Consolidated Syria Conflict Thread

[LongBlade]

Reports are filtering out of CNN that Russia is expanding their Syria campaign so...maybe this bombing is a fabricated casus belli...

I'm cynical, but not that cynical.

Russia had to amp up its response after this, and they weren't pussyfooting around before it, either.

Putin's problem was that, while he was paying lip service to daesh, he wasn't focusing most of his attention on it. He was spending most of his time trying to beat back the anti-Assad forces. Now his attention will be forced to shift to daesh.

[JasonPratt]

Latest word I've heard on the Airbus explosion, is that Egypt hadn't released any analysis of wreckage (looking for bomb chemical remnants), but that the US and Britain had upgraded their evaluation to almost-certainly-an-ISIS-bomb based on tracking ISIS chatter among IS leaders who ought to be in a position to know.

[Sir Slash]

If Canada takes the Kardashians, do they also have to take all their damned boyfriends? I'd chip in on that deal myself.

[Centurion40]

Reports are filtering out of CNN that Russia is expanding their Syria campaign so...maybe this bombing is a fabricated casus belli...

I'm cynical, but not that cynical.

Russia had to amp up its response after this, and they weren't pussyfooting around before it, either.

Putin's problem was that, while he was paying lip service to daesh, he wasn't focusing most of his attention on it. He was spending most of his time trying to beat back the anti-Assad forces. Now his attention will be forced to shift to daesh.

They can destroy one, then turn their attention to the other.  The question for me is: how far will they pursue ISIS fighters into Iraqi territory?  Will they ally with Iraqi Shiite forces?  Will they/can they push all the way to the Iranian border?  Will they/can they effectively establish a Shiite Islamic Republic of Iraq as an Iranian puppet?

[Centurion40]

If Canada takes the Kardashians, do they also have to take all their damned boyfriends? I'd chip in on that deal myself.

No "ifs" about it.  No deal, no deal, no deal.  No even if we throw-in Celine & Nickleback.  No effing deal!

[Barthheart]

If Canada takes the Kardashians, do they also have to take all their damned boyfriends? I'd chip in on that deal myself.

No "ifs" about it.  No deal, no deal, no deal.  No even if we throw-in Celine & Nickleback.  No effing deal!

+100000000000000000000  >:(

[steve58]

Russia deploys AA missiles to "protect their warplanes".  Sounds like we're getting closer and closer to an "accident" ???

[LongBlade]

Good thing we pulled out before we went back in!

[Gusington]

In Soviet Russia pulling out IS a proven form of control!

[Arctic Blast]

If Canada takes the Kardashians, do they also have to take all their damned boyfriends? I'd chip in on that deal myself.

HEEELLLLLLLL NO! We are not taking Kanye West off your hands. You're stuck with that dude. And we're also not taking Caitlyn Jenner.

[Sir Slash]

Damn. Is that why you guys cancelled the pipeline deal? I'll take it back then. Just a question after all. Shit if you had them, you'd try to get rid of them too. How about if we give you an NFL franchise?

[Barthheart]

... How about if we give you an NFL franchise?

We've already got one... the Toronto Maple Leafs.  ;)

[JasonPratt]

HEEELLLLLLLL NO! We are not taking Kanye West off your hands. You're stuck with that dude. And we're also not taking Caitlyn Jenner.

You're stuck with that dude, too, ha ha!

(It's a trap.)

[Sir Slash]

Don't forget Kanye is going to run for President next time. Still don't want him?  ^-^

[Barthheart]