Quote Originally Posted by Blue in the Face View Post
The important details here was an age old long term presence of Russia in Syria and the fact that Middle Eastern countries had made trade deals to try and by pass the American petro dollar monopoly scam. The American shit list is bigger than Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Scary times ahead.
The Russian base is in Tartous a port that I have been to many times. Tartous itself is of very little importance, when I had to go there we had to stay in Safita which was about 10 kilometres away with the nearest decent hotel.

The notion that Russia was ever going to give up its only warm water/deep water port in the world, was completely naive on the part of the neo-con movers and shakers in Washington. Putin has drawn a line in the sand and is now getting back up from China in the region.

Iran has already provided air bases for Russian planes to use, Chinese, Syrian and Russian senior military are coordinating activity together in Damascus. We are living in very dangerous times and yet still the fools in London and Washington are trying to push for boots on the ground in Syria.