War

US official lies about Ukrainian plans.

"In an interview with CNN, White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said that sanctions were the best way of applying pressure on Russia. "We don't think the answer to the crisis in Ukraine is simply to inject more weapons and engage in tit-for-tat," he said.
US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki also emphasized that the US was not immediately looking for a military solution: "I don't think anybody wants to get into a proxy war with Russia," she said, adding that the objective was "to change the behavior of Russia. That's the reason we have put the sanctions in place.""

But that's exactly what they're doing.

A proxy war with Russia in Ukraine is stupid.

ISIS filmed distributing UN food supplies.

If ISIS is looking for a real backlash, burning a captured Jordanian pilot alive on video will give it to them. They must be unhappy with the US response so far. They want boots on the ground to topple Assad.

More on the joint CIA-Mossad assassination of a Hezbollah leader in Syria in 2008.