From the press release:
“In addition, the parties approved of U.S.-Russian cooperation in this field in 2013-2014, which envisages exchange of experience including in monitoring and forecasting emergency situations, training of rescuers, development of mine-rescuing and provision of security at mass events.”
Exchange of experience. Not actual provision of forces.
Thanks for perspective.
Thank you.
Yeah, I went to the actual orginal Russian press release myself. Thing is, already about a 100 worthless blogs have quoted the Wing Nut Daily lies (It's SO out of context it's an actual lie.)
Basically, this is one Russian guy flying to Salt Lake City to talk to the head of security for the SLC Olympics for advice on how to run security for the upcoming Sochi Olympics.
It's not platoons of Spetsnaz coming over doing cavity searches on people entering the stadium for the next Superbowl.
Whenever I see WND as the source for articles like this, I take it with a grain of salt. Wing Nut Daily is notorious for taking things out of context, omitting pertainant details and tweaking the narrative altogether to support their charges.
Farah has turned what was once a reputable conservative news source into something resembling a weird, right-wing version of Weekly World News. All that's missing are Ed Anger columns and Batboy
Probably already a link in thread, but figured I’d repeat it just in case:
http://en.mchs.ru/news/item/434203/
Looks like the standard emergency services expert exchange agreement. For large events, such personnel are typically present at ‘what if’ brainstorms which try to plan for possible emergencies at mass public events (major concerts, major sporting events, etc.)
I was sitting next to my father as they were going over the possibilities prior to the 1984 Olympics; what if the Big One struck during the opening ceremonies? There was a scary one for a teenager - expected collapse of part of the Colosseum, mass casualties among the general public would overwhelm any local hospitals... Not that anyone was more special for being at the opening ceremonies, but the eventual decisions involved pre-placement of supplies to effectively create a tent trauma center.
In the end, the ‘plan’ was to maintain the security cordon around the stadium, letting anyone out who understood they were leaving at their own risk, and not letting anyone in, providing emergency services in the field, with the overall understanding that everyone there would likely still be there five days later.
Present at the meeting were emergency personnel from around the world, as well as secret service and national guard representatives. Anticipated provisions for mass casualties were 5,000 extreme trauma cases, and 1,000 deaths. I always wondered what happened to the thousand amputation kits and other specialized materials that were on hand.
Given how badly Russian special forces, both military and paramilitary, have botched security issues in the past—the Moscow theatre siege, Beslan, many others—do we really need them providing “exchange of experience” with us?
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The Russians aren’t coming to provide security in the US.
This is about exchange of training not exchange of security forces.
I’ve heard rhetoric criticial of Russia lately from the likes of McCain and Schumer on the Sunday shows so heck maybe the Russians are our friends anyway.
Context is everything... clearly...