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originally posted by: GreenMtnBoys
Are you kidding me? This is ridiculous! Screw Turkey! Screw the Middle East! Germany and the UK have lost their balls! Fine lets put our assets to work in our own country and border. Let ISIS wreak havoc wherever it wants. Let them go to India and China and Russia!
originally posted by: kicked
So now this means that the US will need to create 'some sort of event' that justifies them going into Syria.
originally posted by: Bassago
a reply to: GreenMtnBoys
Fine lets put our assets to work in our own country and border. Let ISIS wreak havoc wherever it wants. Let them go to India and China and Russia!
I agree with that sentiment. I'm sick and tired of the US trying to fix problems everywhere else when our own house is on fire. Let the ME nations deal with it.
originally posted by: thesmokingman
Just like I have said all along. ISIS will be used as an excuse to get into Syria, and remove Assad. The US tried last year to the great protest of Russia and China. This is an excuse for the US to get what they wanted last year...
The one thing the US has shown is zero interest in going into Syria.
originally posted by: Bassago
a reply to: LittleByLittle
SA is playing both sides against the middle IMO and the petrodollar is already heading for the door in their minds. They are in talks with China already to accept the yuan as valid currency for oil. Many others have already dropped the dollar.
I believe that recent kidnapping/robbery/release of the Saudi diplomat tied into that. Notice how a couple hundred thousand dollars was stolen but so were a bunch of documents. I'd suggest those documents were the main target and dropping the petrodollar is what they were about. Just a thought.
Still they'll probably really play up the old "US defend us" agreement if ISIS gets any closer to them.