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Russia Claims ISIS Now On The Ropes As Fighters Desert After 60 Airstrikes In 72 Hours

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One question that’s been asked repeatedly over the past thirteen months is why Washington has been unable to achieve the Pentagon’s stated goal of “degrading and defeating” ISIS despite the fact that the “battle” pits the most advanced air force on the planet against what amounts to a ragtag band of militants running around the desert in basketball shoes. 

Those of a skeptical persuasion have been inclined to suggest that perhaps the US isn’t fully committed to the fight. Explanations for that suggestion range from the mainstream (the White House is loathe to get the US into another Mid-East war) to the “conspiratorial” (the CIA created ISIS and thus doesn’t want to destroy the group due to its value as a strategic asset). 

The implication in all of this is that a modern army that was truly determined to destroy the group could likely do so in a matter of months if not weeks and so once Russia began flying sorties from Latakia, the world was anxious to see just how long the various rebel groups operating in Syria could hold up under bombardment by the Russian air force. 

The answer, apparently, is “less than a week.” 

On Saturday, the Russian Ministry of Defense said it has conducted 60 bombing runs in 72 hours, hitting more than 50 ISIS targets.

According to the ministry (Facebook page is here), Islamic State fighters are in a state of “panic” and more than 600 have deserted. 

Here's what happens when the Russians locate a terrorist "command center": 

According to The Kremlin, the structure shown in the video is (or, more appropriately, "was") "an ISIS hardened command centre near Raqqah." Su-34s hit it with concrete-piercing BETAB-500s setting off a series of explosions and fires that "completely destroyed the object."  

Here's RT:

Surgical airstrikes by Russian fighter jets have knocked out a number of Islamic State installations in Syria, including the battle headquarters of a jihadist group near Raqqa, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

 

“Over the past 24 hours, Sukhoi Su-34 and Su-24M fighter jets have performed 20 sorties and hit nine Islamic State installations,” Igor Konashenkov, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman, reported.

 

Konashenkov added that yesterday evening Russian aircraft went on six sorties, inflicting strikes on three terrorist installations.

 

“A bunker-busting BETAB-500 air bomb dropped from a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber near Raqqa has eliminated the command post of one of the terror groups, together with an underground storage facility for explosives and munitions,” the spokesman said.

 

Commenting on the video filmed by a Russian UAV monitoring the assault near Raqqa, Konashenkov noted, “a powerful explosion inside the bunker indicates it was also used for storing a large quantity of munitions.

 

“As you can see, a direct hit on the installation resulted in the detonation of explosives and multiple fires. It was completely demolished,” the spokesman said.

And here's the Russian Defense Ministry taking a page out of the US Postal Service's "neither rain, sleet, snow, nor hail" book on the way to serving notice that nothing is going to stop the Russian air force from exterminating Assad's enemies in Syria:

Twenty-four hours a day #UAV's are monitoring the situation in the ISIS activity areas. All the detected targets are effectively engaged day and night in any weather conditions.

Now obviously one must consider the source here, but Kremlin spin tactics aside, one cannot help but be amazed with the pace at which this is apparently unfolding. If any of the above is even close to accurate, it means that Russia is on schedule to declare victory over ISIS (and everyone else it looks like) in a matter of weeks, which would not only be extremely embarrassing for Washington, but would also effectively prove that the US has never truly embarked on an honest effort to rid Syria of the extremist groups the Western media claims are the scourge of humanity.

Summed up in 10 priceless seconds...

 

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Sun, 10/04/2015 - 13:42 | 6628539 Lorca's Novena
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are you fucking kidding me?

wow. just wow.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:45 | 6625652 Anopheles
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somebody needs to tell the US pilots [Israeli pilots also] that hospitals are NOT valid targets under ANY circumstances.... 

 

That's where you get the US (and other western military) all wrong.   The western militaries are more than capable, but the POLITICIANS are unwilling to let military do what's NECESSARY.  Russians don't have that problem. 

And hospitals ARE VALID TARGETS when appropriate.  This is exactly what the Russians understand.  The difference is when Russians bomb civilians or hospitals, YOU NEVER HEAR ABOUT IT. 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:13 | 6625774 New_Meat
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skeeter, Geneva and Hague are rather too esoteric for your average ZHer.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 13:57 | 6625468 SharkBit
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Pretty simple.  From here on out, count the false flags that occur on British, American, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Saudi, Israel soil.  My money is on the USSA's CIA behind it all.  America doing what it does best.  The real evil empire I'm afraid.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:03 | 6625493 AlfredNeumann
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The Masters of False Flags are the Mossad,  they even brag about how they use deception to wage war.

