Posted on 10/06/2015 2:31:51 PM PDT by Mariner
Western diplomats have been left scrambling to revise their Syria game plans as Russia accelerates its ruthless offensive in the country, with the French seeking leverage over Moscow as its manoeuvres threaten to destabilise the region even further.
Not even a week after Moscow launched its first air strikes in Syria, startling its Western counterparts and sending the UN General Assembly into a diplomatic frenzy, the Russians continue to swing at anyone who opposes President Bashar al-Assad, from alleged CIA-trained rebels to Islamic State group militants. They've even 'strayed' into Turkish airspace.
Their offensive comes on the back of a dazzling performance at the UN's annual meeting of world leaders, which President Vladimir Putin and his cohorts dominated from start to finish, combining military action with a carefully orchestrated diplomatic crusade.
Painting itself as the only legitimate foreign force in the bloody four-and-a-half-year conflict and a crucial middleman between the West and the Syrian regime, Russia scolded Western powers for intervening in Libya and Iraq, as Russian jets pounded opposition targets in Syria.
The difference, Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on October 1, is that the Russians are “polite people who do not go where they are not invited”.
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Lavrov, meanwhile, joked with reporters at a Russian reception last week, “we’re not expecting a breakthrough, but we’re hoping to avoid a breakdown”.
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with the French seeking leverage...
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The French translation of “leverage” is surrender.
France only makes trouble for her western “allies.”
Looking for the best way with the most publicity to Surrender...
They are well underway, why not make it official...
France is now or will be soon a Muslim country...
The Europeans will eventually war against Russia to keep it from controlling the Middle East. This may not happen for a while, but it will happen eventually. The Europeans do NOT want to be held hostage by Russia (in the form of high oil prices and single sourcing).
and french next move is bowel.
They would shit themselves first rather than do something to Russia.
self?
Why would a muslim state attack contemplate doing anything positive with Russia. France is long gone. The new France will probably be bombing the Russian embassy and sending more support to Syria.
Lead or concede.
Our elected officials have chosen the latter.
*crickets*
France so scary. One asks how many Frenchman does it take to defend Paris. Answer: no one knows it has never been done.
Well... They could always start building nuclear reactors.
France - we surrender......
Notice
Sale of Surplus French military rifles. Never fired.
Only dropped once.
Nuke reactors are great for electricity generation, but nothing beats oil for its combination of energy density, portability, convenience, etc. and its use in just about every manufactured product on earth.
Y’all need to lay off the Frogs just a bit.
Their leaders might be wet noodles, or self-promoting hacks, but the Frogs themselves are pretty good fighters as is the Foreign Legion. Read some history. Look for words like “Verdun” and “Franco-Prussian War” and “Bir Hakeim.” The French might have lost some, but they didn’t give up and even then they cut a chunk out the enemy (Germans in every case...) before they went down.
That's what I thought at first too.
Then I realized that Russia was able to put enough Special Forces into Ukraine to win the vote!
Actually it looks like France is taking the toughest line of all the Western powers.
Saying the agreement must say, up front, that Assad is out.
Sometime in the future.
If it works out.
It looks like ISIS's reaction is to move things around. Their way to date, is to move among ordinary people for shields. That's the way muzzies work.
In the meantime, the US is talking about surrounding Raqqa..the ISIS stronghold.
Of course, that's after Russia has already bombed the cr** out of them.
Looks like we're a little late.
“France so scary. One asks how many Frenchman does it take to defend Paris. Answer: no one knows it has never been done.”
Well not since the Franco-Prussian war in 1872(?) and the French still lost
Too late for the NATO wusses. The Bear has left the reservation.
Tim Allen had a funny line on “Last Man Standing” last week. He was protesting his wife giving him the cold shoulder. He asked “Why are you so passive aggressive? In France that is called war.”
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