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Russian Military Forces Arrive In Syria, Set Forward Operating Base Near Damascus

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While military direct intervention by US, Turkish, and Gulf forces over Syrian soil escalates with every passing day, even as Islamic State forces capture increasingly more sovereign territory, in the central part of the country, the Nusra Front dominant in the northwestern region province of Idlib and the official "rebel" forces in close proximity to Damascus, the biggest question on everyone's lips has been one: would Putin abandon his protege, Syria's president Assad, to western "liberators" in the process ceding control over Syrian territory which for years had been a Russian national interest as it prevented the passage of regional pipelines from Qatar and Saudi Arabia into Europe, in the process eliminating Gazprom's - and Russia's - influence over the continent.

As recently as a month ago, the surprising answer appeared to be an unexpected "yes", as we described in detail in "The End Draws Near For Syria's Assad As Putin's Patience "Wears Thin." Which would make no sense: why would Putin abdicate a carefully cultivated relationship, one which served both sides (Russia exported weapons, provides military support, and in exchange got a right of first and only refusal on any traversing pipelines through Syria) for years, just to take a gamble on an unknown future when the only aggressor was a jihadist spinoff which had been created as byproduct of US intervention in the region with the specific intention of achieving precisely this outcome: overthrowing Assad (see "Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad").

As it turns out, it may all have been just a ruse. Because as Ynet reports, not only has Putin not turned his back on Assad, or Syria, but the Russian reinforcements are well on their way. Reinforcements for what? Why to fight the evil Islamic jihadists from ISIS of course, the same artificially created group of bogeyman that the US, Turkey, and Saudis are all all fighting. In fact, this may be the first world war in which everyone is "fighting" an opponent that everyone knows is a proxy for something else.

According to Ynet, Russian fighter pilots are expected to begin arriving in Syria in the coming days, and will fly their Russian air force fighter jets and attack helicopters against ISIS and rebel-aligned targets within the failing state.

And just like the US and Turkish air forces are supposedly in the region to "eradicate the ISIS threat", there can't be any possible complaints that Russia has also decided to take its fight to the jihadists - even if it is doing so from the territory of what the real goal of US and Turkish intervention is - Syria. After all, it is a free for all against ISIS, right?

From Ynet:

According to Western diplomats, a Russian expeditionary force has already arrived in Syria and set up camp in an Assad-controlled airbase. The base is said to be in area surrounding Damascus, and will serve, for all intents and purposes, as a Russian forward operating base.

 

In the coming weeks thousands of Russian military personnel are set to touch down in Syria, including advisors, instructors, logistics personnel, technical personnel, members of the aerial protection division, and the pilots who will operate the aircraft.

The Israeli outlet needless adds that while the current makeup of the Russian expeditionary force is still unknown, "there is no doubt that Russian pilots flying combat missions in Syrian skies will definitely change the existing dynamics in the Middle East."

Why certainly: because in one move Putin, who until this moment had been curiously non-commital over Syria's various internal and exteranl wars, just made the one move the puts everyone else in check: with Russian forces in Damascus implicitly supporting and guarding Assad, the western plan instantly falls apart.

It gets better: if what Ynet reports is accurate, Iran's brief tenure as Obama's BFF in the middle east is about to expire:

Western diplomatic sources recently reported that a series of negotiations had been held between the Russians and the Iranians, mainly focusing on ISIS and the threat it poses to the Assad regime. The infamous Iranian Quds Force commander Major General Qasem Soleimani recently visited Moscow in the framework of these talks. As a result the Russians and the Iranians reached a strategic decision: Make any effort necessary to preserve Assad's seat of power, so that Syria may act as a barrier, and prevent the spread of ISIS and Islamist backed militias into the former Soviet Islamic republics.

See: the red herring that is ISIS can be used just as effectively for defensive purposes as for offensive ones. And since the US can't possibly admit the whole situation is one made up farce, it is quite possible that the world will witness its first regional war when everyone is fighting a dummy, proxy enemy which doesn't really exist, when in reality everyone is fighting everyone else!

That said, we look forward to Obama explaining the American people how the US is collaborating with the one mid-east entity that is supporting not only Syria, but now is explicitly backing Putin as well.

It gets better: Ynet adds that "Western diplomatic sources have emphasized that the Obama administration is fully aware of the Russian intent to intervene directly in Syria, but has yet to issue any reaction... The Iranians and the Russians- with the US well aware- have begun the struggle to reequip the Syrian army, which has been left in tatters by the civil war. They intend not only to train Assad's army, but to also equip it. During the entire duration of the civil war, the Russians have consistently sent a weapons supply ship to the Russian held port of Tartus in Syria on a weekly basis. The ships would bring missiles, replacement parts, and different types of ammunition for the Syrian army."

Finally, it appears not only the US military-industrial complex is set to profit from the upcoming war: Russian dockbuilders will also be rewarded:

Arab media outlets have recently published reports that Syria and Russia were looking for an additional port on the Syrian coast, which will serve the Russians in their mission to hasten the pace of the Syrian rearmament.

If all of the above is correct, the situation in the middle-east is set to escalate very rapidly over the next few months, and is likely set to return to the face-off last seen in the summer of 2013 when the US and Russian navies were within earshot of each other, just off the coast of Syria, and only a last minute bungled intervention by Kerry avoided the escalation into all out war. Let's hope Kerry has it in him to make the same mistake twice.

 

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Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:53 | 6494419 DuneCreature
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Damn few will live that long.

