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US Aircraft Carrier Harry Truman Is Now In The Mediterranean, Approaching Syria Coast - Full US Naval Map

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Days before the dramatic military escalation between Turkey and Russia, we reported that in order to assure that the Syria proxy war has all the naval support the US-led alliance will need in the coming weeks, both a French and a US aircraft carrier were "steaming" full speed toward the Mediterranean sea, just off the coast of Syria.

As we noted, "the Truman is expected to reach the Persian Gulf before the year’s end. The U.S. has been launching air strikes into Iraq and Syria from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf — at least until last month, when the USS Theodore Roosevelt left the area after an extended deployment. The two-month gap is the first in nearly a decade that the U.S. has had no carrier in the region."

Specifically, we emphasized the ETA, to wit "Once again, here is the ETA: Carrier Theodore Roosevelt left 5th Fleet in mid-October, leaving that region without a carrier until the Truman CSG gets there, which should be about six weeks, or just around the New Year" and pointed out just how busy the "parking lot" would be when the US aircraft carrier arrived. According to the Navy Times, whom we cited"

ISIS is not the only challenge that awaits the flotilla, which includes the cruiser Anzio, Carrier Wing Air 7, and destroyers Bulkeley, Gravely and Gonzalez. Russian, Chinese and Iranian marines have established their presence in Syria, and Russian warships from the Black Sea have relocated to the eastern Mediterranean to protect fighter jets conducting airstrikes in support of Syria's Assad regime. In preparation, the strike group's Composite Training Unit Exercise focused on adversaries that more closely resembled those of the Cold War.

We now know that there is also at least one Russian missile cruiser operating off the Syrian coast and providing air cover for Russian jets operating above the country. 

In other words, the Mediterranean Sea surrounding Syria is getting more crowded by the day.

And the bottom line is that now that UK (and shortly German) planes are flying above Syria, and "striking ISIS", having joined jets from the US, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Russia and France, the same is about to happen to the sea next to Syria.

Which, in our opinion, will also reveal the catalyst for the next, and even more serious, military escalation as one or more ships mysteriously suffer a Gulf of Tonkin incident in a proxy war in which the primary directive so far has clearly been the planting of false flags.

How long? According to the latest US naval map update from Startfor, the Truman is now off the Libyan coast, rapidly approaching Italy, and we expect is ahead of scheduled year-end ETA to its final destination, a few miles off the Syrian coast.

 

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Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:44 | 6872234 One And Only
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Can you believe it? We have this military and these muslims killing people all over the world and Hussein Obama is starting shit with Russia?

Just days ago he said oh don't worry about terrorism here. No threats. Let's invite 100,000 muslim Syrians. They love us.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:44 | 6872245 Boris Alatovkrap
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What is possible to going wrong!?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:45 | 6872250 Money Boo Boo
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Moooooooooar Cowbell !!!!

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:47 | 6872256 Boris Alatovkrap
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<-- Barry is embarass Amerika by draw red line

<-- Vlad is embarass Amerika by cross red line

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:50 | 6872266 Occident Mortal
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With ISIS pulling all of the world's militaries to Syria like Moths to a candle, part of me wonders if ISIS have somehow gotten a 50kT bomb from Pakistan?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:53 | 6872274 Bunghole
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Commaning Officer Admiral John McCain.

XO Capt. Lindsay Graham

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:54 | 6872297 Looney
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The timing is impeccable – on December 15, when the Fed raises rates and crashes the markets, we can blame the Russians for the CRASH.  ;-)

Looney

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:55 | 6872304 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Just in time fellas... so which side you gonna be on with this deployment?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:59 | 6872325 svayambhu108
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Rendez-vous with Rama!

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:02 | 6872350 cougar_w
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I know how that story ended; they do everything in threes.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:26 | 6872468 Bunghole
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Here's some Russian Military Porn for you guys.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/12/03/russian-military-montage/

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:57 | 6872614 SoilMyselfRotten
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Commaning Officer Admiral John McCain?

