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After the ISIS War, a US-Russia Collision?
Townhall.com ^ | June 20, 2017 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 06/20/2017 9:53:53 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/20/2017 9:53:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Why does he think there’s going to be an after?


2 posted on 06/20/2017 9:59:54 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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"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."????

Awww, shaddup, Pootie Poot.

Shoot at our men on the ground and your airplane is gonna get shot down.

3 posted on 06/20/2017 10:00:01 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Kaslin

Townhall ... “Russia, Russia, Russia!!!”

Why is it always the moronic, inexperienced in the ways of the military ‘news media’ to begin banging the drums for direct conflict, any time any ship, plane, tank, or ground troop of Russia and America bump shoulders in the hockey game of annihilating ISIS?


4 posted on 06/20/2017 10:01:48 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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So Putin is aligning with pro-ISIS regimes now?

The Soviets always had a fondness for muslim barbarism, just like the NAZIs and the european elite.

For the russians, the ME is merely a market to ply their wares, nothing more, nothing less.


5 posted on 06/20/2017 10:12:02 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: Kaslin

Krathammer made an excellent point the other day...

We are moving into a scenario like the end of WWII...

Where powers to be were jocking for post war positions.

We all know ISIS is almost dead, just not finished...

There will be a mad scamble for Syria and its land...

This will be the true test of Trump foreign policy...


6 posted on 06/20/2017 10:13:07 AM PDT by Popman
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Assad is pro ISIS ?

Putin has always aligned Russia with Syria

Seriously, or did you mispost your comments.?


7 posted on 06/20/2017 10:16:54 AM PDT by Popman
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Russia is in Syria legally and with the permission of their treaty ally Syria.

The US is there because we’re trying to help Qatar and Saudi Arabia to build a gas pipeline to Europe across Syria. The strategic purpose of that pipeline is to harm Russia economically.

Syria said no to the plan and after they said no then all of the sudden the Obama Administration and John McCain decided that they had to arm the Islamic fundamentalists (who later became ISIS) so they could overthrow Assad and make way for the pipeline.

We destabilized one of the few stable Arab countries just so we could play economic chess with Russia.

And now the Russians are absolutely going to shoot back and I do not blame them one bit. The USA is 100% wrong in Syria. We created ISIS and now we’re using ISIS as a pretext to continue an undeclared war of aggression against a sovereign country that did us no harm and that was no threat to us or Israel.

I love our armed forces (I’m married to a Marine) but if they attack Russians or Russian allied then the result will be predictable.

We would not tolerate it if Russia were supporting a civil war in the United Kingdom or Israel and bombing government positions and shooting down their airplanes, would we?

Then why should Russia do any different?


8 posted on 06/20/2017 10:25:22 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: Kaslin
"Repeated combat actions by [Russian] 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 [Republic of Ukraine]."

Goose, meet gander.

9 posted on 06/20/2017 10:32:28 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: MeganC
We're there to prevent Iran from establishing a corridor to the Mediterranean and from taking the oil and gas fields/pipelines in ISIS-controlled territory when ISIS goes down.

There is no doubt this entire situation is a mess, but then situations like this are always a mess when the original enemy is routed and there is an all-out grab for power, territory, and assets remaining.

10 posted on 06/20/2017 10:32:57 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Iran wasn’t there before we destabilized the country.


11 posted on 06/20/2017 10:33:55 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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We destabilized one of the few stable Arab countries just so we could play economic chess with Russia.

That's not why Obama wanted to destabilize Syria.

Obama wants Assad gone for the same reason he wanted Qaddafi and Mubarak out.

He wants hard-lined islamic rule in these countries and that requires the destruction of moderating influences.

12 posted on 06/20/2017 10:38:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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What do you mean Townhall? Townhall didn't write the op-ed

Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website

After the ISIS War, a US-Russia Collision? (Creators.com

WND

All these links have the same column by Pat Buchanan. Are you going to accuse them also of having written the op-ed, like you seem to do Town Hall?

When are you going to learn the difference between an author (Pat Buchanan) and publisher, like Townhall.com, Creators.com and WND?

The exception is his own website

13 posted on 06/20/2017 10:38:47 AM PDT by Kaslin (The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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We created ISIS and now we’re using ISIS as a pretext to continue an undeclared war of aggression against a sovereign country that did us no harm and that was no threat to us or Israel.

Hard to find a single part of this quote that isn't incorrect.

We didn't create ISIS: they're more or less the same Baathist/al-Qaeda in Iraq guys who were attacking US soldiers a few years ago in Iraq. Zero's pathetic withdrawal from Iraq simply created the space for them to operate.

The Assad Syrian franchise operation didn't have any problem hosting them when they were killing Americans.

Almost all of Russia's and Syria's military operations have been directed against Syrian regime opponents, not ISIS.

14 posted on 06/20/2017 10:39:46 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: MeganC
Syria is Iran's closest ally and has been for some time.

As I am sure you know, Assad is an Alawite, a Shia/Twelver sect.

15 posted on 06/20/2017 10:44:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: MeganC

BTW, I didn’t know your husband is a Marine. Many thx to you and your husband for your service to our great country.


16 posted on 06/20/2017 10:48:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Obama tried to put his IslamoNazi bff’s into power in Syria, just like he did in Egypt and Libya and protected and armed and funded in Iran

four, at least, blatantly illegal wars or uses of our great nation’s fine military........to advance the spread of Islam of the very worst kind....

and now DJT has to figure out how to fix, repair what Obama destroyed..... not gonna be easy (and Putin will eventually lose his temper, too..nobody can stay calm in the face of repeated provocations ... forever)


17 posted on 06/20/2017 10:53:23 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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“There will be a mad scamble for Syria and its land...
This will be the true test of Trump foreign policy...”

Why do we -want- Syria?


18 posted on 06/20/2017 10:53:42 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Thank you! I’ll pass that along!

He retired after 25 years going back and forth between active duty and reserve.


19 posted on 06/20/2017 10:55:31 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: DesertRhino

——Why do we -want- Syria?-—

I’m not sure we -want- Syria. I’m sure they will want our money to rebuild...

But we need to blunt Russia ? Align with Israel ?


20 posted on 06/20/2017 12:02:33 PM PDT by Popman
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