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Armed Russian Jets Violating Airspace of US Troops in Syria
Newsmax ^ | March 22, 2023 | Michael Katz

Posted on 03/23/2023 10:26:47 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

Russia has violated a four-year-old agreement with the U.S. by flying armed jets over a U.S. garrison in Syria nearly every day this month, according to Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, who is in charge of air operations in the area.

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The U.S. has more than 900 troops, and hundreds more contractors, in Syria, working with Kurdish fighters to quell any resurgence of the Islamic State, which was defeated as a caliphate in 2019. Russia's military has been backing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad during his country's 12-year-old civil war.

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Grynkewich said Russia might be trying to put more pressure on the U.S. military presence in Syria, of which it disagrees. But he said because the U.S. and Russia are supposed to be opposed to the Islamic State in Syria, "it seems like a very strange time to do this."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: endtheendlesswars; warforoil
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Yep, the US is "supposed" to be opposed to the Islamic State in Syria.

Funny how the Islamic State in Syria went from zero under Assad's Father, to a full Caliphate under US Regime Change Demands and military occupation of Syrian Provinces.

Of course the US could take protective measures by supplying Arab "Contractors" various MANPADS, ... via Ukraine (on the QT).

1 posted on 03/23/2023 10:26:47 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

What is a U.S. garrison doing in Syria?


2 posted on 03/23/2023 10:32:53 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Navy Patriot

US airspace in Syria...

WTF????

America...you have no permission to be in Syria let alone claims on Airspace.


3 posted on 03/23/2023 10:32:55 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they wacnto diese for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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What is a U.S. garrison doing in Syria?

Supporting, Funding and Supplying ISIS.

4 posted on 03/23/2023 10:35:22 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

US airspace in Syria? ROLFMAO! Who said illegal invasion?


5 posted on 03/23/2023 10:35:59 AM PDT by NorseViking
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Apparently this occurs in Syria as i recall happening several times before even by the US pilots going where they shouldn't be.
6 posted on 03/23/2023 10:36:10 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Navy Patriot

Why do we have troops in Syria? I don’t trust Biden, Austin or the Woke Joint Chiefs to do anything other than create a Charlie Foxtrot anywhere troops are deployed. The are all incompetent losers.


7 posted on 03/23/2023 10:36:12 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: Navy Patriot

bingo


8 posted on 03/23/2023 10:36:14 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Navy Patriot

Syrian airspace belongs to Syria.

It is up to Syria to decide its use.


9 posted on 03/23/2023 10:36:54 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Navy Patriot

We don’t seem to have a problem with doing the same over the Black Sea.


10 posted on 03/23/2023 10:37:17 AM PDT by babygene (Make America Great Again)
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US airspace in Syria..

The headline alone looks like something from the Babylon Bee.

11 posted on 03/23/2023 10:40:11 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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Biden, Prog Socialist Democrats, Deep Swamp NeoCons and Commanders like Vindman, don’t need permission to be in Syria.


12 posted on 03/23/2023 10:40:28 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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What is a U.S. garrison doing in Syria?

Protecting ISIS from annihilation

13 posted on 03/23/2023 10:40:48 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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Obviously fighting Putin there so we don’t have to fight him here.

Duh. /s


14 posted on 03/23/2023 10:42:06 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: Navy Patriot
What is a U.S. garrison doing in Syria?

Supporting, Funding and Supplying ISIS.

Could be. But Israel is also stirring things up in Syria.

IDF chief finally acknowledges that Israel supplied weapons to Syrian rebels.

Israel Just Admitted Arming anti-Assad Syrian Rebels. Big Mistake.

15 posted on 03/23/2023 10:44:57 AM PDT by Angelino97
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We don’t seem to have a problem with doing the same over the Black Sea.

I'm going to wait a while before responding to that comment.

I'll try to recall it after the situation develops through the summer.

Feel free to remind me, if you wish.

16 posted on 03/23/2023 10:45:44 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: NorseViking

I never mark my sarcasm or ridicule.


17 posted on 03/23/2023 10:46:37 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Alberta's Child

It’s not The Bee, honest.


18 posted on 03/23/2023 10:47:33 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: 2banana
US airspace in Syria...

WTF????

That was my reaction.

Reminds me of the Monty Python joke commemorating those "who so gallantly gave their lives to keep China British."

19 posted on 03/23/2023 10:49:38 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Navy Patriot
I know.

It's pathetic how the powers-that-be in the U.S. consider it a Divine mandate for us to defend Ukraine from Russia, but consider it our manifest destiny to violate the sovereignty of other nations with boring regularity.

20 posted on 03/23/2023 10:51:16 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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