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KoKo

(84,711 posts)
31. I know...
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 08:17 PM
Oct 2015

MSM U.S./Allies News is calling for miscalculation by Putin and Catastrophic Loss by Russia with this Intervention.

It's hard to hear all that MSM/MIC NOISE and not be convinced that Russia wasn't going into Syria on MACHO/Bravado with ambitions to be the Power Broker in the Syrian situation to regain it's "Stature & Power in the World Power Axis."

I think we are led to believe that Putin is either a "Fool of his Own Ego" set to "fall on his face in humiliation" or that WE in the US have used our well connected Think Tanks of the "MIC" to entrap him in a situation which will cause so much Blow Back to the Russian Economy that there will be "Regime Change" coming in the near future for Putin/Russia for daring to intervene in our "U.S./Allies/NATO Affairs."
Therefore, our somewhat brutal and erratic Foreign Policy in the ME and North Africa might hobble on long enough to get us through the Next U.S. Election and then it will be time to pass the whole festering mess of a situation off to someone else's worry

Whatever is coming up now...will continue until there are obvious people to take the Blame before we pass the baton in late January 2017.

That's the Dark Scenario.....But, What IF the New Russia/Iran Alliance to Stabilize the Syrian Situation has Some Success? I don't hear anyone seeming to say there might be hope for that. And, maybe they are correct. Russia Overstepped and will fail as they did in Afghanistan...

But..........Then... It's such a mess its hard to make much sense out of any of it...but, we keep reading and trying to make sense of it. Nothing wrong with keeping informed as citizens, though.

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. nt bemildred Oct 2015 #16
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Liaoning neither deployed nor engaged... Ghost Dog Oct 2015 #21
+1. nt bemildred Oct 2015 #23
The New Eastern Question: Lebanon and the Russian involvement in Syria bemildred Oct 2015 #20
...1 KoKo Oct 2015 #24
I thought that was well thought out and expressed. bemildred Oct 2015 #26
I know... KoKo Oct 2015 #31
I've just been reading a bunch of different commentaries on the situation in Syria. bemildred Oct 2015 #33
Not quite sure how his proposals would work out, either, though... KoKo Oct 2015 #25
Well, the risks he speaks of are quite real, but hard to evaluate. bemildred Oct 2015 #27
Yes... KoKo Oct 2015 #28
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Whoa! KoKo Oct 2015 #32
That's because it is bizarre. nt bemildred Oct 2015 #34
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