Disaster Possible multi-national airstrike on Syria expected in the next 72 hours - "I don't want to set the worrrld on firrreeee~"

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Europe's air traffic control network has warned commercial aircraft to avoid Syrian airspace due to a possible strike being planned in the next 72 hours.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/9...-uk-france-chemical-attack-russia-eurocontrol

DEFCON has been lowered to 4 over reports of military amassing air forces and the potential risks of a Russia vs. U.S. conflict.
https://defconwarningsystem.com/2018/04/10/defcon-warning-system-update-4-10-18/

Supposedly the British RAF is on alert in Cyprus.

There's also unconfirmed reports of the U.S. moving missile cruisers around in the Mediterranean and aircraft in Eastern Iraq.
 
I'm still wondering, if it involves other nations, why aren't they taking flak the way the US is getting? Like Britain or France?

Why can’t the more positive things from the previous century come back instead? We should use Watchmen’s solution to global conflict. Only with California.

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Even though this is clear saber rattling we're still playing Russian roulette with the chance of hitting Russian assets there. If we do it's game over.


We've already done that a few times. HARD, too

We're just playing chicken on a unicycle with some other dude on a plastic roller blade

Worst case we just look dumber than the other jackass
 
I'm still wondering, if it involves other nations, why aren't they taking flak the way the US is getting? Like Britain or France?
Because Trump is more of the boogyman than Theresa May or the Frenchie in this situation according to media... Even though they're the ones who instigated it and Trump's just supporting their stupid behaviors. I can assure you that Russia's likely aware of their involvement and will attack them when/if they do the US.
 
Has anyone looked at the pictures from that "Israeli air strike" that happened on Sunday? The Western media has barely been reporting on it at all, even though it happened hours after reports of the Syrian gas attack. You can find snippets of it here and there but for the most part the reports aren't really hitting our shores, even though the news is three days old and there's more focus on this Syrian development than really any other story in circulation at this time.

They're very unusual pictures for what's alleged to be an air raid, though. None of the cars are pushed out of position and they just look like they've been immolated like any other car fire and are packed with bullet holes. None of the wall panels are blown out in any meaningful way and the roof is still intact, and almost all of the damage to the building on the outside is just a torrential shitmess of bullet holes fired down near ground-level, and no actual damage is done to the floor. No craters, no blast holes, not even cracked cement or debris pushed outside of the building, like you'd expect from an aerial bomb strike. This doesn't bear the markings of any aerial munitions that I'm aware of, this looks more like a commando raid.

Has Israel ever bombed Syria in response to Assad doing anything to his own people? Think about that really hard, now.

Besides that, did you realize that when the story surfaced a month ago about that massive attack that was carried out on "Russian mercenaries" where-in more than 300 of them died overnight trying to raid the Deir ez-Zor oil field, there was never so much as a single mention of any air support on their side? Isn't that a bit unusual for a military that's consistently boasting about its aerial capabilities, both offensively and defensively? Not a single fighter jet, not a single missile, not even a helicopter, just... Nothing? They blasted at us with a tank and then for three straight hours we wailed on them with drone strikes and B-52 bombers and they sent nothing back in retaliation?

We're already hearing reports of the Russian ships fleeing the Tartus port in Syria and heading out into the Mediterranean, members of the Syrian military are evacuating military bases (You'll need to translate it) and that Assad and most of his cabinet and family are already fleeing the country. Add to that the reconnaissance by protests we've witnessed in Iran, the major weapon deals that went down almost immediately with our coalition allies, and that we're already putting Carrier Strike Group 8 into position, and you really have to start wondering if this fight was over before it even began.
 
Cluster bomb attacks and to an extent FFAR damage can look pretty similar to that but they'd have to had hit it at just the right angle to not do damage tot he roof.
 
Cluster bomb attacks and to an extent FFAR damage can look pretty similar to that but they'd have to had hit it at just the right angle to not do damage tot he roof.
You would have to be one legendary motherfucker of a pilot-bomber to pull off that kind of shot through one of the windows up there, and bombs explode. None of the debris in any of the pictures I've found from this supposed air raid have debris that went any further out than maybe a handful of feet away from the building, all of it just radiates inwards, and even then there's barely any of it outside of the building at all, even where the hangar doors are wide open.

It wasn't a strafing run that was shooting at the buildings with a plane, either, because none of the bullets hit the roof, none of them hit the floor outside, and the angle from all the shots is clustered really tightly around floor-level, like it was being shot at by people on the ground, not people blasting by overhead in fighter jets or A-10s
 
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You would have to be one legendary motherfucker of a pilot-bomber to pull off that kind of shot through one of the windows up there, and bombs explode. None of the debris in any of the pictures I've found from this supposed air raid have debris that went any further out than maybe a handful of feet away from the building, and even then there's barely any of it outside of the building at all, even where the hangar doors are wide open.

Fragmentation explosives exist and if they're light enough they could theoretically do something similar, but like I said,t hat angle would have to be super low to make that exact penetration so its fishy at best
 
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