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Putin Confirms Scope Of Russian Military Role In Syria
Over the past 48 hours or so, we’ve seen what certainly appears to be visual confirmation of a non-negligible Russian military presence in Syria. For anyone coming to the story late, overt Russian involvement would seem to suggest that the geopolitical “main event” (so to speak), may be closer than anyone imagined.
Russia’s excuse for being in Syria is the same as everyone else’s: they’re there, ostensibly, to fight ISIS. As we mentioned yesterday, and as we’ve detailed exhaustively as it relates to Turkey, the fact that ISIS has become a kind of catch-all, go-to excuse for legitimizing whatever one feels like doing is a dangerous precedent and Turkey’s crackdown on the Kurds proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Islamic State will serve as a smokescreen for more than just the preservation/ouster (depending on which side you’re on) of Bashar al-Assad.
Having said all of that, going into the weekend Russia had yet to confirm publicly that it had commenced military operations in Syria despite the fact that it’s the next closest thing to common knowledge that at the very least, the Kremlin has provided logistical support and technical assistance for a period that probably spans two or more years.
But on Friday, Vladimir Putin looks to have confirmed the scope of Russia’s military role, even if he stopped short of admitting that Russian troops are engaged in combat. Here’s The Telegraph:
Russia is providing “serious” training and logistical support to the Syrian army, Vladimir Putin has said, in the first public confirmation of the depth of Russia’s involvement in Syria's civil war.
And while the highlighted passage there is actually impossible to prove given that the term "depth" is subjective, it certainly does appear that Putin is now willing to concede that support for Assad goes far beyond "political". Here's AFP as well:
Asked whether Russia could take part in operations against IS, Putin said: "We are looking at various options but so far what you are talking about is not on the agenda."
"To say we're ready to do this today -- so far it's premature to talk about this. But we are already giving Syria quite serious help with equipment and training soldiers, with our weapons," RIA Novosti state news agency quoted Putin as saying.
And back to The Telegraph briefly:
Speculation is growing that Russia has significantly expanded its involvement in recent months, including with deliveries of advanced weaponry, a raft of spare parts for existing machines, and the deployment of increasing numbers of military advisers and instructors.
Last week Syrian state television released images showing an advanced Russian-built armoured personnel carrier, the BTR-82a, in combat. Videos have also appeared in which troops engaged in combat appear to shout instructions to one another in Russian.
Of course whether or not the troops Russia has on the ground were sent to Syria with explicit orders to join the fighting is largely irrelevant when the bullets start flying. As Pavel Felgenhaeur, an independent commentator on Russian military affairs told The Telegraph, “it was quite conceivable that members of the advisory mission occasionally found themselves in combat or had even suffered casualties.”
So in other words, they’re at war, and even as Putin is now willing to admit, with a two year (at least) lag, that Russian boots are indeed on the ground, it may be a while before he admits to their role in direct combat and if Ukraine is any guide, he might never acknowledge the extent of Russia's involvement. But make no mistake, the Russian presence has nothing to do with the “threat” ISIS poses to the world and everything to do with ensuring that Assad’s forces can fight on - at least for now.
The absurd thing about the whole effort is that ISIS itself is now just cannon fodder both for Russia and for the US led coalition flying missions from Incirlik that Turkey has suggested may soon include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Jordan. Even more ridiculous is the fact that since none of this has anything to do with eradicating ISIS in the first place, the bombing of ISIS targets by the US, Turkey, and Russia doesn’t really serve much of a purpose at all.
That is, everyone’s just biding time to see how far the other side is willing to go in support of their vision for Syria's political future - a political future which, as we noted yesterday, almost certainly will not be decided at the ballot box, that is unless it's after US Marines have stormed Damascus at which point the US will benevolently allow whatever civilians are still alive in Syria to choose between two puppet leaders vetted and supported by Washington.
And lest anyone should forget what this is all about...
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The Israelis have to deal with the Palestinians' claim to that gas first, and then they have to build a GTL pant. The existing pipeline through Egypt is a demonstartion of what will go wrong even if Israel installed a puppet rgeime in Syria. Israel's problems with Assad and moves to destabalize both his and his fathers' regimes predate the gas discovery (Hence Winston's comment about water and the Golan Heights in the other other thread).
