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Caught On Tape: Dramatic Footage Of Russia's First Airstrikes In Syria

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As we reported earlier this morning, at the “request” (whatever that means in the context of Russian politics) of Vladimir Putin, Russian lawmakers have approved airstrikes in Syria and unlike the rather deliberate pace of Washington’s efforts to rout ISIS, Moscow doesn’t appear to be wasting any time.

As CNN reports, Russia has conducted its first strikes near Homs after effectively warning the US to stay out of the sky. 

Russia has conducted its first airstrike in Syria, near the city of Homs, a senior U.S. official told CNN on Wednesday .

 

The Russians told the United States that it should not fly U.S. warplanes in Syria, but gave no geographical information about where Russia planned to strike. The senior official said U.S. missions are continuing as normal.

Yes, the “US missions are continuing as normal”, which means no one is doing much of anything and some CIA-trained proxy fighters are being pick-up-truck-jacked somewhere by al-Qaeda. 

In any event, here are the visuals which purport to show Russia’s first strikes on anti-regime targets:

And a few still shots:

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As a side note, Homs is not generally identified as being an ISIS stronghold, although the group did reportedly seize Al-Qaryatain in August:

And the Pentagon is already out trying to stir up the controversy (again via CNN):

But a senior U.S. administration official told CNN's Elise Labott the Russian airstrike near the city of Homs "has no strategic purpose" in terms of combating ISIS, which "shows they are not there to go after ISIL." ISIL is another acronym for ISIS.

 

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Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:22 | 6610412 Latina Lover
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Russia

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:23 | 6610415 Looney
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Here’s the neocons’ dilemma: whose plane is going to get shot down in Syria - Saudi’s, UAE’s, or US’? Which one will produce more outrage amongst the Kardashian-watching public?

Decisions, decisions… Hmmm…  ;-)

Looney

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:27 | 6610435 Latina Lover
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Too obvious..... instead the Neocon's will cook up something else, along the lines that the Russians are bombing children, dogs, cats etc.  The Reality is that the USSA is too over extended to launch another war against Syria. Without boots on the ground, and the ISIS proxies destroyed, Amerika cannot win.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:29 | 6610455 nuubee
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Insert joke about hope, change and "yes we can" here...

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:30 | 6610462 VinceFostersGhost
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Obama is probably not having a very good morning.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:32 | 6610469 SWRichmond
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Couldn't have been the US or any US allies, I saw no one dressed for a wedding in the video.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:33 | 6610473 quintago
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Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:43 | 6610539 Motasaurus
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Some of those guys looked incredibly white. Like, the kind of white that only comes from growing up in Northern Europe as a child of very white Northern Europeans.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:55 | 6610599 Took Red Pill
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Now Britain needs more tanks to prepare for war with Russia;

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/608818/Russia-war-threat-Army-battle-ta...

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:08 | 6610679 WhyDoesItHurtWh...
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Maybe some airline will fly a passenger plane over this area.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:18 | 6610736 Keyser
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instead the Neocon's will cook up something else, along the lines that the Russians are bombing children, dogs, cats etc

I liked the scene in "Wag the Dog" where they blue-screened the little girl into a fire fight and added the cat in post-production for effect... I wonder if Speilberg or Cameron is producing this new episode in American gullibility.... 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:41 | 6610934 The Black Bishop
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I just had a Wargazm! Fucking awesome! Russia doesnt half-ass shit like the US. From the smoke in the video it is obvious they hit some hardware. There were also some tankers there so I guess this might have been a refueling point for the barbarians.

 

And for everyone crying about collateral damage. If an army infiltrates a city, that city is fair game to get demolished. Collateral damage is acceptable. But then I guess the hypocrites might have forgotten about Fallujah (use of banned/illegal weapons aside).

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:03 | 6611097 pods
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From that video seems like the bombs at least landed in the right area.  All young men and beards.

Not a single wedding in sight.

pods

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:20 | 6611206 schatzi
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From that video seems like the bombs at least landed in the right area.  All young men and beards.

Not a single wedding in sight.

 

Yeah, but those weren't ISIS. Those were rebels. Not angels, I know, but miles apart from what ISIS represents and morally on an equal footing to Assad's troops. This isn't a war against evil, but a war to support Assad. Nothing wrong with Russia defending its geopolitical interests, but then people shouldn't criticize the US for doing the same (apart from its appaling effectiveness).

If Russia doesn't go in full scale, it will hardly remove ISIS and restore Assad hegemony, just a continuation of the same. All in or nothing.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:45 | 6611303 Bumpo
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Assad has every right to defend his country. That includes getting help from his allies. Anything else is no one's business, especially the uninvited US\NATO goons.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:52 | 6611637 Augustus
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Assad is not defending Syria.

