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Thawing The Cold War: Russia Found To Be Supplying Syria With Weapons, US Not Amused
Remember the cold war: evil Empire, 5 year plans, Lada cars, etc? It may very well be back, this time over the simple matter of a few million barrels of crude per day, after Russia was found to be quietly supplying an embargoed Syria with ammunition, in violation of a weapons embargo. Reuters reports: "A Russian-operated ship carrying a cargo of ammunition has reached conflict-torn Syria after being temporarily halted during a refuelling stop in Cyprus, sources in Russia and Cyprus said on Friday. A source in Cyprus, where the ship made an unscheduled stop for refuelling late on Tuesday, said the ship had given written assurances to authorities its destination would not be Syria but Turkey. It was allowed to sail a day later, whereupon it dropped off conventional tracking systems, switched course and reached Syria on Thursday. "It had bullets. There were four containers on board," a Cypriot official told Reuters." And here the plot thickens: we now have some war mongering deepthroat somewhere in Leningrad, pardon, St. Petersburg: "The ship was carrying a dangerous cargo," the source at St. Petersburg-based Westberg Ltd. said by telephone on condition of anonymity. "It reached Syria on Jan. 11th." Needless to say, the US is not very happy that Russia is doing precisely what it warned a few months ago it would do: namely protect its sphere of influence especially in light of the ever-encroaching NATO aspirations (yes, provocations go both ways as Ron Paul has long been warning): "The United States said on Friday it had raised concerns with Moscow over a Russian-operated ship that has arrived in Syria and which sources said contained a cargo of bullets. "With regard to the ship we have raised our concerns about this both with Russia and with Cyprus, which was the last port of call for the ship, and we are continuing to seek clarification as to what went down here," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said." Looks like the escalation in the Straits of Hormuz is about to shift to the backburner as we finally go back to where the real tension is and always has been: between West and East.
More from Reuters:
Russia has long been a major arms supplier to Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad has been trying to crush a 10-month-old wave of unrest by lethal armed force, raising an international outcry and triggering Western and Arab sanctions against Damascus that Moscow has refused to join.
In Russia, a source at the vessel's St. Petersburg-based firm said the ship Chariot had reached Syria, but declined to comment on reports the ship was carrying cargo from Russia's state weapons exporter Rosoboronexport.
The Chariot sailed from St. Petersburg on Dec. 9.
Rosoboronexport spokesman Vyacheslav Davidenko said on Friday the arms exporter would neither confirm nor deny the report. "We do not comment on where our deliveries go, when they leave port or how."
A Turkish foreign ministry official on Friday confirmed the ship had reached Syria.
"As of 10:15 a.m. (0815 GMT) yesterday the Turkish navy checked and confirmed that the ship in question was docked at the Syrian port of Tartus," ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said.
Russia has voiced strong opposition to arms embargoes and has repeatedly promised to uphold arms contracts with Damascus, one of its top weapons customers, despite increasing international pressure.
Cyprus, an EU member with traditionally close ties to Russia, has maintained it was obliged to allow the vessel to go.
"Since it had changed destination, and (if) we would not have allowed it to go, the company could cite illegal detention of a ship," the Cypriot official said.
The island has bitter experience in dealing with confiscated arms destined from one sanction-hit country to another.
An unnamed military source was quoted as saying in December that Russia had delivered anti-ship Yakhont missiles to Syria.
Syria accounted for 7 percent of Russia's total of $10 billion in arms deliveries abroad in 2010, according to the Russian defence think tank CAST.
Why Syria?
The European Union said on Friday it was aware of the case and national authorities were responsible for making sure an EU arms embargo is upheld.
"We are instrumental in putting these measures in place but it's up to the national authorities to make sure they are implemented and as far as I'm aware the authorities in this case are confident that the embargo has not been broken," said Michael Mann, spokesman for Catherine Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs.
The Westberg official said the company had done nothing wrong as no Russian law prevented the delivery from being made at Syria's Tartus port, where Russia maintains a naval base.