I read that article you posted when it first appeared. It seems maybe Putin made a deal to remove Assad as a political obstacle to peace deals after ISIS is wiped out, via the election (he loses, or rather, refuses to stand for election again) and in return Putin offers Assad and family exile in Russia.
That's one way to help end the war. Putin is not just interested in Assad, he's interested in Syria remaining close to Russia and a base of operations in the Med and ME.
And to limit western and Israeli involvement in Lebanon.
Plus it greatly serves Iran's interest too, which also has loaned the Govt of Syria a lot of money to keep it afloat and fighting.
Its no secret,UR. I was taught about Israel's future water problems fifty years ago in
my very exclusive English Public school.The forecast was off by a decade, but the problem
is still there..
Sseing as how my classmates went on to become the establishment,in
many countries, you can be sure they all know the real reason for the Syrian/Lebanese
destabilization.Its not about gas,it never was, thats just a bonus.
Neither mass hypnosis nor poor education fully explains the collective ignorance or forgetfulness of the fact that Israel has been illegally (under international law and UNSC resolutions) occupying SYRIAN territory and claiming it must do so to protect it's water supply in perpetuity, and as long as Syria is weak and otherwise engaged retaking that territory by force is unrealistic.
The real prize is south Lebanon and the headwaters of the river Jordan.Syria needs
to be neutalized as a supply route for Hezbollah.
However, the current users of that water will have to be displaced, or exterminated,
for that water to become available.Jews and Lebensraum.
Last time when the Israelis tried something in South Lebanon, they got their asses handed to them by the Hezbo guys. I don't think they got any better since then, even if Netanyahu might believe differently... That area is now Iran country lock, stock, and barrel.
Its not a choice at this point.The river Jordan is barely a stream in comparison to
even 75 years ago.No south Lebanon, means no Israel. just as my geography master foretold,
it will return to a desert.
Well then, they better hurry up with those desalination plants, 'cause an Israeli South Lebanon ain't gonna happen anytime soon...
Israel depends on agriculture, both for internal self sufficiency, and as a large export industry.
I had to use Israeli plywood once on an order for Gaddafi when my African supplier couldn't deliver.
Good luck desalinating enough water for agriculture at an economic price.
I personally would miss those Jaffa oranges. Florida ones are manky by comparison.
idiot
idiot
+1
Hmmm... sounds like Charter House.
Winston also has some good predictions about batteries in cars not working so well long term.
No, a Guild school named for the Guild, and a Lord Mayor of London who started the school
in 1473. Its still in the top five schools for academics in the UK.It was in the top three when
I was there.I'm still a member of that Guild by the way, and therefore a part owner of the City of London
corporation.I'm elgible to run for Lord Mayor if I so wanted..
Thats why I laugh at the conspiracy theories about the City of London Corp.
As to the batteries , I have personal experiene in that area,I learned the hard way..
+1
Enjoy your posts.
You'd have to win the Nigerian vote if you wanted to be mayor.
Not how it works. The Lord Mayor's position is held in strict rotation by the original founder
Guilds, or Worshipful Company's, that formed the City of London corporation.
Only the Guild,whose turn it is, members select one of their own to become Lord Mayor.
Votes are only cast by Guild members, for Guild members, and only within their Guild.
There is a strictly ceremonial vote of support for the new Lord Mayor by the other Guilds,
which matters not a whit.
You have schooled me on that one! Thanks.
Syria has not attacked Israel since 1973.
Syria has not attacked Israel since 1973.
What a strange turn of events, the Jews killing, maiming and persecuting other peoples...all over gas!
Putin 2016.
Putin - Czar! Urrrraaaaa!
Conflict is breaking out all over. Obama has not met a country that he will not bomb and convert into a failed state - Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to name a few. Ukraine is also a failed state today. And the grim world economic conditions increase the chance of further conflict.
Forward - to more wars.
Yes, much like the fictitious recovery of the Fed the fictitious start of WWIII only hedges the present against future pain. Nations and citizens are just now waking up to the fact that WWIII began when the US attacked itself in 2001. As more become aware of the absurdity it becomes a powerful move for nations like Russia to finally move in. And more and more will follow suit. Incredibly dangerous situation, but US/NATO is at fault.
US/NATO has forced civil wars onto other nations since at least WWII, and now the condition is coming home to roost. It is hard to consider the outcome but it is unlikely they will be able to keep control for much longer. Order through chaos only really works on paper.
