Russia Vows to Send Anti-Aircraft Missiles to Syria to Keep "Western Hotheads" Out of Their Satrapy

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This announcement all but says they intend that Russian missiles should be used to kill American pilots. Or British or French ones.

Note I'm not arguing there should be such overflights-- but Russia is now arming Assad expressly to kill our people?

Moscow said it was being forced to send the S-300 system to Syria's president to prevent Western "hotheads" from intervening in the country's civil war.

It came after Britain succeeded in persuading the European Union not to renew an embargo on supplying weapons to Syria's opposition forces. William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said the late night deal meant Britain could begin arming the rebels from now.

However, the move sparked fury in Russia, which has been implacably opposed to Western efforts to unseat Mr Assad.

In further Russian Empire news, Russia, which of course desperately wants to keep its Syrian pawn, has sweetly offered to send its own troops as "peacekeepers" patrolling the Golan Heights, which stand on the border of its dear ally Syria and Israel, were lots of Russian Jews fled to to escape Russian Jew-hatred.

Russian troops in Syria! What could go wrong.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is ready to send peacekeepers to the Golan Heights to replace Austrian forces after Vienna said it would recall its troops from a UN monitoring force due to worsening fighting in Syria.

"We could replace the leaving Austrian contingent in this region on the border between Israeli troops and the Syrian army," Putin told the RIA Novosti news agency.

What a lovely offer.

posted by Ace at 03:32 PM

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