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Qatar says it could intervene militarily in Syria
Al-Aribya ^ | 10-21-2015 | Al Aribya

Posted on 10/21/2015 9:55:21 AM PDT by tcrlaf

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To: demshateGod

“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.


41 posted on 10/21/2015 10:38:43 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (NATO and ISIS sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G)
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To: Psalm 144

Qatar has lots of Shias that can be stirred up...


42 posted on 10/21/2015 10:39:42 AM PDT by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: Trumpinator

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.


43 posted on 10/21/2015 10:43:21 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (NATO and ISIS sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G)
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To: OLDCU
If we had a President Trump......now would be the time to CIA a coup in Mexico and send all the illegals home to rebuild their crap hole country.
Be sure to destroy all their industrial capacity too!!!
Be sure to lather them up with IMF loans before the party starts and then squeeze them once the shooting starts and their peso craps the bed!!!!
And out of the oven comes a client state!!!
Probably won't happen for two reasons:
1. Trump is a corporate tool?
2. Corporate interests want a failed industrial state for cheap labor.
44 posted on 10/21/2015 10:45:02 AM PDT by free from tyranny
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To: Psalm 144

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.


45 posted on 10/21/2015 10:53:51 AM PDT by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: Fitzy_888
You could fit Qatar inside Syria about twenty times over. => Delusions of islamo-grandiur.

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.

46 posted on 10/21/2015 10:56:27 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: tcrlaf
I expect this means air support. Qatar's Air Force:

Units

  • 9 single-seat Mirage 2000-5EDA
  • 3 2000-5DDA trainers

As of January 1993, all the air force's aircraft were based at Doha International Airport.[7]

47 posted on 10/21/2015 11:04:58 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: dfwgator
“Quick, make us some clocks.”

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............

48 posted on 10/21/2015 11:05:11 AM PDT by varon (Don't point that finger at me unless you're prepared to have it broken off!)
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To: tcrlaf

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.


49 posted on 10/21/2015 11:10:31 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: thackney

“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.


50 posted on 10/21/2015 11:10:57 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: Trumpinator

“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.


51 posted on 10/21/2015 11:28:51 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf
Qatar says it could intervene militarily in Syria

Now that Clock Boy is there, they can do it in a timely manner.

52 posted on 10/21/2015 11:35:21 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: MSF BU
The Qatar Armed Forces are the military forces of Qatar. The country maintains a modest military force of approximately 11,800 men, including an army (8,500), navy (1,800) and air force (1,500). Qatar's defence expenditures were a total of $1.913 billion, about 1.5% of the national GDP, as of 2010 according to the SIPRI.
53 posted on 10/21/2015 11:39:53 AM PDT by kabar
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To: tcrlaf

Country’s are moving toward the alpah... we’ve lost the ME>..


54 posted on 10/21/2015 11:45:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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To: tcrlaf

Another good reason to keep our men and women in uniform out of the insane middle east.


55 posted on 10/21/2015 11:52:22 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/and watch Russia destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq.)
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To: tcrlaf
Here we go again, folks...

"Paging Archduke Ferdinand!

Paging Archduke Ferdinand!"

56 posted on 10/21/2015 12:11:51 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Travis T. OJustice
Let me get my co-workers home first, please.

And family members working there, too.

57 posted on 10/21/2015 12:15:07 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: blueunicorn6
Anybody see our President numb nuts doing anything about this?

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

58 posted on 10/21/2015 12:18:50 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Truth29

Indeed, these fools are going to give a future Saddam an excuse to invade Qatar.


59 posted on 10/21/2015 12:33:05 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: tcrlaf

That is a lot of specific information. If you get any more, please post it.


60 posted on 10/21/2015 1:19:43 PM PDT by Truth29
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