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ABC Reports Russian Troops Have Arrived In Syria, Russia Denies
Earlier today, Al Arabiya made waves in the energy market following reports that a Russian ship carrying special forces had arrived in the Syrian port of Tartus, previously demonstrated here to be a key strategic asset in the Mediterranean. This news was promptly denied by RIA, which said that "there were no Russian military ships off Syria coast" and that the Iman ship is a tanker which is merely conducting resource support functions. Furthermore, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the crew of Iman consists solely of "civilian personnel, which is being guarded." That may or may not be the case, but has not stopped ABC from blasting, minutes ago, a headline that "Russian anti-terror troops arrive in Syria" a development that a "United Nations Security Council source told ABC News was "a bomb" certain to have serious repercussions." Which begs the question: is everyone now dead set on having war in Syria, and by proxy, Iran?
From ABC:
Russia, one of President Bashar al-Assad's strongest allies despite international condemnation of the government's violent crackdown on the country's uprising, has repeatedly blocked the United Nations Security Council's attempts to halt the violence, accusing the U.S. and its allies of trying to start another war.
Now the Russian Black Sea fleet's Iman tanker has arrived in the Syrian port of Tartus on the Mediterranean Sea with an anti-terror squad from the Russian Marines aboard according to the Interfax news agency. The Assad government has insisted it is fighting a terrorist insurgency.
The Iman replaced another Russian ship "which had been sent to Syria for demonstrating (sic) the Russian presence in the turbulent region and possible evacuation of Russian citizens," the Black Sea Fleet told Interfax.
Here is where ABC's report gets a little screwy:
RIA Novosti, a news outlet with strong ties to the Kremlin, trumpeted the news in a banner headline that appeared only on its Arabic language website. The Russian embassy to the U.S. and to the U.N. had no comment, saying they have "no particular information on" the arrival of a Russian anti-terrorism squad to Syria.
Actually no, here is what RIA did say about the development, google translated: (original can be found here)
Defense Ministry denied the information circulated a number of media that the coast of Syria are ostensibly Russian warships.
"No Russian warships, performing tasks from the shores of Syria, no. In the Syrian port of Tartus 10 days of the ship auxiliary fleet tanker" Iman "which performs the tasks logistics - the replenishment of fuel and food - of the Black Sea and Northern Fleets, which provides security shipping in the Gulf of Aden anti-piracy ", - told RIA Novosti representative of management information and the Defense Ministry.
Previously, some Russian and foreign media reported that the Black Sea Fleet tanker "Iman" on board which is a group of Marines, ostensibly to perform combat missions off the coast of Syria.
Which is rather odd - one would imagine that when reporting on such potential warmongering scenarios fact-checking would be rather important. It appears not.
Either way, ABC continues:
Last week Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia had no plans to send troops to Syria.
"As for the question whether I consider it necessary to confront the United States in Syria and ensure our military presence there… in order to take part in military actions -- no. I believe this would be against Russia's national interests," Lavrov told lawmakers, according to RIA Novosti.
So... Buy crude or yes? Because it has been a whopping 48 hours since we heard anything from Israel ever since its security council proceeded to give the go ahead in a 8-6 vote to attack Iran.
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i put up my take on the syrian situ last week, and it hasn't changed, and it doesn't have much in common w/ ABC'snooze, except it explains a "story" behind the rooskies' scuttling the "UN peace efforts" but i won't repeat the possible "why"
i think tyler does a great job, here, pointing out that the MSM spin on "reputed" events is as phony and bogus as the "event" itself,and i appreciate him joining me in this, today!
the "end of twist" which tyler clearly prefaced w/ that big "IF" is now being kicked around the zH nursery as "given" by our very own "muppets" too, which is funny as hell. really
there is so much disinfo being "published" and released by "officials"
for example, even in US politics, did rPaul's peeps "engineer" those "arrests" a few daze ago around the school-house caucus case? in a way, i sure hope so! the repubParty "authority"'s tactics and strategies need to be exposed and made public, and if the paulFaithful can be energized in the process, better still, imo; these are the types of political tactics that can awaken an entire nation by their "dramatic story-impacts" and i hope ron's peeps designed this whole shit-show, personally!
from trying to digest the "comments" here the past few daze, there seems to be a "conssensus" forming that this will all be over by november and we probably won't even have elections, that's how "over" it is gonna be, b/c of the certainty of martial law, ya know...
trolls who were pimping and pumping what now MUST happen in these respects were simply lauded and agreed with most often by the zH muppetry, almost as though that were, somehow, the editorial position of tyler, himself, which i personally would not see as the correct view of what he is saying
these people are haroldCamping-esque in their belief systems, their dates, their utter certainties and the warmth and succor with which they welcome others of the "flock"
although i will freely admit that altho no fiat currency, empire, nation, or even planet or star lasts "forever", i will also insist that that doesn't mean it MUST happen by novemeber, at the latest
who do these fuktards think they are? bilary 'attacking iran'?
