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.

[dfwgator]

You may very well be right, but it still doesn’t make our CiC look any better.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for the mention. That does seem to be a bit of overkill for the situation.

At any rate, I was curios what the Admiral Kuznetsov looked like in comparison to our carriers. It appears it's a paultry carrier in relation to the carriers in our fleet. None the less, I'm sure it could cause plenty of trouble if it needed to.

I know that lifting deck design isn't something new. The British carriers had that too. Seems like it would be tough on the landing gear, but I guess it's been tried and works just fine.

[Morgana]

Tough choice?

No it’s easy. Let someone else kick muzzie a$$ for a change.

Russia has had trouble with muzzie terrorist, as had China. So let both of them do it for a while. The world will be a better place.

[Tailgunner Joe]

All for show. Putin is posturing just like when he poses for his faggy shirtless beefcake photo ops. The Russian ships won't deter any western action, because the West will not act without Russia's permission. Libya was bombed because Russia didn’t veto the no fly zone at the UN. The Russians have already met with the Syrian rebels and has now invited them to have a meeting in Russia. They wouldn't even bother to meet them if they didn't plan to make a deal with them. Putin has cut off Assad's weapons supplies. It's only a matter of time now until the genocidal islamofascist Assad joins his fellow Baath Socialist Saddam in Hell.

[freedommom]

What could go wrong?

http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-warns-al-qaida-flowing-syria-185235147.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Repeat Offender]

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.

Even with help from the US Ministry of Truth, our bozo can't even photo op right....he throws like a girl and is mostly seen slacking off at a golf course.

Putin at least understands that without intervention, Syria is the next domino open to falling into AQ hands. As much as I hate Russians and ChiComs, I hate muslim terrorist POS even more. And if it is Syrian, Russian, and Chinese boys dying to further the needful slaughter of terrorists......all the better.

0 has consistently come out on the side of the terrorists. The ONE time he should've opened his mouth in support of a resistance, it should've been for the Iranian Green Revolution 2009-2010; and there were crickets. And, the only reason for that was the terrorists already control Iran.

[OldEarlGray]

Go Big Red!

Err. Or something.

[Eleutheria5]

If Dubya were Potus, they might try this to test him, and he would respond very forcibly, but then the MSM and all the rabid lefties would make so many angry chimp noises that he’d have to back down just a little bit, and then the Russians would quietly move in.

[MasterGunner01]

The fastest way for the Russians to get ships off Syria is to use the Black Sea Fleet. The Black Sea Fleet ships transit the Bosporus Strait to the Sea of Marmara through the Dardanelles Strait to the Aegean Sea and then to the Mediterranean. Sending down the Northern Fleet would take too long and require a very long logistics train.

[PapaBear3625]

At any rate, I was curios what the Admiral Kuznetsov looked like in comparison to our carriers. It appears it's a paultry carrier in relation to the carriers in our fleet. None the less, I'm sure it could cause plenty of trouble if it needed to.

The only country which could go up against it would be the US, and we are not going to start WW3 over Syria. As such, it is more than big enough for their purposes, which is to dissuade the Turkish Air Force from getting involved.

[wolfcreek]

Mix that in with the US and Coalition forces in the region and you have a recipe for something bad.

[Personal Responsibility]

You’re crazy. Don’t you know that the parties are exactly the same and we’d be in this same exact position if McCain had gotten elected / Romney gets elected as we are with Obama? ;-)

/s

[oldbrowser]

Call me crazy but I doubt very much this would be happening, or even talked about, if Dubya' were still POTUS.

I do believe Putin is calling out Obama. As we all know, once Obama punks out, there will be additional steps by Putin.

[ichabod1]

after all he killed UBL yuo gotta give’im that.

[Red Badger]

Russia sends warships to Syria.......

That's how the book Alas, Babylon started......

[RipSawyer]

Oh, I don’t know about that, he may love HIS country just not the USA and for all I know he may even have a Russian birth certificate. If he doesn’t have one he certainly knows how to get one(8>)>

[RipSawyer]

I would bet that Russian citizens who live outside the cities and make their living from farming, fishing, hunting, trapping etc. enjoy a freedom of action that is only a memory in this country now. Even those in Moscow may be freer than we are now.

[Ulysse]

Russians seem to be right on that one .

Russia is wiser than Obama or....Mc Cain on that point

[MeganC]

Be kinda weird if it’s Vladimir Putin, formerly of the KGB, who keeps the world safe from the jihadis.