Turkey shoots down a Russian Mig-29

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  1. riverman

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    The Pussy Riot movement didn't pull any punches with Putin at home...he didn't have an answer for Russian feminist Punk Rock
    Putin and Pussy Riot.jpg
     
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    They tried that in Afghanistan. Gotta find 'em before you can kill 'em.
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Yeah, the taking off the shirt and riding around on horseback thing sure didn't work.....
     
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    It's not the 80s anymore, it's a lot easier to acquire and eliminate targets now.
     
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  5. UncleCliffy'sDaddy

    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Especially if you don't care what the target is....
     
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    That's my point. Putin scares me... he's the type of dude that will use nuclear attacks if necessary.

    Our next president needs to be VERY strong in order to deal with this man going forward.
     
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    He's expanding his empire, not his social circle.
     
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    It will be an impossible task by then, at the rate Putin is advancing unchallenged.
     
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    The world needs to set Putin in his place...it's not our cold war, it's Russia's own internal cold war that will get fed up with Putin. If he gets sanctions from the UN..he'll get humbled really fast. I think he's being reckless and I don't think Iran wants to ally itself with him having their own sanctions recently lifted. Doesn't make sense. Syria he can have...nobody else wants it and it's filled with ex Saddam Hussein and Gadaffi loyalists. Too much to lose for any neighboring nation to get behind a Russian stronghold in Syria.
     
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    I'd say that's a little off the mark, he's just trying to make his crumbled USSR empire gain some back if anything..he was KGB elite under the empire..it's gone now
     
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    Afghanistan was being supported by the USA and the terrain was mainly mountains. Obama is pulling out from giving weapons to ISIS, so he will wipe them off the face of Syria
     
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    There are a lot of new videos appearing on YouTube that show rebels in Syria firing USA made, CIA supplied TOW missiles against Syrian tanks and targets. Below are just two short examples. One report states several dozen Syrian army tanks have been destroyed just in that last couple of days.



     
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    That's why I never accept a ride from a tank driver.
     
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    I'm not a legal expert (Denny?), but I think it's pretty difficult to have sanctions imposed on a country that has veto control of the Security Council. :dunno:
     
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    Not from the UN. It's from the US, EU and other assorted countries. Almost to the point of talking semantics here, but the sanctions imposed by us and the EU aren't the same as those imposed by the UN on, say, Iraq.
     
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    Well, Russia has a veto. Of course they'll veto sanctions against themselves. Even if they didn't veto, what are they going to do? Stop selling themselves whatever?

    The US, EU, and other assorted countries are UN members, FWIW.
     
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