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Un-Pax Americana: Where One Can Find US Special Ops Around The Globe

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Over the past year, special-operations forces have landed in 81 countries.

 

 

These days, the sun never sets on America’s special-operations forces. Over the past year, they have landed in 81 countries, most of them training local commandos to fight so American troops don’t have to. From Honduras to Mongolia, Estonia to Djibouti, U.S. special operators teach local soldiers diplomatic skills to shield their countries against extremist ideologies, as well as combat skills to fight militants who break through.

President Barack Obama, as part of his plan to shrink U.S. reliance on traditional warfare, has promised to piece together a web of such alliances from South Asia to the Sahel. Faced with mobile enemies working independently of foreign governments, the U.S. military has scattered small, nimble teams in many places, rather than just maintaining large forces in a few.

The budget for Special Operations Command in Tampa, Fla., which dispatches elite troops around the world, jumped to $10 billion in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, from $2.2 billion in 2001. Congress has doubled the command to nearly 70,000 people this year, from 33,000 in fiscal 2001. The Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force provide further funding.

Navy SEALs and Army Green Berets, for example, are stationed in the Baltics, training elite troops from Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia for the type of proxy warfare Russia has conducted in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

But the vast majority of special-operations missions involve coaxing and coaching foreign forces to combat extremists the U.S. considers threats.

U.S. special operators are encouraged to learn local culture, language and politics as they report on a country’s vulnerability to extremists. “This isn’t spying—this is armed anthropology,” said David Maxwell, a former Special Forces colonel now at Georgetown University.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

 

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Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:02 | 6032054 Motorhead
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Natural resources, bitchez!

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:11 | 6032076 AIIB
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All of your resources belong to us

US = Jew bankers - because we have the franchise on printing money

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:12 | 6032082 Motorhead
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What, the Japanese don't print money?  The ECB?  The Swiss? The.....

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:16 | 6032093 AIIB
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What's your point? Who benefits in the end?

 

I'll guarntee you, it's NOT the Japanese or the ECB puppets

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:31 | 6032149 DontGive
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“This isn’t spying—this is armed anthropology”

Some truth sneaks out. A bit like sharding.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:38 | 6032174 Xibalba
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Amazing that men will die for a flag.  What does the flag do for them?  Other than give them a false sense of self-worth for dying, of course...

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:54 | 6032220 stacking12321
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it gives them a sense of belonging to something, just like the local football team. gives them a sense of who are the good guys and who are the bad guys, that way they don't have to think too hard about this crazy complicated world.

rah, rah, go team!

bread and circuses...

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:13 | 6032429 johngaltfla
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Interestingly enough, the map fails to show the US states where our special forces are deployed against American citizens.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 20:17 | 6032551 Bunghole
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So we're not speading freedom in Syria, Pakistan, Libya or Yemen?

Mmmmmmkay

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 21:06 | 6032700 Publicus
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Russia, the land of the free.

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 00:01 | 6033063 BobPaulson
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So I assume they consider Mexico to be part of the US so it isn't shown? 

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 05:22 | 6033279 zvzzt
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It does: the colour is white

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:21 | 6032448 COSMOS
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The key point is that the tribe Prints the World's RESERVE currency.  The goy may get to print on other paper but dont forget who has the ring that controls them all lol.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:29 | 6032474 Jack Burton
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Indeed! It fulfills that ancient need for a tribe to be part of and loyal too. Human culture has thrieved on tribal entities since our hunter gatherer days of say 26K years ago. For us Europeans, we were fully occupied in Europe split into tribes, where loyalty was part of survival. In modern days, a young man will gladly die for his flag, if properly motivated. It's an instinct.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:20 | 6032447 SubjectivObject
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A paycheck for their thug mentality?

"I'm gonna do what I want

and I'm gonna get paid

do what I want

and I'm gonna get paid

I know karate

Voodoo too

I'm gonna make myself available to you

I don't need no makeup

I got real scars

hair on my chest

I look good without a shirt"

[ ^ TW ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27LLPANAgzw

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 20:39 | 6032618 MonetaryApostate
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No Xibalba, people don't die for a flag, they kill & die for a paycheck, even more pathetic...  (Sadly enough it's REAL)

 

(Some, even more pathetically, fight for the "hopes to become rich", like the fake American dream...)

 

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 21:47 | 6032812 TheReplacement
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My ancestors would die for the sake of dying, as long as they had a sword or ax in hand.  Dying is something everyone does.  You cannot escape it.  Do not fear it.  Make it meaningful.

My ancestors had a pretty good point.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:38 | 6032348 Equality 7-25-1
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I know something about the first picture. Those terrified children running down the road had just been blown out of their house by flash bangs. Thats commie propaganda, set up by moles in our government. Scumsucking lunatics like Jane Fonda. Gerald Brown. Henry Kissinger.

