Posted on 02/28/2019 4:02:48 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
When a trainload of tanks, guns, and other military hardware supposedly seized from the Syrian battlefields pulled up at Kursk railway station on a cloudy afternoon this week, a jubilant crowd was there to greet it.
An orchestra belted out Soviet war songs. A state-funded paramilitary youth movement performed a dance for world peace. A World War II veteran in battered shoes lauded Russia's armed forces. And officials in slick suits delivered the obligatory praise for the president and commander in chief, Vladimir Putin.
"The next generation must understand that the enemy is not far away," said Acting Regional Governor Roman Starovoit. "It must be liquidated on the threshold of our motherland's borders."
Kursk, a city of 450,000 people five hours by train from Moscow, was the third stop on a nationwide, 28,000-kilometer propaganda tour launched by Russia's Defense Ministry to showcase the achievements of its military campaign in Syria. Putin launched the campaign in September 2015 with the promise of air support for his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad's fight against the extremist Islamic State group (IS) and against rebel forces backed by the West.
The travelling exhibition, titled Syrian Breakthrough, is meant to raise support for the armed forces among a Russian population increasingly weary of the country's military campaigns in Ukraine and the Middle East, and increasingly pre-occupied with problems at home amid stagnating incomes and falling real wages.
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A lot of U.S. equipment that Øbowel left there for ISIS, his creation.
are those ‘war trophies’ American equipment stolen from Iraq? I can’t see Assad’s stuff being shipped anywhere.
A trainload of tanks at Kursk?
Does no one see the irony?
:-)
They always look like the guards at the Wicked Witch’s castle
They were on the same side as Assad so they wouldn’t be stealing his stuff. So they took a bunch of ISIS stuff. That would be the cannon armed trucks (technicals) and stuff like that we provided them.
Good for them. And good for them to tell their people that the enemy is not that far away.
Contrast this to the EU and our way of speaking about islamists.
"With the help of this installation and chemical reagents made abroad, the rebels produced poisonous gas and used various methods of delivering it to the target," the serviceman said, indicating the control board, the chemical reactor, and the electric motor that powered the set-up. The equipment had been found in the basement of a bombed-out building in Douma, a city close to the Syrian capital Damascus, in April 2018, he said. That month, a chemical-weapons attack the West blamed on Assad's government, which Russia called a Western provocation, claimed at least 70 civilian lives.
"With the help of such munitions the rebels fired on the Syrian Army and used them for shelling of civilians as a form of provocation," the serviceman continued. He then pointed to the gas mask worn by one of the mannequins, with the words "Made in Finland" emblazoned on it. "As we see, foreign production," he said.
Free Toyota pickups for all.
Oh yeah. Kinda like trucks full of mosin-nagants at sevastopol.
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that green truck has a rocket pod from a HIND attack helicopter mounted on it
Typical neo-liberal projection from the propaganda arm of the US government...its the Ukrainian people who are weary of the fighting in the East and its the American people who are tired of endless wars of intervention in the Middle East.
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