles would be coming.

The result is that a factory that produced horrible weapons of mass destruction, weapons used on innocents, is now is destroyed, Unless my information is completely skewed or outright false, that is the result.

So what is wrong with the result?


214 posted on 04/17/2018 8:36:44 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: USNBandit

The issue is not the EXISTENCE of a pipeline. It is the CONTROL of a pipeline.

The oil mostly originates in the Saudi regions. Russians backing Assad’s Syria control the volume and pricing of the oil passing through the Syrian pipelines. Combined with oil and gas passing through Russian pipelines to Europe, they hope to corner the market.

The Euros are at the mercy of Russian oil and gas pricing.

I was posting years ago that construction and upgrade of LNG and oil ports in the US would be necessary as hydraulic fracturing technology would be making the US the largest exporter of oil and gas in the world.

And here we are.

I was actually working with a US NG company (a T. Boone Pickens company) to close contracts with S. Korea and Europe via Rotterdam. The S.Koreans KOGAS were ready to fund construction in the US for new or expanded LNG facilities.

And the Obama Administration would not grant the export license.

That business plan would have supplied the Euros with NG to provide relief against Russian dominance. My Euro contacts were begging, pleading for relief.

You can research the news of the Euro predicament with Russians and NG. Euros need NG to survive the winters and for power generation. It’s essential to them.

So oil and gas pipelines into Europe are a BIG DEAL and that’s why the Russians are trying to corner the market by controlling the ground in Syria.


215 posted on 04/17/2018 8:52:18 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Elsie

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Sure looks like you laid this one!
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216 posted on 04/17/2018 10:23:32 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: metmom

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>> “This is way bigger than anything they have a clue about.” <<

Especially since they refuse to have a clue.
.


217 posted on 04/17/2018 10:32:23 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Hostage
Why should it matter? The chem weapons factory is destroyed. Whoever would make ad use such weapons won’t be able to do anything now.

Works for me.

I saw posters complaining about what *side* was involved and I figured it didn't matter which side it was. The weapons were destroyed.

I'm with you on that line of thinking.

218 posted on 04/17/2018 12:39:24 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: metmom

I wasn’t really asking you those questions, I was remarking to viewers of the thread.

Someone had sent me a clip of Tucker Carlson who I usually respect but who went off the rails on the Trump Administration for General Mattis’s response to a question of who launched the attack which he said to the effect there was still an ongoing investigation.

Then someone pointed out that Alex Jones had a meltdown about it. I peeked at Alex Jones’s meltdown and it was bad. Before I seldom looked at Alex Jones but now I have decided to never look at him.

I think we both are confused at the reaction to Trump’s actions.


219 posted on 04/17/2018 1:21:59 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: editor-surveyor

Yeah I lean towards agreeing with you on this one.

Those that think this is all in the past....oh well.


220 posted on 04/17/2018 1:49:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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