 

You give him a boat and he's going to ram it into something

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:07 | 6872889 Poundsand
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I think you mean Lindsey Graham.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:21 | 6873178 GhostOfDiogenes
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I don't think Lindsey Graham should be skipper of any subs myself.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:24 | 6873187 Baby Bladeface
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Lindsey Graham more of a rear admiral.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:59 | 6873318 False_Profit
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while we're on the subject, Godspeed to our miiltary who are probably headed for a shitstorm in the near future...

and to the decisions they wil have to make:

The Oath of Enlistment (for enlisted): 

"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." 

The Oath of Office (for officers): 

"I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the _____ (Military Branch) of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God." 

Before you raise your right hand, make sure you understand what you are swearing or attesting to.  The oath of enlistment should not be taken lightly, you will be bound by it for the next 4 to 6 years at a minimum.

 

http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/swearing-in-for-military-servi...

 

Gott mit uns...

Sat, 12/05/2015 - 22:18 | 6881841 Nexus789
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Swearing into the wrong thing. It is the bankers that they are fighting for. The US is no more than a glorified mercenary operation for the bankers and other elites. 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 22:17 | 6873803 rich1657
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Ha! Good One, Blade! Lower or Upper Half?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 20:38 | 6873449 Trogdor
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Here's some Russian Military Porn for you guys.

Thanks BH - Systema looks like a pretty cool martial art - love those ground moves....

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:02 | 6872346 cougar_w
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Oh and can you send a flotilla to San Bernardino area? Shit is getting hot over here.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:12 | 6872902 The Pope
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Breaking News: The Russians announced that the AC destroyers 'DEWEY' are approaching the region... & this time they're not joking around... Goose & Maverick are on high alert.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:51 | 6872580 hootowl
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I would't trust Bathhouse Barry to manage a troop of boy scouts, unless he was routing them to Man's Country in Chicago where his friends could enjoy their company.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:11 | 6872683 roisaber
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Someone contemplates that scenario just a little too much, methinks.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:52 | 6872585 hootowl
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I would't trust Bathhouse Barry to manage a troop of boy scouts, unless he was routing them to Man's Country in Chicago where his friends could enjoy their company.

Fri, 12/04/2015 - 04:39 | 6874581 HardAssets
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Not thrilled that American sailors be put in harms way.

And don't want them to test whether the rumors about Russian technology to knock out ships electronic systems and hypersonic anti ship missiles is true or not.

Sat, 12/05/2015 - 22:20 | 6881844 Nexus789
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Don't forget the Mach 2 to Mach 4 missiles that will come in waves. At least with the radar, comms and other systems down they won't know what hit them.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:42 | 6873013 Stroke
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Fuck McCain

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:43 | 6873022 Baby Bladeface
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Must wait turn until Lindsey Graham finished pounding him out.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 22:06 | 6873748 goldsansstandard
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aka CVN J. P. morgan

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:52 | 6872282 Paveway IV
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What's special about the Harry Truman that they want to sacrifice it? I could understand some of those other fossils that they were retiring, but didn't they just upgrade this one? I need squid help - the Navy is a mystery to me.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:47 | 6872560 hootowl
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Maybe Ovomit wants it in the Persian Gulf where it will be a sitting duck for his muscum buddies in Iran.  After all, what difference will 5000 dead American sailors and marines make?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:37 | 6872792 RafterManFMJ
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It makes no difference to me; they bought the ticket, they can take the ride.

Red Arrow away, Patriots!

lol

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 22:04 | 6873741 goldsansstandard
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"Day of Deceit"

Meticulously footnoted book documenting the cold hearted sacrifice of two thousand sailors at Pearl Harbor.
A great read, and insight into the ways of power.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:51 | 6872574 Grave
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war criminal truman and his lackeys should have been hanged at nuremberg trials for crimes against humanity (hiroshima, nagasaki, dresden, tokyo, etc)

winning the war is no excuse, psychopaths on both sides should have been tried and hanged

justice for all

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:35 | 6872979 jbower
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70 years later, Truman is back to finish the job. Proof that history repeats itself.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:02 | 6872348 gladih8r
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Obama's upcoming press release:  "Moderate" ISIS elements will receive Air Support and a clear path for their peaceful oil trade with Turkey.

All of the attendant journalist sock-puppets will applaud like they are told to.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:44 | 6872548 hootowl
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Does anybody in their right mind trust or believe that Ovomit can conduct a successful military campaign????

