Posted on 10/16/2016 6:15:47 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Was the UK invited to be in Syria by the Assad regime?
Not likely.
Yep, one step closer to closing down the elections due to war.
What a wonderful playground Hillary has created. And her commercials try to peg DJT as the warmonger!
What is ‘not likely’?
why are we there??
[rhetorical]
Why do I keep getting the feeling that we are repeating the summer of 1914?
Closer to UK homewaters also, and potentially involving their navies. Hard to imagine Putin getting stupid with his only aircraft carrier, but he’s running out of money and the average Russian is reeling from currency devaluations.
The UK does not have aircraft advanced enough to shoot down Russia’s top of the line fighter aircraft. The worst mistake Britain could make is to fire on a Russian aircraft with the inetent to destroy it.
The Tornado is simply no match for the Sukoi T-50:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-unveils-most-advanced-fighter-6354081
“The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.” Isaiah 17
I’m sure the Syrians are really happy that the Royal AirForce is there trying to start WW3
To start WW3! Why else?
the UK is part of the Iraq war coalition now engaged with ISIS in Syria
To start WW3 in order to destroy Israel! Why else?
We thought through the Ukraine we could swindle Russia out of Sevastopol, a Russian possession since the time of the American revolution. Well, Ukraine is destabilized, Sevastopol is unquestionably Russian, and now the Russians have secured an outlet on the Mediterranean coast and on the flank of Turkey, which we abandoned to ISIS when we tried to pull out of Iraq.
Obama thought he was playing chutes and ladders and the Russians were playing chess. They had to. With the fall of the Soviet Union, as Pat Buchanan pointed out, our neo-cons, instead of cooperating with Russia, moved our tanks up to their front porch (they were still a nuclear peer state, the neo-cons forgot).
Then we thought we would eliminate nuclear weapons to make the world safe for neo-con agression using our then vast superiority of conventional weapons, while simultaneously pulling out of the ABM treat (George Bush and his neocon friends). Well, Russia is not interested in a world dominated by American conventional superiority so they doubled down on the nuclear side.
Putin announced he has nuclear naval forces in the Mediterranean.
So Russia is about to secure a position in the eastern Med, flank NATO in Turkey, and have made the Black Sea exclusively theirs again.
Good job folks. Its deplorable, but spheres of influence are real, some of it was likely inevitable, but the rest is just shear and utter strategic tomfoolery - on our part.
We were outmaneuvered, trying to be too clever by half. Not worth going to nuclear war over. Russia knows that but is afraid Obama is too stupid to know that.
This was posted from ZH a day or two ago, and the identical story made the rounds a year ago.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3268663/Britain-dismisses-reports-air-force-orders-Iraq.html
Silly Brits. The Rooskies won’t have to use too many nukes on the UK...it’s just a dot in the ocean relatively speaking to everywhere else.
“The fundamental problem is the inept grasp on geopolitical strategy by our national so-called leadership.”
Got that right. US gets sucked into the Middle East, China consolidates in the Far East, where there’s actually some money at stake.
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