I think the only people on earth that teaches their children to lie,cheat and steal are the Jews.  as long as its NON Jews.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 13:57 | 6625469 seek
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There's a lot of next-level consequences to this that I don't think the US considered very much when they went down the path of supportinging ISIS.

Europe is dealing with an ISIS-induced refugee crisis (people leaving Syria and showing up in practically everywhere). This is a major political issue in Europe right now. It's fairly well known that the US was backing ISIS to destabilize Assad (for many reasons, very few of which were in the interests of the Syrian people or middle-east stability.)

Now Russia comes in and fixes ISIS, and likely stops the flow of refugees because Syrians will be safer with ISIS gone. At this point, if you're a European pol, Russia has helped you out more than the US. This might change the power dynamic just a little, you think? Plus it's coming up on Winter, and Europe will need gas, and the Russian presence in Syria isn't going to let the stupid Saudi-US pipeline through Syria that motivated all this bullshit happen. Meanwhile, they need troops on the ground to mop up, and they're using Iranians to do that, bolstering Iran's political presence in the region (and likely gaining a lot of support from the local population, those few people that prefer their heads attached to their bodies.) 

Yeah, helping out the Saudis (and probably one other country in the region...) with a pipeline paid and a war against Assad paid off big: the neocon foreign policy assholes that made all this happen just handed the middle east and huge portion of the poltical goodwill the US had in Europe over to the Russians, and the most disgusting thing about this is that the Russians are on the moral high ground here.

The "deep state" and entrenched power elite in the US making decsions like these increasingly are a bunch of ham-fisted, geopolitical retards.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:00 | 6625485 AlfredNeumann
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You forgot one thing.

China will send 2 million people to rebuild Syria.  and they will stay making Syria thrive.

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:12 | 6625751 cowdiddly
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LOL. you PeRVeRt. Ok me to0.

Praise the Lord and pass the Ammunition.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 16:24 | 6626025 AmericanFUPAcabra
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Many of the refugees showing up in Europe are not just Syrian. Many of them are from the greater middle east and northern africa, not specifically syria. The fact that the heads of the EU are directing where the flow goes (to the white scandinavian countries) is something to point out Sweden, Germany etc. It's almost like they are trying to break up the ethnic and cultural backgrounds of these millennia old civilizations... Of course talking about that would make one a racist for not accepting a mob of brown people being paid 400-4000Euro a month to begrudgingly squat in your homeland. Almost like the control over national soveriegnty wasnt enough. I give it 20 years and EU borders will be redrawn. Not to mention the fact they are trying to subliminally promote nationalism while at the same time punishing those who do. Strange times

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 21:13 | 6626867 flapdoodle
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Odd, TPTB in the US just finished doing the exact same thing opening the floodgates to immigrants, for exactly the same reason. You don't suppose both of these efforts were coordinated at some higher level do you??

Who wrote the playbook???? Who is coordinating this shit, and what else do they have written in that book I wonder?

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 21:34 | 6626925 Chris Dakota
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I think we went down to Central America and told them the gates were wide open.

they wanted it.

Same to Turkey where these refugees were staying.

Sun, 10/04/2015 - 10:18 | 6627945 Charming Anarchist
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I question whether that matters. 

I believe international terrorism will end.   At which point, all refugees will be told to go back home.  The public will not have it any other way.

There is no long-term refugee crisis. 

Sun, 10/04/2015 - 13:45 | 6628551 Lorca's Novena
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That realy isnt news or far-fetched. Its common effing sense

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 17:59 | 6626342 trader1
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great analysis.

what are the prospects for a (rogue) iranian - israeli skirmish in the golan heights?

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 18:27 | 6626425 BurningBetty
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If I were in the US government I'd spend a lot more time here taking notes from ZH then anywhere else. My few cents to Obomba and his administration.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 19:46 | 6626641 Flagit
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and the most disgusting thing about this is that the Russians are on the moral high ground here.

And why is that surprising to you? Russia has never been our enemy. It was just something we were taught to believe.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 20:10 | 6626706 Jorgen
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"Europe is dealing with an ISIS-induced refugee crisis (people leaving Syria and showing up in practically everywhere).

The majority of the "refugees" currently invading Europe are not from Syria at all:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3240010/Number-refugees-arriving...

Mon, 10/05/2015 - 11:18 | 6630954 Victor von Doom
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"The "deep state" and entrenched power elite in the US making decsions like these increasingly are a bunch of ham-fisted, geopolitical retards."

