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2018-02-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Tens of Russian and CIS citizens killed in Syria were not military -- Moscow

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Posted by Fred 2018-02-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Life imitates The Princess Bride: "We are three wandering circus performers that have lost our way. Could you tell me where we may find a village to rest?"

Posted by magpie 2018-02-21 00:55|| 2018-02-21 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Not officially at least.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-02-21 08:49|| 2018-02-21 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 ...should you or any of your I.M. Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-02-21 11:17|| 2018-02-21 11:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Urgent- Get a message to Sergei STOP. Advise him what has happened. STOP

Whose Sergei??? STOP... Never message here again STOP

Posted by Capsu78 2018-02-21 17:07|| 2018-02-21 17:07|| Front Page Top

#5 This is the best wording I have seen describing the scrum.

Posted by newc 2018-02-21 19:00|| 2018-02-21 19:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Ahh - it's from John Ringo:

" This was much less a 'battle' than a message. Towards the end we had to just be pounding ground to make sure they got it.

Messages, really.

A. Don't fucking cross that river.
B. Hey, North Korea! LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!
C. Hey, Putin, about Donbas... This is what we can do to your 'freedom fighters' (AKA: mercenaries) at any time.
D. To everyone in general: You need to remember who's boss.

Mattis is playing dumb. 'What Russians? There were Russians? Really? I'm seeing that in the media but I got no briefing on there being Russians in that column. Our bad. Sorry about that.'

Then there's the fact that the strike was NOT approved by the President.

Because he gave CENTOM the approval on things like that.

And CENTCOM handled it like a BOSS.

Oh, and when the forces crossed the river the Russians were informed and informed that we intended to take 'self-defense' actions.

So they can't even say they weren't warned.

I'm not sure we warned them we'd be using BUFF.

This is more the sort of thing I'd expect in late summer.

'Shit! We haven't expended our budget! Are there any Russians we can fuck up very badly with all these unexpended munitions?'

Last thought: It had to be shitty being on the receiving end of that.

Edit: Forgot one thing:"

Posted by newc 2018-02-21 19:23|| 2018-02-21 19:23|| Front Page Top

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