Vladimir Putin in a state of fury that has not been seen since the war in Chechnya, when he said he will kill Chechnyans in the sh*thouse said he wants the name of the perpetrators, and will get revenge no matter where they are hiding. He has also offered a fifty million dollar reward. Receiving confirmation from the head of the FSB that the Metrojet over Sinai was indeed downed by a bomb, a somber but furious Putin spoke to the Russian people about the coming vengeance. 'The murder of our people in Sinai is one of the bloodiest in terms of the number of victims of such crimes. We won't easily wipe away the tears in our hearts and souls. It will stay with us forever. But that will not prevent us from finding and punishing the perpetrators. We should not apply any time limits. We need to know all the perpetrators by name. We will search for them everywhere - wherever they are hiding. We will find them in any spot on the planet and we will punish them', said a very serious-looking Putin. And as if this dire warning wasn't enough, the enraged president vowed to ratchet up the strikes in Syria so that 'the criminals understand that revenge is unavoidable.' This is the harshest language Putin has used since he promised to kill Chechens in the '(*)(*)(*)(*)house' when he served as FSB director. http://russia-insider.com/en/military/putin-unleash-hell-isis-all-over-world/ri11233
ISIS has made a very serious mistake...I do not respect Mr. Putin as a leader, but I know enough to fear him as an enemy.
Maybe if he would put down his hammer and sickle and join the US and allies in defeating Daesh, the world would look at him differently....
Pretty pointless when the enemy yearns to die for his cause. It is not like he will be fighting a normal war with people that think like Russians.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/1...hting-against-the-islamic-state.html#comments Today President Putin announced that the destruction of a Russian airliner with 224 people on board over the Sinai peninsula had indeed been an Islamic State terror attack. Traces of explosives were found on parts of the debris. The Russian mission in Syria is no longer just to help the Syrian government but is now a matter of Russian national self-defense. The Russian parliament was not shy in assigning guilt: "The recent tragic developments confirm the topicality of Russias continuous warnings that permanent destabilization in the Middle East by those who claim global dominance, primarily the United States, could lead to the expansion of the zone of bloody chaos and entail numerous human tragedies," the document says. "France and other European states are, as a matter of fact, reaping the consequences of Washingtons nearsighted and selfish policy." There will now be no backing out for Russia and no time limit. At the same time as Putin spoke Russian ships in the Caspian sea, submarines in the Mediterranean and long range strategic strike bombers flying from Russia launched 34 cruise missiles against Islamic State targets in Syria. The Russian defense ministry announced that it would double its strikes in Syria using 5 TU-160, 6 TU-95MS, 14 TU-22m3. 8 SU-34 and 4 SU-27sm in addition to the 34 airplanes already in Syria. The new assets are long-range and will mostly fly directly from Russia. They will attack the static targets which the Russian and Syrian intelligence will designate. The planes in Syria will now take a more tactical role in direct combat air support for the Syrian army and the allied forces on the ground. The strike capacity will immediately double and it is planned to further increase it. The French, now bombing IS in retaliation for the attack in Paris, are also adding to their strike capacity by moving their airplane carrier towards the Syrian coast. President Putin personally ordered the Russian ships in the Mediterranean to recognize the French forces as allies. This may be an opening to France and an offer to Hollande to leave his anti-Syrian stance and to stop his support for anti-Syrian insurgents. After Putin shamed Obama into bombing Islamic State oil truck assemblies his Foreign Minister Lavrov went a step further. He directly accused the U.S. of not being serious about fighting the Islamic State: "The problem around the U.S.-led coalition is that despite the fact that they declared its goal in fighting exclusively the Islamic State and other terrorists and pledged not to take any action against the Syrian army (...), analysis of the strikes delivered by the United States and its coalition at terrorist positions over the past year drives us to a conclusion that these were selective, I would say sparing, strikes and in the majority of cases spared those Islamic State groups that were capable of pressing the Syrian army," he said. "It looks like a cat that wants to eat a fish but doesnt want to wet its feet. They want the Islamic State to weaken Assad as soon as possible to force him to step down this or that way but they dont want to see Islamic State strong enough to take power."
Uhhh, Jimbo11, Putin has been asking Washington to join Russia right from the start, and they keep refusing. Washington wouldn't even provide intelligence as to where the terrorists were located. Russia had to form its own intelligence gathering group in Baghdad. The only thing Washington agreed to with Russia, was to notify one another before the jets take off, that way there wouldn't be any accidents. Up until the past two weeks, the US was bombing the desert and pretending it was ISIS to deceive the American people. Now France, who wouldn't join Russia before, will finally do so. It's about time I should think.
Moscow is not holding back its verbal attacks on the US. Putin showed photos of lines of trucks going from the oil wells to Turkey, and said that from the air they could be seen to reach the horizon. He mentioned that the US knew about it, and that forty nations, many of them members of G20 were buying oil from ISIS. He also asked, why aren't those nations being sanctioned? If I recall, any nation that was caught buying oil from Iran was sanctioned. So much for double standards...and we expect to be respected as a leader of the world? Yeah right!
It's going to be a long war, because the terrorists are running away from Syria and going into other countries. Iraq asked Russia for help, that's why Washington decided to intervene. Afghanistan has also asked Russia for help, but Russia said it can't unless it cleans up Syria first. The ones in Afghanistan affect Russia directly, since they are infiltrating into nations such as Tajikistan on its southern flank. Russia has been helping them militarily for some time now.
That is the sad truth. The whole world knows it. France went to Russia for assistance not the US. I beleive tomorrow they will officially ask for US help. Chances are good all they'll get from Obama is a sympathy card. We're going to have a lot of mended fences to fix when he's gone.
Obama became president with the intent to damage the U.S. He's succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. It will take decades to repair what he's screwed up.
Saw him on TV, Putin is such a child lol, he couldnt stand Holland the woos getting more "respect" than him and after all the weapons he sent to Syria - France is revered for a few bombings it carried there, so NOW he discovers it was a bomb on the plane, NOW he gives his "Dont (*)(*)(*)(*) with me" moment, lol
