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Caught On Tape: Russia Unleashes Massive Bombing Raid On Militant Convoy

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There’s been some debate over the last two months about whether the concerted effort on Moscow’s part to release hundreds upon hundreds of MoD clips depicting airstrikes in Syria on the way to embarrassing Washington paints an accurate picture of what’s really going on. 

That is, if one simply compares the Russian footage to what we know or have seen with regard to America’s 15-month air campaign against Islamic State, it would be easy to conclude that the US simply hasn’t been trying very hard - or at least not compared to The Kremlin. 

While that’s probably an accurate assessment, it’s not always easy to tell what exactly the Russians are hitting when it comes to the targets being vaporized in the videos (although it’s pretty clear in the clips depicting strikes on oil tankers) and the US contends that one reason The Pentagon has been cautious is that Washington is concerned with civilian casualties, especially as it relates to the drivers in the crude truck convoys. For those who follow the US’s exploits in the Mid-East that’s a hard pill to swallow given what we know about collateral damage in drone strikes and given what happened in October in Kunduz, but the point is, taking Moscow at its word when Russia’s intent is quite clearly to make a mockery of the West’s efforts is just as dangerous as taking Washington at its word when The White House swears the US is doing everything in its power to fight terror. 

All of that said, there’s also been what certainly feels like a marked increase in the number of independently released videos since Russia began bombing rebel and extremist targets. That is, in addition to what Moscow has released on social media, there have been dozens upon dozens of videos shot from the ground which depict either Russian airstrikes themselves or the aftermath. Although it’s not always easy to discern what precisely is going on in the amateur footage, there almost unquestionably seem to be more videos from on the ground cameramen then there were prior to the Russian intervention which in turn suggests that when it comes to the war on terror, Moscow, not Washington, is clearly taking the lead.

With all of that in mind we present the following clip which purports to show a Russian strike on a “militant convoy.”

 

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Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:39 | 6972773 NoPension
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....ssshhhhhh....

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 11:48 | 6974029 Bemused Observer
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Mon, 12/28/2015 - 21:49 | 6972636 Kina
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seems to me that allah akbar is used in the same way as OMG.


Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:50 | 6972986 MayIMommaDogFac...
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OMFG!  (there -- I fixed it)

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 21:50 | 6972639 will ling
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stuff like this and seemingly sudden take-back of remadi in iraq kinda makes be think vlad has turn the tide. pour it on vlad then go back up and double down on the ukies and send the pollacks a message.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:02 | 6972644 X_Weatherman
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Some of the CIA's profits are going up in smoke.

 

They'll have to sell more heroine to make up the short-fall.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:08 | 6972688 cpgone
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heh , the CIA needs write offs and expenses too.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:00 | 6972840 X_Weatherman
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I wonder how much dough they raked in making KSA / Qatar pay for Libya's arms for Sunni jihadists to go murder Shias and Christians in Syria before their sales agent got murdered in Benghazi.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 04:14 | 6973275 Otrader
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Just like wall st. banks, CIA has a backstop for losses - Da Taxpayers!

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 21:54 | 6972653 WTFUD
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I thought i was a normal guy but i'm obviously not as this maiming and killing of The DAESH is enthralling.

Somewhere along the track there are moderate freedom fighters who may have been hard done by but i willingly accept this as collateral damage and the blame for this CD lies on ZATO's Doorstep.

If left to their own devices the Syrians would have worked through their differences; Russia and Iran and China and Allies would have seen too that but NO Saudi/ZATO sent in FOREIGN mercs to overthrow a Sovereign; Yeah, another one and the buck should STOP here, otherwise the long running ZATO horror show will continue on into Iran & Lebanon and Russia then China.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:30 | 6972746 Anunnaki
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Jumbo shrimp
Military intelligence
Compassionate conservative
Hope and change
Syrian moderate

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 08:43 | 6973493 HowdyDoody
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The real moderates - ie those prepared to follow normal polirical process - have signed on to the Syrian Arab Army side. The MSM 'moderates' are moderate head-choppers and general ethnic-cleansers. Quite a number of the leaders of the 'moderates' have met their maker in the last few days.

It is interesting that the MSM appears to be giving ISIS a make-over. Images of ISIS thugs playing in swimming pools with their children, etc have started appearing.

