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Russia Bombs 1,000 ISIS Oil Tankers As France Launches First Carrier Strikes Against "Evil Death Cult"
Two days ago, we noted that both France and the US were rushing aircraft carriers toward the Syrian coast.
The French dispatched the nuclear powered, $3.5 billion Charles de Gaulle on Saturday while the US sent the CVN-75 Harry Truman last Monday. The departure of the CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt from the Persian Gulf a month ago had left the entire 5th Naval Fleet without a US carrier presence for the first time in a decade.
But not for long.
At last check, the Truman was already approaching Gibraltar.
(the Charles de Gaulle)
(Harry Truman)
Meanwhile, the Charles de Gaulle has arrived and the carrier's jets have flown their first combat missions. As RT reports, "the presence of 26 military aircraft aboard the Charles de Gaulle triples French forces in the region, adding to the 12 planes already stationed in the UAE and Jordan: six Rafale and six Mirage 2000 aircraft."
"We will intensify our strikes, we will choose targets that will do the most damage possible to the terrorist army," Francois Hollande proclaimed (a note to the French President: if that's really your goal, you might want to source your "intelligence" from someone other than Washington).
Interestingly, France isn't confining its strikes to Syria. As AFP reports, French warplanes engaged targets in Ramadi and Mosul on Monday:
France launched air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq on Monday in the first sorties from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, newly deployed in the eastern Mediterranean.
"We carried out strikes in Ramadi and Mosul in support of ground forces that were pushing against troops of (the Islamic State group)," said army chief of staff General Pierre de Villiers, aboard the carrier.
He said planes from the Charles de Gaulle would launch strikes against IS targets in Syria, including command and recruitment centres as well as oil facilities, in "a matter of hours or days".
Rafale jets catapulted from the carrier's flight deck on Monday morning, an AFP reporter saw.
Meanwhile, the Russians have stepped up strikes on ISIS oil tankers as the debate heats up in the US about why the Obama administration is just now beginning to target Islamic State's main source of revenue. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Moscow's warplanes have destroyed 1,000 tankers carrying "stolen crude" to refineries in the last five days alone. The Kremlin is also targeting depots and refineries near Raqqa, and because we're talking about the Russians here, you know they took plenty of pictures.
Here's the destruction of "an object at the terrorists' oil production plant":
And here's a strike on "facilities of oil production, storage, and processing":
We wonder whether the Russians, like the Americans, dropped leaflets 45 minutes ahead of time letting ISIS know that airstrikes were imminent.
In any event, both the skies above Syria and the waters off its coast are becoming quite crowded these days, and the "parking lot" in the Mediterranean will only become more cramped once the Truman shows up. And just in case things weren't complicated enough, David Cameron is now seeking Parliamentary approval to join the air campaign and has given the French permission to use Britain’s RAF base in Cyprus to launch anti-ISIS strikes. On that note, we'll close with a rather amusingly hyperbolic quote from the British PM:
“The United Kingdom will do all in our power to support our friend and ally France to defeat this evil death cult.”
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Water bombs? just kidding
The Franklin Roosevelt [CVN71] carrier group pulled into San Diego overnight.
Russia has moved well beyond bombing:
11.23 BREAKING: Russian Military Begins Ground Operations inside Syria"Moscow's warplanes have destroyed 1,000 tankers carrying "stolen crude" to refineries in the last five days alone."
about fuckin time
Oh, the French aircraft carrier! They should’ve brought their “impenetrable” Maginot Line too. ;-)
France has developed an interesting pattern – it declares wars and immediately surrenders.
Why this Kabuki Theater with the aircraft carrier?
Why not surrender to ISIS, as they’ve done before, and let the Nike-wearing ragheads march through the Arc De Triomphe and down the Champs Elysees and get it over with?
A single croissant, along with a cup of coffee and a cigarette, will quickly cure any patriotic discomfort. ;-)
Looney
It's routine maintenance. French boats, like themselves, only bathe once a year.
813kml wins post of the night hands down, hell, maybe the month!
isnt this bombing exactly what trump said to do/ he would do?
The friggin carriers don't look so hard to sink with modern missiles, just sayin' sitting ducks!
It's the greatest threat global security has ever faced.
All the weapons in the world won't matter once ISIS army kick into gear!
http://goo.gl/lBRD5v
The USA will counteract this action by dropping pallets of Greenbacks to their ISIS employees badly in need of their pay
lol.
Zut alors!
