Is it about to kick off

[alfinyalcabo]

Russia getting very aggressive and threatening the US ..Is it time for Tin Hats ..

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8298941.html

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Just sabre rattling as usual...

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[Supersub6]

alf-- there is no point worrying about it because there is nothing you can do about it. They will do what they want at the behest of those who run the show, meanwhile there will be more and more innocent people killed or injured in the process. Extremely sad world in which we live these days.

[sinkov]

I expect it will kick off, the Donald is a big boy with some big toys, and big boys love to play with their big toys.

I love our man's view on the situation,

"General Sir Richard Barrons, who led the UK’s Joint Forces Command from 2013 to 2016, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I hope the ambassador has chosen his words very carefully because what he’s actually saying is that if the US and allies decide to strike against Syrian chemical weapons and delivery aircraft, not only are they going to try and shoot down the missiles in flight - which they're capable of doing, but won't be with total success - but by saying the words 'launch platforms', he’s saying they are going to try and sink ships, sink submarines and shoot aircraft out of the sky - that’s war.”

So we can bomb you to ****ing kingdom come, but if you fight back, well you can't do that, that's war.

Jesus fecking wept.

[Balanbam00]

Syria: Just some images to show ,whats its like here.


A U N position on the Golan Heights over looking Syria.

The border easy to guess where Syria starts and Israel ends

Nothing really there !Syria from the UN position on the Golan Heights

The boder fence is over the hill below

[Balanbam00]

we are watching you! A UN position on the Golan Heights



A view of the Israeli side when the Syrians shelled Israeli farmers and vilages . The Sea of Galilee
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[The Bedlington Terrier]

Interesting! Thanks Balan.

I always think a picture tells a thousand words!

[alfinyalcabo]

Great pics Balan .

[Balanbam00]

When rockets are fired there is damage ,pictures taken from the war with Hezbullah in Lebanon.


A Katyusha rocket hits the Galilee as I drive northwards close to the Lebanese border.



During the 2006 Lebanon War, Hezbollah fired between 3,970 and 4,228 rockets, from light truck-mounts and single-rail man-portable launchers. About 95% of these were 122 mm (4.8 in) Syrian-manufactured M-21OF type artillery rockets which carried warheads up to 30 kg (66 lb) and had a range of 20 km, perhaps up to 30 km (19 mi)


So I try to take this home as a souvenir,but hell it's so deep it could not be moved



....and yes they do cause damage

[afloatinclaret]

...a picture tells a thousand words!

But still doesn't always show the whole truth; I'm sure if those Syrian farmers were externally bankrolled to cover the cost of similar irrigation systems, they too could produce equally good crops and whilst for the most part Syria's a harsh and arid desert, there's some fantastic farmland in the NW of the country.
We were fortunate to spend a month in Syria at the begining of 2011 - we'd left only a few weeks before the bullets began flying! - and have to say that it's one of the most attractive, interesting and above all friendly countries that we've ever visited; assuming that either ISIL or the Assad family and their cronies (it really is difficult to decide which're the worst!) are reflective of the population as a whole is similar judging all Americans on the standards/antics of the Trump/Clinton/Bush cabals. Syria's overwhelmingly populated by a load of relatively poor people, who're working really hard, in an effort to make an honest living and raise kids in the hope that their lot will be better than their own; so in that respect at least, it's a bit like Burnley really.