"The ship went to Syria as there was nothing illegal in reaching its originally intended destination," he said.
In October, Russia and China vetoed a western European-led resolution on Syria that threatened sanctions for the bloodshed the U.N. says has killed 5,000 people, Russia tabled a new draft resolution last month.
And should the age old tensions between Russia and the US flare up again, take a wild guess on whose side China will be. The only question is the European wildcard which for now relies so very much on Fed bailouts. Yet one wonders: what happens when Russia shuts down the gas?
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New Pearl Harbour, Russia style.
Don't take this too seriously because Obama is re-thinking government's role. I'm hopeful for change.
Can Obama see Russia from Hawaii?
I see a spike in aggregate demand, and a very happy Krugman...
http://azizonomics.com/2011/12/28/decoding-putin/
Iran has F-16s in its Air Force, I wonder where they got those?
I guess we're supposed to have a monopoly on allowing our military industrial complex to sell weaponry to whomever they want.
Actually, they are F14s, and are pre-revolution era. Iran has been starved for part for years, so there's some question as to the airworthiness of the planes. Most of the Iranian AF is made up of older Migs and a few French Mirages, also pre-revolution.
Who funded and supplied the Afghan's when they we're fighting the Soviets?
Russia is a democracy now; they're supposed to be supplying Syria with white phosphorus.
We sell weapons to all of the nations around Russia, including Georgia who fought with them.
WTF business is it of ours, Russia is not supposed to sell weapons to anyone, huh? They sold to India bigtime for many years too
But...but... We have the Moral Ascendancy and God is on our side!
Isn't it that what makes the Russians wrong to sell weapons???
It boils down to two organized crime syndicates muscling in on each others action.
@ Flakmeister
HA HA HA....:)
i guess it's a kind of coated /<sarc>...otherwise, such high morality talks are really killing...
i do love all the corporate fascists so much...they're making our wonderful world
Europe is in the shit every winter.
They should know by now how NOT to rely on USSR Gas.
As far as the ammo goes.l.. whoopee. Don't worry. It will all hit a flash point and there will be no more crying, just go time.
Also, is it possible for an independent seller to simply lie that they're delivering to Turkey while intending to deliver to their actual buyer wherever else, without the government of Russia being involved at all?
Yes, and I'm sure it rediculiously trivial to label a few conex containers in some bill of lading somewhere as "Tampons", or "Potatoes" but really inside are a boxes that say "7.62x39" on them.
Especially if you have the blessing of Govt/Big Money.
I guess small arms ammo is a no-no, but Patriot missiles are damn near ignored.
Was this ship really named Chariot of Fire, captained by a lying scumbag named Ollie?
So right, UPF! I'm still waiting for some news release on the serial numbers on those patriot missiles, establishing to whom they were originally delivered.
My bet is that it was NOT Germany.
damn double post.
i'll use it spread the fact ron paul has surged 10% in 2 days in south carolina.
RON PAUL BITCHEZ
http://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2012/primary/rep/sc/
OT, but Spiral started it.
Ron Paul signs outnumber Mittens 3 to 1 in my neighborhood. No one else even on the radar.
Now, if Rednecks could just READ;)
I have only seen Ron Paul and Obama bumper stickers driving in the city in one of the bluest of blue states (IL). Go RP!
Colbert polling higher than Huntsman.
Ron Paul had my vote until I heard Colbert was in (lol) ...... I give it a week before the GOP idiots front run Colbert to the "Top Tier" just to avoid having to aknowledge RON PAUL... SAY HIS NAME BITCHEZ, SAY HIS FUCKING NAME.....
And for those bone smokin bitchez in the msm that want to focus on some old newletters from forever ago ..... please watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDisyWkIBM
Then go fuck your useless selves
Christ if they'd at least sign up for walking organ donor status they'd be of some value to humanity.....