@813kml
Stupid racist comment
If in 1940 the US would have laid immediately adjacent to France the Germans would have conquered that country as well with their Blitz because the Americans were not prepared for war at the time at all. The French put up a big fight losing 100,000 men of whom thousands perished guarding the English so they could get out of Dunkirk.
They lost because they were stuck with old generals and old tactics believing it would be a rerun of 1914-1918. On paper France had a bigger army than the Germans and were equally armed in tanks and heavy weaponry. But not so much in air force. Germans had better tactics with integrated warfare. After they broke at Sedan the advancing German tanks were protected by anti tank guns and Stuka bombers taking out French tanks. That is how the German tanks advanced to the coast.
Military tactics evolve. Air craft carriers were part of that but their time might also be up soon.
... er ... the BEF was totally surrounded, no frogs in sight. Goerring promised to reduce them through air-power alone, so the Wermacht concentrated on the frogs.
On paper and in reality the French Army was bigger, it was just significantly out-Generaled and failed to concentrate their armour for an effective counter-attack/counter-penetration.
Aircraft carriers weren't really in play until the japs sunk the main force at Pearl, leaving only the carriers. (1942 vs. 1939). Japs should have bombed the oil, just like today going after IS.
- Ned
@Looney
Ah, the 'ol French surrender jokes !
These old English racist jokes have been revivified since 2003 by the hate of american warmongers against France, and this hate still persists even in ZH.
All this ugly disdain and nasty jokes come from the firm refusal of the French to join America in Irak, in 2003.
Since France refused to go to Iraq, American warmongers and neo-cons made French army look like cowards – as a punishment.
But History has proved the French were right, and that the WMD were only a dirty trick to serve as a pretext.
Nevertheless, the hate of American warmongers against France remains still there, well alive, even in ZH.
This stale hate still shows through "innocent good jokes" about the “surrender monkeys” and their white flags …
As for the rest, the French can be proud of their Military History:
According to the British historian Niall Ferguson, since 387 BC, France has fought 168 major wars against such badasses as the Roman Empire, the British Army and the Turkish forces. Their track record isn't too shabby, either: They've won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10 times.
This makes France the most successful military power in European history - in terms of number of fought and won …
The French have succeeded to conquer and guard the largest country in Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_France
I'd wager my left nut Russia didn't give the "drivers" a warning.
I'll double that and include all my nuts.
They were ALL warned, about a month ago, in a speech at the UN.
Moose, Rocco..... help the boys settle up.
Is John Kerry-Kohn screaming like a little bitch begging for a ceasefire as Russia, Syria and Hezbollah kick Daesh, ISIL, ISIS ass?
The USA is such a corrupt joke.
No boots on the ground! No boots on the ground!...lmao!
No No one is proving this. No evidence.
Hez is doing job there.
PTI,
The Jeruselm Post call Assad a "dictator"....funny I thought he was elected by a majority of the Syrian people...the hmyies doing what they do best...lies and distortion...
Can we please have a picture of their warning pamphlets, eh, leaflets?
The Russian leaflets are shown at the end of this article.
https://www.rt.com/news/323065-syria-airstrikes-terrorists-russia/
Messages simple and direct are best...
Did the US drop leaflets or Passports full of Food Stamp Vouchers?
Indoctrinated Mizzou kids stage sit in.
#ISISLivesMatter
They find soon a different hash tag.
#MizzouDiplomasMatterNot
Indoctrinated is rayciss you, you hater! They are enlightened cultural warriors, paving the way for inclusiveness and free shit for most.
Thank dumb white male Americans who cheer for Trayvon thug and Jameis rapist ball players like the ones at U of Mizzou. The dumb whites of Mizzou are too stupid to stop watching these thugs.
Trayvon is the unarmed kid who got shot dead, right?
That sometimes happens when you MMA pound on a dude carrying a gun.
So that's a yes? Unarmed kid shot dead, right?
The ZeroHedge Klansters would have no problem deciding the Dred Scott case!
Sometimes you don't have to be armed to deserve to be shot...if you threaten someone's life in any way, they have the right to respond with deadly force.
ZH Klansters - namecalling doesn't hurt anyones feelings around here you bitch.
Unarmed MAN, commiting assault on another man
down with the banks
Kind of like flying in airspace that you were invited into to stop ISIS and a USSA supplied airplane sneaks up and shoots you down in your own airspace.
oops
Trayvon is the kid whose freemason father handed him over as a blood sacrifice so he could advance in the ranks. The rabbit hole runs deep.
