Posted on 06/19/2017 6:24:00 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The Russian Defense Ministry blasted the U.S.' shooting down of a Syrian regime fighter jet as a "massive violation of international law" and said it will begin treating U.S.-led coalition jets flying west of the Euphrates River in Syria as targets.
The ministry's comments Monday came after a U.S. Navy fighter jet on Sunday shot down a Syrian fighter jet that had dropped bombs on Syrian rebel forces who are fighting ISIS in the country.
It was the first time the U.S. has engaged in air-to-air combat in Syria and signaled an escalation of the conflict. The incident is also the first time an American aircraft has shot down any other country’s aircraft in air-to-air combat since 1999 during the Kosovo air campaign when a U.S. Air Force F-16 shot down a Serbian Mig-29.
Russia, which is backing the Syrian government regime in its civil war against rebel forces, slammed the U.S. action as a violation of Syria's sovereignty.
"Repeated combat actions by U.S. aviation under the cover of counterterrorism against lawful armed forces of a country that is a member of the U.N. are a massive violation of international law and de facto a military aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic," the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The Ministry also warned that any coalition aircraft flying west of the Euphrates River in Syria “will be tracked by the Russian ground and air anti-aircraft defense systems as air targets in the areas where Russian aviation is on combat missions in the Syrian sky.”
Sunday’s downing of the Syrian jet occurred in an area southwest of the Euphrates River. And the U.S.-led coalition conducts missions in areas west of the Euphrates River near Manbij and Al Bab, two towns retaken from ISIS by U.S.-backed rebel forces.
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It will end up in nuclear war and kill all of us if this insanity is allowed.
Naturally, the U.S. was protecting ISIS/ Al-Qaeda Enemy Forces (aka new B.S. name (S.D.F. Syrian Defense Forces).
Whoever in the U.S. government said and made the decision this was justified..... Should be immediately terminated, arrested, all assets seized, interrogated and charged. I hope President Trump fires him. The Deep State is out of control.
I guess this is one way prove there was no collusion with Russia.
As in Vietnam, we supported one side, the Russians supported the the other side.
Its only a matter of time until young hotshots on either side prideful of their skills and confident about their equipment face off and cause some real damage. Its coming so hopefully both the Russians and Americans don’t overreact and start a real war. This Mideast quagmire is a ruination.
This is a great escalation of events in the Middle East that could easily lead to World War III if we are not careful.
I read that Iran had launched Missiles too on the same day.
Funny how all these Deep State wishes for war with Russia and Syria happen on the day President Trump is out of town (Camp David) for Father’s Day.
President Trump needs to find out who authorized it and fire them.
The Turks shot down a Russian fighter that supposedly ventured into their airspace and nothing much was made of it.
The Deep State loves the perpetual State of war.
This would be bad since Russia has nuclear Subs off our coasts.
The Turks met with Russia and everything is okay now.
President Trump will need to do the same.
Moreover, he needs to fire whoever authorized it.
Even when they fired on our boots? I don’t think so.
We have no business bombing targets in Syria unless it's in cooperation with the Assad regime. It can't go anywhere good if another government topples. In this case, there's just too much evidence that "friendly rebels" we've trained have gone rogue and taken weapons with them. That's a better hypothesis than if the CIA is in cooperation with ISIS. But who knows any more in these crazy times?
This is all bluster - yes, there is real anger, but the outcome of that anger is basically the statement that it will target coalition jets.
Russia is more powerful than many make it seem, but it is still considerably weaker than the US is. Considerably. It is not even a leopard to the US' lion. It is more like a large aggressive bobcat to the US' African lion. The mistake most make is they make it seem like some tired old house cat, or go to the other extreme and make it into a tiger. When the truth is that it's more of a large aggressive bobcat. Definitely able to mess your day in a variety of interesting ways, but not able to waltz your it's superiors and act gnarly.
Russia is sounding (towards the U.S. in the Syria war theater) more and more like Saddam Hussein and his mouth piece Baghdad Bob.
Putin has no need to escalate in Syria. He’s got what he wants right now. Assad in power, the LNG pipe blocked, etc. And any escalation would spill over into other issues (sanctions, Nordstream 2, etc.) and the last thing he wants is complications.
Putinist Russia likes to have these conflicts around to stoke at the time of their choosing. Now is obviously not the right time. It assuming to see the usual suspects parroting the Kremlin talking points of the day though. LOL.
Do you consider American made jets flown by Saudis or Jordanians to be USAF assets?
I sure don't.
A war with Russia is stupid. There is no good outcome from it.
Personally I don’t want to see the U.S. troops or cities get hit with nukes so that Saudi Arabia can have a gas pipline in Syria.
I am tired of Americans dying for Middle Eastern Dictators. Let them fight their own wars.
Furthermore, arrest all those that have been funding the butchers in the Middle East. They are traitors and have committed high treason. It’s sick they would fund people that butcher Christians and literately eat their hearts. It’s all sick and satanic.
No doubt these traitors are going to straight to Hell when they meet their makers. They sold their souls for a little bit of money. Absolutely pathetic!
It might give the Russians a chance to test out their newest ADA & AD systems.
Seems we've been here before. Memo to Napoleon, Wilhelm II, Franz Joseph, Adolph Hitler.
Somehow I don’t believe General Mattis is going to blink.... The Russian bully, Putin, is full of bluster and knows full well that it is a no win situation to escalate to war with the U.S.
This just triggers more diplomacy is required.
So electing Trump did not save us from WWW3 with Russia and friends after all.
Trump is opposing Russia to cover up that he is in collusion with Russia. Or, wait a minute ...
The Sicilian in me suspects that he is leaking to the mainstream media that he is in collusion with Russia in order to lull Putin into a false sense of security so he can oppose Russia.
On the other hand, it could be that he is signaling to Putin that he knows that there relationship is so tight that he could shoot a Syrian plane in the middle of Madison Avenue and Putin would still support him.
Just noise. Russia lacks the capabilities to do so.
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