http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3650287/US-Russian-fighters-dramatic-showdown-Syria-American-pilots-scramble-confront-Putin-s-jets-bomb-Pentagon-backed-Syrian-rebels.html 
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 Syria’s 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 world’s leading nuclear powers.
The incident began when at least two twin-engine Su-34 bombers, some of Moscow’s 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.
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“This crap started with Kosovo.”
Agree AND must add...
IMHO, this is when the US government began to overtly side with muslims against Christians.
“The McCain wing of the RINO party won’t rest until we’re at war with Russia and probably China too.
obama just wants war with Israel.”
Lethally accurate statements.
“I wonder where Obama got the authorization to wage this war in Syria.
Any chance Paul Ryan will sue him?”
...do not worry, PR assured fellow Americans he would stop an over reaching President. ( do I need the sarcasm symbol?)
A very good analysys IMHO..
And yet we hear calls to attack Assad. I would go as far as to question whether Sunnis, driven from their homes from Assad’s bombing are really refugees? They are the majority and may have been supporting ISIS.
US foreign policy long before Obama took office.
The focus is ISIS, as they are the most destabilizing force in the region.
Dear Russia:
Thank you for bombing the snotburgers out of the suicide-bombing, goat-pestering subhuman throwbacks to the Neanderthals that our overpromoted minstrel of a president is backing in order to help his Muslim pals. Those of us in America with an IQ above room temperature sincerely appreciate it.
If you have a chance to catch a large number of high-ranking Democrat activists and/or politicans in the same place, please feel free to repeat this course of action and announce to the world that your pilot accidentally jettisoned live ordinance over an area “confirmed to have no intelligent life”.
Regards,
A.B.C.
(A Beleagured Citizen)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3650287/US-Russian-fighters-dramatic-showdown-Syria-American-pilots-scramble-confront-Putin-s-jets-bomb-Pentagon-backed-Syrian-rebels.html
“Looks like baraq is going to ramp up confrontations with Russia and then leave the next president holding the bag. Fits his pattern”
Agreed, he’s going to commit as much mayhem as he can before he leaves office. Look out.
0bama’s Mid east foreign policy is a Charlie Foxtrot.
Last thing we need to do right now is get into a shooting war with Ivan.
5.56mm
Charlie foxtrot?
“Charlie foxtrot?”
Cluster fu@k.
5.56mm
R'egime \R['e]`gime"\ (r?`zh?m"), n. [F. See Regimen.] 1. Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system. [1913 Webster]
I am very much aware of the War Powers Act and firmly support the process. I honestly believe our military should NOT be involved in military conflict w/o the approval of Congress.
I believe at this point, Obama could get our military into an escalated war in Syria causing war against Russia and Congress would do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. We would then be in war without congressional approval.
I am absolutely opposed to this scenario.
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