Konflikt v Siriji

Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud koji se zaputio prema Saudijskoj Arabiji zadržan je u ponedjeljak u bejrutskoj međunarodnoj zračnoj luci Rafik Hariri.

In 2010, a leaked WikiLeaks cable described a royal underground party scene in Jeddah that was “thriving and throbbing” because Saudi officials looked the other way. The dispatch described a Halloween party, funded in part by a prince from the Al Thunayan family, where more than 150 young men and women dressed in costumes and slogged expensive alcohol, which is sold only on the black market in Saudi Arabia. “Though not witnessed directly at this event, cocaine and hashish use is common in these social circles,” the cable read.

Cervantes je 26. okt 2015 ob 23:48 izjavil:

Jasno. Droga je motor gospodarstva.
Zakaj? Invest/profit is enormous.

Does Saudi have world's biggest amphetamine habit?

...The World Drug Report 2010, published by the UNODC, shows Saudi authorities confiscated 12.8 metric tons of amphetamine in 2008. A total of 24.3 metric tons of amphetamine were seized worldwide that year, with 15.3 metric tons seized in the wider Middle East.

"I can't emphasize enough the size of this," said Nice, whose specialist area is amphetamine-type-stimulants. "Fifteen metric tons is absolutely huge, it's absolutely phenomenal.

"We're really struggling because the information base is so limited. It's definitely just the tip of the iceberg," he told CNN....

Smrekar1 je 27. okt 2015 ob 14:15 izjavil:

Posledica ruskega posredovanja v Siriji je med drugim tudi to, da bo ISIS dobil močne zaveznike. Bravo Putler. Pri takih zaveznikih sovražnikov sploh ne rabiš.

AC_DC je 27. okt 2015 ob 14:20 izjavil:

Katar, SA in Turčija so podpirali is od začetka, sedaj so samo stopili izza kulise.

"We won't hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against ISIL or conducting such missions directly, whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground," Mr Carter said, using an alternative acronym for IS.

"We expect to intensify our air campaign, including with additional US and coalition aircraft, to target ISIL with a higher and heavier rate of strikes," he said.

windigo je 28. okt 2015 ob 09:31 izjavil:

morbo je 28. okt 2015 ob 08:18 izjavil:

Ameri čutijo potrebo da se izkažejo. Putler je odličen strateg :)

Podpolkovnik Putin je dober taktik, še boljši izvršilec (igzekjutif) in pa odličen menežder (dobro obvlada svoj ožji krog ljudi, uspel je motivirati tudi državljane). Ni pa odličen strateg, predvsem mu ne grejo od rok razna zavezništva (sodelovanje z Iranom recimo je in bo samo taktično, edinega zaveznika v regiji, Asada, pravzaprav panično rešuje, Ukrajina se mu je sesula kljub temu, da jo je obilno zalagal s poceni plinom, za Gruzijo kot da mu je bilo vseeno, dokler mu ni ušla v ameriško naročje), tu se celo strinjam s Smrekarjem. V KGB so šefi rekli, da je preveč asocialen za Jamesa Bonda in da preveč tvega oz. ne upošteva vseh nevarnosti. Po mojem so imeli prav.

Nasprotni primer so familija Saud, odlični v strategiji in čista katastrofa v vseh ostalih pogledih.

Smrekar1 je 28. okt 2015 ob 09:44 izjavil:

Mimogrede, podobno velja za Rusijo. Zaradi točno istih vzrokov.

Matako je 28. okt 2015 ob 09:21 izjavil:

Ja samo Jenksi tukaj igrajo za drobiž oz. za lulz (beri: diplomatski prestiž).

Osebno sicer mislim, da tudi Rusi precenjujejo strateški pomen Bližnjega Vzhoda. Tako kot cel svet. In potomci puščavskih plemen to prekleto dobro izkoriščajo že desetletja. Arabci&Co. so odlični strategi.
Pa ne mi zdaj o nafti, ker tudi ta konj postaja rahlo pojahan...

MadMicka je 28. okt 2015 ob 10:45 izjavil:

morbo, če ti misliš, da bodo Rusi karkoli rešili v Siriji, si na youtubu poglej "road rage" ali pa "stop a douschebage". Ne morejo taki primitivci ničesar rešiti, še doma ne, kaj šele v tujini. Potem pa recimo primerjaj z "road rage in usa", da ti bo jasna razlika v kulturi.

oo7 je 28. okt 2015 ob 09:29 izjavil:

Razlog jim je Isis a v bistvu bi se borili proti Assadu. Američani se že ne bodo borili proti Isis-u, ker to so njihovi borci.

Smurf je 28. okt 2015 ob 12:56 izjavil:

Ce smo realni, sploh se nismo dobili nobene objektivne informacije o tem, kaksen je ucinek Rusije.

Smrekar1 je 28. okt 2015 ob 12:45 izjavil:

Malo lucidne analize, ki je tu manjka.

http://www.nationalinterest.org/feature...

While Russia's air campaign in Syria has been accompanied by a tsunami of PR and propaganda that is unprecedented for its Ministry of Defense, a fair amount of caution is advised in assessing the overall effectiveness of the Russian air strikes. In the first six days of the operation (between September 30 and October 5), the Latakia-based group comprising 30 strike aircraft (12 Su-24Ms, 12 Su-25s, and six Su-34s) of Russia’s Airspace Forces (ASF) flew approximately 120 attack missions hitting 51 targets.

For comparison's sake, between June 14, 2014 and September 29, 2015, as part of the Inherent Resolve operation against IS within Iraq and Syria, the US and allies flew 56,819 sorties (admittedly, that number includes support flights) and delivered 7,162 air strikes (of which 2,579 in Syria). It would be mistaken to suggest that they had any radical impact on the IS forces' activities, let alone achieved the Caliphate’s destruction. Notably, the Western coalition has almost exclusively relied on precision air munitions (whereas the Russian group also makes heavy use of old-fashioned gravity bombs); it possesses much more efficient reconnaissance, target selection, and targeting facilities (suffice it to mention the extensive use of relevant under-wing pods, which the Russian ASF has exactly zero of); and generally has much vaster and virtually non-stop 25-year experience of deployment and combat operations in the region, complete with well-oiled mechanisms for interaction and air force combat operations.

To je samo izsek daljšega članka, ampak se mi je zdelo vredno izspostaviti, da ne smemo ruskih trditev o velikih uspehih na bojišču in masovnih dezertacij jemati preveč resno. Jemati jih je treba kot laži - kar tudi so.

damjan1980 je 28. okt 2015 ob 12:59 izjavil:

"delivered 7,162 air strikes " in IS se je vmes sirila, sirila in sirila. Saj ni cudno, ce ussa mece bombe mimo njih tak malo za show.

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Smrekar1 je 28. okt 2015 ob 13:22 izjavil:

Zemljevid tudi lepo pokaže kakšno napako delajo Rusi, ker ne napadajo ISIS. Uporniki so le malo razširili svoje ozemlje, medtem ko je ISIS pošteno napredoval.

damjan1980 je 28. okt 2015 ob 12:59 izjavil:

"delivered 7,162 air strikes " in IS se je vmes sirila, sirila in sirila. Saj ni cudno, ce ussa mece bombe mimo njih tak malo za show.