~ DC

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:08 | 6495136 nevertheless
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Sorry but your statement is so fucking wrong, It is NOT the kids of today that have allowed millions upon millions of illegal Aliens into this country, or allowed NAFTA CAFTA and "Most Favored Nation" status to China...We have accepted war after war, bankrupting our children's future.

 

Your comment is the quintessential mentality of America, fuck everything up, and blame it on someone else, in this case, America's kids.

 

You take away their opportunity, make them have to compete with the Chinese and Mexican workers, and you call THEM dumb...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 05:36 | 6494244 css1971
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Your enemy is not a person or people. It's an idea and a perception.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:01 | 6495120 nevertheless
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But that "idea or perception" is CONTRIVED by a people/person, and in our case that would be zionists.

 

It is a message they put into every aspect of media and entertainmnet.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 06:45 | 6494310 Wahooo
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So true. I'm saddened when I read comments on a lot of news articles. People just want war over there. Neocons have done a thorough job of creeping into our politicis annd media. All the talk show hosts are neocons and their foolish followers are everywhere.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:42 | 6494388 Omega_Man
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time is ripe to restore the constitution. Just need the right leader to appear. Prob not Trump, but who knows. Trump and Sanders are certainly sounding anti evil Zio.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:56 | 6495091 nevertheless
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What Obama demonstrated was how easily we could be fooled...the whole nation was beleiving in "change", and we just got more of the same. But more to the point, all of America, especially his followers accepted the fact that he just gave us more of the same. Shows that perception is more powerful than reality.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:26 | 6495254 Pliskin
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I believe Kanye West just announced he is running for President in 2016.

Could the U.S. be any MORE of a joke in the International community?

It certainly could.  Imagine Kim K and her fat, old ass, parading around the world as America's First Lady.

 

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:16 | 6494937 Freddie
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Americans are morons maniplutaed by TV and Hollywood. They are too stupid to turn it off.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:53 | 6495079 nevertheless
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You are correct, but when you control information, you control the people. Americans are so naive, any crime of the government, or its masters can easily be waved off as a “conspiracy theory”.

 

When you look at 9/11, even from the most reasonable mind, it is full of questionable accounts that should have been more closely looked at. But the primary reason to be sure 9/11 was a constructed event, was how the powers that be used it to their villainous ends.

 

The media/entertainment industry (zionist/Jewish contrived reality) have always framed the discussion, but the internet is starting to change that. I don’t watch TV at all anymore, so tired of the lies and the propaganda. The real question is, how long will they let us have the internet if they see it as a threat, JFK did not last long…

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 04:24 | 6494178 danepol
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"That said, we look forward to Obama explaining the American people how the US is collaborating with the one mid-east entity that is supporting not only Syria, but now is explicitly backing Putin as well." The Obama boys, hopelessly weak, naieve and outsmarted, prepared to abandon the US' traditional allies in order to sweeten her enemies but achieving precisley the opposite.


 


Tue, 09/01/2015 - 05:01 | 6494206 Lea
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I was wondering what was keeping Putin. The Tartus military base, the gas, old-standing loyalty... there was no way on Earth Putin was going to let Assad down.
Whoever thought he would was only seeing things.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 05:28 | 6494236 BurningBetty
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Putin is simply playing the oldest trick in the book. One trick that the US and Obama will never be able to play simply because Zionists have their agenda and need to push through in order to achieve their goals, and it seems they aren't backing down. This leads to the old adage of laying still and pretending you are docile while in reality you are waiting for your opponent to make a foolish mistake in order for you to strike. Now scale this from a predator and it's prey onto the world stage of geopolitics and you can immediately see how Obomba, and his merry fellowship of the Pentagon and DC, consistently paint themselves into one corner after the other. Putin has now so many strategically superior moves over Obomba you have to wonder how much more Obomba can endure being on all four. In one end he has the Zionist cock in his mouth, in the other he is being stuffed by the Russians. 

Where is williambanzai to immortalize this in a drawing...just for us ZHs!  

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 16:36 | 6494972 Freddie
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Russian Bear.  The bear is a cute, supposedly stupid, roly poly clownish animal who looks good natured and looks for honey and open garbage cans.  Slow, lumbering and foolish animals.  Sleeps all winter like a "lazy" bear.

Two seconds later he can chase you down running 30 mph and one swipe he can rip your head or balls off.  You leave him alone and he is not a problem.  Keep poking him and bothering him then you have big trouble.

I like bears and respect Russians.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 05:28 | 6494237 onmail
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Mabbe America will drop stinger missile to ISIS
and later say
oops

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 06:47 | 6494309 Dickweed Wang
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Mabbe America will drop stinger missile to ISIS and later say oops

 

It's already much worse than that!!  From http://veteranstoday.com:

Veterans Today has in its possession indisputable evidence of US corporations involved in trafficking NATO arms intended for Ukraine to ISIS.  Our people in Georgia, include a former US military officer.

Veterans Today has discovered a “ratline” moving NATO weapons, including first line TOW anti-tank missiles, intended for the Kiev regime in Ukraine, to ISIS.

The players are Bechtel Corporation and British Petroleum who supplies trucks and security personnel. Drivers are furnished by Turkish intelligence.  A parallel ratline moves Jihadists from Russia, through Georgia and into Turkey and onto ISIS and Al Qaeda.

 

The entire article can be found here:

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/08/31/a-warning-for-those-who-have-ear...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:29 | 6494977 Freddie
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Knowing the crooked and evil scum in Kiev - they probably sold those supplies.

