The US involvement in Syria costs almost nothing, has had almost no fatalities among US forces, and allows us to keep an eye on ISIL while still supporting our Kurdish allies. It’s an incredibly low cost operation compared to others. Until Syria finds a reconciliation with SDF there’s not really a good reason to pull them out.
Yes, the US has gotten cocky. It has been able to steal billions of dollars of oil with little consequences.
The basic problem for the US is that the situation has changed massively since Biden took office. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states were our allies, now they are not. Turkey and was fighting the Assad government, now it is not. Russia and the US were cooperating, now they are not. Saudi Arabia and Iran were enemies, now they are not.
The most likely scenario is that Iranian forces allied with the Syrian government will continue to increase pressure on US forces. Supply issues are going to get more difficult. Attacks will get more frequent.
If the US retaliates from ships in the Mediterranean, I would not be surprised if Syria will counterattack using missiles supplied by Iran and/or Russia with Russia providing the detailed targeting information. The likely result will be that US ships that attack Syria will end up at the bottom of the sea.
The US has established these rules of engagement against Russian ships in the Black Sea. The same rules apply to US ships in the Mediterranean.
Nice attempt at insane Tom Clancy techno thriller porn.
The US media already provided the plot.
Yeah. Syria is going to sink American ships 
See one of your problems is that we’ve seen that Russia has horrible capabilities. Literally. They can’t do air superiority, do precision strikes, interdict supplies or pretty much anything that the the US military does with ease. And Syria/Iran are going to sink our ships in the Mediterranean? Give me a break. And the difference is that the only thing Russia can do to stop Ukraine sinking their ships is to stay far away. the US military will take out Syrian/Iranian weapons. Again, you’re trying to do a really cheap bad Tom Clancy book, and mot of his were down right awful already.
The US-made missiles have been attacking Russian ships using US targeting information. The only thing that has been Ukrainian about the attacks have been the finger on the button.
The same thing can happen in Syria.
Except that Harpoons didn’t take out the Moskva. It was home made Ukrainian missiles. Do you even read the stuff you post?
Yes, missiles can sink ships. No, Syria won’t be sinking American ships
Yes, the party line is that Russians are ignorant peasants in ox carts.
The reality is that Russia has developed and used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine.
The US is years behind Russia in this technology, which could sink US warships hundreds of miles from shore.
Do we really want to get into the fact that Russia, RUSSIA, feels the need to try and use hypersonic missiles against Ukraine? Cause that’s a whole other conversation. So what stationary apartment building did the Russians take out with their hypersonic missile? 
The Kinzhal airborne missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles was used for the first time during military operations in Ukraine. The missile was used to destroy a large buried missile and aircraft ammunition depot of the Ukrainian armed forces in the settlement of Delyatin in the Ivano-Frankovsk Region in western Ukraine, which had previously served as a storage facility for Soviet nuclear weapons.
If the missile can take out an underground storage facility, it can sink an American aircraft carrier.
Well if they say so it must be true. 
There are reasons why the Pentagon may be leaking classified documents. They know they would lose any serious war with China or Russia.
11:39 a.m. ET, March 19, 2022
US officials confirm Russia has used hypersonic missiles against Ukraine
From CNN’s Natasha Bertrand, Jim Sciutto and Barbara StarrUS officials confirmed to CNN that Russia launched hypersonic missiles against Ukraine last week, the first known use of such missiles in combat. The US was able to track the launches in real time, the sources said. The launches were likely intended to test the weapons and send a message to the West about Russian capabilities, multiple sources told CNN.
US officials confirm Russia has used hypersonic missiles against Ukraine
They would lose a war with Russia? Russia can’t beat Ukraine. Jeebus help us.
The US was not able to defeat the camel herders in Afghanistan or the rice farmers in Vietnam after more than a decade of war.
From what I see, Russia is winning a war of attrition in Ukraine. Time is on its side, so there is no hurry.
The US knows that its surface ships could be sunk within hours of a serious war with Russia or China. The days of the US Navy bombing nations with impunity are rapidly coming to an end.
You’re probably missing the irony of your statement, but Russia couldn’t beat those camel herders and China couldn’t beat those rice farmers. Not sure if you get how funny that is. What I do know is that Russia can’t control the airspace over Ukraine because of the Ukrainian air force and air defense. And their ships can’t get close to Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. Over a year later. That Russia is digging trenches to defend territory in anticipation of Ukraine’s counter offensive that we all know is coming. Yeah, don’t remember the US doing that in Afghanistan.
When was the last war that the US actually won?
In 2011, Obama announced that Assad must go. More than a decade later, Assad is still in office, while the western allies who demanded his departure are long gone.
Of course, war-forever in Syria may have been the goal as it was in Afghanistan.
And US made Stingers shot down Russian helicopters in Afghanistan. So what?
But again, and I think this is important and something that Bill refuses to acknowledge. US missiles didn’t take out the Moskva. Ukrainian Neptunes did. The ones they designed and manufactured. So his claim that all Ukrainians did was push the button is an absolutely incorrect statement. Not that it matters here for some reason.
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