The constant rhetoric about WWIII is silly and over used. The first 2 WWs involved 10s of millions of troops, openly destroying most of europe. What we have since, including now, are minor skirmishes or cold wars.
Stop being so fucking dramatic. You all sound like caitlin's weaker sister.
WWII started slowly, in 1935. It didn't get really hot until September 1939. WWI was at first called the phoney war because for so many months in the beginning, nothing happened on the Western Front.
Do you believe in AGW too? That "US attacked itself in 2001" stuff is choice.
Israel and the USA are nervous now. The truth may come out that ISIS is in fact, CIA/Mossad funded, trained and supplied.
It was eatablished more than a year ago that ISIS was made in America:
ISIS: The jihadist movement stamped “Made in America”
By Jean Shaoul30 July 2014
The fact remains, however, that the US, the major European powers, and their regional allies all previously lent financial, military and political support to ISIS and similar groups, which have “Made in the USA” stamped all over them. They have, until now, played a significant part in Washington’s efforts to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, as part of a broader effort to gain control of the region’s vast energy resources and transit routes.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
Israel Empowers Islamic State (ISIS) Terrorists in Syriahttp://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-empowers-islamic-state-isis-terroris...
True but its much more than that, its a plan for geopolitical control.
Israel Zionists (in the USA and Israel and the UN) are behind it all
Eliminate Israel and many of the problems disappear.
Well, not really. Not at all actually. There were problems before Israel. It was a really big problem that resulted in it's creation. If you removed the entire populous of Israel by natural or man-made means, you still have the entire army of them stationed world-wide in positions of power and influence. They would all start screaming and not stop until a sizable chunk of land was ripped from someone else and given to them....for their suffering.
You would need a Friday The 13 style, The Purge event, to take place on a global scale, immediately followed by the worlds largest book-bbq ever seen to have any chance of stomping out the scourge.
"Israel and the USA are nervous now. The truth may come out....."
No, they're not. The assumption that sunshine is the best antiseptic is no longer true. The truth doesn't automatically set you free. The internet ended the age of soft power. It's all about hard power now.
There is also a limit to hard power now, and multiple states have it. So, when all the power players have the bomb, and proxy wars are all that is left to actually fight without the ultimate solution coming into play, aggressive proxy players will see their economy suffer a long slow drain. Sound familiar?
@maltesefalcon above: very very insightful comment, never thought about that....
Amerisrael
I don't believe Mossad was trying to set up a Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria but we know Obama is.
I don't believe Mossad was trying to set up a Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria but we know Obama is.
kinda puts a kink in the Quatari pipeline plan
well played Mr. Putin
putin regime is corrupt till it’s core and from all sides, but it is only way for criminal putin regime to stay at power. In result whole system is corrupt and not healthy at all. Let’s look ar putin regime army – in what shape it is. Here are some articles that should help you understand and draw conclusion about putin regime army:
1.) Bombers, fighters, strike jets, fighter-bombers drops from the sky like flies. Just in 7 weeks putin regime had 7 crashes – and that is not during a war time, but during training.
“Since early June the air force has lost two Tu-95 “Bear” strategic bombers, two MiG-29 fighters, an older Su-24 strike jet, a newer Su-34 fighter-bomber, and most recently an Antonov An-12 military transport.”
2.) Missiles go wild during a Navy Day parade at occupied and illegally annexed Crimea, Sevastopol, putting in real life threat danger civilians who were watching parade
“..in the country on Sunday to celebrate Navy Day and the might of the Russian forces. Yet one rogue missile ruined the display: launched by the Russian frigate Ladny, the missile can be seen wildly spinning round and round before plummeting into the sea.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qyz_pHUnkg
3.) During a Victory parade rehearsal broke down so called “super tank” of putin regime that was supposed to threat NATO and it’s allies. In result – full embracement for putin regime:
“A new Russian tank touted by military analysts as a fearsome, ultra-advanced machine broke down during Victory Day parade rehearsals in Moscow on Thursday, leaving puzzled engineers red-faced.