What if Ovomit discovers that a tank driver is a former auto mechanic and a Russian pilot is a former school teacher?  Will he go to war with mechanics and schoolteachers?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:55 | 6872849 Hail Spode
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How about Barry draws red line but forgets Russian Navy can now hit Med from the Caspian and finds out U.S. fleet is on the wrong side of another red line?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:49 | 6872269 Hitlery_4_Dictator
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I'm not sure who called it here on ZH, but yesterday someone said the markets would tank today, -291 already. Nice call. 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:17 | 6872424 Peak Finance
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Yea, someone else said that currency would be hot today too, even better call!

Was it Kelter maybe? 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:34 | 6873227 jago
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.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:57 | 6872317 Noplebian
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It's all part of the agenda and that is why it all seems so unbelievable. Basically it is the total opposite to what should be happening......

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/road-to-ww3-time-to...

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:57 | 6872318 ToSoft4Truth
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You ain’t seen noth’in yet.

Wait until the X-ians start willingly walking into the Guiltiness. 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:03 | 6872354 cougar_w
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Long sack cloth and ashes.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:56 | 6872608 Bangin7GramRocks
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FREEDOMS! GET SOME!

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:43 | 6872237 pods
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Yay, more fucking peace bombs to support the "moderate" Sunni terrorists.

Fucking clownshow.

pods

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:45 | 6872252 Boris Alatovkrap
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<-- Victory for Sunni

<-- Victory for Shia

Please, if you are not tell difference, refrain from up arrow or down arrow.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:09 | 6872386 cougar_w
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I'm really torn on that one. Don't want the Shia to win anything because well they suck, and because Iran hostage crisis. But don't want the Suni/Wahabist/Saud pukes winning anything either because they suck and have oil contracts, and because beheadings.

I just want the oil I guess. That's all.

So victory to whoever gets me my daily 8 gallons of gasoline at $2.14/gal because you know it's Xmas and I need to spend money this month, because economy.

 

 

 

/s

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:34 | 6873231 The Pope
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If it's true... I'll JOIN the side that promises me 72 virgins when I die... lol

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:40 | 6872801 RafterManFMJ
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Wait, before I vote it's the Sunni faction that hates San Bernadino, right?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:46 | 6872254 LawsofPhysics
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Hurry up and get that scrap into position...

this should get interesting...  ..russia wouldn't bite on the downing of their own aircraft, let's see if...

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:04 | 6872643 MeetTozter
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Remember the Truman!

Fri, 12/04/2015 - 05:34 | 6874644 HowdyDoody
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I wonder if the Russians have brought along a Bastion complex to protect their base at Tartus. That's the system that made Cook hightail it in the Black Sea.

Video of the mobile launchers in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuAq0mtCXas

 

 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:54 | 6872294 freakscene
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Irkutsk to Kamchaktka

I'm rolling 3 dice

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:23 | 6872460 roisaber
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Tried that last weekend. I came this close to taking it all, then my asshole friend turned in three mission cards and swept the board in two turns.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:09 | 6872670 The Spanish Amb...
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Do a bong hit and try again.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:07 | 6872658 The Spanish Amb...
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use em up .

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:55 | 6872302 Made in Occupie...
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'The buck stops here'

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:29 | 6872949 Baby Bladeface
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"

'The buck stops here'"

Very good play on the words you did there. A saying famous of Mr. Truman and also is potential dying ground for petrodollar.

Clever.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:56 | 6872307 Tyrone Shoelaces
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Charlie-Foxtrot extraordinaire.

Gonna be trouble fo' sho'.

 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:35 | 6872511 LuckoftheIrish
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Indeed Tyrone... Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot extraordinaire.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:56 | 6872308 SharkBit
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Curious as to where this is all going... Good analysis.

https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/324215-russian-jet-turkey-terrorism/

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:56 | 6872313 Joe Tierney
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I wonder if Russia's worried much about the coming of the USS Truman Capote?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:05 | 6872366 o r c k
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They're only worried about getting a copy of "The Truman Show". It's True.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:34 | 6872508 TwelveOhOne
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Came looking for the reference, saw you had made it!  Good showing.  The Truman Show described the place we're living in, it's just a wee bit bigger.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:58 | 6872320 two hoots
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The geography of this article is confusing:

 "the Truman is expected to reach the Persian Gulf before the year’s end."  or Syria?