He was the UNARMED kid, wasn't he?
He got what he was looking for.
He got White Justice.
That's what he was looking for, apparently.
Mistake.
Booyah!!! The truth hurts sometimes, and often spanks.
Yep, an angelic-faced 8 year old who bravely faced down white supremacy in his bucolic suburban neighborhood to walk to the corner store and buy some skittles and cough syrup for his ailing mother. Trayvon, who was stalked, hunted, and gunned down in cold-blood by a racist, hateful "White-Hispanic" supremacist, lives on in the hearts and minds of all Goodthink Americans to this very day.
Don't listen to Freddie: If Americans give up our football and rap idols, then the supremacists win. Don't let them win.
He was unarmed, right?
Give it a rest with the "unarmed" nonsense. The legal test is whether or not the party who uses deadly force in self-defense has a reasonable fear for his life. An assailant need not be armed in order to prompt a reasonable fear for one's life. Have you ever heard the phrase "beaten to death with his bare hands"? The person administering the beating need not be armed; bare hands are sufficient.
I'm glad you're worried about "legal" definitions!
Legal definitions matter. That is why Zimmerman was acquitted despite the entire gov arrayed against him.
he had two arms and two legs
Pushin' buttons like a derivatives merchant, ZeroHedge! Keep downvoting statements of fact!
Do it frequently enough, and the Rosco Purvis Coltrane fan club may actually change history!
"There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous men" - RAH
I wonder what 3 days without food would do to an SJW...? Or perhaps two weeks without gasoline for their cars...
Dropping their iPhone data speed from 4G LTE to 3G would result in self-immolation.
Wait waging war by taking out your enemies funding? What a unique approach. Meanwhile somewhere in New York a trader is balling up in the fetal position screaming no, not the oil over and over again.
Don't have to look in the desert, there are death cults with Carrier Groups.
Well I already posted this on the other thread:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/23/pentagon-skeptical-claims-russia-hit-1000-isis-tankers.html
I'm sure truck fans would rather not see so many trucks harmed, maybe we can switch to neutron bombs, or bacon fat.
The Pentagram knows it's total BS because Israel only gave ISIS 999 tankers.
Nigel, you're on a roll tonight
I got 99 problems, but the tankers ain't one.
Not water
Liberté & égalité ones
Bringing you democracy whether you want it or not
"France Launches First Carrier Strikes Against "Evil Death Cult"
France bombing zion?
ressurecting the Dreyfus Affair, n'est ce pas?
The only good ISIS is a dead ISIS....
All the dead monkeys in the world won't stop a determined organ grinder.
Where are these American service kids from 2 years ago?...
Tell ya what...
It's gonna have to come from them again saying fucking "no" because the taxpayer that is sending them to sure death this time around don't know and don't give a good God damn!
Those were not "warning pamphlets." They were pre-approved passport applications.
Funny how the MSM has wood over Obuttfuck bombing oil tankers about 3 days after Russia showed them how
Travel alert for all Americans....
False flag coming down the chute. Ground invasion of Syria to follow. The Spice must flow.
The Sleeper must Awaken.
Sleeping Beauty, Lady Liberty?
A NEW LOW: US TV Depicts Russian ISIS Tanker Strikes as American
http://russia-insider.com/en/us-tv/ri11374
They teamed up, of course- US dropped the leaflets, Russia dropped the bombs.
If you've been saving your popcorn for the big show it's three minutes till curtain.
I'm just sitting here stupified watching everyone in the world allegedly fighting the same enemy.
At this point it's all about who can claim high-score.
Now we're waiting for the 100th monkey, just like OG fight club founding member and president Michael Ruppert PBUH.
When will Joe Sixpack wake the F up and what, if anything, will he do with the epiphany?
A French, an English, and an American soldier all walk into a bar in Syria.
A Russian, Iranian, and a Syrian soldier all look up from the bar at them...
russia didn't give them the 45 minute warning
Man those Russian Kalibr Nk cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea on tiny littoral class small ships are really accurate.
Nothing like those shitty and easy to shoot down zog-Raytheon Tomahawks-zio missiles. Built by union shit heads at Raytheon. Or the useless and insnaely expensive F-35 joke on US taxpayers.
The Russian military academies must still be teaching "how to win a war", whereas the U.S. academies are teaching women's studies, how to fight gender inequality, how to avoid offending Muslims, and how to order gay and lesbian wedding cakes. Any of the old school fighters on the U.S. side are being squeezed out, classified as dinosaurs, or simply being ignored.
