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Russia Ready To Send Paratroopers To Syria
As Syria’s civil war enters its fourth year, it’s become something of an open secret that ISIS, for all their bluster and Hollywood-level video editing capabilities, are at best an unhappy side effect of efforts to train and arm the Syrian resistance and at worst, are a "strategic asset" funded and supported by coalition governments.
In other words, there is indeed a geopolitical chess match going on here that will have far-reaching consequences when the blood and dust settle, but it has nothing to do with ISIS’ far-fetched quest to establish a Medieval caliphate and everything to do with installing a government in Syria that will be more friendly to the interests of the West and its Middle Eastern allies.
ISIS will remain in play as long as they are necessary, but once the time comes for the US to clean up the mess left by Syria’s three-front war once and for all, that will be all she wrote for this particular CIA asset. Until then, everyone apparently gets to use Islamic State as an excuse to pursue their own political agenda, as evidenced by Turkey’s new war on "terrorists." Not wanting to miss an opportunity to justify what would otherwise be a rather brash declaration, Russia is reportedly ready to send in the paratroopers should Syria request Moscow’s help in battling terrorist elements. Here’s more via Tass:
The Russian Airborne Troops are ready to assist Syria in countering terrorists, if such a task is set by Russia’s leaders, commander of the Airborne Troops Colonel-General Vladimir Shamanov told reporters on Tuesday.
(USSR paratroopers ca. 1975)
"Of course we will execute the decisions set forth by the country’s leadership, if there is a task at hand," Shamanov said, in response to a Syrian reporter’s question about the readiness of the Russian Airborne Troops to render assistance to Syria’s government in its battle against terrorism.
Shamanov noted that Russia and Syria have "long-term good relations." "Many Syrian experts, including military, received education in the Soviet Union and in Russia," Shamanov added.
In other words, two (or three, or four) can play at the "use ISIS as an excuse to go to war with our real enemies" game and just like the US can send in trainers and "forward spotters" to protect its interests in Iraq, so too can Russia send in a few airborne troops to protect its interests in Damascus.
It’s now only a question of political will and as we’ve outlined on a few occasions recently, it’s not entirely clear how much longer Vladimir Putin is willing to support Bashar al-Assad in the face of the debilitating, Saudi-engineered slump in crude prices and the biting economic sanctions imposed on the Kremlin by Europe.
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The same fools who reject Obama's bullshit are all in for smoking Putin's Hopium. He is not coming to Assad's aid.
NASA's fraud: The thirty billion dollar scam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxFWF8NPOio
Ataturk abolished the 'Caliphate' in Post War [Ottoman Empire] War I!
He abolished Islam as the States religion. The Fez was also shit-canned.
Women were not required to wear 'Hijabs'...!
He loved American democracy as he did the European's way of life.
Here are famous quotes from Turkey's greatest hero--
http://www.allaboutturkey.com/ata_speech.htm
Lastly, Ataturk was pissed that Iraq got Mosul! So much so he threatened to bring about war. But, afterall... it was Mosul that the English and French started WWI to begin with?
Haha, Pravda is insulting The Bath House:
"Once this act by the Nobel Peace Prize winning imbecile begins, the next probable step by the POTUS will be to declare a No-Fly zone over entire Syria. Well of course knowing well that the Russians and Chinese would veto this at the UN, the US may declare a unilateral NFZ.Hence at this stage it is extremely important that Russia supplies the dreaded S-300 series anti-aircraft missiles to Syria. President Assad is very vulnerable now. If he falls by the ugly machinations of the West, this nation which is the most progressive one in the region, will fall into an abyss just like Iraq and Libya have in the not too distant past."
The photo is awesome, those Russkies don't even need 'chutes!
Uh oh!
A unilateral NFZ + S-300 missiles looks like a serious face-off.
Putin to Turkish ambassador:
"..then tell your dictator president he can go to hell along with his ISIL terrorist and I shall make Syria to nothing but a 'Big Stalingrad', for Erdo?an and his Saudi allies are no vicious than Adolf Hitler," replied Vladimir Putin in the 2-hour closed door meeting with Turkish emissary."
"How hypocrite is your president as he advocates democracy and lambasts the military coup d'état in Egypt," added Putin, "And he simultaneously condones all terrorist activities aimed to overthrow Syrian president."
"The Russian president continued by saying that his country won't abandon Syrian legitimate administration and will cooperate with its allies, namely Iran and China, to find a political solution to Syria's interminable civil war which descended the 23-million Arab nation to an utter ethnic and religious anarchy."
