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Utter nonsense to talk of self-defence when you are in another country illegally AND AS YET, none of your planes have been shot down whilst you operate in that country illegally....and none of your troops have been killed, whilst you operate covertly in that country.
It is twisted logic and twisted International law.
The Russians have had one jet fighter shot down by NATO Turkey, with the permission of the USA.
The Russians have had another jet fighter shot down by 'al-CIA-duh' ISIS MANPAD supplied by NATO/CIA.
Russian military personnel and private contractors have been killed in Syria.
Russia has been invited by the Syrian government to come into Syria.
Russia has security agreements with Syria going back to 1958.
Russia has military bases in Syria sanctioned by the Syrian government.
RUSSIA IS THE ONLY FOREIGN POWER THAT SHOULD BE DOING 'SELF-DEFENSE'.
RUSSIA has killed 30,000--50,000 ISIS/'al-CIA-duh' fighters in Syria. This alone is their legitimate reason to be in Syria.
The USA meanwhile protects, transports ISIS/al-CIA-duh' fighters around the country and region, after arming, training, supplying them via NATO Turkey.
Did we really think that so many fighters 100,000 just suddenly emerge out of Iraqi prisons, fully armed?
The USA wishes to Balkanise Syria, for the Greater Israel project.
USA 'self-defense' is ultimately for their little butt-buddy Israel. A policy that is from an extremist party of Israel, whose leader is under criminal corruption investigation.
AND in America, pretty much the same creatures also face CRITICAL investigations by the Trump Presidency.
WHY DOES THE DEEP STATE want to initiate a major distraction in Syria, AGAINST the vital legal process that is developing in America, for the 'America first' movement???????
Will the DEEP STATE not get their war against North Korea???
Is PEACE, and INTERNATIONAL LAW, not good for the Pentagon????
"Mr President we are fighting them over there so that we don't have to fight them over here".......you as a civilian 8th grader understand this don't you??? No, no, no certainly not.....we don't think you are an utter idiot who is going to sign over $1 trillion for our annual budget based on one sound bite sentence"
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US Drone Destroys Russian Tank in Eastern Syria
US Officials Claim Drone Acted in 'Self Defense'
As details continue to emerge of last week’s US attacks on pro-Syrian forces, it appears that dozens, or by some accounts scores, of the slain were actually Russian military contractors working for the Syrian government. The raises the stakes about US attacks in Syria fueling a direct conflict with Russia.
Over the weekend, the US struck again, with officials now confirmed that a US MQ-9 Reaper drone attacked and destroyed a Russian T-72 tank in Eastern Syria, in what US officials are claiming was an act of “self-defense.”
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian says the drone saw the tank “that took a shot at us,” and that he believes the US rules of engagement allowed for the tank to be destroyed in self-defense to protect the drone. Three people within were killed.
As to who they killed, US officials are no more forthcoming than they ever are, with Lt. Gen. Harrigian saying the US is “not going to speculate” on who they killed, and that they flat out don’t know whose tank it was, or who was driving it.
Which isn’t a great excuse because tanks are usually well-marked as to their owners/operators, and while both Russia and Syria are two of the top three extent operators of such tanks, there are massively different ramifications for the US to have destroyed a Syrian tank of Russian origin or to have deliberately attacked and destroyed a Russian tank.
While the US has claimed all of its recent attacks on pro-Syrian forces in the country as “self-defense,” the claim rings hollow since they’ve killed in excess of 100 people while sustaining no casualties of their own, and doubly so in this latest case because they were defending a drone by killing three soldiers of unknown origin.
