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[kurupetos]

Do you know the difference between Obama and Putin, RW?

[Robin Hood]

Do you know the difference between Obama and Putin, RW?

I could think of a few ................. for a start one is black, the other is white!

Please don't get me wrong, I do not regard Putin as the re-incarnation of Mother Teresa with a sex change ....... but he is no worse than any of the others when it comes to amassing wealth ...... isn't that what being top dog is all about? But Putin has not declared he is exceptional and/or indispensable: He has not got 800 military bases in 150 different countries and, Russia has not been directly involved in making war, including regime change, on other nations thousands of miles from it's own territory under the guise of defence for the last 60+ years. He talks of preventing war .....Obama talks of making war.

There are many, many more differences ...........

It is thought best to keep your enemies as close to you as your friends ........... but either could stab you in the back!

[kurupetos]

No... it's simple...

Putin is a leader... whereas Obama is just an employee...

[repulsewarrior]

Rebel factions in Syria say they have broken a weeks-long government siege of Aleppo, amid scenes of rejoicing in the the crucial northern city.

Sources close to government forces denied that they had been pushed aside and said they had driven the rebels back from an artillery base.

UK-based opposition activists say the rebels have indeed managed to link up with their comrades in eastern Aleppo.

But the rebels have so far failed to establish a secure route, they add.

Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based opposition news service, said the rebels had broken the siege but the route was "not fully secure yet".

On Friday, the rebel groups said they had stormed an artillery base in the city.

But the Syrian army said it had repelled the assault and inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels.

Meanwhile, a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters seized most of Manbij - a key Syrian city - from so-called Islamic State.

'Major progress'

Fawaz Gerges, who is professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the London School of Economics, told the BBC News Channel that the rebels had certainly made gains.

"The rebels coalition - it's called the Army of Conquest - has basically made some major progress," he said.

"It has been able to score some major gains in the past 48 hours. The question is not whether the opposition has made some progress or not [but] whether they can really maintain the areas that they occupy and whether they can consolidate it."

The Syrian army has been fighting the rebels with the help of Russian air strikes.

Earlier this week, Russian state television ran pictures of civilians and fighters reportedly leaving the city through humanitarian corridors announced by Moscow.

But some rebel groups described the Russian initiative as a ploy to recapture all of Aleppo.

Aleppo was once Syria's commercial capital and also boasted a rich architectural and archaeological heritage.

Much of it has been destroyed or looted during more than five years of war.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37000570

[Schnauzer]

Post by Schnauzer » Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:31 am

Bananiot wrote:

It is amazing, but not unexplainable, the fact that all the fascists of Cyprus supported or support, Saddam, Mubarak, Gaddafi, Assad, Ahmadinejad and throw their poison at the West while trying to explain the stance of the West as one of greed, expansion and brutality. Granted, the West is no saint, but these dictators?

Schnauzer wrote;

I regard your comment as highly insulting to those among us who prefer to analyse the actions which preceded the overthrow of the first three examples you highlight (the forth currently progressing nicely by all accounts), rather than blindly accepting that such 'Overthrows' will in some way benefit the common folk who live in those nations.

The invasion of Iraq is now proven to be based on inaccurate intelligence, is known to have been unlawful and has resulted in the mass slaughter of countless innocent civilians, the nation itself is now a shadow of it's former condition and it's leader Saddam Hussein, executed because he knew too much about what was really going on.

The overthrow of Mubarak was the next successfully engineered example of how infiltration and subterfuge can lead to disharmony, the population of Egypt are now worse off than before the uprising, they will probably remain so for years to come.

Libya is also in ruins, the people are similarly faced with years of hardship having also fallen victim to the same tactics as were used in Egypt.

The situation in Syria is now undergoing precisely the same process as both Egypt and Libya, such infiltration and subterfuge having produced the required results of the Western powers, WITHOUT having to resort to 'Shock and Awe' invasions since they could not find suitable excuses to so do.

The eyes of Israel are now fixed on Iran and one wonders just how many more nations must be destroyed in order that THEY may be safe, the Palestinians are currently suffering from the effect of Israeli expansionism, it would appear that Israel must be protected at ALL costs.

If one cannot blindly accept that the above examples are truly a justifiable process of advancing and upgrading the living conditions of the common folk who are resident in the above nations, then better to be labelled a 'Fascist' than a 'Blind Fool' (imho).

A blast from the past as a reminder.

[Lordo]

here is another fact for the old fool. not that he is able to understand but one never gives up hope.

[repulsewarrior]

No... it's simple...

Putin is a leader... whereas Obama is just an employee...

Putin is a wanna be, and he is very good at it; don't kid yourself.

[repulsewarrior]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37006859

The Syrian government released video showing its planes apparently bombing targets in the south-west of the city.
The rebels earlier said they had broken a weeks-long government siege of Aleppo - a claim denied by Damascus.
Some 250,000 people reportedly live in the besieged areas.

...for the record.

photos, video, and a map.
other news surrounding area.

[kurupetos]

No... it's simple...

Putin is a leader... whereas Obama is just an employee...

Putin is a wanna be, and he is very good at it; don't kid yourself.

What does he want to be, RW? Czar?

You should be smarter than the Zionist-owned media.

Anyway, the only thing that interests me is how he can help destroy Turkey... The rest is irrelevant.

[repulsewarrior]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/25/middleeast/turkey-isis-syria-explainer-lister/

Who's fighting who in Syria?

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/08/turkey-syria-euphrates-operation-possible-outcomes.html

...Süleyman Şah Türbesi, the words, buffer zone come to mind.

for the record.