Posted on 09/10/2015 7:17:16 PM PDT by robowombat
America's Warning to Russia: Back Off Syria
By Heather Sells CBN News Reporter Thursday, September 10, 2015
The U.S. is growing increasingly worried over signs of increased Russian military presence in Syria and has warned Moscow to back off.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for the second time in five days.
U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said that Kerry "reiterated our concern about these reports of Russian military buildup."
Kirby added that if the reports are true it could "lead to greater violence and even more instability."
Also on Wednesday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance is concerned about the reports.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the West of creating "strange hysteria" over Russian activities. She noted that Moscow has supplied weapons and sent military specialists to Syria for years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long maintained that Russian arms shipments and military advisers in Syria are just part of international efforts to combat the Islamic State.
That's what makes the situation complicated because both the U.S. and Russia oppose ISIS, but the U.S. also wants to see new leadership in Syria. The U.S. fears that Russia's military buildup there could allow Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad to maintain his lock on power.
Meanwhile, the world must grapple with the massive Syrian refugee crisis. More than 4 million Syrians have fled their country since 2012.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon noted this week, "The Syrian government in particular has not lived up to its obligation under international law to protect the civilians."
"The conflict is a colossal tragedy for Syria and a shameful symbol of international divisions," he added.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama's critics have called for a more forceful military response in Syria and accuse him of "leading from behind."
"The current crisis before us is not a migrant issue," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said. "It's a mass exodus of refugees who are fleeing conflicts that this administration has refused to address for years
No one fears our feckless president.
I saw that picture of Horse Face shaking his finger at Russia, and it was all I could do to keep from vomiting right then and there. Please LORD I pray, take your church out of here, each day it gets worse and worse.
Or else what? Obama will say “Nee” to them?
I hope that Obama doesn’t fall off his little bikie and hurt his head, oh silly me, there’s nothing in there to hurt.
What is there to fear?????
Apparently, we want refugees. And by "refugees" we mean hundreds of thousands of able-bodied, military-aged young men in designer jeans, carrying iPhones and bogus Syrian passports flooding across our borders.
The Western world seems bound and determined to ensure this happens.
Have Russia take all the refugees they want.
Well, he might hit you in the head with one of his crappy
Golf shots. ( I hear he is a bad golfer. That is a sin tantamount to being a truly evil, crappy president.)
Oy vey!!!!!
I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
Who’s warning Russia? OBASTARD?
It would have to be Obastard; he is the Queer In Chief after all.
Obastard had better be careful, Putin will “fart in his general direction”.
I'd say you answered her question about why we don't want Russia involved - they add stability which keeps the whole area becoming ISIS breeding central. We can't have that.
“Pretty please?”
“Simon Sez?”
“Mother May I?”
(It’s called DIPLOMACY, for all you rubes in Fly-over Country!)
/sarc
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