Russia sends warships to Syria

Telegraph UK ^ | 7/10/2012 | Tom Parfitt, Moscow and Adrian Blomfield

[PapaBear3625]

Two destroyers and three amphibious landing vessels carrying marines set sail from Russian bases in the Arctic and the Black Sea, according to Russian military sources.

Russia's defence ministry insisted that the mission was part of a previously scheduled exercise in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea and at least one of the vessels in the flotilla has patrolled waters off Syria earlier this year.

But Western diplomats say the purpose of the mission is to show tangible support for Mr Assad, to warn the West against military intervention in Syria and to prepare for the possible evacuation of Russian nationals from the country.

[PapaBear3625]

Doesn't sound like Putin will be willing to let Syria fall to the Sunni Islamists.

[PapaBear3625]

Hat tip, Drudgereport.com

[DoughtyOne]

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen this reported a number of times. Just how many warships does Russia have either down there or own the way? Must be fifty by now. Must be close to 50,000 troops too.

[EGPWS]

Russia sends warships to Syria

Call me crazy but I doubt very much this would be happening, or even talked about, if Dubya' were still POTUS.

[Logical me]

Russia is getting in the middle of something they might regret. I think the Russian people are getting real tired of the ruling class there now.

[EGPWS]

Russia is getting in the middle of something they might regret. I think the Russian people are getting real tired of the ruling class there now.

Yeah, the mirror image of the USA these days.

[Steely Tom]

I think the Russian people are getting real tired of the ruling class there now.

Yeah, and I'm sure the Russian ruling class cares just as much about it as our ruling class does.

[Rebelbase]

World players gather in the Middle East. What could go wrong?

[edcoil]

How are they getting there? Through the Med?

[John W]

Well, at least we have no need to be nervous during perilous times with the proven commander-in-chief and his accompanying brain trust we have representing us in Washington, D.C.

[F15Eagle]

Exactly.

[F15Eagle]

Black Sea fleet through the Dardanelles I imagine.

[Jeff Head]

Obama looks like he is wetting his pants back in the background.

[edcoil]

How long would that take?

[G Larry]

And why wouldn’t he?

Putin has already taken the measure of Obama, and found him lacking.

[F15Eagle]

Rough guess 1500-2000km, 900-1200 miles, a lot of ships can move 20-30mph at speed - so let's say 400-500 miles per day. Not that long. I'm really having to rough those figures. If they truly are already sailing I would guess they'd be there by Friday or Saturday, if even at slower cruise.

[F15Eagle]

[NonValueAdded]

Push that reset button, Hillary, push it for all you’re worth.

[Oztrich Boy]

You are crazy.

Russia has had a naval base in Syria since 1971. That's 8 US Presidencies.

[bergmeid]

If Putin had zippy in a chokehold like that I would say go ahead and make my day.

[Hotlanta Mike]

[Morgana]

“Doesn’t sound like Putin will be willing to let Syria fall to the Sunni Islamists. “

Better them than us. At least no more of our boys die because if these people.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I think the Russian people are getting real tired of the ruling class there now.

The communists hate Putin and so do the Euro-socialists in the West.

Putin was just re-elected.

The communists in our own government and in Europe tried to steal the Russian election.

Putin may not be our idea of someone to have as president, but at least he loves his country and has a Russian birth certificate.

You cannot say the same for what we have in the White House.

[Thunder90]

The Chinese are sending troops to Syria as well as the Russians. And, part of the Russian troop allocation includes Kazakhs and Belorussians.

[A.A. Cunningham]

As scheduled:

Russia to send marines to Syria

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Tough choice...

Do you side with Putin or with Obama and the European Union?

I’ll take Putin over that bunch any day...

[PapaBear3625]

This group is the anti-submarine destroyer Smetlivy, plus three landing ships with Russian marines. As of two weeks ago, they had two warships plus a frigate there. One of the warships, the Admiral Chabanenkom, is claimed to correspond to an American Spruce-class destroyer, and Turkey is making accusations that it took part in the shootdown of the Turkish F4. They also have their aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov on station somewhere in the area.

That's a respectable amount of hardware on station.

[F15Eagle]

“The Chinese are sending troops to Syria as well”

Got a source for that? Thanks.

