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Report: Russian ground troops arrive in Syria in unprecedented military action
Jerusalem Post ^ | 11/23/2015 | YOSSI MELMAN

Posted on 11/23/2015 8:32:06 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Report: Russian ground troops arrive in Syria in unprecedented military action

The Kuwaiti report adds that Russian forces have already taken over multiple strategic positions and have forced numerous rebel battalions to retreat.

In an unprecedented move, Russia has sent ground-troops into the Syrian battlefield in support of Bashar Assad as the dictator struggles to maintain his power in the continuous four-year-long civil war, according to a report by Kuwaiti daily al-Rai.

The report, which has not been substantiated by other sources, claims Russian military forces have been providing cover for T-90 tanks along with military air support which have attacked multiple strategic targets held by rebel forces in Idlib and Latakia.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: isis; russia; syria
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1 posted on 11/23/2015 8:32:07 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

If this is true there are some very clenched sphincters in the Pentagon right now.

L


2 posted on 11/23/2015 8:33:23 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

Given the shills Obama has installed in top military positions I doubt their sphincters are capable of clenching.


3 posted on 11/23/2015 8:40:15 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic

Ha! Nice one.

We’ve been arming ISIS and doing fake bombing runs after dropping them leaflets.

Russia is there to actually defeat our enemy. Good news for U.S. citizens that Muzzies will be dead there rather than murdering us here.


4 posted on 11/23/2015 8:41:47 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Legit?


5 posted on 11/23/2015 8:43:18 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

For what is worth, this news made it to Reuters and now J Post.


6 posted on 11/23/2015 8:50:43 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Russian ROEs consist of specifying how fine a sieve their target’s remains have to sift through.


7 posted on 11/23/2015 8:51:52 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: TigerClaws

And Iran controls the entire ME. That’s going to be great!


8 posted on 11/23/2015 8:54:28 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God)
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To: Organic Panic

Yea, you’re probably right.

L


9 posted on 11/23/2015 8:56:49 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Talisker

There does not seem to be much info about how many Russian troops and updated equipment like T90s are there. Syria is a large geographic area (much larger than the state of Georgia) but of course good quality troops could make the difference at the right time and place.


10 posted on 11/23/2015 9:05:36 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47)
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To: Lurker

Those behind that meat puppet who calls himself President are guilty of high crimes and treason. The US military needs to move against them.


11 posted on 11/23/2015 9:06:33 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Organic Panic

That’s a bit of a stretch...


12 posted on 11/23/2015 9:08:47 PM PST by null and void (We are AmeriCANs. We CAN learn, and learn from history, if we choose.)
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To: Noumenon

I agree on both points.


13 posted on 11/23/2015 9:25:22 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This jpost story credits reuters, and both cite a single kuwaiti source.

So all the reports are depending on one kuwaiti source.

The claim sounds plausible, but it seems too strange for it to be true and only have one kuwaiti source with no alternate confirming?


14 posted on 11/23/2015 9:30:37 PM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: demshateGod

The Shiites,seem slightly less crazy then the Sunnies.


15 posted on 11/23/2015 9:51:14 PM PST by Husker24
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wait until the human shields arrive! /s


16 posted on 11/23/2015 10:03:24 PM PST by JmyBryan
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To: demshateGod
And Iran controls the entire ME. That’s going to be great!

No worries. We still have Barkies "red line" to fall back on.


17 posted on 11/23/2015 10:04:59 PM PST by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: Noumenon

“The US military needs to move against them.”

The problem is you will probably have to get down to a field commander before you will find anyone who would make a move like that!. The admirals and generals are all Barry’s bitches.


18 posted on 11/23/2015 10:13:58 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Mount Athos

“The claim sounds plausible, but it seems too strange for it to be true and only have one kuwaiti source with no alternate confirming?”

Alternatively, just wait for the banging to begin!


19 posted on 11/23/2015 10:15:22 PM PST by vette6387
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To: vette6387

Frag ‘em


20 posted on 11/23/2015 10:18:47 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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