TO:: slewie
who do these fuktards think they are? bilary 'attacking iran'?
i see you have a stalking horse wannbe avatar talking a bunch of crazy wall mark greeder shit. not sure whether congrats or condolences are in order but i agree with you on the high anxiety disinfotainment content in these chaostan cage fight threads.
the ‘morts/muppets ’ are terminally disinformed by the hordes of surgically enhanced, eyes wide shut, 'pre-cog' peckerwoods that infest the msm. The newspeak storyline, and the incessant instant replays of dog vomit commentary are used by the cryptic intriguers to cover their tracks, provide probable cause and sound the call to arms.
if i had to go all in and make a totally off the wall pre dick shun, i'd say that, in the best of all possible worlds, a win-win situation would mean that the the ayatollahs are history, i'm a dinner jacket retires to a country club somewhere to play golf with the soap opera extras posing as qadaffi/obl,and the allegedly 'warring parties' play a friendly game of cut the cake.....................
i haven't felt stalked by clonie, but gregSmith definitely set him off!
before last week, i didn't see him too much; he put up some interesting scientific articles from somebody at ucsc, i think, on the santorini magma bubble piece, then may have just gotten mega-hammered on friday evening, then went astral-hammer for stPatty'sDay, then gonzo-hammered and more gregSmith? ruh-roh!
i hope he's ok, tho; i sense he may have stood atop the accelerator going into springBreakCurve and 'spun out'; not that there's anything wrong with that...
yeah---the disinfotainment stuff is awesome and tyler just lets it fly sometimes; my gig is trying to make up a scenario that accounts for all the facts better than the MSM propwash and stateDept bullshit and "cover" stories
they make up shit about how unstable everything is and we must have war and airstrikes and i do enjoy going on for pages about how stable this could be if they would just un-wedge their fuking heads and STFU for a few daze and stop believing their own moronic press releases, lies, and propaganda
they're driving us crazy, so i'm just lettin them have it right back atcha with "propaganda you fuking KNOW might be true b/c they didn't say it!" L0L!!!
oddly, i think my shit makes waaay more sense than how they "spin" 'events', and i'm already getting reports from my moles that people are adjusting some of these styooopid press releases "b/c of what slewie might say"
trust me
@ slewie:
first a compliment on your measured response to the 'anonymous' stuff above. even the worst a-holes have a right to spout their drivel and we, of course, have the right to ignore it.
not sure but anon's rants may have something to do with the 'disinfotainment' process we're talking about. it's we the people who have allowed all of this to happen. first we abrogated our responsibilities as informed citizens, then we were systematically transformed into complacent consumers hard wired into a remote contolled matrix dominated by looting class gangsters peddling credit cards and cheap plastic crap.
its up to us to change that ...........................................
We want to get paid before we get killed!
Nyet, bitchez!
If I remember "prophesy" correctly, the Russians are the "good guys".
Popcorn, peanuts, hot dogs, ice cold beer, cheap vodka. Stock up before the shooting starts.
Will 7.62x39 be in a bubble?
At the last gun show in Phoenix earlier this month I had no problem buying a case of 1,000 Russian 7.62x39 ammo so I doubt they are gearing up for some major conflict. Crappy part is I can't reload their ammo because they don't use brass casings but steel casings instead.
Ditto here except in Tulsa. Silver Bear, zinc plated. Mini-30 is picky, but this goes through it just fine, factory mags. Got a bunch of Wolf steel a couple years back and the mini-30 hates it - kept it for barter though. Oddly, the mini-14 will eat just about anything, even the Wolf, in .223 of course.
rugerMini14
Steel casings testify to the shooters having fun by the shovel full mixed with the brass and nickel.
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.
Can we get this on already? I'm sick of seeing these fucking bankers and politicians walking around free.
We stick our big noses in anywhere, anytime but when the Russkis do it, it is a BFD... relax, let them screw the pooch for awhile, the US is tired of it and broke to boot... Let's stop warring for Goldman and Big Oil and Bif Defense.
Once you hear Syria is declared a "no fly" get ready for the fireworks.
I reported on this move last week, Russia has been in Syria ports supplying the citizens with weapons to fight elements of The Muslim Brotherhood and Al-CIAda that was ordered there by Hitlery Klinton to topple the Assad Regime, their payment? the spoils of war, Mercs at best.
Russia has already set up radar and missle defense systems to protect Syria from USA and British aggressions. We cannot do Iran without getting a "no fly" over Syria.
MSM would have you believe that Syrian Govt. is slaugherting their own citizens, not true.
MSM would have you believe that Syrian citizens are fighting their own Govt. Not true.
Syrian citizens are fighting outside aggressors to save their Country.
The first casualty of war is the truth.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/russian-anti-terror-troops-arrive-syria/story?id=15954363#.T2efd46UzhG
I just found a good link below that confirms Russia has been there a while now, like I said above.
This is what Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, meant when he pointed out that “Syria's air defenses were five times more sophisticated as those in Libya, making airstrikes riskier and more complicated.”