Remember Iran Contra and other gun running BS.  Now it just happens without a peep.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 06:05 | 6494271 mog
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There are a bunch of islamic paper Brits over there murdering christians and muslim alike.

Jihad John of the beheading videos is one.

David Cameron our self imposed Prime Minister - who has no popular mandate to govern - just hijacked the country on a minority - won't touch these so called British terrorist either abroad or in Britain.

He is letting them pour in by the thousand.

So Mr Putin You will be doing the British people a service - although pro islam Cameron will make a snot - you can kill as many of the 'British' contingents of these terrorist bastards in as great a number as you can.

You will be saving British lives in the medium term.

Thanks for getting in there and tackling islamic terror.

The EUSSR won't.

They are getting 10,000 -20,000 a week and telling us we have to have them.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:52 | 6495073 dsty
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It is not just a finacial crisis we have to face

it is a world wide Jihad

Muslims scattered thru out the world

we all better lose or passive stance

or we will be sitting ducks

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:16 | 6495192 Pliskin
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I see where you're coming from, but I don't think Cameron is Pro-Islam, he's simply following orders.

In his first year as Prime minister he met with Mordecai Murdoch 25 times (Usually aboard Murdochs private yacht) This is a fact as it was questioned in parliament at PMQ's.  When Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister he was given 25 million pound by Newscorp, Murdochs media arm...for what? 

For following orders, the same orders that Cameron was given.

Murdoch is best friends forever with Ehud Olmert, both have the same ideology which is;

1)  Kill as many Muslims in the ME to make room for 'Greater Israel'.

2)  Move as many Muslims in the ME into Northern Europe to make room for 'Greater Israel'.

This is the agenda of the Zio-Nazis, and any politician who won't conform to this will NEVER hold a position of power in ANY European country.

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 14:08 | 6496140 farflungstar
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1)  Kill as many Muslims in the ME to make room for 'Greater Israel'.

2)  Move as many Muslims in the ME into Northern Europe to make room for 'Greater Israel'.

Meanwhile In the EU and USSA the cucks wring their hands about this manufactured immigrant "crisis" when it was clear all along what Ziocunts infecting govts. were up to.

this kind of immigration is fucking mass exodus

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 16:39 | 6496979 Freddie
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Check Cameron's wiki ino.  He and his family have been working for the Rothschilds for 200 or more years.  He is half tribe and his family's business has been raising capital for wars.  Wars being the mass murder of innocent people.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 06:10 | 6494279 1stepcloser
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Time to see what those F35s can't do...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 06:21 | 6494286 smacker
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Must be time for Obola to send in a few squadrons of F35 fighter jets.

That'll show them there Russians he means business...

;-)

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 06:35 | 6494296 Raul44
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I am so happy to see this, finally Vlad, finally...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 06:38 | 6494301 Luther van Theses
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An outrageous violation of Israel's right to violate international law!

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 06:42 | 6494305 FightingtheFed
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Thank you Mr. Putin for taking the War to America's terrorist pawn in the ME.

Now maybe we can put an end to ISIS once and for all and perhaps prevent the Degenerates in DC from creating anymore mischief in the middle east..

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:16 | 6494357 Hyjinx
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Watching Russia having to commit troops to the cesspit that is the ME brings a smile to my face.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:19 | 6494361 Uskatex
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I shall believe this news only after an official Russian confirmation.

If it is true, it would mean that Russian generals made an assessment of the situation, and told Putin that a direct Russian intervention would be at sustainable costs and risks. I do not doubt they are capable of making such an assessment in a very competent way.

Clearly the risk to Russian aircrafts and helicopters don't come really from ISIS bigots, but from competent mercenaries and IDF soldiers embedded within ISIS, or hidden in Syria. If the news is true, it would mean that Russians are able to provide substantial EMC shield around their hardware, a claim often heard by Russian sources, but never proved in battle.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:42 | 6494387 MSimon
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I do not doubt they are capable of making such an assessment in a very competent way.

 

Afghanistan?

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:24 | 6494369 J Mahoney
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This chess game is all about oil and weapon sales--you think GW kissed oil and arms company ass, Obama lips are permanently attached to it. I would go so far as to say Obama's jealousy of Putin has blurred his vision and has negatively affected our standing in the world and with our allies--AND--our national security. The Iran deal is not meant to stop nuclear weapon construction but rather to increase arms sales.

Putin doesnt want to loose his oil markets in Europe and needs Syria and Turkey as at least friendly toward him-he already has Iran and has been courting the Saudi's and Egypt. Even Isreal tries to have good relations with Russia even though Russia bitchslaps them with UN votes and missle sales to Iran. Saudi's are with us in a very strange relationship but realize all the superpowers want to kiss their ass so they can get very undependable in the future considering the Iran deal. When it comes to supporting sanctions against Russia, both Isreal and Turkey didnt follow suit and both keep their nose out of the Ukraine fiasco. What a tangled freaking web they weave.

Lets think about something. ISIS is supposedly hated by all --Russia, Iran, Syria fighting them (China will not oppose Russia on this one) And, USA and Europe are supposedly bombing them. So the million dollar question is--- where are they getting their arms? They have been taking territory for months and using a crapload of arms. They are using shit more advanced than bullets for AK's--who is replenishing their supply?

Hmm--US and Russia both pissed off Isreal and made them feel like the red haired step-child. ISIS not venturing across that Isreal border. Ding Ding Ding--could it be BeBe ?