Not ham-fisted, geopolitical retards. That's just the idiots implementing the "deep state's" will. The "deep state" is made up of flat stick, frothing at the mouth, rabid Zionist psychopaths.

Explains a lot when you think about it.


Sat, 10/03/2015 - 13:58 | 6625471 El Gordo
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The main difference - the Russians are not afraid to bomb a mosque or any other hiding place.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:12 | 6625533 Omega_Man
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just like  isis

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:58 | 6625713 Tigg47
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Russians do nothing, absolutely NOTHING less than 100%. Partying, drinking, making music, racketereing and fighting a war. They do not give a flying f*ck. It is in there nature.

Sun, 10/04/2015 - 09:12 | 6627775 iluvbrunettes
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>+1 good sir, and to that esteemed list, I'd like to add that many have also rejuvinated (at least when they were sober ;-) their churches and rekindled their faith, which provides a nice balance to the above.

Mon, 10/05/2015 - 11:22 | 6630980 Victor von Doom
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No balance there iluvbrunettes. The Russians will be the same with their religion. That'll make them reckless, faith driven zeolots. You see balance in that?

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 13:59 | 6625481 Omega_Man
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if this goes fast - what are people in EU going to think with all their new refugee friends?? 

Merkel better take the retirement package

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:01 | 6625487 TheAntiProgressive
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If this is true maybe a cut of like 30% over at DoD headquarters might get this group a little more fighting lean.  Obviously too bloated, bureaucratic to beat a bunch of camel jockeys riding around in the desert with complete air superiority.  Something is very, very wrong.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:01 | 6625488 iClaudius
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Obama, "I lead the strongest military the world has ever know ..."

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:15 | 6625544 AlfredNeumann
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Strong my ass,  they are mommas boys who need USO shows and cookies from Momma.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:45 | 6625654 BadDog
Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:01 | 6625730 iClaudius
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Explains a lot!

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:58 | 6625711 Berspankme
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Obama couldn't lead a band of gay male cheerleaders at an eighth grade baseball game

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:18 | 6625795 tenpanhandle
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I totally disagree.  Obama could lead a band of gay male cheerleaders at an eighth grade baseball game.  In fact, I think he would be quite successful doing just that.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:05 | 6625504 foxmuldar
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I noticed a lot of Jew haters posting here. Lets hope those Jews are able to take out the Iranian Nuclear plants before Iran has them and decides to launch a few at the Zero hedge site. Remember how Obama whispered to Medved that following the election he could do more for Russia and Putin. But Im sure Obama was just being funny at the time. 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:10 | 6625527 Omega_Man
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notice the above posting by either sheep or zionist who loves his markets, media, politicans controlled lock stock and barrel by the zio interests... there is simply no hope with people like this in America... US people need to overthrow DC and restore the constitution. 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 20:11 | 6626711 Crisismode
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IRAN has nuclear power capabilities? That can enrich uranium?

Whoo'da thunk??

 

Mon, 10/05/2015 - 11:31 | 6631030 Victor von Doom
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Close Omega_Man. Restoring the Constitution isn't enough, though. It didn't guard America against what has happened. 

Only an ammendment taking up Franklin's reasoning will do that - no "Chosenites" in the new America.

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:14 | 6625537 AlfredNeumann
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FoxMuldar

Lover of genocidal , lyiing, thieving psychopaths of Israel

Bet your cunt whore momma is proud of you,

Go find your moral compass, asswipe.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 19:03 | 6626509 farflungstar
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Kinda hard to not notice everytime you flip over a stone covered with blood there's a handful of little jews running from the sudden light. You getting sore about it? Tell them Chosenites to stop being such cunts.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:07 | 6625512 Omega_Man
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it's great to call out the US UK Canadian, French, liars who have been dropping their bombs in the desert for the past year and a half... so what will CiA do now? up the ante? 

 

Russia should target CIA forces as well... and IDF forces, make it a clean sweep, then go over to Yemen... Russia is the new boss..

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:11 | 6625531 AlfredNeumann
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Russia/China/Iran

Iran doesn't need nukes when Russia and  China have plenty

I hope they wipe out Israel if Israel attacks Lebanon.

All they need now is to get Egypt on their side.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:10 | 6625525 KingTut
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Its easy to think Putin and Russsinas have this all figured out after 24 hours.  Putin is certainly more strategic and forthright than any of our bureau-slime.  However, they will run into the same probelms we have.  Success with prolonged fighting is just impossible in the Middle east, and has been ever since the Ottomans left.

