Western People know the humanitarian crisis in Syria is the civil war, and the shooting and shelling of civilians by the factions in the war.

But the politicians see the political crisis as the use of gas weapons, and they are flailing to stop this threat to the New World Order.

The humanitarian crisis hasn't been a political crisis, and the politicans have no answer to it.  They don't care about it.  It can continue so long as Assad agrees not to insult the politicians by using nerve gas.

The people don't care about that political crisis, and what we're seeing is mass rejection of a stamp of approval on atrocity by waging war for conventional murder of civilians in Syria.

I'm 35.  I'm as much back there in 1930's Buda-Pesht as I am in Damascus, where you somehow expect me to have the right opinions.

Are you trying to tell me you're no worse than the French? Is that your plea to this tribunal?  / swivels to cover Xeno

All I'm saying is, your country backed the wrong horse (unlike Bulgaria, which didn't declare war on the USSR and the USSR didn't declare war on Bulgaria until Bulgaria got nervous about Nazi collapse in Eastern Europe and tried to make a separate peace with the UK/US, at which point USSR declared war on Bulgaria so it could sit in on the peace talks and make demands and "liberate" Bulgaria, so it didn't help them very much but still I guess they could feel that you deserved it more)

anyhow

Hungary didn't do that, you shot Ruskis on Russian soil, you lost the war, and so my point is, after you got knocked down and stepped on by Mother Russia, Mother Russia begged America to be allowed to save the Hungarian people from themselves, cause left to their own they'd be Nazi maggots, and Truman was agreeable.  Because he and Churchill couldn't imagine the Russians came to stay.

Which is why in 1956 when Yuri Andropov wanted to swat your country down, the Red Army was already there. To repress dictatorship.  To save your people from generations of darkness.

Wait I'm 39.  I don't keep score anymore.

Ask me about a snowboarding movie and I guess "Keanu Reeves".  I probably will for the next 40 years.

if your head of govt was here we'd ban him!

That was an awesome capture btw, bigger deal than Kruschev's destalinization speech

This sounds very familiar and explains a lot about what happens here on IC forums

25% of Spain is unemployed sucka, so, get to jogging and we'll pack rifles and tents and uniforms and canteens and radio for your Legio Extrajeno and drop you off on the beaches of sunny syria so you can defend western civilization when Amerika won't

this is just going to be a fireworks show as Russia shows off the catalog for anti-American buyers.  Our country is broken, we believe its ok to fail if we spend enough money failing, that's what we're aiming to do.  We're gonna DO Something, so we can say we did something.

well now we will find out if the Russian Yakhont supersonic missle is better than our Aegis air defense systems.

The "consensus" seems to be we will do "surgical strikes" to make Assad go back to killing civilians with conventional arms.

What's to debate?  Nobody in America or Europe is going to overthrow Assad and beat down Al Qaeda in Syria.  They don't believe it's possible.  They're babbling about doing less than we did in Iraq and Afghanistan.   They have accepted the new American premise: It's okay to fail, as long as we do something.

Apparently everybody and their uncle has a Spetznaz formation and paratroopers have blue berets

a defector said Spetznaz was going to infiltrate USA as Olympic athletes and then go off on our home turf so Reagan put restrictions on Soviet Olympic delegation to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics  and the Soviets said take this job and dance with it and skipped it.

Ruski Spetznaz paratroops pin

I think it's a CZ98 Mauser made by the Brno arsenal, but I'm not sure what model yet