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2017-09-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Rumors Fly That Russia Has Dropped "The Father of All Bombs" in Syria
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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-09-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 That would be "FAB"?
Posted by Elmemble Angomonter3765 2017-09-09 01:30||   2017-09-09 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Seems to me a heavier casing would result in a sharper blast.
Posted by gorb 2017-09-09 02:51||   2017-09-09 02:51|| Front Page Top

#3 what is with the Russians and their inferiority complex? it just confirms their 2nd rate status.
Posted by N guard  2017-09-09 06:43||   2017-09-09 06:43|| Front Page Top

#4 N guard, I think that inferiority complex goes way back to the Czars and their feelings toward Europe. Maybe back to Ivan the terrible or my guess would be Peter the Great in the 18th century.
Posted by AlanC 2017-09-09 08:13||   2017-09-09 08:13|| Front Page Top

#5 ...I think the code name for this mission was Operation POTEMKIN.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-09-09 08:19||   2017-09-09 08:19|| Front Page Top

#6 It goes back to 8th century - when Scandinavians on their (river) way to Constantinople started stopping & capturing local Slavs to sell as slaves in Constantinople. And later started to settle along the rivers and turn local Slavs into serfs. And it involves a 1000 years of invasions from both East & West - sometimes at the same time.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-09 08:21||   2017-09-09 08:21|| Front Page Top

#7 making it AB FAB
Posted by Kofi Wittlesbach1898 2017-09-09 08:31||   2017-09-09 08:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Ah yes; Potemkin, A change is gonna come.
Posted by Dale 2017-09-09 09:39||   2017-09-09 09:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Grom nailed it. The Russians don't feel safe without vassals on every side of them.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-09-09 12:49||   2017-09-09 12:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Whew - for a minute there I thought this was gonna be a story on the Trump dossier.
Posted by Raj 2017-09-09 13:17||   2017-09-09 13:17|| Front Page Top

#11 As late as 1840 the armies of the Russian Tsar were invading the 'Stans and recovering Russian Slaves. The stories of Russian boys being sold as future eunuchs in Samarkand left quite a scar in the Russian psyche...
Posted by magpie 2017-09-09 13:48||   2017-09-09 13:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Vikings+free Slavs = modern Russians.
Got it!
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-09-09 14:39||   2017-09-09 14:39|| Front Page Top

#13 But no seismograph reports. BS
Posted by Elmoluper Speatch4876 2017-09-09 15:53||   2017-09-09 15:53|| Front Page Top

#14 A size isn't everything story...
Posted by M. Murcek 2017-09-09 17:30||   2017-09-09 17:30|| Front Page Top

#15  'Explosive diversity'!
Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-09 18:36||   2017-09-09 18:36|| Front Page Top

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