However, Putin has built a power block that has changed tha face of the ME for many decades to come.  Unless, we think we can nuke them outta there.  Pray we aren't that stupid.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:33 | 6625595 Albertarocks
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The leaders of the Muslim countries in the ME have been managing to keep their people under control ever since the second world war.  All we have to do is f'king leave them alone to do what they know how to do a hell of a lot better than the USA admin does.

Rumor has it that Libya was a great country to live in before Khadaffi was assassinated.  Whatever life was like in Iraq under Saddam sure as hell wasn't as bad as the Mordor that Iraq became after the US went in there and upset the entire chain of command... and then left like a fucking thief in the night.

What we are witnessing right now is Russia apparently doing in one week what the US military hasn't been able to do in a dozen years (since the Iraq invasion in 2003).  What we are witnessing right now is Putin stepping up and thoroughly exposing the US foreign policy for the sham that it is.  I can't imagin how unbelievably embarrassing this is turning out to be for the US admin, and the military.  And they deserve it big time.  Because it isn't a case that "the US military couldn't get the job done in 12 years", it's a case of "the US military was not allowed to get the job done".

And who pulls the strings?  Who is it that held the US military back and forced them to do a half-assed job?  The global banking mafia in team with the global fascist corporations who profit handsomely from war, and then hang the people of the world with the bill for it.  That's who.

The only way these completely unnecessary wars are ever going to end will be when the global banking cartel is fully exposed and held to account.  Hopefully that will happen in my lifetime because, god damnit I sure want to witness them paying the price for these absolutely unbelievable crimes against humanity.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:33 | 6625616 AlfredNeumann
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Syria, Iraq, Iran are a lot closer to Russia than they are to the USA.

USA needs to crawl back to their hemisphere and leave us alone.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:12 | 6625534 Son of Captain Nemo
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Those of a skeptical persuasion have been inclined to suggest that perhaps the US isn’t fully committed to the fight.???...

Helping with that question?...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3FEjbVy-ng

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:15 | 6625538 jon dough
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Tell me the story again, Daddy, about why the Middle East is made of GLASS!

 

They had to nuke it from orbit, son, it was the only way...

Mon, 10/05/2015 - 12:02 | 6631200 Victor von Doom
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...to be sure we had destroyed the Zionists at their source. Turning the "Holy Lands" into glass put an end to their rubbish once and for all.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:17 | 6625550 Anopheles
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What is interesting is that in every western air strike, there's always the big whoohoos and all the progressive's howles and hand wringing about civilian calualties. 

 

When the Russian bomb the crap out of eveything, there isn't a single word about civilians. 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:54 | 6625695 Lumberjack
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Thats because they took hunters safety courses, unlike the guys that hit hospitals and weddings.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 19:15 | 6626554 ndree
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Like the Jews who hire shart shooters to shoot kids throwing stones, and the cops who who shoot in the back those ruunning away from them. F---ing BRAVE NEW WORLD!!!

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 21:33 | 6626917 philosophers bone
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add "shart shooter" to ZH lexicon!!

Shitgum, nail gunned, ----ocalpse, ----nado, Corzined, etc.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:05 | 6625741 silentboom
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We just blew up a hospital today.  Isn't that sweet.

 

 

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/03/one-day-after-warning-russia-of-civi...

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 19:12 | 6626546 ndree
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You made the treacherous lying point you were paid to make....problem is NOONE beleives you and memories of most ZH readers are way longer than a twitter message. Go to Bed, or get out of the way!!!

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:18 | 6625554 Wow72
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I see why Nike has been exploding, are they an official sponsor?

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 16:14 | 6625997 Moe Howard
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Combat boots for Hip Hop Jihadists. Just do it.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:19 | 6625555 palmereldritch
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The Russians are going to flush these psychos out and when they flee north to Turkey and east to Iraq the Kurds and Iranians will be waiting to finish them off. 

Strategists in the Pentagon that are not part of The Secret Team must be marveling as to why this attack strategy hasn't been used before.

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

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:26 | 6625578 Anopheles
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Because the Russians don't care much about "civilian" casualties or collateral damage as the west.   For the past several decades, the west always goes to war with both hands tied behind their backs by the politicians. 

The Russians have no such problems.  

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:32 | 6625611 Volkodav
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you got the west always goes to war part correct

otherwise, bs even compare as far as civilian casualties, collateral damage

 

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 16:59 | 6626160 Baby Bladeface
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Now move away from the mirror, stop talking to yourself and leave the monkey.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 19:07 | 6626534 ndree
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Guess that's why they killed over a million innocent Irakis, used depleted uranium on Fallujah, and nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bush also said that he never counts foriegn civilian deaths.... they are just flies!!!!

