Russia building a military base with up to 1000 personnel and on verge of deploying thousands to support Assad
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Telegraph UK
Russia
is building a military base in Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s
heartland, according to American intelligence officials, in the clearest indication yet of deepening Russian support for the embattled regime of Bashar al-Assad.
The anonymous officials say Russia has set up an air traffic control
tower and transported prefabricated housing units for up to 1,000
personnel to an airfield serving the Syrian port city of Latakia.
Russia has also requested the rights to fly over neighbouring countries
with military cargo aircraft during September, according to the reports.
The claims, which will raise fears that Russia is planning to expand its
role in the country’s civil war, will ratchet up tensions between
Moscow and Washington over the future of Syria and its brutal ruler.
Mr Obama on Friday met King Salman of Saudi Arabia to repeat their
demand that any lasting settlement in Syria would require an end to the
Assad regime.
It leaves the US and Russia implacably opposed in their visions for Syria.
Last week the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth cited Western diplomatic
sources saying that Russia was on the verge of deploying “thousands” of
troops to Syria to establish an airbase from which the Russian air force
would fly combat sorties against Isil.
Those details appear to be backed by satellite images of a Russian base under construction near Latakia
Putin: People flee from Syria because of ISIS, not Assad regime
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the fight against terrorism should be a coordinated international effort, and Russia is taking steps to form such a coalition. He added that in Syria it should go hand in hand with an internal political process.
“They [IS] kill hundreds and thousands of people, burn them alive or drown them, cut off people’s heads. How are people supposed to live there? Of course, they run away.”
He stressed that it is necessary to fight terrorism in all forms, saying, “We really want to create some kind of an international coalition to fight terrorism and extremism.”
The Russian president revealed that he had personally discussed the creation of an anti-IS coalition with the leaders of the US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and other partners.
The war on terror in Syria should be complimented by an internal political process, Putin said, stressing that President Assad is ready to take certain steps in this direction.
“We do realize that political changes are needed and we are talking to our partners in Syria,” Putin told journalists, adding that a “general understanding” on the issue has been elaborated.
“The president of Syria, by the way, agrees with it, up to calling early parliamentary elections, establishing contacts with the so-called ‘healthy’ opposition and involving them in governance,” Putin said, adding that this is an internal matter for Syria.
“We do not impose anything, but we’re ready to contribute to internal dialogue in Syria,” the Russian president emphasize
http://www.rt.com/news/314435-putin-isis-syria-refugees/
Putin Drafts Bill To Dump US Dollar and Euro!
More bad news for the American Dollar as a new report indicates that, Russian
President Vladimir Putin has drafted a bill that aims to eliminate the
US dollar and the euro from trade between CIS countries. This
means the creation of a single financial market between Russia, Armenia,
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries of the
former Soviet Union.
“This would help expand the use of
national currencies in foreign trade payments and financial services and
thus create preconditions for greater liquidity of domestic currency
markets”, said a statement from Kremlin. The bill would also help to
facilitate trade in the region and help to achieve macro-economic
stability.
Within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) the countries have also discussed the possibility of switching to national currencies. According to the agreement between Russia, Belarus, Armenia and Kazakhstan, an obligatory transition to settlements in the national currencies (Russian ruble, Belarusian ruble, dram and tenge respectively) must occur in 2025-2030.
http://endtimeheadlines.org/2015/09/putin-drafts-bill-to-dump-us-dollar-and-euro/
Russia to Begin Airstrikes Against ISIS in Syria
Russian presence in Syria will increase likelihood of encounters with US
During a speech Sunday at the Citadel in South Carolina Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker said ISIS would not be defeated in Syria until the government of Bashar al-Assad is brought down.
Walker said so long as Syrian President Bashar Assad “is still in power and Iran, his patron, has a base of operations in Damascus,” ISIS will not be defeated.“But let me be clear: Defeating ISIS and rolling back Iran will require a greater investment of U.S. resources,” Walker said. “Therefore, we must do more to recruit and support fighters in Syria who oppose both ISIS and Assad.”
