The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Posted on 11/23/2015 6:15:50 AM PST by C19fan
Russia's strongman Vladimir Putin has been overseeing the daily airstrikes in Syria from a colossal three-floor war room in Moscow. Long rows of identical desks and computer terminals are crammed into the enormous space, filling up three floors with analysts monitoring activities in the conflict zone. Sitting at a desk on the central level of the first floor, the Russian President can be seen observing every detail. Putin is surrounded by his trusted military advisers, who have been working hard to shore up the Assad regime in Syria.
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When I was stationed in Cheyenne Mountain, they had a room with wall displays and operators, etc. They called it the “Left Wall”.
Dennis Miller once said of Bill Gates “Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie.” Same thing applies to Putin.
Yep that is a war room alright, and Obama’s war room look like perhaps the size of a closet.
“Gentlemen. You can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!”
Sometimes, I get the strange feeling that we are getting more transparency from the Kremlin than from the White House, Capital Hill or the Pentagon.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Or a world leader who takes the role of his nation seriously?
Dr. Strangelove.
observation number one, not one of those guys are actually using their computers. only one dude is even touching the keyboard. I'll be willing to bet that most of them aren't turned on, and don't even work.
observation number two, it's obviously propaganda photo day in the phony russian command center; notice the video crew in the upper left. I'm assuming that's not normal procedure in a real command center during a military campaign.
>> Russia’s strongman Vladimir Putin
... is just so darn LIKEABLE lately.
I wonder if he might be the antichrist. ;-)
“From Vietnam onward, this Republic has let politicians set the rules of engagement and we have lost ever since.”
Since Korea, actually. Even the tactical and operational brilliance in once crushing, and later zeroing out Iraq was completely lost at the strategic level by politicians.
I think the closest we have had to victories are the Cuban missile crisis and successfully tamping down the Yom Kippur war, which wasn’t really our war although it was headed that way. But then I don’t think we want problems resolved and the troops sent home to friends, family and happier employment. Eisenhower warned about the vested economic interests for some in maintaining a war footing. And since then, although some conflicts were resolved, WE are not the ones to shut them down. Like dishonest lawyers keeping cases open to continue to bill on them, our politicians seem to never reach an end to their wars. They remain open, unless someone else closes the book on them.
There was a time in America when we weren't so concerned with making women and minorities feel better about themselves and were more focused on accomplishing things...
Guess they need something that large since their electronics is still in the 1960’s?
Slim Pickens! Where are you when we need you man!
There aren’t any keyboards on those desks, just a darker space where one would go. They no doubt staged the photo, but I have little doubt that during normal operations, there would be plenty of keyboards, coffee mugs, and papers in evidence.
“Sometimes, I get the strange feeling that we are getting more transparency from the Kremlin than from the White House, Capital Hill or the Pentagon.”
I am not sure it is transparency so much as lucidity. The Western elite have lost their minds. Whatever one things of Putin or his motives, these things are embedded in his political philosophy as the leader of Russia:
1. The foundation of national sovereignty is non-negotiable. Putin will not barter away Russia’s autonomy for One World bullsquirt, or surrender decisions on Russian interests to outsiders.
2. Christianity is a part of the national and cultural bedrock of Russia and will be recognized and encouraged.
3. For Russia to have a future, Russians must have more children and families are encouraged. Sterile perversions and abortion, while tolerated, are NOT encouraged.
4. Objective, existential threats to the nation will be countered, no matter the source of the threat. They will not be ignored or irrationally minimized.
5. A socialist command economy and redistribution have been tried and have failed. Those errors will not be repeated.
6. Jihad will not be tolerated and its practitioners shall be physically destroyed. Aggressors will not be forgiven or “dialogued” with nor will there be efforts to “understand” them. They will be identified, pursued, and killed.
Those are all objective, rational principles for any national leader. We do NOT see them in the West. I think Russia is holding her cards very closely, because that is what Russians do. But in distinction to the secular West, Russia remains a rational nation state. That is why Russia is more credible, and it is also why the One World globalists lust to pull Russia down and dismember her. Russia’s existence is a rebuke to them.
Looks a bit like NSA’s Deep Space Command room, but bigger ...
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