 

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:01 | 6972672 savagegoose
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i heard its good fortune to die with the words allah akbah coming out your mouth. i hope 2016 brings lots of good fortune to the middle east.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:02 | 6972674 lakecity55
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This is great. Only because Russia now has Military Superiority has Vichy been kept at bay!

Vlad keeps the Peace east of Suez.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:18 | 6972710 Still Losing Money
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so tell me again why USA airstrikes are bad, empire building and  evil war mongering, but Russian air strikes and warmongering and empire building /influence peddling is good?  USA MIC bad; Russian MIC good

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:37 | 6972768 WTFUD
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If you have to ask SLM then you're too far gone inside the matrix.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:09 | 6972870 Raul44
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Because Russia was explicitly asked for help against ISIS while US only had a shady interests there.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:25 | 6972912 Agstacker
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Because US airstrikes drop leaflets, Russia's drops bombs.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 08:59 | 6973504 HowdyDoody
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The Syrian Arab Airforce have also started dropping leaflets targetting Jaysh Al-Islam (Army of Islam) and Jabhat Al-Nusra held areas.

The leaflets say "surrender now, the Syrian Arab Army is coming"

http://novorossia.today/syrian-army-drops-leaflets-surrender-now-the-syr...

 

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:32 | 6972936 Bernanke'sDaddy
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Yep; you've pretty much summed it up with your last sentence, numbnuts.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 06:57 | 6973389 Johnny Horscaulk
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I'll tell you - it has to do with decades of American regime change ops and support for Al Qaeda and now "ISIS".  It also has to do with Russia being present in Syria at the invitation of the legal government of that country, an invitation which the US nor its terror proxies received.

Does that help?

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:25 | 6972724 starman
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Fucking dumb ass cave mans! Nukem all!

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:27 | 6972732 Anunnaki
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Fuck Obama's sympathy for Turkish truck drivers

You think Patton or Eisnehower distinguished between Nazi military and civilian targets

Anything that dared to move was vaporized

Obama is Team ISIS

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 06:45 | 6973373 Volkodav
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Eisenhower was a war criminal

'Other Losses'  -James Bacque-

                    Patton awoke too late after blood on him

 

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:31 | 6972748 WTFUD
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ZATO had their chance to take on the job but it was never in their script. Siphoning Syraq Oil in a 50-50 profit split with DAESH was temporarily cushty. Now they need permission to enter Syrian Airspace and all the while their Jets sit lined up and idle, probably on the Turkish border as the Shia militias & Iraqi Government Allies are not too keen for them to fly in Iraqi Airspace either.

Several strikes into the filthy Turkish Garrison in Iraq and all ZATO will have left is their False Flag Hollywood , oh look there's an intact Syrian Passport left behind by the suicide bomber on the streets of Europe.

FUCK YOU ZATO

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 00:22 | 6973053 Flagit
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Watched Texas Rising a few months ago. Yesterday finally got around to watching Avenging The Alamo: The Road To Texas Rising, which is like a behind-the-scenes, but more of a side-history lesson, and descriptions from the cast and historians.

During a discussion of Emily West, The Yellow Rose Of Texas, one historian stated it was known she was present during the Battle of San Jacinto beacuse.....her passport was found on the battlefield.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 10:16 | 6973715 shovelhead
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I always thought it was rather amusing that a very popular antebellum minstrel show tune about a "high yellow" Negro girl became the anthem of the Texas Regiments of the Confederate Army under Gen. Hood.

Talk about some historical "whitewashing".

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 03:20 | 6973248 Blankone
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The US flew into Syria and repeatedly bombed a Syrian military base recently.  Then for laughs said Russia did it.

Israel flew into Syria and bombed a building in Damascus just last week.

Although I would agree with you, Russia gave approval for the bombing of the Syrian base and Russia provided intelligence and approval to Israel to bomb the building to kill an upper member of Hezbollah.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 06:58 | 6973392 Johnny Horscaulk
Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:36 | 6972762 joego1
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Ah luv bacon Bar!

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 22:53 | 6972822 bruno_the
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when will dis dummies learn to avoid convoys? Just spread out. 1/2 mile apart. Duh.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:13 | 6972879 frankly scarlet
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Well it looks like the Ruskies just destroyed maybe a dozen trucks out of  twelve thousand already safe inside the Turkish border with their payload. Perhaps the SAA and Russian need to concentrate more on just closing that border  to all traffic not approved by Damascus as a first goal?

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:30 | 6972928 Bernanke'sDaddy
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HAHAHAHA.

