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Just a slight overreaction on your part. Just about every President has launched punitive strikes against targets for bad behavior. None led to WW3.
by PhilWright 10y ago
Just 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.