Yes, Irene this is about that magical land commonly known as SYRIA.
A couple of years ago we had the people of Syria un an uprising against their leader, Assad…..this was during what the media likes to call “the Arab Spring”….that quickly morphed into an armed uprising of rebels groups in opposition to Assad…..then there was a report of the use of CWs by the government against the people and the US waded into the fray……then there is ISIS, that barbaric group that is fighting everyone. This situation plowed along until Assad conned the Russians into joining the fight against the rebels…..and then there was a horrific plane bomb that kills mostly Russians and ISIS claimed responsibility…..now Russia is taking on rebels as well as ISIS….let’s not forget the Turks that have decided to join the fight but most of their foes are the Kurds……
Then this week ISIS strikes again…..they execute a Norwegin and a Chinese person…..now thanx to their actions ISIS will have a new foe to join in the fight…….looks like Carson’s screw up by mentioning the China was in Syria….may have been prophetic…….
Beijing has vowed to bring ISIS to justice after the group said it had executed two hostages, a Chinese and a Norwegian.
ISIS said it had killed the two men, identified as Chinese national Fan Jinghui and Norwegian citizen Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad in its English-language online magazine Dabiq.
President Xi Jinping “strongly condemned” ISIS for the killing of Fan, the first known Chinese national to be killed by the group, and the country’s foreign ministry said the Chinese government would “definitely hold the perpetrators accountable.”
But how to respond to Fan’s “cold-blooded and violent” death presents a dilemma for China, which has stayed on the sidelines in the fight against ISIS and has a long-held principle of noninterference in other countries’ affairs.
(cnn.com)
Kinda amazing since I had just read an article about China and the Middle East just before the news of the ISIS executions hit the wires……
Soon there will be planes from US, Syria, Russia, Turkey, France, and whoever else wants to join in and now China may be the next to enter Syrian airspace…..
Damn! That is gonna be one damn crowded airspace!
And all these planes makes the possibility of an accident causing an international incident rise 10 fold……
What could possibly go wrong?
Do you think that maybe all this air-time we give them is becoming just the encouragement they want?!
If you mean news reports….then yes I do….they thrive on chaos and when they see how it effects us it is semi-orgasmic for them….
There were all kinds of allied planes in the air over enemy cities during world war 2 and all that went wrong was that the enemy was defeated.
But that was not a “no fly zone” that some want…..that will make it difficult and in WW2 ……there were Brit/American/German planes and it was not nearly as convoluted as the air war of today….plus there was only 2 points of view…allies and German….today everybody involved does not have the same end in sight…..the chances of an accident is growing by the day
Accidents are bound to happen and I am sure the tacticians have taken this into account when making their tactical plans.
And you trust the Russian the Turks and soon the Chinese?
I trust nobody and believe nothing! But I do trust them to take measures to anticipate accidental confrontations in a battle situation.
That is good….and I do hope that you are spot on….but time will tell….
I was in SAC during the Cold War and I don’t think anybody is going to risk mutual assured destruction.
I was on the ground in VN and accidents happen all the time…..friendly fire and all that….there can be no guarantees…..I do not trust Putin, Erdogan or the Chinese…..all have shown they will sacrifice to get what they want….
“What could possibly go wrong?”
This is unquestionably the LEAST asked question of the 21st Century. Within every field there is: the War Machine, technology, Frankenscience, business…you name it. Virtually NOBODY gives a millisecond’s thought to possible negative outcomes of anything they are doing. They don’t ask “Should we?” The only question they ask is “Can we?”
And they’re the fucking “experts” and the so-called “leaders”! Yet they’re running around more half-cocked than you’d expect the drooling masses to be. The Gen-pop is so bad, they barely have the brain function to form coherent questions, even if they had any…which they don’t. Because they’re mindless fucking sheep!
Apparently the “planners” are spending too much time scratching their asses…
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