Posted on 12/09/2012 5:35:08 PM PST by Navy Patriot
Russia will not allow a repetition of the Libyan scenario in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.
“We’ll not allow the Libyan experience to be reproduced in Syria. Unfortunately our Western partners have departed from the Geneva accords and are seeking the departure of [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad,” Lavrov said, adding Russia was not clinging to any individual leaders in Syria.
Russia and China vetoed a Western-backed UN resolution on Syria on July 19 over fears that it would lead to foreign military intervention in the Middle East country.
The resolution was tied to Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which would have provided for the use of force to put an end to the rapidly escalating conflict.
Russia says it has no special interest in seeing Assad remain in power, but that the “Syrian people” should decide his fate.
A number of Western countries have been trying to persuade Moscow to support a resolution effectively authorizing a military operation, but Russia has repeatedly insisted that the Western drive for a stronger crackdown on Syria is preparation for a “Libyan scenario.”
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This is MUCH more serious than we are being led to believe, in the USA.
We love “Syrian Rebels” enough to have a VERY SERIOUS problem with Russia? Cuz that’s what we are looking at, here —the snake is rattling it’s tail in a very major way, here.
It could be WWIII, in return for helping freaking Al Qaeda against a mob that is comparatively SECULAR.
Hey that’sTHREE strikes, right in a row. WHAT WOULD THE FOUNDERS SAY...?
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Agree. This ain’t good at all.
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With the capable leaders that we have just elected, there is nothing to worry about./s Prayers tonight to a mercyful God are in order however.
I don't believe Russia really feels that way but I do. Our only involvement should have been to quarantine the violence within Syria's borders.
Yep. Let Syria, Russia, and Iran deal with this mess.
And any False Flag stuff was conventional weapons.
If we False Flag with chemical WMD's it's war crime, crimes against humanity, Geneva Convention...
See ya at Nuremberg.
Agreed.
Over most of my life I’ve probably sounded like quite a jingoist, but really —haven’t we been mucking around in enough CIVIL WARS...? They’re acting like we’re loaded to the gills with cash and influence, and fighting with inanimate robots.
We’re broke, troops are living beings, and this LEAPS to mind as NONE of our freaking business.
Besides the Balkans and Africa it strains my mind to imagine a place more deserving of the USA steering clear.
I suspect the “activists” would know, they used ‘em.
True. Let Russia and Iran pay the costs of ‘nation building’ the rubble and rabble that’s left if they want to. If we don’t like how they’re doing it we can rag on ‘em at the UN. It’s not our obligation to fix everything in the world.
Russia knows that owebama gets his orders from the muslim brotherhood.
They don’t.
owebama wants to install another morsi in syria to please his handlers in the mb.
With luck, the fightig in Syria will continue for another decade.
it’s too late, the idiot American regime is alreeady there and ww 3 or ww 4 (depending on how you count) is starting
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