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Watch The Latest Russian War Preparations In Syria: Satellite Imagery Update
Over the course of the last several weeks, Europe’s worsening migrant crisis and Russia’s stepped up military support for Bashar al-Assad’s forces at Latakia have conspired to wake the entire world up to Syria’s protracted civil war.
The interesting thing about Russia’s involvement is the extent to which Moscow’s approach to the conflict differs from The Kremlin’s handling of the crisis in Ukraine.
Whereas Putin has steadfastly refused to admit the scope of Russia’s support for the separatists at Donetsk, he’s made no secret of Moscow’s intentions in Syria.
Note the extent to which that assessment differs from Washington’s official line. While the US insists (loudly) that it cannot discern what Russia’s intentions in Syria are, The Kremlin has been remarkably (and uncharacteristically) clear. Put simply, Russia intends to bolster the army of its ally Bashar al-Assad against any and all anti-regime elements operating inside Syria and because some of those anti-regime elements happen to be extremists, Russia is effectively waging a war on terror by default. No mystery there.
However, because the US needs to buy time to figure out the best way to navigate an impossibly complex situation whereby Washington will either need to join its two fiercest foreign policy critics (Russia and Iran) in destroying Syrian rebels that in some cases were trained and supported by the Pentagon or else stand aside as the Russians do in a matter of months what the US air force has failed to achieve over the course of more than a year, The White House pretends to be completely confused about Putin’s intentions. This charade has piqued the public’s interest in Russia’s “mysterious” military buildup.
Having said all of that, one should of course approach any and all "evidence" of Russia's maneuvers with an appropriate amount of skepticism because, as we noted earlier this month, things like satellite images purporting to show just what Russia is doing and where in Syria "are the modern equivalent of Colin Powell's vial of WMDs presented to the United Nations in 2003 to justify the war with Iraq."
It's with all of the above in mind that we present the latest images that allegedly show the extent to which Russia is preparing for war from Bashar al-Assad's seaside stronghold.
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They are busy oiling up for their epic volleyball rematch.
EEeech......that scene has a WHOLE new context now in today's Army.
I knew a doofus who loved that dumb movie. I remember that the whole movie was pretty ghey. The lead characters Kelly and Tom are ghey. She had a really bad thing happen to her when she was younger and I could see why she does not trust men.
The whole movie was like Grease with F-14s. It made West Side Story look macho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSV35A1cQDM
HAHAHAHA !!! SOOoooo....RIGHT !!
Here's another clip of that same scene....but with actual clips from Top Gun edited in to highlight each of Tarantino's point.
He's is SOOOooo...RIGHT !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyN8VN4BSzM
Yours is better.
I just watch "Top Gun" the other night - Goose died.
Sorry but the US is having to send its only carrier anywhere near the Mid East home in a couple of weeks and it will not be replaced for a couple of months due to lack of ships. So the modern day Maverick and Goose in their Hornets will have just gone home.
Still the USAF is doing all the flying now, just a shame about their targeting instructions.
But seriously, as only the Russians and Syrians seem to have the legal authority issued by the Sovereign Government of Syria to be flying over Syria, all planes of other countries are at risk. Especially if they do something stupid.
They have a desk job now. Because they are straight.
How US Made and Grew ISIS
The Bush-Obama tag team actively if unintentionally created the conditions for the rise of ISIS in Syria, Iraq and Libya
It has been too much, rather than too little, intervention and violence by the US that has led to ISIS
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/how-us-made-and-grew-isis/ri9942
Russia Checks Western Lies on Syria
Such as the lie of being genuinely interested in the defeat of ISIS and Al Qaeda, or that Assad is the cause of the European migrant crisis
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/russia-checks-western-lies-syria/r...
I'm sure the Russians expect fuckery in Chechnya and Dagestan as well as more Islamist and Xe mercs in Novorussiya.
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/American_Committee_for_Peace_in_C...
