The espionage game is alive and is easier than it ever was. These days you can transfer blueprints for an entire weapons program in a tiny USB stick, take pictures or videos with a cell phone, or transfer gigabytes of data over internet in minutes. Having said that, I doubt that Russians are developing their new…

What failings in developing advanced aircraft and subs are you referring to exactly? The F-35 is not Russian.

Yeah bra, everyone knows that unless American master race develops it, it must be a knock off or a copy. No one can come up with ideas quite like us; like 3D Doritos, or Pepsi MAX. No one else has creativity or knowledge like us. We also gave the world baseball, who else has contributed with such a magnitude?

Russia aren’t nearly as afraid of terrorist attacks as America, for a few reasons, but mostly because they’ve been at war so many times and witnessed so many horrors that it’s almost ceased to affect their national psyche.

Most Americans would be pissed if the news coverage interrupted their reality show. ;)

There's a difference between drug cartels and terrorist groups. But I see your point, I just think it's misplaced.

Dictators? So is the Saudi King in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia beheads a person every 2 days —- where do you think ISIS learned that shit from? So is the Emir of Qatar, Al-Thani, who helps finance Al-Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups. King Hussein of Jordan is a dictator. The UAE is ruled by a bunch of little asshole…

The Pentagon just airdropped 50 tons of war supplies in area teeming with ISIS and Al-Qaeda, with no way of knowing or assuring it’s going to go to the “right hands.”

Let me see - less than several weeks ago, we had generals and the secretary of defense reporting to the Senate that we can barely find any moderate rebels in Syria. So much so we spent $500 million just this year trying to develop and train our own “moderate rebels” who’d be properly vetted as being ‘moderate.’

ISIS was beheading women and children and throwing them off the roofs of buildings. Doing nothing while possessing the best military on earth is morally unconscionable.

I think “American Intelligence” is a misnomer.

If you want to blame anybody blame Bush who started this fire early for no good reason, the invasion of Iraq with NO plan for peace keeping or stability and the disbandment of the military created chaos that is still being felt. Without Bush there would be no ISIS in the ME because Hussein, a staunch secularist and…

I guess I don’t understand what our endgame in Syria is. Let’s say Assad gets assassinated tomorrow and his decapitated regime crumbles overnight.

Putin is helping a dictator that at least keeps the place together - kind of like what Saddam did in Iraq and what Qadaffi did in Libya. Obama is helping the people that took over after Saddam and after Qadaffi. We can see how well that went - I mean Libya is a shinning example of what happens when you let “moderate…

Russia was invited by the recognized government of Syria. Russia has a naval base in Syria as well. Obama defied the will of the american people and got involved in another foreign conflict. It is this involvement that prevented the government of Syria putting an end to the fighting.

Can confirm, the majority of the “moderate” anti Assad folks hate us just as much as everyone else in that region does. In many cases they hate us more than they hate Daesh, but put on a big ol’ smile for the congressman who is bankrolling and arming them. They’ll tell us whatever we want to hear if they think it’ll…

If there ever was a Nobel prize for the most absurd, clueless, ignorant and self-destructive foreign policy ever, the U.S.A. would win it hands down.

Fucking idiotic... did US learn nothing from arming mujaheddin in Afghanistan in the 80’s, only to fight them later? Or helping “moderate” Libyan rebels and fighting Qaddafi? Or getting rid of Saddam, disbanding Baath party and Iraqi army - which are now a large chunk of ISIS? Who are these idiots that make these…

At this point, without pictures, it probably didn’t happen. Or at best, it was indeed a Syrian MiG.