Earlier this month, the Obama administration authorized the use of airstrikes to counter ISIS in Syria, but Obama’s policy on Syria has prompted criticism by Republicans and Democrats alike, many whom want a more robust response to the terrorist group.
U.S. airstrikes, however, will soon face competition from Russia.
Western diplomats say a Russian expeditionary force has arrived in Syria and will operate, according to the Israeli website YNet, as a Russian forward operating base.
“In the coming weeks thousands of Russian military personnel are set to touch down in Syria, including advisors, instructors, logistics personnel, technical personnel, members of the aerial protection division, and the pilots who will operate the aircraft,” writes Alex Fishman.
“The current makeup of the expeditionary force is still unknown, but there is no doubt that Russian pilots flying combat missions in Syrian skies will definitely change the existing dynamics in the Middle East.”
The presence of the Russian military in the skies over Syria will increase the possibility of encounters with the United States, especially if the US adopts a more aggressive stance against the Syrian government.
Earlier this month the United States began launching manned airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria from the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey.
http://www.infowars.com/russia-to-begin-airstrikes-against-isis-in-syria/
Russian boots on the ground in Syria? Middle East mayhem intensifies
Last month, in a task almost as difficult as Diogenes' search for one honest man, the U.S. allegedly found a staggering 60 'moderate rebels' in Syria to train in its interventionist program to oust Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad
'war against the Islamist terrorists'. This crack team of 'moderate'
fighters, trained by the U.S. amid thousands of similarly-motivated
terrorists of the Islamic State/al-Nusra/Free Syrian Army variety,
demonstrated their valor by immediately refusing to fight Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front in Syria, a dangerous hesitation because they were subsequently attacked by al-Nusra fighters anyway.
As news of the group's uselessness reached Washington at the beginning of August, Obama then pledged airstrikes in Syria
to defend said 'rebels', even from 'attacks' carried out by the
legitimate authorities in Syria. The airstrikes began a couple weeks
ago, launched from NATO bases in Turkey,
thus opening a second front of air raids against Syria from the north,
following over a year of NATO airstrikes from Iraq 'against Islamic
State targets' in both Iraq and Syria's southern flanks. The massive bomb attack in late July at a Kurdish political youth meeting in Suruc, southern Turkey - allegedly carried out by 'ISIS' from Syria - the day before the Turkish air force joined in US bombing raids against targets in northern Syria,
is also extremely suspect. I think we can reasonably suggest that
internal political opponents were targeted by Erdogan's neo-Ottomanist
regime, and their deaths used to justify cross-border air raids against Kurds in northern Syria.
Turkey's perfidy in all this needs to be underscored. Syria-based
analyst Thierry Meyssan reckons the Russian alternative gas pipeline
route to Mediterranean Europe - 'Turkish Stream', signed between Putin
and Erdogan last December - is dead in the water. Indeed, Gazprom suspended related construction contracts in early July, before halving the gas transit capacity slated in the original deal. Turkey's official stance regarding Crimea's secession to Russia is that it "will never recognize Russia's annexation." Ankara has also been dangling massive loans to the Kiev regime and hosting a Crimean Tatar lobby group convention, attended by Kiev's foreign minister, and calling for Russia to 'return Crimea to Ukraine'.
In a saner world, there would be no confusion as to what is
going on in and around Syria because the military intervention there
would be called what it is. When one country (and its allies) trains a
group of fighters in another country under the pretext of preventing
marauding terrorists in that country from spreading to other countries,
but really to take down the government of said country, then it is an
aggressive act by the forces of one state against another. Just because
the U.S. says it is justified in 'self-defending' their foreign-trained
subversive group from Syria's legitimate self-defense, does not make it
so. To paraphrase John Kerry, you can't just attack a country's military
on a trumped-up pretext... Well, actually, you can: the U.S. does it
all the time.
With typically diplomatic understatement, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov called Washington's plan "counterproductive." He reasonably pointed out the humanitarian disaster in Syria - caused by the US/NATO intervention - and called for "an immediate end to external intervention" in the crisis. In contrast, White House spokesman Josh Earnest, with typical American bluster and arrogance, said Syria "should not interfere" with the U.S.-trained 'rebel' operations, and threatened "additional steps" would be taken to "defend them".
