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2015-10-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Obama: Putin Sent Military Into Syria 'Out of Weakness'

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-05 02:48|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 For I am a jealous god...

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-10-05 09:23|| 2015-10-05 09:23|| Front Page Top

#2 P2k, can I recommend a SF book to you?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-05 09:46|| 2015-10-05 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Putin is playing master-level chess.

Obama is playing checkers... with himself.... and losing... badly.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-10-05 10:29|| 2015-10-05 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 More "Leading from behind" by Obean?

Posted by JohnQC 2015-10-05 11:49|| 2015-10-05 11:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Mr. Obama and his camp's objective is, and long has been, to forge a post-presidential political machine. That's where the money and power will be, who the Democratic party will follow, and who the Western elites will come to.

Everything said and done is to advance that goal. Retain and reinforce the current "progressive" voter base. Cultivate the potentials. Line up more donors, and convince the doubters that your machine had better be the one they're donating to.

Placate or buy off the rubes and the unbelievers. Easy enough to do in D.C. and with help of the media, perhaps a bit harder and uglier outside the Beltway.

Everything that doesn't advance that goal gets ignored, or dismissed out of hand, or trash-talked, or neutralized one way or another.

Oh, and hope nothing catastrophic happens before 2017.

Posted by Pappy 2015-10-05 12:24|| 2015-10-05 12:24|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't think he understands the meaning of weakness. Or .aybe he's dyslexic.

Posted by chris 2015-10-05 14:11|| 2015-10-05 14:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, and hope nothing catastrophic happens before 2017. Posted by Pappy

Yes indeed! Manufactured crisis and strategic diversion are the regime's bread and butter. Something worthy of much prayer, even for those who pray very little or seldom if at all.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-10-05 14:41|| 2015-10-05 14:41|| Front Page Top

#8 The strong horse takes off with a quickness.
Sez Preezy: "He runs out of weakness!"
Sez Kremlinite Pharaoh,
"Cliche Caballero
Will only beat me at the Preakness."

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-10-05 14:45|| 2015-10-05 14:45|| Front Page Top

#9 More existential or strategic reasons for Mama Russia than just saving ally Baby Assad from collapse.

Putin doesn't want the ISIS/ISIL on two or more of Russia's flanks, NOT in Islamist-pressured Neo-Ottoman Turkey, nor in AFPAK building up to strike Central Asia + Russian Far East.

Also good for giving Russia-led SCO-CSTO = Eurasian Customs Union both stability + mucho international credibility + kudos.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-10-05 21:23|| 2015-10-05 21:23|| Front Page Top

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