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:32 | 6494376 Cochore
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This news should not really be surprising. Russia was never going to give up on its port at Tartus. A few weeks ago Iran's Press TV reported that Russia was going to supply them with the much delayed S-300 system. Russia is prepared to help defend Syria as they know that Iran would be next.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/08/18/425278/Iran-S300-Russia-Defense-...

Putin has the Anglo-Zionists exactly where he wants them. EU/NATO are terrified of the impending refugee crisis in Ukraine which could unleash millions of brainwashed neo-Nazis on Poland and Romania and which would make the current refugee crisis look like a tea-party.  Already, the word on the street here in Dublin is that an influx of Ukrainian escorts is driving down prices and I'm also aware of a group of Ukrainian alcoholics begging and sleeping rough on the banks of the Grand Canal.

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:37 | 6495010 Pliskin
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A 'Bear Market' in Ukranian hookers...Ah, so THAT'S what this was all about.

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 19:45 | 6497756 Razor_Edge
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You must be keeping strange company man. I haven't heard any such word on the streets, tho' I don't go around looking for "escorts". As for Ukie alkies, nothing new there. There have been lots of east European alkos in the city and around the country for years and years. That's not to say they're all alkos, most are not. But a mate of mine was employing Lithuanians back in the early 2000's, and lots of my clients were employing Ukies and Poles.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:39 | 6494381 Omega_Man
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to defeat ISIS should be easy without sacrificing planes... some advance drones and long range artillery , and bombing can take care of ISIS in the open areas..Syrian and Iranian army can flush them out of the cities.... order nice people out then flatten the cities. Then Syria and Iraq can borrow money from AIIB and rebuild nice cities. 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:40 | 6494383 Chuck Knoblauch
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So much for abandoning Assad.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:53 | 6494417 nardami
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That was never confirmed...consider the source.  But this is not proof to the contrary.  High level meetings between Russia,Iran, Syran and the US proxies have been held but nobody has spille the beansabout the result.  And this story is just a "story" on YNET...NYET about it in Russian press/TV and it would be HUGE!

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 14:05 | 6496126 bid the soldier...
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that story separated the menskis from the boyskis

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:45 | 6494396 Omega_Man
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I bet Israel will try and take out S500 before they are turned on... once they are operational then most of Israel's skies will be managed by Russia. Also S500 on ships complete this task. 

Israel would never have let Assad operate them.... now that Russians will man them we'll see if they have the balls to test them. 

Any IDF plane that approaches Russian, Syrian army, Iraning forces... will go BOOM!! 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 08:04 | 6494441 NoWayJose
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I am sure we will see a few drones 'auger in' too!

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:49 | 6494404 Infinite QE
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Give em hell Vlad. Time to remove the zio cancer from the planet. They killed 100 million or so of your ancestors and have plans for more.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:49 | 6494407 nardami
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YNET?  Uh-huh!  Seems the only place this story runs...emphasis on "story".  Not a peep about it in the Russian press or TV.  Sorry but I seriously doubt this is true at present.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:43 | 6495032 Bankster Kibble
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A similar story was on Global Research 2 days ago.  Rumor?  Trial balloon?  We'll see.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:51 | 6494408 falak pema
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The key here is Turkey. As Erdogan has swung towards the US under financial rout of Lira, we don't know what the future holds for him nor for his hard line. Elections...will they make him stronger or weaker?

Putin's put in Syria is just filling a void and showing up that the USA has no real answer to ISIS.

As for Saud, ISIS is Sunni blowback to Shia Iran. Its a dangerous game for Saud to play one against the other as its no solution; also as ISIS can bite both ways : the Shia and the "corrupted" Sunni kingdoms.

Meanwhile Europe faces the spill over of displaced refugees from the dystopian situation that militarist ventures in Libya, Mali and Syria have created for populations now caught between Salafist obscurantism feeding Jihad and Western repression to protect Oil and the sale of more guns to its surrogate friends in ME/Africa.

OIL geopolitics and MIC plays still protect the petrodollar hegemony; until Mom Yellen pulls the plug on WS and/or world bond markets.

Gordian knot of petrodollar dreams now generating insistant screams.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:44 | 6495335 Freddie
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Those Saudi M1 tanks and Bradleys in Yemen are taking a beating by the Russian anti-tank missiles.

Konkurs made by Tula.  The same Tula who makes cheap ammo sold at Wal Mart and many other places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M113_Konkurs

It is actually a pretty older system. older than Kornet but it opened up the M1 and Bradley M2 with no problems.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:56 | 6494426 nardami
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"NYET" to the YNET story...it doesn't have any support.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 08:29 | 6494507 Volkodav
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only I saw was about sending 4 interceptors, not ground attack aircraft

that I think was from good source...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:00 | 6495440 HowdyDoody
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I have seen reports of 6 Mig 31 fighter/interceptors on Sputnik and Tvezsda.

 

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:56 | 6494427 who cares
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Good for gold

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 07:59 | 6494434 nardami
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This is all Russian press has o say about Syria as of today..."

Washington has realized the key role that Moscow plays in settling the Syrian crisis, independent Syrian opposition member Namrud Suleiman said at a press conference at the international information agency Rossiya Segodnya.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Bilateral contact between Moscow and Washington on the issue has recently intensified due to the deteriorating situation in Syria.

“The Americans are now convinced that Russia plays a key role in resolving the crisis,” Suleiman (SYRIAN) said.On Friday, US Special Envoy for Syria Michael Ratney visited Moscow for consultations with Russian officials on the ongoing conflict in Syria."

