Post: #326

(10-09-2015 02:39 PM)Khan Wrote:  Meanwhile, the Obama administration is apparently up to something:

https://www.rt.com/news/318107-obama-end...an-rebels/

Quote:Meanwhile, a Pentagon official told The New York Times that the recruitment of so-called moderate Syrian rebels to go through training programs in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates will end.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, added that a much smaller training center will be opened in Turkey, where a small number of “enablers” – mostly leaders of opposition groups – will be taught operational maneuvers, such as how to call in airstrikes.

Any thoughts on this? I'd say this means the US is conceding defeat in Syria. If this is true, they're probably going to try and make a move elsewhere.

http://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-change-tr...45061.html

Essentially all it means is that the US isn't going to try to create a new "moderate" rebel group because it obviously didn't turn out so well.
Now they will only "provide arms and equipment directly to rebel leaders and their units on the battlefield". So for example the $500 million dollars that we spent on training what ended up being "4 or 5 rebels" is now directly going to be turned into money and guns and handed out to whichever "moderate rebels" are already crawling all over the place.

Post: #327

I heard that Russia is currently building up limited ground troops and special forces are operating in Syira (different from the link I used earlier). True?

I don't know, but I think Washington knows that the game is up in Syria. That's why I hope Putin sends in Russian ground troops. The effects of that policy seem to be to spite Assad and make sure that little flares of rebel resistance pop up from time to time, but the large scale operations will be over.

Post: #328

^^^^

My take on it is that the US is now trying to counter-escalate, in order to neutralize Russia's involvement. So, things now just got a lot more interesting.

Despite my enthusiasm for Moscow's move, I wish it had come 2 years ago. And I hope that it is going to be sustained. Russia has a habit of being tight-fisted and niggardly when it comes to providing aid to its allies. Now is not the time for parsimony from Putin. Asad needs help, and a lot of it.

The US and its flunkies are now going to "up the ante" here in a big way, with their usual bag of tricks.

Post: #329

(10-09-2015 03:35 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  Russia has a habit of being tight-fisted and niggardly when it comes to providing aid to its allies. Now is not the time for parsimony from Putin. Asad needs help, and a lot of it.

At first I was like:



Then I was like - do you research:



And then finally concluded - perfect use:

Post: #330

^^^
Niggardly is a pretty common word and it's only controversial amongst some overly sensitive Americans.

Quote:In the United States, there have been several controversies concerning the word "niggardly", an adjective meaning "stingy" or "miserly", because of its phonetic similarity to the racial slur "nigger". Etymologically the two words are unrelated.

Nobody gives a shit if you say it in UK.

Post: #331

It needs to be used every now and then to remind American idiots, knob-nibblers, and politically-correct pussies of the breadth and scope of the English language.

Post: #332

dupe

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Roger that Walter & Quintus - you just never hear it in the states. Proper English is something lacking here in the states.

My first reaction was to laugh and then I wiki'd it.

Post: #334

Anyone find it amusing the upswing in anti-Russian media hit pieces going out? Friendly hospital gets bombed, hardly a word and relegated to small captions.

Meanwhile in Iran: "BIG RUSSIAN MISSILES DROP IN IRAN AND KILLS GOD KNOWS HOW MANY!"

Its like they're not even putting any effort into their lies and bullshit. Even the Pentagon and CIA have become lazy and ridiculous with their rhetoric and propaganda. "Yes we trained some bloodthirsty motherfuckers, so what? Russia is bad!"

Post: #335

Everytime I see a US news article that's anti-russian - I smile because I know there's a high probably that it's bullshit and they're doing everything they can to make them look bad.

Post: #336

I wouldn't say the MSF hospital incident has been relegated to small captions. It has been pretty well covered, as it should. That is an extreme Intel failure at best. I may not care for MSF's current position regarding the migrants, but they by no means deserve to be shelled.

Post: #337

These days when I get to watch Russia Today, usually in hotels, I can't help but feel like an East German in DDR listening to free radio from Western Germany. The bs coming from mainstream western media is so thick now even ordinary people begin to question what the deal is.

