Two Russian planes down now, is Putin worried yet?

Russia is tough guy, so should be having no problem dealing with IS.

Russians do not care. They have plenty of Vodka.

Do you mean 11/4/15? Or, is this Q a joke? I haven’t seen the news this morning.

Two plane crashes can be explained away. If there is a third I think it will get more difficult. You don’t need these plane crashes to be on the alert about terrorism. How can any powerful country not be on alert about terrorism? Even countries with not so much power? There are always bad people who want to kill people. Sometimes they get very organized and pull off events that cause great destruction and large death rolls. A sad fact throughout history.

Early explanation (which should always be taken with a grain of salt) says the crash was due to engine failure. It makes sense since this was not an important or spectacular flight. Terrorist nut jobs prefer high value targets. Why waste a good SAM on an Antonov – 12.

About a month ago, when Putin sent the Russian army into Syria, lots of new articles said that Putin was getting himself into a real mess. Putin, of course, is a dictator, and doesn’t listen,

So now he reaps the fruit of his actions.

I shed no tears for Putin or for Russia. Too bad for the people on the planes, but they’re pawns in a much bigger game.

I doubt very much if Putin is losing any sleep over either the plane crashes or Isis threats of retaliation. The Russians are not nearly as susceptible as we in the West to panic at disaster. The place is more or less a lesson on disaster as a way of life.

Remember he is KGB, and may have killed hundreds.

… and he doesn’t use deodorant; he must be use to ignoring people.

I pity the fool who thinks Russia is any kind of “sitting duck” for anything.

The Russians absorbed some 8,000,000 war casualties during their war with Hitler. (The Great Patriotic War, as they call it.) Eight million war dead.

And that’s after the estimated 12 – 20 million that Stalin’s actions and inaction caused in the famine in the Ukraine before the war had even started.

Let that sink in a bit. The soldiers that Stalin sent to the front (and continued to send, in wave after wave, division after division, army after army) were not “victims”. They marched into that war, and they never stopped until they marched into Berlin.

The Russians (formerly Soviets) have known forever how to take hits, heavy hits, and I believe that they still have that mindset. They could take hits that would cause most of the Western democracies to seriously and quickly change course or tactics. They won’t be long deterred by some ragged ISIS fighters – even a brigade or two, if they could mount that kind of organized attack.

This is why we should never be involved in land wars in Asia. Because the Chinese are like the Russians, only more so… and now more industrialized, too.

Wrong date: 9/4/15
Exhausting day.
Perhaps wishing for time warp.
“Let’s do the time warp again.
It’s just a jump to the left…”
Mea Culpa.