Russia has announced it will upgrade its facilities in Syria to handle increased naval and air traffic as well as make them permanent Russian facilities as it cements its hold on the Middle Eastern country it supported in its civil war. The naval base at Tartus, long a Soviet, and…
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said on Tuesday that U.S. intentions to provide shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles (ManPADS) to the Syrian opposition in the Syrian Civil War is considered by Moscow to be a hostile act. She noted that the transferred weapons would quickly end up in the hands…
Israel And Russia Manage Relations Over Syria.
The most deadly weapon used against the Russian military in Afghanistan was the Stinger missile made by America. The shoulder-launched missile, supplied by the CIA to the Mujahideen, was responsible for the downing of scores of Russian aircraft and crippled the Russian military’s ability to use airpower to fight the…
It is now the second day in a row that the hapless SU-33 pilot who ended up in he soup after failure of the Svetlana-2 recovery system on the Russian aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetzov is being maligned by the Russian media as having been the cause of the accident…
Russia Flexes Muscles And Shows Off In Syria…
There is one big reason why the much publicized attack on ISIS-held Mosul will fail. The fact is that ISIS is a classic popular anti-colonial movement similar to those that existed in Algeria, Vietnam, Mozambique, and many other places around the globe. There is not a single instance of these…