Few here probably know or recall the curious passion a handful of Zionist Jews {people who were in PNAC, JINSA, AIPAc} became suddenly concerned with "peace" in chechnya.
there is little doubt in some circles that these people helped foment terrorism {and of course it appears the Russians false flagged a couple buildings themselves)
There is no left or right, no Christian or pagan -
there is only evil warmongering cunt and those determined to stop them.
ISIS never mentions Israel... Hm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGRET8c7xNw
Drudgestein
\Point of order
It's not imagery. Imagery is if I said "the Russian unrest in 1912 was one of circumstance and blood."
This is satellite imaging.
/Point of order
It's one hell of a spear point too!!!
What Russian unrest in 1912?
See? That's imagery!
with such a low amount of total armament's involved,they don't expect much resistant,and not to last that long.
Who says they're done ?
Besides, You start small....then probe. Adjust. Not only to ISIS....but to see the reaction of NATA and the U.S.
Remember....Putin plays chess.....Obammy plays checkers.
I always saw Obama as more of a Hop-scotch or Double Dutch "man".
Remember....Putin plays chess.....Obammy plays with himself -
It isn't like those long convoys of shiny new Toyotas are hard to spot or destroy. The Russians are not there to give them CAS. They're there to destroy them.
This seems fitting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mTlnrXFAXE
Watch a real american man:
http://www.anna-news.info/node/43229
the Bear & THE HARDWARE!
Did DigitalGlobe suddenly get a satellite upgrade? These images are of a much finer quality than when Geoffrey Pyatt showed us pictures of Russia supposedly invading Ukraine...
Standard Disclaimer: And in color no less!
But, but ... but they invaded at least 40 times...
And still had 9 tanks for Syria.
Compared to NRO's range of platforms, these images are still shit.
United States government contract with DigitalGlobe.
"The G-EGD program provides the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and its customers with current, unclassified, high-resolution imagery in support of operational planning, emergency response and situational awareness."
About NGA
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responders.
Digitalglobe #USgovt contract (NGA) http://tinyurl.com/peemypp http://tinyurl.com/p5s9erz
DigitalGlobe had $395.3 million in U.S. govt business last year http://tinyurl.com/p23e7et
More Cargo 200
Boo hoo. By now, US knows the Russians are there, and Russians know the US know. If they are there with Assad's blessing, what the US cares then? I can't remember Russia bitchin' about US presence in Japan, Germany and wherever else the US has its bases.
Let's just hope and pray that Putin and Jinping can deliver us from Washington's evil, without the neocon fascists resorting to nuclear war.
PCR doesn't think so. One may not like it but he does have a point.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/09/23/russias-false-hopes-paul-crai...
This guy gets more wound up with each passing day.
Really, there's no end of pundits pontificating on what Russia's foreign policy should be. IMO, they very neatly avoided a trap set for them in Ukraine while carefully laying their own trap in Syria - a trap which has now snapped shut.
You play the hand you're dealt, and Russia has played theirs very well.
Take a break PCR. Let events unfold in their own good time.
Russia's not going to be at full strength militarily until 2018 at the earliest. They're playing their cards accordingly, despite all the efforts on the part of the Anglo world to suck them in prematurely. The Russians aren't stupid but they won't be slow to counter anti-Russian aggression once they're satisfied all branches of the military are at full strength.
Hopefully after Syria they will help Iraq and Libya get the NeoCon-zato scum out. Make sure Syria gets the Golan Heights back.
Can't wait for Putin's UN address on the 28th.
Major Russian action is unlikely before then.
It will be a barnburner, poking holes into the USSA's flaccid attempt to isolate Russia. Imagine that, trying to isolate a country with 1/7th of the worlds landmass, LMAO.
The best thing is that he is speaking on that day after Obama.
This will allow a direct and interesting comparison of content, style and audience/MSM reaction.
I would love to hear him twist the knife at the end by spitting back "You are either with us or against us, motherfuckers!"
Those pics here showing the jets look photoshopped. Even if they aren't, who cares?
ISIS cares. Or will care.
Guns and gold. Nobody has an incentive to disclose their holdings.
