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Russian Pacific Fleet Warships Enter Mediterranean For First Time In Decades, To Park In Cyprus
Earlier we reported that the US has now officially landed a Marine force in Israel as well as an assault ship, in a visit that the US Navy promptly assured "is not associated with, nor a reaction to, any world events." It seems we were not the only ones who read this justification somewhat skeptically: so did Russia. And in a historic event, the Russian Pacific fleet, for the first time in decades, crossed the Suez Canal and entered the Mediterranean, direction Cyprus' port of Limasol (hi Cyprus - Russia will be arriving shortly) in what is now the loudest implied warning to the US and Israel amassing military units across Syria's border that Russia will not stand idly by as Syria is used by the Israeli "Defense" Forces for target practice. “The task force has successfully passed through the Suez Channel and entered the Mediterranean. It is the first time in decades that Pacific Fleet warships enter this region,” Capt. First Rank Roman Martov said. This is what is also known as dropping hints, loud and clear.
The group, including the destroyer Admiral Panteleyev, the amphibious warfare ships Peresvet and Admiral Nevelskoi, the tanker Pechenga and the salvage/rescue tug Fotiy Krylov left the port of Vladivostok on March 19 to join Russia’s Mediterranean task force.
Admiral Panteleyev destroyer
Admiral Nevelskoi
The task force currently includes the large anti-submarine ship Severomorsk, the frigate Yaroslav Mudry, the salvage/rescue tugs Altai and SB-921 and the tanker Lena from the Northern and Baltic Fleets, as well as the Ropucha-II Class landing ship Azov from the Black Sea Fleet. The task force may be enlarged to include nuclear submarines, Navy Commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov said last Sunday.
Shore leave for a whole lot of submarines just a few hundred kilometers from Syria? Surely. From Rian.
“The task force has successfully passed through the Suez Channel and entered the Mediterranean. It is the first time in decades that Pacific Fleet warships enter this region,” Capt. First Rank Roman Martov said.
The Defense Ministry said in April Russia has begun setting up a naval task force in the Mediterranean, sending several warships from the Pacific Fleet to the region. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in March a permanent naval task force in the Mediterranean was needed to defend Russia’s interests in the region.
A senior Defense Ministry official said the Mediterranean task force's command and control agencies will be based either in Novorossiysk, Russia, or in Sevastopol, Ukraine.
Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, head of the parliamentary defense committee, previously told RIA Novosti that the Mediterranean task force should be comprised of 10 warships and support vessels as part of several tactical groups tasked with attack, antisubmarine warfare and minesweeping.
The Soviet Union maintained its 5th Mediterranean Squadron from 1967 until 1992. It was formed to counter the US Navy's 6th Fleet during the Cold War, and consisted of 30-50 warships and auxiliary vessels.
It appears that the squadron is being reincarnated and quite rapidly at that.
It also appears that the two key naval forces in the Mediterranean are finally starting to position themselves for what may soon be a face off.
Hopefully Europe's "anti-manipulation" task force can spook enough majors to push the price of Brent much lower before the moment such an escalation becomes reality.
P.S. Got oil?
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The whole world will be a battle zone. You won't be safe anywhere. How much time did we spend in WW2 fighting on Pacific islands?
Good to see Vlad P "nut up" to the NWO. Hey Hillary- there's a dildo shaped missile with your Zionist name on it.
Russia had be extremely careful, i suspect that the whole idea is to suck Russia into a larger war...
Very astute. It won't do for the near-bankrupt Club-Fed CB's to go down the drain hole together, while the BRICs set with their pile of gold on the sidelines, watching them sink in debt, and bleed out gold.
So far it's Ante Up in a geopolitical Liars Poker.
Who says he's not part of the NWO?
I think that's CIA disinformation -but who knows. The globalists clearly have a presence in Russia -the Oligarchs and the Russian mafia.
Admiral Josh Painter: This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.
1000yrdstare-
Love movie quotes. that is a great one
They're just invading Cyprus. Nothing to worry about.
It's not "invading" but "liberating" instead. They are going to "liberate" Cyprus like the EU "liberated" the Russian money from the banks there.