Assad is a typical dictator on the way out who will destroy the country before leaving.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:48 | 6611945 Bumpo
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... who was Freely and Fairly Elected TWICE since 2002 by 80% of the population. Turn off your TV 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:25 | 6612196 Dubaibanker
Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:32 | 6612233 Save_America1st
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7 minute statement by Putin about U.S. involvement and being the cause of all the war and destruction in the MENA.  Good stuff right there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=427&v=VbZDyr2LkdI

But of course our treasonous regime doesn't give a shit and will only keep on doing this until we end up in WWIII

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 16:31 | 6612837 FixItAgainTony
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Designate rebel as unlawful combatant and put the screws to them.  Worked splendidly for GWB, amirite?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:11 | 6612093 Baby Bladeface
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You had no argument, and only screeching.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:34 | 6612531 August
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No, no, no!

You haven't started thinking in post-Westphalian mode: everything that goes on, anywhere, is the business of the US MIC.

Just as Serbia has no rights to its borders, Syria has no right to self-defense.

CENTCOM rules, and "Assad must go."   Because USA.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:40 | 6611311 OLD YELLER
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The US geopolitical interest is to rule the World, as in all of it, for the Ratschild Banking Mafia. Oh, and for freedom, democracy and whatever.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:40 | 6611574 Jlasoon
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ISIS is fucked, Russia doesn't have our 'Rules of Engagement'. This should be over in a few weeks. 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:48 | 6611617 USisCorrupt
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It's funny how the same red cresent moon trucks are the same ones that are being used in Jade Helm,Dave Hodge has shown the videos of the train cars filled with them, strange, very strange.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:10 | 6611732 Beowulf55
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Dave Hodge is a fear monger and is full of shit.  Every time I left a comment asking for proof my comment was deleted by Dave Hodge.  If you don't agree 100% with Dave your comments will be deleted.  This guy is worse than Alex Jones when spreading rumor.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:30 | 6611852 Oracle of Kypseli
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The method here is to destroy pockets within the gov territory and expand outwards to the north and east. Have a truce and understanding with the Kurds of both Syria and Iraq and keep erradicating. Take away the profits and the vermin will scatter.

Take photos, names, fingerprints and start persecuting. Then, Obama and the war merchands would have to find another sandbox to play. (Pun intended)

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:18 | 6612450 researchfix
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Right, the attacks startet today, but the intelligence gathering started a long time ago.

Now there will be some priority targets and the closing of pockets.

Then moving out.

And the copters will step up Toyota orders.

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:17 | 6612139 Tarzan
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The US Dollar is on life support and Putin is outflanking the US Hegemony.

Imagine the optics of Putin routing ISIL in a few short weeks while the world watches, after seeing Obama spend billions "fighting" and loosing ground to them for the past year.

It's desperation time for the US as our hypocrisy is displayed for all the world to see and world support vaperizes.

The alliance lines are being drawn for World War, and the death throes of the Republic are at hand!

America is one huge bubble, built completely on false promises, waiting for the pin prick.  Suddenly, the influence of the USA over the World will disappear as we are exposed, and it's revealed we are Naked and POOR with no true allys!

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:44 | 6612303 chunga
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That's right. Ash Carter was just blabbing about what the "coalition" might do in response to the reckless Russians.

Coalition? What fucking coalition? It's USSA/Israel with their little vassal states nodding in approval. As usual France is especially gay. Bullies have no true allies.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:22 | 6612470 researchfix
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The French have been, are, and will be cowards in the war business.

Maybe they are peace loving. But then kick out this Holland guy, which calls himself ´Socialist´.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:53 | 6612349 farflungstar
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Rebels...LOL

Like the ones who are "carefully vetted" by USSA and then when they enter Syria, promptly join up with ISIS and give them their equipment?

How many times are you going to fall for that? There is no difference, just USSA cover story for re-supplying scumbag jihadists.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:29 | 6612219 Gonzogal
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Today, Russian aerospace force jets delivered pinpoint strikes on eight ISIS terror group targets in Syria. In total, 20 flights were made,” spokesperson for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said. 

As a result, arms and fuel depots and military equipment were hit. ISIS coordination centers in the mountains were totally destroyed,” he added.

http://on.rt.com/6sod

 

Russian airstrike hit the rebel-held town of Talbisah north of Homs City. Talbisah is home to Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, hardline Islamist Ahrar al-Sham, and a number of other local rebel groups, all of which are active in local governance efforts in the area. Both Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) have claimed a number of vehicle-borne IEDs (VBIEDs) in Homs City, located only 12 kilometers south of Talbisah.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/09/syria-thoughts-on-the-russian-air-s...

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:35 | 6612536 combatsnoopy
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Evelyn Farkas, the top US official on Russia resigns.  The next day, Russia moves in on Syria with an air strike.  
She, Victoria Nuland and Kerry can all stand on the front lines here.  

