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Originally posted by syrinx high priest
the west is already there
they are sending money and agents
they won't send real troops, how stupid
Moscow prepares plan to evacuate Russians from Syria Rescuers are planning to take around 30,000 Russian citizens out of the country by air and by sea. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense have prepared a plan for a large-scale operation to evacuate Russian citizens from Syria. According to the document, rescuers are ready to take around 30,000 Russians out of the dangerous region. In case of an urgent evacuation, planes from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Defense and Aeroflot, as well as passenger ferries and four large navy landing vessels from the Baltic and Black Sea fleets, will take part in the operation.......
Originally posted by tommyjo
reply to post by ausername
Russia is NOT going to lift a finger to support Assad. You need to stay away from the die-hard conspiracy driven reporting on such exercises.
The site, at the port of Tartus, is little more than a pier, fuel tanks and some barracks. But it is the last Russian military base outside the former Soviet Union, and its only Mediterranean fueling spot, sparing Russia’s warships the trip back to their Black Sea bases through straits in Turkey, a NATO member.
Originally posted by Libertygal
There are at least 100,00 Russian citizens in Syria, and there have been troops on the ground in Syria since at least June/July of 2012. At least what has been publically acknowledged. I
Media Froth in the Wake of Russia’s Tanker in Syria The Iman, a Russian tanker ship that visited the Syrian port of Tartus, has caused quite a stir in the Western and Arab press, which is portraying it as a warship with a unit of Marines on board. So, let us try to work out what is actually going on with the Iman. First, the Iman is not a civilian ship – it is a component of the Black Sea Fleet’s support forces. Second, if the ship is headed to Tartus from the Gulf of Aden, the zone of an international anti-piracy operation, it is certain to have a unit of Marines on board to protect the crew. This, also, has not been denied by the MoD spokesman quoted above. “There is no one on board the tanker but a civilian crew that has been given a security guard detail,” he told RIA Novosti.
Originally posted by ausername
Originally posted by tommyjo
reply to post by ausername
Russia is NOT going to lift a finger to support Assad. You need to stay away from the die-hard conspiracy driven reporting on such exercises.
Sorry friend, actions speak louder than words and the Russians have defended the Assad regime with far more than a finger so far. Despite overwhelming international condemnation of the Assad regimes brutality the Russians have defended them, even using their veto power at the UN to protect them.
Their actions in that regard should be so loud here that even the most ignorant among you can see the truth for what it is.
Originally posted by sonnny1
to head off a Western attack..........with hundreds of troops?
Come now....