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[Tim Drayton]

Look at the assurance Putin gave Netanyahu about a week before he launched his Syria campaign:

In an attempt to reassure Israel, Putin told Netanyahu that his fears of Syrian and Iranian aggression in the Golan Heights, Syrian territory but occupied by Israel, were unfounded, adding the Syrian army “has no time for a second front”.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/s ... -for-assad

[Get Real!]

If you want to kill a tree you go for the root... oppose America's refugee making factories all over the Middle East and Africa!

Today was the day when Russia unleashed the Hinds... a massive devastation against the terrorists.

From the many videos today (too many to post here) I learned that the Hind can be used in so many different ways... an eye-opener… I just watched two of them literally raze what looked like 3 square kilometers to the ground. It looked like hell on Earth.

In some cases the Russian pilots are flying incredibly low with or without chaff… it takes balls plus to fly *this* low! Far out…

http://www.combataircraft.com/aircraft/hmi24_p_02_l.jpg

[Paphitis]

If you want to kill a tree you go for the root... oppose America's refugee making factories all over the Middle East and Africa!

Today was the day when Russia unleashed the Hinds... a massive devastation against the terrorists.

From the many videos today (too many to post here) I learned that the Hind can be used in so many different ways... an eye-opener… I just watched two of them literally raze what looked like 3 square kilometers to the ground. It looked like hell on Earth.

In some cases the Russian pilots are flying incredibly low with or without chaff… it takes balls plus to fly *this* low! Far out…

http://www.combataircraft.com/aircraft/hmi24_p_02_l.jpg

Nothing can fly lower than an F-111. They always flew at 100FT at about 2000 km/hr.

But it's not as hard as you think because these aircraft have Terrain Following Radar. The aircraft flies itself and keeps adjusting its height to the terrain automatically.

The Tornado is another aircraft which hugs the terrain.

The Raptor however doesn't have to do this as it is very stealthy.

It's also pretty stupid if the Russians fly low level because they would be in range of rebel weapons and short range manpads. Coalition aircraft don't do this for this reason.

[Get Real!]

What makes it more realistic and weird for me is that there are currently two large CNG exercises going on over in Limassol and Larnaca and there are Mi-35 Hinds coming and going over Nicosia suburbs all the time to those locations and back.

[repulsewarrior]

Nobody's put a value on it yet, but going by the following:

Afek Oil and Gas chief geologist Dr. Yuval Bartov told Channel 2 News, "We are talking about a strata which is 350 meters thick and what is important is the thickness and the porosity. On average in the world strata are 20-30 meters thick, so this is ten times as large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities. ..."

http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-huge ... 1001071698

this must be the biggest robbery in the 21st century so far. And from Syria. I would have thought that no other people on earth could use a good break just now than the long-suffering Syrians. They are certainly going to need money to fund the rebuilding of their country, where the parts that have not yet been reduced to rubble may well be. Yet the Israelis have stolen this from them. This news makes me angry - very angry. Am I in a minority of one here, or does anybody share my sentiments?

...indeed the situation is very complex to say the least. And while a man like GR crows, witnessing the same kind of relentless brutality, the criminality of these acts will be justified, simply because "one side", is against the "other". Indeed, i am waiting for the Kurds to be betrayed (again), even while Syria and Iraq are cut up differently to suit (who will be the victor), i don't dare like to think about Cyprus in all of this if it get's out of hand; it is a small tribute that can go one way or the other (because this island, divided, is very important to Turkey), to the country which holds Russia's access to the Black Sea, and they not us are in the thick of it.

Relevant news, Tim.
...never mind the bollocks, your contribution is as important.

In any case, Cyprus looms large on the map the way it is so close to this action, we should not be so quick to pick sides, if there is the opportunity Cyprus may offer its hospitality for dialog between these parties being an ally to all involved (even Turkey if she chooses to recognise beside the issue of Cypriot Constituencies, that Cyprus exists).

...while Putin is showing the rest of us how it is done, let us not forget that he personally is one of the world's richest people, and that he heads a kleptocracy that leaves Russians poorer, no better off under his 'new' 'Capitalist' regime, now showing its intentions internationally. What will he do with those billions and billions, give them back?

[Paphitis]

Look at the assurance Putin gave Netanyahu about a week before he launched his Syria campaign:

In an attempt to reassure Israel, Putin told Netanyahu that his fears of Syrian and Iranian aggression in the Golan Heights, Syrian territory but occupied by Israel, were unfounded, adding the Syrian army “has no time for a second front”.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/s ... -for-assad

It would be insane if they were to attack Israel.

Then you might as well say bye bye Putin and Assad. They would be finished with shock and awe by the IAF which would raise Damascus in days.

But in any case, Putin or Syria attacking Israel is unrealistic to say the least.

[Paphitis]

What makes it more realistic and weird for me is that there are currently two large CNG exercises going on over in Limassol and Larnaca and there are Mi-35 Hinds coming and going over Nicosia suburbs all the time to those locations and back.

The first aircraft to get shot down in Syria is likely to be a Hind. A much easier target for the types of weapons that the rebels possess.

[Get Real!]

The American terrorist machine’s different terrorist groups having a family memento...

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[Get Real!]

US-Armed Syrian Faction Complains Russia Destroyed Weapons Depot
http://news.antiwar.com/2015/10/07/us-a ... ons-depot/

Russian military trucks on Syria-bound ship
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/ ... HE20151007

Russia has ground troop battalion, advanced tanks in Syria
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/ ... UP20151007

Russia will pay price for Syrian airstrikes, says US defence secretary <--- Read the comments below the article for a good laugh!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/o ... -secretary

[Maximus]

Chinese naval ship heading to Syria as Russia strikes ISIS -

As Russia’s Caspian Sea fleet launched precision-guided cruise missiles at Syrian rebel positions, a Chinese naval vessel continued to loom menacingly in the background, maintaining its presence in the Mediterranean Sea amidst Chinese denials that the People’s Liberation Army will enter the Syrian conflict.

See more at: http://www.sigmalive.com/en/news/intern ... MBjQq.dpuf