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2018-04-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Russian officials: We will attack launch sites of missiles sent against Syria

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-11 08:58|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Good luck hitting Stealth aircraft and the submarines that we normally use for launching cruise missiles.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-04-11 09:57|| 2018-04-11 09:57|| Front Page Top

#2 The ruble seems to be collapsing- why, and how might that affect Russian actions in Syria?

Posted by Glenmore 2018-04-11 10:09|| 2018-04-11 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 So the little dictator is going to attack Diego Garcia, boomer subs, Whiteman AFB in Missouri (A US state pootie in the center of the nation).
So what the fucker is threatening is total nuclear war if he doesn't get his way.
One proper response to such a threat is on time total war. He's clearly gone around the bend.
Another response would be for Israel and Saudi to take out his ally The Islamic Republic of Iran at the same time as the attack.
Like where does Puttie want to go with this?

Posted by 3dc 2018-04-11 11:06|| 2018-04-11 11:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course another Putin ally is North Korea.
If you take on Puttie with this attitude you would need to exterminate his allies too..

Posted by 3dc 2018-04-11 11:08|| 2018-04-11 11:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Not that I am actually advocating something here, just trying to parse where Putin is trying to go.
Maybe if we really really want a message to Syria it requires a simultaneous decapitation strike on Russia? That seems to be Putin's stance.

So is it bluster or does he have some real strategic reason he has to be where he is in Syria?
So strategic that nothing else matters?

That would be more interesting to take out than Syria's air force?

Posted by 3dc 2018-04-11 11:38|| 2018-04-11 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 3dc: So is it bluster or does he have some real strategic reason he has to be where he is in Syria?
So strategic that nothing else matters?

Securing warm water ports in the Med?

Posted by Ptah 2018-04-11 11:43|| 2018-04-11 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Ports are fungible.

Making the MidEast unstable enough that it's oil doesn't compete with the Russian or US production would fit well with a Putin master strategy.

Bases and footprint are not strategy they are assets that may or may not be strategic for a period of time.

Money and dragon horde materials are always a purpose for strategy in the first place.

That, also, explains Russian sourced funding of environmental and anti-oil/coal extraction movements in the US and the rest of the west.

Pointedly they increase the value of oil on the market and the share of it held by the Russian entity. The value of the Russian dragon hordes.

Just my POV.

Posted by 3dc 2018-04-11 12:56|| 2018-04-11 12:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Launch them from Turkey. That'll be fun.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-04-11 14:43|| 2018-04-11 14:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Taking out Iranian oil production would help everyone.

Posted by jvalentour 2018-04-11 15:01|| 2018-04-11 15:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Hmmmm...."Attack Was STAGED By Islamic Jihadi Propagandists, No One Actually Died":

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-04-11 17:14|| 2018-04-11 17:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Summing up, the 'news' is jihadi-sourced and why would Assad snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? He's not a Republican!

The Ambo also notes the media is just repeating the hysteria, not investigating the sources, thus playing right into the hands of ISIS.

Posted by Bobby 2018-04-11 19:13|| 2018-04-11 19:13|| Front Page Top

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