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 08:19 | 6494490 square wave
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I find myself in a bit of a conflict:

I'm cheering on Putin and Russia while I know the financial difficulties it's going to bring here in the US if a full scale war happens.

I guess my hatred for the ZWO, Israhell and the US banksters/Illum is greater than my dislike for Putin. Sometimes I even wish we'd get invaded on the grounds of 'regime change'.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 08:55 | 6494584 bunnyswanson
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Way past time to reel in drunk uncle.  I am only surprised it took this long.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:09 | 6494912 Baa baa
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I get it...Funny!

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:08 | 6494910 Baa baa
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Moron, just like most Americans today, you want someone to do it for you. Geez...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:36 | 6495002 square wave
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hahahaaa....let's see you go up against the US Army that's backed by one of the most advanced MIC's in the world. You'd be shot in the street like an unarmed black teen before you know it, and have gained no ground towards true freedom in the process.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:58 | 6495429 Freddie
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Try at least to unplug TV and Hollywood.  Americans are too weak to even do that.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 14:01 | 6496105 headhunt
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Go live in Russia - you will enjoy it - I promise you HA!

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:03 | 6495458 tumblemore
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Sometimes I even wish we'd get invaded on the grounds of 'regime change'.

I guess this is partly how the banking mafia destroyed all those other civilizations in the past. Apart from the financial destruction they also deliberately weaken the sense of "us" of the host population by importing diversity (aka divide and rule) not necessarily intending to destroy but just as self-protection but they end up weakening the host so much the host can no longer fight off external threats.

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 08:36 | 6494523 rsnoble
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Scary.  Many elites are selling stocks, converting to gold and hiding in holes.  There's gona be tombs filled with riches all over the planet when this over.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 09:14 | 6494677 Werekoala
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Yup, the "Alas, Babylon" scenario seems more and more plausible with each passing day, especially now. If you haven't read the book by Pat Frank, might be a good time to pick it up. Relavent summary of the "incident" that sparked the war:

"In the Eastern Mediterranean, Ensign James “Peewee” Cobb, a young U.S. fighter pilot who wants to prove he is more than a “peewee,” aggressively pursues an enemy spy plane. While trying to fire, he accidentally bombs the Syrian port of Latakia, hitting an ammunition train and creating a huge explosion. A major naval base, Latakia was heavily fortified by the Russians, and the bombing is interpreted as an unprovoked attack. At work in “the Hole,” Mark discusses the Latakia bombing with a general. Washington has not issued any statements of apology, and Russia is silent—ominously silent. Mark worries the Russians now have an excuse for war and have ordered a massive strike.

At dawn, Washington finally releases a statement on the Latakia incident, calling it a “regrettable mechanical error,” but it is too late. There is no response from Russia. SAC headquarters gets permission from Washington to use their weapons and issues a red alert. Four incoming ballistic missiles are detected on radar, one fired from a Russian base and the rest from submarines at sea. The war is on."

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 16:47 | 6497012 Freddie
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Seriously - who wants to read this crappy NeoCon fiction like Tom Clancy crap.  The US Military and Pentagram has not upheld it's Constitutional oath since 1861.  1.1 million American men died in that bankster war wher ethe banksters backed both sides like all wars. 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 21:03 | 6498043 Anunnaki
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I loved this book as a kid. Thanks for the reminder

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 09:20 | 6494708 ZZR600
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Would love to see what a modern western military can actually do, as opposed to 'the coalition' supposedly fightining ISIS that instead appears to be more intent on killing Kurds and Syrian civilans and protecting Israeli interests in the region

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 09:24 | 6494733 Kolchak
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There will bo no war beyond the proxy's we see everyday so relax geez just relax and watch it erode under it's own weight so we can get on with living, out with the old in with the new.

 

Just different factions of oligarchs, bush, FED, rothschilds, rockerfellers etc. fighting and not countries, don't let the sleezy media fool you. They can't decide who will rule the world and meanhwile their fading faster then jenners ballsack so no worrys.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:05 | 6494901 Baa baa
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You don't have sufficient evidence to back you contentions. Putin's geopolitical agenda is a basic mystery to the administration. Besides, the acting President is a craven coward who cowers at every confrontation.

Our global influence is waning, we have lost credibility with our "Allies" and our military would have trouble getting out of a wet paper bag now that it has been de-fanged.

I have sufficient evidence to make my contention.

We have no idea how this will shake out but we can be assured, it will not be to our advantage.

The United Sates of America has a lot of work ahead.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:37 | 6495006 Bankster Kibble
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"Putin's geopolitical agenda is a basic mystery to the administration."

 

Well said.  One of the gripes I have against Obama is that he listens too much to advisors who sound like columnists on Newsweek or Time magazines.  He doesn't listen to the real CIA analysts who have studied Russians for decades and can give good clues on where the Bear will jump next.  His foreign policy seems to be based on Russophobic tirades of people like Bellingcat.

For that reason, Obama and his administration will continue to be nonplussed and wrong-footed when dealing with the Russians.  And USA will continue to play Wile E. Coyote vs. Russia's Roadrunner.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:58 | 6495102 Pliskin
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If we're talking cartoon characters then surely the Obama Admin is more like Mr. Magoo?

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 14:02 | 6495333 headhunt
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0bama's foreign policy is based on political correctness, a chip on his shoulder and a semi-islamic wish.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:23 | 6495587 Freddie
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The See Eye Aye has not done anything good for the American people since it was founded by the Rockefellers.  The US military sold out in 1861.  All bankster stooges like Mi6 aka Red Shield's police force. .