The "no fly zone" will turn in to a "no no fly zone" pretty soon
I saw that article on Veterans Today, but Duff cited a link to Moscow Times that now does not exist. Also no visit noted on the Kremlin website and I cannot find a whisper about this on other news blogs or mainstream sites. Possible trial balloon? Or is somebody trying to discredit Veterans Today?
Trying to figure out the schizophrenic/multiple personality disorder demonstrated by the Tyler(s)...
In this article I'm reading about the "Saudi-engineered slump in crude prices...."
Then, fucking flip me on my head, I'm reading about deflationary pressures on commodities...
I suppose it could be both, and I'm beginning to accept that, but the other two of me have arguments.
I can only imagine the Jews were getting the nukes ready.
They are gonna get the same treatment they got exactly 2000 years back. But this time - radiation.
Those who live by swords - die by swords
Those who live by bullets- die by bullets
Those who live by nukes ....
Mr. Putin is not falling for this trap: Russia not planning to send troops to fight ISIS in Syria – Putin’s spokesman
You can be pretty sure the very moment ISIS carry out a terrorist attack into Russian soil this will be the end of Washington DC and everyone supporting ISIS.
Like Chechnya and Afghanistan?
President of Turkey Tayyip Erdogan wishes to "establish" a "buffer and no-fly zone" inside of Syria to function as a staging area for multinational coup forces to destroy the Syrian government of president Bashar al-Assad. Russia said "No". So what can the Russians do about this? Simple:
If it gets established, bomb it to fine dust with missiles from Sukhoi Su-34s. Fueled by Ilyushin Il-78s and protected by Sukhoi Su-35s. That will be the end of that.
Maybe, but that would be an attack on a NATO member...
I doubt Russia is eager to just completely abandon their only Mideast Naval Base despite attacks by Israel.
the whole situation either with the sanction bullshit and/or the currency manipulation...
Movin movin movin. Keep dem banksters jumpin
Putin.
"United States ready to unleash nuclear weapons on itself."
Yea, anyone can be ready for anything. Doesn't mean Russia is going to do shit just because some army division is ready. What a non-article.
no need for Russia to send paratroopers--
just send Kadyrov over to advise and assist Assad
I don't think it's a good idea
https://youtu.be/AAzves3yu54?t=4m58s
:D
No one cares what a fucktard Nazi like you thinks.
Import replacement. Self-sufficiency. The classical Russian endurance to hardship. Spiritual values. Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov doesn’t have time for any of these things. See all that patriotic bullshit is for ordinary Russians, not the elite. The elite gets to have weddings in an elite hotel where rooms start at $580 a night. The elite gets to wear watches worth over half a million dollars, in spite of their far lower official salary. The children of the elite, like Peskov’s daughter, prefer to live abroad, in the decadent West. It matches their lifestyle, after all.
In my early years in Russia this kind of thing wasn’t too shocking. I mean sure, the idea of a watch whose value could buy several decent houses in the US is by itself shocking, but in the glory days of Putin’s Russia, or better said the Golden Age of Medvedev the Great, such a watch would simply be a drop in a vast sea of conspicuous, dick-waving opulence. At the time I used to find the flaunting of such staggering income inequality to be highly offensive. If only I could have known what was coming.
In those days, the elite might have flaunted their power via yachts or diamond-encrusted skis, but they were so secure in their positions at the national trough that they didn’t care as to ordinary people’s reactions. Though the media was still largely controlled by Putin, the internet was practically liberated territory, and people spoke openly and freely about corruption. They didn’t necessarily do anything about it, but they at least felt totally free to express their opinions. To be honest they had good reasons- the glut of wealth from high oil prices and foreign investment meant that they too enjoyed a higher standard of living than they were used to, and thus it seemed like there was a sort of unspoken social contract between the government and the Russian people: “Don’t actually bother us or stand in our way, and you can do whatever you want, or whatever you can get away with.”
Now that situation has changed. While Putin displays a stunning lack of foresight and is clearly oblivious to material reality, his fire-from-the-hip actions in Ukraine have given him something he sorely needed- a seemingly real conflict with the West on which he can offload all the problems for which he or his system bear responsibility. Suddenly people who should know better have started mouthing the regime’s talking points, though they may be 180 degrees the opposite of what they said before. People started pretending like the things they constantly complained about every day for years just stopped. Patriotic propaganda, backed by threats both concrete and implicit, replaced the conspicuous consumerism of the previous years.
