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ISIS In "Retreat" As Russia Destroys 32 Targets While Putin Trolls Obama As "Weak With No Strategy"

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Perhaps the most amusing thing about Russia’s intervention in Syria is the degree to which it made the world wake up and question the West’s “anti-ISIS” strategy. 

While everyone has been quick to characterize Moscow’s actions as the latest and perhaps greatest example of Vladimir Putin calling Washington’s bluff, it’s important to understand exactly why that’s an accurate characterization here. That is, this is more than just Moscow betting it could support Assad and Washington would simply move out of the way.

This was Russia and Iran realizing that the only reason the US and its regional allies have been able to keep up appearances in the eyes of the public with regard to the “campaign” against ISIS, is because the public has never seen what happens when someone powerful makes a serious effort to eradicate the group. Once Russia moved in, gave the superpower greenlight for Iran to abandon all pretense that it isn’t also directly involved, and began racking up gains in a matter of days, the Western public was left to wonder why the US couldn’t accomplish in 13 months what Russia appeared to have accomplished in a matter of (literally) 72 hours. 

Then, just in case anyone was tempted to write off the discrepancy as a lack of US resolve or (gasp) diminishing American military capability, Moscow very publicly asked the US to join Russia in striking terrorist targets. Putin effectively said this: “You’re obviously no good at this, but that’s ok because we’re all in this together, so come help us.” 

Of course that’s not what The Kremlin really meant - that was just the line fed to the public. What Moscow was really saying was this: “Checkmate, Washington. Either i) admit to the public you’re more concerned about ousting Assad than you are about eliminating the group who you’ve held up to the media as the scourge of humanity that must be eliminated at all costs, or ii) tell us you’re sorry and help us bomb the very same groups you helped create on the way to restoring the very same regime you created those groups to oust, or iii) pack up, turn tail, and get the hell out of the way.”

This put Washington into panic mode. 

There was no explaining it to the public without somehow trying to convince everyone that Putin and Assad are worse than the white basketball shoe-wearing, black flag-waving, sword-wielding desert bandits that until recently were cutting people’s heads off and burning people alive on the nightly news in slickly-produced videos complete with eerie-sounding (at least to a Western viewer) music in the background. 

And so, the US is now hoping to muddle through with this excuse: “Russia’s actions will only make things worse.”

Needless to say, even the clueless Western public is beginning to smell a rat here.

Meanwhile, Putin continues to rub it in by making near daily speeches asking (rhetorically of course) why no one wants to help Russia kill terrorists, why it seems like the US has no strategy, and, hilariously, why everyone but Russia and Iran seem to have “oatmeal” for brains. 

The point here is that Putin knows damn well what the “strategy” is for the West and its Mid-East allies, but he knows that the public isn’t yet fully aware that standard operating procedure is to use Sunni extremists to destabilize governments. He has now gone all-in on waking the entire world up. 

The latest episode of the Putin show finds the President speaking to reporters in Astana, Kazakhstan. Here’s Bloomberg:

Russian President Vladimir Putin continued a war of words with the U.S. over Syria, calling its policy weak and lacking in objectives as his air force carried out fresh bombing raids in support of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

 

“I don’t really understand how the U.S. can criticize Russia’s actions in Syria if they refuse to have direct dialogue,” Putin told reporters Thursday during a visit to Astana, Kazakhstan. “The basic weakness of the American position is that they don’t have an agenda, though we’re keeping the door open” for high-level discussions with Washington, he said.

 

Amid growing friction over the Russian intervention in Syria that began Sept. 30, the U.S. rejected Putin’s offer to send a delegation led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to Washington to explain the campaign against Islamic State and other militants, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. Putin accused some states of having “oatmeal in their heads” on Tuesday for failing to understand that Russia’s airstrikes seek to defeat terrorism. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov expressed “regret” on Wednesday over the American rejection of high-level talks.

 

“We’ve said that we’re not interested in doing that as long as Russia is not willing to make a constructive contribution to our counter-ISIL effort,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday, using an acronym for Islamic State. “Russia has their own agenda and it’s an agenda right now that they’re pursuing on their own.”

Yes, they sure are “pursuing it on their own” - well, with Iran - and the reason that’s the case is because that agenda involves restoring Assad and the US agenda involves ousting Assad. The “terrorists” are simply caught in the middle.

If it’s up to the US, the rebel groups get to fight on to overthrow Assad even if the Pentagon and CIA know that those groups are largely comprised of fighters with, how should we say, “questionable” intentions (e.g. establishing a medieval caliphate).

If it’s up to Russia, those same rebels die now.

The problem for Washington and its various proxy armies: it looks like it’s up to Russia.

Back to Bloomberg: 

Russian airstrikes and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia are aiding government offensives against rebel groups near the western cities of Homs and Aleppo, according to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Assad’s troops have also made major advances in Hama and Latakia, Rami Abdurrahman, the group’s head, said by phone on Thursday.

 

“It looks like they are seeking to regain control of the road linking Damascus to Homs and then Aleppo,” said Abdurrahman, whose organization tracks the war through a network of activists. Islamic State has taken territory near Aleppo in recent days and repelled government attacks in areas it already holds, he said.

And because we know what you really came to see are Russian bombers and strike fighters laying waste to something, we'll leave you with the latest from RT who says ISIS is "in retreat":

Russian warplanes have destroyed a surface-to-air missile launcher that the Islamic State terrorist group previously captured from the Syrian Army, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. The bombing campaign in Syria is forcing the jihadists to flee.

 

The 9K33 Osa short-range air defense launcher was destroyed by a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber in Eastern Douma near Damascus, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told the media in his Thursday daily briefing.