Prove me wrong.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 21:48 | 6032814 TheReplacement
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You are a moron.  Those kids' village was hit by napalm and HE.  Flashbangs... total dumbass.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:38 | 6032493 CH1
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US = Jew bankers

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:05 | 6032058 Ignatius
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I don't know how to break this to them that didn't know, but the CIA operates in the US too.  And I believe JSOC has a posse comitatas exception to operate in the states.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:11 | 6032072 Motorhead
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The US military can legally assist civil authorities. JSOC has no "exception", per se.

A not-too-short but not-too-long read here:

http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/call/docs/10-16/ch_12.asp

And a longer read:

www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp3_28.pdf

 

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:11 | 6032274 kchrisc
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I read the first link, and this is my favorite parts:

"The Posse Comitatus Act is often cited as a major constraint on the use of the military services to participate in homeland security, counterterrorism, civil disturbances, and similar domestic duties. It is widely believed that this law prohibits the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps from performing any kind of police work or assisting law enforcement agencies to enforce the law. This belief, however, is not exactly correct. What is correct is that new rules are needed to clearly set forth the boundaries for the use of federal military forces for homeland security. The Posse Comitatus Act is inappropriate for modern times and needs to be replaced by a completely new law."

Most miss this kind of thing, as they accept that the author is sincere, and not a shill for Zion and power, but, notice how he says that Posse Comitatus is no limitation, but needs to be replaced to fit modern times.

He is being paid to put forth and lay the ground work for the gutting and replacement of Posse Comitatus for "modern times."

You the reader may ask, "Why? As power does as they please now anyways." The reason is, like with NDAA 2012, to create a legal framework that will make it easier for soldiers in the future to obey power's criminal orders. Only about 4% of the population is psychopathic, and therefore the psychopaths' tyranny needs to be wrapped in a legal framework that can be used to prod young empathic soldiers to do horrendous things. All systems of tyranny, even the Nazis, employ a legal framework "blanket" of authority and legitimacy over and around their tyranny, plunder and murder.

The Milgram experiments and the Stanford Prison Experiments highlighted how easy it is to get brutality from empaths with the right authority and legal framework structures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

My CAAPL, treason, list keeps getting longer, and longer.

 

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:25 | 6032318 VWAndy
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Nice catch on the weasel wording.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:35 | 6032349 kchrisc
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Here's another interesting quote:

"The Posse Comitatus Act was not, as they assert and as most people believe, enacted to prevent members of military services from acting as a national police force. It was enacted to prevent the Army from being abused by having its soldiers pressed into service as police officers (a posse) by local law enforcement officials in the post-Reconstruction South."

Hilarious. As he is saying that the Act is not to prevent tyranny, "ney, ney," but to prevent the abuse of the Army. LOL

And notice how he does NOT use the word military, but "Army," which then lays the groundwork for saying that the other branches are not prohibited.

The thing is, the Posse Comitatus Act is not the only or even main impediment against the use of the military against the American people; Article 3, Section 3, treason, of the Constitution is.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

I wonder how he would spin Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution:

    "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 20:45 | 6032639 MonetaryApostate
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What do you call foreign aid and arming known terrorist then?

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 21:00 | 6032683 kchrisc
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If we stop the treason and tyranny at home, those things will stop of their own accord--by default.

I cannot directly save the Ukrainians or the Iraqis, but in saving my country, America, from the DC US, I can indirectly save, or make better their predicament.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 20:12 | 6032557 CH1
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The Posse Comitatus Act is often cited as a major constraint on the use of the military services to...

As if laws meant anything.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:40 | 6032176 kchrisc
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The DC US has instituted numerous "exceptions" to the Constitution.
Doesn't make them legal. And I, like any free thinking American that values Liberty, the American country, and themselves, reject their legal edicts.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:44 | 6032185 I need more asshats
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Ignatius. Even those creepy FBI guys have special ops guys:
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/capabilities/fbi-divers-graphic

Christ sakes, doesn't that MLK worshiping Comey guy make your skin crawl? Comey, perfect name for him. The FBI is led by a Comey, true story. Mr. Polished.

I'll tell you this, he's no Irishman that is for shitsure. After what those scumsucking Brits did to Ireland and he does not see the correlation with the jews trying to take over America?! Well not trying, the jews now own America and he, Comey the Commie just sits there and tells everyone to go worship the MLK statue because that's what Janet told us to do....

FUCK YOU #FBI Commies! Every state in USSA should be a sovereign state.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 21:54 | 6032831 TheReplacement
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The Brits did nothing to Ireland that Irish did not assist with.  There are traitors in every country.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:05 | 6032061 Motorhead
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2+4 agreement aside, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are NATO members...just sayin'.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:21 | 6032114 Bay of Pigs
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The expansion of NATO under Clinton, Bush and Obama has led directly to the dire situation in the Ukraine. Putin and Russia are not to blame for it either.

