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Russia's Newest Military Base In Europe Will Be Just 40km From NATO Facilities In Cyprus
"We want to avoid further deterioration in relations between Russia and Europe," explained Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades upon reportedly signing an agreement to offer Russia military facilities on its soil (that we noted previously). The air force base at which Russian planes will use is about 40 kilometers from Britain's sovereign Air Force base at Akrotiri, on the south shores of Cyprus, which provides support to NATO operations in the Middle and Near East regions. As fault lines within the EU widen, Anastasiades said in his interview that Cyprus opposes additional sanctions against Russia by the European Union over Ukraine, "Cyprus and Russia enjoy traditionally good relations and that is not going to change."
Keep your friends close... and enemies closer?
Cyprus will offer Russia military facilities on its soil, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday.
In an interview with a local newspaper, Anastasiades said that a pact strengthening defense relations between the two countries will be signed when he visits Moscow on Feb. 25.
"There is an old (defense) agreement which is to be renewed as it is. At the same time, some additional facilities will be provided just like we do with other countries - France and Germany for example," Anastasiades said.
Cyprus is currently providing facilities to French planes, such as refueling and maintenance at an air force base near the western city of Paphos and port facilities to German ships supporting the United Nations peace operations in Lebanon.
The air force base at which Russian planes will use is about 40 kilometers from Britain's sovereign Air Force base at Akrotiri, on the south shores of Cyprus, which provides support to NATO operations in the Middle and Near East regions.
Cyprus and Russia traditionally enjoy close relations based on cultural ties and a common religious tradition.
Russia has been one of the main supporters of Cyprus in its decades old dispute with Turkey, providing both political and military support in the form of arms sales.
Anastasiades said in his interview that Cyprus opposes additional sanctions against Russia by the European Union over Ukraine.
"We want to avoid further deterioration in relations between Russia and Europe," said Anastasiades.
He added that a positive aspect is that many countries within the European Union are feeling the same way, supporting the diplomatic way rather than additional sanctions against Russia.
"Cyprus and Russia enjoy traditionally good relations and that is not going to change," Anastasiades said.
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close enough for snowball fights
maybe it can be minimized to that.
Gonna raise the price of hookers big time though..
Will Be Just 40km From NATO
Great....they can have weekend icecream socials.
40 km is only two rounds of 18 holes of golf -
and I betcha Oblamo doesn't even walk. He probably has the cart driven right up to the green -
He probably drove ON the green. Former golf course superintendent speaking here. No one ever stays on the cart path.
SPALDING!!!
It'd be easier on Obama's (golf) game, if Cuba offered a naval base near Gitmo.
Even better, if Venezuela offered a base to Russia or China. That would get the gaggle of Pentagram hawks flapping.
Gitmo is a naval base
It'd be easier on Obama's (golf) game, if Cuba offered a naval base near Gitmo.
Even better, if Venezuela offered a base to Russia or China. That would get the gaggle of Pentagram hawks flapping.
I just noticed the double-post. Sorry.
But to clarify (for the record): I meant "if Cuba offered Russia a naval base near Gitmo..."
late p.s.
...it would help Barry's golf game, as he and Vlad could just sort it out on the gold course. ;-)
"40 km is only two rounds of 18 holes of golf -
and I betcha Oblamo doesn't even walk. He probably has the cart driven right up to the green - "
Damn, the course you play must have some long par fives!
Sex not war!!!
This is more of a gain for Russia, than it is a game changer strategically.
Cyprus must be snickering, after the "fiscal waterboarding" they got.
Practically eyeball to eyeball, in military terms.
Expect there will be a few Greeks flying out of windows.....
Howdy, neighborsky!
The list of countries isolating themselves from the global community just keeps on growing.
Everyone needs to pay attention at just how isolated Russia is in the "international community."
So you have Germany and France changing side's and joining Russia because they have seen war and are not going to do that again in thier own country's , Cyprus is going Russan .So all you have left is the UK and America against nearly everyone , well that should work out just peachy.
If Germany is dumb enough to side with Putin after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact they deserve everything they get. I doubt Putin could find the prison space for all the homosexuals, transvestites and jews roaming around Berlin last time I was there.
But you know the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact worked perfectly well for Germany and Russia. Till that stupid idiot Hitler broke that treaty. A real German-Russian alliance would be a game-changer. But there still too many on the payrole of the US empire in the German elite today, so this will take some time.
