[Enlightened1]

This is translated from a Russian paper, but it's worth mentioning.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the goal of the United States in Syria is different than what is publicly stated.

He also said the coalition led by the U.S. knows the positions of ISIS in the country and is not targeting them.

Yep the goal is deposing Syrian government and not fighting the Saudi proxy army they created ISIS.

Anyone that really thinks this is not the case, then probably believe the Iranian deal is good too.

[Parley Baer]

From what has taken place I believe it. Obama is a POS to be kind.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Not only do I believe it, but I’m not even surprised

[boycott]

I agree with you. How many times have we seen groups of ISIS where they would be easy targets? Nothing happens. Then we fly sortie after sortie and never fire at ISIS. If there had been a real effort on our behalf, there would be no ISIS.

The Obama administration is all for show but with a different agenda.

[rarestia]

It would be quite juicy if the Russians revealed the America government’s corruption.

[Rusty0604]

France is claiming all the refugees are running from Assad and we need to bomb his army. I would think that of the refugees that really are from Syria most of them would flee ISIS if anything.

[canuck_conservative]

What an awful translation.

But, the substance is correct, NATO has deliberately been held back, for whatever reason. Check the mission logs.

That’s why countries you wouldn’t expect, like Jordan - who had one of their pilots shot down, captured, and tortured - are forced to do the dirty work.

[BeadCounter]

This is RT Russian nonsense. I believe RT is banned from this website. Thanks for taking a part in disbursing this propaganda.

[ETL]

The Kremlin’s Troll Army: Moscow is financing legions of pro-Russia Internet commenters:

A June article by Max Seddon of BuzzFeed reported the Kremlin was spending millions of dollars to pay English-speaking Russians to promote President Vladimir Putin and his policies in U.S. media like Fox News broadcasting and The Huffington Post and Politico news sites. Trolls are reportedly expected to manage multiple fake accounts and post on news articles 50 times a day, often with sentiments as simplistic as “Putin makes Obama look stupid and weak!”

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-kremlins-troll-army/375932/
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Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america
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“Trolls are reportedly expected to manage multiple fake accounts and post on news articles 50 times a day, often with sentiments as simplistic as “Putin makes Obama look stupid and weak!”...”

They do this only in an attempt to win the trust of anti-Obama folks -- a clever/sneaky way to add credibility to their pro-Russia, pro-Putin BS.
Yet it seems to work on some of us! In reality, Obama is the best thing that has happened to Russia in a long time.
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Kremlin pays internet trolls to flatter Putin
Ben Hoyle - Moscow
October 11 2013

Russian investigative journalists and bloggers have uncovered an army of internet trolls paid to pour invective on the Kremlin’s opponents and heap praise on President Putin.

Posing as job applicants, the reporters discovered the government hacks working at a small company called the St Petersburg Internet Research Agency. ...”

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article3891720.ece

[ETL]

Aug 2015...

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Russian build-up in Syria part of secret deal with Iran’s Quds Force leader

September 11, 2015
Jennifer Griffin, Lucas Tomlinson
FoxNews.com

As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria, Western intelligence sources tell Fox News that the escalated Russian presence began just days after a secret Moscow meeting in late July between Iran’s Quds Force commander — their chief exporter of terror — and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Fox News has learned Quds head Qassem Soleimani and Putin discussed such a joint military plan for Syria at that meeting, an encounter first reported by Fox News in early August. ...”

The Quds Force is the international arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, involved in exporting terrorism to Iran’s proxies throughout the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. ...”

Officials who have monitored the build-up say they’ve seen more than 1,000 Russian combatants — some of them from the same plainclothes Special Forces units who were sent to Crimea and Ukraine. Some of these Russian troops are logistical specialists and needed for security at the expanding Russian bases.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/11/russian-build-up-in-syria-part-secret-deal-with-irans-quds-force-leader/

[ETL]

We just got the clearest sign yet that Russia doesn't really care about fighting ISIS in Syria
Business Insider ^ | 12 Sep 15 | Natasha Bertrand

Moscow will reportedly provide Russian troops in Syria with an advanced antiaircraft missile system as part of its military support for Syrian president Bashar Assad.

"This system is the advanced version used by Russia, and it's meant to be operated by Russians in Syria," a Western diplomat who is regularly briefed on US, Israeli, and other intelligence assessments told Reuters.

And as The Daily Beast's Michael Weiss points out, any antiaircraft missiles deployed by Russian troops in Syria won't be directed at ISIS, since ISIS has no air force.

In fact, none of the rebels do — only government forces have access to aircraft.

Russia has substantially increased its military presence in Syria over the past two weeks under the guise of helping the embattled Assad fight ISIS and other extremists. ..."

(Excerpt) Read more at Business Insider ...

[ETL]

From Bussiness Insider:

We’re reportedly about to see some familiar Russian faces in Syria — and that’s trouble
Natasha Bertrand
Sept 10, 2015

Some of the Russian troops reportedly being sent to Syria are from the same brigade that helped annex Crimea, according to a lengthy investigation conducted by Ruslan Leviev, a specialist in social-media intelligence.