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:27 | 6625591 Infinite QE
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Because ISIS was doing what israhell designed them to do. Kill everything in the greater israel map that was not jewish. F'ing criminals need to be terminated ASAP.

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:48 | 6625666 sandhillexit
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Yeah, Iran and the Kurds have  done everything but BEG us to support them, work with them.  It only takes one look at the map of the M.E. to see that it is Persia's zone of interest and always has been.  That strategy was open to us, during the Bush years.   We picked the wrong allies.  Iran, and its allies in the Gulf states zone would be happy to sell oil to us.  And to hold the Straits.  Heck, they would have been willing to use the petroDollar too.  The U.S. never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:21 | 6625561 Lynn Trainor
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Putin puts president Obama to shame!  He does in 5 days what Obama couldn't do in many years.

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:23 | 6625570 AlfredNeumann
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Obomber and other US presidents are dunces and most Americans are dunces so they are astonished when seeing a normal intelligent man like Putin.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:25 | 6625816 tenpanhandle
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Being an American I feel I should junk you but I can't. Damn you.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:36 | 6625624 silverer
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On about 1/6th the budget.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 21:39 | 6626941 Chris Dakota
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Obama was shaking in anger today, then he bombed a hospital in Afhangistan.

Kinda like Israel when things get hot they bomb ambulances.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:22 | 6625569 LoveTruth
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The liberation of Syria has begun.

 

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:25 | 6625582 Infinite QE
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Trillions in reparations from tfj's and all the command structure of israhell to the gallows. ASAP.

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:26 | 6625577 Son of Captain Nemo
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Now obviously one must consider the source here, but Kremlin spin tactics aside, one cannot help but be amazed with the pace at which this is apparently unfolding. If any of the above is even close to accurate, it means that Russia is on schedule to declare victory over ISIS (and everyone else it looks like) in a matter of weeks, which would not only be extremely embarrassing for Washington, but would also effectively prove that the US has never truly embarked on an honest effort to rid Syria of the extremist groups the Western media claims are the scourge of humanity.

Vlad to Chinese President Jintao...

Hu Just wanted to let you guys know the bombing operations in Syria to mop up the remaining pockets of American mercs is going so well you can send your boats back home to focus on the U.S. threats in your own sandbox... By the way...

Have that 1 trillion USTs at the ready for dumping along with our $500 billion for the last round of "bombing" the U.S. and it's proxies will ever need.  The ones that are still alive have a choice. 

They can either die at the end of a Hezbollah bayonet when they come out of there holes starving... Or surrender and come work for us for some "real money"!!!!

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:53 | 6625692 Berspankme
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Hu Jintao has been gone for a long time in China. It's Xi Jinping but the discussion is the same

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 20:11 | 6626712 Flagit
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They can either die at the end of a Hezbollah bayonet when they come out of there holes starving... Or surrender and come work for us for some "real money"!!!!

Not as far fetched as one might think. Fer real.

What if after a week of bombings and desertions they decide to offer a form of "amnesty". There is a growing possibility that the CIA assets will effectively turn on their previous masters. Not likely, as ground troops are about to start growing on trees over there, but not out of the realm of possibility.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:25 | 6625581 Joebloinvestor
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Barry doesn't want to bomb his bros.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:26 | 6625588 silverer
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Well, that didn't take long.  Who gets the Peace Prize?  Obummer?

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:28 | 6625598 LoveTruth
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Operation 'LIBERTY" which Russia started a few days ago is giving results. I expect. Half of Syria to be ISIS free in less than a year. If Iran sends some ground troops, much sooner. 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:42 | 6625649 AlfredNeumann
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Love the name of the Operation

Amerika loves to give their wars of aggression cute names

Russia is mocking the USA and I love it.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:30 | 6625607 Lynn Trainor
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Why is it that sometimes when you want to edit your comment, you get the "Access Denied" page?

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:40 | 6625637 Albertarocks
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Often within about one minute of publishing it.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 17:36 | 6626267 silvermail
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Because the CIA had not yet save the comment that you have decided to edit.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:48 | 6625660 socalbeach
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If someone has responded or is responding to a comment, you aren't allowed to edit your comment anymore.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 18:06 | 6626367 Albertarocks
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Ahhh... that makes sense.  And it would be the right policy.  Thanks

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 20:14 | 6626719 Flagit
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No, it's totally wrong!

