Russian navy in Syria: Thorn in US side

Published time: December 21, 2011 08:56
Edited time: December 21, 2011 14:56
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The US-based intelligence-gathering firm Stratfor says most of the claims by the Syrian opposition about the seriousness of the country's crisis are untrue. The company insists protesters are exaggerating, to win support from powers like the US.

­Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan administration official, told RT he believes Washington is doing more than simply backing the rebels diplomatically.

“The United States is bold in stirring up the opposition and in arming it. They used the cover of the Arab Spring and Arab protests as they did in Libya,” he said. “These are not spontaneous protests, and certainly in an authoritarian state like Syria you wouldn’t find people in opposition able to readily supply themselves with arms, with military weapons.”

Besides, Roberts continued, it makes no sense for ordinary Syrians to create an opportunity for the country to be destroyed like Libya, Iraq, or Afghanistan.

“What’s involved here is that the Russians have a naval base in Syria, and the Americans don’t want a Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean. And, just as in Libya, the problem was the Chinese oil investments. If Syria goes, Iran is in the target sites, and Lebanon,” he concluded.

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Paul (unregistered) 06.08.2012 00:43

I praise your big hart for feeding the Russian soldiers.Please now feed the homles in the USA to.You can find them in NY,LA,and rest of the US.Wont be hard to find them!

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YouAreIgnorantMcMeevin (unregistered) 05.06.2012 06:28

McMeevin wrote in #6
Go on, America, step up to the plate and try and take on a country that is able to take you down.
U.S. is dramatically superior to both Russia and China in terms of military force. Superior Air Force. Superior Navy. Superior technology. Superior training. Keep dreaming moron. ie the U.S. is the only country capable of landing on an aircraft carrier at night and China was only just now able to come up with the technology to create ONE single carrier. Ignorance. 

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kingstanley (unregistered) 05.06.2012 06:13

vvv. Wrong. Afghanistan has the largest known deposit of Lithium. Lithium goes in all batteries. Notice the new age of electric cars and mass production of electronics such as computers? Now oil production right for oil produced in the Middle East is in jeopardy due to the Arab Spring. Canada has already begun to mass produce oil. The U.S. will soon follow domestic production for the right to be one of the fortunate countries to export to China. invest in Lithium and natural gas sir.

kamal wrote in #2
American base in Afghanistan is for spying on China,Iran,Russia and North Korea. America attacked Afghanistan in the name of terrorism in order to make base there and to spy on countries. 9/11 is all lies and propaganda of America same like Weapons of mass destruction Iraq propaganda.Only 4000 people got killed inside American and  America killed thousands of innocent people and its doing crimes against humanity  America should be punished for its crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.Russia ,North Korea and China are best countries for punishing America,Israel  and Britain.Israel is having Nuclear weapons but America and western media not say anything about that. Iran should have to make nuclear weapons as soon as possible because Israel is having nuclear weapons. Israel and America both are terrorist countries in the world.America is responsible for terrorism in syria. America not want Russian base in Syria. Russia should take this matter seriously. America and Israel is behind in violence in syria. CIA trained people are fighting in syria. Syrian activists are Israel and Mossad agents who doing propaganda about syria.

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