Russia’s Foreign Ministry is confirming once again that they have a number of military advisers on the ground in Syria, saying they’ve had these troops in the country for a long time and that it’s never been any kind of secret.
The comments came in response to a flurry of reports, mostly coming out of Reuters, that reported Russia having these advisers in Russia, and some outlets extending this to claim active Russian combat forces had suddenly been discovered in Syria.
The Russian Foreign Ministry defended the advisers, saying they are puzzled by the sudden “hysteria” and interest over deployments which they’ve had in Syria virtually throughout the civil war, insisting the deployments are fully consistent with international law.
There doesn’t seem to be any dispute that this is the case, and Russia’s advisory deployment appears much, much smaller than the US deployment in neighboring Iraq, both of them aiming to prop up their respective allies’ fight against ISIS.
The lack of evidence that Russia is doing anything new or indeed particularly unusual isn’t stopping US allies from railing against Russia’s “military engagement,” warning that it risks escalation of the already region-wide war.
USA playing games as usual. Russia is telling it like it is. Kerry is a traitor to his past. Well he was a traitor during Vietnam too I think. Joke
was russia telling it like it is when its leadership called all gay men perverts?
It is hard to understand what real stategic interest Russia could possibly have in supporting Syria.
Yes it has a Naval presence in the Mediteranean Sea but in todays world they could do as US has done and have a permanent task force complete with air support of choppers and VTOL craft light armor and tonnes of armaments with
marine contingents.
US are over 20,000 personnel such as what sits offshore of Philippines.
The capital is too far from ports to remain accessable once Syria gets divided and regime change is in effect.
Turkey is going to take 60 miles along its borders that will severely restict shoreline port access.
Iran is sold out and Syria will soon have no support from that direction and Lebanon is in a transitional stage and they are heavy in US debt and could also decide to steal some shoreline in order to pay euro and US debt.
Economicly Syria cannot pay its own military and it is not just Syrias uneducated culls who are invading europe the outflow to Russia has already begun..
Syria is toast as a nation, US and Euros have genocided the syrian nation and all its cultural roots that held it together as a nation.
Any group that survives until Syrian government falls will and deservedly soo, be easily eliminated religious affiliation or not.
The US arming rebels to overthrow a sovereign government,
are acts like these consistent with International Law?
Clearly, the politicians just don't get it, I'm sure they'll find a
way to blame the Russians for the mess in Syria.
The problem is that next US president and his team will not follow a more wise politic.They will continue to blame Russia even for snow, wind and hurricanes.
The problem is not that this is new. The problem is that, by invading Ukraine, Putin violated the Helsinki Final Act and thereby made himself an international pariah. At that point, what he's doing in Syria suddenly appears in another light, particularly as he used private mercenaries posing as "rebels" in Ukraine. Putin, quite simply, has no credibility left and is therefore irreversibly disfunctional as president of Russia. As long as he remains in office, he will just bounce from crisis to crisis and will probably have to be removed by international military force, Milosevic-style.
Sigh. You KNOW that every time you claim Putin "violated the Helsinki Final Act," I'm going to make you look like a liar and an idiot by pointing out that:
1) The Helsinki Final Act created no obligations for, nor did it place any restrictions on, its signatory states; and that
2) Neither Ukraine nor Russia are signatory to the Helsinki Final Act anyway.
So why do you keep making the false claim?