PS: If this doesn't occur, ISIS missed the opportunity, and we're all better off for their mistake.
PPS: ISIS is a theocratic network of networks that is both entrepreneurial and dynamic. The KSA is a theocratic hierarchy that's risk averse and inflexible. Which one wins?
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According to reports, Salman is a drolling oatmeal eating Alzheimer's victim with little cognitive power and almost zero short term or mid term memory.
He could be in Nairobi for all he knows right now.
How do you have a foreign policy with a country ruled by a king with dementia...no wait didn't we try that with Idi Amin????
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Maybe it will happen as the writer outlined. Maybe not. So far ISIS has made inroads into countries that are very shaky at best; namely Syria and northern Iraq. The Saudis might not be such a pushover. ISIS has had difficulty when there is an organized military pushback such as that mounted by the Peshmerga.
#5
It may be that SA is keeping oil prices very low as a hedge against ISIS attacking them. They are betting that the U.S. and others would be more likely to come to their aid.
Last Wednesday, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a left-wing foreign policy expert who served under president Jimmy Carter, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the United States and its allies should deploy troops to Baltic states to deter Russia from staging a possible incursion in those countries.
He said he feared Russian President Vladimir Putin might try to take control over Baltic countries in a lightning move that could take NATO by surprise, according to USA Today.
A nightmare scenario could be that one day -- and I literally mean one day -- he just seizes Riga and Tallinn. "That would literally take him one day. Thereâs no way they could resist," Brzezinski said.
"And then weâll say how horrible, how shocking, how outrageous. But, of course, we can't do anything about it," he said, without risking a potential nuclear conflict.
What he didn't say is we have a do-nothing president who has opened the floodgates to rampaging totalitarians around the globe who are exploiting his weakness and naivete as a leader.
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AFAIC any Russian attack on the Baltics = Chinese attack on Guam andor Hawaii = Iranian attack on Israel + KSA, etc. = would occur because, in its zeal to establish US-created Anti-US OWG-NWO the "Co-Superpower" Globalist US unilaterally pulled back or gave up TOO MUCH POWER-N-INFLUENCE [sovereignty?], TOO SOON, TO TOO MANY IN THE NAME OF GLOBALIST "RETREAT IS [World] PEACE".
Where Geopol Rivals-n-Wannabes including NGOS now sincerely believe the US DE FACTO CAN'T OR WON'T DEFEND ITS INTERESTS ANYMORE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SOVEREIGN STATES + TERRITORIES.
* E.G. DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PETERS: IRAN IS BUILDING A NEW EMPIRE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
Once again, its GOOD OWG Globalism = What OWG "Co-Superpowers" do.
* TOPIX > KRAUTHAMMER: US ALLIES "SCARED TO DEATH" OF IRAN IN YEMEN.
* RELATED SAME > KRAUTHAMMER: IRAN'S EMERGING EMPIRE.
IMO vee OWG Globalist Amerika's SELF-DECLINING one???
#3
I can't see how American 'tripwire' troops would be any impediment to Putin at this point, as Obama would probably write them off as 'inconvenient'.
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"not 'our' people"
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If I were in charge of some small country that Putin or ISIS is looking at I would get nervous every time Obumble goes golfing.
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I get nervous when there is a crisis and he goes golfing but then again I get nervous when he doesn't go golfing and tries to do something.
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Russia's population isn't really high enough for them to occupy a whole lot of anything beyond their old sphere of influence. They could conquer and trash maybe set up shakey puppet states but Putin's not a short range thinker like that.
I think Putin would be happy to create a buffer zone that kept NATO in central Europe and a lot of his aggression has been positioning for that eventuality.
I think he's more likely to meddle down south in the Greece/Turkey region at this point. Lots of levers that could make big shifts down there.
[Ynet] Tel Aviv terrorist targeted bus No. 40 precisely because it represents the normality in which Arabs and Jews can live together despite everything.
Once every few days, when the weather won't allow me to walk, this is my bus. Bus No. 40. It stops very close to the Yedioth Ahronoth building. More than other bus lines, it's a line of coexistence. It passes in Jaffa as well. Jews and Arabs get on this bus on their way to central and northern Tel Aviv.
Foreign workers, Arab women with or without a hijab, asylum seekers and veteran Israelis, including haredim, are the regular mix on this bus in these morning hours. A microcosm of Israel. One could hold a referendum there and get real results.
How did the terrorist from Tul Karm know who was Jewish and who wasn't Jewish? He didn't really care. A video segment filmed in one of the nearby businesses shows passengers fleeing the bus. The terrorist was among them.
Two women are seen escaping. One is wearing a scarf, which could be used as a hijab. So is the other. One of them is stabbed. She could be Arab. The other runs to help her. Why is he stabbing a woman who might be Moslem herself?
In order to understand the answer, we must expand our look at the terrorism of this era, which has global jihad's name written all over it. It makes no distinctions. In fact, it mainly kills Moslems ‐ so does it really matter if they are killed here, in Nigeria, in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... or in Raqqa?
Why by sitting on a Zionist bus and going to work in the morning, Arab women ‐ perhaps the two from the video, perhaps others ‐ are cooperating with the heretics, and deserve to die.
Make no mistake. This wasn't a terror attack against the occupation. This wasn't a national attack. There may have been such terror attacks in the past. No more. The terror attacks of the past few years are not attacks aimed at protesting a certain injustice.
Does anyone seriously think that the despicable terrorist used a long knife so that the Paleostinians would have a sovereign state, prosperity, welfare, advanced education and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. ? Does anyone think that the vile terrorist is frustrated over the fact that the two states for two people solution has not been realized? Come on. Nearly all the attacks of the past few years are aimed at imposing Islam on central Tel Aviv, just like they are aimed at imposing Islam on central Gay Paree.
The terrorist targeted bus No. 40 precisely because it represents Israeli normality. The normality of Israelis who go out to work every morning. The normality in which Arabs and Jews can live together despite everything.
This normality is irritating. It's not a simple normality. It's normality with numerous tensions and problems. But it's still normality. It can and should be improved. It's not that there is great harmony between the many different people who travel on the bus, but considering the lack of normality in every area in which this terrorist's friends gain their strength ‐ and it's happening in too many places around the world ‐ we should welcome what we have.
It's unclear whether the terrorist had any idea about the nature of bus No. 40 and its passengers. It is clear that the terrorist wanted to carry out an attack against the normality which this bus line represents.
The terrorist can be defeated. And that will happen when the normal Israelis ‐ Jews and Arabs ‐ insist on the continuation of this normality.
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It is no accident that the "coexist" bumper sticker puts Christianity last.
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Anyone else truly sick of hearing "Muslim terrorism kills mostly Muslims"? What is the purpose of this claim? To make us pity the population that produces fanatics who want to kill their own as well as the rest of us? To prevent us from defending ourselves?
We lock up lunatics for being dangers to themselves; perhaps that idea should be extended to cultures?
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It points out that if everything the usual hand wringing excuse making suspects claim creates the source of terrorism disappeared tomorrow, they'd still be killing people. As in the old story about the frog and the scorpion, it's in their nature.
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