 

The launcher was destroyed during one of 33 combat missions that Russia conducted in Syria over the day. A total of 32 targets in the provinces Idlib, Hama, Damascus, Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor were hit, Konashenkov said.


 

The general added that terrorist forces appear to be abandoning their positions and are pulling back.


 

 

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Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:38 | 6673129 Baby Bladeface
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"

"What does Baba O'Reilly say?"

And with apologise Roger Daltrey:

"Is only ISIS wasteland..."

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:27 | 6672297 Bill of Rights
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One is a mean prick and the other sucks a mean dick...

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:27 | 6672299 williambanzai7
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Golfing Homeboy don't surf

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:28 | 6672300 pan
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Putin wins again!

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:34 | 6672322 SharkBit
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Putin showing a master class in diplomacy. Can't wait until Putin unveils the truth about 9/11.

Anyone else embarrased to be American?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:43 | 6672383 Winston Churchill
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Not really. i hope Vlad leaves an exit for the USA though.Its never good to corner a psychopath,

or rattlesnake.Resist the temptation to rub Obozos nose in his own shit too much Vlad, just

a suggestion for your watchers to pass along.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:01 | 6672477 Zwelgje
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He does.

The US has been openly invited to join the effort or to at least coordinate the action.

When ISIL is dead they can both claim victory.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:40 | 6672663 Zadig
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I noticed Al-Ciada recently announced that the US had stopped bombing hospitals and weddings long enough to kill one of their mythical leaders.  So it appears that the US will indeed try to claim this as their victory too.

Whether that will be enough to soothe the imperial ego remains to be seen.  The proles certainly don't seem to be believing it anymore.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:07 | 6672517 ZippyDooDah
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All your oatmeals are belong to us!

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:12 | 6672548 Savyindallas
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I wish he would reveal the long held back files on the Holocaust - typical garbage coming out of Stalinist show trials in collusion with the Zios. We need to see the truth on that one too. 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 02:55 | 6674190 mkkby
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When Vlad really has his back to the wall, he'll publish the KGB files finally revealing the recipes for classic coke and Kentucky fried chicken.  That'll really piss the west off.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:23 | 6672589 Yttrium Gold Ni...
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No one should be embarrassed of who he is. There's a clear distinction between US citizens and US Government. Incompetent governments come and go, people stay, hopefully learning a lesson in the process. It seems to me that this presidential election is more about whom people hate less, than whom they actually like.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:34 | 6672325 Demdere
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Does nobody see the pattern? It is easy to win short-run, at most everything.  The US was winning big-time in the campaign against Saddam, in the first roll-back of the Afghan Taliban, the 2nd campaign against Saddam, ...

 

'Weak'.  Putin is just smart enough to understand the power of such words in the world's press, the world's feeble minds.

Maybe in 100 years Big Data will be able to balance everything and tell us what 'win' meant.  Foreign policy does not work for anyone, because it is not a playable game.

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/high-dimensioned-games/

Nobody wins by having a foreign policy.  Do we think the Swiss weak because they don't?

The USSR converted itself to a failed state with the aid of its foreign policy.  Israel and the US are doing so now.  Domestic policies also, of course, they don't work either for the same reason.

Someone show me the technology that allows the control of open, evolving, complex systems.  There isn't any, and there is no evidence foreign policy 'wins' are anything except random walk.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:46 | 6672400 Cycling Fish
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Rubbish. The NPT, MAD, and a raft of treaties and agreements are foreign policy successes. The evidence? You are posting on an internet that is a product of a huge raft of international telecommunications agreements - all foreign policy products. When you buy international products on line, how do you think you pay for them?  Similar financial agreements! What dont you understand about international trade?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:14 | 6673039 Charming Anarchist
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Oh, I get it!  Statism is a good thing!

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:35 | 6672334 matinee55
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US army now all gay & tranny, installing all coloured toilets in USSR for Putin. Obunga got rid of the great military guys to further destroy USSA

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:39 | 6672357 Demdere
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And all those changes are due to the fact that there are not enough young people in the US that are willing and able to go into the military.  They are having a hell of a time recruiting, have you not paid attention?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:51 | 6672378 Dr. Bonzo
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Dude... even if kids wanted to serve, they're almost all ineligible. I just read a readiness report that estimates nearly 90% of American young people under 24 are ineligible for military service, predominantly due to (1) weight (2) education (3) lifestyle issues (criminal record / drug use....). The fact services are meeting their recruitment targets is due to considerable allowances being made (called "waivers" by the services) to allow these marginal fuck-ups to join. One of the reasons basic training has been extended in length across the services is to extend physical conditioning for broad swathes of the the recruits.

 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:01 | 6672481 Bay of Pigs
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+1 for the use of "marginal fuck-ups".

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:10 | 6672533 Savyindallas
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That's because they are intimidated with having to shower with the gays and trannies.When they segregate the showers, our fine young boys will be back. 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:16 | 6673043 Charming Anarchist
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Oh, I get it!  State militaries are a good thing!

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 20:39 | 6673505 lakecity55
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That's how the Founders set it up.

We should follow the Rule Book (Constitution).

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 20:44 | 6673533 Freddie
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Why would anyone go back or enlist?  Obviously no jobs, many jobs given to illegals.  Who in their right mind would risk their life for these evil people? You really want to turn your life or the life of your child over to people like McCain or Obama?

No election is going to change anything.  It is not just Obama.  It is the entire govt.  No good guys or gals (Hillary sic) to be found.  Congress, govt, courts, endless agencoies, defense contractors.