Absolutely... run and gun Colbert to the top to minimize Ron Paul. Like one of my uber-neo-con fascist golf buds, retired serious rank Navy who enjoys the sunny chemtariled skies of the WInter Home of the Great Satan. We're talking... about politics... which is all he can talk about. He belabors each and every front runner rebublicrat as the answer to get the bummer outa the white house. Each and every one is the perfect guy until he's no longer the front runner then the next is. Y'all know the type. Amazing bores.
Well, he got fuming mad at me the other day when I told him that if he didn't vote for Ron Paul, he was going to re-elect the bummer. Because there are enough people who are gonna vote for Paul from the inde and repubs to detract from whom ever the Official PTB Smoke Filled Back Room choice is running on the repub ticket. So he'd best get his ass on board for Paul if he wants his one and only save the Republic, the Very Heart of the Nation dream, mad end of life last prayer answered about getting the o-bum out of office.
Yes, I said, as he was starting to seriously get apoplectic, shaking, sputtering, visibly agitated, if you vote for Anybody But Ron Paul You've Consciously Re-elected the Sitting Dude of the Moment.
He bailed on me and wouldn't speak to me for days.
We got dinner tonight.
Wonder if he's taken a full 10 mg of Ativan and a handful of Xanax, yet.
". . .sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."
Ron Paul 2012
http://youtu.be/4Uz3zoK75VM
Wrong. He can't see US of A from his favourite fridge in Chicago. Lot of pig halves and the mob money blocking his "oversight". Even the teleprompter dazed & confused.
He still lives in the pig shit of Capone's slaughterhouses.
Harry Truman is an visionnaire in comparison to that pittyfull piece of garbage.
... at least he fucked the half of the world with his hopium. Good enough fer an pervert.
Me NoClue - but the prick has a same worth and credibility like the Bernank's balance sheet.
... erm...
THE RON FUCKIN' PAUL !!!!!
*** VOTE HIM OR JUST DIE IN THE MISERY
AND DISGRACE ***
my 2c
So Chumba ordered a few containers full of ammo? No big deal, right?
Ammo, bitch!
40 thousand plus dead in mexico's drug wars past +/- 5 years - guess where guns and ammo come from?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381630/WikiLeaks-Mexico-drug-ga...
Afghanistan opium/heroin crop for 2011 rises,... 133% --- WoW!!!
Russia will turn off the gas, and china will turn up the heat
expect obama's next visit overseas to be the week israel strikes iran --- the famous air-born robo-signing pin gets unsheathed --- as rahm says,... never waste a crises!!!
jmo
perhaps jmo..
the art of war states that an attack should be staged while/immediately after an important diplomatic visit or negotiations of a treaty.
it would be a text book move if they did attack during barry's tour.
The Russians also have their own military base in Tartus. I suppose they can argue that the bullets are for them.
I do recall thru the 1970's that the US & USSR heavily supplied both Iran and Iraq (among many others). Plus we've consistently kept pissing on the Russian fence (so to speak). The US thinks in rather short-term, non-delayed gratification, the Russians (and Chinese) play chess, very well.
...which is why Russia totally collapsed and china polluted their entire nation, built empty cities, and ran up a monstrous bubble in everything. To trick us gullible, shortsighted Americans.
Russia and China were both gutted, looted, and trashed by US central bankers. They have the marks to prove it and most unpleasant memories. Picking fights with them now is not smart, but then DC has never been known for brains.
Yeah some of them had a way of finding themselves north after a long stay in Central America I'll wager. Ronnie, School of the Americas and all that.
Just out from Brother Nathaniel: The Jewish War On Vladimir Putin, another really good one:
http://www.realzionistnews.com/?p=690
Bro Nate knows the score, from the inside.
Brother Nathanial! HAHAHAHHAHAAH
Ya'll stone your women together and flog some gays on weekends?
Was the nick Mohammed23 taken or something?