Most Americans are just too fucking ignorant and stupid on the facts to know any better.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:33 | 6032482 Jack Burton
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As NATO expanded east to Russian borders, Russia came closer to NATO nations and thus NATO feels threatened by Russia being so close to their key allies like the Baltic States, the Baltic states are the ones pushing hardest for full scale war in the East. They are so fucking stupid as to fail to look at a map and see that they would be the first to be clobbered in their much sought after war on Russia. These poeple have freedom and democracy and NATO military shield. So what do they do with all that independence. Cry for war on Russia. A cunt has more brains than these Balts, apparently!

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 20:53 | 6032661 MonetaryApostate
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You ever play that game, "Pin the tail on the donkey?"

http://inserbia.info/today/2015/04/russias-general-staff-us-started-all-...

 

 

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:07 | 6032066 kaa1016
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The best defense is a great offense.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 20:53 | 6032665 MonetaryApostate
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Bullshit, the best defense is to WALK THE HELL AWAY!  :P

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:14 | 6032089 tongue.stan
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They go where they are needed FFS! Nuff said.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:15 | 6032091 HowdyDoody
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The Free Stuff Army

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:19 | 6032102 29.5 hours
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The U.S. would be far happier, richer, safer if it got out of the Empire business and returned to being a Republic.

 

 

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 20:55 | 6032672 MonetaryApostate
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Finally someone with a healthy amount of common sense.....   (We need more people like this in office!)

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:20 | 6032104 Kirk2NCC1701
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SO in China?  Good one.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:22 | 6032119 shadescale
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Yeah, what's with that?

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:20 | 6032106 demoses
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Delivering democracy to a country near you.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:20 | 6032107 lolmao500
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At least it's more intelligent than traditional war. And cheaper.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:25 | 6032133 kaiserhoff
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MUST...HATE...MILITARY...

  or so say the zombies.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:28 | 6032137 Uber Vandal
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I do believe the correctly color colored map should be red.

Blood red.

All of it.

 

World Painted Blood.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:32 | 6032151 kchrisc
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The real "Red Scare."

Why is the "Homeland" incorrectly not colored red?

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

US Special Ops Motto: "We go where Zion wants us."

 

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:32 | 6032152 Peter Pan
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It looks like they haven't reached the USA yet.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:56 | 6032194 ghostofgo
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N/A

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:55 | 6032226 Oldrepublic
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re: China on that map:

maybe they included the US marines guarding the US embassy in Beijing.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 21:39 | 6032704 MonetaryApostate
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This may help someone....   (Notice the HUGE gap in history between 1912 & 1997!)

http://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/moderneurope/tao-he/

(I believe the elite are losing their power very rapidly because they were foolish & turned against even their own people for greed...)

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 17:58 | 6032237 Max Steel
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India & China ? I guess they have included bilateral military drills also btwn two nations . Anyways SCO conducts their own mock drills .

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:20 | 6032253 Pancho de Villa
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Hijo de Puta! When they "invited themselves" to Costa Rica, the peoples, they not like it at all... but what they can do? We don't have La Fuerza to kick them out! They say they helping fight "War on Drugs"... Bullshit! 

 

En Costa Rica, We have a saying like "Aloha" en Hawaii... "Pura Vida", 'Pure Life' en English. These maricones no are "Pura Vida"! 

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:08 | 6032418 Jonesy
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Hehe, Costa Rica is second only to Canada in the "America Junior" category.   Still, better to be there than the JewSA any day.  Pura Vida!

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:05 | 6032260 TweedleDeeDooDah
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Wow, no such peeps in Syria, Pakistan, Spain, Mexico or YEMEN....

You're map is worth a wooden nickle.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:07 | 6032266 DutchBoy2015
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They are quite easy to spot. Look for the waddling tubs of lard who cannot speak in a normal tone of voice.  and who say ''you know'' every 3 words in a sentence.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:08 | 6032270 A Lunatic
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Destabilization teams.........

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:09 | 6032271 Glass Seagull
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The fact that Mexico isn't on there is bullshit.  Know some folks working down there.

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:18 | 6032302 Equality 7-25-1
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Yeah. Eric "S&M" Holder

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 23:07 | 6033002 UndergroundPost
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Mexico is on there...its the southern most state of the USA (notice no borders) - that's why they don't count your friends

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:14 | 6032279 Equality 7-25-1
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Its never what you see with these hairless monkeys. In the red corner we have the ranking heavy weight champion of the world, the venetian colony of America. In the blue corner is the up and coming venetian colony of Israhell. Biting, spitting, no hitting above the belt. Free cheap shot. And match!