The fucking Snackbars can be heard all the way in Langley, Tel Aviv and Ankara.

 

I'd also like to add some comedic relief with this awesome voicover series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--8a4QsiO9Q

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:54 | 6972997 Omega_Man
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people who write or say 'allah snackbar' remind me of the kids in school we would bully... 

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:32 | 6972935 gwar5
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This is what Obama should have been doing instead of treason helping ISIS. 

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:50 | 6972946 Albertarocks
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They need to upgrade their radios.   He said "Hello Akbar!" about 165 times but Akbar never did pick up.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:38 | 6972950 gearbaby
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The Russians are doing God's work

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:44 | 6972968 warpigs
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I understand some of these drivers may simply need $ and to put food on the table for their family, but holy hell, driving illegal shipments of oil across the boarders while Russian bombers and jets cruise for targets just sucks balls. I've done some 18 hour drives across the Plain States on bald tires and in blizzards (in cars and not rigs), which was stressful as fuck, but I'd gladly do that a thousand times than hump oil for global sociopaths.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 00:20 | 6973047 dogismycopilot
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mate, you're getting the concept of "US Truck Drivers" and "Turkish / Arabic Truck Drivers" mixed up. 

Turkish truck drivers are basically dogs that can drive a truck.

Filthy fucking turks. If they dont steal what they are carrying then it will be late. The best is we had a Turkish truck convoy bring down some kit from Ankara to Basra - about 20 trucks. Trucks 1-19 arrived a few days late, no worries. Truck 20 - the fucking Turk got lost, made a tour of South Iraq, then about 1 week later called us and held our last load for ransom once he found it had the key components to the building in it. We told him we don't negotiate with terrorists and hung up.

Week later he came back in at agreed upon delivery price. Fucker hadn't bathed in probably 4-5 weeks, driving around in a clapped out Volvo rig with no AC in the iraqi summer. I've seen cleaner and smarter dogs than this POS.

 

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 01:30 | 6973151 Albertarocks
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One of the funniest stories I ever heard came from the mouth of a Kashmiri cab driver, describing how nobody trusts people from Kashmir.  The Indians don't trust people from Kashmir.  Pakistanis don't trust them.  Kashmiris don't even trust Kashmiris.  He described that if you were walking a street and needed to buy a stamp, a Kashmiri won't point toward which store sells them unless you pay him something.  If you fell off the curb and broke your leg he won't take you to a hospital without a bribe.  If you have a compound fracture his price will be double.  If you ask him "So... is it hot enough for ya?", you'll have to pay him if you really want to know.  If you don't pay him, he'll lie.  Haha.  What a frikken place that would be to live in.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 04:39 | 6973290 Wild E Coyote
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The Kashmiri cab driver told you the story to remind you to pay extra for the story at the end of the ride. Did you?

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 10:36 | 6973780 shovelhead
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I think KBR gets most of those drivers from Texas.

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:49 | 6972983 Omega_Man
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I thought ISIS had manpads? 

Mon, 12/28/2015 - 23:50 | 6972987 Omega_Man
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didn't see many oil trucks

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 00:12 | 6973033 PoasterToaster
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"...the US contends that one reason The Pentagon has been cautious is that Washington is concerned with civilian casualties..."

Since when?

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 01:03 | 6973109 Anunnaki
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When it is his civilians being killed.

Obama is Abu Daesh, father of ISIS

Eliot Shimon, the bogus Caliph, is his lil buddy

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 00:57 | 6973099 onmail1
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Use a few nukes

the war will be over in a week

& at a low cost

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 09:49 | 6973641 Genghis Kahn
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^^^^^ So will Mankind . Simpleton.

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 00:48 | 6977003 onmail1
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look who is talking

hah ha

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 01:21 | 6973142 Soul Glow
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IF THEY SAY ALLAH AKBAR ONE MORE FUCKING TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 06:26 | 6973361 pga
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The Pentagon has been cautious is that Washington is concerned with civilian casualties, especially as it relates to the drivers in the crude truck convoys.

 

Sure

I signal a lot of difference between the second half of bombingvid above and the vid's of US in Irak in the nineties

https://www.google.nl/search?q=US+bomb+retreating+iraqi+army&source=lnms...


