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Russia Putting Battleships in Syria: Sources (China and Iran) Video
Larry Kudlow Show (CNBC) ^ | June 18,2012 | John Batchelor

Posted on 06/18/2012 5:59:20 PM PDT by Hojczyk

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To: taildragger
So what is Russia’s end game?

In part it could be because Syria, along with Lebanon and Iran are among the last few well-heeled purchasers of Russian arms, aircraft, etc.

And that is big business that brings foreign currency to Russia and helps keep their arms industries running.

They also comprise one of the last foreign areas where Russia has an international presence and influence.


21 posted on 06/18/2012 6:45:19 PM PDT by Iron Munro (John Adams: 'Two ways to enslave a country. One is by the sword, the other is by debt')
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To: Flag_This

Obama is an ankle-grabber.


22 posted on 06/18/2012 6:45:30 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Hojczyk
Russia doesn't have any battleships!
23 posted on 06/18/2012 6:48:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Hojczyk
That is nothing. Just wait until they deploy the Russian Land Battleships.


24 posted on 06/18/2012 6:50:58 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape

Stuka magnet.


25 posted on 06/18/2012 6:51:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: justa-hairyape

sure, it has the guns but does it have a cup holder?


26 posted on 06/18/2012 6:54:24 PM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: taildragger

They are threatening NATO and the UN and europe. Russia wants Assad to prevail. NATO wants Assad to step down. Russia does this little display of force to make it clear they will not allow any intervention in syria by NATO, the UN, or any EU forces.


27 posted on 06/18/2012 6:54:39 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: justa-hairyape

And just what is the turning circle on that? (In miles or kilometres - I can convert)


28 posted on 06/18/2012 6:56:42 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.- H. L. Mencken)
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To: taildragger

Because Russia doesn’t have many naval bases and one is in Syria.


29 posted on 06/18/2012 7:00:53 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Hojczyk
Looks like Russia and China are going to give Syria and Iran confidence to start a war against Israel and get whipped again.
30 posted on 06/18/2012 7:03:15 PM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Read the historical text in the image. Actual image is larger. Very funny stuff. They built three of them.


31 posted on 06/18/2012 7:09:35 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Snickering Hound
If there is anything I hate, it's time traveling Russian pre-dreadnoughts.

Onward to Tsushima and victory!

32 posted on 06/18/2012 7:14:05 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: rmlew
“Russia has no battleships. It does have 3 modified Kirov class cruisers, which are arguably nuclear battlecruisers. I say so in defference to their tonnage (20,000 tons) and missile armament of 20 Granat antiship (carrier killer) missiles, and 96 SA-N-6/S300 antiaircraft missiles. However, they only have one 130mm (5.2 inch) cannon. They also have 3 Slava class cruisers with 16 anti-ship missiles and 64 SA-N-6/S300 antiaircraft missiles. However, these are the size of our Ticonderoga Cruisers and of World War 2 cruisers”

Wow, and to think two or three Drones would put it at the bottom of the Ocean. Now that is perspective.

33 posted on 06/18/2012 7:23:01 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: newnhdad

And I bet the crew is still allowed to smoke.


34 posted on 06/18/2012 7:38:47 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: justa-hairyape

FYI - They may have never actually built that Russian Land Battleship. Was an experimental design only. The historical text was apparently created by the illustrator. That is why it is so funny.


35 posted on 06/18/2012 7:42:20 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape
Yeah, that image meant to be a joke.

Any Sov tank at that time capable of holding up a German armoured division would have been a KV-1

There was a KV-2, which is probably where the makers of the image got the idea,
but that was a special purpose tank for use against fixed fortifications, carrying a slow firing 152mm howitzer. Against armour, it would have been quickly overwhelmed.

And the supposed fates of the "KV-6"s are exactly what you might guess from looking at the picture.

36 posted on 06/18/2012 7:49:12 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.- H. L. Mencken)
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To: taildragger

I don’t think anyone really knows what’s going on.

Perhaps Russia is trying to make a move while they still have a sucker to deal with-—Obama.


37 posted on 06/18/2012 8:04:02 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Venturer
Obama started all this crap in the Mid-East with his Arab Summer, it sems that Putin intends to finish it.

Correct. Before the Arab Spring we had anti-American, anti-Semite regimes that posed no great threat to the United States. Now we have Anti-American Anti-Semite regimes that will cooperate with those that will try and harm the United States.

That really worked out good for us /sarcasm.

A Lebanese Christian I know said this about Syria. "Those Bast---s have been killing each other forever. I hope they all kill each other." His opinion is far more rational than our foreign policy.

38 posted on 06/18/2012 8:28:31 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Hojczyk

Youy need to know what a battleship is before posting on military matters.


39 posted on 06/18/2012 8:34:35 PM PDT by TFMcGuire (Liberalism Is Hatred)
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To: taildragger
So what is Russia’s end game? Protect Syria from Israel, or get rid of Assad for their own purposes? Help me here, I can’t get my arms around this one...

They'd like to keep their port in Tartus

40 posted on 06/18/2012 8:41:50 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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