Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Defending and extending the periphery


Defending the periphery of the empire while also attempting to extend it.

SouthFront
U.S. Says Syrian Government Will Never Have Foothold In Raqqa, Acccuses Damascus & Allies Of Hindering Efforts To Liberate City
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ABCNews
Netanyahu says Israel won't tolerate Iran presence in Syria

4 comments:

Matt Franko said...

"The meeting comes a day after Israel destroyed a Russian-made, anti-aircraft missile launcher that took aim at its planes."

Oopsie!!!!

Tom Hickey said...

Few hours after the missile incident with Syria, the Israeli media reported that the Israeli Air Force’s F-35 stealth multirole fighter went unserviceable as a result of an alleged bird collision during a training flight.

The incident allegedly took place “two weeks ago” but was publicly reported only on October 16. However, Israeli sources were not able to show a photo of the F-35 warplane after the “bird collision”.

Furthermore, it is not clear if the F-35 can become operational again because its stealth coating was damaged. Thus, according to the Israeli version, the warplane reportedly became no longer operational after the bird collision despite the fact that the F-35 earlier passed the bird strike certification with great results (official info here). The F-35 is the world’s most expensive warplane. The price of developing the F-35 is now about $406.5 billion.

Israel is actively buying the world’s self-proclaimed most advanced fighter paying about $100 million for each plane.

So what did really hit the F-35?


SouthFront
sIsrael Is Hiding That Its State-Of-Art F-35 Warplane Was Hit By Syrian S-200 Missile – Report

Kaivey said...

The decision isn't russia's, the Crimean people voted to become part of Russia. Normal is for Crimea to be part of Russia, as it was for hundreds of years.

Noah Way said...

Put the F-35 in the same category as the PATRIOT and THAAD - hugely expensive and wholly ineffective weapons systems. US dependence on "advanced technology" has proven disappointing at best - the last war we actually won, in fact the only one we've won since WWII (against Japan - the Soviets defeated Germany) is Grenada.

Israel is slowing learning that it's invulnerable forces are not so invulnerable. Just like the US. Which will likely lead to nuclear escalation at some point - if it hasn't already. Israel has already been accused of nuking Syria with US bunker busters.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=70727

@ Kaivey, as was Ukraine ...