Indeed the World Cup.
Probably isn’t good enough with nukes.
Ask any street cop what happens when someone weaker (and both sides know they are weaker) keeps enduring one humiliating insult after another.
Eventually, even an earthworm will do something and it’s usually very unexpected. This “they won’t hit back” game will end one day, and it should sicken Americans to risk that for a bunch of Sunni head choppers.
When you start a war with the idea, they’ll never fight back, you are in good company.
The Japs thought Pearl Harbor would quickly wind up with us suing for peace.
The Germans thought “if you kick in the door the whole Russian rotten house would cave in”.
We thought the Norks would never attack south and had a woefully underprepared occupation force there.
In WWI, people expected a short war of a few weeks.
In the Civil war people expected a few weeks at most and took picnics to the battlefield.
History is fulled with the hubris of “they won’t dare resist” Or “they will fold in a few months in the face of our power”.
Next thing you know you’re in a helicopter leaving the roof of the embassy in Saigon.
...and if Putin takes out a city or two, WHAT THE HELL! We still would have taught him a lesson that we’re willing to trade New York City for 60 pre-terrorists.
I am furious. More damn nation building. What a waste.
I disagree with the premise of the article. Assad had every reason not to do what is being claimed.
And what exactly was that? Has it been proven enough to put America at risk of getting into a conflict with Russia? What did Assad have to gain to gas a rebel group that was on the run?
I hope President Trump is listening more to the experts out there that say it is a false flag but the deep state that is trying to drag us into something to derail our recovery.
The big question is, will President Trump fall for it and looks like he is headed in that direction. What a crying a$$ shame
They deny Assad even did it so based on that associating themselves with Assad isn't a problem. And they can't not defend him.
More importantly, however, Putin knows that these U.S. strikes will not endanger Assad's continued empowerment and thus Moscow's overriding strategic interests
I can't disagree with that. Especially if our response is to shoot up another air base that'll be back in action within a few days.
This writer should act on his convictions and go join the fight against Assad himself.
WRONG - “First off, the Russians do not want to associate themselves with what Assad has done.”
Moscow calls ‘chemical attack’ in Douma ‘fake news,’ warns against Syrian intervention
https://www.rt.com/news/423524-douma-chemical-attack-fake-moscow/
Russia Expresses Concern Over Israel’s ‘Hasty Conclusion’ on ‘Fake Chemical Attack’ in Syria
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-russia-concerned-over-israel-s-hasty-conclusion-on-syria-gas-attack-1.5990355
Russia dismisses allegations of Syria chemical attack as “fake news”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/syria-chemical-attack-douma-fake-news-russia-says-warning-to-donald-trump/
I may be over-hyping it in my head but The World Cup could pan out to be a game changer of sorts.
Nevertheless, the U.S. and Russia both have enough problems at home to ward off risking such a conflict. We have illegal aliens, rebellious states like Colliefornia, a leftist (mostly-non-violent) insurgency, a no-good war-mongering media and political class and an enormous national debt. Putin has a collapsing country, due to its low birth rate.
A conflict that escalates into a nuclear exchange would finish us both quite easily.