Posted on 10/04/2015 5:54:15 AM PDT by Strategy
LONDON: Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to wipe out the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
According to The Daily Star, he is apparently mounting an enormous military mission to take control of the terror group's stronghold of Raqqa.
Raqqa is the self-declared capital of ISIS which is patrolled by as many as 5,000 jihadi members.
Putin is set to mobilise 150,000 reservists whom he conscripted into the military earlier this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at newindianexpress.com ...
ISIS well flee back into Iraq where its safe.
While I don’t agree with everything Putin does and I’d never live under that type of government, I must say it’s interesting to watch a leader with balls do the job that the UN and obama/ValJar refuse to do.
I don’t think so, Vlad wants them gone and make a statement
Too bad America doesn't have a leader with gonads.
May the Russians turn the road into another Highway of Death.
150,000 is a lot for a Syria civil war. Maybe they’ll move on into Iraq.
Good.
Waiting to see if this really happens ...
Reservists? Do he is sending in the B or C team.
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It was my understand that the conscription event in Russia this past week is an annual event and not directly linked to activities in Syria. Is that incorrect?
Iraqi prime minister says he would welcome Russian airstrikes in Iraq
The only problem is...just a few days back he told Putin to do what he had to do....but eventually, Assad had to go.
Except our dumb a** president hasn't decided who should replace him. This is the identical cr** Obama pulled in Libya....and the successor was worse than Khadafi...and lo and behold....ISIS came...
I don’t support the USA frittering away our GI’S and our treasure in the ssxt hole they call the Middle East whether it be Syria or Iraq. They should be on our border actually defending America. Let the Middle East solve their own problems.
The Russians were a lot stronger in Afghanistan and the Afghans were, initially at least, weaker than ISIS is now. But moral is probable higher in the Russian army now than it was among all the Soviet (really Uzbek) troops. And let’s face it, Arabs are not Afghans. Let’s see how the Russians do this time around.
Overwhelming force with no rules of engagement.. there’s a novel idea.
Russia is doing what this panzy a## president should have done but he cant becuase this is thier creation
We do not have 150,000 armed troops at this point. Te Army has 450,000 total troops, but less than 20% are actually armed front line troops. The remainder are support (logistics, clerical, intelligence, maintenance, transportation, etc).
Obama is embarrassing...........
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