Motown
10-08-2015, 10:17 AM
I have to ask, do we have the dumbest people in the world running our government right now?
NATO’s secretary general warned Thursday of a “troubling escalation” in Russian military activities in Syria, saying the alliance stands firmly behind member Turkey even as Moscow broadens its air and sea attacks.
On Tuesday, U.S. and Russian officials tentatively agreed to resume talks on how to coordinate in the skies over Syria. Turkey, a NATO member that shares a border with Syria, has already accused Russia of violating its airspace.
But Defense Secretary Ashton Carter ruled out any cooperation with Moscow in the fight against the Islamic State, saying that Russia’s strategy was clearly just to support Assad and his government.
“We believe Russia has the wrong strategy. They continue to hit targets that are not ISIL. This is a fundamental mistake,” Carter said, using one of the acronyms for the Islamic State.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nato-warns-of-troubling-russian-escalation-in-syria-at-defense-ministers-meeting/2015/10/08/8ba529a4-6d34-11e5-91eb-27ad15c2b723_story.html
This isn't about Turkey, Turkey hasn't been threatened by Russia and NATO sounds really weak here even trying to make this about Turkey.
Ashton Carter needs to resign right now or even better be fired. Is anyone surprised that Russia is backing its long time ally? If you are you shouldn't be. With our current leadership America, and NATO by extension, is a paper tiger and they just got called out and have no clue what to do. I hate to say this and I never thought there'd be a time when I would say this but I have to agree with Putin's assessment of the situation.
My concern here isn't Russia, it's us. Our policy has clearly been designed to cause the maximum amount of chaos and we just got called on it. I hope Obama is smart enough to not make things worse than he already has.
NATO’s secretary general warned Thursday of a “troubling escalation” in Russian military activities in Syria, saying the alliance stands firmly behind member Turkey even as Moscow broadens its air and sea attacks.
On Tuesday, U.S. and Russian officials tentatively agreed to resume talks on how to coordinate in the skies over Syria. Turkey, a NATO member that shares a border with Syria, has already accused Russia of violating its airspace.
But Defense Secretary Ashton Carter ruled out any cooperation with Moscow in the fight against the Islamic State, saying that Russia’s strategy was clearly just to support Assad and his government.
“We believe Russia has the wrong strategy. They continue to hit targets that are not ISIL. This is a fundamental mistake,” Carter said, using one of the acronyms for the Islamic State.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nato-warns-of-troubling-russian-escalation-in-syria-at-defense-ministers-meeting/2015/10/08/8ba529a4-6d34-11e5-91eb-27ad15c2b723_story.html
This isn't about Turkey, Turkey hasn't been threatened by Russia and NATO sounds really weak here even trying to make this about Turkey.
Ashton Carter needs to resign right now or even better be fired. Is anyone surprised that Russia is backing its long time ally? If you are you shouldn't be. With our current leadership America, and NATO by extension, is a paper tiger and they just got called out and have no clue what to do. I hate to say this and I never thought there'd be a time when I would say this but I have to agree with Putin's assessment of the situation.
My concern here isn't Russia, it's us. Our policy has clearly been designed to cause the maximum amount of chaos and we just got called on it. I hope Obama is smart enough to not make things worse than he already has.