Russia's Threat

Townhall.com ^ | October 9, 2015 | Linda Chavez

[TigerClaws]

As long as Putin is killing terrorists instead of arming them like we do, I’m all for what he’s doing.

The enemy of my enemy is my ... non enemy.

[Little Pig]

Townhall should have included The Won’s dig at Romney about “the 1980s want their foreign policy back”. Missed opportunity.

[DesertRhino]

Another lunatic Neocon. The marching orders must be out today. First Hillary and Bush, today Cruz, now her, then about everyone else except Trump who seems to be the only one not horny for a US/Russo war.

The overall theme seems to be Assad is the number one priority there. And wiping out ISIS impedes Americas historic interests in Syria. (or something)
And this old nag, what was she, labor secretary? She wants to use naval forces, to sink Russian ships approaching Syria.

I’m going to look into a fallout shelter and another sack of rice. Oh, and some 35 million SPF sunscreen. All because the Saudis told DC, “dance!”

[Chad_the_Impaler]

Isn’t Putin arming Hezbollah which has been traditionally been regarded as a terrorist group? At least fighting alongside them.

[Lexinom]

Everyone seems to be playing on old perceptions of the Soviet Union. I ask all: Who is blessing Israel and who is cursing her? Whose actions will protect Christians in Syria and whose will lead to a Christian bloodbath? Which country embraces homosexuality and which abhors it? Which country is removing the Ten Commandments and which has a large statue next to its capital of a man bearing a large cross?

Things have changed. Wake up.

[SunkenCiv]

Kasparov: Putin's Goal in Syria Is Chaos

[ETL]

Trump: Iran Deal Requires U.S. Protecting Iran in Event of Israeli Strike

by Jacob Kornbluh
Sept 2, 2015

In a phone interview with CNN Tuesday evening, Trump claimed that there’s “something in the Iran deal” that “people don’t understand” saying if someone attacks Iran, “we have to come to their defense.”

“Does that include Israel?” Trump asked. “And most people say yes, they don’t have an exclusion for Israel. So if Israel attacks Iran, according to that deal, I believe, the way it reads, unless they have a codicil or they have something to it, that we have to fight with Iran against Israel.” ..."

Trump was most probably referring to language highlighted by the opponents of the deal. On page 142, the deal includes a clause that states, “Co-operation through training and workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems.”

Washington-based Center for Security Policy asserted that Annex III appears “to commit the United States and other world powers to the defense of Iran’s nuclear program.”

http://jpupdates.com/2015/09/02/trump-iran-deal-requires-u-s-protecting-iran-in-event-of-israeli-strike/
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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]

From The Jerusalem Post:

Iranian military chief threatens to 'wipe Tel Aviv off the map'

• WATCH: Iran state TV airs simulated attack on Israel

• Analysis: Hezbollah fighters, Iranian operatives flowing into southern Syria

  source:
  http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iranian-military-chief-threatens-to-wipe-Tel-Aviv-off-the-map-392359

[ETL]

Pro-Hezbollah Paper: Russia, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah Form Alliance

Sept 23, 2015

A prominent pro-Hezbollah newspaper in Lebanon reported Tuesday that Russia and the terrorist organization have formed an alliance and will fight together in Syria. “The parties to the alliance are the states of Russia, Iran, Syria, and Iraq, with Lebanon’s Hezbollah as the fifth party,”

Al-Akhbar Editor in Chief Ibrahim al-Amin wrote. The pact would be called the “4+1 alliance”—a pun based on the P5+1 that negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran. Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran based in Lebanon and Moscow has been working with Tehran to save Bashar al-Assad’s regime, even sending men and weapons to Syria.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/09/22/report-russia-partners-with-hezbollah.html

Pro-Hezbollah Paper: Russia, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah Form Alliance

Sept 23, 2015

A prominent pro-Hezbollah newspaper in Lebanon reported Tuesday that Russia and the terrorist organization have formed an alliance and will fight together in Syria. “The parties to the alliance are the states of Russia, Iran, Syria, and Iraq, with Lebanon’s Hezbollah as the fifth party,”

Al-Akhbar Editor in Chief Ibrahim al-Amin wrote. The pact would be called the “4+1 alliance”—a pun based on the P5+1 that negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran. Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran based in Lebanon and Moscow has been working with Tehran to save Bashar al-Assad’s regime, even sending men and weapons to Syria.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/09/22/report-russia-partners-with-hezbollah.html

[ETL]

"His precipitous withdrawal of American troops allowed the Islamic State group to take control of major cities and Iran to become the puppet master in Iraq."

And all *BY DESIGN*. Not the result of 'incompetence', 'inexperience', or any other BS excuse like that. Obama and Putin are in cahoots in Russia's expansionist agenda.

[ReaganGeneration2]

Not buying it.

Comparing Syria to Cuba? Not buying it.

Troops or planes in Syria or Crimea leading to an invasion of Poland, Germany, etc? Not falling for it.

[Romulus]

Shut up, Linda.

[1rudeboy]

Funny how people are telling the rest of us to “wake up” from the Cold War, when the Russians themselves admit that it’s on. On, as in never stopped.

[SJackson]

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[Kaslin]

Why? Don’t like the truth when you read it?

[American in Israel]

What do you do when you have more than one enemy? Trust me Russia and Putin is no friend.

[American in Israel]

Just tell Romulus to shut his damn mouth, he likes that. See his home page. (Though I suspect it not being from Sinkspur, it will not have the sweet aftertaste).

[Romulus]

Truth is not what you get from neocons.

[Romulus]

I’m glad you enjoyed the visit to my trophy case.