Information: This is not a Bernie v Hillary diary.
President Obama is still Commander in Chief I believe unless something else has changed in the last few hours
Sorry but I am getting really snarky now.
Who could have predicted
Nato-member Turkey has shot down a Russian warplane in the first time the alliance and Moscow have come to blows directly over the crisis in Syria.
Ankara and Moscow gave conflicting accounts of the incident, which appears to have occurred in an area near the Turkish-Syrian border straddling Iskenderun and Latakia.
The more people involved, the more countries involved the more “accidents” will happen. Then when you consider that Russia support Assad and Turkey regards Assad as the primary enemy the “fog” of war gets denser. I wonder what will happen if Russia bombs one of our “not boots” boots on the ground or vice-versa?
How many different groups are shooting at each other at this time? We seem to be encouraging more to get more “involved”. Who is actually doing the planning, are they communicating their positions; hopefully with more success than MSF had in Afghanistan.
How do you tell if the missile “made in country X” for “country Y” that hits country’s X’s ground troops in fact came from country Y? Since country Z who is an enemy of country Y bought it from an arms trader and now country Y is blaming country Z for attacking country X whilst country Z says it wasn’t us because we really like country X? Z now claims that it was stolen by organization Q who is supposedly supported financially by country Y.
This has all the hallmarks of another fuck up in the ME.
All that the really evil people have to do is disperse, sit back and watch the fun, they can leave their pawns in the line of fire.
If this keeps up we will be trying to work out who is not involved.
Tuesday, Nov 24, 2015 · 2:34:41 PM +00:00 · LaFeminista
Writing on Twitter Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian parliament’s international relations committee, said: “Ankara clearly did not weigh the consequences of its hostile acts for Turkey’s interests and economy. The consequences will be very serious.”
Tuesday, Nov 24, 2015 · 3:29:48 PM +00:00 · LaFeminista
Who made the weapon, oh I see…..hmmm
A Syrian insurgent group, which receives US Tow missiles, said its fighters hit the helicopter with an anti-tank missile while it was in the air and put out a video showing the helicopter being blown up after one of its fighters struck it with another missile.
Tuesday, Nov 24, 2015 · 4:47:25 PM +00:00
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LaFeminista
Some hope for walking back
Turkey believes the two pilots from a Russian war plane it shot down close to the Syrian border on Tuesday are still alive and is working to secure their release from Syrian rebels, a Turkish government official told Reuters. “Our units, who received the information that the two pilots were alive, are working to get them from opposition rebels safely,” the official said.
a US official has said that initial indications are that the Russian incursion into Turkish airspace lasted a matter of seconds.