TREASONOUS

Any support of Putin can now be called TREASONOUS. We are at war!

“Russian aircraft conducted a series of airstrikes near al-Tanf against Syrian counter-ISIL forces that included individuals who have received U.S. support.”

Because Trump does not have the backing of Senator Ryan, and other top Republicans, he must be careful of using any language that can be titled TREASONOUS.

Captain Isaac Hull sailed o three ships in the war the U.S. fought against the last Caliph.

“When troubles with the Barbary states heated up in 1802, he went to the Mediterranean as First Lieutenant of the frigate Adams. Hull later commanded the schooner Enterprise and the brig Argus, receiving promotion to the rank of Master Commandant in 1804 and to Captain in 1806. During the next few years, he supervised the construction of gunboats and, in 1809 and 1810, was successively given command of the frigates, Chesapeake, President and Constitution.”

Jon Presco

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/17/politics/russia-airstrike-syrian-rebels/

Washington (CNN)Russian warplanes bombed U.S. backed Syrian rebels near the Jordanian border, Pentagon officials say, causing the U.S. to divert armed aircraft to the scene of the strike.

The strikes, which the U.S. says killed some New Syrian Army troops, occurred about six miles from the Jordanian border, according to a U.S. defense official. The U.S. diverted armed FA-18s to the area after the first round of two strikes, and the pilots then tried to call the Russians on a previously agreed-upon pilot-to-pilot communications channel but did not receive an answer.

As soon as the U.S. jets left the area to refuel, the Russians came back for another round of bombing, the defense official said.

“Russian aircraft conducted a series of airstrikes near al-Tanf against Syrian counter-ISIL forces that included individuals who have received U.S. support. Russian aircraft have not been active in this area of Southern Syria for some time, and there were no Syrian regime or Russian ground forces in the vicinity,” a senior defense official said. “Russia’s latest actions raise serious concern about Russian intentions. We will seek an explanation from Russia on why it took this action and assurances this will not happen again.”

The first two bombing runs by the Russians were carried out by two SU-24 Russian jets coming out of their base near Latakia. The jets dropped what is believed to be the equivalent of U.S. 500-pound bombs and possibly cluster munitions, according to the U.S. defense official.

Asked about the strikes Friday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said it raised questions about whether the Russians were actually in Syria to fight Islamic extremists.

“Here’s a case where they actually attacked forces that were fighting ISIL. And if that was their intention, that’s the opposite of what they said they were going to do,” Carter said. “If not, then it says something about the quality of the information upon which they make airstrikes.”

U.S. and Russian forces in Syria have had tense relations since the country devolved into civil war. The U.S. has backed rebel groups while the Russians have supported Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

The U.S. is going to maintain its presence in the Black Sea to deter Russian aggression, U.S. Secretary of the Navy told Anadolu Agency on Friday.

“We’re going to be there. We’re going to be present. We’re going to deter. That’s the main reason we’re here — to deter potential aggression; to be where we ought to be, when we ought to be there,” Ray Mabus said in an email.

Mabus’ comments come amid a row with Moscow about NATO discussions regarding the establishment of a permanent force in the Black Sea.

“If a decision is made to create a permanent force, of course, it would be destabilizing, because this is not a NATO sea,” Russian Foreign Ministry official Andrei Kelin was quoted earlier this week by that country’s media.

The U.S. has quadrupled the funds for reassuring European partners against Russian activities in the Eastern Europe.

An American destroyer The USS Porter entered the Black Sea this month and the U.S. is also planning to increase its number of troops in Europe.

“We still operate under the Montreux Convention, which was signed in the mid-[19]30s, in terms of what ships go in and out of the Black Sea and how long they operate there,” Mabus said.

Since Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, it has its own Black Sea Fleet based at Sevastopol.

NATO will hold its annual summit in Poland next month as ties between Russia and the alliance are strained significantly due to Moscow’s support for separatists in eastern Ukraine and Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria.

The U.S.’s deployment of two aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea also strained ties with Russia as Moscow also has a military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean.

“We’ve been in the Mediterranean continuously for 70 years now, since World War II,” Mabus said. “We’re going to be where we need to be and we’re going to have that presence and that is normal … that has kept the sea lanes open for everybody.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits

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