It does not matter whether the images are fake or real. Whoever controls the airsapace will control the narrative.
Cant wait for Hague Tribunal where putin with his criminal elite will be hanged.
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plank of wood in your own eye, asshole...
Latvian women are pretty hot. The men must be dorks like this guy.
Here is a Latvian woman who spent $53,000 in plastic surgery to look like a blow up sex doll.
http://www.kapanlagi.com/showbiz/hollywood/matcont-agar-mirip-sex-doll-m...
EEEWWWWW!!!!11!11!!!
So you also were assigned this site 2 weeks ago.
So do you guys just roll on and roll off? Just change user names? What's the logistics of professionally trolling a site?
Are you and (3 week) Blankone on the same staff or what?
tea boys at GCHQ is my guess.
If GW Bush and HRH Tony Blair are still on the loose after the war crimes they committed, I can't see why anybody will want to try and arrest Putin for non-war crimes.
I wonder how many new accounts of trolling past will be when you die waiting....
Russia is present at the invitation of the legal government of a sovereign state.
the US not only is not, but has been supporting "Al QAEDA" basically overtly, and ISIS more covertly - in other words, supporting the people we are supposed to be fighting in the war on terror to overthrow Assad -AND DESTROY SYRIA AS A VIABLE STATE, AND MILITARY AND ECONOMIC RIVAL TO "GREATER ISRAEL"
It;s about pipelines - just not Qatar's
Can't have Iranian gas running through Iraq and Syria and competing with the gas Zion plans to steal from Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, can we?>
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-geopolitics-of-gas-and-the-syrian-crisi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq-Syria_pipeline
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-mid...
Sovereign free will only applies to vassal states who are doing as they are told. - US Oligarchs
Russia is providing fighter escort for its cargo planes which may account for some of the aircraft in the pics...
You're probably thinking of Il-78 tankers escorting fighter jets.
Military transports, such as Il-76 and the larger An-124's are flying in solo through the Caspian sea, Iran and Iraq.
combat aircraft arrived under shadow of transports
Some arrived in the 124's, some arrived on their own, hence the 78's.
From the article:
Russia intends to bolster the army of its ally Bashar al-Assad against any and all anti-regime elements operating inside Syria and because some of those anti-regime elements happen to be extremists, Russia is effectively waging a war on terror by default. No mystery there.
There is no basis for that claim. Putin has not even delivered the S-300 missile systems that Syria and Iran contracted for back in 2007. Despite all the previous articles claiming Iran was about to get them - they have never been provided to Iran.
Back on Sept 3rd the articles such as this claimed Russia was landing a full expeditionary force in just days. That has been proved to be false.
There have always been a few planes and helicopters in Syria. Notice they are still close to the Russian naval port. That is all. They have never flown a mission. Unarmed drones may have flown but that is all.
Putin hosted the leaders of the insurgents as his honored guests in Russia in an attempt to negotiate an agreement of how post Assad Syria will be structured. Putin just wants to keep the port and attempt to get part of Syria beyond that.
When the S-300 is delivered to Assad then you know Russia/Putin is finally giving some real support.
As I've noted, you say this same thing over and over and over - have done so for weeks...
It's an interesting approach to anti-Putin agitprop, I'll grant you.
But repeating it over and over and over... I dunno...
How's the coffee in there today?
You need to up yo troll game, nigga!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/30/assad-russian-s300-missiles...
They have been, officially, dragging their feet re Iran, but that was likely to go along with the West to some extent.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-russia-to-deliver-its-s-300-missile-sy...
Do you expect Russia to go to the mat for any foreign state against the US AND Nato and Israel, really?
And one suspects that the Russians have indeed provided the Iranians with quite a bit of anti-aircraft capability.
Yeah, I know - it wasn't in Debkafile so it must not be true, but it is certainly in Russia's interests to make the attack on Iran costly for Israel and the Zionist Occupied American Regime.
Repeat a lie often enough, sheeple will start to believe.
Trouble is that strategy doesn't work at zh.
