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In briefing to Congress, DNI, SecDef, and SecState provided zero real evidence. Referenced info circulating online. Which means either they chose not to provide proof to Congress or they don’t have conclusive proof that Assad carried out gas attack. Either way, not good.
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11h11 hours ago
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Try as you must you will never have a National following. Worry about your constituents!
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Thomas Massie
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10h10 hours ago
I dont seek a national following but I do seek to get the truth out. Very glad to have 45K twitter followers from Ky though! #sassywithmassie
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Unstoppable Paul Nehlen
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9h9 hours ago
We support you in North Carolina!
This is a fake story refuted by Russians too .......but then whats the point in refuting if it is funhabal wrote:Is that a science fiction story or Russian propaganda?
Атака русских самолетов на американский эсминец: фельетон-инсайд
https://ria.ru/analytics/20180411/15182 ... nt=1601366
Igor Romanovich, author of the blog Green Tea
April 11th 2018
Russian warplanes flew at least four times over the American destroyer USS Donald Cook in the Mediterranean Sea.
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The morning was clear. Destroyer Donald Cook drifted 50 miles from the Syrian city of Tartus, where the Russian naval base was located.
American sailors, leaning on the bulwark, lazily sipped freshly squeezed orange juice and gazed at the horizon. Someone was talking on the cell phone with his native Oklahoma:
“Jane, yesterday we sunk three Russian nuclear submarine cruisers.” Of these, I personally sunk two, by God I swear! Jane, will you marry me?
Suddenly, a noise was heard in the sky, a second later it grew into an unbearable roar. Something flew over the destroyer, almost hitting the antenna post of the radar installation.
In the galley, the combi steamer was switched off immediately and the microwave oven went out.
– Oh my God, again! – howled the cook, the only member of the crew who went to the Black Sea a few years ago and after that passed three rehabilitation courses.
He really wanted to smoke, but the electric lighter did not work either.
Somewhere on the bridge the destroyer commander fiercely beat his fist on the extinguished screens of the Aegis system. Along with her, all the weapon systems and radar lights of the targets were disconnected, without which the ship could fire either from its three Browning machine guns or from the captain’s colt.
A minute later the engines stopped talking. On the destroyer there was a ringing silence, broken only by the hollow screams of some unfortunate person, locked up by an electronic lock in the gown on the lower deck.
The crew crowded on the deck. On the horizon, there appeared dark dots, rapidly increasing in size. At the Donald Cook came four Su-34.
“Let me out of here, for all saints!” Came a scream of someone’s ears.
Several people grabbed life jackets and resolutely rushed overboard.
Floundering in the water, Lieutenant Commander Jack Warren heard shouting:
“The boat, Jack!” A boat!
Turning, he really saw a Russian submarine, which moved swiftly straight at him. The lieutenant-commander thought that she opened her toothy mouth, and he immediately broke all the records of Michael Phelps, even without drugs from attention deficit disorder.
Su-34 flew over the destroyer so low that the officers on the bridge could see the Russian pilot. He smiled warmly and showed the officers a thumbs-up, they said, “You are a fine fellow, you are on the right road, comrades!”
For understandable reasons, the officers of the long-suffering destroyer did not share the optimism of the pilot.
A boat sailed from the French frigate “Provansal”. The Frenchmen in broken English asked which side of the Champs-Elysees the commander of the destroyer waved his hand gloomily towards Iraq. The Frenchmen thanked and pushed themselves against the oars.
Evening came. The sailors lit bonfires on the deck and warmed themselves, watching the stars begin to light up in the sky.
The US appealed to Russia because of reports of the rapprochement of the Su-24 with a destroyer
A Russian helicopter flew in and put a large pan of hot buckwheat on the deck. They sent a basket of Crimean fruit from the submarine.
“You keep him there for a while,” Shoigu asked. “And how would they not sink their own ship with some kind of” secret Russian missile, “Moryachok,” in order to provoke them.
– There is! Replied the commander of the submarine and hung up.
Soon the whole destroyer slept, lulled by buckwheat and a silent splash of waves.
Before the decision of Trump about the beginning of the attack against Syria it was necessary to wait just for some 40 hours.
RIA Novosti https://ria.ru/analytics/20180411/1518277367.html
https://vpk-news.ru/news/42309The United States believes that Russia's air defense systems (ADS) were completely ineffective as the United States and its allies fired missiles at sites in Syria last week.
This statement was made on Thursday by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the country, Dana White, to which TASS refers , during a regular briefing for journalists.
"Of the land-based missiles launched by the regime [the Syrian president] Bashar Assad, almost all were launched after the last of our missiles struck the target. The missile defense systems manufactured by Russia were absolutely ineffective, "she asserted. In addition, according to White, the United States is convinced that all missiles launched at facilities in Syria hit targets, while Russia's statement about the opposite is allegedly false. "Russia falsely claimed that the Syrian missile defense system shot down a large number of missiles, whereas in reality we hit all our targets," she claimed. In his turn, the representative of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Kenneth Mackenzie, said that during the bombing of Russian air defense forces deployed in Syria, including the S-400 system, were not involved.
