Man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS or MPADS) are shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). They are typically guided weapons and are a threat to low-flying aircraft, especially helicopters.
So it doesn’t matter Putin continues his invasion of Ukraine....
Or that China knows it can continue grabbing key sea areas, building vast artificial islands on which to plant its flag (and weapons). Or that Bashar al-Assad is back to using chemical weapons, because Obama won't enforce his own “red line.”
As for Iran: It’s already breaking the “interim” US nuclear deal by building enriched-uranium stockpiles far larger than it promised. Iraq? In the same town-hall, Obama talks of how “we were able to end two wars."
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Obama learned from the Clintons how to get a big payday for his two foundations: look on w/ approval even if countries invade and depopulate.....and never e-v-e-r utter a discouraging word e-v-e-r.
Maybe even shake hands w/ foreign tyrants to get mining permits and million dollar honorariums as Clinton did in Kazakhstan.
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How well Obama learned at the knee of Hillary when she was Obama's Secy of State. At that time the "State Dept Mission Statement" mentioned that it would "create a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community."
(Well, profitable for the Clinton Foundation, anyway.)
Now it looks like that "prosperous world" is gonna happen, thanks to Obama's two foundations (/snix).
Now look up the NextGen flight path control systems being implemented domestically by the FAA. They are forcing the American airline industry to approach major airports in narrow corridors at low altitude, like ducks in a shooting gallery. With a spotter in an airport, they'll even be able to designate individual targets.
Yes, I have told every committee in Congress about NextGen and MANPADS, in writing.