18-Jul-13 World View - Russia seeks military bases in Cyprus

[John]

18-Jul-13 World View -- Russia seeks military air and naval bases in Cyprus

Iran uncovers a western 'Wall of Fire' anti-revolutionary plot

** 18-Jul-13 World View -- Russia seeks military air and naval bases in Cyprus
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e130718



Contents:
Russia seeks military air and naval bases in Cyprus
Assad supporters under attack in Lebanon
Greece votes to lay off 27,500 civil service workers
Iran uncovers a western 'Wall of Fire' anti-revolutionary plot


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Cyprus, Limassol, Paphos, Russia,
Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah,
Turkey, Greece, Iran, Wall of Fire, Hassan Rouhani

[Guest]

Russia seeks a naval base and air station on Cyprus? To what end? Are they planning to attack western Europe with their ramshackle, obsolete, and poorly tained and badly equipment armed forces? This just seems like posturing: an attempt at prestige in order to make Russians like Putin again and igmore the widespread poverty and corruption that is their daily lives.

I don't think the Russians will ever really rebuild their military back into an effective fighting machine. Look what at what a ramshackle affair the 2008 war againt tiny Georgia was like: constant break-downs of equipment, officers using cell phones to call in airstrikes (which were porrly executed0, and soldiers looting stores for food and water because the Russian military didn't provide any provisions.

Russia is broken down machine. Any areas of prgress are mere Potemkin Villages. Russia will be lucky if it even has 10 good years left in it: disasterous demographics, decling oil production, and an infrastructure that is literally crumbling. In the long run, or the short: Russia is dead.