Despite many months of airstrikes - ostensibly targeting ISIS in Iraq -
the marauding bands of mercenaries are apparently as numerous as ever.
Not only are the airstrikes killing hundreds of civilians,
they are turning locals against the U.S., whom they see as acting with
questionable motives. In other words, many are joining ISIS in response
to yet more American atrocities in the region. The case can be made, of
course, that that serves U.S. interests just fine. The more ISIS
fighters they have to fight, the more justified their case for further
military intervention; more airstrikes, more carnage, and the chance
that maybe, just, maybe, they'll actually succeed in their plans to oust
Assad and keep Iran and Hezbollah on a tight leash.
In the meantime, Russia continues doing what it does best: establishing
mutually beneficial economic ties with other sovereign nations (instead
of working to destabilize them through destruction and murder),
attempting to solve problems with diplomacy, and proposing military
strategies that respect said nations' sovereignty.
In 2007, Russia signed a deal with Iran to supply S-300 long-range,
defensive, surface-to-air missile systems. In 2010, Russia reneged on
the agreement, voluntarily embargoing the sale in line with an
international (read: U.S.) ban on selling weapons to Iran. Iran filed a
lawsuit in response, but the recent 'nuclear' deal, in which Russia
played an integral role, has changed the situation. Russia and Iran have
now ironed out all but minor technical details, and Iran should see
delivery of the S-300s by the end of the year.
The net result of all the violence we've seen in the Middle East since
9/11 to contain Iran - and keep Russia out of the region - is that the
two countries have gotten closer. The two nations' respective foreign
ministers met recently and stated their united position regarding Syria,
warning against any external attempts to dictate a 'resolution'. They
also made plans to expand trade, including the possibility of Iran
acquiring Russian-built nuclear reactors.
http://www.sott.net/article/300756-Russian-boots-on-the-ground-in-Syria-Middle-East-mayhem-intensifies
Putin warns hostile states plotting 'sabotage' in Crimea
Moscow (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Wednesday that several foreign states were recruiting and training people to carry out acts of sabotage on the Crimean peninsula seized by Moscow last year.
"It's
obvious that a risk remains from outside forces to destabilise the
situation on the peninsula in one way or another," Putin told a meeting
on regional security in Crimea's naval port city of Sevastopol, quoted
by RIA Novosti state news agency.
Putin
is on his third visit to Crimea since he ordered out thousands of
special forces troops to take control of the peninsula from Ukraine in
March last year.
"In certain capitals, they talk openly about
this, they talk about the need to carry out subversive activities,"
Putin warned his security council of ministers and top officials .
"Such
structures are being formed, personnel are being recruited and trained
to carry out subversion, acts of sabotage to conduct radical
propaganda," he said, without specifying any countries.
Putin
warned that foreign powers could "play the nationalist card" or
manipulate public anger at "ineffective action by the authorities" into
"a destructive channel".
Putin
spoke as prosecutors asked for a 23-year sentence for Ukrainian
filmmaker Oleg Sentsov who is on trial at a military court in Russia
over allegations he plotted and carried out "terrorist attacks" in his
native Crimea after Russia seized it from Ukraine.
The trial has been condemned by both Ukraine and West.
Americans are not our enemies - Russian Foreign Ministry
Despite attempts by the Washington administration to impose anti-Russian
views on ordinary people in the US, the American nation is not the
enemy of Russia, says Maria Zakharova, the Foreign Ministry's official
representative.
In a recent interview with popular Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, Zakharova said that in her opinion the United States as a nation was not hostile to Russia. "The
USA is not Obama. The USA is the people who populate the country. The
problem lies in the fact that the current US authorities are trying to
impose anti-Russian sentiments on their people," she said. "But the USA as a nation and Americans as a people are not our enemies."
Reporters also asked Zakharova to comment on Barak Obama's statement
that the Russian economy was in tatters, made in the State of the Union
Address in January this year.
"I am very surprised by the fact that the head of a state, who
considers himself a civilized person, is proud of doing harm to other
people. I have always thought that we should be proud of doing good to
people," Zakharova answered. "This is the first time I've ever seen something like this in the history of modern diplomacy," she added.
