Ted Cruz on Saturday:
“We will carpet bomb [ISIS] into oblivion. I don’t know if sand can glow in the dark, but we’re going to find out.”
Vladimir Putin on Wednesday:
Talking about Russia’s military campaign in Syria, Putin mentioned the weapons currently being used could ‘be equipped with special nuclear warheads.’
‘Both the Calibre missiles and the Kh-101 rockets are generally showing very good results. We now see that these are new, modern and highly effective high-precision weapons that can be equipped either with conventional or special nuclear warheads,’ Putin said during a meeting with Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Never try to be a bigger man than Vladimir Putin!
If that’s what it takes to be a “real man,” I’ll gladly remain a fake one.
Agreed. If someone offered me the chance to be Putin or a one-way ticket to the gulag, I’d take the latter. You have to be able to live with yourself.
aren’t a lot of our missiles nuclear tipped?
And?
Putin sounds like he’s simply shilling for Russian defense technology firms. They need to get some foreign exchange going, what with oil so cheap these days, so, who wants to buy some Russian missles?
ISIS?
Iran?
Sounds more like a strong reminder message to the west, the US and Nato in particular, to recognize the growing military strength of Russia, how effective it can be (as even US military experts quietly recognize but which our MSM refuses to acknowledge) in targeting the ISIS enemy. There might also be some undertones of a warning to the US not to take things too far militarily against Russian interests in Syria and Ukraine/Crimea.
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The last thing this country needs is a pissing match with Putin or any other world powers. Jeez, people! These brain-damanged politicians who insist on shooting their mouths off in a dick-measuring contest need to shut the hell up.
Words have consequences, they really do. Loose talk is dangerous.
Let’s drop a nuclear bomb on a city being held hostage. Kill hundred of thousands of innocent people. No problem. What could go wrong?
Right, they’re nothing like us. They’re Muslim, not even human. I get so angry that so many are so ignorant. Our children are safe and well fed while, on the other side of the planet, people are being blown to bits or maimed or orphaned.
I’m a little confused on how the phrases “high-precision” and “nuclear warheads” can possibly describe the same weapon.
well they are “special”
That’s right….real smart like The Donald.
it’ll be huuuge and the best evah!!
either way, add sand, and you get glitter.
Our military claimed they could choose which window of saddam’s palace they sent a Tomahawk through. And tomahawk’s are nuclear (tactical) capable.
And developing a conventional version was a very expensive afterthought considering the per unit cost of the delivery system and launch platforms.
And President Obama is weak because nuance and weakness are one in the same. Much better to have knee jerk reactions.
Juxtapose Ted Cruz with Vladimir Putin. Now that’s what used to be called a stretch. Putin always seems to make USians’ head go into a tailspin.
Yep. Theodore we can plausibly discuss as possibly in the Crazy category, but more likely at least extraordinarily reckless and irresponsible in his policy proposals. Putin is neither crazy nor reckless nor militarily adventuresome. He is however the victim in the last five years of some crazy, reckless and irresponsible media propaganda in the US.
No, the crazy, irresponsible and reckless Russian leader will be the ultranationalist one who takes over the leadership if Putin should become very unpopular with the public or be perceived by his military brass as too weak in dealing with the US/Nato. Then we’d get the Russian equivalent of a Cruz and the world would be on the brink.
OT: because, of course, there was no racism before January 20, 2009
uh huh
………………….
stop making us be racists!
By Liberal Librarian
I found this picture on the Twitter box yesterday. I shook my head and pursed my lips and moved on. Saved it for future use, however.
I had no idea that the future is today.
Over on the National Review (no link, as I don’t wish to give them clicks directly), there’s an article blaming Il Douche’s rise to–wait for it–that damned Obama! Yes, see, it’s all Barack Obama’s fault that a large swathe of white America has lost its puny little minds. If only someone not as black were inhabiting the White House the country would be a paradise of racial comity.
That’s the lie right there. This country has never been a paradise of racial comity. As the President acknowledges, things have improved. But a lot of that improvement was, I believe, cosmetic. The racial animus simmered underground, waiting for a chance to boil up, as in Yugoslavia once it was freed from Marshal Tito’s iron grip. Only in this regard is Pres. Obama “responsible” for white people losing their shit; his election and conduct as president have held up a glaring light to their prejudices, and as often happens with human beings, once a fault is revealed we tend to scream louder that it’s not us, it’s them.
What’s most amusing is that conservatives are the ones preaching taking personal responsibility. But why have they turned racist? Oh, it’s not us; we wouldn’t be screaming racial epithets if it weren’t for Barack Obama being black and in the White House, or liberals more generally.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/12/10/stop-making-us-be-racists/
A kenyan atheist muslim Black Man usurping a White House has the pigpeople (h/t Driftglass) all riled up.
He looks so uppity in the Oval Office. He even had the temerity to take off his suit jacket. That blah man doesn’t know his place.
So Metro is a source of honest reporting on world affairs? So very sad.
As with the US, Israel and allies, war is an ideal place to test new weapon systems. That’s what Putin was discussing with his Defence minister … from video transcript on Russia Today.
Thx for link, I added some bits of info about JTRIG …
○ Cold War Raging Implementing Intelligence, PsyOps, Internet Troops
The results:
https:/www.facebook.com/talkislam/photos/a.161532850603854.36854.161530600604079/927014680722330?t
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We have to go after their families.
#Trump2016
○ Syrian War Propaganda and Human Rights NGOs
Erdogan there are way too many dicks on the dance-floor already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNG-gYjneeA
Man, Cruz’ foreign policy statements are preposterously inconsistent. Ted actually talks about how the U.S.’s military actions have been counterproductive and have created instability in the Middle East; he can become pretty specific about it. But the next day he talks about conducting massive bombing runs in the middle of Syria while their civil war rages.
It’s like he’s full of shit or something. Of the two impulses listed above, I am quite certain that a President Cruz would indulge the BOMB BOMB BOMB impulse.