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Russia sends warships to Syria
Telegraph UK ^
| 7/10/2012
| Tom Parfitt, Moscow and Adrian Blomfield
Posted on 07/10/2012 3:56:27 PM PDT by PapaBear3625
Two destroyers and three amphibious landing vessels carrying marines set sail from Russian bases in the Arctic and the Black Sea, according to Russian military sources.
Russia's defence ministry insisted that the mission was part of a previously scheduled exercise in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea and at least one of the vessels in the flotilla has patrolled waters off Syria earlier this year.
But Western diplomats say the purpose of the mission is to show tangible support for Mr Assad, to warn the West against military intervention in Syria and to prepare for the possible evacuation of Russian nationals from the country.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: notbreakingnews; russia; russiawarships; syria
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To: Sawdring
You may very well be right, but it still doesn’t make our CiC look any better.
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posted on
07/10/2012 6:35:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(FUJR (not you, Jim))
To: PapaBear3625
Thank you for the mention. That does seem to be a bit of overkill for the situation.
At any rate, I was curios what the Admiral Kuznetsov looked like in comparison to our carriers. It appears it's a paultry carrier in relation to the carriers in our fleet. None the less, I'm sure it could cause plenty of trouble if it needed to.
I know that lifting deck design isn't something new. The British carriers had that too. Seems like it would be tough on the landing gear, but I guess it's been tried and works just fine.
42
posted on
07/10/2012 6:50:14 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Remove all Democrats from the Republican party, and we won't have much Left, just a lot of Right.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Tough choice?
No it’s easy. Let someone else kick muzzie a$$ for a change.
Russia has had trouble with muzzie terrorist, as had China. So let both of them do it for a while. The world will be a better place.
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posted on
07/10/2012 7:02:46 PM PDT
by
Morgana
(This space for rent. Cheap.)
To: PapaBear3625
All for show. Putin is posturing just like when he poses for his faggy shirtless beefcake photo ops. The Russian ships won't deter any western action, because the West will not act without Russia's permission. Libya was bombed because Russia didn’t veto the no fly zone at the UN. The Russians have already met with the Syrian rebels and has now invited them to have a meeting in Russia. They wouldn't even bother to meet them if they didn't plan to make a deal with them. Putin has cut off Assad's weapons supplies. It's only a matter of time now until the genocidal islamofascist Assad joins his fellow Baath Socialist Saddam in Hell.
To: Rebelbase
To: Sawdring
I love it when Putin stages events. He hunts tigers, drives race cars, deep sea dives, hunts whales, and has been known to fly fish without a shirt. I don't like to lecture but you need to know that your are posting carefully choreographed Russian government photo operations. Even with help from the US Ministry of Truth, our bozo can't even photo op right....he throws like a girl and is mostly seen slacking off at a golf course.
Putin at least understands that without intervention, Syria is the next domino open to falling into AQ hands. As much as I hate Russians and ChiComs, I hate muslim terrorist POS even more. And if it is Syrian, Russian, and Chinese boys dying to further the needful slaughter of terrorists......all the better.
0 has consistently come out on the side of the terrorists. The ONE time he should've opened his mouth in support of a resistance, it should've been for the Iranian Green Revolution 2009-2010; and there were crickets. And, the only reason for that was the terrorists already control Iran.
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posted on
07/10/2012 7:31:54 PM PDT
by
Repeat Offender
(Why do cops have more lenient ROEs when facing us than troops in combat facing suicidal islamists?)
To: PapaBear3625
Go Big Red!
Err. Or something.
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posted on
07/10/2012 9:00:57 PM PDT
by
OldEarlGray
(The POTUS is FUBAR until the White Hut is sanitized with American Tea)
To: EGPWS
If Dubya were Potus, they might try this to test him, and he would respond very forcibly, but then the MSM and all the rabid lefties would make so many angry chimp noises that he’d have to back down just a little bit, and then the Russians would quietly move in.
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posted on
07/11/2012 1:49:02 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today.)
To: edcoil
The fastest way for the Russians to get ships off Syria is to use the Black Sea Fleet. The Black Sea Fleet ships transit the Bosporus Strait to the Sea of Marmara through the Dardanelles Strait to the Aegean Sea and then to the Mediterranean. Sending down the Northern Fleet would take too long and require a very long logistics train.
To: DoughtyOne
At any rate, I was curios what the Admiral Kuznetsov looked like in comparison to our carriers. It appears it's a paultry carrier in relation to the carriers in our fleet. None the less, I'm sure it could cause plenty of trouble if it needed to. The only country which could go up against it would be the US, and we are not going to start WW3 over Syria. As such, it is more than big enough for their purposes, which is to dissuade the Turkish Air Force from getting involved.
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posted on
07/11/2012 5:51:08 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
To: DoughtyOne
Mix that in with the US and Coalition forces in the region and you have a recipe for something bad.
52
posted on
07/11/2012 6:06:39 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(A closed eye mentality is the reason for our current reality)
To: EGPWS
You’re crazy. Don’t you know that the parties are exactly the same and we’d be in this same exact position if McCain had gotten elected / Romney gets elected as we are with Obama? ;-)
/s
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posted on
07/11/2012 6:09:23 AM PDT
by
Personal Responsibility
(Behind enemy lines in the city where it's illegal to buy a Big Gulp)
To: EGPWS
Call me crazy but I doubt very much this would be happening, or even talked about, if Dubya' were still POTUS. I do believe Putin is calling out Obama. As we all know, once Obama punks out, there will be additional steps by Putin.
54
posted on
07/11/2012 7:49:44 AM PDT
by
oldbrowser
(Your character is your fate.....fortune cookie)
To: John W
after all he killed UBL yuo gotta give’im that.
55
posted on
07/11/2012 9:43:42 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
To: DoughtyOne
Russia sends warships to Syria.......
That's how the book Alas, Babylon started......
56
posted on
07/11/2012 9:59:11 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Think logically. Act normally.................)
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Oh, I don’t know about that, he may love HIS country just not the USA and for all I know he may even have a Russian birth certificate. If he doesn’t have one he certainly knows how to get one(8>)>
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posted on
07/11/2012 11:57:50 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Free healthcare is worth FAR LESS than it costs.)
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
I would bet that Russian citizens who live outside the cities and make their living from farming, fishing, hunting, trapping etc. enjoy a freedom of action that is only a memory in this country now. Even those in Moscow may be freer than we are now.
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posted on
07/11/2012 12:02:19 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Free healthcare is worth FAR LESS than it costs.)
To: PapaBear3625
Russians seem to be right on that one .
Russia is wiser than Obama or....Mc Cain on that point
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posted on
07/11/2012 4:38:38 PM PDT
by
Ulysse
To: PapaBear3625
Be kinda weird if it’s Vladimir Putin, formerly of the KGB, who keeps the world safe from the jihadis.
60
posted on
07/11/2012 4:44:53 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(If you are hell-bent on delaying maturity you will likely succeed.)
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