Endless war, endless misery and endless debt.  The debt eventually cannot last. 

The USA is headed down the same path as the bankrupt USSR.  I knew it as soon as they selected O.   Putin knows that better than anyone.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 22:01 | 6673771 opport.knocks
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You knew for sure when the psychopathic Bushes bought their big "escape" ranch in Patagonia. Taking the same route as the last group of Nazis.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 05:15 | 6674281 conscious being
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When Alvin Toefler predicted the demise of the Soviet Union back in the early 70's. His idea was that production shaped society, so to reach economies of scale we needed hierarchies, but evolving technology over time eliminates the need for EoS and so eliminates the need for hierarchy, so it will start to disappear. The more rigid the hierarchy, the more susceptiple, hence predicting USSR collapse. Now the US hierarchy may be going the same way as the Soviet. Like the break in the Berlin Wall people in the West may suddenly see things for what they are.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:08 | 6672522 Savyindallas
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don't forget the women  -their fighting skills complement the gays and trannies. I can't wait to see our troops in battle against the Russians -

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:20 | 6673058 Charming Anarchist
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Oh, I get it!

Women who are willing to die for money and kill other people they do not know without question surrounded by a bunch of weird sweaty men in a foreign land dependent on a fiat currency system for their pay look like keepers! and clever long term financial planners! 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:16 | 6672567 matinee55
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might as well get f***** one way or another

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:35 | 6672336 Soph
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'murica getting schooled in the Russian art of Realpolitik. Reminds me of the Reagan years at the end of the Cold War. But the shoe was on the other foot...'murica was doing the schooling then. Certainly interesting to watch this latest episode...cold warrior (Putin) vs rank newb (Obama)

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:36 | 6672337 Rainman
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Smells to moi  like the Ruskies will end up with another Afghanistan boondoggle ( circa 1979 ).

                  http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/the-cold-war/russian-invasion-of-afghanistan/

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:49 | 6672415 Winston Churchill
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Stop listening to the MSM. Its the US that bogged down in Afghanistan.

Very different terrain and people, which is why they've beaten everyone in the end.

The US will be no exception, not an if, but a when.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:53 | 6672729 Zadig
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Yes indeed.  In Afghanistan, the Pashtun didn't want to be colonized and fought a guerrilla war until the invaders left.  This certainly applies to the US too.

In Syria & Iraq, Al-Ciada is the invader.  Many of the Arabs & Kurds are resisting them and will continue to do so.  The invaders don't have the option to fight an effective guerrilla war, especially since their real objective is taking Damascus and shattering the country.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 20:46 | 6673545 Freddie
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+1

This idocy about Russia's Afghanistan in Syria.  The Syrian people, Iran, Hezbollah and even Iraq support Russia being there. 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:02 | 6672431 Dark Daze
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You know, as a Canuk, I have had to live my whole life eating your shit. Even though WE broke out at Paschendale and won the battle at Vimy, WE broke the German line at Ortona (little Stalingrad), We routed the German 5'th in the Scheldt and we saved Pattons sorry ass at Antwerp, we were never even invited to the party. Just you puffed up fucks and the Brits. You will never know the pride a Canuk feels when he remembers the pipers, unarmed, standing in a hail of bullets, urging their brothers ashore on D-Day. 800 of us defeated 5,000 of you at the battle of Chrysler Farm (and they were mostly farmers) when you still have a notion that you had a 'right' to our land. You will never know what it is like to produce snipers who can take out not one, but three Taliban with one shot at 2 KM's. You are nothing but a bunch of arrogant, myth making fucks.

 

And to the asshole who gave me a thumgs down, fuck you. Typical fucking 'mericans. All talk, no fucking action except when they have a nuclear bomb in their pocket. You deserve everything that is coming to you.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:23 | 6672595 MoHillbilly
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Have another Labatt  Blue, finish your hockey game and calm the fuck down

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:31 | 6672633 Archive_file
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As an American, I concur sir.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:58 | 6672747 Teh Finn
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Candidate for institutionalization after the bj's get knocked out of the postseason.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:11 | 6672794 Dark Daze
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And you? Well, you're a candiate for the mob.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 03:13 | 6674215 mkkby
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Wow, who knew canadians were all butt hurt because grandpa didn't get a big enough parade 70 years ago.  C'mon by and we'll give you a hug and wipe away those tears.

Actually, canada is just the mexico of the north, and canadians are just wanna be brits on ice skates.  You'll always be 3rd place, 3rd rate, looking up to the top dogs and wiping away the piss that trickles down the dog's leg.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:08 | 6672519 BullyBearish
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Not with Shia boots on the ground...

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:13 | 6672554 rejected
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Only reason will be your tax dollars supporting a bunch of rapists and killers,,, but then in mainstream ameriKa those are considered 'hero's'.

And really,,, who are the losers here? They exited Afghanistan and allowed our entry and the expenditure of our blood and a trillion in fiat.

Well anyhow,,, the poppy fields are safe for now,,, guarded by our sons and daughters...

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 05:26 | 6674285 conscious being
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Sons and daughters and trannies. You left off the trannies.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:28 | 6672619 farflungstar
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Jeez Afghanistan was less than 30 years ago. If the Russians have short-term memories like us AmeriKans and stupidly repeat that, then they deserve their folly. 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:30 | 6672866 Volkodav
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It was Soviet USSR not Russia

Soviets did not invade, but moved after moderate leader killed by radicals supported by outsiders

Soviet was already there, stabilized and build schools, infrastructure.

Girls attended school, had rights, later many were killed by Fathers, male relatives

for wanting education.

