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U.S. and Russian Jets Clash Over Syria
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Posted on 06/19/2016 7:33:05 PM PDT by traumer

American and Russian fighter jets had a tense showdown in the skies above Syria as the Russians dropped bombs on U.S.-backed rebels.

U.S. and Russian fighter jets bloodlessly tangled in the air over Syria on June 16 as the American pilots tried and failed to stop the Russians from bombing U.S.-backed rebels in southern Syria near the border with Jordan.

The aerial close encounter underscores just how chaotic Syria’s skies have become as Russia and the U.S.-led coalition work at cross-purposes, each dropping bombs in support of separate factions in the five-year-old civil war. The near-clash also highlights the escalating risk of American and Russian forces actually coming to blows over Syria, potentially sparking a much wider conflict between the world’s leading nuclear powers.

The incident began when at least two twin-engine Su-34 bombers, some of Moscow’s most advanced warplanes, struck what the Pentagon described as a “border garrison” housing around 200 U.S.-supported rebels in At Tanf on the Syrian side of the Syria-Jordan border.

The rebels had been “conducting counter-ISIL operations in the area,” the Pentagon stated on June 18, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.

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1 posted on 06/19/2016 7:33:05 PM PDT by traumer
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We shouldn’t be trying to support the IS rebels


2 posted on 06/19/2016 7:34:44 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: traumer

American foreign policy has gone from stupid (Bush-43) to Insane (Barack Hussein).


3 posted on 06/19/2016 7:35:38 PM PDT by entropy12 (When you vote, you are actually voting for the candidate's rich donors!)
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“The rebels had been “conducting counter-ISIL operations in the area,” the Pentagon stated on June 18, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.”

My a$$!


4 posted on 06/19/2016 7:36:23 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: traumer
"Russians dropped bombs on U.S.-backed rebels..."

Al-Qaeda?

5 posted on 06/19/2016 7:36:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: traumer; markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ...

Active Duty ping.


6 posted on 06/19/2016 7:37:40 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Nifster

7 posted on 06/19/2016 7:37:41 PM PDT by traumer
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One thing is virtually certain: Obama has our troops fighting on the wrong side.


8 posted on 06/19/2016 7:38:26 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: traumer

Obama already signed over the US to ISIS


9 posted on 06/19/2016 7:39:37 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Cicero

Yes im rooting for the russians..we are now the bad guys


10 posted on 06/19/2016 7:39:59 PM PDT by ground_fog
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To: traumer

Can someone point me to the Congressional vote for Authorization for Use of Military Force in Syria, similar to the one voted on for Iraq? No? THEN WHY THE HELL ARE WE THERE CONFRONTING THE RUSSIANS!?


11 posted on 06/19/2016 7:40:54 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: entropy12

I could NEVER want anything but EVERY Russian plane shot down if it turned into a dogfight, but we’re wrong.

Some of us have been saying, maybe most of us, that this is a fiasco and if this guy isn’t impeached he’s gonna start WWIII.

i’m glad they killed the guys we’re supporting. I hope Russia kills them all.

But it’s gonna come to a head. It must, i think.


12 posted on 06/19/2016 7:41:03 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: traumer

I,wish they could drop bombs on the g-d muslims occupying our White House.


13 posted on 06/19/2016 7:41:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dp0622

This crap started with Kosovo.


14 posted on 06/19/2016 7:41:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: traumer

All dead Jihadis get their rewards. The fewer the better for the rest of the world.


15 posted on 06/19/2016 7:41:27 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: traumer
Headline:
U.S. and Russian Jets Clash Over Syria

Article
The near-clash also highlights

Whattabunchacrap from thedailybums.


16 posted on 06/19/2016 7:41:42 PM PDT by 867V309 (It's over. It's over now.)
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To: traumer

I wonder where Obama got the authorization to wage this war in Syria.

Any chance Paul Ryan will sue him?


17 posted on 06/19/2016 7:41:46 PM PDT by Helicondelta
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"ISIL"?

WTF? They don't even call themselves that.

18 posted on 06/19/2016 7:42:22 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: traumer
Why are we involved in another nation's civil war?

Oh yeah, our Saudi owners whom the illuminati made powerful command it.

20 posted on 06/19/2016 7:43:07 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist
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