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2016-09-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Swaggering Syria Shoots at Israeli Jets, Flying Toward War?

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Large widespread wars often begin with single incidents, e.g. assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Gulf of Tonkin, etc.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-16 06:56|| 2016-09-16 06:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Post soviet Russians shown a willingness to be reasonable. I'm sure they'll make their Arab dog heel - if the case put to them in a right way.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-16 07:01|| 2016-09-16 07:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Watch where the Hezbollah army moves as Pencil-neck gains more control back. That's when things might get real ugly.

Posted by AlanC 2016-09-16 11:00|| 2016-09-16 11:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Israel has a lot of folks who speak Russian. If Russia cares about these folks like they care about the folks who speak Russian in Crimea, Syria may have a problem.

Posted by gorb 2016-09-16 11:19|| 2016-09-16 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 I suspect Putin's people are speaking roughly with Syrian generals about the wisdom of expanding a war they are not clearly winning.

If you were to go to war with Israel i would think the opening shot would best be some kind of raid on Israeli air fields to give your own airforce some kind of chance. A smart fella would find a way to get Palestinians to stage that raid from the ground so if/when they fail it doesn't track back.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-16 14:15|| 2016-09-16 14:15|| Front Page Top

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