Guest wrote:
> That was much more polite of you than previously. (If 'you' are
> the previous 'you'.) A polite Grammar Nazi is acceptable
> to me.
Since you're just one of hundreds of "Guests" that come into this
forum, you all look the same to me. So I have no idea what incident
you're referring to. I assume from your comment that at some time in
the past you took a pot shot at me or at Generational Dynamics, that
you're too much of a coward to identify yourself in any way, and now
you're expressing phony outrage that I didn't respond by paying you
the deep submissive obeisance that your ego tells you that you so
richly deserve.
If you really want to be treated with respect, a good place to start
is to use a unique username or even better, create an account and post
your pot shots under that account.
Having said that, I can't recall ever referring to myself as a
"Grammar Nazi," although Fishbelly has referred to himself that way a
couple of times in the past.
Guest wrote:
> In regards to the posted article: Don't you think all of this is a
> bit strange? I mean, this all sounds like an excuse to arm the
> Syrians with S-300s. Why does Russia need all of this drama to
> justify it? What's Russia really up to? It seems like Putin is
> becoming unglued. Unless he is just playing '4D chess'. (I'm now
> convinced that 4D chess is just another way of saying that a
> person is clueless and simply punching in all directions hoping to
> hit something.)
I've been criticizing Russia's insane policy in Syria for years. In
the early days, I was pointing out that jihadists from all over the
world were coming to Syria to fight al-Assad, and that they would
eventually return to their home countries to commit terrorist acts.
That is exactly what happened, as these foreign jihadists formed ISIS,
and are now returning to their home countries after the US-backed Free
Syrian Army drove ISIS out of Raqqa. I said years ago that Russia's
actions in support of al-Assad would cause the jihadists from Russia's
Caucasus to return home and pose a danger to Russia, and that's what's
happening.
Silent Guest 1 wrote:
> International 3D chess is reaching ever-more ridiculous depths.
> Putin can be imagined clapping his tentacles in childish glee at
> this latest vodka-inspired ploy. Not to fear. The red phone
> between Bibi and djt has been abuzzin'. The question is; when
> will Putin find a face-saving way to back down from his Syrian
> over reach. Even Putin must at some point acknowledge Assad's
> psycopathic madness. Is this all just postponing the planned
> genocide? Safety zone indeed.
However, it must be recognized that Russia does have what it considers
to be a very important objective in Syria, and it's been very
successful in meeting that objective.
Russia was completely shut out of the Mideast in the 1990s after the
collapse of the Soviet Union. Now, for the first time in decades,
Russia has two military bases in the Mideast -- the Tartus naval base,
and the Hmeimim airbase, both of them in Syria, in return for
supporting al-Assad.