For the second time this month, Israel has attacked the Syrian port of Latakia. This was a much larger attack, with massive damage reported across the city, and huge explosions causing fires in several areas.
Warplanes attacked from the Mediterranean, and exactly what was damaged or targeted remains uncertain. Israel has again refused to comment on the strike.
Early reports are that residential areas were damaged, and one of the city’s hospitals. Strikes around the port area also hit an area with shipping containers, damaging them.
Attacks on Latakia are risky, because Russia has a base just 12 miles south of the port. Israel didn’t hit that, but that still doesn’t mean Russia might not object to strikes so close to them.
What is there to discuss?
Ho hum Israel did this or that to Syria and Syria can only sit and take it.
The Russian supplied S300 and S400 are worthless.
Russia cannot and will not actively defend Syria from attacks by Israel and US/NATO from fear of.
pisn off US militaryrom stealing atwo large chunks of land the oil under it and just got done stealing tons of syria farmers grain storage to give to Kurds of Syria and Iraq.
Russia agreed to let US have lands and oils and a huge Buffer zone to Turkey..
When Israel wants to it will permanently flatten Bahgdad into the wasteland thir and Christian books say will do.
Why even mention Syria or Palestinians they have become non human targets.
The MSM will sell us this flagrant violation of international law as “the middle east’s only democracy” defending itself by $hitting love, freedom and roses on its neighbors. …You don’t believe me? Here is an article from JPOST describing how WAPO described (distorted) bombing of Syria (which is totally illegal and inhumane) as saving Syria from a potential “Auschwitz.”
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-689421
None of the west’s prominent “intellectuals” would ever dare challenge this ludicrous claim.
What’s funny is that when I first started reading that article, I almost thought that Israel was concerned about Syrian civilians even though the gas attacks Assad was accused of were bullshit. But then you read on and it was their wild imagination’s getting the better of them and it turns out their only concern was Assad using those weapons on them, Israel. Because, as we all know, Assad is as suicidal as the Iranian leadership. But silly me for thinking for a second that the chosen would actually give a flying fuck about anyone but themselves.
The terrorist US military dictatorship is feeding internally on its national base. Apartheid Israel will stand against the world alone when the US is finally hollowed out by Pentagonian traitors and it financially collapses. The world will party hearty on that day of liberation.
More bombings by the obvious aggressor.
“Attacks on Latakia are risky, because Russia has a base just 12 miles south of the port. Israel didn’t hit that, but that still doesn’t mean Russia might not object to strikes so close to them.”
Wasn’t 12 miles around the same distance the Brits came to Russian assets during NATO’s war games in Ukraine? And didn’t Russia react in a very stern way that let the Brits know that that wasn’t acceptable? What exactly is the holdup in telling Israel NO MORE!!!
Ukraine… Russia is between a rock and a hard place.
Yes, Ukraine is an entirely different situation. No comparison. I was comparing apples to watermelons.
I deeply believe that Ukraine was brought into the battle in 2014 to bleed Russia on 2 fronts. Putin feels that he needs to keep Israel as a friend or at least not calling for his head.
Iranian generals wargaming this would see:
1. Israel softening up proxies.
2. Testing Russian response.
3. Preparing to take a large chunk of Syria when US rapes Iran in “a few weeks”.
It will be a wonderful day when the savage IDF are getting whats good for them..oh the outrage. How dare anyone strike at the inhumane Zionist heart with cold vengeance. A vengeance long deserved for seventy plus years…lol
I read about it in the local paper. It mentioned bombardments but did not go as far as claim a link between them and the fires. Also , it was about Iran. Our media and NGO’s are very susceptible to that.
“Hey, you are attacking Yemen, is that allowed really?” “It’s Iran, Yemen is just a proxy” “Oh, OK then. Pity for those poor people in the middle.”
“Hey, you are attacking Syria, is that allowed really?” “It’s
Iran, Syria is just a proxy” “Oh, OK then. Pity for those poor
people in the middle.”
“Hey, you are attacking Afghanistan, is that allowed really?” “Women’s Rights” “Oh, OK then. Wouldn’t want to be against that now would we!”
“Hey, you are attacking Assange, is that allowed really?”
“#metoo” “Oh, OK then. Wouldn’t want to be
against that now would we!”
“Hey you are refusing to condemn Nazism, is that OK really?” “Russia.” Ah, OK then. I was worried for a moment there.
Note that this is all propaganda to promote apathy, not so much get support. In the case of Afghanistan this is made explicit in a 2010 CIA document ( https://file.wikileaks.org/file/cia-afghanistan.pdf ).
In the case of Yemen the Iran angle was used from the beginning while it took several years (5?) till Iran actually got involved in any military significant way . There could be earlier instances because these things never have such clear cut clean boundaries, but for military planners to take it in account it has to make a difference. Martha Mundy already provided data in the first year showing that KSA had shifted to primarily going after civilian targets after about 4 months.
In the case of Syria the Iran angle also acts like a Jedi handwave that there is nothing to see there. The generally accepted perception is still that Israel is ‘worried’, is driven by noble concern, while the bad guys are sly and cunning and are driven by illegitimate motives. If you don’t see it like that you clearly are not cut out for a job with a serious news organisation.
Nobody objects to terrorism?
Please Russia shoot the jets down
“Shoot” the jets down.
LOL thanks I need more coffee
Israel has some huevos (balls) the size of Plymouth Rock but they have not got the brains that God gave mice.
Those balls will shrink when they have to go at it alone.
I think you are an optimist, my friend, but I suppose time will tell. It is difficult for me to imagine the US not being there for Israel…
So true. I should have said “if” instead of when.
IsraHell does what it wants, when it wants, while the West looks the other way: because to call the “shitty little country” out on their actions would be “anti Semitic “.
I may be missing something, I hope so, but it really does appear to me as if russia is near useless as an ‘ally’ ….. if it cannot protect its main ally in the Mediterranean from these types and degrees of attack..
not to mention the hundreds if not thousands of attacks on Syrian and hezbollah and Iranian forces in Syria over the last 6-7 years
Assad was mere days away from getting the same brutal execution as Gaddafi while the rest of Syria was destroyed like Libya.
But, Russia swooped in and destroyed the mercenary army of Israel and US called “ISIS”.
These attacks by Israel do nothing of any real importance and since spoiled little Israel gets all the best toys from Uncle Sam, Russia gets to see the absolute cutting edge US military gear operate in real world combat conditions without leaving their bases.
I guarantee the Russians now have the combat-mission radar signature and all electromagnetic communication technology used by the newest US stealth aircraft cracked courtesy of Israel.