Admiral: Hi, I just woke up from a time warp. I'd like to close my account at Laiki bank. I don't expect there will be any problems with that, correct?
Gee, Soviet Union Collapses we forgive their debts....check.
Russia, recovers after 20 years.....check.
Fleece Russian oligarchs...check.
Giant Bear reawakens to bring balance to world order.....check.
Nice to play chess with more than just yourself. Now I finally understand the idiom my Father used to say all the time. "Some days you get the Bear, and some days the Bear gets you."
Actually the russians have long memories and are still pissed at the way we allowed them to go to shit in '98.
it seems just about everyone has longer memories than us
I was just thinking that the Russians seem to have longer memories than us.
What?
Actually, otto, Russians have much longer memories than '98... They still remember who manipulated with the total disaster that was USSR's downfall.
Remember Solidarnost? The easiest way to defeat your enemy is from within by inciting internal divisions. That's the reason there're no more Zionist-financed NGO's operating in Russia, and lookie - no more street demonstrations, pussy riots and calls for Putin's violent overthrow...
That's the difference between playing chess and checkers.
Just wait until the Chinese send in their refurbished rusty war ships they bought from the Ukraine....that should send shivers down their spines........
But I admire the Chinese for not paying full dollar for the old boats and working hard for a bargain.....they're basically...
Cheap Bastards.
last time the Chinese paid top money for brand-new powerful warships made by the Germans, the French and the British. their big purchases gave them the fourth largest navy in the world, and the largest in asia. of course, it didn't make any difference in 1895's navy battles with the Japs. This Time Is Different?
"At this moment in time, DefenseReview isn’t aware of any viable U.S. ship-borne defense system that can effectively deal with the Chinese anti-ship ballistic missile. If one of our readers is aware of one, please don’t hesitate to contact us. If the U.S. Navy indeed doesn’t have a viable defense agains the Chinese ASBM, the first three obvious questions are “why not”, “how long will it take to develop one”, and “how much will it cost”. Defense Review doesn’t doubt for a second that we (the United States) can do it, it’s just a question of “how long” and “how much”."
They are developing an indigenous class of carriers and carrier combat aircraft. Look in again in ten years.
Maybe they are still miffed about the bank raid.
Now I feel like playing advance war on gameboy
Good time for the Japs to take back their northern islands !
Good time for Germany to take back Sudetenland and the Danzig.
Good time for the Palestinians to get their land back stolen by the Khazars.
Russia's not going to do anything.
A paper tiger with nuclear teeth, maybe. But, do we even know if their missiles still work? Didn't they lose track of most of them after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Most of them....are u mad? That would be many. Yes they work, here is a test lauch of the words most appropriately named weapon. The SS-18 Satan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUGxlQo8g8Y
Fascinating and terrifying.
Haven't you heard- they've been building brand spanking new and improved ICBMs for the last decade - the Russians started investing the "peace dividend" they earned by pulling out of Afghanistan into ICBMs shortly after "pre-emptive" war became internationally justifiable and the US MIC went on a blood and dollars conventional warfare spending binge in the aftermath of 9/11/01. It was very convenient of the US to "exclude" rail mounted TELs from the third round START treaties, giving the Russians "flexibility" develop an UNLIMITED quantity of mobile nuclear missiles if they see fit, now that they have officially resurrected their rail mounted TEL program following the US elections...
So, you're suggesting they are going to launch their missiles to protect Syria?
Doubt it. They didn't do anything after Israel bombed them; they're not going to do anything. Paper tiger.
And, if they do, they get plenty coming back at them; so, it doesn't matter.
They didn't do anything militarily as their empire collapsed, either. Could have taken the world down with them, but nothing.
You are mad.
The world is a ridiculous game.
Don't take it too seriously.
Right, because we all know Israel bombed Syria because they already had a defense against the missiles they destroyed. RIGHT? And whose made those missiles that Israel was so paranoid about? Oh you mean Russia.
Hardly, just as the US unlikely to sacrifice its capital ships and in the process the US capacity for force projection and protection of the spice trade.
Though, they did do something when Georgia tried to "liberate" Abhasia, as advised by US "consultants" (mostly retired generals). And that something made "consultants" running out of Georgia in their pajamas.
