Russia calls for intnl coop to fight IS

(makes mental calcualtion)

American Soldiers and the Uniform Code of Military Justice ....vs.. Russian Soldier and Comradely rules of conduct?

Hey...I kinda miss the USA World Police..even if I hated the fact our nation was, while it was happening. The alternative isn't going to be ANY improvement to anyone in the world....whatever delusions of persecution some may harbor about the evils of Americans.....oh my...they ain't seen NOTHIN' yet. Wait till a Russian platoon is on the move, pissed over something, and runs into civilians with an attitude. Some of what we have men in Leavenworth for right now ..Russia called a good day on the battlefield.

I think Russia is acting in self interest for the short term....and global conquest to the level they choose, in the long term.

How did America come to be in every nation on Earth with armed troops (Those marines at the Embassies are troops..they count.). I'd say largely by being in every disaster and help situation for threatened Governments the US could shoehorn into, for decades. Every deployment for a disaster tended to carry a little more presence in the nation in question and those around it ...where the US NEVER actually left, anywhere, almost ever. So, each assistance mission built the global presence just a wee bit deeper.

Russia is brutal, crude and socially unacceptable...but stupid isn't among their shortcomings by any stretch, IMO. Why fight success?

So as Russia works to eliminate a threat to it's OWN existence as much as ours (1980's Afghanistan kinda set the pattern for Islamists REALLY wanting to create Moscowistan some day, I think), it sets the small foundations to expand in depth later.

Not a bad plan..if it wasn't copying OURS. They never do come up with unique ...anything... do they?

I dunno... I'd be interested in the true and real history of Vodka. If its like most things in the world, the true story isn't what we think.

I got to thinking tho...and even Communism wasn't their own. They ripped that whole idea from the heart of the Anarchist movement and a little idealist named Marx who wouldn't have even recognized the communist empire that formed, largely, based on his original inspiring ideas.

Well, at least someone is stepping up to bat to try to organize people to fight ISIS. I wonder why the USA is not stepping up to bat against ISIS. Maybe some in the white house and congress have a reason that they want ISIS over there and will not fight till every Muslim feels that the USA is needed to dominate the region.

Who knows, on one hand I see all of the problems with questionable wars in that area of the world and on the other hand we have a real threat that needs attention and we seem to do little to nothing to help the people who's ability to fight was destroyed by us.

I don't know who is running this stuff but they sure are doing a bad job of it in the USA.