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This is the Way the Empire Ends

• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Bionic Mosquito

Not differentiating rebel forces (rebels being all forces counter to Assad); Russia fights them all – including those "moderate" forces backed by the empire.

Russian cruise missiles launched from the Caspian.  The empire's response?

Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the Caspian Sea landed in Iran, unnamed US officials say.

Words.

Both Russia and Iran deny this.  It matters little the truth behind this minor distraction; the story on the ground has changed.  For example:

The Obama administration has ended the Pentagon's $500 million program to train and equip Syrian rebels, administration officials said on Friday, in an acknowledgment that the beleaguered program had failed to produce any kind of ground combat forces capable of taking on the Islamic State in Syria.


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