Anyone calling for a no fly zone is simply posturing at this point. 8 of the 10 GOP candidates who ran for the presidency were for it. John Kerry is pushing for it. Some of our biggest allies are pushing for it.
It's basically puffing out our chest. Without full UN and US congressional approval it'll never go anywhere.
Re: Russia? Since the break up of the Soviet Union they are not the superpower they once were. They are ranked #5 in military strength based on number of troupes but their military infrastructure has badly broken down and they are still trying to crawl out from under a massive recession that's killed their economy.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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