That policy is biased against gays, transgenders, dual-passport holders, and anyone else that has trouble making up their mind.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:59 | 6625720 Lucky Leprachaun
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Some other reader has replied to your comment.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 21:39 | 6626938 gezley
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It's because you're a girl.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:33 | 6625613 ebear
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The implications here go well beyond the effect on Syria and Iraq.

Muslims worldwide, Sunni and Shiite alike, now have a genuine protector against Salafist and Takfiri madmen. Clearly Russia is acting in its own interests, but those clearly coincide with the desires of the vast majority of muslims to live in peace in their own lands, free from the duplicity and false promises of their self-appointed former protectors who've brought nothing but death and destruction these past 20 years.

Maybe there is some hope for the future after all.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 19:32 | 6626598 gezley
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This is so true. Russia authorizing military action to rain fire and brimstone down on the heads of these US-, UK- and French-backed mercenaries, together with their SAS and CIA handlers, changes the calculus forever. London, Paris, Washington and Tel Aviv can no longer plan the destruction of civilized states like Libya, Syria and Iraq with impunity. Now they have to consider the possibility that Moscow could be called upon to prevent it happening, something they're too cowardly to risk.

Everything has changed over the past week or so, and for the better. The Zionists will be furious. I just hope innocent people in a cinema somewhere in Russia don't pay for this. Israel doesn't play nice when its plans have been overturned. Russia needs to keep an eye out for "Islamic suicide bombers" over the coming months.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 21:45 | 6626953 Chris Dakota
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This explains to me why Putin did nothing. He let the world see us for who we really are.

And allowing us to bankrupt ourselves, guess he thinks that we the people will deal with the

government. I mean we are armed, for now.

No wonder the first thing Obama did was another shooting hoax.

The world hates USA/Israel now, no client would ever sign up with us now.

I remember Brzezinski screaming "We will be evicted from the middle east."
Yeah we are being evicted.

Happy I don't want to travel anymore, no place for Yanks to hide.

Thanks Obama

Sun, 10/04/2015 - 09:34 | 6627818 iluvbrunettes
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+1 and well put...

disclosure:  i yam an 'merican Muslim.  But it is tooooo early to declare victory over Wahhabism, ISIS, etc.  I do see Russia as more impartial, perhaps; like the senior football player who looks at a bunch of freshmen fighting near his locker and diffuses the situation by a good wtf glaring down.  I don't want ANY blood spilt, not even from those Jihadi-wannabees.  And I see nothing wrong with Israel and its neighbors coexisting as one of many countries minding their own G_d damn business, but I have been accused by family members and friends of being a bit, say, optimisitic in these views. 

I would like to see an article on the implications of the massive refugee influx into Europe (oddly rarely identified as Muslims) as I fear for rising xenophobia as the new emigres may not assimilate as well as prior exoduses (and that's putting it mildly of course) - no fucking way do I want to see an Islamic Europe or some other sick fantasy jointly shared by the crazed imams and right-wing fanatics.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:35 | 6625621 Winston Smith 2009
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"Russia Claims ISIS Now On The Ropes As Fighters Desert After 60 Airstrikes In 72 Hours"

Yeah, well, we'll see...

Unlike so many others here, I'm just as skeptical of Russian reports as I am with NATO or the western coalition du jour ones.

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:41 | 6625639 Joebloinvestor
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MISSION ACOMPLISHED, well at least underway.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:32 | 6625837 tenpanhandle
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Your warranted skepticism of Nato and USA reports has jaded your view.  Wait until time shows the truth (or not) of Russian reports before writing them off as same as Nato.  The truth serves better than propaganda (lies) when you are successful and/or right.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 17:39 | 6626277 silvermail
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The world does not exist any NATO and the Western coalition. In the world there is only the United States and the country - vassals.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:36 | 6625626 quadratic_equation
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It just proves the reality that no matter how much the politically correct insist that blacks are as intelligent or more as portrayed by Obama and his ilks they are no match to the whites or any other race.  They were in the bottom of the list when God distributed good brains.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:35 | 6625853 tenpanhandle
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Unfortunately for you, you were right there in line with them;)

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:39 | 6625636 AlfredNeumann
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I hope Russia makes all the ISIS bastards run to Turkey where many came from and the Kurds and Iraqis blast them all before they get there.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:36 | 6625861 tenpanhandle
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I would just as soon see them let them through - same for into Sadie Arabia.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:41 | 6625641 AlfredNeumann
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What is not being discussed much is Erdogan and Turkeys's role in helping ISIS.

