Putin says Russia aims to beef up Syrian military in mid-term

[Bleipriester]

Good news from Russia:

"(Reuters) Russia’s medium-term plans in Syria include improving capability of the Syrian armed forces which would allow to relocate Russian troops in the country to the existing Russian bases, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

“We aim to establish a process a political settlement (in Syria) between all the sides involved,” Putin also said during a question and answer session with citizens.

He said that after boosting the capability of the Syrian military, Russia’s aviation will continue helping it where necessary.

Putin also said Russia’s military industrial complex had benefited greatly from testing its latest weapons in Syria. Combined with this, the experience acquired by the Russian army in Syria, is “priceless”, he said."

Putin says Russia aims to beef up Syrian military in mid-term

 

[Stratford57]

Putin to Megyn Kelly:
We do not want Syria to be confronted with a situation similar to that in Libya or Somalia or Afghanistan, where NATO has been present for many years but the situation is not changing for the better.

We want to preserve [Syrian] statehood and once this fundamental matter is resolved, to move further towards settling the Syrian crisis by political means.

But let us not forget that if it were not for active intervention from the outside we would not have had the situation and the civil war that we are seeing now.

Has Assad made mistakes? He probably has, and quite a few, too. Now, are the people who are up against him angels? Who is killing people, executing children and beheading people there? Are we supposed to support them?

St Petersburg International Economic Forum plenary meeting

 

[ScienceRocks]

I've come to the conclusion that America should leave the middle east alone...

We're not going to fix the mess or even start too...All we're going to do is get our kids killed, spend treasure and look like idiots.