[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

I really feel sorry for the people in Syria and the tradgedy the US and Saudi have caused.

[Read Write Repeat]

Um, radical islamic terrorists are destroying Syria.

[ETL]

GO PUTIN!!

Both ISIS and Putin are our enemy, you misguided idiot.

[WENDLE]

GO RUSSIA!!! call us when its over. You guys are GREAT!!

[Paladin2]

Let Allah provision the Islamists. It’s poor form to interfere with The Will of Allah.

[BigEdLB]

I guess Vlad isn’t passing Kerry’s, “Global Test”. Ya know there always one student making trouble for Professor Kerry.

[ETL]

Mr Putin, what do you think of your "useful
idiot" supporters in the United States?

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Useful idiots

Thomas Sowell
May 20, 2003

"The term 'useful idiots' has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen's new book Useful Idiots shows that such people are still with us.

Long after the Soviet Union's horrors had become too widely known around the world for their sympathizers in the West to be able to get away with whitewashing the USSR, new Communist dictatorships arose to become the new objects of the affections of the Western intelligentsia and of like-minded people in the media and in politics. ..."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2003/05/20/useful_idiots

[ETL]

Ted Cruz on ISIS, Russia, Obama, missile defense, and the New START Treaty with Russia...

"If we want to actually dismantle ISIS, we need to dramatically change course. We need a real, robust campaign that maximizes our overwhelming air advantage.

We need to focus our efforts not on trying to create friends, but on supporting our real ones, especially the Kurds in Iraq and Syria who have actually had success against ISIS."

-snip-

"We can redouble our efforts to develop the defensive weapons that neutralized the offensive Soviet threat -- particularly missile defense, which has seen a 25% budget reduction under Obama, according to an analysis from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and has been constrained by bad arms deals like New START.

We should not only move quickly to install the canceled interceptor sites Putin opposed in Poland and the Czech Republic, but also to develop the next generation of systems that will only increase his discomfiture.

These options do not entail a ground war in Syria, yet would effectively shake us free from the failed policies that have brought us to our current impasse.

These options set us on a new path that puts Putin on notice that the United States is reclaiming our traditional role as leader of the free world."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html

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"I think it would be a mistake to get involved in the Syrian civil war. There have been voices in Washington eager for us to send our sons and daughters over to fight that civil war for some time. I haven't been one of them. I think the touchstone of U.S. military policy should be protecting the national security of this country."

"What we're seeing Putin in Russia do is a direct response to the profound weakness of Obama over six and a half years.

Putin views Obama as weak, as ineffective, and frankly, as a laughingstock. And, as a result, he is moving in, he is invading his neighbors, like Ukraine, he's kidnapping Estonians, and he's moving into Syria to gain a stronger foothold in the Middle East."

https://www.tedcruz.org/news/icymi-cruz-we-have-no-business-getting-in-the-middle-of-the-syrian-civil-war-goal-should-be-to-defeat-isis/

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Ted Cruz:
"We need a coherent plan to address both the specific crisis in Syria and the challenge posed more broadly by Putin's resurgent Russia.

The good news is that America still has options, if our leaders can summon the will to exercise them.

For starters, in Syria we can't double down on the failed strategies that have given Putin his opportunity to intervene.

We are now two years out from President Obama's proposed intervention after al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. ..."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html

[Mr. Mojo]

There isn’t a week that goes by when Kerry isn’t laughed at or ignored on the world stage.

[georgiarat]

Careful or Obama and Kerry will give Alaska back to Russia in exchange for a promise of peace in Syria

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

The gullible continue believing the US press which insists Russia is bombing civilians and hindering US efforts to stop ISIS.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Kerry, Obama, Hillary, McCain, Graham and Rubio are all saddened that Putin is defeating their jihadi friends and ignoring their pleas to stop.

[Neu Pragmatist]

Well it looks like Cruz , Hillary ,Jeb, and Rubio are all on the same page .. looks like they might share the same “advisors”

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/18/beacon-global-strategies/

[Be Careful]

Putin is a Christian that is not shackled or hijacked by the PC Cancer called ‘Diversity Tolerance’

His mother was a devout Christian.

Here is his testimony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3d_yxJhmjk

[ETL]

Documents Show How Russia's Troll Army Hit America:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
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Kremlin pays internet trolls to flatter Putin
Ben Hoyle - Moscow
October 11 2013

Russian investigative journalists and bloggers have uncovered an army of internet trolls paid to pour invective on the Kremlin's opponents and heap praise on President Putin.

Posing as job applicants, the reporters discovered the government hacks working at a small company called the St Petersburg Internet Research Agency. ..."

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article3891720.ece

[ETL]

Russian Propaganda Is Taking Over Online Comment Boards

Pamela Engel
May 4, 2014

British newspaper The Guardian notes that recently, readers have been complaining of pro-Russia propaganda being posted in the comments section of articles about Russia and Ukraine.

One reader wrote to The Guardian:

"One need only pick a Ukraine article at random, pick any point in the comments at random, and they will find themselves in a sea of incredibly aggressive and hostile users (the most obvious have accounts created since February 2014 ... but there also exist those who registered with the Guardian before the high point of the crisis) who post the most biased, inciteful [sic] pro-Kremlin, anti-western propaganda that seems as if it's taken from a template, so repetitive are the statements. Furthermore, these comments are consistently capturing inordinate numbers of 'recommends', sometimes on the order of 10 to 12 times what pro-Ukrainian comments receive."

Guardian comment moderators believe this is an orchestrated campaign.

Russia has worked hard to make people believe that the country is supporting the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine and defending those people against some type of threat. These "comment mills" play into that strategy.

Last year, The Atlantic wrote about how the Russian government apparently pays people to "sit in a room, surf the Internet, and leave sometimes hundreds of postings a day that criticize the country's opposition and promote Kremlin-backed policymakers."

This practice isn't new, according to The Atlantic. But it can stifle open discussion about political issues in Russia, giving a louder voice to those who support the Kremlin.

http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-paying-people-to-post-pro-russia-propaganda-in-comments-2014-5

[DesertRhino]

I hope the Suhkois get sirens on them. Like Stukas.

[Irish Eyes]

We need Trump now more than ever.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hanoi Boi Kerry. The Rodney Dangerfield of global politics.

[Robert357]

the article is so B S. The Russian top fighter is there to settle the score with Turkey over the earlier downing of a Russian jet. Don't be confused. Earlier today Turkey announced it had refused a Russian resonance jet's flight through Turkish air space.

Russia will try to set up a “sting operations” where a Russian jet violates Turkish air space. Russia will have its top fighter close by waiting for Turkish pilots to attack only to become the prey.

[elhombrelibre]

And you’re really proud of the numbers of civilians killed by Assad and Putin, right?