Brings tears to my eyes with laughter selecting anglican posting nicks as if fooling anyone on planet earth. So was Achmed102 taken? or Rahman Calibota Allah21 gone or something?
Asalam Alekem Brothers
deleted
all the big dogs Putin cleaned out of the house used their 2nd passports to flee the reach of justice
Quick...dig up Reagan!!!
And his 1000 pound coffin? Forget it.
I watched the damn funeral and several of the Military shuffled or stumbled once or twice as if the damn thing was heavy for all 8 of them.
I am sure when they open the casket they will inhale the odor of sanctity (I understand it is floral, somewhat like L'air Du Temps) and find him perfectly preserved.
Actually a psychotic killer zombie will pop out. The coffin will open, some foggy gas will hiss out, he'll lurch forward, and let out one "Wheeel." Then proceed to bite the everlovin fucksnack out of everyones jugulars and neck tendons before advanced exoskeletal cladden marines have to restrain him with hardened steel chains and limbcuffs.
Then they'll put him on display in the Smithsonian in some hokey "Last Stand on Earth" display, sadly this will eventually give way to the King Tuts pecker exhibition or Bodyworks 3d. Then back into the fuckin coffin he goes!
I like the walking dead reference better than St. Ronnie.
Checks and balances the hard way; but it's not craps; it's the singular, and the odds are far worse.
whats with all the Kyle Bass ads? it's a bit creepy.
shutup
You must view some very odd porn. 2nickels1krugerrand.com
In the corner of the ad there is the logo of "The Economist" , better known as "The warmongers weekly" , they will even inform you of next year's wars.
Watch for "failed state" for example and you have an invasion in the making.
DTCC needs help
just when you thought it was safe to turn the fallout shelter into that man-cave you always dreamed of....
Will Tebow play during a nuclear winter? You betcha!
His fee is hefty but I think they should just higher Chuck Norris to go take care of this whole thing.
just higher Chuck Norris.......Errrrr, Hire, cheeze yous guys just caint spell huh?
Tebow is going to smote Tom Brady and win by a touchdown lol.
There's no smiting in football!
Tom Brady is going to give Tebow such a smackdown that he will be down on BOTH knees at the end of the game.
I think you mean smite, you might need to go back to Bible School...
(then again, i and o are next to each other, so it could just be a typo)
<strong> Smote</strong> is correct sunshine.......
Smote is the past tense of smite, dingleberry, unless you are from our future, then I can forgive you
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/smote
I smite, you smite, he smites, we done smote!
There's been a drop off in smiting since Old Testament days.
Loins ain't holding up either...
yes, like tigers, they have become endangered
Ain't heard much from Tiger's loins lately....
And look where that has got us.
Yeah, I miss the OT times, a man had a clear conscience when it came to owning slaves and such....
i am hoping that when denver wins the super bowl, everyone in the stadium will simultaneously tebow.
What's this tebow? The only description of i've heard of it is that it's the most famous white bronco since OJ. Is it some sort of off road movement?
what bothers me the most, is these one year wonders are taking time off from the playing field making millions in endorsements while their teammates get squat - take the points!
ya gotta have a history before ya claim celebrity,... bitches
Well it is their navy base.........
Reuters is slow.........this news is 2 days old...
All a big misunderstanding.
Iran has not been an obvious conduit for weaponry to be used against the west either just ask them.
If can't get a hold them just hang around here their agency of propaganda will be along shortly.
The U.S. and Israel have been an obvious conduit for arms to be used against humanity.
Exactly!
and the biggest threat in the middle east are the how badly outnumbered zionistas?
50-1? 500-1? 5000-1?
and those damn zionistas blowing up nightclubs in Asia, Embassies in Africa, rioting in France,
blowing up tubes in the UK, office buildings in the US,
not a bad tally-Asia, Africa, Northern and Western Europe, North America,
those damn zionistas!
Oh FUKK! That was those peace loving radical islamic muzzies!
Supah Sharp.
Asalem Alekem
Achmed.
