The Sunni/Shi’a conflict has been going on since the 8th Century. This notion that we’ve “fueled” it, or even made it worse with our ME policies of the last 35 years— patently ignores the history of the region over the last 1,300 years. Our actions have only have affected 2.6% of the total history of the ME sectarian…

Iraqi army regulars and Republican Guard stole a bunch of civilian Kuwaiti vehicles, loaded them up with everything they looted from Kuwait, and “retreated” to Iraq with a lot of main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.

Just to add to the FlankSpeed’s reply, it was actually an Iraqi strategy to draw coalition into a decisive and very bloody land battle to cause losses to the coalition, weaken it, reverse the public opinion on the war and bargain for peace.

Nah. XB-70

Actually having only OP’s within enemy artillery range is completely normal. When we arrived in Saudi Arabia in force, the Iraqis were already on the Saudi border. This isn’t World War 1 when everyone masses up 300 yards apart. US forces were massed further back and spread out along the border outside of Iraqi…

You are operating from a surfeit of knowledge about military operations. When you see a Division symbol on the map, its not like 15,000 guys are right there on that spot. A Division actually occupies a fair amount of space. You put scouts out in front, not a bunch of guys standing shoulder-to-shoulder on the line. The…

Oh my God these dead innocent civilians that weren’t even killed by Americans! Its obviously the Americans that spilled their blood!

Fuck off back to Russia Today, troll.

I’m really digging these Desert Storm revisited stories.

Holy shit! Did you have to fly that one with MS DOS commands?

I don’t claim to know the best solution for Syria. It’s incredibly complex. But Russia’s current plan is to secure Assad’s power first, and then target ISIS. Everyone else’s plan is to wipe out ISIS first, and then figure out the legitimate government situation. And as of right now those priorities are conflicting.

His trial was widely criticized. His eventual release in 2013 was an attempt by Putin to appear more legitimate prior to the Sochi Olympics.

I’m sorry but has Russia done anything in retaliation? No, cool. Turkey 1, Russia 0, and you don’t see Russia flying over Turkey anymore. Do you?

The casualties from Iraq are bad because of the insurgency, not aerial bombardment. Smart weapons make a huge difference. If there wasn't a concern for civilian casualties we'd just firebomb Raqqa, it would be much more effective at breaking ISIS.

What’s truly pathetic are the right wing arguments that Russia is doing more against ISIS than the US. Virtually none of the Russian airstrikes have come in regions under ISIS control. The US still represents the overwhelming majority of all airstrikes against ISIS positions.

Turkey shoots down a Russian jet. Russia literally does nothing. Who’s the bitch?

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