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Royal Air Force Pilots Ordered To Shoot Down "Hostile" Russian Jets Over Syria
Zero Hedge ^ | Oct 13, 2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 10/13/2016 9:28:51 AM PDT by Leaning Right

As the US officially enters the Yemen military campaign, the UK appears ready and willing to precipitate a catalytic event from which there is no going back. With relations between Russia and the West at post-Cold War lows and deteriorating fast, Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots have been given the go-ahead to shoot down Russian military jets when flying missions over Syria and Iraq, if they are endangered by them.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alasbabylon; obamasyria; russia; russiasyria; uk
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This Zero Hedge article is based on a Sunday Times (UK) article that uses a "senior cabinet member" as a source. Unfortunately, most of the Sunday Times article is behind a paywall. This seems to be a bump up from articles a couple of days ago that used members of parliament as sources.

Anyway, no worries. Hillary has pledged to impose a no-fly zone over Syria should she be elected president. Such a move would obviously be meant to target Russia.That should calm things down.

Oh...wait. That would make things worse, much worse. Funny how no MSM commentator has noticed that.

1 posted on 10/13/2016 9:28:52 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

Just watch these a-hole “leaders” start a nuclear war. Great...just great.


2 posted on 10/13/2016 9:31:55 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Leaning Right

Directly confronting Russia over Syria, when they have been invited by the government of that country and we are the interlopers, is a genuinely bad idea.
We do not want to start WWIII.
Could be that the Kenyanesian Usurper does.


3 posted on 10/13/2016 9:33:30 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Leaning Right

Courtesy of Traitorobama, get ready for WWIII.


4 posted on 10/13/2016 9:33:43 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: hal ogen

Marshall Law?


5 posted on 10/13/2016 9:33:46 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (When the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you)
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To: Leaning Right

ZH is, well, exaggerating.

The warmongering is probably just impatience at the pace of which America’s military is being neutered.

Fighting Third Worlders doesn’t destroy the military fast enough, so a war with someone presumably higher tech and proficient is desired. The attrition of American military strength will not be replaced.


6 posted on 10/13/2016 9:34:31 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Leaning Right

and just what the hell are UK military jets doing in Syria???


7 posted on 10/13/2016 9:34:56 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: hal ogen
Just watch these a-hole “leaders” start a nuclear war. Great...just great.

So worth it to protect ISIS from Assad and Putin

8 posted on 10/13/2016 9:35:36 AM PDT by American Guesser
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To: stocksthatgoup

Who is Marshall Law? Is he the one wholl step in and restore law & order? ;)


9 posted on 10/13/2016 9:35:55 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Leaning Right

We are living in an Alice in Wonderland world. Obama/Kerry & Clinton is pushing towards an open conflict with Russia -over what? An internecin conflict between different shades of radical Islamists (Sunnis and Shi’ites) in Syria.

And yet it is Donald Trump who is considered to be the “loose cannon” when it comes to foreign policy!

Go figure!


10 posted on 10/13/2016 9:36:40 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Leaning Right

“By God, we’re gonna stop Trump from winning the White House.

Even if we have to trigger Armageddon to do it!”


11 posted on 10/13/2016 9:38:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Leaning Right

“if they are endangered by them”

Pro-Putin mouthpiece Zerohedge buries the lede that this is only authorization to shoot back if the Russians start something.


12 posted on 10/13/2016 9:38:37 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Leaning Right

“if they are endangered by them”

Pro-Putin mouthpiece Zerohedge buries the lede that this is only authorization to shoot back if the Russians start something.


13 posted on 10/13/2016 9:38:55 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ScaniaBoy

If Hillary gets elected, I’m not purchasing more ammo; I’m purchasing iodine tablets.


14 posted on 10/13/2016 9:39:40 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: ScaniaBoy

If Hillary gets elected, I’m not purchasing more ammo; I’m purchasing iodine tablets.


15 posted on 10/13/2016 9:39:42 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: 556x45

He’s a knockoff of the real thing...


16 posted on 10/13/2016 9:40:03 AM PDT by OKSooner (She was practiced at the art of deception, you could tell by her bloodstained hands.)
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To: All

Someone needs to tell the limes that they’re going to be alone on this one..


17 posted on 10/13/2016 9:40:25 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Leaning Right

The RAF and the USAF have no business in Syria (aside from helping Qatar build a natural gas pipeline across Syria).


18 posted on 10/13/2016 9:40:50 AM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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To: Leaning Right

This is what happens when corrupt political establishments rob a nation of its wealth and the people rise up in response:

They start a war.

America is 20 trillion in debt, no economic growth and no hope for it.

The people have discovered that the elites have screwed them and are electing an outsider.

War.

19 posted on 10/13/2016 9:40:59 AM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: Lurkinanloomin
We do not want to start WWIII.
Could be that the Kenyanesian Usurper does.

It could be his last ditch fallback plan to keep Trump from being sworn in.

20 posted on 10/13/2016 9:43:24 AM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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