According to Russian newspaper Moskovskiy Komsomolets, the tank came to a full halt and appeared to be experiencing difficulties even though the engine was still running. Other tanks trundled past as army officers approached the crew of the T-14 to discuss the situation. A military towing vehicle was dispatched to salvage the tank, but was unable to pull it away. ”
https://youtu.be/A-tghr4OTZg
4.) just when russian soldiers think they are safe because are not in one of those “super thanks” or fighter jets that drop from the sky or in one of those frigates which missiles goes wild, they got attacked at sleep… by a building where they are.
“Twenty-three Russian soldiers were crushed to death by rubble after their military barracks collapsed in Siberia, the Russian defence ministry said on Monday.
All four floors collapsed in one section of the building in the Siberian city of Omsk on Sunday evening as 42 Russian paratroopers were resting.
"All 42 soldiers who were under the rubble have been found. Twenty-three of them are dead," said defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.”
5.) Russians who are not brainwashed by putin regime massive propaganda are not willing to fight for putin criminal plans and are leave unit fearing Ukraine deployment.
“Dozens of professional Russian soldiers are facing trial after abandoning a training base, according to media reports. The soldiers were allegedly pressured to "volunteer" for fighting in Ukraine. The troops were reportedly offered money and benefits from people in uniforms without insignia. The people then tried to motivate them to join the war in Ukraine, according to an article published Saturday on well-known news site Gazeta.ru.”
6.) Of course soldiers will more and more leave criminal putin regime, especially seeing how they are treated by putin regime when their captured by Ukraine army.
No honor from putin regime – no honor at all. No respect.
“Russia's Defense Ministry has formally disowned two soldiers captured in eastern Ukraine, saying the men had resigned from the army before crossing the border and their mission had "no connection" with Moscow's armed forces.
Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, head of the Russian think tank Academy of Geopolitical Problems, said that if the men were on active duty, Moscow should have done a better job standing behind them, Gazeta.ru reported.
"When we disown our soldiers, if they were indeed ours, that's not good," Ivashov was quoted as saying.
Instead, he suggested, the Defense Ministry "should have said that we are conducting intelligence operations, because there is a civil war going on and military action continues near Russia's borders," Gazeta.ru reported.”
7.) Again and again Russian soldiers “get lost” in Ukraine full of ammo and weapons:
“Ukrainian border guards detained a soldier suspected of being a Russian army officer who was picked up while riding in a military truck packed with ammunition at the Berezove checkpoint, about 28 miles southwest of the militant-held city of Donetsk.
Guards found nearly 200 cases containing grenades and ammunition, including rocket-propelled shells, inside the military truck.
"He (the Russian officer) had no documents. But he admitted that he was a chief of an RAO (rocket-artillery weapons unit). He is responsible for ammunition supply. He said that while delivering the ammunition they had got lost," Oleksandr Tomchyshyn, a border-guards spokesman said. Another man who was detained identified himself as a pro-Russian separatist fighter.”
“Ten Russian soldiers captured in eastern Ukraine crossed the border "by accident", Russian military sources are quoted as saying.
A Russian defence ministry source was quoted by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti as saying: "The soldiers really did participate in a patrol of a section of the Russian-Ukrainian border, crossed it by accident on an unmarked section, and as far as we understand showed no resistance to the armed forces of Ukraine when they were detained."”
So as you can see putin regime has no honor to Russians soldiers and because of huge corruption at all levels it’s army is falling apart.
Here is a bonus track for that – enjoy:
https://youtu.be/FxtURBpl1rA
haahhah you really think anyone reads your bullshit?
You are an embarrassment to spammers everywhere.
Dude,
You are supposed to put your own PERSONAL spin on the talking points. You are NOT supposed to just cut and paste them. Man, you are certainly bad at your job. I will notify your bosses @ Ft. Meade immediately. (Never mind, they already know)
Putin is just one of a collection of sociopathic criminals that run this planet.
Putin is decent intelligent leader.
Obomber, Netanyahu are fucking psychopaths and idiots.
You guys can hate on the imperialist USSA without looking for a hero. There are no heroes. Russia sucks. It's horrible. You go 20 miles outside moscow into the countryside, you'll get beaten, robbed, stabbed. Not so much in the USSA. They're both horrible, but Russia doesn't run on magic pixie dust. It's the same cronyism seen in the rest of the world — only worse. They just don't have as much money as the USSA to do as much damage.
More bullshit. beaten, robbed and stabbed LOL
Okay, if you go into any US city you have chance of being carjacked or shot by driveby shooters.