BTW, what they'd get coming after them? The same that can't defeat a bunch of lightly armed iliterate cavemen in Afganistan?
Ultimately, every empire collapses. We are just withessing collapse of one.
I would suggest that the mass/sudden loss of electricity in the US is probably the greatest concern.
Ask Dick Cheney about that - in 2008 we had troops helping the Georgians and Putin rolled medium range nukes right to the border and told Cheney to remove our troops or they would be vaporized. If Russian nukes are worthless then we would still have troop strength in Georgia, right?
It was more meant to be a joke. I'm aware that there are more than enough nuclear weapons on the planet to destroy it several times over.
at that time we had some really long supply lines through hostile territory
the Absurd,
Russia doesn't have to do anything. It's their neighborhood. They're leasing a port from Ukrainians in the Black Sea.
Russian presence won't allow others to do whatever they want which might be Putin's point.
If that was true, Russia would have been invaded by the USSA by now.
If the Russian Pacific fleet is in the Mediterannean, is this a good time to invade Vladivostock? Go long Vladivo stock!
I go long Vlade Divac
I'll move five armies into the Kamchatka. Oh wait, whose turn is it?
World War III will be an improvement .... after Obamacare !
Just great... war is coming and we have a gay, muslim, mulatto coward as our "Dear Leader"... I guess this just isn't our decade.
Shit.
Well, I'm not sure rather he's a Muslim or not but I know he is a closet fag and a known apologetic coward.
On the bright side we did live through a pretty amazing time in history. Too bad it all has to go aout in a flash.
The gay, muslim, mulatto coward known as our "Dear Leader"... is starting it!!!!
Following orders from TPTB
Woar!
i bought a 3D TV to watch this shit
ECB and FED have to print more. The natives are getting restless
when the levee breaks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEQTJV_3-w
when the levee breaks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEQTJV_3-w
This way: Zepparella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-_9cwdLug
Like to hear what Wayne Madsen has to say about all this.
This will be the first WOAR .... financed by Bitcoin !
Bitcoiners are getting a haircut?
Obungler'd.
JUST NOW RUSSIA ANNOUNCES:
"We are offering all Cypriots storage for all your gold bullion in our safe and secure naval banks. You can ofcourse leave in them in those safe EU backed accounts......... We think this is a better alternative"
Is there insurance against boating incidents?
This comes to mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8XMlL8rqY
Woohoo! I can party with the Russkies this weekend!!!!!
"honey, maybe we should reconsider that Eastern Med cruise we were thinking about....lets take the kids and go to Sea World instead...."
The Russian Navy can go anywhere it darn well pleases.
Thanks for Cyprus!
hmmm....so we are getting ready for the showdown at the Megiddo Corral; otherwise known in Hebrew as “Armageddon”?
My apologies upfront since this doesn't have to do with the article, but I was just surfing and came across this one liner:
"In December 2012, Bank of America blocked its employees' access to Zero Hedge". I used to work for B of A several years ago and this limitation to a news outlet seems so irrational. WTF? Glad I'm not working there now. What would cause them to take such an aggressive stance? It would seem they did not want their employees to see the unmanipulated news/economy.
Ok, back to talking about Russia vs. USA v7.2.1.8
"Mine, mine, mine, mine..."
hujel
They are in Cyprus to take the Gold and bring it back.
I'd be willing to bet those salvage ships are empty for a reason.
Its also time for Ill Kim Dim Sum Dip Shit over in N Korea to ratchet back up his noise.
Watch oil go nuts.
Good for spikes in oil as it gets tense.
Did Russia gladly agree ahead of time to the Cypriot bail in? Nice way to punish money laundering and tax evasion.
On the flip side, who didn't have a Cyprus account?
Of course. Or do you think it was just a coincidence that Russia has been working on laws(and more, behind the scenes) to punish rich Russians and officials for moving money out of the country?
Agreed. But that's kind of like punishing yourself. It's always a bit disingenuous.
If we're going to finance and support Al Quaeda to, incidentally, kick Russia out of their only warm-water port at Tartus, Syria, it only makes sense that the Russians measure the windows and do a little walk-through at the conveniently located pied-a-terre in Cyprus. Warm water, nicely close to the Bosporus. Plus the locals might not be in much of a position to object and maybe see an opportunity to get some of their deposits back.