Dont forget the pussy canadians.
RIPS
William, time for the 4 gunmen poster..that was iconic and dead on.
Never bring a golf club to a knife fight...
Is that a sand wedge?
WB, I wonder if Bath House is being forced into starting a war with Russia.
The US would be wiped out.
Russia would be able to withstand a hard strike, although badly damaged.
great right-on post.
If Russia were to involve itself in a war with the West I'm pretty certain an opportunist China would start feeling expansionist, and might find support from the US should a few T-Bills meet their fate in a shredder.
The golf club is pristine......perhaps a doobie hanging off the lip next time?
Stop insulting the weed.
RIPS
Well, it did not take long for this to be squashed. It is being reported, after the reactions from the US/NATO/EU, that there is NO agreement to have Russia place bases in Cyprus. They should have stood their ground, instead they have been bitch slapped once again.
"But Mr Kasoulides dismissed the leasing claim, saying "there has never been any request from Russia about this", the Cyprus News Agency CNA reported.
He said President Anastasiades was referring to "the renewal of a military co-operation agreement with Russia consisting of maintenance of military equipment sold to Cyprus years ago, as well as the purchase of spare parts according to existing contracts"."
Not a strong move or resolve by either participant. I doubt Greece will fare any better.
Great.... our guys can get together and share a beer.. or vodka...
... why is the UK base so close to LIMeyASShOLe? ... :)
It's close to 'Circle of Limacon'.
mate
Time for Russia to offer help for the PIIGS to exit the Euro. Have them dump NATO.
Russian payback for sanctions.
The huge weakness for the western banksters is debt and auserity.
Time for Putin to win this chess game.
Then derivatives blow up.
Then derivatives blow up
may god show mercy upon the american sheeple as the bank accounts, 401(k)s, pensions, etc. get 'corzined'.
An open lobby by Vlad for such an event would be a threat.
He must be seen up front and behind closed doors as not threatening such a move.
Could he refuse a direct request for aid by Greece? Maybe not. But he sure as hell does not want to encourage them to knock on the door.
The best bet to maintain the peace is for Russia to do what it has been doing, taking care of itself and defending itself.
1- Russia cannot be invaded successfully.
2- Russia can by patience lead the way back to non-confrontation.
3- Any country who tries to attack Russia by any means could be eliminated in 30 minutes.
YES! YES! DUMP EU! DUMP NATO! DUMP THE LYING, THEAVING BANKS!
Renew on Carousel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnLU9nyFSA
And go to similar thieving banks called Monetska instead of BofA ? Same thing different wrapper.
The things that plague all of humanity are debt, central banks, interest, fractional reserve banking etc. It doesn't matter what language you use to describe them. The problem is the same.
Must be interesting to watch the scenes in front of the discoteques where the poor bastards of these war machines meet...
It is amazing what money can buy you. The EU needs to simply break up. It is completely incompetent with countries like Greece and Cyrpus in it. Germany needs to form a political union with Poland, The Netherlands, Austria, etc and let everyone else fend for themselves.
"Germany needs to form a political union with Poland, The Netherlands, Austria, etc and let everyone else fend for themselves."
Great! Please let us rest of Europe escape Reichskanzlerin Merkel and her awful minions.
I still think a base in the Aegean from Greece could be on deck......
Buddies like to stay close
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Businesses are beholden to money and give fuckall about loyalty to country....
All's quite on the Western Front..conflict in the north now pivot in the south, almost like a chess board.
Putin's military has gamed this strategy in planning how to carve up the US EU NATO goose.
I am sure the mulatto, thinks about this while golfing ..hmm get it in the hole, "don't count that."
The best way to avoid a nuclear war is to have both Russian and NATO nuclear war heads next to each other on adjoining bases. Then they both will realize that if one base goes up in smoke so will the other. Net result? No nuclear attacks.
Sadly men are rarely so logical. Close enough for "accidents".
Not a bad idea.
Last year I saw some Russian stuff. Can't say where, but their quality has gone up.
That overflight of the Cook was never denied or replied by the USG.
Now, shutting down 1 boat is easy compared to a squadron. There are navy guys more savvy than me on this, I worked in ELINT for another branch, but the RF has come up with some new toys.
