Comments on: Russia Sending Battleships to the Region

By: shazam

shazam — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:03:15 +0000

Hah. It’ll take a few days for the Russians to get into position. By then it’ll be over. Putin will tell Assad (if the latter is still alive), “sorry” and thus will save face. Assad’s military capability will be crushed, and the Arabs will think twice about using chemical weapons again.

By: GeshmakMan

GeshmakMan — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:55:57 +0000

Yes, I think Putin is basing his next move based on YWN bloggers’ thoughts!!

By: lebidik yankel

lebidik yankel — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:58:17 +0000

Allow me to explain Russia: If Assad goes down, Syria turns into a disaster zone of fundamentalist Islamists + chaos. They are (responsibly, in their opinion) ‘dissuading’ Obama from taking any hot-headed moves.

By: mayerfreund

mayerfreund — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:00:56 +0000

I don’t understand Russia. 2 years of civil war and the Syrian government killed over 100,000 people and no response from Russia. A week ago the government of Syria crossed that red line and used W.M.D. gas to kill their own people. A coalition was formed to step in and protect the people of Syria by stopping the government of Syria the use of gas and kill people. All of a sudden after just 2 days Russia responds in an emergency to allow the government of Syria to continue the use of W.M.D. and keep on killing more people.

By: akuperma

akuperma — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:41:36 +0000

Russia doesn’t own a battleship (nor does anyone else, they were proven to be largely obsolete during World War II). They were very large and very slow.

Other news sources say the ship is a Cruiser (a much smaller ship), and the Russians maintain it is “routine” and not related to the current crisis.