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:15 | 6032287 me or you
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Soon there will be not USA. 

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 18:32 | 6032341 Radical Marijuana
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One line was worth

reading that article:

“This isn’t spying—this is armed anthropology.”

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:02 | 6032407 Cityzerosix
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Looks a bit like the old Pink Map

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:05 | 6032412 NoWayJose
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Must.....spend.....trillions.....

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:06 | 6032415 Jonesy
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Yay!  More goy troops for Eretz Israel!

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:22 | 6032452 Jack Burton
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"Over the past year, special-operations forces have landed in 81 countries"

This is a natural response to the Russian global worldwide threat, Russians are pressing free nations everywhere, and spreading the global Putin dictatorship. A dictatorship of aggression and expansion of Russian military bases and acts to overthrow legitimate democractic governments. Like the recent invasion of Ukraine, where the legal Kiev Junta has been facing down a direct Russian invasion, thousands of troops and tanks are crossing the borders.

Under this type of threat, America needs to operate in 81 nations to prevent Russian aggressions there.

 

 

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 19:25 | 6032466 Infinite QE
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you forgot the /sarc

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 00:23 | 6033087 onmail
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Americans have been landing in Russia for a long time trying to steal rocket tech.

But I am surprised why America has been left out.

All the world is an American concubine.

America is destroying the whole world

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 00:30 | 6033094 BoPeople
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Right, because our so called military heroes need to murder more innocent civilians and force the civilians to fight back to protect their families and country .... from US special ops military aggressors.

With the US having special ops troops in 81 countries, we do not have a defense department. We have a war department, that seems to think that they are doing their job if they are starting wars by murdering innocents and looting their land and stuff.

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 03:16 | 6033214 Joe A
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What is missing is America itself...

And no Lybia? No Bolivia? No Mexico?

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 05:08 | 6033274 piratepiet2
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source : Special Operations Command. 

Now I believe it

/s

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 06:33 | 6033318 falak pema
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70000 people all over the world to educate the local Oligarchs how to fit in to the new scheme of things : TPP type global oligarchy matrices, all based on USD hegemony (now pumped indefinitely via QE and NIRP plus MIIC spend in big way).

We have the Google infrastructure, we have the Facebook "cosy kool", we have the NSA binoculars, we have the Apple instant hook up, we can tweet, we can selfie; what moar does the world need to be part of the consumer games to add fame to our 1000 top echelon Oligarchs? We even throw our breadcrumbs to the local "smart guys" who buy into our global system and park their money in the Caymans or on Central Park's and London City's high rise. What could be wrong with our oligarchy song of fame and fortune for all those who hook into the Davos group?

Now the hunger games can begin-- I know its a problem but its the fault of overpopulation-- and our Special forces can weed out the recalcitrant; the sons of Commies the new Jihadis;....you know the new Apaches... we know how to handle a Commanche who won't buy into our goulag --oups sorry, reservation-- culture for the unwashed. (Goulags is what our enemies do but we ARE Judeo-christians we NEVER do that sort of thing, we are so magnanimous)... that is if you give us all your oil and uranium for a song for ad vitam aeternam! 

If you don't you'll hear the song of our Special forces in your ears. 

They talk about Syrac and 250 000 dead, they forget to talk about the hidden war in Central Africa and 6 Milliion dead! Now that is why africa is soooo important to us : the Sahel trail HAS to become the new Chisholm trail one day !

Git those longhorns amove! 

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 06:49 | 6033338 Equalizer
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The Pax 2 is OK but I still prefer the Firefly and the good old Magic Flight Launch Box.

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 06:49 | 6033340 litemine
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The SPYS should be OPEN targets if found. Fuck the USA.

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 07:05 | 6033354 Gavrikon
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The Chart is off.  They also are in Moldova.  I saw them.

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 07:25 | 6033374 Firewood
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Despair not, a cure for Pox Amerikana is on the way. When the filthy blood-spattered toilet paper IOU petroscrip Saudi Al CIAduh free lunch food stamp dollah is finally flushed out of the global economy and the Ponzi crapper blows the Wall St sewer in the Potemkin Village Mercans still quaintly call their economy, then the world will turn on the monster and tear it apart. Flush and plunge!

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Xh5eN2fXY

Mon, 04/27/2015 - 07:59 | 6033412 Dark Space
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Honestly, I have no problem with sending in 4-12 green berets into a village and teaching the locals how to defend themselves.

 

I'm all about reducing our involvement in foreign conflicts and cutting the military budget, but let's start with golf courses and the hundreds of military bases overseas, or the endless war in the middle east with thousands of regular troops. You're reaching if you think the small A teams are the problem.

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