Posted on 09/01/2015 7:40:14 AM PDT by Trumpinator
i24news
Published August 31st 2015
10:08pm
Russian jets take to Syrian skies to combat IS
Russia begins military intervention against IS in Syria; IS closes in on Damascus
Russian fighter pilots, jets and helicopters will begin arriving in Syria in the coming days to join in the offensive against the Islamic State (IS) and rebel-aligned targets within the failing state Israeli news site Ynet News reported Monday.
According to Western diplomats, Russian expeditionary forces have already arrived in Syria to set up camp in an Assad-controlled airbase near Damascus, and will operate as a Russian forward operating base.
Thousands of Russian military personnel are set to arrive in Syria over the coming weeks, including instructors, advisors, logistics personnel, technical personnel, members of the aerial protection division, and the pilots who will operate the aircraft said Ynet.
While the exact make-up the expeditionary force is unconfirmed, past reports had stated that Russia was in talks to sell Syria a package of MiG-29 fighter jets, and Yak-130 trainer jets which can also operate as attack aircraft. The new presence of Russian pilots operating combat missions over Syria is expected to drastically challenge the dynamics of the region.
According to Ynet the Russians main goal is combating IS and preserving Assad's rule. They do not have offensive intentions towards Israel or other sovereign states in the area however, their presence will challenge the Israeli Air Force's previous freedom of operation in Middle East airspace.
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I don’t get what you are getting at but your trolling is not appreciated.
Pingsky.
When IS has been destroyed...the Russians will just leave.....yeah right. Ezekiel 37-39 is being set up!
From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170287,00.html
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Sept 11, 2014
China and Russia to build major seaport: report
China and Russia will build one of the largest ports in north-east Asia on Russias Sea of Japan coast, reports say, in a further sign of the powerhouses growing alliance.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-11/china-and-russia-to-build-major-seaport-report/5738036
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Obama: "We Welcome China's Rise"
CBS News ^ | January 19, 2011 | Stephanie Condon
The American media don’t want to have a bunch of conservative Christians to start yelling about Ezekiel 37-39 and using the story as proof that Jesus is coming back and we’d all better repent ...and stuff! (Hey...Jesus IS coming back/and stuff!)
I wonder who the Russians were looking out for when they were "settling hash" in the Balkans which contributed mightily to the disaster of the first world war? The idea that Russians are flying missions in Syria to protect Christians is about as fanciful as anything I have read lately.
The Russians are meddling there just as they medaled in Georgia, just as they meddled in Crimea, just as they have meddled in eastern Ukraine, just as they threaten to meddle in the Baltic states.
It is wonderful how they save Christians by selling arms to the Iranians?
They will eventually kill all of ISIS.
While this brings civil pacification, it also portends a much greater conflict in the future.
They are both bad. It’s the Shea hezbolla that want to wipe off Israel. I say let them all just kill each other and stand by Israel.
The Chinese and Russians see how weak Obama is, especially after the Iran deal.
MSM news tonight will be about GW in Alaska, more shark attacks and western wild fires.
Hey Bender I don’t if you hear if Israel decided take on Russia they going meet your Cowboys following weekend LOL!
Everyone meddles. And religion and ethnic ties between the Serbs / Russians is well attested. What were the Austrian Germans doing in lands populated by Orthodox Christians can be another reply back (of course there were Catholics in the Balkans also).
You brought up WW1 but we forget that the Crimean war was the Protestant and Catholic European powers joining up with Muslim Ottoman Turks to attack Orthodox Russia because she was expanding into the middle east - the old domain of the eastern (Orthodox) Roman empire.
You know, as bad as that is - it is the Sunni al-Qaeda funded by Sunni Gulf Arabs that are actively beheading Jews and Christians and moderates and secularists.
I am sorry, as bad as all Muslims are - it is the Sunnis that have attacked "us" (Christians/Americans) more than the Shia have.
Only a small branch of American Protestantism believes that interpretation of the end times scenario. More than likely is the American press is protecting Obama by ignoring is monumental over seas failures in policy and vision. Case in point, this same article mentions Benghazi's Islamists that Obama helped install by ignorance/incompetence or on purpose (who knows at this point) are defeating the Libyan govt.
ETL, I’m puzzled. How does the OP appear to be trolling for Putin? It’s a report about Russian military involvement in Syria. I didn’t take it to be pro-Putin. I think Putin knows what he is doing and Obama is either (1) incompetent, or (2) helping him. Am I pro-Putin too?
They can’t do any worse than we’ve done.
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