Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has responded to US and Israeli pressure on arms sales to Syria by saying that no “new” deals would be made in the near future to sell Syria any additional defensive weaponry.
At the same time, Lavrov confirmed that there are standing contracts already signed for defensive weapons to Syria, and that such contracts would be fulfilled irrespective of US opposition.
Western officials have expressed concern about the delivery of S-300 air defense systems to Syria, as the advanced systems would make any Israeli or US attacks considerably more difficult. Syria’s interest toward the systems has grown greatly since last week’s Israeli attacks.
The US insists that selling additional S-300s to Syria would be “destabilizing” to the region, though since their only use is preventing aerial attack it seems difficult to defend that position seriously, and it appears to follow similar opposition to such sales to Iran, in essence because it will make offensive wars against them less convenient.
Is Russia going to pressure USA and EU for their huge.., very huge sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, turkey, Israel and……. Is Russia about to betray Syrian people as they did to Yugoslavia…?
Well said. Russia has always been an unreliable ally as far as defense is concerned. What they don't seem to fully understand is that the whole Third World is watching and this timid almost subservient policy (except for mouthing off) undermines their own future. When Hugo Chavez offered them an opening to the South American Continent, Putin barely took this great geopolitical advantage seriously and now the USA is doing all it can to reclaim Venezuela as a vassal state. No one will ever stick their neck out for Russia when push will come to shove with the US.
Hmm, I'm not believing that before I see it.
Next week, Netanyahu will fly to Russia and probably wants to threaten Putin a little bit.
I'm already interested who comes out of the room with his head up.
The western criminal thieves are used to stealing other people's resources on the cheap, so they are desperate to prvent Syria from getting the means to defend themselves.