Interesting take on what is going on in Syria.
This is Prophetic IMHO.
He’s got a short window of opportunity to turn this around with very little prospect of certainty.
Isaiah 17:1-14 & specifically the evil thought of Gog in Ezekiel 38.
What disaster in Ukraine?
Hey Mark,
You don’t drown in Syria.
You get bogged down, sunk, buried, stuck or any other verb commonly associated with sand.
You don’t drown in the desert.
Wow, I had no idea Russia’s GDP had collapsed so badly but I double-checked the article’s figures and they’re true. This is a disaster for Putin.
Syria is Russia’s Vietnam?
When they've been there fifteen years and are going a trillion dollars a years in debt to maintain their bases and wars around the world, then I'll listen to this sort of fantasy.
Normalize relations with the west?
I always thought the Russian involvement in Syria was an attempt to fill a middle east power vacuum...a vacuum formed in large part by Barry O...if for no other reason to prevent the entire region from becoming a jihadi training camp (remember the Russians have their own share of terrorism problems in their south).
What's changed is the vacuum is no longer there. Trump is using US force in the region (at his electoral peril as Michael Savage and others are apoplectic), and Putin is no longer guaranteed the 'easy payoff' of being the top dog in the region after a few short years of special ops warfare, essentially co-opting anything good that came out of our nation's decade of wars there.
Short version - Barry aint around no more, Putin doesn't always get what he wants anymore.
BTW, any sane person would know that, of the two candidates for president, Putin would prefer HRC, which makes this collusion talk nonsense.
Proffer a deal with Assad and Trump that guarantees a reformed Syrian government (new Constitution), the eradication of ISIS, safe-zones for refugees, and amnesty for anti-Assad fighters into the Syrian military. Everyone wins, except ISIS and Iran.
If Assad balks, team up with the US to eradicate ISIS- grab whatever victory you can at this point, then pull out.
Way overstated. It will not destroy Russia, though it may cause some hiccups for Putin.
If Trump out foxes the Russians in the Middle East, he’ll get no more credit than Reagan did for bringing down the Berlin wall. But then, Reagan wasn’t in it for the glory.
Russia has been with Syria for decades. Syria is a strategic asset for Russia as between critical location flanking Turkey etc, seaports, airports, and yes those energy supply routes. i doubt Russia is even thinking about abandoning Syria, nor does Russia have, or need, the massive ground troops there that cost USA so much in Vietnam Nam. . I think this article is pretty much wrong
This is neotard BS. Russia is doing just fine.
Seriously.... Putin in “peril”. Men like him don’t have “peril”...they “peril” other people.
1st- If this is being put out with “lack of fear of dying” then... it’s being allowed by Putin.
2nd- Putin, I believe, wants to make Russia the power broker in the area from Scandinavia to the Aleutians. This is to include Europe, the Mideast, and other areas of interests that compete with capitalism. In other words he wants to restore Russia to a world power. He has the nukes, the population and the willingness to kill anybody that gets in his way.
3rd- He will choke Europe with muslims to destabilize the entire area and control the energy that they need to survive. He can do this by making the mideast an unstable mess allowing Russian energy exports or those that he allows to flow to Europe.
4th- I read somewhere a profile of Putin that stated in order to insure conflict with him, just threaten or try to corner him. In other words when Obama shoved the gay Olympics in his face, gave him a red line in Syria or tried to get the world to condemn him for the Ukraine..... he says f#@k you and then does it anyway or retaliates anyway.
Everyone (not educated FReepers) forgets that Russian lost 30 MILLION civilians in WWII. .... 30 MILLION. Let that sink into your heads and think if our grandparents generation had lost 30 million relatives, had New York, Washington DC and most of the East cost destroyed by an invading army..... how would we be?
Putin is going nowhere. His main concern is China and the US. He needs to make sure that a conflict puts his two rivals at odds and he can play one against the other. He’s playing chess....... etc.
“I would say that it is much worse, in fact, a potentially fatal, disaster for Putin and Russia”
The media never learns. They predicted the same doom and gloom for Trump (how many timesa now?) and have been wrong.
Why they think they’re right on this utterly eludes me.
It’s CHINA that “...wants control in Iraq and Syria so as to clear the way for a trans-Iraq-trans-Syria path from Iran to the Mediterranean Sea.” for the western terminus of their One Belt, One Road plan.
Russia would gain leverage with China if it can provide that. Ditto for Iran.
Turkey would rather China’s road go through Turkey.
And, of course, we and everyone else is jockeying for a piece of the action.
Mark Langfan doesn’t have clue.
Putin now has four naval bases in Syria.
I am not sure that I agree with this totally. Putin has the only group that can hold the country. There are two strong groups who can be trusted. Assad and the Kurds. But we can’t make a deal with either. Assad has the Russians and Iran. The Turks hate the Kurds and are making sure we, and NATO can’t make a deal with them. So we have to rely on “good rebels”. And good rebels are unreliable. ISIS are Sunnis. And we have Sunni friends. Shiites can fight ISIS but they hate us and our friends. So Russia’s position is better in that we don’t have anything bug guns and money. And that just isn’t enough. We can fight ISIS, in which case Assad or Iran wins. Or we can fight Assad in which case Iran or ISIS wins. There is no case in which America wins.