Russian officials have already commented on Obama's
controversial statement about the dire state of the Russian economy. In
January, Russia's deputy PM in charge of the weapons industry called the
US president 'a dreamer' in a Twitter post, hinting that the
effectiveness of the anti-Russian sanctions was much lower than the
policy's initiators had hoped for.
Russian MP Frants Klintsevich, of the parliamentary majority
United Russia party, has said that Obama's statement revealed the true
attitude of the US ruling elite towards Russia, as well as America's
plans of global dominance. He added that he didn't think it a
coincidence Obama made this statement at a historical moment, when
Russia has found its place in the global political and economic system,
understood its interests and learned to defend them.
Maria Zakharova was appointed director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's
Information and Press department in early August this year and became
the first woman in history to assume the post.
http://www.sott.net/article/300406-Americans-are-not-our-ememies-Russian-Foreign-Ministry
US launches biggest allied airborne drills since Cold War ended
Brussels (AFP) - The United States said Tuesday it has launched the biggest allied airborne drills in Europe since the Cold War ended, as fighting involving pro-Russian separatists escalated in eastern Ukraine.
Nearly 5,000
soldiers from 11 NATO allies are taking part in four weeks of
"simultaneous multinational airborne operations" across Germany, Italy,
Bulgaria and Romania that began in Saturday, the US army said in a
statement.
"Swift Response 15
is the largest Allied airborne training event on the continent since
the end of the Cold War," according to the statement from the US army in
Grafenwohr in southern Germany.
It is designed to help allied
"high-readiness forces" act as one and "demonstrate the alliance's
capacity to rapidly deploy and operate in support of maintaining a
strong and secure Europe," it said.The statement made no reference to the crisis in Ukraine where government troops have been fighting pro-Russian separatists since April last year, which has claimed the lives of nearly 7,000 people.
While the conflict eased after a truce in February, fighting has escalated in recent days.
The
fighting has stirred the highest tensions since the Cold War ended more
than two decades ago as the West accuses Russia of not only arming the
rebels but sending in troops to support them. Moscow denies the charges.
NATO,
a 28-country alliance led by the United States, last week defended the
number of military exercises it has staged as a response to "growing
Russian aggression" and refuted suggestions that they were helping make
war in Europe more likely.The US army said the highlight of the drills will take place on 26 August when allied warplanes will drop more than 1,000 paratroopers and equipment the to Hohenfels training area in Germany.
A similar drill will also take place the same day at the Novo Selo training area in Bulgaria, a former Soviet ally.
Participating
in the exercises until 13 September are more than 4,800 soldiers from
Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland,
Portugal, Spain, Britain and the United States.
It
said the exercise marks the first time the US 82nd Airborne Division
has operated in Europe since supporting NATO operations in Kosovo in
1999.
US Navy On High Alert As China And Russia To Launch Largest-Ever Joint War Games
The U.S. Naval Institute’s online news and analysis portal, USNI, noted that the exercises will be the second joint drills between Russia and China in less than a year, following the first “Joint Sea 2015,” which played out in the Mediterranean in April.
The Chinese and Russian navies are gearing up for their largest ever joint exercises, slated to begin Thursday in the Pacific with more than 20 ships from the two nations and to feature anti-submarine operations as well as a joint-beach landing.
The exercises, dubbed “Joint Sea 2015 II” will run through Aug. 28 in the Sea of Japan and off the coast of Vladivostok, the Russian port city situated roughly 100 miles north of the Chinese and Russian borders with North Korea.
The drills will take place in the Peter the Great Gulf, waters off the Clerk Cape, and the Sea of Japan, according to Xinhua, which cited an unnamed “source close to the operation” as saying the two nations will simulate anti-submarine combat and air defense and other relevant missions, including the joint beach landing of troops.
Six helicopters, five fixed-wing aircraft, 21 units of amphibious equipment and 200 marines are said to be preparing to join the exercise from the Chinese side, with the Russian navy reportedly planning to send 16 surface ships, two submarines, 12 naval aircraft, nine amphibious vehicles and 200 marines. source
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