This hokum makes sense in the broader context of the Iran deal; this has all been an attempt to split them off of Russia ever since the ink was dry on the Rosatom deal.
With MANPADS provided by Uncle Satan. More are seeing this as Washington's attempt at Afghanistan 2.0 for the Russians. If you look at the second Grozny war though, you'll find they've wised up with regard to "counterinsurgency". They know levelling cities with artillery and genocide are the only real ways to pacify a rebellion.
Anyways, US generals are all the sudden finding out about blowback -- but only when it happens to Russia.
In our statist world, the option to die quickly becomes a duty to die and death panels. While people should have the right to dispense of themselves as they see fit, it truly is a shame what the authoritarians will turn such a right into.
Nationalist propaganda radio is carrying water for the cronysphere, while the deal (as expected), looks like more of the same -- further restrict trade in reality so that you have to debase your currency to finally make your goods look like a deal to others.
As expected from a radical collectivist. As with all such folks, he makes quantum leaps of faith in his logic, and more or less argues by assertion that the government's argumentum ad baculum is A-OK.
Only 6,000 of millions. Not what I'd call earth-shattering; this is probably only enough that they can watch them and then say, "SEE! They were recidivists, you should LOVE the gulags!!!"
Implement COIN in basically all cities, like they're beginning to do here. E.G. how to rile up the entire friggin' world by stuffing them into strategic hamlets.
Head back to part 1 and listen to it all, it is linked on the page. Still one more to come sometime next week. This one was on COIN, and was an excellent smashing of that nonsense.
U.S. President Barack Obama warned Russia on Friday that its bombing campaign against Syrian rebels will suck Moscow into a “quagmire,” after a third straight day of air raids in support of President Bashar al-Assad.