"As for the attack last night on Friday, Russian systems were not put into action ... they [Russia] preferred not to use them. I can not judge why they were or were not applied, "he said. "However, I can say that the Syrian air defense systems, which are fully produced in Russia, are developed in Russia and are supported by Russia, were actively used, but were effective," McKenzie added.
On April 14, the United States, Britain and France, without the sanction of the UN Security Council, dealt a massive blow to Syria. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the research center in Damascus, the headquarters of the Republican Guard, the air defense base, several military airfields, army depots were attacked. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, of 103 cruise missiles launched on the night of April 14 in Syria, the air defense of this country managed to bring down 71. Washington, London and Paris stated that the attacks are a response to the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Duma.
"This was said very clearly and unambiguously," Lavrov said. "Afterwards there were contacts at the level of military leaderships and generals, between our representatives and the US coalition command. They were notified of our ‘red lines,’ including geographical ‘red lines’ on the ground. And, as a result, these ‘red lines’ were not crossed."
Sergey Lavrov also said that Russian military will soon provide evidence that Syrian anti-missile systems intercepted missiles launched by the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
"Our General Staff has a very clear picture, we have been monitoring [the attacks] live, and statistics, which our military provided. We are ready to take responsibility for that. If someone argues that all 105 missiles reached their targets, then show your statistics. Our evidence, our claims, calculations are at least not groundless and will be soon provided by our military," Lavrov said.
Still, the burden of proof falls on Russia/Syria. They're the ones that must prove these extraordinary claims of shooting down so many cruise missiles. So far, all we have by way of proof is a bunch of destroyed buildings. No footage of interceptions. If so many cruise missiles we're brought down, there would have been a lot of cruise missile parts strewn all over the countryside, maybe even some of them intact.Austin wrote:If Pentagon is going to extreme length to clarify Russian AD did not worked at all it means it did worked ....hence the annoyance
Russian air defense systems in Syria "absolutely ineffective," argues the Pentagonhttps://vpk-news.ru/news/42309The United States believes that Russia's air defense systems (ADS) were completely ineffective as the United States and its allies fired missiles at sites in Syria last week.
This statement was made on Thursday by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the country, Dana White, to which TASS refers , during a regular briefing for journalists.
"Of the land-based missiles launched by the regime [the Syrian president] Bashar Assad, almost all were launched after the last of our missiles struck the target. The missile defense systems manufactured by Russia were absolutely ineffective, "she asserted. In addition, according to White, the United States is convinced that all missiles launched at facilities in Syria hit targets, while Russia's statement about the opposite is allegedly false. "Russia falsely claimed that the Syrian missile defense system shot down a large number of missiles, whereas in reality we hit all our targets," she claimed. In his turn, the representative of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Kenneth Mackenzie, said that during the bombing of Russian air defense forces deployed in Syria, including the S-400 system, were not involved.
"As for the attack last night on Friday, Russian systems were not put into action ... they [Russia] preferred not to use them. I can not judge why they were or were not applied, "he said. "However, I can say that the Syrian air defense systems, which are fully produced in Russia, are developed in Russia and are supported by Russia, were actively used, but were effective," McKenzie added.
On April 14, the United States, Britain and France, without the sanction of the UN Security Council, dealt a massive blow to Syria. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the research center in Damascus, the headquarters of the Republican Guard, the air defense base, several military airfields, army depots were attacked. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, of 103 cruise missiles launched on the night of April 14 in Syria, the air defense of this country managed to bring down 71. Washington, London and Paris stated that the attacks are a response to the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Duma.
Another false flag coming soon, followed by more missiles, most of which will be brought down by Russian air defense. Of course, all the targets will still be destroyed, but not before 373% of the inbound missiles are shot down first.habal wrote:https://sptnkne.ws/hspk
Nuclear Carrier Truman Enters Mediterranean 6 Days After Strike on Syria
Lavrov stayed today that Russian mod will present the proof of intercept in few day.Y. Kanan wrote:Still, the burden of proof falls on Russia/Syria. They're the ones that must prove these extraordinary claims of shooting down so many cruise missiles. So far, all we have by way of proof is a bunch of destroyed buildings. No footage of interceptions. If so many cruise missiles we're brought down, there would have been a lot of cruise missile parts strewn all over the countryside, maybe even some of them intact.Austin wrote:If Pentagon is going to extreme length to clarify Russian AD did not worked at all it means it did worked ....hence the annoyance
Russian air defense systems in Syria "absolutely ineffective," argues the Pentagon
https://vpk-news.ru/news/42309
This debate misses the point, though, as clearly the US destroys whatever it wants, even if a percentage of it's missiles aren't making it to the target. What the US wants to destroy, gets destroyed. End of story. This US aggression is going unchecked and is not going to be stopped by Russian posturing about how great their defenses are.