"is now off the Libyan coast, rapidly approaching Italy,"  going in reverse?

"to its final destination, a few miles off the Syrian coast."  or the Persian Gulf?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:38 | 6872515 Loocust
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I get the impression that the author is clueless.

AFAIK the Truman is still going for the Persian Gulf. If so it still has to get out of the Meditarranean by travel through the Suez Canal and then round the Arabian peninsula to get into the Persian gulf.

The Persian Gulf is not in the Mediterranean as this author seems to think.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 15:58 | 6872323 cougar_w
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Another carrier, hey makes it easier to bomb empty hillsides and towns pretending to "fight" ISIS.

CNN will eat it up. I would be okay with that if they also paid the $100M bill for moving that floating scrap heap to Syria.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:05 | 6872364 RawPawg
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this whole war gig is a joke

going 3 miles per hr daily just to arrive before yrs end

if POTUS really means to walk his talk, That Truman boat would already been parked at it's destination

the Theodore is ALREADY back in home port

y'all ain't fooling anybody.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:11 | 6872388 cougar_w
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Perception management, baby.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:08 | 6872892 Max Steel
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Why it is even going there ? To frustrate Iranians or to block naval passages

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:43 | 6873020 Dark Daze
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The vast bulk of the Atlantic flatops are all in port. There's the Lincoln in the south Atlantic but it isn't going anywhere near the ME.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 20:17 | 6873314 darteaus
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At any one time, 50% of the carriers will be in port.

There's a TON of crap that needs fixing/replentishment and personnel changes/training that must happen between deployments.

Also, crews can't stay out for extended periods w/o suffering from family issues.

Finally, historically, forward deployment of all of your key strategic assets at the same time has proven unwise.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:11 | 6872392 Truth Eater
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Syria told US to go away.

Iraq told US to go away.

Russia told US to go away.

 

So, who is inviting us to the party?  Turkey.  ISIS.  Israel.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:38 | 6872529 froze25
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The hereditary dictatorship known as the House of Saud. They are the Original Gangsta's. If you are looking to what ISIS is going for just look at Saudi Arabia.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:44 | 6872547 cougar_w
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Exxon.

Oh and NATO. Still looking for a reason to live.

Oh and Germany. Winters murder people there, I hear. No rigime change in Syria, means no pipeline, means no alternative gas supply for Germans, leads to no NATO fight with Russia in Ukraine, means NATO still has no reason to live.

Yeah complicated shit going down here. Ya'll better start paying attention because if you notice how that whole mental maze worked out, it meant NATO gets to make Ukraine safe for Exxon -- er I mean -- Democracy. And after the reunification of Germany NATO has been looking for someone to save from Russian again.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:42 | 6873014 Dark Daze
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It's time my country pulled out of NATO. It will collapse anyhow, but I don't think we should wait around for the final curtain.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:03 | 6873093 Sanity Bear
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Amazing how consistently people ignore the Gulf connections while pointing the finger at Israel. No doubt Israel is part of the facilitation gang but ISIS is a Gulf initiative from top to bottom and it's never even slightly been a secret. After all, the whole point of getting rid of Assad is to set up pipelines from Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

 

Why do you suppose that is that the Saudi/Qatar involvement is so frequently glossed over and/or omitted entirely?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:56 | 6873309 darteaus
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Because on any article regarding the ME, you get the Putin worshiping, Omerika hateing and Anti-Semitic flying monkeys swarming to comment.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 20:24 | 6873410 Baby Bladeface
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Update the training manual. The deceptive canard "anti-semitic" is grown quite stale.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 20:44 | 6873473 darteaus
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And up pops A Jew hater!

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 21:46 | 6873679 Baby Bladeface
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Weirdo, go fuck.

