Russia Sending Air and Sea Defenses to Syria

[SlavicBaptist]

MOSCOW — The chief of Russia’s state-controlled arms exporter said on Friday that his company was shipping advanced defensive missile systems to Syria that could be used to shoot down airplanes or sink ships if the United States or other Western nations try to intervene to halt the country’s spiral of violence.

“I would like to say these mechanisms are really a good means of defense, a reliable defense against attacks from the air or sea,” Anatoly P. Isaykin, the general director of company, Rosoboronexport, said in an interview Friday. “This is not a threat, but whoever is planning an attack should think about this.”

His remarks come just days after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton raised diplomatic pressure on Russia, Syria’s patron, by criticizing the Kremlin for sending attack helicopters to Damascus, and amid reports that Moscow was preparing to send an amphibious landing vessel and a small company of marines to the Syrian port of Tartus, to provide security for military installations and infrastructure, if it becomes necessary.

While the weapons systems are not considered cutting edge, the words and actions added to a cold war chill that has been settling over relations between Washington and Moscow since President Vladimir V. Putin took power from his more accommodative predecessor, Dmitri A. Medvedev.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/wo...-to-syria.html

[Littlejoe]

War buildup continues........

[mikhen7]

Little by little the buildup is occurring. And so close to little oil ridden Israel. You build a foundation brick-by-brick. Soon you can place a large building upon it. Russia is building its fortress. God is watching as they devise their plans. Soon Damascus will be no more.

[mikhen7]

Here they come inch-by-inch