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Posted on 08/26/2013 3:40:57 PM PDT by kronos77
MOSCOW — A Western military attack on Syria will only create more problems in the region, lead to more bloodshed and result in the same sort of “catastrophe” as previous Western interventions in Iraq and Libya, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said Monday.
“Hysteria is growing and confrontation is incited,” Lavrov said in what he portrayed as an emergency press conference. He said the United States and its European allies have condemned the regime of Bashar al-Assad without any evidence that it actually used chemical weapons in an assault on a Damascus suburb on Aug. 21.
China's president aims to clean up Communist Party from within while also silencing external critics. Russia condemns ‘hysteria’ over Syria Will Englund AUG 26 As Assad regime’s stalwart ally, Moscow says the West is ready to act before evidence is in hand.
Turkey, Britain and France all indicated on Monday that they would back the Obama administration if it decides to take action against Syria in response to the alleged attack, even without a United Nations mandate.
Russia has been a stalwart ally of Assad, refusing to allow United Nations action to intervene in Syria’s conflict. On Monday, the newspaper Izvestia published an interview with Assad in which he warned the West against military intervention and noted that Russia continues to sell arms to Damascus under the terms of existing contracts.
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Putin is pragmatic. He would solve problems here. Cut the parasites off the dole and cut bureaucrats to the bone with their bloated salaries/benefits. He would be a painful choice but he would make some very good choices which I would cheer and some horrific choices which I would abhor.
Somebody to tell the Russians to keep their shirt on.
When a politician says “Make no mistake” (as Kerry did in his Syria speech) there is a 100% chance they are leading you down the path to another big mistake.
I suppose you think Assad and Iran are not allies either.
It is just as likely that the incident in question was perpetrated by the “rebels.” They are moslems and as such are capable of any tactic to advance their cause against infidels. To them anyone who calls himself Moslem but adheres to a different sect- Assad is an Alawite- is an infidel just as is a nonbeliever or worse, he is an apostate.
It's only 99 Years Repeated.
‘Read it’
I will!
What would radically and rapidly escalated oil prices do to the mid terms? assuming, of course, that the Democrats don’t make use of their capacity to control the outcomes of the electronic voting machines. I am not optimistic about the prospects for mid terms no matter what happens before November.
I wouldn’t vote for Putin. Putin always acts to advance the interests of Russia. Always, and that’s a compliment. He may be an autocrat, but you have to give him credit.
Hillary! and the RINOs act to advance the interests of the US ruling elites, which coincide with the interests of Americans more often than the Russians.
However, if the Obama Admin says one thing and the Putin Admin says another, it’s more likely that the Putin version of events is correct ... unless, of course, it’s about a Russian abuse of individual rights.
It’s World War One; there’s thirteen million killed; it was all because the militaries of both alliances believed they were so highly attuned to one another’s movements and dispositions, they could predict one another’s intentions, but all their theories were based on the last war. And the world and technology had changed, and those lessons were no longer valid, but it was all they knew, so the orders went out, couldn’t be rescinded. And your man in the field, his family at home, they couldn’t even tell you the reasons why their lives were being destroyed.
Operation ScandalShield.
Its ironic. The Democrats who opposed Iraq war are now pushing for involvement in Syria. No media asking who will replace Assad.
It was not in Russia's interests to exterminate and ethnically cleanse the Orthodox Christian people of Georgia, he did it only to punish them for sending troops to Iraq.
It's not in Russia's interest to help the Ayatollahs build a nuclear bomb, but it sure bothers the USA and our allies, so Putin is all for it.
Nationalizing Russia's energy sector is not in the interests of the Russian people, but it's the only way Putin can use Russian oil and gas as political weapons of intimidation and blackmail against America's allies.
Destroying the political freedom of the Russian people is not in their interest at all, but it is the only way Putin can stay in power and accomplish his anti-American goals.
Putin has been playing used car salesman to Iran for years, selling them stuff falling apart and getting paid good money. While at the same time doing close espionage and some low-level sabotage.
You can thank the Russians for the fact that Iran hasn’t had fullscale nuke production for years.
What is also known is that Putin and Netanyahu are playing an extremely close game. When Putin has released new air defense missiles, for example, he has given the remote-destruct codes to Netanyahu. That has happened at least a couple of times.
Another item: Stuxnet. This was an Israeli product, althouugh Obama has tried to brag it onto himself. But the fact is, the people planting it into Iranian computers seem to have been the Russians. The number two in the series, which Obama also has tried to take credit for but which he cannot tell anything about, was also an Israeli product. Its task - which it did flawlessly - was to map the location of all the Pak nuclear warheads.
Netanyahu already had to strike a convoy of Russian missiles in Syria and had to threaten Putin that he would do it again if he sent any more to his genocidal socialist ally Assad.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-threatened-to-hit-s-300s-before-they-came-online/
Problem is when leader have no brain and bad advisers.
The only reason why Putin playing double game is self preservation. One day Iranian nukes may turn against Russia.
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