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CrossTalk: Mideast Alliances

Russia has made good on its commitment to start fighting ISIL in Syria from the air. Russia is also establishing a coalition to protect the legal government in Damascus. This has caused an uproar in Washington. Can the Kremlin and the White House fight terrorists in tandem? CrossTalking with Patrick Henningsen, James Carafano, and Marwa Osman.

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  1. ‘Greater Israel Project’ — look it up. All of the countries neighboring Israel must be destabilized in order for it to be implemented. There will *never* be peace in the Middle East as long as Israel exists.

    • +Naija Lolade you fool again, i am brazilian,,, part of the brics,, my name is english because my father is english.. and i cant live in brazil because the anti whites are all over.. south africa should be kicked out from the brics, since they are anti white too..

    • +Stuart Hughes Ode talk.. You too stupid, saying nonsense. It does not even make any sense.
      Petr Poroshenko and Iats too must be in this category too right ? Because you too stupid to understand how the geo-politics is being played out..

      Like I said, you just another foolish idiot. The reason crayfish  got bent..

  2. Russia is and has been, a long standing official ally of Syria. Russia’s support of the Syarian government is what is expected of an ally.
    What’s surprising to me is that it took Russia so long to defnd it’s Syrian ally.
    Russia has a legitimate reason for being there. The USA does not.
    I’m not even going to address the outrageous way my country has been training and supporting the terrorists. Our mid east policy has been to tear up stable countries across the middle east. We’ve caused a disaster in the mid east.

    • +macpduff Well that’s not actually true, Russia has been sending weapons plus  S300 SAM Batteries hoping Bashar’s military and paramilitary allies would defeat all the armed groups, but since they just keep coming to the country one after another attacking different areas making the job even harder than it needs to be thanks to the puppet gulf states and some western countries plus mine, Russia officially decided to step in militarily.

  3. Why did Washington not take out that Islamic State Command Center?? Didn’t know it was there?? Didn’t care?? Putin has made a fool of Washington in exposing it’s “DAFFY DUCK” Mideast Policy.

    • +joker rc yup… all the FAKE american/nato airstrikes against Assad army AND facility aka ‘ISIS militants’, ‘ISIS stronghold facilities’.

      well, now the russians are playing their game in their fake media war.

      russia is now killing ISIS militants and their arms depot aka ‘safe zone american/saudi/turkey/israhell,qatar contract soldiers’, ‘american/nato hidden forward mini base/arms depot’.

      i love it too……..the russians are playing the ‘lying’ game with america in front of their face and the whole world.

  4. Everyone in the west is worried about Bashar al-Assad’s “barrel bombing”, as this is what—in their minds—makes him a tyrant. So I looked up the history of “barrel bombs” on WIkipedia. Who do you think was the first nation to use “barrel bombs”?

    From Wiki:

    Israel:

    Barrel bombs were used by the Israeli Air Force during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. On July 15–16, the Israeli Air Force dropped barrel bombs on the town of Saffuriyya during Operation Dekel.Historian Nafez Nazzal quotes one of the villagers, the quartermaster of the Saffuriyya militia, describing the attack:

    “Three Jewish planes flew over the village and dropped barrels filled with explosives, metal fragments, nails and glass. They were very loud and disrupting … They shook the whole village, broke windows, doors, killed or wounded some of the villagers and many of the village livestock. We expected a war but not an air and tank war.”

    United States:

    In April 1968, during Operation Inferno of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped dozens of barrels filled with incendiary fuel and tear gas-equivalent, in order to start forest fires and to flush out Viet Cong guerrillas in the U Minh forest. The bombs were not dropped on heavily populated areas and in the end were not very effective at starting forest fires.

    Hmmm…seems “barrel bombs” ought to be a familiar tactic in the west by now.

    And what about Bashar al-Assad being “disliked” by his own people?

    His own people reelected him by a 90% landslide last year in an election more internationally monitored than any other presidential election in history. Had Bush’s year 2000 election been thusly monitored it is grossly unlikely he (George W. Bush) would have ever set foot in the oval office.

    Trouble is, these things never get mentioned in the western press, and as a result, western leaders and wanna-be leaders are free to say whatever outlandish thing they want, just as long as they conform to the “Assad is a tyrant” rhetoric.

  5. That guy from Washington is a complete moron, he quickly forgot the 1.4 million civilian casualties in Iraq since 2003 *ILLEGAL* invasion by the US criminal *GENOCIDAL* arm forces. Not to mention the deaths in other countries !!!
    The US is a mega-corporation built on *GENOCIDE, SLAVERY and THEFT*

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