Ukraine is selling China nat gas now.  Siempra decided not to export gas?  I guess the US is going to spin this opportunity off in the form of McCarthyism and make it RUssia's fault.  

Stupid O'dumber, sanctions didn't work fool. 

Why is the U.S. even in Saudi Arabia?  Because the Arabs said they would finance the U.S. attacks on Syria according to John Kerry.  

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:11 | 6612099 KnightTakesKing
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Those British tanks are not for use against Russia. They are to use against the British people.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:37 | 6610904 TheObsoleteMan
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Dust from pulverized concrete from bomb blast has that effect. Your probably too young to remember, but back in 1982 or 83 muzzies blew up a US Marines barracks in Lebanon, killing close to 200. I remember seeing the bodies being dragged out, you couldn't tell the racial differences {except for the big lips} because the bodies were covered in fine concrete dust from the explosion. I strongly doubt that any Europeans where there. Not saying they aren't elsewhere, just not in Homs

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:59 | 6611079 Osmium
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Dust from pulverized concrete from bomb blast.  Where else have I seen that?  Oh yeah, the Wolrd Trade Center.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:11 | 6611151 BullyBearish
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Just saw Bloomturd's headline: "Russian Starts Airstrikes in Support of Assad".  When will see one of their headlines stating "U.S., Israel, and Saudi Arabia Increase Funding, Training and Logistical Support for ISIS".

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:16 | 6611181 gafgroocK
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How about just Posting the Oil Pipeline Map ?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:57 | 6611402 Iwanttoknow
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Lot of smart people think mossad had something to do with that.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:05 | 6611111 City_Of_Champyinz
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Nah Nah Nah, those guys were just some white hispanics on vacation.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:03 | 6612043 astroloungers
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they better stay outta egypt the

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 18:38 | 6613417 Antifaschistische
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It's always a tough day emotionally, for the guy that spends his life trying to look tough....when his narcissistic self image collides with the reality...that he, in fact is not tough at all when confronted with any resistance, and his only option is to curl up in the corner of the room and cover his crying eyes, humiliated seemingly forever....until the dust clears and his narcissism convinces him once again that he is a tough guy.......and the cycle repeats itself.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:33 | 6610474 quintago
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Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:36 | 6610482 messymerry
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[Obama is probably not having a very good morning.]

Good!

;-D   

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:23 | 6611514 Syrin
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The lazy ass fucker is still probably in bed thinking about what he's going to spend our dollars on for lunch.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:41 | 6610522 ThirteenthFloor
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Nor is John Brennan.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:43 | 6610536 BarkingCat
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Obama does not give a shit. He probably does not even know much about what is going on. Between fucking up US economy, golf games
and getting humped by Reggie, there really is not much time for foreign policy.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:42 | 6611919 Herd Redirectio...
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Actually, the golf games are just a cover to spend some time with 'nice young men' in the 'clubhouse', doing gay, I mean, guy things.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:53 | 6611981 Oracle of Kypseli
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My bet is that Obama and the baboon are working on the decor of the post presidency ranch.

Typical of the "nouveau riche" to think that they can design and decorate on their own, resulting in a "Jewish Renaissance" helter skelter design.

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:10 | 6612085 astroloungers
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thats FUNNY!

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 16:29 | 6612820 August
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Lighten up man. 

That's the leader of the free world you're talking about.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:53 | 6610587 johnnymustardseed
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Let Russia have at it. Why not? Of course this does not sit well with the same people that thought helping the mujahideen in Afghanistan was a great idea and we know how that turned out

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:41 | 6610942 chunga
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The hypocricy is incredible. How long before the Nudelman crowd calls for humanitarian aid and condemns Russia for brutal atrocities against the soon to become ISIS "freedom fighters".

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:23 | 6611227 Bay of Pigs
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Total absurdity yet you are probably spot on in how this plays out in regard to US/Israeli propaganda efforts.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:40 | 6611309 chunga
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Stupid TV is on in the other room and I can hear that filthy piece of trash McCain blasting the "indiscriminate" Russians. It's so bad I could gouge my ears out. No matter what happens, the Russians have got to be ready for a huge MSM smear campaign.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:01 | 6611417 BlindMonkey
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(...and cue headline montage from MH17 in 3...2...1...)

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:22 | 6611511 chunga
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Yup, Kerry is on now with the caption "US WILL CONTINUE AIR STRIKES IN SYRIA".

This is a propaganda treasure chest for warmongering zio-tards. Don't be surprised if MSM shows us "proof" of Russian atrocities like bombing schools, churches...brave 'Murikans rescuing children. There are lots of ways this could escalate rapidly.

Another bean run wouldn't hurt.

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:14 | 6611758 undertow1141
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But but I thought the democrats were against war and stuff. You mean Obama was lying about ending the wars. BUt but...........