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:02 | 6494883 roadhazard
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Pooootin.  I wonder how many hours in the air a Russian plane is good for before it has to land for mechanical reasons. ;)

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:24 | 6494962 markar
Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:41 | 6495022 square wave
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In the next big war it's highly unlikely that the US will be using many petro-fueled jet propulsion aircraft. They will be using a lot more of their black project anti-gravity tech.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:54 | 6495084 Pliskin
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Well yeh, obviously...that and Optimus Prime, right?

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:59 | 6495107 IndianaJohn
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That project is already busy in the black zones of our cities.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:19 | 6495207 roadhazard
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I'd LOVE to see some REAL dog fights.  I am always for shutting down bull shit and letting Truth tell the story.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:31 | 6495279 headhunt
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Gee - looks a lot like the American F14 Tomcat - which was retired in 2006

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:05 | 6495477 roadhazard
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 Lots of Russian/Chinese aircraft are poor copies of US planes.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:56 | 6495764 gezley
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Let's hope they don't try to copy the F-35 then.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:34 | 6495651 gezley
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Not forgetting the MiG 29: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK1GChMOnrQ

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:27 | 6494973 Pliskin
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Dunno, but I'm guessin' more hours than an F35 is good for on the runway before it has to be towed into a hangar for mechanical reasons.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:21 | 6495223 roadhazard
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America's bread and butter ain't F35's.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:35 | 6495663 Freddie
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Yeah - America's bread and butter is lies and fraud.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:50 | 6495734 roadhazard
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Oh good one. Thanks for your participation.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:26 | 6494968 JamaicaJim
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COMRADES!!!!

uh...oh...nyet...

SLAM LA LAMMA LINCOLN - PAGELSTA~

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:39 | 6495013 starman
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"Dancing with the Tcars" 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:40 | 6495018 starman
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"Dancing with the Tcars" 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:13 | 6495168 J Jason Djfmam
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Tzars.

Tsars.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:41 | 6495023 DaVinci
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Let see the IsraHelli and American BULLIES do something now...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:50 | 6495060 Alok
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from The Saker (very fresh article)

 

"A Russian military intervention in Syria? I very much doubt it"

 

http://thesaker.is/a-russian-military-intervention-in-syria-i-very-much-...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:52 | 6495075 Circle of DNA
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Once again, I tend to agree with the saker.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 10:59 | 6495109 dsty
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rumor cheering squad foiled again

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:14 | 6495178 SMC
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Tartus.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:26 | 6495253 Berspankme
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No worrie vladmir obama is hiking in alaska to get in touch with his inner tough guy. And reggies

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:41 | 6495324 RaceToTheBottom
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Maybe he can look west and See both Russia and Putin?

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:28 | 6495256 q99x2
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Great article. The facts are made very clear. I love satire: Vonnegut, Fielding, Swift, Hogarth, WB7 and ZH.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:29 | 6495271 reTARD
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They're just "advisors." They don't count as boots on the ground. ;-)

I'm going to the store to get some more popcorn, LOL.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:40 | 6495315 Omega_Man
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ISIS will be given free passage to attack Saudi.... 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:40 | 6495318 RaceToTheBottom
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Cool, the Russian troops can hang out with the US troops there....

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:44 | 6495336 donhuangenaro
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looks like John Titor might have been right after all...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:44 | 6495340 Son of Captain Nemo
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Leave it to Vladimir to throw in the "crown jewel" to make Syria the most unpleasant of experiences for the Anglo-American enterprise yet to come!...

You can only overthrow so many government(s)... destroy and pillage so many cities... sabotage so many foreign exchanges and strategic ports... murder so many millions... And make countless refugees more... before you realize you have lost complete control and are bereft of any evidence of a soul and are once and for all divided and completely "alone"!

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:54 | 6495372 Element
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So I take it you'll be emigrating to Russia soon to enjoy the good life?

 

Yeah ... that's what I thought.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:03 | 6495467 Circle of DNA
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Why not?!...The land in the east is free for the taking, you just have to apply. The people are friendly, well educated and with amazing history behind them. The future is there!

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:10 | 6495512 Son of Captain Nemo
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The future is there!

And Russia, China, Brazil, India, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and the rest of the disenfranchised EU States in the South leaning Eastward know it!...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 13:05 | 6495812 Element
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It's free because no one wants to live there but the desperate who live on the margins. We used to do that too. Most of them failed and the desert reclaimed the land. It's why we don't live there, and very few will.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 13:52 | 6496013 Son of Captain Nemo
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It's free because no one wants to live there but the desperate who live on the margins. We used to do that too. Most of them failed and the desert reclaimed the land. It's why we don't live there, and very few will.

Element aren't you leaving just a few details out?...

Just ask the guys and gals in the U.S. and NATO militaries about those "free zones" with lots of natural resources on them they've unsuccessfully occupied for the last 15 years in the ME that have bankrupted their government(s) and are prepared to start that last war they will ever fight so that no one else outside their "click" will have it???...

If that's your definition of "free" it's one that the 99% don't normally deal with!

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 15:28 | 6496538 Element
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You're a weak whiner, the day I learn something from you, I'll be very surprised, I don't think there's any serious risk of it, but if it ever does happen, that you begin to make some use of your brain, I promise to tell you. It's the least I can do by way of encouragement. I can't guarantee I'll notice it, as I tend to skip your comments, known dry hole.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 17:19 | 6497166 Son of Captain Nemo
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 I don't think there's any serious risk of it, but if it ever does happen, that you begin to make some use of your brain, I promise to tell you. It's the least I can do by way of encouragement.

