Posted on 09/28/2022 8:27:15 PM PDT by NeverCheney
Mostly it’s because they know there will be no nuclear war.
The Russian Nuc rattling is to scare the gullibles in the west
One in Indiana too.
They’re coming. Part of an October surprise to also boost the Dems. We’ll fork over half a trillion for the Rothschilds and partners (including Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, and various Israeli interests) to get their Genie Energy pipeline up from Syria, through Turkey and onto Europe via Ukraine.
What is with the name-calling, especially when supporting what Trump calls a holocaust being conducted as Russia invades the peaceful nation of Ukraine and starts the biggest war in Europe since the last time Russia and Germany started invading countries, WWII?
‘Trump and Putin on collision course in Syria’
President Donald Trump’s potential military strike against Syria is putting him on a dangerous new collision course with Russian President Vladimir Putin, just weeks after Trump invited the Russian leader to the White House.
On a day when Trump tweeted a vow to attack Syrian government forces — mocking a Russian threat of retaliation — experts and former U.S. officials warned that Washington and Moscow could stumble into a dangerous clash.
The rising hostilities are an unexpected turn some 18 months after Trump warned that his 2016 campaign rival, Hillary Clinton, favored a tough stance toward Russia in Syria that could “lead to World War III.” As a candidate, Trump repeatedly said the U.S. and Russia could work together in Syria, where Assad has been fighting a seven-year civil war with Russian military support.
“Get ready Russia,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning, added that missiles “will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart! You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!”
Trump also declared that the U.S.-Russian relationship is now “worse now than it has ever been, and that includes the Cold War.”
Still, Trump refrained from specifically naming Putin, with whom he has repeatedly said he hopes to “get along.” And the Russian president himself avoided escalating the rhetoric in Moscow on Wednesday, obliquely saying only that “the situation in the world is becoming more chaotic” but that “we still hope that common sense will eventually prevail and international relations will enter a constructive course.”
Carpenter said “the Russians will be prudent in how they select their response” to any U.S. action in Syria, predicting that they would use electronic warfare capabilities and sophisticated S-400 anti-air missile systems to try and shoot down the cruise missiles the U.S. is likely to use in an attack.
“I would expect Russia to try hard to shoot down cruise missiles and claim this as a victory,” added Alexander Bick, a former national security council official overseeing Syria in the Obama White House. “I would also expect an intensified diplomatic effort to portray the U.S. presence in Syria as illegal, and possibly more aggressive tactics to try to deny U.S. aircraft access to Syrian airspace,” Bick added.
U.S. officials and experts warn that events could take an even more dangerous turn if American missiles should kill any of the Russian soldiers who are assisting Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces in the country. Russians are likely present at most key military targets inside of Syria, according to a former senior Obama administration Pentagon official.
Well before the current crisis, Trump’s new national security adviser, John Bolton, warned in a June Wall Street Journal op-ed that “the probability of direct military confrontation between the U.S. and Russia has risen” in Syria. Bolton went on to argue that the U.S. must challenge Russian influence in the country.
Trump officials are debating a military response to a recent chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma that the U.S. attributes to Assad’s government. Russia is allied with Assad and fervently opposes U.S. action against his forces and was furious after Trump fired missiles at a Syrian airbase last April to punish another chemical attack.
A commentary and video posted on the Kremlin-funded news outlet RT on Wednesday suggested that Trump was preparing to bomb Syria for political reasons.
“President Trump, once a vocal critic of U.S. military involvement in Syria, has taken to Twitter to warn Damascus and Moscow about incoming ‘smart’ missiles. Is Trump’s slumping popularity a factor in his stunning policy reversal?” the unbylined commentary asked.
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The harsh talk comes amid a growing diplomatic confrontation between the U.S. and Russia, despite Trump’s continued talk of dialogue with Putin.
In late March, the U.S. expelled 60 Russian diplomats to punish the attempted killing with a nerve agent of a Russian double agent living in London, which the U.S. blamed on Putin’s government. Last week, the U.S. sanctioned several Russian oligarchs as punishment for Russia’s 2016 election interference, one of several recent rounds of sanctions against Moscow.
Trump also approved late last year the sale of anti-tank missiles to the government of Ukraine, which is fighting a pro-Russian separatist insurgency in its eastern region, an act that infuriated the Kremlin.
‘How much of my tax money do you want Biden to take in order to help Ukraine?’...asks the Russian troll.
‘How much of my tax money do you want Biden to take in order to help Ukraine?’...asks the Russian troll.
Nope, a taxpayer. If you don’t care how much money govt spends, you’re a Biden socialist
It sounds like liberal crap because you’re still thinking this is the same country it was after WW2
Obviously the US has issues, BUT ITS STILL BY FAR THE BEST COUNTRY OUT THERE. So, once again, when you said We’re not the good guys anymore. God help us. Who then are the good guys?
There are plenty of good individuals everywhere. Governments? Not so much.
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