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:36 | 6611877 schnydz
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And he has a nobel peace prize. For whatever thats worth...

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:06 | 6612027 tenpanhandle
Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:25 | 6611525 Syrin
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Putin and the Russians don't give a flying fuck what the MSM will say.  That's why they will dominate.   Our politicians are a bunch of limp wristed transgendered eunuch fuck tards easily intimidated by some minimum wage fuck head reporter working for one of the Soros funded media outlets.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:52 | 6611640 chunga
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That could be true about them not caring what MSM has to say. I don't believe TPTB don't care about public opinion either; they're gonna do whatever they want no matter what anybody thinks. MSM does their spin anyway to try to make people believe anybody not agreeing with what they say is happening is bad and in the minority.

Just like in 1984.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 16:26 | 6612800 Flagit
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they're gonna do whatever they want no matter what anybody thinks.

That.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:24 | 6611236 KnuckleDragger-X
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Obozo is going to HAVE TO make some decisions and they won't be good ones, especially after his UN speech bragging on our 'powerful' military, you know the one that's had its training and maintenance budgets cut to the bone so they could buy shiny new toys.....

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 19:01 | 6613487 mkkby
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Don't diss those shiny toys.  That's how you land the high paying MIC jobs after you leave the service with your pension.  Who cares that it wastes trillions and does nothing for defense.

Personally, I believe stealth technology does not make a figher aircraft better.  And vertical takeoff in an airplane is of no value.  The best fighters are still the f 14 - 18 series.  The rest are over priced junk.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:52 | 6610585 Tall Tom
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instead the Neocon's will cook up something else, along the lines that the Russians are bombing children, dogs, cats etc.

 

Yeah. You are so right, Latina Lover.

 

Only American Bombs are indiscriminate and kill and maim children, dogs and cats, as well as civilian noncombatants.

 

Russian bombs are far suoerior and only target beligerants.

 

So any reports of Russian Bombs failing t strike their intended targets are certain to be fallacious.

 

YOU ARE JUST AS EVIL AS A NEOCON, EXCEPT THAT  YOU ARE CHEERLEADING A RUSSIAN WAR.

 

HOW ABOUT THIS...

 

STOP THE WAR...PERIOD.

 

When you are in another Foreign Nation...IT IS NO LONGER DEFENSE.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:54 | 6610594 falconflight
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Well this is a Slaaaaaaav agitprop web site.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:33 | 6610868 BitchezGonnaBitch
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...which is why it's in English. And also why you're here every. fucking. day.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:16 | 6611182 Bay of Pigs
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It's simple. When people cant defend an argument or explain why US foreign policy has failed, they shift the blame to someone else to help with their own mental deficiency issues.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:53 | 6611379 Billy the Poet
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Well, ZH is owned and operated out of Bulgaria. I'm not complaining, it's their best export.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:14 | 6611474 Bay of Pigs
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"ZH is owned and operated out of Bulgaria".

I have heard that before but do you have any proof of that Billy? And who is ABC Media?

At any rate, calling ZH a "pro Russian" site is so over the fuckan top I don't even know where to begin.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:36 | 6611561 Billy the Poet
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Would I make a factual statement that wasn't demonstrably true?

 

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Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:44 | 6611595 messy
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you can register a shell company in most countries and register a web domain from any domain provider.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:53 | 6611646 Billy the Poet
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Is it your assertion that is that ZH is only pretending to be based in Bulgaria? If so, to what purpose?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:00 | 6611681 Freddie
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I think many of us thought Tyler was a Bulgarian-American.  

Who cares?

I get paid 10 rubles for  each one of my posts. (sarc)

Looks like Su25 FrogFoot attack bombers are in Syria to help out.

http://englishrussia.com/2015/09/29/russian-su-25sm-attack-bombers-in-sy...

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:11 | 6611734 Billy the Poet
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Who cares?

 

One could say that about any subject. Folks like to talk -- that's why the ZH comments section is so popular -- and I like to go to the facts when a discussion takes a speculative turn. I've mentioned the Bulgarian connection previously such as when some commenters seemed to think that ZH is run by ABC Television rather than ABC Media, Inc. out of Sophia. Facts are good.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:18 | 6611779 undertow1141
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Shhh comrade you might lose you beet ration this month.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:23 | 6611802 Billy the Poet
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Emergency! Everybody to get from street!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TszIJX-F4U

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 16:49 | 6612916 Flagit
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I think many of us thought Tyler was a Bulgarian-American.

Tyler is long gone, along with his bio page that described how he was working downtown and saw the towers fall that day. He quite his job in finance and started this blog. He used to comment, from time to time, when someone pissed him off enough.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:23 | 6611811 TAALR Swift
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"Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4165358672"

FYI, 416 is the area code for Toronto, Canada.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:46 | 6611942 Billy the Poet
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"Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4165358672"

FYI, 416 is the area code for Toronto, Canada.

