Esper Threatens “Overwhelming Military Force” Against Syrians, Russians If They Make a Move for Syria’s Oil Fields

Again, I cannot wait to see the Chinese and/or the Russians hand the US it’s ass on the battlefield or the ocean. The sooner, the better.

Everyone here is an idiot. Yes the US is corrupt, there’s no argument here. Seeing it daily play out with the trump supporters rationalizing every mistake he makes and never being called out they’ve turned to the Obama supporters who Obama could do no wrong. But seeing how the CIA owns our major media assets by their own admittance it’s confusing how other people like centrist democrats and new-cons don’t see the manipulation daily. But as corrupt as we are so are China and Russia .Russia became the USSR by exploiting sovereign nations around it and swallowing their governments. If they were in our position they’d be doing the same thing because they have. As it stands now they are doing what we do on a smaller scale with Both trying to assert their dominance over their smaller weaker neighbors and they do it by force. Russia is in Syria for 1 reason only. To protect their investments and assets So let’s not make it seem like they are a force for good. Second China would never go to war with the west because its 1 dimensional economy is dependent on the west as it does 1 thing and 1 thing only . Manufacture products cheap. So they’d be going to war against their best customers. Even if they won their economy would collapse due to eliminating their customers. The West with Europe and the US is more the 70% of China’s economy. Third any war of that magnitude would end in a nuclear winter with life nearly extinct. So we shouldn’t be rooting but for the anti war side because that’s the only option where we all survive. All others no one survives. As for past wars those are lessons learned as this USMilitary is not the same one that went to Vietnam or Korea. The US is the most advanced military in the world and it’s also battle tested and hardened given we’ve been at war for 20 years. Make no mistake that if war were to break out you’d see what the difference is with Russia’s and China’s defense budget and the US $1.4 trillion defense budget. I know they seem well matched but there’s a reason why they haven’t provoked the US even when we send carriers through the sea of China in a show of force. What a waste all of it as $1.4trillion gets you to death faster when it could serve the people better

America’s arrogance and contempt for rule of law are going to catch up with it.

This kind of behavior in the end is against all countries’ interests.

In their quiet privacy, even America’s allies must find this disturbing.

Of course, what is driving this is behind-the-scenes pressure from Israel, a country with absolutely no regard for the rule of law.

Weakening Syria by taking the ol fields is its consolation prize for losing the long proxy war.

Trump is responding, again, to his reelection needs and to nothing else.

He doesn’t have a foreign policy. He has only an immense drive to be reelected no matter what is required.

The USMIC is heading for a show-down. They tried their very best in Ukraine but because it is on Russia own border, the Russian admin have so far resisted turning the area into a wasteland. Syria, on the other hand, is already a wasteland so the USMIC may just get their wish in Syria. Turning to international criminal acts to secure an illegal foothold in
both countries, and others, is against everything the UN stands for.
It’s time the UN reigned in its dog and stuck a muzzle on it.

One way or another the US will be leaving Syria and Iraq and it will be decades before an american word is again trusted anywhere in the ME. To prevent ‘Iranian influence’ in the area the US have reduced it to a bombsite and handed Iran a great opportunity.

As time goes by, the Russian and Syrian admins will gain more and more control. When these admins decide the time has come to evict the usurpers, everyone in the region, possibly the Kurds themselves will want some payback.

Americans do not even fight unless they have overwhelming superiority in both numbers and fire-power, so there is no way to know just how good US infantry is because they no longer have the belly for an equal fight.
Heck, even with such insane advantages they’ve still managed to lose most wars every single time since WW2.

One advantage Americans have is experience, they have been fighting wars for the last 18 years. But this is also a double edged sword. They have been fighting farmers such as the Taliban, been fighting people that can’t even afford a proper pair of shoes to go into combat. …they don’t have the belly for an equal fight.

The U.S enemy these past 18 years only has small arms to fight with. So their tactics and experience has evolved around smashing the poor local farmer that has picked up an AK47 and if there are 20 Taliban fighters, the Americans call in Close Air Support, anything from Helicopter Gunships to Bombers because they don’t know or don’t want to risk assaulting a position as grunts.
Have the Americans prepared for a war with Russia, where not a single American aircraft will get back in one piece over the battlefield? My guess is they have not.

In this scenario, Air Superiority will be a fantasy and they would have to go toe to toe with the Russian Military which most likely has and is fully preparing for a showdown with USA on Russia’s home soil.
I believe the Russian military is fully capable of defending themselves against a NATO/ USA offensive and to go further, I believe that Russia would smash USA so badly, that it would be an end to the NATO alliance once and for good. I also believe that NATO (USA) knows this and therefore all the West can muster, is scamming the poor Ukrainians NeoNazis or Jihadi Islamic Terrorist groups to fight for them, while they fight on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
Bloody pathetic !