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This is bad. This is very bad.
by earthtolazlo 10y ago
This is bad. This is very bad.
- flukus 10y agoIs this how WW3 starts?
- czep 10y agoDuck and cover, kids. This ain't gonna be pretty.
- PhilWright 10y agoJust a slight overreaction on your part. Just about every President has launched punitive strikes against targets for bad behavior. None led to WW3.
- flukus 10y agoHow many of them were under the protection of Russia?
- johndevor 10y ago[citation needed]
- AnimalMuppet 10y agohttp://www.politico.eu/article/russia-says-support-for-syria-not-unconditional/ http://www.politico.eu/article/russia-says-support-for-syria... (Dated today.)
- flukus 10y agoThey have a naval base in Syria.
- seizethecheese 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
- Retric 10y agoIt's not cold when your actually killing people.
- seizethecheese 10y agoThe cold war was full of hot wars where the US and USSR fought by proxy.
- flukus 10y agoThey're both directly involved in this one, there is no proxy.
- cderwin 10y agoTo the contrary: neither is directly involved. Neither the US nor Russia have troops on the ground in Syria.
- flukus 10y agoThey've both been bombing various factions, that's direct involvement. The both also have troops on the ground, the US has them in the north with the Kurds and the Russians had personnel at the very airbase that was bombed. All we need now is an arch duke in an open top car.
- objclxt 10y agoYou think Russia wasn't propping up the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War?
- kafkaesq 10y agoJust about every President has launched punitive strikes against targets for bad behavior. But usually they think about the long-term strategic consequences of doing so, before acting. For like at least 5 minutes or so.
- kafkaesq 10y agoPretty much.
- joecool1029 10y agoWhat a way to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of entering WWI.
- hive_mind 10y ago1. The U.S. and ISIS are on the same side in this war. 2. Assad is a secularist, modernizer. Shudder.
- AnimalMuppet 10y ago1. The US is also fighting ISIS. Despite the popular saying, "the enemy of my enemy" is not the same as "my friend". 2. Assad is also someone who uses chemical weapons on his own people. (All right, the other side of a civil war, but still citizens of his own nation.) He's a guy who turned protests into a civil war by his brutality in response. "Secularist and modernizer" isn't the same as "good guy".
- 1001101 10y agoAppend to 1.: "moderate rebels," like Al-Nusra Front, who were actually caught in Turkey with chemical weapons [1]. Ron Paul is questioning the origin of the attack, but here we are. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia is moving forward as of earlier this week, and the Turkish stream pipeline can't move forward until the Syria question is settled. Add to that in late March Russia announced it was coming up with an alternative to the SWIFT banking system. Collision course. Vlad doesn't seem like the kind to back down. Not looking forward to this one bit. [1] http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-syrian-rebels-sarin-gas-20130913-story.html http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-syrian-rebels...
- cup 10y agoSecularist, modernizer, dictator, war criminal, human rights violator..
- stephenitis 10y agoDeep breathes. This may be Donald trying to make good on his campaign promise of sneak attacking without announcement.