 

The registar, easydns, is indeed located in Toronto.

 

This is the information regarding the registrant of zerohedge.com:

 

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359 numbers are located in Bulgaria.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:56 | 6612362 Bay of Pigs
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I wasn't giving you a hard time Billy. I just didn't know where they were headquartered out of, and I really don't care.

That said, I'm pretty certain some of the Tylers are Americans and other nationalties though.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:24 | 6612483 Billy the Poet
Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:38 | 6611894 bluez
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I don't have the evidence, but I once traced ABC Media, LTD to the UK.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:51 | 6611960 Billy the Poet
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I once tracked Dracula to the UK and was lucky enough to encounter a man named Van Helsing without whom things might have gone tragically wrong.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:39 | 6611896 Noplebian
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Who could argue with that!

 

WW3 has already started and it is piecemeal, more on aspects of this......

http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2015/09/have-the-useless-thinkers...

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:49 | 6611956 ebear
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"Well, ZH is owned and operated out of Bulgaria'

Is that the same Bulgaria that blocked Russian flights to Syria, or the one that blocked the Russian pipeline? So many Bulgarias, one gets confused.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:57 | 6612000 Billy the Poet
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I am only aware of one Bulgaria but I don't keep up with their political moves.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:28 | 6612214 ebear
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Well keep up then! Lives depend on it.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:37 | 6612264 Billy the Poet
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I'm on it! (Switches channel to Bulgaria Today).

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 17:19 | 6613064 Billy the Poet
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I must have been out sick that day.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:38 | 6610907 11b40
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Can you say "invited"?

The legitimate government of Syria asked for Russia to help to save the country from "terrists".  Get it?

But you do have a positive message.  Why don't you tell it to ISIS?  Maybe they will just quit.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:40 | 6610923 l8apex
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Let's see, the Russians are in Syria to clean up somebody else's mess.  Now whose mess is that?  Tom, please tell us.  

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:46 | 6611603 Augustus
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Whose Mess?

Typical mess created by a mohammaden believing dictator, Assad.

You believe Puutie is cleaning it up by proping up Assad? 

Quite a fool.  Must be a Paid Puutie Puppy.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:01 | 6611683 ThirdWorldDude
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Disgustus, go kill yourself...

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:20 | 6611790 undertow1141
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I blame the Ottomans.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:21 | 6612166 Baby Bladeface
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Go dive in the toilet and not get out - it's where you belong.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:45 | 6612311 11b40
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Having a bad day, Augustus?  You used to be able to do better than that, but then, you don't have much to work with on this subject.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:57 | 6612368 farflungstar
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Do you take your choad orally or rectally?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:28 | 6611253 goldsaver
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TT, I will agree with you that any bomb dropped on any populated area by anyone is likely to injure, kill and/or maim the innocent along with the guilty. I will also agree that ISIS is a CIA creation and the direct result of an incompetent and meddlesome us foreign policy. Having giving you all that, how would you fix the situation as it exists now? ISIS is an invading supra-national army that steals local resources, enslaves the population of occupied territories and executes an extreme version of religion. They do so with violence. How do you propose they be removed? Or is it your contention that now that they are there we should ignore the situation since it is happening to the Kurds of northern Syria and not in Baltimore, Dallas, Frankfurt or Paris? There is a problem. A problem created by US stupidity. Ignoring the problem does not makes it go away.

At least Russia is there at the request of the legally elected government of Syria and seeks only to restore the status ante-Bellum.

No, I don't want to see innocents die. And, was I in charge of the clean up, I would not send bombs but boots. Soldiers that can discriminate friend/foe (to a more accurate degree than bombs) before releasing a 7.62x39. But boots are much more expensive (politically) than bombs.

"STOP THE WAR" is a nice thought but ignores reality.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:11 | 6611415 Billy the Poet
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Boots on the ground is really the only way to win a war and is also less costly in terms of unintended casualties. It's more dangerous for the troops making the incursion than is airborne assault but if the mission includes the goal of protecting innocent civilians then any effort made to do so increases the chances of the mission being effective rather than counterproductive.

Ground incursions may also turn up evidence of Western support for terrorist groups which could be used to out the real aggressors and possibly shame them into retreat.

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:14 | 6611755 joe6px
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It wouldn't suprise me if Bibi and Obummer both asked Putin for a couple of weeks of air strikes before launching a ground offensive... just to make sure any stray dogs and cats (or CIA operatives) have time to make it to their E&E pick-up.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:53 | 6612346 11b40
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There will be ground forces to mop up ISIS, along with the rest of the various "terrists" fighting to overthrow Assad.  Bank on it.

