{"id":24393,"date":"2017-06-20T05:15:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T09:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=24393"},"modified":"2022-08-29T05:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T09:00:06","slug":"russia-threatens-u-s-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=24393","title":{"rendered":"Russia threatens U.S. aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. About the Progressive Liberal Democrat\u2019s claim that President Trump is colluding with Russia? Yeah, you can take that and shove it where the sun don\u2019t shine. Russia has just threatened to fire on American aircraft over Syria.<\/p>\n

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This started over the weekend when a United States Navy F-18 Hornet fighter blew a Syrian bomber out of the sky after it unloaded on some of our \u201callies.\u201d This seems to have annoyed the Russians and now they are threatening to attack our military aircraft flying over Syria. Here are some of the details from the New York Slimes<\/i><\/span> Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Russia<\/a> on Monday condemned the American military\u2019s downing of a Syrian warplane, suspending the use of a military hotline that Washington and Moscow have used to avoid collisions in Syrian airspace and threatening to target aircraft flown by the United States and its allies over Syria<\/a>. <\/b><\/p>\n

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The moves were the most recent example of an intensifying clash of words and interests between the two powers, which support different sides in the years long war in Syria. <\/b><\/p>\n

Umm, yeah, but I thought President Trump was supposed to be wholly owned by Vladimir Putin or something. If this were true, wouldn\u2019t he be busy backing down now?<\/p>\n

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The Russian military has threatened to halt its use of the hotline in the past \u2014 notably after President Trump ordered the launch of missiles against a Syrian air base in April \u2014 only to continue and even expand its contacts with the United States military. It was not clear whether the latest suspension would be lasting. <\/b><\/p>\n

The Russians aren\u2019t, unlike the Progressive Liberal Democrats and the staff of the New York Slimes<\/i><\/span> Times, complete idiots. They might want to scream, rant and rave a bit, but they know this is all geopolitics. The last thing they want is to get into a shooting war with the United States.<\/p>\n

The Russian Defense Ministry called American attacks against the Syrian forces \u201cmilitary aggression\u201d and announced that it would suspend cooperation with the United States intended to prevent airborne accidents over Syria. <\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cAll flying objects, including planes and drones of the international coalition, detected west of the Euphrates, will be followed by Russian air defense systems as targets,\u201d the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. <\/b><\/p>\n

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The United States will continue to conduct air operations over Syria, a spokesman for the American-led task force that is fighting the Islamic State said on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to continue to conduct operations throughout Syria, providing air support for coalition and partnered forces on the ground,\u201d the spokesman, Col. Ryan Dillon, said in a telephone interview from Baghdad. <\/b><\/p>\n

So our basic response is:<\/p>\n