Neither Syria nor Iran has the S-300. If they did they would be parading it as a threat. Satelite photos would be available showing them being moved. Syria would have been using them. The edges of the capital of Syria has been bombed recently. Syria's northern outposts have been bombed and continue to be bombed at times.
Always, Putin is going to, may do, could do, but has not done.
Iraq1, Iraq2, Serbia, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, E Ukraine No action from Russia/Putin. Russia has even voted FOR sanctions against many of these countries and agreed to no fly zones on some as well. Russia agreed to the sanctions against Iran. At the time Iran's leader said Russia was making itself the enemy of Iran.
Russia/Putin forced some of these countries to chemical weapons (thus making them easier victims) as wished by the west - and then provided no protection.
Even the ethic russians in EUke have not been provided anything close to the S-300. Nothing. And that is out of concern about the WUke army not NATO and the west.
they will get s-2500 (s-300 upgraded) not s-300 by this year end . Can't you read ?
They have been promised these things since 2007 and even had a signed contract with Russia for them to be delivered. They are not there. If Putin wanted to deliver them they could have been there 3 yrs ago before all this destruction. Russia and later Putin refused to honor their contract.
Always tomorrow, always going to do something, but never does anything. Syria is largely destroyed already, while Putin allowed it to happen. Putin does not want to save Syria or Assad he wants part of Syria for the Russian elite and to keep the naval port.
Putin would never take advice or criticism from a Grima Wormtongue like you.
Why didn't Russia intervene in these places? Or should I say counterintervene?
Or should I say 'counterintervene'?
Everywhere the US/NATO inserted their diseased member, you felt that Putin should follow them in with a hypodermic of full of penicillin.
You wanted Putin to make Russia a Mini-Me of America.
You never should have quit the footlights and treading the boards. You would have made a divine Iago.
That's an overly simplistic, and incorrect analysis... there are lawyers, bankers and the Russian MIC on the dance floor.
Selling a limited quantity of (out)dated arms to a cash poor regimes under international sanctions creates impediments to coalition building, when far more can be achieved with far more sophisticated weapons by using the Russian military. Moreover, as exemplified by the Saudi military's relatively ineffectual use of American arms in Yemen, if you want to push product and book sales, it helps to make to a good impression with prospective buyers (who don't have active embargo issues)...
Nice and simple!
The Radical Muslim forces in Chechnya are dead and so are all their families. The last Chechen war should give us some idea of what is going to happen in Syria. The Second Chechen war was notable for two things.
First the use of heavy weapons by the Russians in Chechnya were employed in a similar way to their use in the latter part of the Second World War. The number of people killed in Grozny is estimated at 100,000 at least, this was over a few weeks of combat.
Secondly was the use of local forces to exterminate opponents and their clans and kin. This has worked extremely well in Chechnya with the remnants of the radical Muslims either fleeing to the Middle East or hiding in hills being hunted down by the Chechen President's death squad.
This is one of the reasons there is a high amount of men only entering Europe as "refugees." They are the rats fleeing a coming fire. Once air superiority is lost to Russia and China, the proxy forces will be crushed. Russia and China are not going to let what happened in Libya also happen in Syria.
ISIS terrorists running for cover, Putins gift to Merkel, while mopping up Obamas mess,
Yes, welcome to Germany.
Terrible, but it was the only way to bring the Chechen war to a close.
It would be a joyous historic achievement for the human species IF the Russians, Chinese and Americans combined forces and operated in unity to un-islamicize the Middle East.
And afterwards they may be needed to unislamify Europe, thanks to Mutti...
thanks to Mutti...And Barbara Lerner Spectre.
I have a hunch that Russia will liberate Germany a second time. This time from US.
It would be a joyous historic achievement for the human species IF the Russians, Chinese and Americans combined forces and operated in unity to un-israelitze the Middle East.
Cause ISIS sure aint doing it.
Of course ISIS isn't doiing it! Anyone hearing ISIS denouncing Israel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGRET8c7xNw
I have no problem with the ME being Muslim. But I do have a problem with major population transfers from the ME to Europe. So let the ME be Muslim and Europe emphatically non-Muslim.