You know nothing about Afghanistan

media will dumb you down...

 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:41 | 6672374 WillyGroper
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I don't believe for a minute Pooty is the Messiah,.

He sure knows how to put a photo-op to good use & whup some ass in chess.

We know there's no shame with these folks.  He's embarassing the crap out of Mom-Jeans-Oats.

Humiliation is a better strategy dealing with these meglomaniacs.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:27 | 6672854 JimmyRainbow
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he seems to kill isis for real. thats all that counts at this time.

he is a politician and all that stuff. but he is doing good work actually.

he gives europe time to reflect things that happened the last 2 decades

isis is obnoxious shit that has no liferight at all

whoever raised that plague is as guilty as isis

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:42 | 6672381 Dark Daze
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or iii) pack up, turn tail, and get the hell out of the way.”

 

I believe the American version is, "Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way"

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. losers.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:42 | 6672382 Consuelo
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AIPAC doesn't like foreign policy competition.   Unfortunately, they'd better get their 1967 mojo up, because Vlad isn't Egypt, nor is he a vassal of Israeli-directed policy that is the U.S.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:11 | 6672534 Dark Daze
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Next up, the Khazzarians, i.e the Talmud Jews.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:44 | 6672392 Zero-Hegemon
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I love historical irony, the communist pretender being upstaged and upbraded by the old-school communist modern-day capitalist

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:47 | 6672403 TAALR Swift
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Putin told reporters Thursday during a visit to Astana, Kazakhstan: “The basic weakness of the American position is that they don’t have an agenda, though we’re keeping the door open” for high-level discussions with Washington, he said.

Maybe, this is because you keep inviting them through the Front Door, and this US Administration/POTUS is not the the Front Door type?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:14 | 6672558 Money Counterfeiter
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Does anyone know the Langley spook death count?   How many IDF deaths?

 

Inquiring minds want to know.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:47 | 6672405 SofaPapa
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The Russians took away the west's "moral" excuse for removing Assad when they ensured that the Syrians no longer had a chemical weapons capability, with the whole world as witnesses.  But the west decided to remove Assad anyway, only over a longer timeframe, using "rebel" (read: terrorist) groups as their proxy.  That is and was always the strategy of the west.  The "anti-ISIS" campaign was never more than a smokescreen.  Putin's not stupid.  He knows full well that the west does have a strategy.  It's just a weak strategy, the Russians found themselves in a position to oppose that strategy, and now we see the results.  The key, however, is whether Russia bogs down.  If they cannot finish this and finish it quickly, then it risks backfiring.  No matter what, the west has lost tremendous amounts of credibility in this episode, and are finally being shown for the absolute and complete hypocrites that they are.  That's the real loss, and I for one hope to see a lot more demonstrations of same ongoing.  The sooner people give up on the "west is the paragon of decency" myth, the less danger the world will be in of global fascism.  When Russia, China, and the west start to agree and truly coordinate together?  Then the "little people" of the world are truly up shit's creek.  I hope that doesn't happen.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:09 | 6672531 Dark Daze
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The real 'key' is whether the CIA, NSA, Pentagon and whatever other 'secret' fucking agents of oppresion you have INTERFERE with the clean up.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:02 | 6672759 Zadig
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They will interfere, but there isn't an inexhaustible supply of miscreants willing to get a very brief cameo in the next Russian bombing video in exchange for 1 paycheck and some new sneakers. 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:15 | 6672550 Money Counterfeiter
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Fuck the fascist in Washington. Burn in hell.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:48 | 6672411 ptoemmes
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Now I get it.  

Russia is bombing ISIS and we think they should be bombing ISIL - like we are.

And I see the acronym IS popping up in the West lately.  

What's the meaning of IS?

/sarc off

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:56 | 6672445 One And Only
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Well it depends on what the definition of IS, IS. 

-Bill Clinton

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:48 | 6672413 gcjohns1971
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Sorry, but this is not much of a comparative recommendation for Putin.

Charlie Brown would say that the Obama Administration is weak with no strategy.

Hell,  SNOOPY would say so.

I think Clint Eastwood had Obama identified from the first.

An empty seat with an ego.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 21:36 | 6673712 Freddie
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The real "strategy" was to destroy, cause chaos and weaken Syria, Libya and Iraq. Any countries near a certain country had to be wrecked if they could not be bought off like Turkey and Jordan.

Unfortunately, they largely succeeded.

The pipelines, water and oil (Syria has some and Iraq has lots of it) are the other issues.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:50 | 6672421 Monetas
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That second video speaks to me .... as a Libertarian .... an olive orchard .... represents the hard work of down to earth, productive, conservative people .... in service to mankind by servicing the marketplace .... government worshipping pigs from ISIS .... commandeer it for their ammo dump .... Russians (no strangers to big government) .... bomb the shit out of ISIS .... I'm worried for the orchard owner ?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:09 | 6672526 css1971
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Seriously?

Dead. Beheaded, along with the children. Wife raped and added to the harem.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:54 | 6672434 hcho3
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Obama doesn't like Military and he doesn't care about Syria at all. 

He will probably do nothing. 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:55 | 6672438 alphahammer
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This just in. Hmm... Can someone please find the word Russia in any of that?

Troll away Pooty... The world from Japan to Nigeria see the REAL facts ... Troll away its good for a laugh ...

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OCT 14, 2015

ISIS second-in-command killed in US airstrike. The news was reported by militants from the so-called Islamic State itself. A spokesperson for the radical Wahhabi group has confirmed that Abu Mutaz Qurashi, also known as Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, was killed in an airstrike carried out by American forces.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:04 | 6672493 corsair
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ISIS advertising US airstrikes???