The Kremlin has declined to comment, but, if true, “the deployment of an elite unit from Crimea, which inaugurated Russia’s standoff with the West, is an intriguing choice,” writes The Daily Beast’s Michael Weiss.

“Moscow has spent enormous resources moving troops into Crimea and eastern Ukraine over the past year. Moving even some of them out of the area to a different conflict zone, particularly one outside of Europe, gives the lie that sanctions and diplomatic isolation have forced the Kremlin into compromise,” Weiss writes:.

“Rather, Russia appears ready and willing to take on multiple wars at once,” he adds.

Russia initially said that it had only deployed “military experts” to Syria to help government forces learn how to use Russian military equipment.

But the Israeli defense minister and Reuters have confirmed that the Russians are taking part in the fighting on the side of Syrian President Bashar Assad and building up their military presence in the western coastal province of Latakia.

Boris Zilberman, a Middle East and Russia expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Business Insider by email that he thinks it makes logistical sense that Russia would deploy a brigade from Crimea to Syria, since the eastern Mediterranean is the responsibility of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.

“It wouldn’t make sense to deploy these types of troops from Kamchatka [in far east Russia], for instance,” Zilberman said. “Also, seeing as how they’ve have recently participated in the annexation of Crimea, they are probably more combat-ready than others.”

An intelbrief released by The Soufan Group affirms that Putin’s latest incursion into Syria on the side of Bashar Assad is deliberate and aligned with Russian interests.

“While Russia has provided military assistance to Syria for decades, the recent apparent increase in support is noteworthy in both its timing and future implications,” the brief reads. “It is difficult to overstate Russian determination not to lose its influence in Syria via the Assad regime, which provides Russia with a Mediterranean and Middle Eastern base that cannot be replaced elsewhere.”
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More, plus maps and charts, at:

http://www.businessinsider.com/were-about-to-see-some-familiar-russian-faces-in-syria-and-thats-not-good-2015-9

[ETL]

Russia Is Building A Massive Military Base On Ukrainian Border

The Daily Caller ^ | September 10, 2015 | Reuters

Russia is building a military base along the Ukrainian border, signaling its preparing for long-term support of the pro-Russian separatists fighting for Ukraine. The massive base - scheduled for completion in April - will house ammunition depots and barracks for several thousand soldiers, and will be used to train soldiers, reported Reuters. The Reuters reporter investigating the new base was temporarily detained and accused of being a Ukrainian spy. Russian officials didn't respond to Reuters questions about the purpose of the base and whether it's connected to the fight for Ukraine. ..."

[11th Commandment]

[ETL]

"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...

"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'..."

"The more I see and read about Mr. Putin, in power since 1999, and his 'managed democracy,' the more apprehensive I become about the future of Russia and the safety of its neighbors.

If Putin believes that the dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states represents the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,' then it follows that Putin might well believe he should do something to repair the loss..."

http://web.archive.org/web/20090415000000*/http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html

[Black Agnes]

Why would we call in arty on our own positions?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The aged 1960s Marxist-Allinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and their ideological litter occupying buildings on the Beltway campus are protecting ISIS from our military. Why?

Back when America was run by Americans we knew how to deal with enemies killing us and our Allies.

The response of someone who remembers W.W.II:

Our response to the enemy who killed our military and civilians: image of World War II enemy city on a typical day during the war.

Our enemy today.. nothing to fear from us.

How the U.S. and Allies won WW II: they wanted to win.

See. It's simple. Let our military be military.

Step 1. Kill the ISIS enemy where they are even among innocent civilians. Don't leave anything enemy standing or alive.

Step 2. If any "refugees" swarming over Europe or here in the U.S. protest Step 1 kill them.

[Trumpinator]

This confirmed by an American news source (the author served in all 3 - American, British and Canadian navies so I can't tell if it is Canadian or American):

"http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3335630/posts

One month ago they captured the mostly Christian town of al-Qaratayn, north-east of Damascus. (The inhabitants fled, of course). And now IS forces are within 30 kilometres of the M5, the key highway that links Damascus with the other parts of Syria that remain under government control.

The jihadis captured Palmyra, by the way, because the "anti-ISIL coalition" — the U.S. air force, in practice — did not drop a single bomb in its defence. It made at least a thousand airstrikes to save Kobani, the Kurdish city on the border with Turkey that was besieged by IS fighters, because the Kurds were U.S. allies. Whereas Palmyra was defended by Assad's soldiers, so the U.S. let Islamic State have it."

[McGruff]

US Coalition Against ISIS May Have ‘Other Purposes’: Russia - International Business Times

[gaijin]

US airstrikes are elaborate hoaxes. Its pure artifice.

I beleive the Russians, this time.

[I want the USA back]

obammy is deliberately and knowingly letting islamic state (not ISIS) get strong. I think most FR readers understand why.