Shouldn't you be off posting some zionista hate somewhere? Have to make quota for today's pebble sandwich.
I do thoroughly enjoy the hate the always appears with a global recession,
and the stupid fucking moronic imbeciles who actually believe they are changing anyone's mind on the internet.
MOhammed, Achmed-just started posting what two days ago to be so incredibly delusional to believe you shaping world opinion?
Now click the little down arrow like a 5yo.
the only hate i sense is coming from you.
Can't be. Just yesterday yours and Achmed23's hate jew posts were changing the world afterall after perusing Yahoo et al that is what Achmed concluded.
How quickly we forget.
Would be so much simpler for you to just post I Hate Jews over and over again and dispense with the silly propagandist code.
let's compare the US's bodycount in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Sure let's include the million gassed prior to the invasion.
Good thing the good old oil seeking imperialist yankees invaded Afghanistan, ton of oil there.
A million?
Whose ass did you pull this number out of, yours or your gay lover's?
Frickin idiot.
The exact same ass that says US troops killed 500K Iraqi children.
The self loathers favorite copy/paste headline for 6months.
He killed twice as many as were killed during the invasion and subsequent occupation.
Fucking imbecile.
Actually this time it was for the Poppies, and uh that hueg mountain of lithium.
The U.S. and Israel have been an obvious conduit for arms to be used against 10th century Muslim fanatics who kill gays on sight and think women are subhumans that can be killed at will.
FIFY
No that cannot possibly be so.
The radical islamic muzzie propaganda arm posts just opposite here and will into perpetuity.
these people really love westerners as long as they are not gay or promiscous females.
The guy who speaks for all the Iranian people posts here all the time just ask him.
The Iranian people before Anglo-Iranian Oil Corp. had the CIA overthrow the elected PM, or the Iranian people that overthrew the Shah and his H. Norman Schwarzkopf Sr.-trained SAVAK, or the Iranian people that Col. Ollie traded guns with, or....
Oh, I get it, you mean the Iranian government.... Because everybody knows people don't matter, just the titular heads that control them.
Oh I get it, women and gays really aren't people.
Nice non sequitur.
People are people, pretty much the world over from what I've seen, and that's only from three continents while wearing a green, brown, tan and black "suit." Overall, people just want to live their lives, be left alone, and have their kids grow up in a world better than their own.
However, throw in a bunch of twisted sociopaths that like to see people die, give them access to well-trained psychotics that'll do anything asked of them, whip up well-propagandized and dumbed-down populations to a fury, and point to the boogy-man-of-the-day, and they'll spew out enough depleted uranium to screw up the DNA of a good chunk of the world's population.
And that's just the well-financed "good guys."
Just keep on with your two-dimensional thinking, you'll be real popular with the champagne-and-caviar circuit.
Hmmmm russian arms for libya....no
russian arms for iran....no
What is so special about Syria to the Soviets?
Naval bases
they have a navel base there.......NATO wants it gone...only UNCLE SAM is allowed to have overseas...bases
i wonder what would happen if one day iran opens a naval base in venezuela or ecuador
http://www.tiwy.com/news.phtml?id=218
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-iran-latinamericatre80c1d2-...
Besides a naval base they have billions of dollars in trade, and 19 billion in investments in Syria.
There is a Stargate in Syria.
They have good gun karma.
I didn't know we were allowed to talk about that.
I thought it was in Iraq....
tell me more?
What was so special about afghanistan when Russia was at war with afghanistand and America supplied weapons to them?
Makeing the wars more costly for Russia.
Same thing now. Russia wants to pake the war more costly for America.
Maybe the Rooskies are still bitter that the US got in kahoots with the Saudis to tank the price of oil to bankrupt them.
Did you catch this little gem from Durden:
'The only question is the European wildcard which for now relies so very much on Fed bailouts.'
Now that is funny.