If you want to spew bullshit, lets go
From what we read, much more likely to be shot by the cops in the good ol' US of A.
Putin zealously protects Russia and advances its interests. He kicked out NGO's that were nothing but parasitic troublemakers. He foiled warmongering plans spearheaded by a DC skank and folded Crimea back into Russia and did not lose one soldier in the process. He is a master chessplayer in every way, probably the smartest leader on Earth today.
By contrast, our leaders protect the Fed scam that enslaves every resident of America, they have led into bogus wars based upon a hoax attack that intentionally got 3,000 of us killed ( which is mass murder ), they have no respect for our Constitution, shred our rights as fast as they can, and task our policy makers to turn us all into hostile identity tribes, making it that much easier for them to control us.
So who got the better deal in leadership, us or the Russians?
cigarengineer. Re. Beaten stabbed and robbed.
Check out Jay the cheese maker. He's American. He's actually about 20ks outside Moscow. Babushkas, children, coming to buy his creations.
Dude, Arnold called. He wants his avatar back because you are too big a woos. Don't forget to check under your bed for scary Russians before lights out.
But we are much advanced in everything! We have more Nobel prize winners in Science than USSA!
Our GDP per capital is much bigger than in USSA! Our road system is much better! We are better at everything – you Amerikans suck! We have freedom - we can protest we have free media! We have everything!
Go Russia!
Plus every car has a dashboard cam for loads of internet amusement watching that freewheeling Russian spirit in traffic.
twenty miles outside Moscow is not countryside...
showed your ignorance there...
Really? Tell that to Clinton Fookes.
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2012-12-10/man-sentenced-20-years...
This event took place in city that hosts The University Of Illinios, one of the most "prestigious" schools on the planet, and basically in the heartland of America.
Derick Davis II, 23, of Durham, and Troy Arrington Jr., 27, of Chapel Hill, are accused of assaulting and robbing Liu on Wednesday afternoon. He died Thursday morning.
http://www.heraldsun.com/news/charged-with-murder-in-unc-prof-s-death/ar...
Both suspecks have long criminal records and were out on bail awaiting trial for other felonies. This research professor was beaten to death one block from the UNC campus in Chapel Hill.
" Yes we can! "
It is advisable to increase one's negro awareness.
Go give him a blow job for me
seems you alone in your desire.....too much coward to do yourself?
newsdouche you'd be better off forecasting potato harvest in latvia
That's a nice long post, Newsoutlet, but it really only tells me one thing...
They really need to get some new English teachers there in Riga.
Haha yes sir we get you ofcourse T-14 is a shit rusty crap . Isn't it ? Ibtimes spin doctors know much more than russian military . I wish your dad had pulled out but shit happens .
Go join the blacklivesmatter movement and get shot and killed.
By your homies.
Russia’s elite loves the West
One of the most infuriating thing about the foodstuffs import ban, is that submissive vatniks love to make posts, videos, etc. attacking their fellow citizens, laughing at them and saying: “You’ll just have to do without your jamon, Camembert, and Parmesan!” The implication is that the only people who buy these things are liberals and “creative class types” who have a better life than the salt-of-the-earth, working class Russian. Russia was actually importing something like 40% of its food when these idiotic “counter-sanctions” were announced, meaning that a lot of the banned imports were more or less ordinary goods, not expensive cheese, jamon, etc.
The other thing that makes this so infuriating, however, is that these submissive dipshits are attacking their own fellow citizens while the masters they support do not abide by their asceticism. Rest assured, Russia’s elite has plenty of access to the products they so gleefully order to be destroyed at the border. If they don’t have their channels to import it, they simply go there.
What better recent example than the honeymoon of Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov? After receiving a watch worth over half a million dollars, Peskov rented an incredibly expensive yacht to travel along the coast of “degenerate gayropa.” Not the Crimea, which needs tourism, not Sochi, which is practically abandoned, no- Europe.
And that’s what this all comes down to really. Whenever you hear a Russian politician or their cowardly, submissive supporters babbling on about “sovereignty,” understand that it doesn’t mean the same thing that it does for the rest of the world. Sovereignty in Russian parlance means that the elite should have a blank check to continually and constantly rob their own people, siphoning off money from vast natural resources, so that they can go ahead and turn it over to the West which they love so much.