Post: #338

(10-09-2015 06:09 PM)Mike5055 Wrote:  I wouldn't say the MSF hospital incident has been relegated to small captions. It has been pretty well covered, as it should. That is an extreme Intel failure at best. I may not care for MSF's current position regarding the migrants, but they by no means deserve to be shelled.

Disagree (slightly). Even my French buddy said that there was no outrage in the French media and they didn't cover it too much. Whereas 20 years ago it would have been an outrage.

And it's not just "an extreme intel failure." (and come on, you could say that for just about any of the US and West's recent lame-ass interventions).

From what I understand, we were using local Afghan "allies" (who have ALWAYS been biased, corrupt, ethnocentric etc.) to tell us to repeatedly bomb the hospital - even despite us knowing it was a hospital after the first couple of attacks and having doubts. This after we'd just dealt with the same type of people who'd been molesting boys to the point where our soldiers said "enough" (even then it took a Fox News story to shame the US government into doing something to stop it).

Total failure across the board not just "intel."

Post: #339

(10-09-2015 06:09 PM)Mike5055 Wrote:  I wouldn't say the MSF hospital incident has been relegated to small captions. It has been pretty well covered, as it should. That is an extreme Intel failure at best. I may not care for MSF's current position regarding the migrants, but they by no means deserve to be shelled.

It was buried, here in the UK at least. Anti-Russian propaganda is seeing major airtime and the social commentators are coming out with the anti-Putin shaming tactics.

I am no fan of Putin or Russia but the way they're dismantling Western influence on such a scale is making me question a lot of things these days.

Post: #340

(10-09-2015 03:35 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  Russia has a habit of being tight-fisted and niggardly when it comes to providing aid to its allies. Now is not the time for parsimony from Putin. Asad needs help, and a lot of it.

Post: #341

So Turkey probably shot down a Russian jet and bets America will defend them.

Great, good job Erdogan.

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Post: #344

I wanted to share this article based on some of the Wikileaks... Just backs the point that the US will lie to everyone, even its own people. I mean think about it. People are being elected to take care the populations interest one way or another, but they really don`t give a shit. What a freaking web of deception this is, yet is the will to revolt hidden someplace in people? I honestly believe the US need at revolution to fight this bullshit and go "Air-France" on the corrupt politicians.

http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepick...-bloodbath

Post: #345

(10-10-2015 02:10 PM)Frekkesen Wrote:  I wanted to share this article based on some of the Wikileaks... Just backs the point that the US will lie to everyone, even its own people. I mean think about it. People are being elected to take care the populations interest one way or another, but they really don`t give a shit. What a freaking web of deception this is, yet is the will to revolt hidden someplace in people? I honestly believe the US need at revolution to fight this bullshit and go "Air-France" on the corrupt politicians.

http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepick...-bloodbath

Governments and political parties work the same way as big corporations. They exist to profit, and to make richer those in charge.
Corporations couldn't care less for their employees, and even much less for other smaller stakeholders, like the community for example.

Governments (in general) could not care less for their people, and much less for foreign nations people.

Everyone who has been to management board meetings knows how decisions are made. It is complete naivety to think that in politics things are done otherwise.

Post: #346

(10-10-2015 02:10 PM)Frekkesen Wrote:  I wanted to share this article based on some of the Wikileaks... Just backs the point that the US will lie to everyone, even its own people. I mean think about it. People are being elected to take care the populations interest one way or another, but they really don`t give a shit. What a freaking web of deception this is, yet is the will to revolt hidden someplace in people? I honestly believe the US need at revolution to fight this bullshit and go "Air-France" on the corrupt politicians.

http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepick...-bloodbath

The article is good. And this is even short-cut version. It shows clearly how precise they are planning certain moves. Keep in mind that likely hundreds of thousands of pages of analytical papers by NGOs, military brass and secret services have been written behind the scenes.

