For years, Russia was considered strictly pro-Arabic. The situation has changed. Despite arms sales here and there in the Middle East, Syria seems to remain Russia's sole base - and it's slipping away along with Bashir Assad's regime. President Vladimir Putin has absolutely nothing against Israel (except for maybe not extraditing the former chiefs of the Yukos group who settled in Israel ). Putin sees many...
- By Gregory Allen Leeds
- 28 Jun 2012
- 03:45PM
The Yakhont supersonic cruise missiles that Russia installed in Syria are a much greater threat then the S-300 AA defence missiles they refused to sell to Iran and Syria." Iron Dome" and the "Patriot" systems are not designed to defeat them. The allegations of Russian and Iranian supervision of use of banned nerve agent on Syrian civilians in Homs, Syria (a chemical weapons depot) would merit war crimed charges againt Syria, Iran and Russia if proven. The Russian GRU/Spetnatz units that removed the Iraqi chemical aresenal and shipped them to Syria were identified by a senior administration member of the last White House. Have Putin remove the chemical weapons and missiles they sold to Syria so the world would take his position as leader of Russia seriously.
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