Chortle  | 01 Oct 2014 9:59 a.m. PST |
I'm posting this for Tango as he takes his regular 5 minute break once a week ;-) (this story is three days old at the time of posting). It isn't an "official" declaration. Just a point of interest. TEL AVIV – Russia has delivered a behind-the-scenes threat to retaliate if airstrikes carried out by the U.S. or its allies target the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Middle Eastern security officials told WND.The security officials said Russia complained Sunday in quiet talks with United Nations representatives that the Obama administration's current aerial campaign against Islamic State fighters in Syria is a violation of international agreements regarding control of Syrian airspace. The officials said Russia warned it could potentially retaliate if U.S. or Arab airstrikes go beyond targeting Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, and instead bomb any Syrian regime targets. link Others have suggested that ISIS strikes will be used as a cover to hit Assad. link |
 Legion 4   | 01 Oct 2014 10:06 a.m. PST |
Are the Russians going to fly CAP for Assad ? Or send naval assets into the Med, etc. to interfer with the US NAVY ? Probably not … If Putin and his boys are so worried about Assad, why don't they fly missions against the FSA and Deash ? |
| darthfozzywig | 01 Oct 2014 10:26 a.m. PST |
Are there any Russian-speaking Syrians? Perhaps Putin should annex it. |
| Dark Knights And Bloody Dawns | 01 Oct 2014 10:27 a.m. PST |
Russians can't do much after the Ukraine situation except rattle those sabres louder… |
| Porkmann | 01 Oct 2014 10:38 a.m. PST |
Russia is a great threat to European stability.  |
| John the OFM | 01 Oct 2014 11:08 a.m. PST |
Have Assad take refuge in the Chinese embassy. That will keep him safe. |
| darthfozzywig | 01 Oct 2014 11:38 a.m. PST |
Have Assad take refuge in the Chinese embassy. That will keep him safe. Mwhahahaha. |
| Rod I Robertson | 01 Oct 2014 12:06 p.m. PST |
Now, let Assad move in with Julien Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy and then maybe Britain would let you bomb them-conventional weapons only!
Rod Robertson.
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| vtsaogames | 01 Oct 2014 12:07 p.m. PST |
Yeah, third time's a charm! Let's see, I count:
1 Charles XII – Poltava
2 Napoleon – Moscow, Beresina
3 Hitler – Stalingrad so that would fourth time's the charm. |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 01 Oct 2014 12:10 p.m. PST |
'so that would fourth time's the charm.' Wot about the Mongols then? |
| mad monkey 1 | 01 Oct 2014 12:15 p.m. PST |
They cheated. They came thru the back door… |
| TMPWargamerabbit | 01 Oct 2014 12:26 p.m. PST |
Sixth time the charm??? A few Teutonic knights rode eastward till meeting a certain Prince of Rus on a lakeshore and as mentioned the Mongol Horde group. The only "successful" group was the Mongol Horde (1st invasion?). They went westward…. maybe that is the trick to take Russia…. Rus never saw them coming and couldn't retreat into then "Polish/Cossack" territory. |
| Lion in the Stars | 01 Oct 2014 1:19 p.m. PST |
Have Assad take refuge in the Chinese embassy. That will keep him safe. I may not like the Chinese too much, but what did they do to deserve that?!? |
| Deadone | 01 Oct 2014 4:22 p.m. PST |
I suspect the Russians would rumble a few brigades through Ukraine. That would require an immediate realignment of forces. There'd probably be deployments of Russian ships to Mediterranean as well as secret deployments of S300 type SAMs to the region. |
| raylev3 | 01 Oct 2014 5:45 p.m. PST |
Putin won't go to war with the US over Assad, any more than the US will go to war with Russia over Georgia or the Ukraine. But putting this and similar stories in the press is a kind of manipulative PR event that makes Russia's friends feel good and would make the US deny they were going to do it. Also, it's one thing to bomb ISIS/ISIL/IS and another to bomb Assad. |
| Deadone | 01 Oct 2014 6:38 p.m. PST |
Also, it's one thing to bomb ISIS/ISIL/IS and another to bomb Assad. From memory the US invented the phrase "mission creep." |
| doug redshirt | 01 Oct 2014 8:03 p.m. PST |
Actually I think the Germans invented mission creep in 41. |
| Deadone | 01 Oct 2014 8:09 p.m. PST |
Actually I think the Germans invented mission creep in 41.
Lebensraum in what is Russia was always part of the plan. And if the Italians had a clue, there would've been no need to intervene in Greece via Yugoslavia or Africa. |
| Only Warlock | 02 Oct 2014 6:40 a.m. PST |
Putin is just pushing Obama around. Now that he knows he can get away with doing it, he'll keep at it. |
| Weasel | 02 Oct 2014 8:59 a.m. PST |
Well, what do you expect? If the Chinese were bombing Canada, do you figure we'd sit on our ***es?
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| Cyrus the Great | 02 Oct 2014 9:00 a.m. PST |
Dobby, Dobby, your threats are meaningless. Reminding everybody you're a nuclear power, so what. Are you going to take off your shirt and absorb the radiation that'll cover Mother Russia? |
| basileus66 | 02 Oct 2014 11:42 a.m. PST |
The only "successful" group was the Mongol Horde (1st invasion?). They went westward…. maybe that is the trick to take Russia…. Rus never saw them coming and couldn't retreat into then "Polish/Cossack" territory. What about the Polish invasion of 1612? They captured Moscow, impossed a Polish-sponsored Tsar and they didn't left until 1618. Don't forget either that the Russians were soundly defeated by the Germans in 1917, and only the defeat of Germany in the Western Front allowed the Bolsheviks to recover the provinces lost at Brest-Litovsk. |
| Legion 4 | 02 Oct 2014 2:28 p.m. PST |
I'm still going with I very much doubt Putin will go to war with the US/NATO over Assad … |
| alien BLOODY HELL surfer | 02 Oct 2014 11:40 p.m. PST |
Just in case he does, I'm learning Russian. Also, where can I put a bet on them being the victor? Might as well do well out of it just in case there is anywhere habitable left. |