The feet in those boots on the ground will be Syrian, Iranian, and Iraqi, with a few Russian special ops to give a little assistance when needed.  Why send in a bunch of foreigners when the locals can do the work?  That is doubly true when you don't want to occupy a territory.  Go in, do the heavy lifting, then phase down after softening up the targets.  The stupidity coming from our "leadership" is stunning.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:34 | 6612532 researchfix
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There are boots on the ground. Syrian Army wears boots as standard government issue.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:38 | 6611304 BullyBearish
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Tom...the right people never die

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:06 | 6611442 Billy the Poet
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Everybody dies eventually but sometimes you have to wait until the blood transfusions and organ transplants are no longer effective.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:57 | 6611401 ross81
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from the Contras to the Mujahdeen to ISIS, the only proven method of resisting US terrorist proxies is to fight them. Neocons dont do compromise. For them it's all or nothing.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:41 | 6612289 flapdoodle
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Tall Tom, the decisive difference is that the US (whose primary goal is to foment CHAOS for the benefit of greater Israel) likely targets civilians, children, dogs and cats on purpose whereas the Russians are probably more interested in real results like killing Xe mercenaries disguised as Isis militants.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:25 | 6610801 ATM
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Amerika doesn't want to win. That's the point.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:43 | 6611315 Sedaeng
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Exactly!

When we talk about the incompetence or ineffectual military strikes from the US point of view, "ITS INTENTIONAL"!

 

The only thing the US can do at this point is crank up the anti-Russian propaganda.  Russia is in the [right] on assisting Syria and has shown enormous restraint so far.  (I wish Putin would of went in earlier)  I am against any war but ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh is not going away on their on, especially with steady funding/training from western govts.

Anyone else seen the Russian statement that IS has 'components' for WMDs? 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:51 | 6611629 Jack Burton
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Good call Latina! It already began. CNN this morning says the Russian air strikes were NOT aimed at ISIS targets, and that the strikes are brutal assaults indiscriminate in nature. The implication being that Russia is carrying out attacks in a random unknowing manner, unlike the deadly US air strikes which have pushed ISIS to the brink.

I watched CNN as CNN is the Official News Outlet of the US State Department and Israel. So what they say is Official. One "Spider Marks Super Hero" former US Army colonel let the cat out of the bag when he said: "Perhaps it is now America's best move to escalate the war in Syria to up the pressure on both Assad and Putin".

Think about it for a moment! What he could only mean was that the USA was going to up it's support for ISIS, Al-Qaeda, El-Nusra. The USA has no other means to ESCALATE. So Spider Marks let slip that the USA control the level of fighting ISIS can carry on, an he thinks we in the USA should enable ISIS to escalate.

For my money, Marks on CNN just let slip that the USA indeed is ISIS's main backer, using proxy Saudis. And Saudi announced the same policy. Saudi will escalte the fight in Syria. Saudi has no means other than ISIS to escalte.

You get what I am saying here?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:46 | 6612314 flapdoodle
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Great catch, Jack - you are going above and beyond the call of duty exposing yourselve to a melted brain by watching CNN.

I can't watch it for more than 45 seconds without getting a strange sensation like I've been teleported into a parallel dimension and my intestines have been turned inside out and I have an insatiable desire to hear more about Caitlin Jenner.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:37 | 6612542 researchfix
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Maybe Russia and Iran will drive IS to the Saudi border?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:30 | 6612222 HowdyDoody
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There will be a flood of videos of damaged buildings etc. Every building blown up by ISIS etc will now be pinned on Russia. Every damaged building, broken window etc will be claimed to be evidence of Putin's brutality.Good luck with that BS.

Interestingly Assad and the Syrian Opposition have signed a ceasefire in Prague. Presumably both sides will liaise to ensure that only ISIS (TM) is targetted. The MSM presumably will run their censorship by ommission.

http://fortruss.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/assad-and-syrian-opposition-to-si...

 

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:05 | 6610666 Nothing Ever Happens
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Here’s the neocons’ dilemma: whose plane is going to get shot down in Syria - Saudi’s, UAE’s, or US’? Which one will produce more outrage amongst the Kardashian-watching public?

Phhht. What kinda outrage is that kinda shit gonna stir? You want outrage, set up an Assad lookalike doing a smack rap in Russian about Brucelyn still being a boy and stand back and marvel.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:08 | 6611131 cheech_wizard
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Obviously a plane carrying one or more of the Kardashians needs to be shot down over the area. That should generate significant outrage.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:23 | 6611813 undertow1141
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I don't care who wins, I'm on board as long as we're vaporizing the Kardashians.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:52 | 6611973 Herd Redirectio...
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Why get a kardashian if we can get the Head Witch, Kris Jenner?  She's the one who spawned those not so little devils!

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:49 | 6612328 flapdoodle
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Oh noooooees! That means they'll find pieces of Kim's butt spread out over hundreds of square miles!