Everything in our world of that caliber is deeply mulled over for years and even decades. It also shows that all forces in certain countries were working as one - various factions of Kurds, Iranians, Saudis, Israelis, US etc. - all deciding that Assad's Syria could not be "reformed" and they had to be toppled.

Damn - those leaders should finally read some real history by Carroll Quigley (Clinton's mentor at Georgetown) and just decide one of the ways they as a country and individually can come out best on top. The best solution for Assad is that he will be allied with Russia and China now.

Post: #347

(10-09-2015 06:02 PM)kaotic Wrote:  Everytime I see a US news article that's anti-russian - I smile because I know there's a high probably that it's bullshit and they're doing everything they can to make them look bad.

Yeah.

It's really hard to make a fucking shit-hole of a country that barely provides it's citizens an illusion of freedom and human rights look bad.

It amuses me to no end that idiots like you who aren't White or Black yourself actually think you can pass of as Yank.

Post: #348

(10-10-2015 03:57 PM)Monkey Luffey Wrote:  

(10-09-2015 06:02 PM)kaotic Wrote:  Everytime I see a US news article that's anti-russian - I smile because I know there's a high probably that it's bullshit and they're doing everything they can to make them look bad.

Yeah.

It's really hard to make a fucking shit-hole of a country that barely provides it's citizens an illusion of freedom and human rights look bad.

It amuses me to no end that idiots like you who aren't White or Black yourself actually think you can pass of as Yank.

No need for name calling here. That shit derails and kills threads. I suggest you edit your post because throwing around insults when you've been here for one month and only have 9 posts to your name is a guaranteed way to get banned.

Post: #349

The Russian jet being shot down wasn't a hoax after all.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/russian-jet-sho...ce-1523426

Quote:A Russian air force jet has been shot down by Turkish forces after it strayed into the country's airspace, according to unconfirmed reports. Eyewitnesses reported a large explosion in Huraytan, northern Syria, as three fighter jets were sighted flying overhead, the Express said.

A Turkish-based journalist tweeted that three Turkish planes were responding after radar locked on to some "mysterious" MiG-29 jets, which are a similiar model to those used by Russian forces.

The news comes after Turkey scrambled F-16 fighter jets last weekend after a Russian MiG-29 crossed into Turkish territory near the town of Yayladagi, in Hatay province, close to the border with Syria. Turkish jets then escorted the Russian aircraft back into Syrian airspace.

Turkey's prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu has accused Russia of escalating the conflict in Syria, and he claimed that Moscow admitted its warplanes had violated his country's airspace by mistake. Russia's ambassador in Turkey was also summoned in protest at the provocative action.

Russia has been leading a unilateral bombing campaign in Syria after Russian president Vladimir Putin declared war on Islamic State (Isis). Coalition forces led by the US have accused Russia of only entering the conflict to prop up Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad.

Turkish officials have warned Moscow would be held "responsible for any undesired incident" that may occur in the future. Both the Turkish and Russian consulate were unavailable to comment at the time of writing.

Tensions between Russia and the West have been heightened since the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where Moscow is accused of backing the armed rebels in that country. It was thought that relationships had thawed somewhat after Putin met US president Barack Obama this month and said that he planned on taking on IS. However, Russian forces have been targeting US-backed rebel groups, contrary to US goals.

That gives Turkey a great excuse against Russia since they were already upset at the intervention throwing a wrench in their attempts at bombing Kurds into extinction.

The US is may levy this to take pressure off of our Al Qaeda mercenaries brave freedom fighters. That's probably the best situation the corrupt defense committee chairpersons could've hope for. They may get a small window to reorganize of they play it right. Expect more demonizing, outright obfuscation and mention of inane claims like Russia's "human rights conduct" hitting the news cycles.

Post: #350

The "moderate" groups are allying themselves with al-nusra - alqhaida affiliate against the coming Government push.


I think the terrorists will loose, i can't see them holding of a ground invasion with this much russian air support. No matter what support they get from turkey/Saudiarabia/US, they are not a real army and they have no air support.
Putin will once again look like a master of diplomacy.