Putin sends air defense missiles to Syria to deter Turkey

Yahoo News AP ^ | November 25, 2015 | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

[Navy Patriot]

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered state-of-the art air defense missile systems to be deployed at a Russian air base in Syria following the downing of one of its warplanes by Turkey, a move that raised the threat of a military confrontation between the NATO member and Moscow.

The S-400 missile systems will be sent to the Hemeimeem air base in Syria's coastal province of Latakia, located about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the border with Turkey. The systems are capable of targeting Turkish jets with deadly precision. If Russia shot down a Turkish plane, NATO would be required to intervene.

Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber on Tuesday, saying it crossed into its airspace from Syria despite repeated warnings. One of its two pilots was killed by militants after bailing out, while his crewmate was rescued by Syrian army commandos and delivered in good condition to the Russian base early Wednesday.

[MeganC]

Are you Michael Karam of Bethesda, Maryland?

[marvel5]

Yes, because he has and is getting more done than Reagan was able to (through no fault of his own) due to the Democratic House for eight years and House and Senate for two. Don’t you think Ronald Reagan would have loved to put in a flat tax of 13%, abolish the estate tax, slash the corporate tax rate to 20%, and have left office with a debt to GDP ratio of 18% rather than 58%?

[marvel5]

No

[marshmallow]

Has it passed through the minds of anyone in the NATO hierarchy yet, that admitting an Islamic country (Turkey) might have been a rather large mistake?

[ETL]

From 2012: Syria shoots down Turkish plane

"Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has threatened Syria with retaliation for shooting down a military jet, and warned that Turkish armed forces will respond to any Syrian encroachment on the border.

Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance stands by Turkey but is not considering a military response."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/middle-east-live/2012/jun/26/syria-crisis-nato-meeting-live
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Graphic showing where the Turkish F-4 Phantom went down 

[Navy Patriot]

Has it passed through the minds of anyone in the NATO hierarchy yet, that admitting an Islamic country (Turkey) might have been a rather large mistake?

Nah, they're still bar bragging their stunning Islamic victory over Serbia and the installation of Sharia in Kosovo.

All's well that ends in Blue Helmet human trafficking.

[lodi90]

Russia has the second highest per capita rate of abortion in the WORLD behind only communist Vietnam. Putin has personally stolen $40 billion from the Russian people (average wage $500 per month). He lives in palaces secretly built for him while Russian muzhiks use squat toilets across the fruited Russian plains. What a patriot.

[marvel5]

As even Russia-hating Forbes magazine admits, between 1992 and 2013, Russia’s abortion rate declined precipitously from 250 to 50 per 100 live births. http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2015/02/04/russias-abortion-rate-has-fallen-dramatically/ Yes, it is still too high - one would be too much - but obviously Russian anti-abortion policies are having a huge impact.

The $40 billion figure is a lie. Even Russia-hating Bloomberg columnist Bershidsky admits that.

“The media reports, which often cite one another, ultimately tend to rely on one primary source: a November 2007 interviewgiven by a prominent member of Moscow’s chattering classes, Stanislav Belkovsky, to the German daily Die Welt. In the interview, he claimed that Putin “controlled” 37 percent of the oil company Surgutneftegaz and 4.5 percent of natural gas monopoly Gazprom. The $40 billion estimate of Putin’s fortune was simply the 2007 market price of these stakes.

“And these numbers are substantiated?” Die Welt journalist Manfred Quiring asked. “These numbers are correct,” Belkovsky replied, and that was that.

Interviewers regularly ask Belkovsky about the $40 billion number. “That figure could now have changed, I believe at the level of $60-70 billion,” Belkovsky toldMaeve McClenaghan of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

There has never been the slightest bit of evidence that Putin actually owns stakes in Surgutneftegaz or Gazprom. The Western journalists using Belkovsky as a source either do not know who he is or print his allegations simply because they are colorful. “What game Mr. Belkovsky is playing — and on whose behalf — is unclear,” the Telegraph of London warned in a story copiously citing Belkovsky’s allegations.” http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-09-17/vladimir-putin-the-richest-man-on-earth

Furthermore, Newsweek asked Forbes why Putin wasn’t on its billionaires list, the magazine replied: When asked about Putin, a spokeswoman for Forbes told Newsweek: “Vladimir Putin is not on the list because we have not been able to verify his ownership of assets worth $1 billion or more” and cited the methodology. http://www.newsweek.com/why-putin-isnt-forbes-billionaires-list-310818#big-shots/undefined/0

Putin lives in an apartment in the Kremlin, by the way, where he is entitled to reside as President of Russia.

[lodi90]

The $40 billion figure is a lie. Even Russia-hating Bloomberg columnist Bershidsky admits that.

Putin lives in an apartment in the Kremlin, by the way, where he is entitled to reside as President of Russia.

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Putin’s press secretary wears a $600,000 watch but Putin lives like a pious monk? Do you have beach front property in Arizona for sale by chance?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/11780027/Vladimir-Putins-spokesman-in-luxury-watch-scandal.html

You lie by omission here figuring nobody else knows here the facts. Fact is Putin has a pad outside Moscow (he was their during the recent unrest in Chechyna and had to rush back to Kremlin), a Dacha in Sochi and a $1 billion Black Sea palace of dubious provenance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace

Such ostentatious wealth has been tragically stolen from the Russian people by Putin and his stooges. Sad. Very sad. Even sadder that you are here lying about it.

[marvel5]

As to “Putin’s Palace, “Kolesnikov has no documentary evidence the transactions were conducted on Mr. Putin’s behalf.”

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/69d1db86-1aa6-11e1-ae14-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3sZENQ547

And as the FT article makes clear, Kolesnikov has no first hand evidence implicating Putin, only hearsay.

Its also quite clear that, based upon Kolesnikov’s own admissions, he was involved in criminal activity, only later becoming “disillusioned,” and fleeing to the West to retail anti-Putin propaganda as a “whistleblower,” just like the big crooks Berezovsky and Khodorkovsky.

In any event, “Putin’s Palace” was sold in 2011.

To my understanding, the Sochi Dacha is an official retreat, just as Camp David is for the US President and Chequers for the British Prime Minister.