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Putin's Real Syria Agenda
ISW - Institute for the Study of War ^ | 20 Mar 17 | Genevieve Casagrande and Kathleen Weinberger

Posted on 03/20/2017 10:56:47 AM PDT by elhombrelibre

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1 posted on 03/20/2017 10:56:47 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
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http://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Putin%27s%20Real%20Syria%20Agenda.pdf


2 posted on 03/20/2017 10:59:32 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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Neocons trying to stir up some trouble in Syria now that things are going well, IMHO.


3 posted on 03/20/2017 11:01:41 AM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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Yeah, plus too many details, insights, and footnotes. Fake news, obviously.


4 posted on 03/20/2017 11:06:47 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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We usually protect our deployed forces as well.


5 posted on 03/20/2017 11:09:06 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: elhombrelibre

ISW is a known hangout for Neocons.

Their opinion on this matter is not surprising.

Everything is Russia’s fault and we must fight them to the death.


6 posted on 03/20/2017 11:09:35 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: elhombrelibre

fundamentally altered the balance of the Syrian Civil War.Russia re-established momentum behind Syrian President.................... “President”! Elected by the majority! It means he wasn’t backed by Obama and Hillary. Hillary’s response to Putin would be a gross of red plastic reset buttons.


7 posted on 03/20/2017 11:10:03 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Again it disapeared? Damn cursor is in cahoots with the tag line.)
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To: elhombrelibre

For 300 years the Russians have desired a warm water port and open access to the Mediterranean and that is exactly what they were almost able to achieve when Obama was president.

Now, must work to keep Russia from having control and open access to a warm water port and Syria is where that conflict is right now.


8 posted on 03/20/2017 11:12:15 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: elhombrelibre

The truth is Putin and Trump plan to take over Mecca and charge the Muslims $1000 each to fondle the Allah stone.


9 posted on 03/20/2017 11:13:54 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Why is it no one ever discusses the rabid Amerophobia which infects Islam and its adherents?)
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The next U.S. step in Syria must help regain leverage over Russia rather than further encourage Putin's expansionism.

Translation: Work with the Saudis to continue to create/promote sunni jihadi-Islamist groups to continue to wage proxy war, create refugees and grind Syria into dust.

10 posted on 03/20/2017 11:15:47 AM PDT by PGR88 (The)
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Or as you’d have it: Allow Putin to restore the Russian Empire and dominate nations near and far while threatening America, its allies, and its partners.


11 posted on 03/20/2017 11:28:45 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: The Toll

The insurgency wasn’t the only threat then. Nation states were openly threatening conventional attack. The USA and Turkey were within days of attacking the Syrian Army.
The Russians saved us from an ISIS/Saudi Syria.


12 posted on 03/20/2017 11:29:36 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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“Now, must work to keep Russia from having control and open access to a warm water port”

Why?


13 posted on 03/20/2017 11:30:56 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: elhombrelibre

R20 is a shady globalist bunch.


14 posted on 03/20/2017 11:32:17 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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The Russians are looking at another port in Libya near the Egyptian border where they have a client general.


15 posted on 03/20/2017 11:36:48 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Russians and Assad have helped ISIS; they attack rebels only. That’s why Assad is peeved that we are there, we and our mainly Kurdish forces were beating ISIS.


16 posted on 03/20/2017 11:37:13 AM PDT by BeadCounter ( The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness -)
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ISIS still has a presence in Palmyra I heard, the Iranians and Russians haven’t done much about that and one of those Iranian outfits was reporting months ago that they had forced ISIS out of Palmyra, total rubbish. Now, ISIS appears to be being defeated in Palmyra.


17 posted on 03/20/2017 11:39:32 AM PDT by BeadCounter ( The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness -)
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“Russians and Assad have helped ISIS”

What is the evidence of that?

You MUST be talking about Turkey and the Saudis.


18 posted on 03/20/2017 11:41:34 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: DesertRhino

I just wish these Geo-Strategic wonderkinderen would focus their lust for world control towards an actual Marxist Enemy, like the one with the worlds largest population perhaps?

Tiananmen II sounds a lot smarter to me than Cold War II.


19 posted on 03/20/2017 11:42:33 AM PDT by The Toll
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And then use a little JFK logic and say any attack on Americans by an Radical Islamic Terror group will be considered an attack on America by Islam resulting in elimination of Mecca from the earth.


20 posted on 03/20/2017 11:42:36 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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