In fact, while the US Forces have been going thru the grinder overseas, and depleting men and material, the RF has been building their stocks back up. They had a bad period after the USSR collapsed. Back then, their military was pretty spotty. Not so now, but they have not been demanding territory as Hitler did before WW2. To compare Vlad to Adolf is silly.
As Tsipras stated that the first country he will visit will be Cyprus, everything shows that we may see in future the shaping of the geopolitical triangle of Greece-Cyprus-Russia, containing common interests in the fields of economy, security and energy.
This is a huge Game Changer.
Conspiracy theory time. Merkel from the old E Germany is a mole who is dusting off the old Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement
(Nazi–Soviet Pact) and this time Putin is going to promise to honor it,
Why is the msm today full of stories that Vlad may 'threaten other Baltic states?'
As an amateur student of history and having been in those parts of the world I cannot find any solid signals of any intention by Russia to 'threaten other Baltic states.'
This is stuff similar to the 19th century etc. Russia will not give up Crimea, but the west wants them to abandon it.
Sorry, but all I can come up with is an excuse by certain 'powers' to abscond with Ukr using Russia as a threat.
IF Rusia wanted to, their army could way have long ago blitzkrieged the whole area.
Other opinions???
The liberal media has to make Putin to be a bad guy. So trump up BS.
Spot on LC55...
Putin can't be trusted. Cyprus will regret getting in bed with this monster. The longer Obama neglects his duties as leader of the free world the more dangerous this world will become. Obama needs to wake up.
Now that is funny! Obummer... the leader of the "free" world!
ROFL!
Haha, +1. Back Door is the Leader of the Free Homosex movement.
Immediately Putin is put on the defensive. Russia doesn't want a war with anyone. Victoria Nuland and the Obama admin want a war with Russia. The Liberals have to turn focus of their problems to Russia.
First by hitting Russia with sanctions and then with low oil prices. All to back Russia into a corner and fight back.
Pay attention. Putin is the aggressor. It was Putin who interfered in Ukraine. Russia wants to expand its power and influence at the expense of its neighbors. Russia has a long, long history of engaging in such barbarism, which is why there neighbors are frightened to death of them. And what is Obama doing in all of this? He is fiddling while Europe burns.
I know there is a strong anti-American sentiment among many who frequent this site. But a world without America is a dark, dark place. Putin is just a modern day Hitler, Mao or Stalin. He needs to be challenged and defeated.
This is a must view interview for everyone.
http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/07/garry-kasparov-master-chess-player-spe...
useless talkings
There's them and us.....and us ain't them.
>> useless talkings
No shit...
He needs to take his bleatings to a crowd that doesn't have any capacity to discern.
I don't see any anti-american stuff. Most here seem love their country and its people. Most also think that the incompetent, greedy motherfuckers who have taken over the republic need to be bitch slapped into oblivion. And you too.
Idiot! How many countries has Putin bombed or droned in the last fifteen years? Who then is the aggressor?
Retard alert! Retard alert!
Pay attention. This started with US aggression back in 2007-2008. Even an undergrad level foreign relations survey of US-Russia relations or NATO history would cover the relevant material.
You need some more adult reading material. I have provided various links many times before.
Garry Kasparov? Uh, no thanks, not exactly reliable material.
Clinton, Bush, and Obama are each responsible for more civilian deaths than Putin.
The peoples of eastern Ukraine voted for seperation. The west attacked. Putin supplies the underdog defenders.
I, at least, am not anti-American. I am anti-DC/NYC.
You seem to be pro-DC/NYC and therefore anti-American.
Lastly, I approve of Obama just fiddling. It isn't his or our business. The less he does the better. I think 70% of pro-American Americans would prefer to see the President of the US of America actually DO something about our southern border... you know, our land, our business.
Okay, I lied. This is last. Screw you shillboy.
Yet he is the one outside of Ukraine who is waging war. his war started before sanction and lower oil price.
Do you mean like bombing Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Mali, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, and Somalia?
What? Those don't count because they are brown people? Screw you, you racist progressive piece of shit.
Go practice some reading comprehension.
The post above said putin didn't want war. I pointed out the fact that Russia is the only party outside of Ukraine that is actively engaged in warfare.
Hasbara troll #578, it looks like you are lost. I think that short bus that dropped you off meant to leave you at the AIPAC site called "freerepublic.com".
