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Journal fustakrakich's Journal: HA! And you say American foreign policy is weak! 9

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With Russia's (well, everybody's) petro dollar conveniently in the tank, now is the time for a nice little build up, wouldn't you say?

"This is a message that we see what they're capable of, and what their political leadership is willing to do", said the mysterious administration official...

Probably not much in either case.

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    • Sanders is no peacenik. I'm not sure he has the blood lust that you do though, so in your eyes he just another 98 pound weakling. But he is sticking to the narrative, spreading the same propaganda in support of the proxy wars, wanting to arm these and those factions... The family business will be safe in his hands. In the end, he still does not get my vote. He still serves the democratic party and those who fund it. The money he brings in is for them. He's a pretend 'independent', like Joe Lieberman (the de

      • Restated, any President at least has to deliver #OccupyResoluteDesk's half-fast reactions, or Wall Street spanky-spank.
        • Just one problem with this - Russia is kicking whatever ass they choose and nobody can do anything about it, in part because, surprise, surprise, their military isn't soviet era junk any more. They can do more sorties in one day than the coalition does in a month.
          • Yeah, but that's like saying the USSR successfully puttered in Afghanistan for a decade.
            • Not really - they're punching way above the rest of the world combined in Syria. As they use up their old crap, they deploy new stuff, and they've got integrated radar systems that make the heads-on radar signature of the F35 totally irrelevant - and their su-35 superflanker can outmaneuver an F22 raptor. The networked ground-based radars eliminate pretty much all stealth advantages for both sides, and (oops, surprise) stealth doesn't work at all against lower-frequency radar from WW2.

              Chasing stealth was a

              • If Assad had resumed full control of Syria by now, I'd be more inclined to agree with you here.

                • How long have the Russians been active in the region, compared to the coalition? Oh, right - this proxy war started in March 2011, almost 5 years ago, and achieved ... not much, despite all sorts of stuff [bbc.com]. Russia has been actively involved for just over 4 months.

                  How many people would Assad have killed if outsiders hadn't meddled with regime change bs, compared to how many have been killed because of the ongoing war? "We had to destroy the village to save it" was a mistake we should have learned from decade

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