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:27 | 6611534 Syrin
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Hilarious and sadly true

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:40 | 6610933 HowdyDoody
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I propose Israel - the more the better.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:32 | 6612235 HowdyDoody
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Second thoughts, it may not be a good idea They will just send us the bill and use their stooges to demand two replacement for every plane lost.

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:53 | 6611028 Groundhog Day
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winning hearts and minds..

we'll be treated as liberators...

rose pedals... and first borns will be named after us

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:24 | 6611231 Max Cynical
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Are the US resupply missions still good to go?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:15 | 6611477 J Jason Djfmam
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Time for that lost Malaysian Airlines plane to show up.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:59 | 6611671 Grimaldus
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@Looney

 

Neocon? So now Obama/Jarret/Biden/Lurch/Hillary are neocons?

This shit-show is totally owned by progressive obamatron assclown criminals. Progressive-leaning neocon idiots are cheering from the sidelines of course.

I just wonder why so much energy is expended here misdirecting blame away from the progressive shoulders it rightly sits on?

You can be damn sure this is not constitutional conservatives directing foreign policy, agree?

 

 

 

Grimaldus

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:30 | 6610460 sam i am
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Russia’s “Civilizational Choice”

 

http://thesaker.is/russias-civilizational-choice/

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:16 | 6612130 ebear
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Now THERE'S a Pro-Russian site, where challenging someone's bullshit is a "personal attack" unless of course it's accusations of pro-zionism, which mysteriously get past the moderator.

Go read my comments (or what's left of them) and see if you don't agree.

The irony is, I support the people of East Ukraine and Russia and will continue to do so. I just don't like propaganda, especially when clothed in religious garb.

Hey Saker, if you and your gay bashing friends are reading this, I've got your theme song right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFbjSpMoR4E

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:35 | 6612254 HowdyDoody
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Gay bashing? I doidn't know he was from Tel Aviv.

Israeli teenager dies after Gay Pride attack (by Jewish religiopus nutjob)

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/08/03/israeli-teenager-dies-after...

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:06 | 6612406 ebear
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" Jewish religiopus nutjob"

Yeah, about what you'd expect from a religious nutjob. They come in all stripes, even jewish. Imagine that.

I guess that kid should have respected the 100 year ban on gay pride parades.

Oh, wait.... they don't have that in Israel.

Go read the Saker's comments before you start tossing red herrings about.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:35 | 6612257 HowdyDoody
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Gay bashing? I didn't know he was from Tel Aviv.

Israeli teenager dies after Gay Pride attack (by Jewish religious nutjob)

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/08/03/israeli-teenager-dies-after...

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:53 | 6612347 ebear
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Not to belabor the point, but I've posted freely to ZH for nearly 4 years where I've always spoken my mind openly, and at times forcefully. Nobody ever "moderated" much less censored me, nor did I ever complain of butt-hurt if someone flamed my (at times deserving) ass. I don't know what the Saker calls that, but I call it Free Speech.

Granted, a private site has the right to edit content, but if at the same time it poses as a bastion of truth, then it's really just PROPAGANDA, regardless of how much truth manages to seep through.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:09 | 6612421 ebear
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Fuck you, downvoter.

I don't really mean that, of course. Just saying it to prove a point.

Oh moderator..... that ebear guy was mean to me. Shut him up, would you?

Is any of this getting through?

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:21 | 6612463 ebear
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Russia: the new bastion of civilization.

Yeah, right.

"It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation." Vladimir Putin

Physician, heal thyself.

as for the gay bashing:

Matthew 25:31-46

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:37 | 6610500 ThirteenthFloor
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Somebody wants the job done quickly.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 09:42 | 6610527 Silver Bug
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Now to simply wait and see, how will the US stick its nose in this, this time?

 

http://jimrickards.blogspot.ca/

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:04 | 6610657 kananga
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...is back!

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 11:37 | 6610837 Canadian Dirtlump
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So a couple of things. Mentioning "homs is not historically an ISIS stronghold" feeds into the neo con lie that Russia is there to bolster only Assad. In addition to ISIS, there are many other Islamist factions, many of which feature US trained chechnyan ( and *.stan) fighters.

 

Secondly, where's your article that the bronze age boy buggerers from Saudi Arabia are turning up rhetoric that a military option is needed to remove Assad.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-fm-assad-must-face-military-option-212903639...

 

MOre on edit:

 

Al Nusra, ISIS, and all of them are all a plague on humanity, none better or worse. It appears that French, US and ( most importantly ) Syrian planes have been fucking up ISIS royally the last couple of days, so the Russians are best off helping on fronts where the air traffic isn't so congested. Let's not forget thanks to the West, NATO, Turkey, Israel, the Gulf states, Syria is fighting a 3 ( at least ) front war of foreign aggression. The best thign I see, is that now the West is backed into a corner to actually DO SOMETHING other than bomb empty warehouses / ISIS when they get too close to the kurds in Iraq.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 10:32 | 6610860 tarabel
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Very revealing.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 12:51 | 6611633 _ConanTheLibert...
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Bombs from Russia with love.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:12 | 6611747 ASACJon
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Putin seems to have made his move masterfully.