AHAHAHHAAHAHAH

You can't make this shit up :))

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:07 | 6672513 Dark Daze
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Ah yes, the GREAT 'muricans, flying over 300 F-18's, F-15's, F-16's for a year and a half kill (1) IS leader. You people are corrupt to your very core.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:34 | 6672640 alphahammer
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One. Just one. (1) OK. Yes, the US led coalition flying hundreds of missions against ISIS et al and we've only managed to hit one guy...

Hey cowboy, maybe you should laff off the hooch before you hit the keyboard...

BTW why are you so pissed of that we (the US of A) took out ISIS# 2 ? Could it be because you are butt sore because you miss his infectious smile?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:54 | 6672951 Dark Daze
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Listen you little fuck. I am not 'sore' about anything except the 1,000 acres of land you stole from my family and never paid for. But then I digress. You're country is noting more than a cess pool now. Your financial system, banking system, government, military, intelligence service, foreign service, land, war and air are completely destoryed. Congratulations.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:35 | 6673116 gezley
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So NATO finally managed to kill one ISIS guy? How many doctors did they kill last week when their highly sophisticated and unrivalled airforce bombed a hospital?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:25 | 6672609 besnook
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that's what the israelis have been claiming for 40 years about the plo, hamas and hezbollah. it is real dangerous to be second in command in the zionazi propaganda war.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:18 | 6672815 JimmyRainbow
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not 100% sure but i think i read that he was killed a few days/weeks ago

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:31 | 6673095 gezley
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Killed by US airstrikes huh? Was he groom or best man?

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 05:43 | 6674292 conscious being
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That's dark humor. I did laugh. Almost gave me a stroke.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:56 | 6672443 Joe Tierney
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>>>>The Putinator

>>>>The Poosie-nator (or Golfinator)

 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 15:59 | 6672464 john milton
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never bring a golf club to the chess table

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:36 | 6672642 alphahammer
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Unless you have your shirt off and you're riding a hedgehog...

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:00 | 6672473 adonisdemilo
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Putin's strategy seems to me that he wants to destroy ISIS, whilst Obummers strategy is to protect his investments by fomentng perpetual war in the ME.

Fucking idiot's lining up a consultancy in the Military Industrial Complex.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:01 | 6672474 paint it red ca...
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Seems barry has lost his pentagon cover if Putin also considers him a long legged mac daddy without a plan, or a clue....

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:05 | 6672500 Not if_ But When
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I wish during the Democratic debate that someone had brought up the fact that the cunt Hillary Clinton was complicit in formulating and implementing this failed strategy while Secretary of State.  Shit, her miserable performance in this disaster called Middle East foreign policy is perceived by much of the stupid voting public as her having EXPERIENCE in global relations.  F*ck - it should be viewed as a NEGATIVE not a POSTIVE.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 05:46 | 6674293 conscious being
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Never came up? Tells you something doesn't it?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:11 | 6672536 docmac324
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U.S. wars are by design not to be won, just sustained.  Putin is mocking POTUS and demonstrating to the U.S. citizenry how ineffective and maldirected we are.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:23 | 6672543 larz
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It is truly embarrassing watching the community organizer and his crew on the international stage (that includes Hillary)   He should stay on the golf course and let the men ( if there are any ) handle things  I cant atand to hear anymore arrogant speeches while we are being schooled  And his economy sucks at home too 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:13 | 6672557 orangegeek
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barry's oil business partner Vlad is doing a great job thinning the muslim herd.

 

and since Vlad doesn't give a fuck about the lives of his own country men, this battle should resemble genocide.

 

what a wonderful world.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:27 | 6672615 Dark Daze
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If you only knew. Or if you only told the truth, which is something that is completely alien to a 'merican. The Russians have withstoood the Mongol horders, Hitler, the Kazzarians and just about anyting else you care to name. They can survive for months on cabbages and rancid horse meat, their fighters can have their legs blown off and still fight on. 

You pathetic little worm. 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:11 | 6672792 InflammatoryResponse
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I would submit that they aren't as tough as they used to be.  they've not been standing in lines for months to get toilet paper etc. like the old days.

 

 

also, I don't know that they have as many guys with machine guns BEHIND them forcing them to go forward any more either. :)

 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:34 | 6673110 Charming Anarchist
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Look at their competition. 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:13 | 6672800 orangegeek
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The Russians suffered greater losses in WW2 than the Germans.  Have a read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Unio...

 

The Russian army had their asses kicked in Finland by a bunch of farmers on cross country skis with shotguns - you can read about it here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

 

The Russians invaded Afghanistan and were slaughtered by Afghans with US handheld weapons. They did a movie about this - Charlie Wilson's war - I remember the popcorn tasted really good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War

 

And then of course the USSR lost the gold to a bunch of US college kids playing hockey in 1980 - you can find that one on youtube yourself.

 

So you can go suck off your horses / eat your horse meat and do whatever else you do.  barry has no play in House of Saud oil so barry has cut a deal with Vlad and Iran - so Vlad invades what he wants and Iran gets billions from US taxpayers.

 

I would respond with a name for you, but you don't sound very bright - that's punishment enough. 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:52 | 6672942 alphahammer
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OUCH!