Yes, the Russian elite loves the West. They love it so much they’d steal from their nation, leaving millions impoverished and deprived of basic civil rights just to make sure that they and only they are allowed to taste the finest the West has to offer. If you are an ordinary Russian, you should shut up and be happy with austerity, import bans, censorship, and churches, lots of churches. But for the elite? Never!
You see, when they send their children to live abroad in those degenerate countries, and when they spend Russian taxpayer money on Western luxury, it’s to protect the masses from the dangers of consumerism. These brave souls are essentially sacrificing for the sake of others! They are the patriots!
Ukronazis spent all their money on genocide and now want the west to pay for winter gaz.
http://tass.ru/en/world/819064
Meanwhile Volkswagon is building an engine plant in Russia.
http://tass.ru/en/economy/818947
For me, life without Camembert is unthinkable. By itself, that's enough to go to war.
In Canada there has been scandal over Camembert cheese.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/senator-nancy-ruth-slams-auditors-over-b...
I'd go thru any scandal for a round of ripe/runny Camembert. Although I can't imagine eating it "ice cold" as she likes to.
Only the most degenerate philistine eats Camembert below room temp.
That's only because you never had the joy of squirting Kraft Cheeze Whiz from an aerosol can straight into your mouth.
"Kraft Cheeze Whiz" squirted in the mouth ??????
That sounds like the oral equivalent of waterboarding...
Reads like he is describing the American Oligarich class.
And if he already is "in country" why the fuck should or would he say a god damn thing and speak the truth when his U.S./Israeli and Saudi enemies have detroyed one his Countriy's most strategic partners in the region for last half century with "proxies" that allegedly the Obama administration tells the World is the threat that needs to be removed NOT Assad?...
Joseph Heller couldn't have written a better narrative than this one!
Never trust people that come from the sand and have black hair all over their bodies.
Never trust bastards with little stars and stripes on their sleeves who say ''We are here to liberate you''.
Never trust bastards with little stars and stripes on their sleeves who say ''We are here to liberate you''.
Go Putin! Kill those people!
Notice how the USA balks when other people want to defeat ISIS.
That tells you all you need to know.
Yes! Putin is good at killing people! I support you!
PUtin is good at killing the bad guys,
USA is good at killng the good guys.
Yes, thos Ukranians are bad people because they imagined they can have a country outside Russia!
Kill them all Putin! Kill!
Cue in kool-aider .
F*** you! Putin is the best! He is so strong just look at him! He is stronger than Obama! That is why Russia is stronger than USSA! ha ha ha! Yes! You Amerikan suck!
lol ignorant
Not ignorant. It's just proof that ZioNazis are terrible at sarcasm.
+1000
Notice how the USA balks when other people want to defeat ISIS.
That tells you all you need to know.
^^^^^^^^^^
This
It's also Russia's only naval base in the Med.
Correct, the USA's plan to take over Ukraine and the base in Crimea backfired. Now they are going for the one at Tartus.
Correct, the USA's plan to take over Ukraine and the base in Crimea backfired. Now they are going for the one at Tartus.
Of course Putin is helping arm up Assad's Shia adminstration in Syria. With the deal the Shias in Iran got from Obama to get $150 Billion for sanction reparations and a nuke it was a huge green light for he who wrestles bears.
Obviously, Putin has been reading Hillary's bathroom emails.
USA supports Saudi , where women can't drive, have to wear full Burkhas, and where they behead people daily.
Also, Saudis don't make a goddam thing, All they have is oil.
Meanwhile. Iran's women drive cars, run businesses and wear normal clothing . There are many Jews in Iran. who are against the Zionist agenda
Iran builds many of their own things for their own consumption. one of the benefits of being sanctioned
Iran can surive with sanctions.
Could the Saudi monkeys survive if sanctioned??
I think beheadings are admirable for the type of scum the US won't even jail for more than several years: murderers, rapist, pedophiles (I would include Marxist, but that'sjust me). As for the rest of the Sand Monkey Empire, spot on.
People keep mentioning this $150 billion number. Isn't this Iranian money and assets the USA seized and most likely illegally seized?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU8-bgfR83Q
oh shit you got something right
what did you do with the other guy who was posting on your account
Getting involved in Syria is win/win for Putin... he gets to anger the Saudis, who's oil prices have been KILLING his government, he gets to help Assad, and his kinda-friends Iran, by default, and he gets to disguise where all the dead Russian boys are coming from as he gets more involved against the Syrian rebels, because he isn't going after ISIS.
