Moscow Warns West against 'Tragic Mistake' in Syria

[Bosonic]

Source: AFP

Russia on Sunday welcomed Damascus' offer to allow a mission by U.N. inspectors probing alleged chemical weapons use and warned the West that military action against the Syrian regime would be a "tragic mistake."

"We strongly urge those who, by attempting to impose their own results on the U.N. experts, are raising the possibility of a military operation in Syria to use their common sense and refrain from committing a tragic mistake," foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement.


Read more: http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/95491-moscow-warns-west-against-tragic-mistake-in-syria

[dipsydoodle]

1. Just incase anyone alerts cos its not main stream media

the origin is Agence France Presse / AP France . http://www.naharnet.com/tags/agence-france-presse

[leveymg]

2. "Tragic mistake" is awfully generous. eom

[bemildred]

3. "Diplomatic", I would say, but I know what you mean.

You don't want to get too aggressive with the crazy guy.

[PatrynXX]

4. Considering it already is one (bain ded Russia)

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who in the west is pushing for this? Obama is in a wait and see approach. american people don't want one.

So not really sure who in the West Russia is talking about. Most of the ones who might rush to judgment are in the middle east. (EAST)

[DallasNE]

9. This Is Putin Trying To Puff Himself Up With His Own People

This sets him up to go to the Russian people and say look, I made America back down. He needs something like this following the uproar over his winter Olympic moves that are having strong pushback (two Russian women kissing on stand, etc.).

[go west young man]

12. Russia's interest's in Syria are vast and well established.

Whereas the U.S. and Britain want to gain a foot hold, ironically by using radical muslims who have vowed jihad against the west. Putin is not the aggressor. He is defending his countries interests, the same as the US would if the Russians decided they wanted to take Japan or South Korea and install a government more friendly to Russian interests. The difference is that it is the US these days that is constantly meddling in other countries affairs in ways similar to the old Soviet Union. See my post below on how oil is involved .

[AverageJoe90]

16. Makes sense to me. n/t

[Catherina]

6. Tragic mistake doesn't even begin to describe it

5 July 2013 Last updated at 09:17 GMT

Face-to-face with Abu Sakkar, Syria's 'heart-eating cannibal'
By Paul Wood

It sounded like the most far-fetched propaganda claim - a Syrian rebel commander who cut out the heart of a fallen enemy soldier, and ate it before a cheering crowd of his men.

The story turned out to be true in its most important aspect - a ritual demonstration of cannibalism - though when I met the commander, Abu Sakkar, in Syria last week, he seemed hazy on the details.

"I really don't remember," he says, when I ask if it was the man's heart, as reported at the time, or liver, or a piece of lung, as a doctor who saw the video said. He goes on: "I didn't bite into it. I just held it for show."

The video says otherwise. It is one of the most gruesome to emerge from Syria's civil war. In it, Abu Sakkar stands over an enemy corpse, slicing into the flesh.

...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23190533

I'm not going to post the rebels' disgusting videos here. You can find them on youtube yourselves. These are the same savages who stuck a knife up Ghaddafi's rectum.

[iamthebandfanman]

5. glad they could take time

from their busy gay people bashing schedule to make empty threats :p

fuckin' fascists.

[chuckstevens]

7. So Is Moscow Really Saying We're OK with Gassing if it is Done by Our Ally?

I agree that direct US intervention would not be a good idea. However, I'd like to ask Putin and the rest of the world, should we just let Assad's military gas civilians? What should we do? Nothing?

[Loudly]

8. It's for Israel to handle or ignore.

[David__77]

13. The US should not intervene.

And we certainly do not know if gas was used, or if so, who used it. Russia is right here.

[AlbertCat]

10. What if we only target gay Syrians?

Would that be OK with Moscow?

[go west young man]

11. The real scoop from asia Times Online....

This is all part of the "Great Game" and the geopolitical strategic oil interests of the biggest players in the game. This article clearly explains the U.S. interests.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-02-130813.html

Excerpt:

Moscow won't drop Damascus. Period. At the same time, as Bandar threatened, Geneva II seems more unlikely to happen than the Obama administration ceasing to drone Yemen to death.

As Asia Times Online has extensively reported, the name of the game, in practice, remains Syria as the new Afghanistan, with the House of Saud in control of all aspects of jihad (with Washington "leading from behind&quot . Deadly historic irony also applies; instead of clashing with the Soviet Union, now the Saudis clash with the Russian federation.

[dipsydoodle]

14. Good article you posted

[AverageJoe90]

15. The sad thing is, Russia is part of the problem.

We've known for some time that Russia was arming the Syrian gov't. We've also known, for a while now, that Assad's men were in fact, gassing civilians as well. Putin's concerns about "international law" ring quite hollow in light of this and the new anti-LGBT legislation that's been making the rounds in the Duma.