In the mirror you see the hater of Jews. Why you such a problem with them?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:21 | 6872448 Smegley Wanxalot
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It there to protect ISIS from Putin.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:23 | 6872455 Magnum
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Will the Russians disable the ship with a flip of a switch, like they did the USS Donald Cook?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:51 | 6872833 Whalley World
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One can only hope

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:23 | 6872457 SoDamnMad
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When you come to Malta,take a number and while you are waiting, be really useful and shuttle some migrants safely noth to Italy. Well will call you to come by Cyprus for some fish and chips with the Brits there and to check out your flight transponders and your aircraft identification recognition cards so you don't splash from a S-400. The skies are pretty crowded now with the Tornados, Eurofighters, Sukois and the Rafales.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:25 | 6872458 jtg
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Turkey would not have shot down a Russian plane in Syria without having the go ahead from the US. The is certainly an act of war. No matter what your position this should be seen as a dangerous act, really far over the line. I can only conclude that the US is trying to use Turkey to start a much bigger war and thinks it will be safe behind two oceans like during WW2. If they think they can contain it to just Turkey and Russia they are delusional. Ukraine is already rubbing its hands together and moving its army east.

I think we are in great danger. Remember that WW2 was not one big continuous war. It had multiple lurches each followed by pauses when all sides built up force for the next more destructive lurch.

If you hate Russia remember that Russia will not allow defeat and will use everything it has, including nuclear weapons. If you hate the West then remember that the US will try to defeat Russia to the last European.

I can see where this is going. Can you?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:08 | 6872661 Bioscale
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There are very few Europeans who will fight for the West.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:01 | 6872866 Dark Daze
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Yes, absolutely it is an act of war. F-18's are not bombers. They are meant for fleet defense and coastal penetration, but there is no need for coastal penetration as the coast is secure. Unless of course you are intending on trying to take out the Russian S-400's (which would be an insane move of course). This has gone beyond all reason. The Chinese are there with their flatop protecting the Russian's backs. The French are there with their Rafales, and I assume they can be considered 'friendly' to the Russians. Turkey has one of the largest contingents of F-16's on the planet and of course the US has both F-15's stationed in mutliple locations in Turkey and B-2's stationed in Britain. Oh, did I mention the British and German Eurofighters? Or the Iranian F-5's etc. And we are supposed to believe that all of this hardware is simply meant to wipe out 20 or 30 thousand rag heads running around the desert. At it's widest point Syria is only 600 km wide, and 400 km from top to bottom. How can these aircraft possibly operate under those conditions. Maybe thats the whole point.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 20:03 | 6873299 darteaus
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Quible: "F-18's are not bombers."

What does the "A" in F/A-18 stand for?

In the interest of completeness: Iranian F-14s and MIG-29s are escorting Russian bombers in Syria: http://debka.com/article/25034/First-Iranian-fighter-jets-over-Syria-alo...

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 20:50 | 6873492 JohninMK
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Not quite right some of that

F-18s are fighter/bomber and were bombing Syria/Iraq from the Gulf

There is NO Chinese carrier in the Med

The US has around 12 F-15s in Turkey, half intercepters and half strike, all in Incirlik

There are no B-2s stationed outside the US but they do stay temporally in places like RAF Fairford

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:39 | 6872954 darteaus
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"Turkey would not have shot down a Russian plane in Syria without having the go ahead from the US."

Because Turkey is just a complete stooge of the US, right?  Really?

Maybe, they shot it down to force the US into a war because their Islamic agenda would love to have the US take on Russia.  If Russia now had me surrounded, I know I'd like to force the US to deploy.

Secondly, are you truly asserting that after 7 years of US ally desertion, Turkey would be STUPID enough to start a war with Russia based on the assurances of Bath House Barry?  They just have to look across the water to Ukraine to see how those assurances are playing out.

Lastly, their leader is also in a ton of domestic political trouble.  Nothing like a war to bolster those domestic approval numbers.

So NO, I don't automatically believe Turkey shot down a Russian plane based on "the go ahead from the US."  If they did it on purpose (not a hothead AF colonel), then Turkey is smart enough to do it for what they believe is their own gain - as stupid as the decision may turn out to be.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:40 | 6873005 Dark Daze
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The Turkish F-16 took off an hour before it attacked, and it was aided by an American AWACS. It flew just inside Turkish airspace parallel to the border and tracking the SU-24. Then it snuck up behind the Su-24 and killed it, Turkish style. That's enough evidence for me that America was involved and Turkey is out of fucking control. And it isn't the first time that has happened. Check your history about Russian/Turkish wars.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:53 | 6873062 darteaus
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It's called a PATROL.  Countries will PATROL and DEFEND their borders - with the exception of Europe and the US.

An INTERCEPT is an entirely different flight profile.