Already, Europe is cracking with regard to the sanctions.  Italy's PM Renzi rather clearly telegraphed that the sanctions have run their course and the time has come for 'detente' (i.e., a step back from economic suicide to appease the regime in DC.)

The US/Israel/UK/EU Jacobins are in a bind because they will need an event that would evoke the fervor felt on 9-11 to justify some sort of reset. 

They can go with a plane being shot down with the American pilot tortured and Russia blamed.  I don't think that narrative would move the needle in Europe, however.  Something like a ship sinking could get the bovinus americanus riled up enough in quantity and kind to push through some sort of bombing campaign.

But therein is precisely the problem: The only target that the US led horde has ever had is Assad.  It is categorically clear that the Russian Federation will not sit by as Assad is directly attacked in such an operation.

The only moves I see are either a quiet, tail between the legs pull back or a blindingly insane decision.  By blindingly insane, I do not mean an Operation Barbarossa, which would have worked despite the two fronts if Hitler did not employ his stupid anti-Slavic policies (cf. Col. von Stauffenberg and his work attempting to organize the eastern territories against the Soviets.)

By blindingly insane I mean engaging Russia in Syria 'to defend the 'moderate rebels' in their struggle for freedom.'

If these pricks are nutty enough to promote trannyism as a normal disposition, I'm afraid I don't have much hope that they will suddenly show thoughtful analysis regarding their predicament in Syria.  

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:28 | 6611833 Chris Dakota
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And the pilgrim killing Saudi royal family is under an internal assault.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:33 | 6611862 Canadian Dirtlump
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It was masterful in terms of timing.

 

Despite the lies in the mainstream media ( and here ) Syria solidly had the upper hand, and the only gains by the western backed foreign terrorists came with direct support from Israeli and Turkish armies. Syria had the momentum and it was a matter of time, especially as the politics of overtyl supporting ISIS / Al Nusra have become particularly toxic lately. So with waning support for the radicals, Russia swoops in at the most politically expedient time. Meanwhile as you say politics are fraying all over the world. The lies are getting more obvious to many people, which as you suggest will necessitate a full scale false flag.

 

Syria sepcifically, the truth is, it's been going this way for years, and 1 ham fisted criminal operation after another has blown up in the face of us, the supposed "good guys" making anythign short of WW3 a losing proposition ( WW3 would mean everyone loses though ). I said last year that the West may as well get on board, because if they sit there and pretend someone is going to show up who is going to do more than pretend. Here we are. Now all we have is the hysterical echoes of the likes of charles krauthammer's disable rantings about how Russia is only there to buttress Assad. That deceptive statement is at best without context and at worst a provable lie. In an odd concidence, this article parrots that same lie.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:05 | 6612396 Freddie
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Oh we will have an American pilot shot dow and he will beheaded by Russians doing those crazy dances the Russian Army likes to do.   All shot over at Dreamworks or Disney in Hollywood by Rita Katz with a green screen.

The pilot will be this all American guy in a orange prison jump suit.  Maybe the Russians will get real mean and feed him to Spielberg's shark or dinosaurs. 

The Russians will be singing the old Soviet anthem because in Hollywood they have no idea the USSR no longer exists because Hollywood is filled with murderous Bolsheviks at heart.  Note the Bolshies were NOT Russian christians.

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 15:28 | 6612504 ASACJon
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They can try being that ham fisted, but Russia is not a broken pseudo-state like Iraq or Serbia were.

I would imagine if the nutcases who run and administer things in Empire USA attempted some such thing, Putin would have the FSB start releasing some tantalizing information.  The first thing to be divulged would be the address of the soundstage used for their psychological operations and offshore bank accounts for the Hollywood participants.

If we get another OJ style trial or Lindsay Lohan saga, then I would say the powers that be could retreat.  The average American won't remember any of this Syria business after three weeks.

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 17:48 | 6613197 Flagit
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Rita is alrady plugging Twitter about how Russia is attacking Rebels, not ISIS, lol.

 

Wed, 09/30/2015 - 14:28 | 6612217 caconhma
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Russia is not fighting for Syria as long as Putin is in power. Putin is a bigger POS than our beloved Obama.

As for Syria, it is impossible to win/stop the Syria war fighting just in Syria since almost all manpower and supplies are coming from outside (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan,Israel, etc.),. Consequently, to stop the war is Syria one must strike Turkey and Saudis.

The key players in Syria are Iran and China. As for Iran, so far, their Syria policy was a total failure.

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