On paper the champ is now considered a chump. Time to get him in the ring to see if the same holds true in battle. None shall be spared.
putin --- the elephant in the room, that need-not-never-forget
paybacks a bitch?
Sudden Debt there is some truth to that, but I'm told the war gamers back in the 90's concluded that you had to take/control Syria before you can invade/over through the government of Iran.
They also thought that control Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. Prior to tackling Iran.
You probably didn't see Wesley Clark's 7 countries speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMJON4y_jac
and further.... cant let happen ever a naked rape like what happened in Libya!
After all Syria is just a proxy war of the corporate fascists against Iran.
If only the world can teach the corporate fascists and banksters a really tough lesson (better again to eradicate them all), otherwise there won't be any true peace and prosperity for mankind!
They simply won't let any peaceful and good life goes on untarnished.
Thx Randall for the youtube link: "Wesley Clark ( US 4 Star General ) US will attack 7 countries in 5 years"
foxy proxy,chicken little
USA = friendless.
Canada is cold, GB is a userer, Australia is barren.
Canada's been fighting a cold war for 300 years they've just learned to fight it with beer and hockey
Manly Beach, Sydney....not so barren
Here's how you fight a cold war
www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/us-creating-cyborg-insects-for-micro...
They stole that from "The Fifth Element" Movie. Cockroach listening devices.
+1 Multipass
Don`t forget Europa, she has a family feud ever since all the more able brothers left for the New World. But it`s a love-hate relationship that could at all times be reverted to harmonious mutual blood shedding if only a common enemy
were to emerge.
Bullets? Bullets! We don't need no stinking bullets!
We have Ben "burn your cash" Bernanke!
4 crates of bullets? Do the Syrians have to load their own rounds?
"It had bullets. There were four containers on board," a Cypriot official told Reuters."
Most people apparently do not know the difference between bullets and rounds.
Shit. I got more than that.
if you have 4 x 40' ISO shipping containers each loaded with 26 tons of ammunition, can we please have your address and upcoming vacation itenerary?
No problem they most likely have a couple of Dillon 350 presses. Just need some brass, powder and primers, that will be in the next shipment lol.
Like WE have not supported some really smelly groups and countries... so russia also believes in war for profit... Why do we think we have to stick our nose into every shit-storm around the world? Our support of Israel has cost us dearly, and for what... so Lloyd Blankfein can sleep better at night?
exactly..
I think they are amused. The Russians are acting just as they are supposed to. They should discuss it over some rare Bourbon and under aged whores...........
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In October, Russia and China vetoed a western European-led resolution on Syria that threatened sanctions for the bloodshed the U.N. says has killed 5,000 people, Russia tabled a new draft resolution last month.
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well i'm gonna say nothing is bad here.. US/EU embargoed Siria over gun sales, so its AGAINST THE LAW TO SELL GUNS INTO SIIRA BY ANY EU/USA FIRM...
well,, Russia/China/ and possible others countries didnt take part in this embargo.. so its possible legal..
i wonder IS IT AGSINT THE LAW FOR FBI TO SELL GUNS TO MEXICANS DRUG CARTELS AND THEN GET KILLED AMERICAN CITIZENS W/ ONES???
alx
Just as legal as it is to traffic cocaine for cartels and sell arms to that super bad terrorist state Iran, of course.
Or, just as legal as it is for US banks to launder money for cartels.
G.O.D. = Guns, Oil, Drugs.
So what else is new ??? As long as the Russians and Chinese prop up countries like Syria and Iran we are going to have problems. The Russians do it to be a thorn in our side, the Chinese because they need the oil from Iran. As long as it is in their national interest we will never be able to convince them otherwise.
You wrote that as a proud loyalist of the empire, ehh? A Chinese person could just as easily write:
As long as the Americans and British prop up countries like South Korea and Taiwan we are going to have problems. The Americans do it to be a thorn in our side, the British because they need electronics manufacturers. As long as it is in their national interest we will never be able to convince them otherwise.
