War Will Culminate with Armageddon!
Russia Does Not Desire any Nuclear War
But it Is Trying to Corner World Oil Sources
And Gain Economic Control from its Advantage!
Its main economic prosperity has been via Iranians
From the Oil Revenue Cash received from Military Sales
In supplying of military hardware and high tech Assistance
Russia’s main goal isn’t war but a burning desire to be on Top
So it Must Develop a Closer Relationship with the Islamic Nations,
This Will Finally Cause it to come down to the Last battle of this Age!
After the Nation of Israel has Been in Negev Three and One half Years!
September 14, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Revelation 16:13-19 – And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. [14] For they are
the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. [15] Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. [17] And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [18] And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Russia seeks stronger ties with Syria
September 13, 2008
Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST
Russia announced Friday it was renovating a Syrian port for use by the Russian fleet in what signals an effort for a better foothold in the Mediterranean amid the rift with the United States over Georgia.
Syria was Moscow’s strongest Middle East ally during the Cold War. The alliance largely waned after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, though Russia has continued some weapons sales to Damascus.
Syrian President Bashar Assad has increasingly reached out to Russia recently, including seeking weapons and offering broader military cooperation.
Friday’s announcement was the first tangible sign of any new cooperation. The Itar-Tass news agency said Friday that a vessel from Russia’s Black Sea fleet had begun restoring facilities at Syria’s Mediterranean port of Tartus for use by the Russian military.
The two countries’ naval chiefs also met in Moscow on Friday and discussed “further strengthening mutual trust and mutual understanding between the two states’ fleets,” a Russian naval official, Igor Dygalo, told Itar-Tass.
The T artus renov
ations could signal an intention to have a long-term Russian naval presence there. In late August, Russia’s ambassador to Damascus, Igor Belyev, said that Russian ships already patrol the area, but “a new development is that the Russian presence in the Mediterranean will become permanent.”
The Russian navy’s closest access to the Mediterranean is through the Black Sea, where they have strong naval presence. But that area has seen an increase in NATO naval activity after the Georgia conflict, prompting Russian complaints that NATO has exceeded ship numbers permitted there under international agreements.
The move comes amid heightened tensions between the US and Russia after last month’s brief war in Georgia. The rift has raised concerns Moscow might start reaching out to US rivals around the world to beef up military alliances.
Russian bombers this month arrived in Venezuela for training exercises and the two countries are to hold joint exercises in the Caribbean in November.
Syrian media made no mention of the Russian announcement Friday, and Syrian officials could not be reached for comment. In Syria, military activities are rarely discussed or divulged by authorities who keep a tight lid on state security matters.
Russian military experts said Tartus would be a considerable boost for operations in the Mediterranean.
“It is much more advantageous to have such a facility than to return ships patrolling the Mediterranean to their home bases,” former Black Sea Fleet commander Adm.
Eduard Baltin said, according to the Russian Interfax-AVN service.
The former first deputy commander the Russian Navy, Adm. Igor Kasatonov, said Tartus “is of great geopolitical significance considering that it is the only such Russian facility abroad.”
The former Soviet Union had a maintenance and supply facility in Tartus under a 1971 agreement with Damascus, but the deal ended with the fall of the Communist regime in Moscow. Currently the facility at Tartus cons ists of three floating piers, one of which
is currently operational, one floating repair shop, warehouses, barracks and other facilities, according to Russian press reports.
Security expert David Hartwell cautioned against reading too much into a connection between the Russia-Syria ties and the Georgia crisis.
” Talks about naval cooperation have been ongoing for several years.
It would wrong to suggest this is a reaction to NATO’s action in Georgia,” said Hartwell, Middle East and North Africa editor for Jane’s Country Risk in London.
The Tartus move may be as much aimed at placating Syria’s appeals for greater cooperation. he said from London.
Assad made a visit to Moscow last month, and before the trip told the Russian business daily Kommersant that Syria was “ready to cooperate with Russia in any way,” including discussing deploying missile defense systems on Syrian territory.
Assad also said Syria was ready to help Moscow respond to the planned US missile defense shield in Europe, although the Russians have not asked for such help, the newspaper said.
Syria’s government later denied that Assad had made such an offer to host Russian missiles on Syrian land, or even discussed it with Russia – apparently wary of overly antagonizing the United States.
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Russia lines up with Syria, Iran against America and the West
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
September 12, 2008, 10:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
Friday, Sept. 12, Moscow announced renovation had begun on the Syrian port of Tartus to provide Russia with its first long-term naval presence on the Mediterranean.
As the two naval chiefs talked in Moscow, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki in the Russian capital for talks on the completion of the Bushehr nuclear power plant by the end of the year.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the commander of the Russian, Navy Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky, and his Syrian counterpart, Gen. Taleb al Barri, spent all Friday working on details for the outfitting of Tartus port to accommodated increased Russian fleet Mediterranean missions not far from Israel’s shores.
Mottaki’s unannounced visit to the Russian capital focused on the timetable for Atomstroiexport to finish work on the Bushehr reactor after five years of delays.
Moscow has sharpened its tone in comments aimed at the West and the US in particular. President Dmitiry Medvedev said Friday that Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia was the equivalent for Russia of the 9/11 attack on America. Even if Georgia had become a NATO member, he said, he would not have thought twice about ordering the Russian army to go in.
Prime minister Vladimir Putin, after putting Moscow’s case on Georgia to the Western media, warned the US that stationing a missile defense shield near Russia’s borders would start an arms race in Europe. There was no basis for a new Cold War, he said.
DEBKAfile’s sources interpret Friday’s events as indicating that Russia’s leaders have determined not to declare a Cold War in Europe but to open a second anti-Western front in the Middle East.
In the second half of August, DEBKA file and DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s analysts discussed this re-orientation at length (Russia’s Second Front: Iran-Syria), disclosing that Moscow had decided to use its ties with Tehran and Damascus to challenge the United State and the West in the Middle East as well as the Caucasian, the Black Sea and the Caspian region.
The traumatic impact of the Georgia conflict on Russia’s rulers came through in the remarks of an unnamed Kremlin official quoted by the Russian media this week: “Everything has changed since the war with Georgia. What seemed impossible before is more than possible now when our friends become our enemies and our enemies our friends. Russia will respond. A number of possibilities are being considered, including hitting America where it hurts most – Iran and Syria.”
In aligning with Tehran and Damascus, Moscow stands not only against America but also Israel. This volatile world region is undergoing cataclysmic changes at a time when Israel is virtually without a fully competent prime minister and key political and military decision-making by the rest of the government is at a standstill.
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