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No doubt you would preferred the Muslim Brotherhood to take over Syria.
No doubt you would preferred the Muslim Brotherhood to take over Syria.
No doubt you would love Syria to be in a hellhole like Libya is now in. A mess which west created.
You can't argue that fact so you attack me with the fallacy that I want the MB in charge of Syria...
Not only is that nonsense but it shows me that when you cannot debate facts you go for insults.
originally posted by: VirusGuard
Come on mate they gave weapons to the FSA who turned into ISIS and i don't blame Russia for not buying any of this BS
originally posted by: victor7
btw, not much difference in killing children vrs killing half million Iraqis, 100k libyans and 300K Syrians. children are very much included in these figures.
(I) knowingly manufactures or sells defense articles transferred into Syria or into the territory specified country without the consent of the internationally recognized government of that country;
(II) transfers defense article into Syria or into the territory specified country without the consent of the internationally recognized government of that country; or
(III) brokers or otherwise assists in the transfer of defense articles into Syria or into the territory of a specified country without the consent of the internationally recognized government of that country;
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul walks outside as he leaves the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow, May 15, 2013.
Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Moscow, told CNBC that there is "a sense of panic among [Russia's] elites right now" that could lead Russia's President Vladimir Putin to change his government.
The Stanford professor suggested that Putin could undertake a surprise reshuffle in an effort to reassure key players in the country that the president is in control of the situation.
"I actually get a sense of panic among economic elites right now, and that makes Putin more cautious," he told CNBC in an interview. "I think he may think about changing his government. I think that may be the surprise move you might see in the coming days or weeks."
Doing so, however, would mean removing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev from office — a role he was given after stepping down as president after only one term to allow Putin to return to Russia's top office.
Under the Russian constitution the same person may not be elected President of the Russian Federation for more than two terms running. The role of prime minister was widely seen as a reward for Medvedev's decision not to seek another term, as would he would have been entitled to.
Firing him at this stage could be particularly galling for a man who was once half of what was called Russia's "tandemocracy" (tandemokratiia in Russian), or joint rule with Putin.
Like told before, go and find the main reason why civil wars and regime changes have been taking place in ME
and now Ukraine.
Funny to see how you even trying to twist an US government resolution.
Congress understood that the current anti-Russian climate meant that the UFSA was surely bound to pass, so it added a completely irrelevant clause relating to Syria in order to strengthen the war effort against it. Specifically, the Act mandates that sanctions be imposed against any Russian company or related individual that sells defense articles to Syria. This is the complete opposite standard that it is applying to the ‘big tent’ countries. Congress says that Russia can’t transfer such units to the ‘big tent’ without the consent of their governments, but such transfers are prohibited to Syria when its government consents to it.
(I) knowingly manufactures or sells
defense articles transferred into Syria
or into the territory of a specified
country without the consent of the
internationally recognized government
of that country;
(II) transfers defense articles
into Syria or into the territory of a
specified country without the consent
of the internationally recognized
government of that country; or
(III) brokers or otherwise assists
in the transfer of defense articles
into Syria or into the territory of a
specified country without the consent
of the internationally recognized
government of that country; or
(B) knowingly, on or after the date of the
enactment of this Act, assists, sponsors, or provides
financial, material, or technological support for, or
goods or services to or in support of, an entity
described in subparagraph (A) with respect to an
activity described in clause (ii) of that subparagraph.
Article 6
Prohibitions
1. A State Party shall not authorize any transfer of conventional arms covered under Article 2 (1) or of items covered under Article 3 or Article 4, if the transfer would violate its obligations under measures adopted by the United Nations Security Council acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular arms embargoes.
2. A State Party shall not authorize any transfer of conventional arms covered under Article 2 (1) or of items covered under Article 3 or Article 4, if the transfer would violate its relevant international obligations under international agreements to which it is a Party, in particular those relating to the transfer of, or illicit trafficking in, conventional arms.
3. A State Party shall not authorize any transfer of conventional arms covered under Article 2 (1) or of items covered under Article 3 or Article 4, if it has knowledge at the time of authorization that the arms or items would be used in the commission of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, attacks directed against civilian objects or civilians protected as such, or other war crimes as defined by international agreements to which it is a Party.