Thanks to Daffynition
Posted on 10/22/2016 7:50:33 AM PDT by darkwing104
This week, Britain’s Royal Navy deployed warships to monitor the Russian aircraft Carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and other ships passing through the North Sea and the English Channel in route to Syria. The purpose of the deployment is to end the war in Syria before the U.S. elections.
Russia is sending its Northern and Baltic Fleets to reinforce the final assault on the city of Aleppo. Their goal is to eliminate rebel forces and shore up the Assad regime allowing Russia to ends its involvement in the civil war. The extra ships will greatly increase Russian firepower in Syria and will provide additional air defense to protect President Bashar Assad’s army, Russian and allied forces fighting Syrian Rebels, including ISIS.
The additional military firepower is being sent to force out or destroy an estimated 8,000 rebels held up in Aleppo. This is the last, large city in Syria that is being held by the rebels. Recent air campaigns attacking targets in eastern Aleppo, where 275,000 civilians are trapped, have strained the relationship between Moscow and the Obama regime. This push comes at the time when ISIS is being forced out of Mosul. It’s likely that the terrorist groups and so-called moderate rebels will have to retreat to eastern Iraq to regroup.
The Royal Navy and Royal Air Force regularly shadow foreign ships in order to protect Britain’s coast. The Russian deployment is unusual as few counties have the capability to deploy an aircraft carrier and supporting warships through the English Channel.
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Thanks to Daffynition
Nothing wrong with shadowing foreign ships, of course. But what foreign ship would threaten the coast? if Britain really wanted to protect its coast, they would stop the illegal migrants from sneaking in through Calais.
Eeeeyy ukhnem!
The Channel Dash
I think it was around 1905 that two Russian fleets came through the English Channel on their way to a slaughter in the Pacific.
Great depiction of the so called future of the Russian Navy a while back when the price of oil tanked. I always loved it when great minds on political payrolls so accurately predicted the future.
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