This is the "ZeroHedge.com" site.
Nice to read an article without a single mention of US "opinion, position or alleged facts".
Well, I don't know.
Both sides have done some dirty work
But those who live in that area do remember what it was like under Communism.
The world is changing, looks like sides are being chosen for them.
The only airfield I can find near this city is an international airport (tourist) with Cypriot Air Force shelters. So the Russians will help the Greeks and be located at a (Greek Cypriot) airfield while the Russians also pony up with the Turks on their gas pipeline. Gonna get me a villa on the Turkish side of the island so when the borders come down on a unified island all will be well. It's a really great place to vacation especially up in the mountains near the monestaries.
This is a giant Piss-Off (angry for you Brits).
Bath House already admitted the US overthrew the Ukr govt.
Next, they paint Putin as Hitler.
Hitler went after territory after territory until his hunger led him to war for more territory.
Comparing Putin to Hitler is not just stupid, it is absurd.
The USA serfs need to get somebody with common sense, not controlled by International Termites into the WH.
"The USA serfs need to get somebody with common sense"
The serfs will never pick that person.
The EU appears to have postponed a decision about new sanctions against Russia. Interesting.
Another power plant to explode soon ?
The way things are going, peace might break out.
That would send the Dow down to about where it belongs, like 7200 or so.
LMAO - poor dumb black muslim
One by One they jump off the ZERO train - they dont even mention that border free North American country. Everything in the news has the phrase "Russia and Europe"
He has not only become a failure but an abysmal failure by global historical proportions....
What if Putin somehow manages to solve the issue of divided Cyprus? He's good with Turkey and Greece, too. Turkey could trade northern part for gas, southern part is where Russian (and few Ukrainian) oligarchs keep their money. He he :-)
Edited to add: All of your base are belong to us.
NATO confiscates a bunch of drums of explosives being shipped to the ME area,and parks them out in the sun right next to a brand new power plant on Cyprus.
What could possibly go wrong?
The EU forces the Cypriot banks to eat a bunch of toxic Greek Gov. bonds.What could possibly go wrong?
If I were a Cypriot I would seriously question the competency of EU leadership at this point.
Ukraine civil war--> Gas lines Syrian civil war---> Gas lines from Qatar.
I once lived down under and I can state emphatically that countries like Oz are getting tired of being dumping grounds
refugees from countries bombed to the stone age,Europe,Africa,Asia......
Try living in a Syrian red cross refugee camp in the middle of winter.
These wars didn't just happen.They were planned,and designed,and arms were provided.
It is time to end this crap show.The world needs less instability.
I used to laugh mildly when americans made fun of their "white trash". Then the ukraine conlift opened my eyes Russians. Prior to this my experience with Russians were the few I worked or studied with. I didn't realize how scewed my image was. Those people represent the fine decoration of a giant white trash cake that is the east. When Russia opens the naval base in Cyprus, it won't refined people entering. Luckily for cyprus I guess it will just be a joke of a base anyway.
These crazy troll attempts are futile. Why you bother to spit this bullshit here?
you , nazis, keep it quite simple.
So you are racist and elitest. Nice to know. I hope we never meet as I would have to change sides of the street rather than throw up on you.
Don't let a car with concerned citizens hit you on the way over.
double
Meanwhile today in Kiev:
The mob is after world champion boxer and Kiev Mayor Klitchko, and his guard gets it heavy on the nose.
http://youtu.be/XRN3LRdP0io
Hey Syria, it was nice knowin' ya!
Should be interesting.
We'll now see GCHQ and Russians spying on each other given that the UK has a GCHQ spy base in Cyprus which spies on the Middle East. GCHQ was responsible for crashing the Internet between Asia<->Europe several years ago when it sent subs down to hack into the seabed cables.
They are so close to each other now, the generals can just glower at each other over the fence. Let's see, Russia, GCHQ, NATO, who else?
Good for Cyprus. Hopefully this will keep the hot-doggers from straying low over the towns. Hopefully Cyprus is hitting both sides for some steep rents.
This should give Vlad an Mediterranean aircraft carrier almost as big as BHO's.
Re The air force base at which Russian planes will use is about 40 kilometers from Britain's sovereign Air Force base at Akrotiri...
Yap, Yap, Yap, Yip.. Yap! - The sound of the British Poodle expressing its displeasure