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:41 | 6673144 Dark Daze
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Listen up Jew. You will have your stomach ripped out and fed to you whie you are roasting on a spit.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:44 | 6673151 Dark Daze
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Ah yes, the great myth of 'American Exceptionalism'. As a Canuk, I have been living with your lies and your deception all of my life, and frankly, I'm sick to death of it. Shit or get off the pot.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:45 | 6673155 Dark Daze
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You know what I am willing to do you littel fuck. Come to the border. No NSA, no FBI, no CIA, just you and me. And I will deposit your ego in your fucking colon for you.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 21:48 | 6673746 Freddie
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Idiot.  Finns make very good rifles of their own. The Finns were fighting for their lives on their own soil.  the Finn are also exceptionally smart unlike Trayvon fan boys like yourself.

The Soviets used conscripts who they did not give a shit about - sort of like the Bushes, Clintons and Obama concern for American kids getting killed, blown up and maimed for nothing.

Go back to watching your Hollywood idiot movies.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 05:51 | 6674297 conscious being
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Russians always had great soldiers, but mostly bad leadership. Now they have the leadership thing worked out.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:52 | 6672707 ndree
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i would say that it is the unworthy peace prize holder in the WH who takes a truly grusome pleasure in bloody killings, be it via drones, hospital bombings, beheadings, and bombings...... Dracula is having an orgy!

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:14 | 6672562 atomicwasted
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The Russians are the new masters of epic trolling.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:20 | 6672583 E.F. Mutton
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I spent the entire Reagan administration in the Navy - when it was a real Navy and not a social tolerance testing ground.  That I would someday find myself cheering the Russian President over our own is....I don't even have a word for that.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:24 | 6672602 Lumberjack
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Patriotic.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:38 | 6672655 alphahammer
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Idiotic. There fixed it for you. You're welcome.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:39 | 6673132 Dark Daze
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Hmmm. Seems like we have anothr Jew spy to deal with. Go get him boyz.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 06:00 | 6674301 conscious being
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Dude, that's embarassing. Look, just ignore him. Don't play. His stuff is so weak it's self-parody.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:29 | 6672625 besnook
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you're a fn ttttttuuuuuurrrrrriiiiiissssssstttttt. your own .gov actuially has the right to incarcerate you without  a charge against you.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:37 | 6672650 alphahammer
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Yes because Russia is the last great bastion of free speech and rule of law...

Cough cough ha...

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:46 | 6672690 besnook
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when the ground is level only the winner matters. god bless the usa and putin. fuck the zionazis once and for all!

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:39 | 6672659 yomutti
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"stupid" and "misinformed" would both be good choices.

 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:43 | 6672680 PoasterToaster
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Putin is a Russian for Russia.  In the US we have figureheads imposing the will of slavemasters.'

The US Military is degraded and atritted.  The fighting spirit is gone because the lies have been exposed.  There is very little else to do but retreat and rebuild.

The Oligarchs will expend every bit of it and leave the country at the mercy of an angry world.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:19 | 6672819 alphahammer
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Well AlfredNeuman, thanks for firing up another ID (or 6) to let everyone know you are still here. You can fly into your short man rage any minute now -- and with your well worn cerebral attacks. If you want to stay in the game though, I'd suggest a whole new crop of lies to peddle. Even the most ardent "paid by the post" Rutrolls are sick of your incessant shit.

BTW  "In the US we have" 

"we" have what? Unless your cartography skills are leading your to believe that the Netherlands is in the US. That would make perfect sense though.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:37 | 6673124 Dark Daze
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idiot

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:52 | 6673168 Bay of Pigs
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As a 6 week member of ZH, how the hell would you know that?

GTFO troll.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 01:33 | 6674125 Tall Tom
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Because he has also been operating under different usernames in the past...just like DutchBoy2015....er AlfredNeumann...er et al.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:29 | 6672863 Dark Daze
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Yep. You have shit where you eat. God help you.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:55 | 6672730 Crocodile
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I do not have a word, but I do have a phrase..."God has abandoned U.S. because we abandoned Him".  Proof?

 

When God Abandons a Nation

 

http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/80-314/when-god-abandons-a-nation?T...

 

Even the most God-hating person can learn something here.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:08 | 6672776 Victor999
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And after all that support you have given Israel, His Chosen!...my my....

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 21:17 | 6673646 inosent
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lots of issues  here. I think it was George Mason that said, to the effect, 'God' does not punish a nation. He put it this way, 'national sins produce national calamities'

In other words, bad policy, bad acts and bad actors lead to bad results. It might look like to the bible thumping crowd like 'God' is up to some sort of divine 'punishment', but I just asked him the other day, he threw his hands up at me and said. "hey, dont look at me"

To sync with your comment about the zionist agenda, these little jewish weasels have been running around whispering in the ears of our leaders, and finding one way after the other to subvert the integrity of our national security, short and long term, to fall all over themselves to do as they had been advised. My post would run on for 600 pages with examples just in the 20th century alone, but they are all there.

This subversion led to no less than the federal reserve act, the IRS, the 16th amendment, entree into the 1st european war, as well as the second, and the cramming down the throat of the rest of the world in 1948 to force the jewish state into existence.

That has cause a lot of trouble and 10s of millions of deaths, and unspeakable misery for so many people. No time to get into what the jew commies and bolshevists did to native russians from ~1914-1960.

I find it truly odd that these zealous zionist christians today, who shed tears in church on Sunday morning as the preacher talks about how they all must support the jews and israel, because if we dont, the quote Gen 12:3 (bless them that bless the jew/israel, curse them that dont etc), yet even from a *christian* point of view, like, you know, opposing homosexual marriages, abortions, pornography - they cry out in loud prayers 'Oh God, what has happened to our country? Why have you taken the blessing away?"!