Syrian rebels ARE ISIS now.
Syrian rebels ALWAYS were ISIS.
Jabhat Al Nusra = AlQaeda in Syria but I concede your point
Syrian rebels ARE ISIS now.
Twiddledeedumb .... why does Putin Inc. want to flood Euro (the place, not the money) .... with even cheaper Gulf of Persia crude 'n' gas .... maybe they just want to be the "Spigot Monkey" ?
The Qatar pipeline .... should cut through Jordan and Israel .... reliable business partners .... and a well defended route .... putting a pipeline through Syria and Turkey is MADNESS !
MADNESS is doing business with genocidal ,thieving psychopaths of Israel.
The only way to Turkey from Qatar is either through Syria, Iraq or Iran - none of whom are friendly to the underhanded Qatar.
You really think these syphilitic Arabs are gonna let Israel have their hands on the oil switch
Russians really suck at propaganda compared to Americans, who do little else but propaganda. Putin should have just held up a picture of that dead kid on the beach and said "this is why were are in Syria" and then watched the Americans eyeballs start rolling in their sockets.
Right now, the American position on Syria is so ridiculous, I can't beleive any but the dumbest of the dumbest American mouth breathers really beleive it. On the one hand the U.S. is ostensibly there to fight the evil Isis, but they are also trying to fight the "evil" Assad at the same time. So they drop bombs on one hill, and one hill over they drop weapons caches. All this accomplishes is to effectively sow death and destuction and prolong the conflict.
The real reason Russia is "dangerous" to the U.S. here is that Russia has a history of not pussy-footing around. Russia is not afriad of a few casualties to get a job done, and will indiscrimiately help fight Isis and Al-Queda whereever they may be found. The U.S. might even have to suspend their campaign against Isis (because we all know that's the seconday goal of thier involvment here), and look like fools in the process.
I would be turning my eyes to the Ukraine this month, where I expect the U.S. Nazis will push their Ukranian cousins into an ill-fated invasion of East Ukraine in retaliation for Russia's involvement in Syria.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Putin is far more truthful than the USA govt and media liars.
"far more truthful" .... faint praise .... step away from the punch bowl of Kool-Aid, Dutch Boy !
Sez the totally brainwashed morons from his 8x40 trailer , a guy who has never been anywhere and believes the USA govt and media.
>> 8x40 trailer.
>> His parents basement.
I wish we could find out NewsOutlets coordinates so Vlad could put a cruisemissile into his living room.
potato field in latvia
heh heh
I guess most of the people here missed the photos of McCain meeting with ISIS leaders.
ISIS = CIA
ISIS =CIA/Mossad with Mossad calling the shots
Barack Obama, Nobel PeacecPrize winner, is the father of ISIS
ISIS is Al Qaeda version 2.0
Al Qaeda ended up a boogie man nobody fears anymore. Rita Katz to the rescue with her Hollywood produced beheading videos. ISIS - now that is TRULY a boogie man to fear!
PLEASE, protect me from these fiends. Molest me all you want at airports. Pull me over at roadblocks anywhere, and barge into my neighbors house whenerever you want without a search warrant.Go ahead and record my every purchase, my every location on this planet, inject me with those "special blend" vaccines, and feed me those nutricious GMO snacks that deform baby pigs.
Just keep me safe from those eveel boogie mans!
Brits did a nice job drawing Syrian borders on a map - blocks off every possible route.
If they follow Russian military doctrine they will flatten any ISIS controlled towns and unlike Obama, they will attack ISIS training facilities - causing ISIS to move back into Iraq.
Meanwhile, expect the U.S. to 'advise' Ukraine in a similar manner!
When ISIS movess back into Iraq the Kurds will be waiting for them.
First things first. Take out the supply routes from Turkey, Jordan and Iraq. Then 'mow the grass' as the Zionazis charmingly put it.
Move back into Iraq? More like back into Turkey or Jordan where they came from. Turks are getting a lot of bad karma out of this.
The best picture here is that US and SA are in bad, bad, bad economic position now let's see how long can they go on with these aventures in Syria and Yemen and how long can US keep pumping money to support all the bases around the world.