E

Why resort to the ad hominem attacks?...  And you were doing so well!

No "down arrows" here!

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:34 | 6495485 Son of Captain Nemo
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So I take it you'll be emigrating to Russia soon to enjoy the good life?

"good life"?...  Where exactly?... Made possible by whom?

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 13:13 | 6495855 libertysghost
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I haven't heard the good, ol' standard, "if you don't like it leave" argument here in a while...well maybe never.  Probably it sounds so childish and ignorant.  

 

That could be why I guess. 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:51 | 6495385 tumblemore
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same old, same old

 

1) banking mafia create a massive boom/bust ending in a depression

2) all the latent conflicts in the world spark off at once because of the depression

3) gradual slide to world war

 

It'll only stop when control of the money supply is taken away from the banking mafia.

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 11:58 | 6495428 fowlerja
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Is there a problem here...the US does this around the world..of course to encourage and protect democracy...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:02 | 6495453 Mike Masr
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Russian military denies reports of intervention in Syria - source to RT

http://www.rt.com/news/314010-syria-russia-planes-isis/

 

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:19 | 6495557 no1wonder
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So then, smoke without fire...

Yeah, except that the "smoke" emerged for some reason from the Israeli garbage. And so thick that fucked up.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:09 | 6495502 Phillyguy
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Your concluding paragraph sums things up well- “the situation in the middle-east is set to escalate very rapidly over the next few months….” We are seeing firsthand the results of US foreign policy in the ME- a military, political and economic disaster for US taxpayers and the indigenous population. Further, these policies have done immense damage to the US strategic position in this part of the world.

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:12 | 6495521 PleasedToMeatYou
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Charlie's War just keeps on giving. 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:20 | 6495561 spoonful
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If all of the above is correct, the situation in the middle-east is set to escalate very rapidly over the next few months

Russia's entry into this swamp might actually de-escalate things by draining it of the snakes and vermin.    

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:26 | 6495592 Jstanley011
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U.S. policy in the region since Bush I seems to be governed more by stupid than anything else. If Sadaam had been allowed to keep Kuwait, however much it ruffled the feathers of the New World Order idiots, the region would be a hell of a lot more stable and less murderous than it is today.

Bush II's taking out Sadaam and replacing him with nothing much was stupid. Obama/Clinton's withdrawal, which guaranteed that "nothing much" would become "less than zero" -- a power vacuum which ISIS has neatly filled -- was stupid.

Just as stupid was Obama/Clinton's attempts to take out strongmen across the region, to be replaced with what exactly? Again, nothing much. "Arab Spring," my ass.

Strongmen are required to acheive some semblance of law and order among the Arabs because strongmen are the only ones who can keep the Muslim crazies that dominate their populace in check. All "democracy" does is allow the nutjobs to set up shop.

Putin's involvement is probably good news for the region, in that here is a man who understands how power politics works, and that allowing Assad to be taken out would be stupider than stupid.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 14:24 | 6496215 farflungstar
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I been saying that for years - the strongmen were largely secualr and did not tolerate the fundies getting too riled up and they ensured that those too radical and uppity ended up imprisoned, exiled or dead. Democracy is a buzzword for anarchy and conquest by supposed "superpowers".

Only Zionist or Neocon cunts, after seeing what the fall of Saddam loosed on the region, would press ahead with more regime change and destabilization, following dangerous fail after fail, "under the guise of democracy" - with no pragmatic heads anywhere to be seen to put the brakes on all this bullshit.

but hey, whoever wanted to move/kill many Arabs for whatever purpose they might have...cough Oded yinon cough...seems like that scheme is proceeding at a fair pace with Euro poodles shamed into doing next to nothing to stem the high levels of immigrants into their countries.

 

 

Wed, 09/02/2015 - 00:04 | 6498490 Element
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Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:27 | 6495605 tumblemore
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And, by the way, what happened to all those bullshit pundits who said Vlad was ready to give up Assad?

 

They're possibly rubbing their hands in glee,

 

1) neocons spread those rumors

2) Putin has to send Ruskis to Syria to reassure Assad

On the surface you'd think that was bad for neocons because Washington won't want to hit Ruskis but bringing Ruskis into the fire zone means

3) neocons arrange for Ruskis to be killed supposedly by US forces but in reality by some oligarch's private ISIS battalion.

 

This is not just Washington vs Moscow there's also non-US neocons, oligarchs, Saudis, Turks vs Kurds etc all in the mix.

 

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:39 | 6495690 83_vf_1100_c
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Damascus is one of the key signs in the end times biblically. If Damascus gets taken down hard, better start rethinking your faith.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 15:14 | 6495796 Mike Masr
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This is precisely why the fathers of the Holy Orthodox Ecumenical Councils hesitated to add Revelations to the canon of the New Testament. They believed people would be trying to interpret it themselves. Today, according to the 2010 US Census their are more than 29,000 sects that refer to themselves as Christian with doctrine that differs from one another. Each sect espousing a different belief or escatolological viewpoint. In the Eastern Orthodox world there is one ship. The twelve oars are manned by the holy apostles, our Lord is at the rudder. As long as you are on His ship the end times should neither interest us, or trouble us.  

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:45 | 6495718 Hannibal
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Israeli Commanders Killed within Al Nusra Ranks inside Syria

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-commanders-killed-within-al-nusra-r...

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 12:52 | 6495746 tumblemore
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It was always obvious Isis had some professional leadership.