Don't forget every knob-slobbing white nerd with a pulse getting a pointless degree in business administration, marketing, or finance.
Funny how corporate pimps and whores get a pass, and people who care about women get ridiculed.
My god ( that would be Odin) you are liitle
menstruating pussy!!!
Really??? You need to go to college for 4 years to care about women???
Let me tell you what women care about. They care about men who are men. Not litle sniveling bleeding menginas.
Well I'll just bet that not one graduate of any Russian military academy can walk in high heels.
Not one.
Funny how the "terrorist" attacks never target the neocon f*cks who are driving these policies.
hm, russian munitions dont have the accuracy of their american counterparts, so why arent we hearing folks talk about civilian casualties?
oh yea thats right, the russians are hitting isis not abdul while he's having a wedding or birthday bash.
If there ever was an 8 minute video segment that could possibly wake-up Americans about the real nature of ISIS, this would certainly be a contender. This is worthy of sharing. Share it. -- Eric Dubin, Managing Editor, The News Doctors
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The One Thing You Need to Know About ISIS
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=547628
Nice FW
Whooda Node?
Good link. If you haven't already, take a watch.
Don't believe the French
Recent Presidents are sneaks
They boosted these beasts by attacking Libya
The French are the sneakiest bastards on the planet ( the secret service that is ). Libya and most of west africa is against them for their murderous imperialistic passion.
Wasn't France fighting for Total S.A. (french oil company) in Libya? My guess is the Red Shield is a major shareholder in Total S.A.
Freddie i'm still expecting a Goldman ISIS IPO if Russia cuts off all the crude shipments.
Isn't Jonathan Pollard, the Ami Jew who did some serious spying for Israel getting a job at Goldman Sachs now that the Kikes have sprung him ? Serioulsy, I heard he's going to work on Wall Street.
The "leadership" group of ISIS look like high scholl kids, yet they have the whole world chasing them. This is like a bad movie
Shame,everything was going to Plan for Barry and the Hemorrhoids and Russia have kicked that into touch. Plan B? Sorry we don have no steenkin Plan B.
Am just delighted for the Real Syrian Army who hung tough unlike their Iraqi counterparts and will now enjoy the benefits of their courage in the face of adversity.
Fuck you Obama you banker's errand boy.
Destroy the infrastructure so there's reconstruction contracts to give out.
You know it's all BS when they could just quarantine the entire area in a siege and wait them out.
Barry is blaming the intelligence experts for giving him a rosy picture. This is a guy who gets his daily securty briefing on his laptop. Seriously, no one-on-one, no asking of questions, no nuttin'.
Seems like I read recently that Obama skips over 50% of his daily security briefings...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-bogus-claim-that-obama-skips-his-intelligence-briefings/2012/09/22/100cb63e-04fc-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_blog.html
Not sure if it's bogus or not, but it seemed to read that he didn't attend many face to face meetings.
It's hard to appear intelligent, or anything other than a dim-witted useless piece of shit if that's what you are, when it's face to face.
It's all scripted.
A blind man could see this.
One thousand tankers ??? Does ISIS (or ISIL or Al Quida or FSA, or whatever the flavor is today in the MSM) own all the ocean going tankers ? Who owns ISIS (ha, ha), bet some group of investors is pissed enough to start a war with Russia now.
NOW?
We've always been at war with Eurasia.
What a show of crap. The alleged terrorist in France were EU citizens, stinking Moslem arabs born in France and adjoining countries. So the Fench are going to bomb sand in Syria? Idea: round up all Arabs in France, raze their Mosque' and kick the smelly, rape ape bastards out of France.
I don't think anyone without intel saw this coming. I sure didn't.
Looking to the future is bringing back hanting memories of a joke I made last year.
"If things go hot in Syria, you won't have to wait till December for Peter Jackson's The Battle Of Five Armies."
Countries with(known) forces in Syria, other than Syria.
Russia
Iran
Lebanon
USA
France
Britain (2 weeks?)
Israel
Turkey(?)
Just guessing here, but it looks like NATO is getting into Syria individually, and not as NATO, under the guise of fighting ISIS while there are still some of them left.
I just don't think they are going to go home after the expulsion. They are going to use some dipshit excuse to continue to remove Assad.
Whether or not Russia fight them or assists with a transition of sorts remains to be seen, but I am pretty sure they have already stated their stance on the matter.
