Posted on 10/04/2015 2:56:27 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Russian fighter jets launched from a new airbase in Syria have persuaded western critics to mute their demands for the removal of President Bashar al-Assad, but another group of his opponents sees Moscow’s intervention as more provocative than decisive.
Regional powers have quietly, but effectively, channelled funds, weapons and other support to rebel groups making the biggest inroads against the forces from Damascus. In doing so, they are investing heavily in a conflict which they see as part of a wider regional struggle for influence with bitter rival Iran.
In a week when Russia made dozens of bombing raids, those countries have made it clear that they remain at least as committed to removing Assad as Moscow is to preserving him.
“There is no future for Assad in Syria,” Saudi foreign minister Adel Al-Jubeir warned, a few hours before the first Russian bombing sorties began. If that was not blunt enough, he spelled out that if the president did not step down as part of a political transition, his country would embrace a military option, “which also would end with the removal of Bashar al-Assad from power”.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Well then here come the Chi-coms - the more the merrier
The coalition of the unwilling vs the theatre of the macabre
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3344627/posts
I think the stage is being set for Armegeddon....Gog and Magog are involved...
> H8w do we pay the Saudis back for 9/11?
Send all the refugees back to Saudi Arabia
Should have got our own damn oil elsewhere.
“Pipelines” are a fantasy narrative. People completely out of the loop of active geopolitics, such as kids living in their parents’ basements, buy off on “pipelines” as the excuse for every action in the M-E.”
Please, by all means, link to anytime I have said it is an excuse for “everything happening in the Middle East”.
In this case, it happens to be true,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar-Turkey_pipeline
and only someone sitting in their parents basement, with no clue of International Geopolitics and how they work can deny it.
So save the condescending BS, K?
This is a plant story.....the Gulf countries wont do a thing...Putin can have a chat with them and all is well.
Most of the countries there dont trust their own military!
“Most of the countries there dont trust their own military!”
The Emirati’s and the Bahrani’s, as well as the Saudi’s, are taking casualties in Yemen.
It’s not my fault that you keep looking like a child. After all, you are the one posting ridiculous “pipeline” conspiracy theories.
If you want to appear grown up, then stop with the fantasy nonsense.
They are using mostly mercs! Most of the pilots Id guess have names like Mike, Bob or Joe....
It’s only a fantasy, until it’s true. Like Soros, etc.
Who the hell are you shilling for, anyway? NextWave?
Soros?! NextWave?! Magic pipelines?!
Good grief! Your tin-foil hat is on too tight.
“Soros?! NextWave?!”
What is your major malfunction?
You DO realize this is FR, right? We knew what Soros was doing LONG before it was no longer “a crazy conspiracy”.
Read the Wiki link, THEN LOOK AT A MAP, and it will seem clearer. Or stick your head in a hole in the backyard and bray. Doesn’t make much difference to me. You can tell the Hillary campaign that you tried.
Oh by all means please post your Unabomber manifesto about Soros and...Syria!
LOL!
This should be rich.
After checking your history, trolling and insults seem to be your “Thingy”, I’m not playing, G’nite
Gee, as soon as you get called out on your wild-eyed conspiracy theories, you flee (and call for mama).
Typical.
Save it for 4chan, kid.
So after saying that you were done for the night, you come back with a snarky comment...anything but explaining your wild-eyed pipelineSorosSyria conspiracy nonsense.
For shame.
I don’t think this has anything to do with Soros. I do think Putin wants to control the oil and prop up the oil price. It was the collapse of oil prices that destroyed the Russian economy during the 80’s. I believe Putin is intent on not letting that happen again. While Obammy would like to bankrupt the American oil companies so he green energy wacko buddies can flourish... the rest of the world is pretty happy burning fossil fuels.
It’s safe to say that Syria has nothing to do with Soros. That whole conspiracy theory was brought up above by the kid in his mom’s basement.
Agree....
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