Posted on 08/29/2013 5:19:59 AM PDT by Zakeet
Some took a prior report the that the "developed" nations would use Cyprus as a warplane strike base just as a leaked memo predicted in 2011, skeptically. Today we finally got official confirmation from that Britain that it is sending six RAF Typhoon jets to Cyprus "as a defensive measure amid growing tensions over Syria and talks of Western military intervention." It's defensive in case Syria launches an airborne assault of the UK we take it?
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said the air-to-air interceptor jets would be deployed to the British Akrotiri base in Cyprus on Thursday."This is purely a prudent and precautionary measure to ensure the protection of UK interests and the defence of our Sovereign Base Areas at a time of heightened tension in the wider region," the spokesman said.
"This is a movement of defensive assets operating in an air-to-air role only. They are not deploying to take part in any military action against Syria.
And just as expected, with the US already piling up naval assets in both the Mediterranean and the Arabian Sea, Russia is responding in kind, and has dispatched a submarine and a cruiser to the Mediterranean. CBS reports:
Russian news service Interfax is citing military sources as saying Moscow is dispatching an anti-submarine ship and a cruiser to the Mediterranean. Interfax says the moves are being made due to the "well-known situation" there -- referring to the Syria crisis. But a Russian government news service, Rianovosti, says the reassignments are part of a planned rotation and aren't linked with the situation in Syria.
This comes as the US decided to postpone the pullout of its Nimitz aircraft carrier which is near the Straits of Hormuz currently, and which was supposed to return home. The Navy has ordered the Nimitz, which is in the Indian Ocean, to stay for now.
Finally, keeping things exciting, China reiterated that the West should stay the hell out. SCMP reports:
Chinese state media warned the West against strikes on Syria on Thursday as momentum mounted for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime to be punished over an alleged chemical weapons attack.In an editorial headed “No excuse for strikes”, the state-run China Daily said the US and its Western allies were “acting as judge, jury and executioner”.
“Any military intervention into Syria would have dire consequences for regional security and violate the norms governing international relations,” it said, adding such a move “will only exacerbate the crisis and could have unforeseen and unwelcome consequences”.
Making a comparison with the war in Iraq, it said the international community should not allow “itself to be led by the nose by US intelligence, which after all was responsible for claiming Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction”.
The foreign ministry has advised any Chinese citizens in Syria to leave as soon as possible, and recent media reports from China's First Financial Daily have revealed that Chinese entrepreneurs and businessmen working in Syria have begun pulling out of the country.
A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Syria surnamed Feng told First Financial Daily reporters that major Chinese-funded enterprises remaining in Syria were few, and most would "soon withdaw or reduce staff".
So with the unscheduled early pullout of UN inspectors from Syria on Saturday morning as was reported earlier, we know the who, we know the how, and just may have learned the when.
I prefer his nickname...
A few months ago I read an editorial regarding the AntiChrist timeline, Isaiah 17 and how Russia/China and Egypt will end up trampling Israel underfoot. At the time I read it, it still seemed utter implausible. Today it seems exactly right on target.
Oh and the other thing from the editorial? America has to be taken out of the picture. China can do that in one felt swoop and never fire a bomb at us. They are a communist country and we should never forget that. All they would need to do is stop all imports to the USA. We’d have food shortages nearly immediately and our economy would collapse with the demand for us to meet our debt obligation in China. American factories in China would be confiscated...see...catastrophic does not have to come in the form of a bomb.
And if one believes America is not found in Revelations...then America must fall in order for Christ to come.
Great
Everybody Polka!!
(The conflict was effectively over by the time the sub got there.)
False Israel goes to war with its neighbors
WORLD WAR III
A he-goat (USA) comes from the west not touching the ground (by air) against the Ram (ancient Persia) which is Iran, Syria and Iraq and smotes them. Later his kingdom is broken and final four kingdoms arise
(Daniel 8:20,21,22,23)
Notice it says...smotes them. What does it mean to “smote?”
... to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon... What is 0bama contemplating right this very moment? Interesting eh?
Back to the future: Suez canal, 1956. Ike schools the Brits and French.
2013: Obama embarrasses America, again.
Plus, Sadam admitted to it and the situation with UN inspectors had gone on for years. This is a relatively new situation, with no proof of responsibility.
This is about regime change. The UN drafted it on 6/30/12 and now Obama has become impatient. (Assad was not to be part of the transitional gov’t)
http://www.un.org/News/dh/infocus/Syria/FinalCommuniqueActionGroupforSyria.pdf
Putin just keeps on spanking Obama. Gee, I hope our US military doesn’t bear the brunt of King Obama’s ego (any more than they do already)
I don’t see the inevitable US / China showdown as a bad thing.
I wish they would do it now.
We are losing at the moment. Balance international trade.
Now.
“I wonder if Russians have ever heard of reverse mortgages.”
To which send button are you referring?
That's not a military force of much value. It's a single flight for a few sorties with a couple of maintenance spares. It's not a serious military force.
It's difficult to proof reed you own righting.
What better to wring the remaining wealth out of the west then to start a multinational war. There are too many idiots in power who failed to crack their history books and bought cheater tests to stay in college.
...is actually the former Soviet Admiral Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier that was purchased in 1998 by China, towed from Sevastopol to the Dalian shipyard and rebuilt into the aircraft carrier Liaoning, finally deployed with the PLAN in September 2012. This lack of fact checking makes the rest of the "report" suspect.
Hey TonyTitan,
So my report is 'suspect' because I said one of the ships is said to be the Varyag, which I said was a Slava class cruiser yet you clearly know (since you did 'fact checking' I presume) the name Varyag belonged to the aircraft carrier sold to the Chinese.
Well TTitan, since you did your fact checking well, well enough to feel competent enough to chastise me and call my post suspect, I am sure you must have realized that the third Slava Class guided missile cruiser was the Chervona Ukraine. Your fact checking must also have informed you that it was renamed as the Varyag afted an overhaul. That it has been called the Varyag for some years now, and is part of the main ships in the Russian Pacific Fleet.
Thus, when you said my information was suspect because I didn't do sufficient 'fact checking' you must have done the fact checking you claim I didn't do, and thus you must have been jesting when you so confidently said my information was suspect. After all, you don't come across as a sot of a fool claiming others are stupid without having done sufficient 'fact checking' yourself.
That would definitely not be the case.
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