US Main Concern at Present

[gazzzwp]

With the political and humanitarian instability in Syria and the nuclear ambitions of Iran causing deep concern one would think that the US and Nato would be putting more weight behind some sort of intervention.

What I see in the media appears to be very much a watch and wait policy; there is obviously very much interest at the moment with the imminent arrival of the Russian Navy in Syria and what that might mean.

There is also very much speculation at the present time that the US wants or needs Russia on side with Middle East matters since the main US concern is actually China.

In this case, could the US be holding off a final deal on AMD as a kind of 'ace up their sleeve' to allow them to safely take their eye of the Middle East without fear of Russian interference and thereby devoting the bulk of their weight to the South China Sea arena?

 

[alexkvaskov]

there is obviously very much interest at the moment with the imminent arrival of the Russian Navy in Syria and what that might mean.

I highly doubt the Russian navy paying a visit to Syria will actually be anything more than posturing and rhetoric; that being said, the US and NATO would do well to keep an eye on S-300 air defense systems that Syria might possibly acquire.

 

[Belesari]

With the political and humanitarian instability in Syria and the nuclear ambitions of Iran causing deep concern one would think that the US and Nato would be putting more weight behind some sort of intervention.

What I see in the media appears to be very much a watch and wait policy; there is obviously very much interest at the moment with the imminent arrival of the Russian Navy in Syria and what that might mean.

There is also very much speculation at the present time that the US wants or needs Russia on side with Middle East matters since the main US concern is actually China.

In this case, could the US be holding off a final deal on AMD as a kind of 'ace up their sleeve' to allow them to safely take their eye of the Middle East without fear of Russian interference and thereby devoting the bulk of their weight to the South China Sea arena?

The US simply wont go into syria because it doesn't want another war. It wont do like it did in Libya because Iran would probably do someting really dumb if they did.

Libya wasn't really that popular here in the US. A intervention in Syria would be less so. We seem to keep finding those we free choose our enemies or the chains anyways...so not to much call for helping anyone in the ME anymore.

 

[Shock]

I highly doubt the Russian navy paying a visit to Syria will actually be anything more than posturing and rhetoric; that being said, the US and NATO would do well to keep an eye on S-300 air defense systems that Syria might possibly acquire.

Russia is posturing right now and simply put, all it needs to do to persuade Europe not to involve themselves is threaten to severally limit the amount of oil floating to Europe, thus furthering the ongoing economic crisis there.

This along with U.S. being war wary at the moment, and Iran starting to be more unstable than usual creates issues and complications that make military action against Syria not very likely. it can happen but it will take a lot more than what we have been seeing to do it (Syria attacking Turkey for instance).

 

[My2Cents]

Russia is posturing right now and simply put, all it needs to do to persuade Europe not to involve themselves is threaten to severally limit the amount of oil floating to Europe, thus furthering the ongoing economic crisis there.

Actually cutting off or limiting the oil and gas flows to Europe is the one thing that the Russians do not dare do. It would destroy global confidence in Russia as a reliable supplier. Every time energy flows from Russia get interrupted, such as when Russia attempted to unilaterally cut gas deliveries to the Ukraine (At the time all the gas pipelines to Western Europe passed through the Ukraine, so guess how that went!), the Europeans start talking about energy security and the need to diversify their energy supply. Then the foreign investment planned to developing Russian sources of supply ends up diverted to places like Azerbaijan and Chad instead. General investment by foreign investors in Russia, which Russia is dependent on for much of its economic growth, quickly follows suit.

Russia is not going to risk that much on a political spat. It would not matter if the Europeans gave in or not, in the end Russia loses a lot more, and the Europeans know it. :hul

 

[surpreme]

I highly doubt the Russian navy paying a visit to Syria will actually be anything more than posturing and rhetoric; that being said, the US and NATO would do well to keep an eye on S-300 air defense systems that Syria might possibly acquire.

Now that something new there having heard anything about them getting S-300's. What ever happen to the Mig 31's they suppose to be getting? That would have been something back in the days but not now.