Ivan's got some buddies behind (Her)...briiics 7... (brics + Iran and Indonesia).
Western Petrodollar country's are toast on a stick
.....pretty cockeyed quick.
soon (yeah I know - define soon) you'll be able to add Turkey
Turks hate Persians almost as much as they hate arabs so they are unlikely allies.
You forgot, they hate the Israelis, hate Syrians, hate Russians, hate Kurds and hate Iraqis ... oh, and they hate the Greeks, really hate the Greeks ... oh, and the muzi Black Sea and Caspian States ... hate those.
buddies behind (Her)...briiics 7... (brics + Iran and Indonesia
Really, I'm no fanboy of USMilitery escapades but those are not the best fearsome and bravest bunch to have behind you. Of course it probably beats having the french behind you but I digress.
+1 for the french jab...EMP is the key....+food security....nuf' said.
The bigger they are,
The harder they fall.
I'm guessing the BRIIICs reference wasn't to military rather than economic/financial confrontation. I don't think anyone wants to actually fight the US military. The US military was built to kill other national militaries, which is why we haven't fought any of them (really-Sadddam's cardboard army doesn't count) for decades. Where the US military doesn't seem to work so well is against guerillas, which is why that's the only way anyone will fight us anymore.
Now when it comes to fighting against the BRIIICs in terms of currency, that's another fight I don't see the US being very well set up to win either.
IMO it really does no good to have a war at sea when all sides have nukes. Esp if the Russians lose believe me they are hard headed big time.
Use 'em or lose 'em. Only thing worse than a nuclear war is losing a nuclear war.
There would be no winners ... except maybe already screwed third world states that didn't matter.
This is all about Oil.
The latest move by the Russians is a bargaining chip to see if they can get a bigger slice of the Oil Pie.
For reference see: Cuban Missile Crisis
and Nat Gas - energy in general
Could be.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gBtV2ydX3I
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The fiat master has waited long enough for Iran to succumb. Amazing how one can come to admire a nation like Iran on this particular topic.
Can't have Iran get more gold now can we? (article futher up today on ZH)
Certainly can't have a country like Iran possess both lots of gold AND nuclear weapons to defend itself from the Fiat Master.
Wish I'd never taken the red pill some days.
It can be overwhelming to know some of the things we know and have to put up with the sheeple. When you try to enlighten them they accuse you of all sorts of laughable things.
That, and have them have a gall to exist without a BIS controlled central bank....which is the real reason they want them taken down. Just like Iraq and Libia....that and selling their oil not pegged to the petrol Dollar.
The present deployment of the Russian S-300V long-range SAM batteries to Syria is reported to be paid for in advance, years before the Syrian regime came under the FSA war. Also, the troops operating the S-300 batteries are claimed to be Syrian rather not Russian. Thus perhaps when this deployment is destroyed by the IAF like Bibi might have implied in his meeting with Putin earlier today, then there might be no replacement sent for the destroyed batteries, given the shaky and impoverished status of the Syrian regime, likewise supply schedule considerations, aka lead-time, which may take years. Details here: http://essential-intelligence-network.blogspot.com/2013/05/middle-east-on-brink.html
The present deployment of the Russian S-300V long-range SAM batteries to Syria is reported to be paid for in advance, years before the Syrian regime came under the FSA war. Also, the troops operating the S-300 batteries are claimed to be Syrian rather not Russian. Thus perhaps when this deployment is destroyed by the IAF like Bibi might have implied in his meeting with Putin earlier today, then there might be no replacement sent for the destroyed batteries, given the shaky and impoverished status of the Syrian regime, likewise supply schedule considerations, aka lead-time, which may take years. Details here: http://essential-intelligence-network.blogspot.com/2013/05/middle-east-on-brink.html
Putin is not above sending "Volunteers" into Syria as the Chinese did in Korea...
The IAF is going to destroy the S-300 missile system? You must be the new Hasbara Troll. I think Debka already stole your job years ago.
They're there as "co-looters" anybody that thinks otherwise is probably going to get looted.
