About those Russian attacks in Syria … MOSCOW (AP) — Russia launched airstrikes Wednesday in Syria, sharply escalating Moscow’s role in the conflict but also raising questions about whether its intent is fighting Islamic State militants or protecting longtime ally, President Bashar Assad. President Vladimir Putin called it a pre-emptive strike against the militants, and the Russian Defense Ministry said its warplanes targeted and destroyed eight positions belonging to extremists
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July 18, 2014
Is MH17 Putin’s Lusitania? [Darleen Click]
Smoking guns Intercepted phone calls purportedly between Russian military intelligence officers and members of a pro-Russian separatist group that appear to capture the moment the rebels realized the plane they shot down was a civilian passenger plane could be the smoking gun that helps prove Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed Ukraine by the insurgents. The tapes were released by SBU, Ukraine’s security agency, and transcript was published in the
March 22, 2014
The Fiddler [Darleen Click]
******************* Russians seize last major Ukrainian base in Crimea.
March 1, 2014
Putin to Obama: I drink your milkshake cocktail! [Darleen Click]
Putin has the measure of Obama who on Friday sniveled out an empty threat that “there will be consequences” for a military intervention in the Ukraine. As as the tanks rolled … The Obama administration has responded, so far, in a manner that is pathetic even by its own standards. After issuing stern warnings to Russia not to invade Crimea, the administration, confronted with the actual presence of Russian troops
September 15, 2013
Putin reels in 172 pound flounderer [Darleen Click]
Heh. GENEVA — The United States and Russia agreed Saturday on an outline for the identification and seizure of Syrian chemical weapons and said Syria must turn over an accounting of its arsenal within a week. […] Senior administration officials had said Friday the Obama administration would not press for U.N. authorization to use force against Syria if it reneges on any agreement to give up its chemical weapons. The
September 12, 2013
Pwned! Putined! [Darleen Click]
Victor Davis Hanson on Putin’s letter in the New York Times If it were regrettable that Vladimir Putin’s formidable diplomatic skills were wasted squashing rather than ensuring freedom inside Russia, it seems even more lamentable that his impressive prose likewise is not put to better use. Putin’s letter to us, the American people, is brilliant sophistry. The best rhetoric is always that which blends truth with half-truth and occasional fiction.