Give Syria nukes already. How they posed to stand up to bankers without nukes.
I trust Assad with nukes a hell of a lot more than Bibi. Ever heard of the Samson Option? Bibi would nuke us if we ever started roughing up and imprisoning his money boys on Wall Street.
Putiin response will be a joy to watch. Come on you chicken, pussy ISIS goons -go ahead -make my day.
I am concerned about all the beautiful, innocent former virgin girls they kidnapped and forced into sex slavery. Maybe Putin will send in some special ops to save them.
strange because when media and western govs were furiously accusing Russia of invading Ukraine year ago
there were no such satelite pics showing alledged Russian tanks entering Donbas.
and when Russian tanks ARE on the battlefield, there is flood of this.
My thoughts exactly, when I saw the pictures first time on CNN. They must think their audience is too brain dead to comprehend this. At that time we were told by Kerry, "we cannot show the real pictures, because of security reasons - just trust me, all is true".
My thoughts exactly, when I saw the pictures first time on CNN. They must think their audience is too brain dead to comprehend this. At that time we were told by Kerry, "we cannot show the real pictures, because of security reasons - just trust me, all is true".
My thoughts exactly, when I saw the pictures first time on CNN. They must think their audience is too brain dead to comprehend this. At that time we were told by Kerry, "we cannot show the real pictures, because of security reasons - just trust me, all is true".
A word of advise - DON'T WATCH CNN. It makes your brain rot and you start repeating yourself repeating yourself.
"They must think their audience is too brain dead to comprehend this"
But they are. Braindeaded on purpose.
Reminds me of a joke:
A journalist asks Poroshenko: "Why are you fighing in the Donbass?"
Poroshenko: "Because the Russian army is there."
Journalist: "But why haven't you attacked Crimea then?"
Poroshenko: "Because the Russian army is there for real."
Most excellent
Obama being such a feminine pussy might work out well for the US in an ironic sort of way. He just might not have the balls to do anything. Oh wait, I'm assuming Obama actually makes important decisions, almost went basic bitch mode there.
Greece made such a mistake staying in the Euro, Russia would of been a great ally in the coming war between Greece and Turkey....
Could we stop with that whole nonsense of Greece being a victim? I don't like Turkey as much as the next guy, but the Greeks were proper assholes back in 1974 and basically went out of their way to contribute to the creation of the Northern Cyprus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Cypriot_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat ffs.
I think you make an excellent point here. Turkey wil be the next flashpoint, and when that happens the really serious stuff will break out.
The Dardanelles and the Bosphorus are more important to Russia than Tartus. In the Crimean War the British and French threw everything into making sure the Russians didn't get control of these straits, their only warm-water access to the Med. The Great Game is alive and well, and the same powers are involved, except that Britain and France are no longer powers.
Apparently France has now sold the two Mistrals to Egypt. Don't be surprised if Sisi sells them on to Russia, on favourable terms. Having those two ships in the Black Sea would allow Russia to boss that most strategic of areas. What we are seeing now is the Western powers doing everything in their power to deny Russia - and Germany - a place at the table in the big boys' club, but Russia isn't going to accept second-class status any longer.
Interesting times ahead. My money is on Russia. The Western powers are all bark and no bite; the Russians do very little barking. You can guess the rest.
With those Frogfoots and Hinds about I would not want to be in a white Toyota pickup truck convoy.
This refugee crisis isn't a conicidence. I believe many of the proxy fighters realize the same truth. They're leaving their arms and Toyotas behind of course.
They get a new Toyota in Germany. Without the flak on the platform.
It looks just like my Simcity layout from back in the Amiga days...
You have no stadium so your revenue is down.
Its even worse if you don't have a central bank like the Fed to make money come into being from nothingness...
Is it not amazing, that we are being supplied all these Hi Def images from Syria, yet we have yet to see 1 single Hi Def image of Ukraine when MH17 was shot down.
Because the images give an impression (false) that someone wants people to believe.
