Posted on 09/07/2015 7:16:26 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The United States has asked Greece to deny Russia the use of its airspace for supply flights to Syria, a Greek official said on Monday, after Washington told Moscow it was deeply concerned by reports of a Russian military build up in Syria.
The Greek foreign ministry said the request was being examined. Russian newswire RIA Novosti earlier said Greece had refused the U.S. request, quoting a diplomatic source as saying that Russia was seeking permission to run the flights up to Sept. 24.
Russia, which has a naval base in the Syrian port of Tartous, has sent regular flights to Latakia, which it has also used to bring home Russian nationals who want to leave.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Saturday that if reports of the build-up were accurate, that could further escalate the war and risk confrontation with the U.S.-led alliance that is bombing Islamic State in Syria.
Lavrov told Kerry it was premature to talk about Russia's participation in military operations in Syria, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman told RIA Novosti on Monday.
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Bidding war!
Hey Biraq - why don’t you draw another red line? Yeah, that’ll work!
Obama doing everything he can to make fighting ISIS harder.
WHY????
Isn’t it a little late?
Barry does not want a real military to take out his ISIS. Barry has other plans for his “foreign fighters”.
ISIS is doing Turkey’s dirty work against the Kurds, which provides another subtle motivation for Greece to facilitate Russia’s support of the Assad government in Syria. NATO’s eastern flank is under many new geopolitical stresses, and I have wonder if it is still a true and reliable alliance.
WHY????
because there are still some Christians left to kill?
Turkeys' membership in NATO should be terminated. Turkey is reverting back to the Ottoman Empire which repeatedly and constantly invaded Europe. And Turkey is doing just that again only this time by proxy.
Lets not forget W who started this entire mess.
Sure, we’ll do that — bail us out!
The Greeks are in such desperate financial straits that they’ll do pretty much anything for bailout cash.
Putin annexing the Crimean Peninsula pretty much put an end to Turkeys ambitions of reverting back to the Ottoman empire.
Reagan wouldn’t ask. Just send a memo to Greece. Done.
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