Fox News is indicating that Russia has now launched airstrikes with Russian aircraft inside Syria.
Initial reports also indicate, according to sources, that Russian strikes are aimed where there is evidently no ISIS presence. At first blush, this seems to indicate that Russia is doing Assad’s job for him, by attacking anti-Assad forces.
UPDATE: Fox indicates Russia is in fact using its aircraft to strike anti-Assad forces in Syria, not ISIS forces.
Further, Russia has demanded that the US leave the Syrian airspace. So far, it has refused.
Once again, by Obama’s creation of a vacuum in all of the Middle East, the vacuum will be filled and it is becoming blindingly clear that Vladimir Putin is filling that vacuum.
Donald Trump has weighed in, as I watch this play out on Fox, and has asked: is Assad really worse than the rest of the players in Syria, absent ISIS? He thinks not. I’m thinking so too.
What is Mr Obama going to do in response? Because in politics and on the world stage, you respond to words with words, and actions with actions. With the exception that Mr Obama’s actions — when he has actually acted instead of threatening a “red line,” have solved nothing. Further, Obama “leads from behind,” a ridiculous stance for a world power in any event. Leading from behind simply means you are not a world power.
John Kerry is currently at the UN stating that the US is going to continue attempting to “remove” Assad, whatever “remove” means in the world of Obama. Obama thinks you can “talk” and “negotiate” sense to the Middle East and to Muslims. You cannot.
Kerry called on all governments to broker, through the UN, a negotiation to remove Assad. Kerry just legitimized Russia’s presence once again the Middle East and in Syria, as he acknowledges the presence and the “need” for Russia’s actions.
Russia is there to strengthen the Assad regime, I believe.
These are Big Boy moves by Putin, knowing again that Obama is far out of his league in terms of being capable of dealing with these issues. These are very serious moves and Putin has ratcheted up the tension and the stakes.
Worse yet, the US is saying Russia has a reason to be launching these strikes, to be present in the Middle East. The US just legitimized this move.
I shake my head.
Putin is larfing his ass off at this point.
BZ
Putin gets what he wants, a foothold in the Middle East, sanctioned by the UN… We are SO screwed…
And our official stance, per John Kerry, is that Russia’s presence is warranted — we may get a little perturbed if Russia targets non-ISIS targets, like they are — but I’m sure a little harsh language will keep Putin in line.
And BTW, the Russians flew their Sukhoi fighters under larger cargo aircraft to get their planes into Syria (an old Israeli trick), in order to create an immediate “base” so to speak. Instead Russian toe-hold in Syria.
Not to mention China CONTINUING to build their island in the middle of the South China Sea because the US is weak, and Putin kicks Obama’s ass because the US is weak, and we abandon the Ukraine because the US is weak.
Shit falls apart because of WEAKNESS, America. The Muslims and China and Russia KNOW this. That America under Obaka is WEAK.
BZ