Posted on 06/19/2016 7:33:05 PM PDT by traumer
American and Russian fighter jets had a tense showdown in the skies above Syria as the Russians dropped bombs on U.S.-backed rebels.
U.S. and Russian fighter jets bloodlessly tangled in the air over Syria on June 16 as the American pilots tried and failed to stop the Russians from bombing U.S.-backed rebels in southern Syria near the border with Jordan.
The aerial close encounter underscores just how chaotic Syrias skies have become as Russia and the U.S.-led coalition work at cross-purposes, each dropping bombs in support of separate factions in the five-year-old civil war. The near-clash also highlights the escalating risk of American and Russian forces actually coming to blows over Syria, potentially sparking a much wider conflict between the worlds leading nuclear powers.
The incident began when at least two twin-engine Su-34 bombers, some of Moscows most advanced warplanes, struck what the Pentagon described as a border garrison housing around 200 U.S.-supported rebels in At Tanf on the Syrian side of the Syria-Jordan border.
The rebels had been conducting counter-ISIL operations in the area, the Pentagon stated on June 18, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
“Anyone else scared as to what may happen this summer and fall during the last months of the moron in the White House?”
I don’t like to think about it. Hussein is going to go scorched earth. Maybe literally.
June 25, 1950
I know that....it is why zCheis Stevens and the SEALS died. So the DiC and Mrs. BJ could run a fast and furious to Syria
Interesting thread. Possibly, before long, many of the same zombies will be cheering for the same invaders from the north and east to try to occupy Jerusalem.
June 25, 1950
> Russia, fighting for ISIS yet again.
Is this some kind of joke?
“As long as its Russian Orthodox. And even it operates with his permission only. So believing that Russia will become the last bastion of traditional Christianty left on Earth is more than cynical. Its stupid.”
Educate yourself. The Orthodox Church is ancient and one of the “genuine “ forms of Christianity.
Evangelical churches, on the other hand, are a fairly new invention and have different practices and beliefs from the Original Christians. So why the bigotry against the Orthodox Church?
Yes, I know the Soviet Union persecuted the Orthodox and used the Church for their own ends. Fortunately, the true Orthodox Church is making a comeback in Russia.
The Russian Orthodox Church isn’t the only Orthodox Church. There is Greek Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox, etc. There are also the Oriental Orthodox Churches.
No, Russia is not the last bastion of Christianity. But neither is the U.S. In fact, many Protestants and Evangelicals are incredibly ignorant and bigoted about Eastern Christianity. In fact, I think that bigotry is why U.S. Christians aren’t too concerned about the Christians in Syria and Iraq. They don’t regard them as “real Christians”
I’m tired of that ignorance.
From stupid to insane... nailed...
Well, then. If someone was making the argument that the U.S. is, you'd have a point. And I have nothing against Orthodox Christianity, either. Just those who don't understand that the Russian version operates at the permission of the state.
The “Armageddon Scenario” as laid out in the Good Book has been interpreted many ways.
The Communist Russians were clearly bad guys in the Soviet Era as good Russians like Aleksandr Solzehenitsyn pointed out to us folk in the Western nations.
But what of the ones today?
Perhaps when the Good Book speaks of the “End Times” we see all of humanity including the Western nations, Russia, China etc. waging war against each other raging in its drunkenness and debauchery, its sin with no ‘good guys’ or ‘bad guys’ to be talked about in the picture.
Educate yourself moron. First, it’s truly weapons grade stupid to trust Wiki on a current US government sponsored operation like Syria, Al Nusra, the FSA, etc.
Second, here are your boys in the FSA. Cutting the heart out of a man and eating it. Real Madison and Jefferson stuff there. I am happy that the FSA barracks was bombed. And its fantastic that they waited a few minutes and hit again to wipe out the first responders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KXXUzWARtk
I cant stop looking at a post that says “educate yourself” and provides a link to Wikipedia. I think you meant that seriously.
If we were discussing the origin of the potato, the tallest waterfall in South America, or the spread of the bark beetle. then ok. But never about politics involving current events in the middle east.
Why don’t you just direct us to the State department public affairs page.
Lay an egg on Damascus?
Meanwhile, a teenage Serbian patriot shot and killed the Crown Prince of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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