My thoughts exactly, when I saw the pictures first time on CNN. They must think their audience is too brain dead to comprehend this. At that time we were told by Kerry, "we cannot show the real pictures, because of security reasons - just trust me, all is true".
"They must think their audience is too brain dead to comprehend this."
Sadly CNN would be largely correct in this assumption.
Looks like Compton on a quite night!
I know I'm shakin'. Orville and Wilbur don't stand a chance.
You are shaking because you need a drink.
Good to see how russians are getting prepared to crush the psychopath pedophile ISIS rapists.
Hungary did a good first step. Russian doing us the 2nd favour restoring order in syria. Now lets see how fast we can return all these so called refugees.
We kinda owe you for the 1956.
They won't be returning. The globalists who run the EU need them to break down ethnic cohesion in Europe. Even those found to have no grounds for asylum will be given 'leave to remain'. Then they have a child and ergo, their 'human rights' entitle them to a family life. In Europe of course. That's what happens.
i wonder why the zionazis aren't claiming russia is bringing weapons of mass destruction to syria? certainly there must be a few gas canisters and phosphorus bombs.
Those are overkill against a Hilux or two with an RPD.
I have a feeling Putin told Bibi to stay out of his way in Syria
Are those the same photos that the USA has been providing to ISIS??
ISIS setup their own cash account and cut out the CIA/Mossad middleman.
Bibi won't have enough hospital beds to treat all the fucked up ISIS terrorists. We'll have to bring them here to VA Hospitals. Three year waits for American vets will get much longer as the ISIS boys get priority.
Bring our ISIS boys home! They're needed to fight domestic terrorism.
Obama has warned Putin.
LEAVE OUR ISIS GUYS ALONE.
Once again, those damned Russians interfering with another revenue stream.
The air field coordinates are 35°24'13.87" N 35°57'08.95" E . Lots of stuff in the neighborhood if you look closely. Defensive Triple A / missile installation 25km away at 35°33'48.68" N 35°44'11.96" E ... ahhhh have fun with it... enjoy the circles of hell.
Interesting site, bit of a mess so clearly no Western influence!!!
It´s the truth site.
Nice to know that the Russian equipment they are using in Syria does not have the advanced anti-satellite detection features that the Russian Army is using in Ukraine!
Super Stealth TM cloaking is only for use within 50km of the Russian border to allow recovery/destruction if necessary.
I wonder what Putin told that KIKE roach son of a bitch, Bibi last week.
Seriously - do you think using that stupid fucking word bolsters any {coherent} point you're trying to make?
There are not enough vile expletives in the universe to describe Bibi.
Another Ales Jonestein type gatekeeper?
Yeah - as should be obvious from my comments.
Bibi told Obama ,
''We won't put up with Assad, who protects Christians, has a British wife and blond haired kids'
Truth is, a good number of Syrians have caucasian roots. Same goes for Iran.
have conspired to wake the entire world up to Syria’s protracted civil war.
Syria is not having a civil war. They are under attack by the USA CIA and Israel Mossad.
Perhaps we should post the photos of McAnus with ISIS again,
The whole war on Syria was totally concocted by the CIA/Mossad
Just like Libya
The worst propagandas fiat can buy!
hahaha, actually its the goddam USA that has paid agents trolling. Nice try though.
Then you just volunteered? How patriotic of you.
You DO realize that the US govt controls Wikipedia and can put in what they want, don't you??
Obomber's statement
We won't tolerate Russia moving bases closer to our borders.
Russia and others should know by now that WE, the USA own the world and every nation that doesn't kiss our FAT ASSES, is the enemy.
Obomber got a rousing standing ovation from Congress with that statement.
Was it the 51st or the 52nd or the 53rd or the 54th or 55th or 56th or 57th US state border he was worried about?
Wow those airplanes are really hidden out in the middle of the desert covered with mesh.
Good thinkg they did that or everybody would know they are there......
Putin wants to spend his last 10 buks fuking with that hell hole...; Let him!!!!!!!!!!!!
