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posted by on Monday April 10 2017, @11:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the two-peas-in-a-pod dept.

MOSCOW — If Russia once maintained at least a semblance of distance from President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, it rushed to his defense after the American missile strike ordered by President Trump on Thursday. The attack cemented Moscow more closely than ever to the notorious Syrian autocrat.

Even as the United States condemned Mr. Assad for gassing his own citizens and held Russia partly responsible, given its 2013 promise to rid Syria of chemical weapons, the Kremlin kept denying that Syria had any such capability.

By championing Mr. Assad and condemning American "aggression," President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia seemed to be burying the idea that he could somehow cooperate with the Trump administration to end the conflict on his terms.

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." Attributed to Abraham Maslow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/world/europe/us-attack-on-syria-cements-kremlins-embrace-of-assad.html?


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @02:50PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @02:50PM (#491650)

    If it doesnt lead to WW3. But it could very well, it was a dangerous risk to take by the US. Its pretty obvious that the US is in bed with many other governments that do worse, such as Saudi Arabia, and China, and now even sort of with Cuba. So why now the focus on Syria? Its pretty obvious that the US military industrial complex wants to provoke something. The tears over the children were crocodile tears, I gaurantee the US elites give a damn. its agiprop, Worse happens every day all over the world by governments the US supports. The gassing is horrible, dont get me wrong, assuming the information that is given is actually accurate, I dare say that information that comes out of the war mongering liberal-neocon complex in the USA is suspect.Trump originally promised to keep the US out of more wars. This is not living up to the promise, this is clearly on a track towards a conflict with Rusia and would make it more difficult to eliminate ISIS, actually sets it back because Assad and Russia were doing much of the work in that regard. the liberals included Clinton celebrated the strike, what does that tell you? That they are war hawks themselves and that Liberals are violent war faring fanatics no diffferent from neocons. The trump that was much hated, was the Trump that opposed the US getting into more wars, to create a cooperative relationship with Assad and Russia in eliminating ISIS, bringing stability to the region and reinstalling Assad and Russia who would stop ISIS and do what they did before, which was protect minorities in Syria. After Trump has begun to morph into Clinton-Bush with warfaring aggression pleasing the military industrial complex, suddenly the liberal started fawning over him. Trumps alt-right supporters are defensive domestically, non-aggressive globally, meaning to avoid contributing to conflict. This drove the left and the neocon nuts. The left in reality wants the US to be bankrupted by endless wars globally but overrun domestically with immigraton invasions. The left hated the alt right because they opposed the destruction of america with immigration invasions. The left are violent savages who are using immigration invasions as a weapon against American christians that they hate so much while using foreign policy to prop u extreme islam globally to destroy whats left of Chritian communities in the middle east. Why did Obama allow so few Syrian christians in, and used it instead to import ISIS? Because Obama created ISIS to destroy christian communities. Ironically what the US is doing by creting a void ISIS will fill it is cauing the massacre of christians en masse in Syria. Obama did this in country after country and is responsible for the killing of thousands. One thread runs through it all, the US elites hate christians and like radical Islam, nearly all of their policies have been geared towards enabling radical Islam to take over the middle east by removing moderate stabilsing governments. For instance Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt which would have unleashed a persecution of Christians after years of Christians being protected under Mubarak. The Muslim Brotherhood had infiltrated the State Department under Obama making it all very clear that the Obama admin and really the US elite have contempt for moderate islam and christians and is strengthening radical islam. The feminist left in the US are basically war mongering islamophile fanatics who want to destroy the christian family to weaken the christian world so it an be taken over by Islam and the christians and can be exterminated.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:04PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @03:04PM (#491654)

    Addendum: The reason US elite want war on Assad is to create a power void so ISIS can finally take over. US supports ISIS through Syrian Free Army which is an ISIS front. The US Elite want war with Russia because this would destroy whats left of the West, allowing it to be overtaken by Radical Islam Globalism. A co-rulership by global superpowers of Radical Islam and Communist China is their plan for globalisation, along with extermination of White Christians and their replacement with Muslim and other third world immigrant invasions. The elite envision a white free world where the white christian has been eliminated. The US Elite hate Rusia because he is an orthodox christian and does not worship transsexuals so therefore he is a strong christian threat to globalist radical Islam. US Liberals hate the christian family, but they are actually tools of the radical islamic globalism and the US elite who are in fact on the side of Islamic globalism, want to exterminate the white christian in America and in Europe, and want to turn the west into a third world islamic theocracy.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:18PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:18PM (#491859)

      aaaaaaand off the deep end

  • (Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Monday April 10 2017, @03:59PM

    by curunir_wolf (4772) on Monday April 10 2017, @03:59PM (#491692)

    The US MIC came up with a plan years ago. It's behind schedule, but they are still working on that plan [youtube.com]

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    I am a crackpot
  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday April 10 2017, @04:08PM (1 child)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday April 10 2017, @04:08PM (#491701) Journal

    Line breaks. Paragraphs. Use them.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:11PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:11PM (#491702)

      Line breaks. Paragraphs. Use them.

      Medications too.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:11PM (#491789)

    Someone call the White House, tell them we have the wall here and they can just drop it on the border. No one's getting through this one!