Russia sends warships to Syria

Telegraph UK ^ | 7/10/2012 | Tom Parfitt, Moscow and Adrian Blomfield

[PapaBear3625]

Two destroyers and three amphibious landing vessels carrying marines set sail from Russian bases in the Arctic and the Black Sea, according to Russian military sources.

Russia's defence ministry insisted that the mission was part of a previously scheduled exercise in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea and at least one of the vessels in the flotilla has patrolled waters off Syria earlier this year.

But Western diplomats say the purpose of the mission is to show tangible support for Mr Assad, to warn the West against military intervention in Syria and to prepare for the possible evacuation of Russian nationals from the country.

[bergmeid]

If Putin had zippy in a chokehold like that I would say go ahead and make my day.

[Hotlanta Mike]

[Morgana]

“Doesn’t sound like Putin will be willing to let Syria fall to the Sunni Islamists. “

Better them than us. At least no more of our boys die because if these people.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I think the Russian people are getting real tired of the ruling class there now.

The communists hate Putin and so do the Euro-socialists in the West.

Putin was just re-elected.

The communists in our own government and in Europe tried to steal the Russian election.

Putin may not be our idea of someone to have as president, but at least he loves his country and has a Russian birth certificate.

You cannot say the same for what we have in the White House.

[Thunder90]

The Chinese are sending troops to Syria as well as the Russians. And, part of the Russian troop allocation includes Kazakhs and Belorussians.

[A.A. Cunningham]

As scheduled:

Russia to send marines to Syria

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Tough choice...

Do you side with Putin or with Obama and the European Union?

I’ll take Putin over that bunch any day...

[PapaBear3625]

This group is the anti-submarine destroyer Smetlivy, plus three landing ships with Russian marines. As of two weeks ago, they had two warships plus a frigate there. One of the warships, the Admiral Chabanenkom, is claimed to correspond to an American Spruce-class destroyer, and Turkey is making accusations that it took part in the shootdown of the Turkish F4. They also have their aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov on station somewhere in the area.

That's a respectable amount of hardware on station.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks PapaBear3625.

...to prepare for the possible evacuation of Russian nationals from the country.

Hal Lindsey ping. ;')

[Greysard]

Hillary, push it for all you’re worth.

Sometimes a figure of speech may fail you.

[wolfman23601]

As long as the US and UK aren’t committing troops, I couldn’t care less the result. I hope we stay out of it.

[edcoil]

I guess we need to assume Turkey gave them permission to navigate the river. I was looking on google earth and just did not see the connection. Thanks for directions.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

I have a feeling ‘Warships to Syria’ is a smokescreen for protection of another, much larger country.

[NonValueAdded]

unless that's what I meant :)

Actually, I should have said "push it for all it's worth" (essentially the same thing)

[justa-hairyape]

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[Sawdring]

I love it when Putin stages events. He hunts tigers, drives race cars, deep sea dives, hunts whales, and has been known to fly fish without a shirt. I don't like to lecture but you need to know that your are posting carefully choreographed Russian government photo operations.

[Cyber Liberty]

On which side?