The State Department is fuming over Russia's 'ludicrous' and 'insulting' comments about Mosul

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by Natasha Bertrand at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/state-department-condemns-russia-comparing-mosul-with-aleppo-2016-11

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The State Department slammed Moscow's recent comparison of the US-backed anti-ISIS offensive in Mosul with Russia's scorched-earth campaign in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday, calling the claim "ludicrous" and "insulting."

"It's absolutely not the same, and to compare the two is frankly insulting," State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Monday, noting that Secretary of State John Kerry "feels exactly the same way."

"I mean, in Aleppo you’ve got the regime laying siege to a city with the support of their biggest backer, Russia. In Mosul you have an entire coalition of some 66 nations who have planned for months, so with the vast support and legitimacy of the international community, to retake a city from Daesh over a period of months in support of Iraqi Security Forces," Kirby said.

Russia insists that its airstrikes on eastern Aleppo have only targeted "terrorists" associated with former al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al Nusra — now known as Jabhat Fateh al Sham — and has argued that the strikes are justified because civilians in government-controlled western Aleppo are being attacked by militant groups.


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1. Under Vladimir Putin, Russia is a quasi dictator state run by a murderer.

They are a very clear and present danger to the rest of the world.

Any person cooperating with them at this point would have to be seen as an enemy of USA.