11-14-2016, 04:36 PM
(11-14-2016, 04:15 PM)Galen Wrote:(11-14-2016, 04:05 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: What Galen forgets is the scenario some of us laid out. Trump and Putin buddy buddy. Putin feels he has the green light to invade Ukraine. Trump is not so happy but keeps quiet and allows it. So Putin feels he has the green light to invade Estonia; his buddy-buddy won't mind. Trump has a temper tamtrum and feels betrayed and suddenly patriotic. Trump supports NATO and attacks Russia. His small hands are on the nuclear codes. WWIII.
I doubt very much that will happen. Russia is still in the process of recovering from seventy-five years of bad management courtesy of the Communist Party. Russia is still committing its resources to helping Assad in Syria and will be spending years stomping on the remnants of ISIS. The US definitely lost its proxy war in Syria.
Only in upside down Trumplandia would Russia's willingness to invade Georgia, Ukraine and Syria and have joint war games with China in China Sea would one believe Russia is still too busy living with Communist Party issues.
Psss, maybe you haven't been paying attention lately...
US-backed forces in Syria (Kurds) are going to be in al-Raqqa, ISIS capital, within a couple months; and in less time, they will have taken out any main remnants still in Iraq after ISIS falls in Mosul.
In the meantime, Syria and Russia keep bombing starving civilian populations in Allepo and around Homs because they can't beat them on the ground. Wait until all those ISIS forces thrown out of Iraq and al-Raqqa regroup around the Syrian Army positions.