Meanwhile in Iraq & Syria

[Smitty-48]

Deterrence with Russia having an ace in the pocket.

Turkey.

It's not only that the military situation is rahter good (for Russia), especially is so the political situation. And here the main blame is on Obama.

I don't see any reason to blame Obama, if Russia and Turkey want to dig themselves deeper into the Syrian rabbit hole, let them, there's no actual American strategic interests in play here, there's the humanitarian "ZOMG Sarin!" pixie dust in play, but that isn't actually an American Red Line and never was, go ahead and gas people, fill your boots, they're unpersons; nobody cares.

[Martin Hash]

In a RealPolitik way, the rise of Russian influence is good, and the creation of a Red Pact is good for America. The EU, Australia, and other sundry countries have raised a generation of Millennials that hate America. Give them something to worry about. In fact, if they actually choose to side with Russia & China, then what was America doing trying to play nice with them in the first place?

[TheReal_ND]

Fun fact; Ozzie liberals have a long storied history of PRC connections.

[Speaker to Animals]

China might need some growing room for their red lebensraum. Australia is as good as any place.

[TheReal_ND]

They already own half the continent as well as Canada.

[Okeefenokee]

I expect to you comment in the NHL Thread sir!

Not much to say at this point, there's only three games left, the Leafs will either make it or they won't, we're kind of beyond the commenting phase at this point up here, other than saying Go Leafs Go, the rubber has met the road, so just getter done; end of comment.

Just hope the leafs don't get penned in as white supremacy. Fucking fairweather bandwagon fans summoning kek.

[Okeefenokee]

In a RealPolitik way, the rise of Russian influence is good, and the creation of a Red Pact is good for America. The EU, Australia, and other sundry countries have raised a generation of Millennials that hate America. Give them something to worry about. In fact, if they actually choose to side with Russia & China, then what was America doing trying to play nice with them in the first place?

I have zero interest in saving them from an external threat while they are actively importing an internal one.

If we go back, we add stars.

[Fife]

Deterrence with Russia having an ace in the pocket.

Turkey.

It's not only that the military situation is rahter good (for Russia), especially is so the political situation. And here the main blame is on Obama.

I don't see any reason to blame Obama, if Russia and Turkey want to dig themselves deeper into the Syrian rabbit hole, let them, there's no actual American strategic interests in play here, there's the humanitarian "ZOMG Sarin!" pixie dust in play, but that isn't actually an American Red Line and never was, go ahead and gas people, fill your boots, they're unpersons; nobody cares.

WAKE NEWS

It took 70-something days for us to return to neoconnormie status. Not bad, actually.

[Smitty-48]

Deterrence with Russia having an ace in the pocket.

Turkey.

It's not only that the military situation is rahter good (for Russia), especially is so the political situation. And here the main blame is on Obama.

I don't see any reason to blame Obama, if Russia and Turkey want to dig themselves deeper into the Syrian rabbit hole, let them, there's no actual American strategic interests in play here, there's the humanitarian "ZOMG Sarin!" pixie dust in play, but that isn't actually an American Red Line and never was, go ahead and gas people, fill your boots, they're unpersons; nobody cares.

WAKE NEWS

It took 70-something days for us to return to neoconnormie status. Not bad, actually.

Number of actual fucks given about Syria is zero, it's just more Red Team v. Blue Team v. Trump Team hysterical partisan bun fighting, another proxy non issue for dueling concern trolls to beat each other over the head with, but otherwise; nothing to see here, change channel, back to hockey, order pizza.

[TheReal_ND]

http://mideast.liveuamap.com

LOL