Um, wait, so, all the indicators - speaking *strictly* from a christian point of view - are we are a little short on blessings lately (haha), but the last time I checked, we TOTALLY suck jew wood, POUR BILLIONS of foreign aid to israel, and let the jew DOMINATE the nation and culture and let the jew DEGRADE it into oblivion, and we DARE not say anything because that would be 'anti-semitic', and if we do that, we will get the big curse of Gen 12:3!

omg, if it wasnt so stupid and seriously ironic, it would be really funny.

I don't like to talk about my own 'religious' experience, because, well, I can say some spicy things, and ppl cant handle an apparent contradiction, but if there is such a thing, it surely happened to me decades ago, the so-called 'born-again' experience. A modern day zionist christian suck up would call me a heretic, but I think I have been pretty consistent. I dont find *anywhere* even in the christian holy book where there is *anything* that indicates Jesus would be supportive of *any* of the manifest machiavellian BS pushed in the face of the whole world by these frausters that call themselves jews, but dont have any racial or geographic connection to the ME.

The list of ironies is a million miles long. The good news is the truth is pretty obvious, and if I finally figured it out, so will many others, and the sun will set on the zionist threat to the world, which affects *everybody*, atheist, christian, or otherwise.

And I dont want to leave out islamic meglamania, because that is very real as well, but that seems to be more of a regional threat. The jew zionist thing is major cancer, islam maglamania a lower level cancer. christians are harmless once they stop supporting the synagogue of satan, and the buddhists and hindus get really high marks because you *never* hear any sort of this trouble coming from their part of the world. Considering we are talking about 3 Billion ppl, that is a very good thing indeed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 22:43 | 6673872 Rhett72
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While I agree with much of what you have said here regarding Christian brainwashing, don't go too easy on the Hindus and Buddhists.  Hindu fanatics have killed thousands of Muslims in India (most recently slaughtered some poor Muslim kid for eating beef), and the Buddhist fanatics in Myanmar have been going around setting innocent Muslim villagers on fire.

 

The problem is not any one religion, nor is any religion exempt.  The problem is fanaticism and lack of empathy for our fellow human beings.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 23:14 | 6673930 inosent
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ok, fact checks never go out of style. "The problem is fanaticism and lack of empathy for our fellow human beings" good quote.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 20:52 | 6673565 inosent
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ha - well, wow, yes, things have really changed. RR was a little, uh, off, but he oozed love of country. Charismatic SOB that single handedly neutralized the soviet threat. "Mr. Gorbachev (sp?), tear down that wall!". Now Russia is the christian nation and the uSa is, eeeww, i dont even know *what* it is ...

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:29 | 6672622 Anopheles
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The difference isn't the military of Russia or the US, it's the leadership.

Putin doesn't have all the hand wringing, faux outcries of indignity if even one civilian gets injured.   Putin just doesn't care.   It's THEIR fault if they are in the wrong place.   So what if ISIL is hiding in a hospital, that DOESN'T MATTER, the Russians still will blast them to their "paradise" 

Yet when the west does the same thing?  There's a media frenzy along with all the hand wringing, outrage, etc.  And obumer doesn't have the stones to tell the media to f'off. 

 

 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:46 | 6672689 Crocodile
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Obama vows to speed up ‘training ISIL’

 

https://www.rt.com/usa/272470-obama-training-isis-slip/

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:06 | 6672768 Victor999
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You are so intelligent!  Now I realise why Russia is refusing to bomb mosques even though terrorists might be there, and why the US targets hospitals even when terrorists aren't there....Oh wait!....

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:31 | 6672634 besnook
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still no welcome wagon for israel's new host, russia.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:47 | 6672692 Teh Finn
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Those no bid contracts for Gazprom must be pretty sweet.  Just got to clear the brownies out of the way so they can steal the oil and gas.

 

Is there a rus version of code pink and Cindy sheehan?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 16:52 | 6672722 besnook
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anyone around dc see aipac packing up to move to moscow?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:09 | 6672780 Karl von Bahnhof
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They are not finished with US yet

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:06 | 6672770 blindman
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inspired post i say.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:07 | 6672772 Pumpkin
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Obama had a strategy and Putin is blowing it up.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:17 | 6672811 Dark Daze
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Obanama, more concerned with his own life than the lives of 330 Million Americans went over the the dark side years ago. 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:39 | 6672901 Bazza McKenzie
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Hope and change!

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:07 | 6672773 Atomizer
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Pentagon funding bill on Obama's desk: $600 mln to Syrian rebels ...

Those folks need UN financial aid. How can we make profit if Russia interferes? That Goddamn bridge loan into Sophisticated War Loans to Wall Street is going to implode. 

The Magazine of Wall Street - Google Books Result

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:09 | 6672781 taopraxis
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Boom, bust...ka-boom. Nothing new, here. War is profitable for the oligarchs and their government puppets.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:14 | 6672804 milking institute
Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:14 | 6672805 Able Ape
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In Syria, I don't believe that a peaceful protest morphed into such a destructive force that it destroyed entire cities and resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and refugees.  After most peaceful protests, the people go home and have supper with their family.  I seriously doubt if the protesters withdrew their life-savings and pooled their money together to buy armaments to take down Assad.  This action has the stamp of the USA and Israel.  I mean think about it folks, what happens after a peaceful protest in a country that has a totally intact infrastructure and most people have jobs to do and families to feed....

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:20 | 6672827 alphahammer
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Funny how quickly a barrel bomb dropped on your town will change that...

