Consolidated Syria Conflict Thread

[Swatter]

This administration will forever be studied as how to AVOID doing foreign policy.

+1

[Swatter]

Even The NYTimes today basically said a regional war is much more badder fhan the original civil war that has been going onfor 4 years.

Gosh. Shame on them for staining the Nobel winner's legacy.

;D

Is it just me, or does Putin just love to go out of his way to stick it to Obama personally?

In all likelihood Obama is going to be the most accommodating president that will sit in the oval office for the next 30 or more years. I would think Putin would be more clever about improving Russia's position at the cost of US interests, rather than so blunt and ham-fisted. Albeit, its more entertaining this way.

[pawelj]

Even The NYTimes today basically said a regional war is much more badder fhan the original civil war that has been going onfor 4 years.

Gosh. Shame on them for staining the Nobel winner's legacy.

;D

Is it just me, or does Putin just love to go out of his way to stick it to Obama personally?

In all likelihood Obama is going to be the most accommodating president that will sit in the oval office for the next 30 or more years. I would think Putin would be more clever about improving Russia's position at the cost of US interests, rather than so blunt and ham-fisted. Albeit, its more entertaining this way.

I don't think it is Obama, but the United States as a whole that he wants to humiliate. Obama just lets him do it.
Remember when Romney said during the last campaign that Russia would be the greatest challenge, and everyone laughed at him. Well, who's laughing now? 

[Gusington]

Assad.

[mirth]

And they lobbed in some cruise missiles for good measure

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/world/middleeast/russia-syria-conflict.html?_r=0

[LongBlade]

From the article:

The use of 26 sea-based cruise missiles marked one of the first known uses in combat of Russian missiles with this range.

[mirth]

Reportedly the cruise missiles overflew Iran and Iraq.

[Gusington]

In Soviet Russia small penis compensates for you!

[LongBlade]

In Soviet Russia small penis compensates for you!

Ha!

[Grimnirsson]

Boom! Seems to have been a precise operation.

[mirth]

According to the Russian propaganda video anyway.

[LongBlade]

According to the Russian propaganda video anyway.

^ what I was thinking. I'd be curious to know how many ended up taking a bath in the Med.

[Grimnirsson]

So, Russian military operations can't be precise? Ok...

[eyebiter]

Israel just discovered a large deposit of oil in the Golan Heights
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-huge-oil-discovery-on-golan-heights-1001071698

"Above and beyond the bureaucratic and environmental problems of pushing ahead with oil production, there are also the geopolitical considerations. The international community considers the Golan Heights, which was captured from Syria in 1967, as occupied territory and does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the region."

[mirth]

So, Russian military operations can't be precise? Ok...

I wouldn't rely on a Russian YouTube video for a BDA. Better to wait for the weather girl to report on it.