*Tuesday the US market will be down more than 1,000 points.
I love it when you talk dirty.
Market will have a "glitch" before that happens.
Oh, for those of you who think the US/ZATO has a chance of defeating the Chines/Russians/Iranians in a war, here's a fact. My brother-in-law is a recruiter for the US Army. He said that on average only about 30% of all kids they contact meets the MINIMUM crieria for entry in the Army. And that criteria is pretty low!
So in a big shooting war, it has to go nuclear or the US will be out of troops within months.
Oh none-sense! They have the entire population of transexuals untapped as possible missile fodder! They will have dozens of more recruits!
Oh, for those of you who think the US/ZATO has a chance of defeating the Chines/Russians/Iranians in a war, here's a fact. My brother-in-law is a recruiter for the US Army. He said that on average only about 30% of all kids they contact meets the MINIMUM crieria for entry in the Army. And that criteria is pretty low!
So in a big shooting war, it has to go nuclear or the US will be out of troops within months.
I feel sorry for American kids who are dumb enough to join or their parents who think it is a good idea. Since The Civil War, the Ameri-Con leadership of banksters and elites has murdered young men for profit and booty like just about every other country.
Protecting democracy? What a joke. TV and Hollywood brainwashing the public every second.
Do you really want to get your legs blown off for Soros, Zuckerberg, Obama, Clintons, Bushes, Rockefellers and Rothschilds?
And when you come back , they treat you like shit and have to wait years to get help.
I was a draftee in the VietNam war. I'm pretty sure there was somewhere between 9 out of 10 who were draftees, also.
We didn't JOIN shit. Since there were so many of us draftees as opposed to volunteers, there always seemed be some asshole telling us if we didn't do as we were told he would shoot our asses in the back of the head.
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One of the saddest movies I have ever seen is this one:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748043/
Hell and Back Again (2011) about the war in Afghanistan. What is really pathetic is listening to the US Officers trying to convince the Afghan village elders to "make them a part of their decision making". One can imagine the CIA trained Psyops guy having written the manual on this technique.
One always hopes the "higher ups" in any organization have some kind of wisdom that makes the efforts of the grunts worth while. The US Military at one time had a really smart, well educated officer corps. From the film, they come across as zombified middle level managers better suited to running a car rental agency...
All the while, the Afghan village elders are pleading with the Americans, again, and again, and again...
PLEASE GO AWAY AND LEAVE US ALONE
It won't come to that. BHB will surender.
US army is made up at least partially of juvenile delinquents who were sent to military academy when school refused them entry. Academy or youth jail was the option. These kids are angry and familiar with war zones. I live near an academy.
Russia had to move in most likely because, both Turkey and Israel were increasingly attacking Syrian territories and assisting ISIS or affiliates.
Some progress seem to be visible. Syria is now controlling almost 80% of its population while ISIS mostly holds deserts.
Russia is also reportedly started giving satellite "Eye" information of situation on the ground.
Carpet bomb ISIS, problem solved.
Carpet bomb Israel, problem solved.
How about Wall Street?
Nuke them all from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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4 down arrows? These people should be asked - why is that a bad thing?
If those Arab "allies" and the US want so desperately to get thier gas to the EU, why not go through Joudan, then undersea to Turkey and forward, instead of decimating Syria and the Syrian people? When South Stream was sidelined, Putin opted to lay his pipis under the Black Sea to Turkey!
Its not about pipelines. its about taking Assad out and then on to Iran Geopolitics.
So what? Is the US the only country allowed to militarily intervene in other countries affairs?
According to the USA, yes,
newsoutlet: paid Zio-troll!
I wonder where he gets his information from? "the toilet store" ha ha
All conflicts begin with the first bullet shot, the first artillery shell fired, the first bomb dropped; I'm fairly confident that the Syrian army and the Assad regime had nothing to do with the first in any of these categories....While shots may have been fired during civil disturbances or riots, they probably were NOT meant to escalate to the level that the country was destroyed...
Syria had its false flag, Knudleman-Kagan, Maidan snipers to kick things off.
AlfredNeumann:
smart mofo
We Russian maybe poorer than you in Amerika, but we are better because we have Putin - he is our leader. Our Father. Our Sun. Our Everything!
Putin! I can live without a potato but I can not live without you! Ou Putin!