"...it snuck up behind the Su-24 and killed it, Turkish style."  Uh, that's the normal technique to shoot down an aircraft with a SRAAM.  The technique is not limited to Turkey.

I'll, for the sake of argument, agree that America was involved.

Turkey is not a stooge of the US, however.  So, again, it's not automatic that Turkey shot down the plane at the orders of the US, for the reasons I posited before.  Turkey acted in a way that they believe is in their best interest - just like every other country does.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:11 | 6873122 Dark Daze
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Are you trying to distance the US from any responsibility in this shit storm? I think that if you bothered to look around you would discover that the US is in this up to their fucking eyeballs.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:19 | 6873151 darteaus
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FACT TO STUPID: Turkey shot down the Russian fighter - NOT THE US.

Does anyone dispute that Turkey fired the missle that took down the Russian plane?

Did Turkey say it was a mistake?

Why are you trying to say that Turkey had nothing to do with the shootdown?

Go back to your "Amerika is responsible for everything bad" rally, and leave the adults alone.

BYE!

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:32 | 6873224 Dark Daze
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FACT TO FUCKTARD: THE CIA, MOSSAD, SAUDI ARABIA, QATAR, UAE, TURKEY (ALL US ALLIES) have been involved in this whole mess from day 1. You are going to have to take your fucking medicine and it isn't going to taste good at all.

Fri, 12/04/2015 - 05:24 | 6874630 Victor von Doom
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Wouldn't want to be Euoropean atm. Putin just has to wait until winter, then turn off the gas and fuel. Hundreds of thousands of rampaging Muslims and tens of millions of the old and young freezing to death.

What a shitfight. Grow a fucking set Europe and tell Rothchild and the US to go fuck themselves before it's too late.

 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:32 | 6872501 AllBentOutOfShape
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Is this supposed to put Russia's missile cruiser off the coast of Latakia in check??  Together with their soon to be plans of putting boots on the ground, is anyone else starting to see Operation Occupy Syria beginning to unfold?

 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 16:50 | 6872576 Omega_Man
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Truman is all alone, steaming along... IDF subs and planes just ready to sink her

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:29 | 6873212 Buster Cherry
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Pray the sailor have time to scram the reactor

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:08 | 6872662 Jim Leyritz
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Your President is a traitor.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:12 | 6872691 rejected
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There's no stopping these crazed psychopaths in the Washington, Pentagram, Langley zombie triangle.

They won't be happy until all life is extinguished and the Earth is radioactive space debris.

And it appears they have the world Peoples blessing or at least they don't seem to care. 

How does one stop the march of evil? Our only hope now is the hated biblical hero saves us from ourselves....

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:23 | 6872741 22winmag
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Smart bombs and smart weapons are great, until the say "recalculating".

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:18 | 6872915 darteaus
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I hope they don't have an MS operating system.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:23 | 6872747 . . . _ _ _ . . .
Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:31 | 6872763 robertocarlos
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If the Truman is nuked that would be funny.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:33 | 6872779 Klemens
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Get a prayer book, the next big war will come!  http://www.amazon.com/Blessed-Be-God-Father-Callan/dp/B003Z97NDU/ref=sr_...

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:21 | 6872821 NuYawkFrankie
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In related support-action, the USS Hillary was last reported steaming towards Lesbos... will rendezvous with USS Truman after a good ol' "barnacle scraping"...

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:53 | 6873061 Stroke
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Hillery be luvin' herself some Lesbos

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:01 | 6872860 PrimalScream
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Dozens of Rusian warplanes

and Dozens of NATO warplanes

all crowded into the airspace of Syria.

all of them following "conflicted targets" and "conflicted political goals".

Ohhh yeah ... there's nothing that can go wrong here.

 

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:13 | 6872905 MorningWood
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Can someone remind me which side the US is on?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:41 | 6873011 Baby Bladeface
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"

Can someone remind me which side the US is on?"

US on the side against humanity.

Fri, 12/04/2015 - 05:32 | 6874641 Victor von Doom
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Satan's.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:17 | 6872913 darteaus
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Approaching the Syrian coast.

Is that really the best strategy?

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:49 | 6873044 superdave
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All of this show of force, shure as Shit, is not about Nike wearing, Toyota driving, Rag headed, oil stealing, desert rats!  The Big Game is on and just in time for the FED produced collapse.  Grab some popcorn; the show's just getting started!  