What makes me laugh is this anti-semitic rhetoric constantly spewed by the pussy Tyler Durden.....
this area of the globe is rapidly approaching peak militarization...
a critical mass of ships, subs, missiles, bombs, guns, planes, tanks and nuclear capabilities.
it's funny, I grew up a child of the cold war, duck and cover drills at school, fallout shelters and mutually assured destruction.I still see some of the sings on buildings, though they are faded from age and barley noticeable now.
of course, after the other half of global polarization went into the tank and the doomsday clock fell out of the public spotlight everybody seemed to forget that the missiles were not discarded or put out of commission . not to mention the ways and means by which they might be delivered has been both diversified and vastly improved since the height of cold war.
now their use is back in the forefront of policy whitepapers and military posturing in both the east and west. there is an undeniable familiarity to all of this to those of us who grew up facing down the soviet nuclear arsenal, the grand chess game of dominance and control over global resources is back on, and once again being played with vast amounts of military assets.
the "war on terror" is quickly drawing to a close, at least as a primary focus of US military policy, though I have no doubt it will still be used to continue to eviscerate our freedoms here in the US. The "pivot to Asia" is a clear indication that the focus is once again on other nations and not shadowy, mythical SPECTUR type organizations run by some middle east version of kaiser soza.
seeing this decades after hiding under a desk during a simulated nuclear attack, I can't help but wonder...
did MAD of ages past save the world, or was it really always just a matter of time?
BOOM. Curtains close.
Laugh all you want at NOD's weaponry, until one of these bad boys sinks your aircraft carrier...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shkval
Why do you assume that seeing that would not make us laugh even harder?
It did look like a big wine bottle.
These could be effective weapons in a littoral context akak, very noisy marine environs favour SSKs and the extremely busy/noisy Persian Gulf and Arabian sea are ideal for close-quarters approaches. As I understand it the Iranians can deploy these from small fast-attack surface craft as well as subs. I've seen a video of them launching one like that and it works. Range as far as 15 km max. Even if unguided that's a dangerous torpedo, if launched in numbers from multi-axis fast-attack craft assaults. They would of course not be used first (unless pre-emptive). The Iranian 300 km range anti-ship ballistic missiles, thousands of ASMs, and mines would degrade and drive a fleet first, then waves of follow-up attacks to finish it off could involve the use of these weapons. Proper tactical coordinated employment of the whole range of weapons stands a good chance of achieving major success, and they have been thinking about and training for this, for 30 years. Personally I wouldn't want to find out if these torpedos work as advertised.
Is the USN going to risk that?
They knowingly let Pearl Harbor happen to get WWII rolling proper.
Or one of these.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-N-22
Glad to see i'm not the only one that seems to know about the Sunburn.
Yes, but did the Russians bring perogies.
If they didn't they turn that fucking "wash tub" right around and go back home and bring some with them next time they visit.
This is how Putin does a Cypriot ATM withdrawal.
Cyprus gold mysteriously disappears. Cyprus, overnight, adopts the gold backed Yuan/Ruble.
So we're in for some warm holidays then?
war is good for GDP remember............................
Soon enough, Russia will have 12 ships in the Mediterranean... and they will probably send submarines...
While Israel sent a message directly to Moscow for Assad saying : if Syria retaliates in any kind to our future strikes, we will annihilate them...
Will Israel start WW3 with their paranoid BULLSHIT?? Probably.
The subs are already there, have been for years.
Re Russia Moves Pacific Fleet To Med
Best news I've heard in a long, long time.
(No doubt if Hillary - The Bimbo Of Benghazi - was still Sec Of State, she'd be advising, as a counter-move, that the US Med. Fleet set sail for the Pacific )
Making the area safe for gas development.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3048/russia_s_new_middle_east_ener...
Remember in the first gulf war when an chinese (silkworm maybe?) low flying radar evading missile hit a kuwaiti shopping mall? If the shooting starts, expect ships to be lost.
That said, I doubt anything will happen. It's 1984 bitches. Pretty soon they'll be parading russian and chinese captured soldiers around to remind us of why it's too dangerous to have any freedoms.
"got oil?" idiots. commodities are in a bear market everyone knows that, the charts and CNBC say so.