You can’t make this stuff up
By The Troll On June 13th, 2012Russia defends arms sales to Syria
Moscow forcefully rejected on Wednesday Hillary Clinton’s accusation that Russia was supplying Syria with helicopter gunships that could be used against civilians, as Syria announced it had “cleansed” the rebel town of Haffa of armed fighters.
Speaking in Tehran, Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said Moscow was instead “completing contracts that were signed and paid for a long time ago. All of them are contracts for what are solely air defence systems.”
He said: “We do not supply Syria or anyone else with resources that are used in fighting peaceful demonstrators” – and, seeking to turn the tables on Mrs Clinton, added, “unlike the United States, which regularly supplies that region with such special equipment, including one such shipment [that] went to one of the Gulf countries recently, but for some reason the Americans consider this to be in order”.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5f277e60-b561-11e1-ad93-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1xiUi7FvV
You gotta love it, the Russians are standing in Iran Laughing at the U.S.. You see stuff like this does more damage to the Obama Reelection then anything our own people can point out… LOL
Troll – if Russia wishes to sell arms to Syria, there is no reason why it can not. Are you proposing that some super-national body decide how two nations trade or should the US decide?
As for sales of arms, the US corporate-military does rather well out of that particular activity.
NO
I’m pointing out that the Russians are standing on enemy ground laughing at the Obama Regime.
As far as I’m concerned the more the Syrians kill each other the better.
While the Russian government is a bad player on the World state, we’ve certainly given them an excuse by a lack of smarter policy in that region. Not a valid excuse for arming Assad, but at least a colorable comeback to Clinton.
oh for sure, our policy in the ME right now is “punt”
Well we drop-kicked Osama, and (against my wishes) helped push out Libya’s nutty leader after long last. I said the Russians are just being the Russians. Nothing new from them.
here is one where the chicoms are laughing at our current “Leaders”
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_NKOREA_MISSILES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-06-13-14-08-29
China’s been arming the North Koreans for decades. The bad stay bad.
one debt paid, and one misuse of the war powers act…
The Russians under Putin are the Russians of the 50s full of swagger…. It will get worse
when you look at the players on the board nothing has changed except it’s a smaller playing field
I said it joking around the other night, but truly one of the best plays the Russians could make right now would be to buy the rights to lease a naval base in Greece.
It would give the greeks the money they need to sustain their socialist state, give the Russians access to that area of the Oceans besides from Syria, and be a punch in the eye to both NATO, and the US
The Russians are no where near the Russians of the 1950′s. They can hinder, but they don’t threaten to domination anymore (not that they wouldn’t if they could, but they lack the capacity).
not really, with the loss of the Baltic states and the vast growth in their oil production Putin is rebuilding. He has already modernized his nuclear arsenal, the question is does he do the same with his navy.
With the withdraw of their brigades from Germany and other “New Europe” states they are swimming in surplus tanks and conventional weapons.
The only thing keeping him in check is he does not have the control of his citizenry very few true believers left
They have no where near the threat or influence they had before. Doesn’t mean they became benign. But Ivan is not the player he was.
but no they will never be able to control the vast landscape they once did, the problem is they don’t have to.
The threat is not the Russians or the Chinese they have tasted the forbidden fruit of comfort, the thing that capitol really buys.
No the danger is the religious fanatics of the middle east. The Russians are just having fun throwing monkey wrenches
if we could take the bloodlust out of the fanatics it would just be tradewars nice peaceful economic chaos of who makes what widgets
“As far as I’m concerned the more the Syrians kill each other the better.”
Spoken like a true Christian soldier. Bet your mummy’s proud of her boy.
In other news, the Avaaz campaign has collected nearly 503,000 signatures..
http://www.avaaz.org/en/us_and_india_stop_syrias_merchants_of_death/?fp
You see, Troll, some of us actually care about our fellow human beings being slaughtered—especially when they include defenceless children.
Troll
Except for the fact you probably believe the crap you here on the right wing shouting radio, you would be hilarious
Like reaching so far back to resurect the russian boogeyman
PS americans do not run the world a soveriegn Russia can do very much as it pleases with in its own borders
Emerald – Russian doing very much as it pleases within its own borders has been a historical nightmare for its people. Especially when it sought to expand the boundary of where it could do as it pleases.
True, mahons, but what it is now accused of doing – supplying weapons to tyrranical ME regimes and arming one side in a bloody civil war and facilitating massacre – is also what other powers much closer to home have done many times.
And in several cases I could mentionk, Troll actually applauded them for doing so.
i.e. it obviously isn’t the human suffering that can concern him.
Actually, as this is the kind of confrontation he relishes, nothing concerns him at all, except perhaps that it won’t escalate as much as he’d like it to.
Noel – Yes, as noted throwing stones from a glass house is counterproductive.
Just look at this, and you can’t make this stuff up:
Troll reckons that because the Russians withdrew from central Europe, they are now a ‘threat’. Surely the threat was when they were in central Europe?