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:39 | 6873050 NuYawkFrankie
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I always thought that "the end of the world" would be accompanied by a bit more "gravitas"; but the utterly contemptible, lying, war-mongering ZIO-SCUMMM*bags can't even come up with a script that a 5-year-old could believe...

(SCUMMM* - Satanic Cabal Underwriting Mass-Murder & Mayhem)

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:07 | 6873105 Dark Daze
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As far as I can see their overall plans are collapsing. I think they are desperate now. And the worst thing in the world is to act out of desperation.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:17 | 6873156 Noplebian
Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:22 | 6873179 Demdere
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https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/911-is-the-weak-spot/

The Israeli-neocons have to push, they can't lose because it will put their heads in a noose.  They did 9/11 as a False Flag Operation, Treasonous bastard criminals.

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/about-the-massive-psyops/

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/911-is-our-dreyfus-affair/

https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/coup-via-false-flag/

9/11 was a False Flag operation by the Israeli-Neocons in the US Government

And another False Flag somewhere in the world of very large scale is the best way for the Israeli-Neocons to maintain power.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:46 | 6873273 Johnny Horscaulk
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There are several reasons for us interventionism but a major one is The Oded Yinon / PNAC LINE OF PLANS which amounts to using us blood and treasure to murder tens of thousands of people for the convenience of Israel's regional hegemony and later expansion.

And let us recall that it was Israeli Jews, not Muslims, caught photographing the collapse of the towers and celebrating and who faile FBI polygraphs and two of whom were known Mossad agents. Not a conspiracy theory, tons of evidence, all over the place, including news broadcasts easily found online

http://youtu.be/QphxGBXiA-M
(this is an excellent 20 minute summary by 9/11 Rain Man Ryan Dawson)

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:The_Five_Dancing_Israelis_Arrested_...

https://wikispooks.com/w/images/c/cc/Solving_9-11.pdf

https://archive.org/details/MastersOfDeception

Such false flag terrorism comports with Zionist Israrl's behavior from before it declared itself on land that did not belong to anyone but the native Arabized population, from the king david hotel bombing to the lavon affair to the attrmpted sinking of the uss liberty to 9/11.

Not 'the jews' - the government of the Zionist state working with US traitors like cheney, wolfowitz, perle, wurmser, feith and others.

And many like the kagans andsunsteins remain in the government or influential zio think tanks.

Likud and Shas and their amen corner in Washington and London are a fucking cancer upon this earth- racial supremacist warmongers primarily loyal to a foreign expansionist colonialist settler state.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 19:40 | 6873256 Johnny Horscaulk
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The Greater Israel Project

The Greater Israel Project lies at the very heart of the AAA’s geopolitical triangulation strategy throughout the Middle East. The United States, the United Kingdom and the Modern State of Israel have collaborated quite closely for well over a century to implement this final phase of destruction of several Mideast nations. Because their once clandestine agenda has now become transparent to the many concerned countries, these 3 nations have become known as the true Axis of Evil in the world today.

“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East

Just as the MSI was born out of terrorism, its methodical expansion through the outright theft of Palestinian land has occurred by way of incessant false flag terror operations. These and many other highly deceptive and destructive tactics have been used against those who rightfully inhabit Palestine, just as they are now being utilized in Syria. The very essence of their ‘Relocation Plan’ is the employment of every form of terror. Just like the Armenian Holocaust was implemented by the same Zionist cabal to scare them away from their communities, which it did, the ISIS and Al Nusra terrorist groups have been set up and enabled to do the very same.

The purposeful and slow-motion Zionist genocide of the Palestinian people has likewise furthered the cabal’s Greater Israel agenda. Systematically getting rid of those indigenous peoples throughout much of the Middle East is a central component of that agenda. In this particular regard the AAA globalists seeks not only to remove the Palestinians from the MSI, but the Syrians from their lands as well. Witness what is perhaps the largest mass migration in modern history of Syrian people to Europe. Irrespective of the fact that the forefathers of Syrians and Palestinians alike have lived in the Mideast for centuries and in Israel over millennia, the Zionist cabal is intent on their removal.