There is a big story there but few people will touch it

Webster Tarpley does though

 

http://tarpley.net/

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:53 | 6625688 Volkodav
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exactly   Turkie is main in this

never trust turk

 

Sun, 10/04/2015 - 21:59 | 6629724 scrappy
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Jordan too, but I suspect a bit reluctantly.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 21:47 | 6626962 Chris Dakota
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Turkey is run by Donmeh Jews as is Saudi Arabia.

that explains everything.

google it

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:41 | 6625642 Greed is King
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When the Taliban were overthrown in Afghanistan the American military by order of the CIA deliberately allowed the Taliban leadership including Bin Laden to escape into Jihadi safe haven Pakistan; let`s hope Putin, Assad and Iran don`t allow ISIL to esacape into the Middle East Jihadi safe havens of Saudi Arabia and the duplicitous Turkey.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:42 | 6625644 Keynesians say ...
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I guess the US is the JV team now

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:45 | 6625655 AlfredNeumann
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More like the freshmen intramural team

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:47 | 6625663 AlfredNeumann
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For ISIS its not Shock and Awe   its  Awe,Shucks.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:49 | 6625671 AlfredNeumann
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Push ISIS into the crosshairs of that all woman Kurdish brigade who take no prisoners.

Tough bitches.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:06 | 6625732 Lumberjack
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 The ladies are gorgeous and deadly. I saw pics of one of their units....

 

Kurdish Women Turning Kobani into a Living 'Hell' for Islamic State This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address:
"http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Kurdish-Women-Turning-Kobani-into-a-Living-Hell-for-Islamic-State-20141014-0072.html". If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Kurdish-Women-Turning-Kobani-into-...

 

https://theincredibletide.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/kurdish-girls-sold...

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:08 | 6625752 Lumberjack
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So it seems that the US is bombing women as is Turkey. Go ladies! Russia has your back.

Sun, 10/04/2015 - 22:06 | 6629745 scrappy
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Yes, I too see this as a sociolgical change.

Let the women take back what is theirs.

They are beginning to see past feminism.

It was that way in the best days of the ancient societies.

We men need to take back that which was stolen from us too.

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:49 | 6625673 king leon
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I see ISIS are now putting their trainers to good use.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:51 | 6625677 AlfredNeumann
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Hard to run though , when your knickers are full of poop.

Sun, 10/04/2015 - 04:07 | 6627441 researchfix
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Its shit-in-your-kaftan time.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:51 | 6625683 Bernard_2011
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Once and for all Obama is going to be exposed in front of the entire world for the total fraud that he is.

Once Putin wipes out ISIS, then it is game over for Obama---AND OBAMA KNOWS IT.

America WAKE UP---your government is A FRAUD.

Mon, 10/05/2015 - 12:31 | 6631383 Victor von Doom
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Obozo and ilk are a treasonous fraud. Unfortunately the ZOG is all too real.

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:52 | 6625687 hotrod
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What does Putin have on Obama?

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:32 | 6625840 blentus
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His balls.

On Obama's face. Pretty much.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:53 | 6625690 Dogspurt
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Now if only Putin would release the 'smoking gun' evidence he is supposed to have about 9/11 he could knock out the US for good and the world would be a far safer, more peaceful place.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:59 | 6625719 Brutlstrudl
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Snowden's saving his best also

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:53 | 6625691 Hannibal
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Great,.. and take no prisoners.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:54 | 6625694 AlfredNeumann
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You want to see the USA be loved again by the whole world?

USA should nuke the living fuck out of Israel and everyone world wide would cheer

Except the nutty Christers in the USA.

Everyone in the region would be shaking Americas hand.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 19:12 | 6626544 farflungstar
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You're saying what we're all thinking

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:57 | 6625703 Brutlstrudl
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Looks like  Vlad's getting good intel from BiBi

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:59 | 6625721 AlfredNeumann
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Bibi?   I don't think you will see any Israeli airstrikes on the Golan anytime soon.  I think Vlad has given Bibi the skinny on what would happen if he tries it.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:58 | 6625708 AlfredNeumann
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I love the way Russia is doing what the USA does with their wars.   Show videos of smart bombs hitting mark.  Giving cute names to the operation.

I think its mocking America and its brilliant.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:02 | 6625714 Grandad Grumps
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Black hoods, tennis shoes and a sound stage ... what every made for TV mercenary army needs.

You have to be kidding me, right. Thus is what we are supposed to be afraid of, 20 guys who could not get an acting job?

