Posted on 10/21/2015 9:55:21 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Qatar, a major supporter of rebels in Syria’s civil war, suggested it could intervene militarily following Russia’s intervention in support of President Bashar al-Assad but said it still preferred a political solution to the crisis.
The comments by Qatar’s foreign minister, made in a CNN interview on Wednesday, drew a swift reply from Assad’s government with a senior official warning that Damascus would respond harshly to such “direct aggression”.
Gulf Arab backers of Syrian rebels such as Qatar have been unsettled by Russia’s three-week-old air strike campaign that has allowed Assad’s forces to wrest back some territory to help secure his strongholds in western Syria.
Qatar has been a leading supporter of anti-Assad rebel groups, providing arms and financial and political backing
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“I’m surprised he stayed out of it so long.”
Russia is brittle, with a declining population. I don’t think he is there because he wants to be, but because he feels he must. As it stands, the EU and Washington D.C. are ideologically committed to erasing nation states as anything beyond administrative units, as our fifty states are now. Their strategy seems to be to erase the ME nations and make some ersatz Caliphate.
The only two remaining nation states that can possibly resist such a juggernaut are Russia and China. China hasn’t weighed in very heavily, yet. But they will.
Qatar has lots of Shias that can be stirred up...
A ‘look at me’ stunt while the Saudis move?
All of this upheaval, from Sweden to Syria, seems to benefit no one at all except the Sunni Gulf States.
The Western Europeans like France and the UK were hot to overthrow Assad like they were Qaddafi - and dragged Obama into it to be fair - because they also want that Gulf pipepline through Syria because of Russia using oil and gas as leverage against them. That still to me is the theory that makes most sense.
And you could fit Syria's GDP inside Qatar's about 46 times over.
Land mass isn't that important in projecting "power" outside your borders.
As of January 1993, all the air force's aircraft were based at Doha International Airport.[7]
He'll do better than that. He'll provide them the bigger brother of the "suitcase bomb". The "attache case bomb" consisting of parts from a disassembled electric can opener attached by Crazy Glue to the interior of the attache case............
Their entire army is listed at 8500 men, and they won’t be sending them all. It wouldn’t even fill a section in a soccer stadium. Better they should hire the job done.
“Petroleum and liquefied natural gas are the cornerstones of Qatar’s economy and account for more than 70% of total government revenue, more than 60% of gross domestic product, and roughly 85% of export earnings. “
Putin needs to control more oil.
“This means to me that Russia is slaughtering Qatar’s ISIS project.”
Well, if they want to save ISIS, they had better hurry.
Lots of Twitter chatter about a BIG Syrian/Russian air raid on Aleppo late this afternoon local time, that really hurt them.
Supposedly, they are abandoning Aleppo “by the hundreds”, and heading north toward Turkey, or west toward Raqqa.
Who knows if it is all true, or even partly, but the fact remains that ISIS is hurt.
Now that Clock Boy is there, they can do it in a timely manner.
Country’s are moving toward the alpah... we’ve lost the ME>..
Another good reason to keep our men and women in uniform out of the insane middle east.
"Paging Archduke Ferdinand!
Paging Archduke Ferdinand!"
And family members working there, too.
Oh, yes! He's practicing his solidarity with Ireland by running around the Oval Office dancing a Jig.
(Can I use that word? Is it RACIST?)
/sarc
Indeed, these fools are going to give a future Saddam an excuse to invade Qatar.
That is a lot of specific information. If you get any more, please post it.
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