The hellhole the USA created with its support of terrorists
You are always the "wise guy" in your own world; telling everyone to get educated, but you refuse to do the same on issues that actually matter. It is called hypocrisy; we all are hypocrites, for it is a matter of degrees and yours is way up there on the scale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb6bh8QT1IM
You are a fucking lunatic. take your Buybull and shove it up your ass.
Yeah. The US is a lot smarter how they handle their expensive hardware. They give it all to the enemy, so that way it won't get blown up.
Here is a suggestion. Go to Google Earth or Maps and look at Latakia and Tartus. See any desert there?
Try learning something before spewing bullshit.
Perhaps you don't understand the purpose of covering the airplanes on the tarmac on in the middle of the sunny desert, when there are no hangars available. Perhaps you should ask the reincarnation of DutchBoy whether he prefers prepping aircraft with or without... since he apparently has some experience with American planes in hot and dirty SE Asia.
I have experience in S.E. Asia and also Libya (2002-2003)
photos here
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b7h6bqkvl46q7vj/AAD3yL68363n_qDF2qacfuXta?dl=0
I have prepped our plane at Mitiga AB in Libya in 120 F weather.
Much hotter than DaNang
NO HANGER EITHER>
Latakis is NOT in the desert.
Suggest you use Google Maps and learn something about Syria
Well, the Crimea thing was more about ethnic Russians living in Ukraine. I have a Ukrainian/Russian husband and wife living across the hall and we are friends because my wife is Russian. It was no accident that they wanted to live by us. I get to hear some interesting perspectives and the Ukrainian/Russians identify themselves as Russians and not Ukrainian. I was asked why the U.S cares about Ukraine. I said because we are a bunch of self-righteous assholes who can't mind their own business and like shoving dollars down people's throats whether they want them or not. If you won't take our dollars we will blow the fuck out of your country or wage economic manipulation of currencies or both because the only way prop this piece of shit economic system running is to steal and it is no different in Russia. They were surprised by my answer but I think pleasantly so. Not all Mericans are stupid.
When the wife first came she was very suspicious of me and the whole situation here. Obviously she had been told some bullshit too over there but now she is very friendly with me even though she struggles with English. That is OK because I know a few Russian words. Her husband is always borrowing my tools and that is OK too. Most of the time my tools are just sitting in the garage anyway. He makes more money than I do but they are always broke because they are trying to get their 14 year old daughter here and have racked up enormous legal/lawyer fees. Now his car is broken down so he has no way to get to work now. I have my truck sitting a garage and I don't use it much. Fine, here are the keys just don't smash it up and leave it full of gas when you are done.
Not many people would do that for anyone in either Russia OR Merica. I will and do though but only because I trust them. I would not borrow my truck to just anyone. Have you seen the price of trucks lately? Word of people like me travels back to Russia/Crimea on a daily basis. Everyone needs some help at some point and that is what I consider being a good neighbor. The problem here is that Syria didn't ask for any help and we forced it upon them. Here, have some "Help", while we destabilize your country and cause your citizens to die. No one needs "help" like that. We decided that you need our "help" whether you want it or not and you WILL take our "help" or die.
Wrong.
You won't see this documentary on American TV anytime soon
Made by an American
Its called
''Crimea for Dummies''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zvb_ottiw
That is a good link Alfred. I don't know why anyone would junk you for posting that. Bad things did happen and are still happening but it is Russia now. So it goes. It is not my place to say one way or the other because that whole idea I had of everyone minding one's own business comes into play.
It looks like Russia is in the game for the "long haul". It's amazing how quickly they fashioned those paved helipads, [paved access roads] for the ground air suppport contingent.
I'm sure Russia learned a few things in Afghanistan. As did the U.S. Military currently hogtied by the TOTUS administration.
+1 Yes, they did. And I was warned by a former Red Army Colonel in 2003 while smoking my Merican cigarettes on the streets of Rostov in 2003. He told me, in English, "They will bleed you." I was against the whole war idea right from the start but what can a serf do?