For real hope & change Obama should make a deal with Iran: We drop support of Israel for first dibs on that oil.
no brainer and yet DC refuses to do it. why? jim stone thinks it's because of a sort of global sampson option.
http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/
No worries, we will be shipping Syria some bullets in the near future, albeit it with much faster delivery.
pods
For the reds, I ain't happy about it.
I keep hearing that Barry S. is a REALLY smart cookie...
Seems he never fancied Chess.
Being as how he was raised during the "board game" generation, maybe even a little experience with Stratego or Risk would have helped...
Maybe the Russians were just trying to get some bullets into the hands of their own KGB dudes in Syria... you know, the ones that secretly blew up the Iranian nuclear engineer last week...?
Barry is a Piece moved by Players.
And as we are watching, it is a distraction.
Did those bullets have casings, powder, and primers or were they just PM?
Long Dolph Lundgren acting prospects.
Russians whoring themselves out to Syrians...yeah, that's never happened before...
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Who else has Russia been supplying? No doubt TBTB know. Bring on the next false flag.
Gun shops all over the U.S.? Wolf Ammo: the best bottom-shelf, steel cased crap money can buy.
I bought that shit one time. Never again.
Keep your eyes on the bullets while the radar evading anti ship missiles slip in through the back door.
You could move a 1000 nuclear weaposn under this fukishima soup without setting of a single fucking detector in a satelite 10 degrees north of the hemisphere.
That's what she said.
"what happens when Russia shuts down the gas?" thankfully Germany has turned off it's Nuclear Reactors now it's 20% more dependent on foreign(Russian) energy lolz, you can't have the cake and eat it too bitchez
Sure they can have their cake and eat it too! It will just be served cold...very cold.
Just another proxy like Korea. Its always going on. Its going on in other places right now too.
Our empire certainly has no nation state proxies of its own.
So the US giving Israel weapons for 40 years is what - Hospitality?
For decades it was the best kept secret in Washington.
You still won't find any career minded boys or girls willing to talk about it.
That wasn't giving. That was...... stockpiling for future use.
Just don't tell the Palestinians that. They probably don't find US Willy Pete raining down very funny.
This is so rediculous I don;t know how to characterize it. We supply our "friends" with aircraft, bunker busting munitions, interceptor missiles, base technology for nuclear weapons and so on and here we are twisted out of shape about some small arms amunition. Hypocritical in the extreme but Empires just past the top ususlly are.
Yes, and our "friends" pay for them, but the Jews don't. What a coincidinck.
nope the jews dont need to pay for all the weaponry... they just earn their duly interests, incl the annual cash transfer. their Fed have been providing lots of debts to US of A :D
Considering Qatar is supplying Al-Qaeda fighters to fight in Syria and cargo loads of US weapons - just as it did in Libya breaching a UN arms embargo - just as France and Britain are doing - I am not surprised the Chinese and Russians are supplying arms. Russia has supplied air defence systems to Syria and Iran, meanwhile Saudi Arabia is annexing Bahrain and shipping weapons across the Jordanian border into Syria.....as Us troops withdrawn from Iraq sit in Jordan. Maybe the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov being in Tarsus suggests the Russians are backing Syria - then again, maybe the State Department isn't sure.
Maybe the way Britain-France-USA-Qatar behaved in Libya has peeved the Russians ? Then again we can be assured that Libya is now a land of milk and honey because we never hear much about it apart from Saif Gadaffi having fingers amputated and sitting in permanent confinement while militias run the rackets. Be nice if Western nations had an idea what they are doing in the Middle East - they have a poor record and it would be nice if they reflected before creating yet more chaos
The way I read the article is, The Fed bails out Europe, Europe buys Russian gas, Russia builds anti-ship missiles and sells to Syria,
Syria sinks US ships in the future? US replaces the ships with a loan from the Fed?
Europe wins, Russia wins, Syria wins and the Fed wins, so who loses?
"Fed to sink US Navy" Might be a better headline.