[Illbay]

I wonder why Russia has been so buddy-buddy with Saddam.

It's obviously not religious affinity--Russia's Muslim minority have been nothing but trouble since the USSR collapsed.

They don't need their oil.

What is it? "Birds of a Feather?"

[FairOpinion]

I wonder why Russia has been so buddy-buddy with Saddam.
They don't need their oil.
What is it? "Birds of a Feather?"

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Actually they DO need the oil, not necessarly for themselves, but if they could control the oil in the ME, which is 70% of the world's oil supply, they could literally control the world, by blackmailing countries into doing what they want.

If Iraq would have gotten usable nukes, then Russia, through Iraq could contol the ME.

I just came across another article, which says, that they found more documents showing that all the Iraqi secret agents were trained in Russia, which means, that Russia could really have been the one running Iraq, with Saddam as the figurehead.

Here is the link to the article I mentioned.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/892059/posts

[FairOpinion]

Sorry, I meant the mention the other article, which first mentioned the close ties between Iraq & Russia

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/891912/posts

and just keeps getting worse.

Russia wasn't helping Iraq out of the goodness of their hearts, not was giving billions of dollars worth of stuff to them "on credit".

As I said, I am getting more convinced that the Saddam regime was Russia's puppet government and they were getting ready for the time, when Saddam, therefore Russia would control the ME. The easy way Iraq fell, also makes more sense with this assumption.

And I bet that if we had waited another year, it would have been too late.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #3

Saddam's regime is a socialist regime, with long connection to Russia since the days of the Soviet Union.

Russia cannot refuse another source of abundant oil in Iraq, which is pretty cheap to extract unlike Russian oil. Luk Oil of Russia had a multibillion dollar oil contract with Saddam's regime.

Middle East has always been where Russians/Soviets would love to bleed America using their proxies, hoping to cutting down American power. It is still the same game even if the Russia is far weaker than the Soviet Union.

Apparently Putin gambled that Russia can take cheap oil and bring down the lone superpower by a few notches. This really disappoints me as well. Russians have been overplaying their hands, encouraged by anti-American Franco-German axis.

Now Russia's gamble failed.

[JasonC]

Commies love commies. Saddam patterned everything he did on Joe Stalin. It is really not complicated.

[Minty]

I have always thought that the fall was not such. Seems to me like they have their own plans for their own purpose.