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:08 | 6625753 grekko
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Anyone of them could get a job here as a crisis actor to be used in the next CIA false-flag operation, like the Boston Marathon bombing.  It's good steady pay lately.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:21 | 6625757 Volkodav
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body language did not agree who they were supposed to be 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:50 | 6625896 Grandad Grumps
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There is a reason they could not get a real acting job.

Want to notice something absolutely hilarious? Notice how the shadows stop at the back of the soundstage where the green screen is located. Notice also the difference in color between the sound stage floor and the background photo.

Mon, 10/05/2015 - 12:38 | 6631427 Victor von Doom
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Agreed. Well picked. They look Western. Too rigid in their stance, not slouching like civies.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:59 | 6625718 Dark Daze
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What's the expression? Dom't mess with Moscow!

 

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:00 | 6625726 franciscopendergrass
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There goes the tax money I spent on training the rebels.  Fuck!  /sarc

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 18:57 | 6626503 ndree
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Don't really need your tax dollaors....we have FREEE helicopter money.

Your tax dollsrs are just meant to keep you in check: slaving, busy and ignorant!!

Mon, 10/05/2015 - 12:41 | 6631450 Victor von Doom
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Spot on. It's not taxes and debt that is the problem. It's your Zionist Occupational Government.

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:04 | 6625738 surrational
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Our entire planet should be thankful we have a true statesmen lIke Putin, who is strong enough to stand up to these sick bastards.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:05 | 6625744 grekko
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Come on guys.  Can't you see the superior intellect of the USA Government here.  By feigning incompetance, they got Russia, Syria and Iran to do their dirty work and wipe out ISIS, the bane of western sheep and bogeyman du jour of the MSM.  I bet they won't even send us the bill.  It's brilliant I tells ya, brilliant!

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:10 | 6625759 Ghostmaker
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Just such a brillant tatic. And Now Russia has all the influence over the oil producers. We can always fling up another wind mill.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:05 | 6625745 Grandad Grumps
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So look at the guy on the right who is supposed to be holding that grenade launcher ... bad PhotoShop effort, right?

How can evil be so incompetent?

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:08 | 6625754 Ghostmaker
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God I hope our 5 fighters for 500 million survived....

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:12 | 6625763 localizer
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ISIS "on the ropes" within 3 days of REAL airstrikes!

Think about it - USSA has been bombing the desert for 1.5 years...

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:56 | 6625926 Grandad Grumps
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I don't know how Russia can beat ISIS. They probably don't know where the soundstage is located. Is it in Hollywood or Tel Aviv?

Is there supposed to be sand on the soundstage floor? They must have cheaped it out or forgot it.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:15 | 6625776 Hannibal
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"McCain calls for the shooting down of Russian planes in Syria, admits the US is arming, supporting and training al-Nusra/Al-Qaeda"....

(Quoted on FoxNews)

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2015/10/02/john-mccain-wants-to-shoot-...

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:20 | 6625800 AlfredNeumann
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This is going viral 

 #ARRESTMcCAIN4ISIS

2 weeeks ago it was #fireAllen4ISIS

Allen is gone now

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:50 | 6625917 EuroPox
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Doubt there is a court room at The Hague big enough to deal with all the war criminals at the same time.

Mon, 10/05/2015 - 12:46 | 6631477 Victor von Doom
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How about a mass grave?

 

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:16 | 6625777 Lea
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... "what amounts to a ragtag band of militants running around the desert in basketball shoes. "

Ragtag? Ain't nothing "ragtag" about those dudes. Or maybe you think their moms sewed their spotless black uniforms for them?

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:15 | 6625781 JenkinsLane
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Kill them all.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:42 | 6625782 localizer
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This is HUGE actually - I notice that even the sheeple are starting to wake up and realize that something stinks about the USSA ME "foreign policy"...

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:16 | 6625786 Hapa
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am at the Newark airport and wanted to check in with ZH.  OTG, the restaurant conglomeration that fancies itself as the supreme airport exprience, ordering food and drinks via ipad at each bar stool, tells me that they have determind that ZH is WEB SPAM and won't give me access.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:17 | 6625789 Hapa
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I typed this via my laptop...

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 17:20 | 6626230 researchfix
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Stay tuned.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:17 | 6625790 AlfredNeumann
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I would like to see Russia grab about 10 of those 7 footers in orange jump suits.  

Make them stand like they are going to behead someone and then put a bullet right between their eyes

Make video of it an put it on Youuube.

Sat, 10/03/2015 - 15:27 | 6625808 Hannibal
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Mosaic of Facts

educational: from RT Documentaries

find out who has been shaking hands with who.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=5&v=bkD8VFOz4-8

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