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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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In reply to the discussion: Tulsi Gabbard, Trump Tower Meeting, RW contacts, and Russia [View all]crazytown
(7,277 posts)28. Disagree (partly)
1. GPS makes airspace borders crystal clear.
2. Even with lines drawn, minor errors dont escalate into WWIII. Turkey shot down Russian planes, America shot down Syrian planes.
3. The highest priority is given by both the USA and Russia to avoiding nuclear war for the same reason - no one wins.
4. The problem with no fly-zones in Syria (from my perspective) is they would have prolonged a civil war that could have only one outcome - a Syrian Government victory.
5. If The government had lost, the civil war would have just began - ISIS, Al-Nusra Front, Hizbollah, SNC, YPG and all the undeclared proxies. That conflict could have drawn in Israel, Iran and Turkey.
War serves nododys interest but the deranged and the profiteers. My 2c
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Useful idiots those who offer blank checks for our military intervention in foreign nation-states
Devil Child
Feb 2019
#25
Where you see idiocy I see a respectable attempt to make her case to an innafectual CiC
Devil Child
Feb 2019
#27