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2015-09-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Russian troops 'fighting alongside Assad's army against Syrian rebels'

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Posted by Pappy 2015-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Not to mention the Russian led and supplied Cuban intervention in Rhodesia and Angola from 1975 to 1989, and Nicaragua and El Salvador during the 1980s.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-05 02:59|| 2015-09-05 02:59|| Front Page Top

#2 How many Divisions in a Horde?

Posted by Snakes Ghibelline1373 2015-09-05 06:11|| 2015-09-05 06:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Good, I'm sure they don't have stringent ROE to abide by. In other news the US led coalition bombed 3 more sand dunes today.

Posted by chris 2015-09-05 06:55|| 2015-09-05 06:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Not to mention the ~~Russian~~ Soviet led and supplied Cuban intervention in Rhodesia and Angola from 1975 to 1989, and Nicaragua and El Salvador during the 1980s.

Just a minor change to placate the Russophile members of the Rantburg community, meneer.

Wouldn't want them to think we were godless tranzis now, would we?

Posted by Pappy 2015-09-05 11:35|| 2015-09-05 11:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, I was up to my butt in Russians and Cubans in Angola AND in Rhodesia (although I was NOT in Rhodesia, at least OFFICIALLY).

AND here is to rational ROE's and a squadron of A-10s for our advisors in Iraq.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2015-09-05 11:37|| 2015-09-05 11:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Just a second. Assad is an Iranian client. And, since Iran & USA are best of friends nowadays, doesn't it make Assad a pro-western freedom fighter?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-09-05 13:47|| 2015-09-05 13:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Depends. Is his novelty T-shirt in Arab, English, Farsi, or Cyrillic?

Posted by Pappy 2015-09-05 14:59|| 2015-09-05 14:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Just a second. Assad is an Iranian client

And, even moreso, a Russian one. Does it mean the US and Russia are best buds now?

Posted by Pappy 2015-09-05 15:00|| 2015-09-05 15:00|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 Aramaic

#8 The bear and the turkey?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-09-05 15:34|| 2015-09-05 15:34|| Front Page Top

#10 doesn't it make Assad a pro-western freedom fighter?

Well, we both are fighting some of the same guys, at least on alternate Tuesdays and Thursdays. And maybe depending which side of some rather fluid borders the baddies are on.

IMHO, it's all about having a port on the Med. Remember that business in Crimea? Same sort of thing - access. Plus Syria has been a long-time Soviet client. Burning them would be bad marketing.

Although, once Putin buys Greece, the preceding is null and void.

Posted by SteveS 2015-09-05 15:36|| 2015-09-05 15:36|| Front Page Top

#11 If it's Thursday, this must be Rome.

Posted by badanov 2015-09-05 16:45|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-09-05 16:45|| Front Page Top

#12 And no Suzanne Pleshette.

Posted by Pappy 2015-09-05 18:24|| 2015-09-05 18:24|| Front Page Top

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