ISIS, ISIL and the ISLAMIC STATE
It is now common knowledge among the world community of nations that the United States, United Kingdom and Israel surreptitiously created ISIS and Al Nusra just as they created Al Qaeda. The blueprint for the formation of these types of synthetic terror organizations came from the CIA’s establishment of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. By the use of proxy armies of paid mercenaries, which were comprised of ‘Islamist’ guerrilla fighters, the USA was able to defeat the Russian military in Afghanistan. That development, in turn, permitted the Taliban to come into power which merely created another tyranny for the Afghans to deal with.

Mujahideen (Arabic: ??????????) is the plural form of mujahid (Arabic: ??????), the term for one engaged in Jihad.[3]

What is crucial to understand is that these mercenary jihadis have nothing to do with the religion of Islam. Whether they were even raised as Muslims is in serious question since many of them were exposed to a false sect of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism. This form of perverted Islamic fundamentalism was made the official state religion by the crypto-Jewish monarchy of Saudi Arabia with the assistance of their Anglo-American overlords. Likewise, the Dönmeh of Turkey introduced their own kind of Islam which had nothing to do with the Prophet Muhammad or the Koran, and a LOT to do with the pseudo-Kabbalistic practices of the similarly warped Sabbatean sect. ...

...

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=25505

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 20:00 | 6873328 squid
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The US Air Craft Carrier battey group, "insert name here", whose construction and operation are paid for from the taxes of your as yet unborn great-great grand children, has arrived in the Mediteranian......

 

There, fixed it for yah.

 

Squid

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 20:05 | 6873349 me or you
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Forget about "aircraft carriers", worry about the Russian (black holes) submines.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 20:29 | 6873422 Tarshatha
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Jews and Americans distroying the world.

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 20:42 | 6873463 Savyindallas
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Jewmericans

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 22:31 | 6873848 bid the soldier...
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August 29, 2013
Fifth US warship joins cruise missile ships in Mediterranean

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/fifth-us-warship-joins-cruise-mi...

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 RUSSIA EXPANDS ITS FLEET OFF SYRIA: 10 WARSHIPS
http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2013/09/russia-expands-mediterrane...
BIN DERE DONE DAT  :o)
as you remember our Peace-prizing, fighting Negro backed down in September 2013 after a meeting with Putin.  Obama did not attack Syria with his cruise missiles and Syria gave up its chemical weapons.  But was there more to that than meets the eye, the NYT and the WaPo? Did Putin tell Obama that he had given Assad an unspecified number of Yakhont anti-ship missile and the Joe Louis of realpolitik might preside over the sinking of a few warships. Even the NYT knew the reason for the Israeli air raids on various Syria army installations during the fist half of 2013. Well, now it isn't a question of Assad having Yakhont.  The Russians are on the Syrian west coast, they have plenty of Yakhont, the have a guided missile destroyer parked off the coast, and, smiling down on all this, they now have loads of S-400s, the exact number of which no knows knows as that cargo was deplaned in the dark of night So the real conflict won't be at sea, but in the skies over Syria, where the Russians have told the coalition to inform Damascus of their bombing plans.  Whether the US, the UK, Germany and France adhere to Putin's expectations remain to be seen. And if the four nations don't inform the government sitting in Damascus what they intend to do, will Turkey's solution to what it claimed was an Russian incursion, be the legitimate reaction to it. S-400.   
Fri, 12/04/2015 - 00:51 | 6874295 onmail1
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I believe that these western wolves will so much torment the Bear(or grizzly)

that it will one day catch their throat and.....

Fri, 12/04/2015 - 03:42 | 6874535 Joe A
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With that much concentrated opposing fire power locked in close quarters whether it is at sea or up in the air it is just waiting for a modern day version of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOll3v55Dmo

Russian S-400 missiles ready at the station and somebody might feel lucky to pull some stunt setting off a developments that can go out of control. All it takes is a flying archduke.

Fri, 12/04/2015 - 05:59 | 6874673 HowdyDoody
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3 NATO vessels enter the Black Sea - Canadian, Spanish and Portuguese, so all sacrificial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UylOIfnHyB4

Fri, 12/18/2015 - 15:45 | 6940390 metanoic
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Something tells me there is going to be alot of EW testing/sparring going on in that 'parking lot'.

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