Tue, 12/29/2015 - 06:47 | 6973375 Fireman
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You mean USSA specializes in war crimes, genocide and collateral damage as in the infamous "highway of death" of the sicko and thug like "crispy critter" variety. When it comes to outright and in your face evil and sickness, admittedly no one does it better than Pentacon Kill Industries Inc. Centuries of genocide obviously do make a difference.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 08:34 | 6973478 Monetas
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The Turks actually made money .... on the Armenian Christian Genocide .... that's how wars were traditionally financed .... the Pentagon "cost per kill" ratio is way too high .... we could learn a lot from Muslim terrorists .... 9/11 costs SA only $200,000 .... including flight schools, visas, driver's licenses and lap dances ?

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 06:41 | 6973368 Fireman
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The emperor of the Anglozionazi Empire of Carnage is not only naked and foaming at the snout, as all its lost wars for the judaics fizzle out, but is in fact a raving debauched psychopathic zombie running on fumes. Watch 2016 as the entire Ponzi sewer explodes in a tsunami of worthless, shit smeared IOU petroscrip Saudi Mercan fiat food stamp toilet paper dollahs finally getting plunged and flushed from the so-called Western "economic" Potemkin Village of bankster half wits.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 07:10 | 6973398 wally_12
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TallDog83 is correct. The trucks are empty. There are no supplies littering the grounnd. This convoy was returning to Turkey for more supplies.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 08:33 | 6973482 Monetas
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The Quran discourages looting ?

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 07:20 | 6973404 random999
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these videos are always so strange.. never make any sense..

Dont know who it would benefit in this case, but Id bet my money on fake.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 07:55 | 6973445 Last of the Mid...
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Guess they were waiting for the pamphlet drop prior to the bombing.  Oh well, shit happens.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 08:06 | 6973457 22winmag
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Yet another video too hot for the internet.

 

Link?

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 08:21 | 6973473 Monetas
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Russia has surely killed more ISIS truck drivers .... than the 224 Russians killed in the Sinai incident .... brown lives matter ? LOL

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 08:48 | 6973496 Michigander
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Damned sand niggers. I wonder if Allah Akbar is kind of like the word fuck here and can be used as a noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, or prepositional phrase. They say it an awful lot.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 09:42 | 6973618 Lmo Mutton
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If Russia is bombing shit it is in the script.

They are the B team for the zionist controlled USA

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 09:51 | 6973650 Genghis Kahn
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^^^^^^ Dont know about the Zionist part but they sure look like the A team to me ,lol.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 11:16 | 6973909 Bernanke'sDaddy
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No they're not.

The ZWO had them by the balls after the fall of the iron curtain. Putin and his crew told them to fuck off. This is a curt answer but it is correct.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 09:51 | 6973632 American Psycho
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I think an order for some new F-150s shall be placed. 

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 09:47 | 6973638 lakecity55
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"Achmed! What is in the latest parachute drop from Imam Bath House? Guns? Ammo? We need both!"
"Sorry, Salman, it is a pallet of books in Arabic on how to build bomb shelters."

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 09:47 | 6973639 Genghis Kahn
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"Caught on TAPE????? This is 2015.  Who uses TAPE?  Get with the times GRANDPA.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 10:42 | 6973794 shovelhead
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Allah has digital copyright protection.

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 10:19 | 6973727 FORCE
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mmmmm;nothing like the smell of roast jackal at christmas.....

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 10:19 | 6973729 FORCE
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mmmmm;nothing like the smell of roast jackal at christmas.....

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 11:13 | 6973897 Bernanke'sDaddy
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The saker has an awesome analysis out today:

 

http://thesaker.is/technology-sitrep-how-russian-engineering-made-the-cu...

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 12:46 | 6974287 goldman58
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Really bad when you have to cheer on the Russians who have accomplished in a few short months what this little 'Purple Lipped Muslim Lover in Chief' failed to accomplish in almost 2 years

What a pathetic piece of shit this guy in the White Castle truly is.

America the Grand Experiment

GAME OVER...................

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 12:50 | 6974299 goldman58
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I guess the 'Muslim in Chief' will have to allocate more funds to send more SUV's over.................

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 15:41 | 6974954 popeye
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Tue, 12/29/2015 - 17:01 | 6975349 flyingcaveman
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So, Russia is pretending to bomb ISIS now.  You are meant to gobble up this air show like its real.  A real airstrike isn't going to happen in broad daylight, there aren't going to be cameras rolling.  Nice try hollywood, I know a tire fire when I see one.

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