 

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 13:09 | 6495740 earleflorida
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Nasserism is back in full-bloom in Sisi's Egypt!

The Russian's are in, and the Turkish 'Muslim [MB] Boherhood' are out!

Saudi [SA] Arabia has no problem of disposing the MB, whom happen to be a dreaded enemy of the Kngdom and Russia, needless to say... there's not enough room to write about here!

Problem is, Russia and SA still know that each is vying for energy dominance in Central, SE Asia.

Sadly the problem is two`fold for both. Ironic,... that's it's out in the open!?

Let's use Russia to get a better deal from Washington. Indeed... and, Washington wants what's left of the former USSR to give-up it's energy to the west via a covert war using it's ex-proxy satellites to do the heavy lifting-- be it Kazakhstan or Turkmenistan. Oh yea, I almost forget the Ukraine/ Caspian/ Azerbaijan node, having a negative effect on Iran, and Russian queerish detente with 'Enemy #2/2'. Certainly, a catch 22?

But, in the end, SA will bud-out of Syria leaving Erdogan to stew in his own cauldron of deception! The USSA will have its hand forced by Russian forces in Damascus and the Suez Canal at the beckoning, having the Middle [ME] East bastion of populous and culture breaking bread without the likes of 'Stalin' mucking`up the 'Tempest-n-a-Teapot'  when almost four-years plus, hence a dozen of Erdogan supporters instigated what was to become another 'proverbial genocide [Armenia's] of the Kurdish Peoples' amost a century later.

Erdogan certainly had USSA backing from the get-go, albeit limited! Everybody plays everybody in global politics today? Did the USSA actually think Erdogan was out to bring the Levant [Iraq, the Lebanon, and Syria] back into the dated Ottoman dystopia? Probably not!

But that's how World War's begin!

Yes/No

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 13:04 | 6495808 world_debt_slave
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about time

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 13:16 | 6495873 Zwelgje
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'No Russian jets sent to Syria' - military source on 'expeditionary force' report

https://www.rt.com/news/314010-syria-russia-planes-isis/

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 13:26 | 6495924 lakecity55
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#1- I would suspect MiG 31s for air superiority over the Israelis.

#2- I would suspect Flankers to follow to drop in CAS.

#3-I would think the Russians will first install an S400 system to knock out allied aircraft. No Admiral is gonna lose his planes to that system.

#4-Checkmate.

I have been on live firing grounds for Russian anti-aircraft/cruise systems. The Americans are 10 years behind the curve. The Russian pysche is to use a hammer to kill a fly. Good luck, ZATO.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 16:54 | 6497041 Freddie
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What about Russian missles in shipping containers on a truck, ship or train for any US Navy ships getting too close to Syria?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NUVtxg2Kg

Flies most of the flight as a fast cruise missle then at the end goes Mach ++ speed like a bullet.

Nasty stuff.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 14:05 | 6496131 donhuangenaro
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end of the world postponed ;)

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 15:22 | 6496505 robertocarlos
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Here's a Canuck joke. The world ends at midnight tonight, 12:30 in Newfoundland.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 13:20 | 6495884 lakecity55
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Vlad, these jets are fast!

Careful on the throttle, Med.

Haha, our spy cameras in the White Hut show Biden and Reggie playing checkers!

Where is Bath House?

Under the table, of course! Biden has a big smile on his face!

How about a game of chess when we touch down and debrief?

Of course!

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 14:07 | 6496138 mog
Tue, 09/01/2015 - 14:25 | 6496207 bid the soldier...
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World War Whatever is not going to begin in Damascus or Moscow or Washington or Beijing.

It will begin in Low Earth Orbit*** and considering the fact that the Russians and the Chinese are the only nations capable of manned rocket launches, the outcome is obvious. 

 

*** that's where all the military, communications and GPS satellites are.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 14:53 | 6496354 crazybob369
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Good point. Our fearless leaders have shot themselves in the foot once again. Perhaps they could borrow a couple of rockets from the Russians to shoot down some of their satellites. What a bunch of morons.

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 16:25 | 6496897 bid the soldier...
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The agreement ending the cold war saw both sides hoodwinking each other.

The West verbally promising not to enlist the ex Soviet Satellite Countries into NATO and Russia agreeing to drown their space station (Mir?) in tandem with America drowning hers.  Then both countries would participate in a joint effort, ISS. 

NATO, as we know, soon moved into East Europe.  But not to be outdone, Russia gave China a gift card for the Russian company, Space Stations R Us.

No doubt, Russia has kitchen privileges in Tiangong and may even have a troop of happy Muscovites doing those hard to do Cossack dances in zero gravity.  

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 14:57 | 6496365 falak pema
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As the pendulum swings make no bones about the REALITY :

PUTIN IS IN SYRIA TO FIGHT AND ELIMINATE DEACH with the blessing of POtus.

Assad is now LESS of a danger to US than Sunni  "hanky panky" behind the scenes --allegedly organised by the US neo-cons in cahoots with Saud.

What this MEANS is that the OBAMA regime has now PUT Saud and its allies (some say Israel) on the back burner of his ME strategy.

He is prepared to save Assad's neck (provisionally) to ensure the Sunni rabid axis dies its natural death.

Some awesome walk away from the Bush-Saud handshake.

The GOP and the neo-cons must be writhing in their underwear; as does Trump who is aligned with them.

the GREAT GAME is as complex as it can get!

Tue, 09/01/2015 - 21:06 | 6498050 Anunnaki
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To hell with the Saker. He's a legend in his own mind.

Where does our Jack Burton stand on the matter?

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