100%... pretty bold move for a ship that was still listed last i read as a "Training Ship" with it's longest time at sea being sea trials for 23-24 days i'd laugh like hell if it has to be towed home
Posted on 10/04/2015 3:09:05 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton
BELGRADE – DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that China sent word to Moscow on Friday, October 2, that J-15 fighter bombers would shortly join the Russian air campaign that was launched Wednesday, September 30. Baghdad has moreover offered Moscow an air base for targeting the Islamic State now occupying large swathes of Iraqi territory, debka.com reports.
The J-15 warplanes will take off from the Chinese Liaoning-CV-16 aircraft carrier, which reached Syrian shores on September 26, according to DEBKAfile. This will be a landmark event for Beijing: its first military operation in the Middle East as well the carrier’s first taste of action in conditions of real combat.
The rest of the article:
http://inserbia.info/today/2015/10/china-to-join-russian-air-strikes-in-syria-russia-gains-iraqi-air-base-report/
I think I remember that picture.
100%... pretty bold move for a ship that was still listed last i read as a "Training Ship" with it's longest time at sea being sea trials for 23-24 days i'd laugh like hell if it has to be towed home
I thought the planes were supposed to be on the Chinese aircraft carrier that Debka told us docked in Syria a week or so ago. You know, the one no one else could see.
As Jimmy Carter breathes a sigh of relief...
...Installing the Shah of Iran???.
You bet.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi officially ruled Iran from 1941 to 1979. He came to power after his father was forced to abdicate the throne by the Allied powers led by the United States. We even managed to screw up Iran.
...Installing the Shah of Iran???.
You bet.
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi officially ruled Iran from 1941 to 1979. He came to power after his father was forced to abdicate the throne by the Allied powers led by the United States. We even managed to screw up Iran.
Read much history?
1953 Iranian coup d'état
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup, was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name "Operation Boot") and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project).Mossadegh had sought to audit the books of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), a British corporation (now BP) and to change the terms of the company's access to Iranian petroleum reserves. Upon the refusal of the AIOC to co-operate with the Iranian government, the parliament (Majlis) voted to nationalize the assets of the company and expel their representatives from the country. Following the coup in 1953, a government under General Fazlollah Zahedi was formed which allowed Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran (Persian for king), to rule the country more firmly as monarch. He relied heavily on US and UK support to hold on to power until his own overthrow in February 1979.
That isn't out of the realm of possibility.
And Morsi in Egypt, but thankfully the Egyptian military kicked them out.
Hmm, hows that no fly zone pitch going?
I bet you just about every European nation is glad Russia is going to handle this now.
So is a stopped clock.
I get a lot of good information from the British press.
Four hundred days until Obama is out of office.
We should do NOTHING. Nothing beyond ‘defend the United States’ and maybe a few friends around the world until we have a new President.
Obama can’t make things better in the ME but he sure as hell can make things worse...
...Read much history?...
Yes. We even managed to participate in screwing up Iran.
Just like we helped set up the Saud family dynasty in Saudi Arabia.
The Shah was there for 40 years. Jimmy Carter screwed up Iran.
And what will happen when Russia and/or China owns all the mid east oil?
Obama really must be your worst President ever, worse than James Buchanan even.
He’s worse than worse. He is very Evil.
There are only negatives on him. Not a single positive.
You might not have seen this:
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
Translated into English from an article appearing in the Czech Republic as published in the Prager Zeitung of 28 April 2010
Wait wait wait: China has a working AC?
I thought they had not yet mastered the steam catapult concept.
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