Russia has begun its biggest surface deployment since the end of the Cold War as it aims to effectively end the war in Syria on the eve of the US election, NATO officials warn, The Telegraph reports.
The Kremlin is sending the full might of its Northern Fleet and part of the Baltic Fleet to reinforce a final assault on the city of Aleppo in a fortnight, according to Western intelligence.
The final bombardment is designed to shore up the Assad regime by wiping out rebels – paving the way for a Russian exit from the civil war.
The assault on the city will also serve to highlight US inaction in the run-up to election day and may aid Donald Trump. Read more at THE TELEGRAPH.
{Matzav.com}
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Much as I dislike the device of using hoary old quotes as if they were Toras Moshe me’Sinai, in this case the quote fits perfectly. We could have done better. We should have done better. Instead, we did nothing and now evil, in the form of Putin and Assad, is triumphing and running wild in the Mid-East and elsewhere.
Every policy Obama touched failure
Iran
Obamacare
Israel
Arab spring
Bengazi
Race relations
We’ll get more of that w h
Time to be a trumpeteer