Yes you euroPeons never learn
You were cannibals in ancient times
You ate the neanderthal humans to extinction
Then you turned to Piracy , stealing others ships, killing & looting
Then you became colonialists , (East India company) , you looted the nations & caused poverty & famine which killed millions
Now you became co-conspirators with satan america for looting the whole world , toppling govts. millions dead in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Vietnam...
Unless & until blood of euroPeons & americans is not spilled on streets you remain intoxicated, impudent & hungry for money
The Russians and Chinese know they will be invited in to rebuild all of this destroyed infrastucture.
Those tank farm losses are going to hurt!
It is not Obama's fault. For the past year and a half no one told our Commander in Chief that the targets were there or how they could be destroyed. But thank goodness the Russians and the French have much better intelligence and are more capable at making decisions and getting results. But then again maybe Obama is just more compassionate about the truck drivers and refinery workers like he is more compassionate about the people who snuck into the country illegally. At least he will be remembered for being compassionate.
The Russians, French, Jordanians,etc. have the ability to drop pinpoint bombs on targets...they do not have the ability to drop pinpoint leaflets...only the US has this capability...
when enough support bombers from other countries arrive...the US is going to disengage from bombing and start a massive leaflet campaign... using reverse pyschology the leaflets will basically say..."Allah has spoken...lay down your weapons...surrender...there is no more room in Allah heaven..we are working on a backlog of matyrs and need time to process them...we will keep in touch when the backlog is completed... stay tuned for further developments..."
Something tells me that the price of petrol is about to go sky high in Tel Aviv.
NAhhh... The Zio's will have the Golan Heights crude refined for them close to home...
Russia is spreading propaganda but is deceiving the public into thinking that they are trying to obliterate ISIS. They are not
They are targeting the anti-Assad rebels more.
http://www.vox.com/2015/10/7/9471271/russia-syria-bombing-map
In the grand scheme, is there a difference?
Rebels or invaders, at the end of the day they are all backed by joo-bucks.
Speaking of, wait till Russia reminds Israel that they have been occupying Syrian territory since the 70's and it's prob time to go home.
They came to remove invaders and that is exactly what they are.
@sumo. The Russians have been flying over 100 sorties a day for nearly two months. Your map shows about sixty strikes, thus many of those must be multiple strikes so it's a pretty useless chart - the smaller nmber of ISIS targets may have been whacked hundreds of times - we have no way of knowing.
Russia is entitled to prioritise its targets and obviously supporting the SAA against US-backed terrorists is one such priority. Russia hasn't deceived me, I was always told it was just going after terrorists, ISIL included. I can understand the US being pissed off at seeing their boys wiped ot.
All those ISIS photo ops of long trails of white Toyotas - the 'parades' that took place in the desert without a bush to hide behind. You know the U.S. saw all that via satellite. Hard to think of easier targets.
2016 will feature 50 cal. outfitted Touregs...
It's like the old boys going to a shootin range to let off a few thousand rounds... Gotta keep the Military Industrial Complexes cranking out those weapons and preparing for future generations of blowback to come...
I$I$, the last pathetic gasp of the blood-spattered Saudi Mercan toilet paper petroscrip called the dollah. Mother Russia is plunging the USSAN Ponzi shitter and nothing will be the same when this is over. Next up the Crypt of Saud when the I$I$ fecal matter seeps into Merca's last dollah latrine.
Onward to Obomberville....even more spectacular than Hooverville.
And why wouldn't Russia also target anti Syria government rebels, you know the ones sponsored by Israel/Saudi/USA to overthrow the legitimate government?
The illegal thing is the evil axis Israel-Saud-USA regime chaning in the Middle East, trying thow out existing governments to install puppet governments.
Russia is a Syrian ally, and has bases in Syria, so of course they will help Syria against a foreign sponsored coup. that would and should be the right thing to do no? Given also that it was Turkey that gas bombed Syrian civilians as a false flag and not Assad.
Gone are the days that assume .. if the USA is doing it it must be ok.
Get a load of the carrier names - DeGaulle, Truman and Roosevelt. All that's missing is for Cameron to send in the Churchill.
If it is true that the nefarious powers of the west are supporting Russia in wiping out ISIS, then I have to believe they have some other evil cooked up. It could be related to the attacks in Paris and Brussels. Perhaps Russia and Putin proved too formidable and popular for them. So they needed an imaginary enemy within their borders to shake public resistance. They can't lose, and a state of war negates all spending restraints.
cui bono? The Russian economy needs higher oil prices.