“We are strategic allies in the Middle East right now—the Russians are our allies and give us weapons,” said one of the Hezbollah officers who chose to call himself Commander Bakr. He is in charge of five units in Syria, around 200 troops. (He chuckled when he said his nom de guerre, mocking Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed “caliph” of the so-called Islamic State.)
As someone who has led units fighting from Latakia to Idlib province, around Damascus, and in the Qalamon Mountains that border Lebanon, Commander Bakr says that the Russian airstrikes have changed the course of the ground war, where Hezbollah, supported by Iran, has taken the lead.
Bakr said that Russia has been increasing its support for his armed movement since 2012. Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, met with Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut in 2014 to discuss regional developments.“Assir,” a Hezbollah recruiter and trainer in Lebanon who also commands a Special Forces unit that fights across Syria, says the Russians are increasingly impressed with Hezbollah and rely on it, rather than the Syrian military, to guard Russian arms depots inside Syria. And to hear Assir tell the story, Hezbollah has extensive access to what’s inside those depots.
“Hezbollah is teaching the Syrian army how to use many of these new weapons,” says Assir. He maintains that Moscow hasn’t placed any restriction on how Hezbollah can use the Russian arms in its possession, including against Israel if the organization deems it necessary. “When it comes to Israel, Hezbollah doesn’t take directions from anyone,” he says emphatically. But it is not clear that he is in a senior enough position to know what secret agreements have been made.
The problem is that with the unsuccessful U.S. military actions against ISIS, the door has been opened for the Russians to gain a much bigger footprint into the Middle East. That may become particularly difficult if conflicts increase between Israel and Hezbollah, as they inevitably will.
That means that the tepid military response by the U.S. that allowed the Russians in could lead to a much bigger problem in the Middle East. Actions or inaction both have consequences, and the Obama administration’s poor grasp on international affairs could lead to a much bigger problem than we are now seeing with the rise of ISIS.
Source:thedailybeast.com
I really am considering moving to Russia. Heavily cuz if we don’t get someone to take obama out before he gets this ball rolling so fast it can’t be stopped then we are fucked. And that will be the safest place to be. At least for a long while in the aftermath.
I love my country but damn it’s not looking good at all. And all the media and obama want you all to do is keep mistrusting everyone. Putin is doing what he needs to do for the safety of his country. We may not agree or like it but really we are gonna have to do some$#%&!@*soon that we are not gonna like at all. Like can you shoot a child indoctrinated to kill you by any means. And he has a bomb strapped to him. It’s either you shoot him or you and your family dies. Can you handle that? Well I can don’t like it, but they trained taught and if that kid can’t or won’t listen then he must die to save my family I would shoot him.
Israel feels it every day! Stabbings by the Palestinians aswell as rockets. Israel is no stranger to Barbaric Islamic muslim terrorist!
you give clubs to your enemies so they can beat each other to death
Im Part Indian and this is a tactic the government has always used, When the cherokees were removed from the south east the US government gave them the same piece of land as they gave the Osage Indians in arkansas and when the cherokees showed up to their land that was occupied by the Osage they went to warring and over 5000 indians were killed by each other, The devil knows how to do his job, those who give the orders work for him.
Best sergestion would be just to come at them from all boarder ends and box them in and let russ bomb them onice and for all with the nuke war heads getting rid of them all at one time. This would end all of it at one time.