Peskov’s watch, at least for a moment, seemed like a dose of cold reality. Not only was it the talk of the Russian internet, but my students spontaneously brought it up in class yesterday evening. It’s really hard to pretend that Russia’s tormentor is the United States when the president’s personal secretary inexplicably possesses so much money to burn. It’s hard to pretend you’re happy limiting your vacations to Russia while the sons and daughters of the elite actually live in New York, Paris, London, or Brussels. Hypocrisy is tolerable when the hypocrites don’t demand your loyalty or submission, but now that’s exactly what’s happening.
None of this should be taken as a sign that mass unrest is spreading in Russia. For one thing, the country has a large elderly population, as well as a large population of middle-aged people who don’t see any change as possible and/or depend entirely on the state for their meager subsistence. These are the types of people who enthusiastically voice their support for Putin, shake their fist at the United States, fervently wish to see Russian armies openly invade Ukraine to drive out the “fascist junta” from Kyiv. They do not have male children of military age, they are ineligible to serve themselves, and they depend on the state, hence they are seemingly insulated from the consequences of these policies.
As a morbid consolation, these people are starting to feel the effect of inflation and cutbacks in medical care, meaning that privation, suffering, and even death might be the steep penalties these folks will have to pay for their refusal to stand up for their rights. Tragic, yes, but the price of such politics must ever be high, lest more people believe they can afford to indulge in them. So while these generations that support the status quo may be more numerous in number, they’re also the type of people most likely to drop like flies as the elite turn the screws of austerity ever tighter.
Where you might see a change is when the younger, internet savvy, more worldly generation starts watching their older relatives suffer and die due to healthcare cutbacks and low pensions unable to keep pace with the rate of inflation. These males are usually able to escape military service themselves, and I doubt that Russia will get so involved in Ukraine as to have dozens of dead and wounded streaming back into the country to create an Iraq War-style spectacle. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the barracks collapse in Omsk killed more Russian soldiers than a week’s worth of combat in the Donbas. On the other hand, virtually all of these younger people have older relatives.
It’s only a matter of time before people start making connections between the money that’s missing from healthcare, education, and infrastructure on one hand, and the massive in-your-face opulence of the elite. How much medicine could Peskov’s watch buy? How many apartments? How many hospitals could be built or at least upgraded for the cost of Yakunin’s massive palatial compound? What could Russia’s citizens have got for the $1.8 billion embezzled from Russia’s space program? And all the while, the recipients of these ill-gotten gains will be lecturing the people on patriotism, enforcing it with the power of the state.
These days anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism is like a veil that gives the appearance of some sort of national unity, but it is a thin veil nonetheless. I’ve seen that by spending a few minutes talking to the most vehement vatniks, they eventually drop the whole act and start complaining about the injustice and corruption they see in their country. Those who weren’t vatniks but adopted the lingo in 2014 do so even more readily. Whether they say it out loud or not, they know. Everyone knows. Russia’s bane isn’t the United States or NATO bases around its periphery. It’s what’s around Peskov’s wrist.
No one reads your fucking bullshit propaganda you goddam imbecile.
I guess sons of bitches like you support overthrowing the SECULAR govt of Assad and replace it with ISIS.
I just saw your same comment in another article. Are you going around cutting and pasting the same irrelevant comment?
Are you a troll sir?
Of course he's a troll. Last summer he posted as freedumb 1,2,3
I've seen a few of these articles and they usually omit the fact that Peskov's fiance got him that watch as a wedding gift - probably a couple of months ago. She is an ex-Olympian skater and makes money starring in ice shows, and she probably earns 3 or 4 times what he makes. His problem going forward will be keeping up with her expenditures on his civil servant salary, plus making sure he discloses her assets as required under the new government disclosure laws.
I think we should stop asking the question, how long will Putin support Assad. Putin is not supporting Assad, he is not paying money to Assad to fight the rebels. Or train Assad fighter. Or air drop supplies. Or bomb the rebels.
The right question is how long can USA and its Middle East allies can continue funding the rebel clowns?
And when will Putin really start supporting Assad. This article gives a good indication it may be on the cards now.
Life gets so exciting....
Putin is the king of keeping his powder dry. People are dying still in Donetzsk every day while Putin diddles.
The US agreement with Iran has tied the beards' hands on Syria.
Assad's only friend is Hezbollah