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:00 | 6672980 Amun
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Israelis rain phosphorous bombs over Gaza - https://electronicintifada.net/content/israelis-rain-phosphorous-bombs-over-gaza/7965

U.S. military’s extensive use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus in Iraq - http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/20/ten_years_later_us_has_left

NATO bombed civilians in Serbia with depleted uranium - http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150325/1019984112.html

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 19:40 | 6673321 Sparkey
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What is a Barrel bomb Alphahammer ? this is a serious question and I'm asking an 'Expert'?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:20 | 6672825 LoveTruth
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".... the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based group.. " 

Know that this is a one man show, run by an Arab in London from his home and guess who tells him what to say.

Obviously he is told what to say and write.
Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:30 | 6673092 ross81
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close enough...he's in Coventry.

 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:22 | 6672826 LoveTruth
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".... the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based group.. " 

Know that this is a one man show, run by an Arab in London from his home and guess who tells him what to say and write? 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:25 | 6672839 Jack Burton
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Breaking News on CNN's 5:00PM report.

Speaking of Syria, CNN quotes USA sources as saying: "Putin may be winning now, but he will soon be on the losing end."

This was reported by Wolf Blitzer as a quote from the US Government sources.

Read that and tell me it is not a direct threat. " He will soon be on the losing end", end quote!

That tells me, that Washington, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UK and other hangers on, are about begin a massive airlift of arms, supplies and terrorists to flood Syria with forces to take this war to a totally different level.

The real threat in this statement though, is it means the ISIS will soon be sporting the latest MANPAD anti Aircraft MissileSystems. The USA will repeat Afghanistan in the 80's, where US Stinger Manpads lifted Taliban to victory.

I expect a Russian aircraft loss shortly. It all depends on how willing Obama is to have the missiles traced right back to the CIA.

If and when this happens, Russia may seal all of Syrian Air Space using the Naval Ships in Tartus and their modern navalized version of S-300, and other medium range AA missiles.

We are teetering on the brink. I don't say that lightly. The USA will not allow Russia and Syria to defeat ISIS. You can quote me on that!

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:36 | 6672885 Dark Daze
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We are so far beyond the brink it isn't even funny. The onl funny thing is that the 'mericans think they can win. The Talumd Jews have destroyed America.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:38 | 6672892 Bazza McKenzie
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Syria is not Afghanistan and Obama is not Reagan, and it does not matter how much weapons are supplied if all those who might use them are dead.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:40 | 6672909 alphahammer
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"The USA will not allow Russia and Syria to defeat ISIS"

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Meanwhile back on Planet Earth.

ISIS confirms killing of No. 2 in U.S. airstrike

Agence France Presse

BEIRUT: ISIS’ spokesman confirmed Tuesday the killing of the militant organization’s second in command in a U.S. airstrike.

“America is rejoicing over the killing of Abu Mutaz al-Qurashi and considers this a great victory,” Abu Mohammad al-Adnani said in an audio recording posted on jihadi websites. Adnani did not say, however, in what circumstances Qurashi died.

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This week, a Pentagon official anonymously told USA Today that the U.S.-led air campaign against ISIS had killed 20,000 of the group’s fighters in just over a year. That figure was up from July, when “military and intelligence estimates” suggested that 15,000 members of the Islamic State had been killed.

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And Hmm. HOW is this possible?

ISIS Makes Gains in Syria Territory Bombed by Russia

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Islamic State registered significant gains on Friday in the area of northwestern Syria that Russian warplanes have been bombing, taking six villages near Aleppo and threatening to cut off an important route north to the Turkish border. Late in the day, there were reports that rebels had reasserted control in one village.

 

 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:03 | 6672995 Berspankme
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killed for the eighth time, good propaganda

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:03 | 6672996 Berspankme
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killed for the eighth time, good propaganda

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:12 | 6673029 trulz4lulz
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"Agence France Presse

BEIRUT: ISIS’ spokesman confirmed Tuesday the killing of the militant organization’s second in command in a U.S. airstrike."

Intersting, nato forces have direct communications with isis spokesmen? They should share such information with the world.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:59 | 6673188 alphahammer
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Perhaps you've heard, ISIS loves Twitter and all social media. But nobody watches or listens to that stuff right?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 19:06 | 6673204 trulz4lulz
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Holy shit youre an exceptionally stupid human. either that, or you are software. which is it?

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 20:46 | 6673546 bid the soldier...
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dude

ISIS couldn't wait to get the death of their No.2 boss out on twitter, those craszy motherfuckers.

Or maybe because Russia is having such a success lately, Obama ordered the ISIS wing of the American Forces in Syria to release that news to make the USA look better?  And that the No.2 was actually killed by the Russians 3 days earlier?

You crazy dude.  :oD

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 18:15 | 6673042 Dark Daze
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Give it up dickwad. It's over.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 21:34 | 6673703 cheech_wizard
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http://www.theonion.com/article/eighty-percent-of-al-qaeda-no-2s-now-dea...

WASHINGTON, DC—The Pentagon announced Monday that 80 percent of Osama bin Laden's seconds-in-command have been eliminated. "Nearly 1,600 al-Qaeda leaders ranked number two have been wiped out," Lt. Col. Mark Allison said. "That leaves only 400 of Osama bin Laden's right-hand men in the organization." Following the apparent failure to kill bin Laden's No. 2 man Ayman al-Zawahri in a missile strike on a Pakistani border town on Jan. 13, American forces intensified the search for al-Qaeda second-in-command Ahmed Al-Zahnami, or, failing that, No. 2 man Amman al-Zaharani, or No. 2 man Ahmed al-Zafarani.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 17:59 | 6672974 trulz4lulz
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That is most certainly a direct threat. Im pretty speechless about a lot of things going on in this world anymore...i come here to read comments and insightful articles. carry on....

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