So if the US, any NATO power, Turkey, Saudi Arabia or Qatar, is inclined to embark on military operations to enforce security zones in Syria under a protective umbrella of no fly-zones on the Libyan model, Gen. Dempsey warned them they would be lethally challenged by a dense network of sophisticated Russian-made air defenses operated by Russian experts. This network also shielded the Iranian airlift to Syria from attack.
And this matters to the US because? The middle east acts as though we have one little oil well left there and everybody is racing to get to it first and claim first dibs on it. This has nothing to do with oil reserves as there is plenty for everybody as there has been and has more to do with Israel and their posturing for a strike against Iran. They can't get China or Russia to go along so now they want to convince America it is in our best interest to attack with them. Just how is that Israel in our best interest? I have no plans to visit you or the middle east anytime soon. Your war posturing is what is driving our oil prices up here so STFU and let the middle east deal with their own political affairs and normal trade flow without all your war rhetoric. You didn't see us lob nukes at Russia when they have the means to strike the US and they certainly haven't done it to us. The whole world saw what happened in Japan so nobody doesn't have a clear picture just how dumb shooting nukes at each other is. Nobody wins and all the mature people know that. Dictatorships will fall if their people want it to fall. We have no business helping that with American blood. We had our revolution, now let them have theirs without interference. If the Iranian people have had enough of their leaders they will make the change. Just stop trying to convince America we need to do your dirty work as I can see the writing on the wall it will not benefit one single American here on our mainland. Just take our annual charity and STFU.
The fight over the remaining barrels of oil in the world will be fierce, diabolical and global.
Can someone point out some reason anyone should believe ABC??!!
If they say water's wet, I'd likely run my hand under the tap, just to check.
RIght. And if Ron Paul were to walk on water, the headlines would say, "RON PAUL CAN'T SWIM."
Mysteerious Rooshian Vooman denounces ze feelthy peegs!
Red Mercury swan.
Another reason to move oil up big!
No flyover for you! Swan
I wouldn't shed one tear to wake and find londonistan and her jewish vassalages dc (mordor on the potomac), and kikistan proper had all been nuked with nothing left but ash. Not one.
Ever since Bush invaded a sovereign nation (Iraq) to "spread democracy" and Hillary invaded a sovereign nation (Libya) "to protect the civilians" ...we will see more of this type of excuse when some country invades another.....it's simply a way of "Follow the Leader"..."if you can do it we can too."
These things will not end well for the average Joe (or Ivan) who just wants to earn a living and feed his family.
Aside from that, this move is very bullish for both oil and palladium. Maybe these are the "serious repurcussions" the UN was talking about..i.e., soaring prices of oil and the soft grey metal?
I wonder how this ship has suddenly appeared on the "radar" of ABC news when nobody else seems to have seen it approaching?
Damn it!... Now they'll start a new Department of Homeland ABC NEWS division which will be staffed by former journalists... err... former lapdogs... err... former hangers-on... err, ah fuck it, I don't know what they are.
So what is the plan?
Squeeze Iran (and Syria) until they're forced to strike back and then start bombing the shit out of them. Once the bombing starts immediately start unwinding the shadow banking system.
Then when it's all over say...Those Motherfking Iranians, if they weren't trying to build that nuke you'd still have your pension and 401K. We warned you about those terrorists.
I don't think this is going to go well at all. Nothing will go to plan. People everywhere, from Tehran To Milwaukee will be outraged at these psychopathic money changers. It's a suicide mission, but instead of using a bomb belt they've hijacked the largest military in the world.
Well put ncgw
It's a suicide mission, but instead of using a bomb belt they've hijacked the largest military in the world.
SYRIA - A Russian military unit has arrived in Syria, according to Russian news reports, a development that a United Nations Security Council source told ABC News was “a bomb” certain to have serious... repercussions. Russia, one of President Bashar al-Assad's strongest allies despite international condemnation of the government's violent crackdown on the country's uprising, has repeatedly blocked the United Nations Security Council's attempts to halt the violence, accusing the U.S. and its allies of trying to start another war. Now the Russian Black Sea fleet's Iman tanker has arrived in the Syrian port of Tartus on the Mediterranean Sea with an anti-terror squad from the Russian Marines aboard according to the Interfax news agency. The Assad government has insisted it is fighting a terrorist insurgency. The Russian news reports did not elaborate on the Russian troops' mission in Syria or if they are expected to leave the port. The presence of Russian troops in Syria could be a “pretty obvious’ show of support to the regime, according to Russian security expert Mark Galeotti. “No one thinks of the Russians as anything but Assad's last friends,” said Galeotti, professor of global affairs at New York University. The Iman replaced another Russian ship “which had been sent to Syria for demonstrating (sic) the Russian presence in the turbulent region and possible evacuation of Russian citizens,” the Black Sea Fleet told Interfax. –ABC News
And there's more and more data concerning the beginning of a war against Syria from Turkey in the next few days.
This is more fun than doing Jello-shots and playing Risk!