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[a completely inoffensive name]

Now I gotta go on ancestry.com and pray that there is someone from cuba in my family tree so I can claim I need to go there for rum "family".

[Husar]

Now I gotta go on ancestry.com and pray that there is someone from cuba in my family tree so I can claim I need to go there for rum "family".

Or you could go to a sane country, where Cuban rum can be bought in every supermarket and liquor store.

[Montmorency]

Or you could go to a sane country, where Cuban rum can be bought in every supermarket and liquor store.

In a high-school history class on the subject of the Cuban embargo:

Me: But it doesn't exist in other countries, so couldn't you just like go to Canada and fly to Cuba?
Teacher: YOU COULD ALSO MURDER SOMEONE, THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD
Me:

And she wasn't Cuban or (visibly) conservative or anything.

[Greyblades]

Navy jet shoots down Syrian warplane that attacked US-backed rebels

Published June 18, 2017
Fox News

A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Mediterranean Sea June 28, 2016.

A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Mediterranean Sea June 28, 2016. (U.S. Navy/Reuters)

A U.S. Navy fighter jet shot down a Syrian government warplane after it attacked Washington-backed fighters near ISIS' de facto capital of Raqqa, the U.S.-led coalition said Sunday.

In a statement, the coalition headquarters in Iraq said that a F/A-18E Super Hornet shot down a Syrian Su-22 that had dropped bombs near positions held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The statement said coalition aircraft had "conducted a show of force" to turn back an attack by Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's forces on the SDF in the town of Ja'Din, south of Tabqah.

The coalition said the shootdown took place "in accordance with rules of engagement and in collective self-defense of Coalition partnered forces."

The statement said "a number of SDF fighters" were wounded in the regime's attack, but did not specify further. The coalition also said that Russian officers had been contacted on a special "de-confliction" hotline in an effort to halt the assault.

"The Coalition's mission is to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria," its statement said. "The Coalition does not seek to fight Syrian regime, Russian, or pro-regime forces partnered with them, but will not hesitate to defend Coalition or partner forces from any threat."

[Montmorency]

Navy jet shoots down Syrian warplane that attacked US-backed rebels

The article mentions US planes bombed Syrian troops within a govt zone a few weeks ago after downing a hostile drone.

I can't find anything mentioning a bombing immediately prior to the downing of the drone, but there was one around the same area of An(Al? At?)-Tanf (near one of the largest de-confliction zones in Syria) back in mid-May.

[Husar]

Russia to attack US coalition planes over Syria from now on

Russia has said it will treat US warplanes operating in parts of Syria where its air forces are also present as "targets" amid a diplomatic row caused by the downing of a Syrian jet.

The country's defence ministry said it would track US-led coalition aircraft with missile systems and military aircraft, but stopped short of saying it would shoot them down.

A hotline set up between Russia and the US to prevent mid-air collisions will also be suspended.

[Shaka_Khan]

That wouldn't be the first time.



It could happen again.