Made me think of (not happening yet)

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+16:12&version=KJV

Revelation 16:12

King James Version (KJV)

12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;
the water thereof was dried up,
that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

Only Turkey can dry up the Euphrates by shutting off the Ataturk Dam.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks PapaBear3625.

...to prepare for the possible evacuation of Russian nationals from the country.

Hal Lindsey ping. ;')

[Greysard]

Hillary, push it for all you’re worth.

Sometimes a figure of speech may fail you.

[wolfman23601]

As long as the US and UK aren’t committing troops, I couldn’t care less the result. I hope we stay out of it.

[edcoil]

I guess we need to assume Turkey gave them permission to navigate the river. I was looking on google earth and just did not see the connection. Thanks for directions.

[F15Eagle]

I wondered as well but they’ve had to use it before, of course.

My guess is Turkey will assent even though they’re unhappy with Syria. What with the dead pilots from the F-4.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

I have a feeling ‘Warships to Syria’ is a smokescreen for protection of another, much larger country.

[NonValueAdded]

unless that's what I meant :)

Actually, I should have said "push it for all it's worth" (essentially the same thing)

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[Sawdring]

I love it when Putin stages events. He hunts tigers, drives race cars, deep sea dives, hunts whales, and has been known to fly fish without a shirt. I don't like to lecture but you need to know that your are posting carefully choreographed Russian government photo operations.

[Cyber Liberty]

On which side?

[dfwgator]

You may very well be right, but it still doesn’t make our CiC look any better.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for the mention. That does seem to be a bit of overkill for the situation.

At any rate, I was curios what the Admiral Kuznetsov looked like in comparison to our carriers. It appears it's a paultry carrier in relation to the carriers in our fleet. None the less, I'm sure it could cause plenty of trouble if it needed to.

I know that lifting deck design isn't something new. The British carriers had that too. Seems like it would be tough on the landing gear, but I guess it's been tried and works just fine.

[F15Eagle]

Didn’t know somebody in Turkey is claiming Russian shootdown of the F-4.

Wow.

[Morgana]

Tough choice?

No it’s easy. Let someone else kick muzzie a$$ for a change.

Russia has had trouble with muzzie terrorist, as had China. So let both of them do it for a while. The world will be a better place.

[Tailgunner Joe]

All for show. Putin is posturing just like when he poses for his faggy shirtless beefcake photo ops. The Russian ships won't deter any western action, because the West will not act without Russia's permission. Libya was bombed because Russia didn’t veto the no fly zone at the UN. The Russians have already met with the Syrian rebels and has now invited them to have a meeting in Russia. They wouldn't even bother to meet them if they didn't plan to make a deal with them. Putin has cut off Assad's weapons supplies. It's only a matter of time now until the genocidal islamofascist Assad joins his fellow Baath Socialist Saddam in Hell.

[freedommom]

What could go wrong?

http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-warns-al-qaida-flowing-syria-185235147.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Repeat Offender]

I love it when Putin stages events. He hunts tigers, drives race cars, deep sea dives, hunts whales, and has been known to fly fish without a shirt. I don't like to lecture but you need to know that your are posting carefully choreographed Russian government photo operations.

Even with help from the US Ministry of Truth, our bozo can't even photo op right....he throws like a girl and is mostly seen slacking off at a golf course.

Putin at least understands that without intervention, Syria is the next domino open to falling into AQ hands. As much as I hate Russians and ChiComs, I hate muslim terrorist POS even more. And if it is Syrian, Russian, and Chinese boys dying to further the needful slaughter of terrorists......all the better.

0 has consistently come out on the side of the terrorists. The ONE time he should've opened his mouth in support of a resistance, it should've been for the Iranian Green Revolution 2009-2010; and there were crickets. And, the only reason for that was the terrorists already control Iran.

[OldEarlGray]

Go Big Red!

Err. Or something.

[Eleutheria5]

If Dubya were Potus, they might try this to test him, and he would respond very forcibly, but then the MSM and all the rabid lefties would make so many angry chimp noises that he’d have to back down just a little bit, and then the Russians would quietly move in.

[MasterGunner01]

The fastest way for the Russians to get ships off Syria is to use the Black Sea Fleet. The Black Sea Fleet ships transit the Bosporus Strait to the Sea of Marmara through the Dardanelles Strait to the Aegean Sea and then to the Mediterranean. Sending down the Northern Fleet would take too long and require a very long logistics train.