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    This is strange...Iran is getting roughly 50-100B and has already gotten that amount......why the need for a Russian 5B loan?.....the costs of their Syrian adventure has been high but still.....

    Iranians want Russia to give them $5 billion loan
    http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2911071
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    Closer view at the Buk-M2E inside a HAS in Mazze AB pic.twitter.com/JKAx3IwPEq

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    Is this really Kerry's comments...notice the clinging to soft power at this stage in Syria it is very clear force on force will be the only thing that Putin understands......especially since Kerry has the Putin response model in front of him from eastern Ukraine....

    U.S. Embassy Syria 
    ‏@USEmbassySyria #SecKerry: I said to Putin, "if all you’re trying to do is leave Asad in place, the war won't end & there will be more terrorists created.”

    So what is it that Kerry is not seeing what the Brit MSM sees.......?????

    "If there were any doubts about Russia’s objectives in Syria, events around Aleppo will surely have cleared them": http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...ssian-military

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    For those SWJ readers...the tone coming out of Turkey the last three days is getting actually more pointed and sharper...turkey will cross the border as will KSA......that places Assad and Putin facing a potential two front conflict.

    Putin with his continued heavy civilian air strikes and the moves on Aleppo will get what he wants....a conflict with a NATO member....

    Clear resolve by Erdogan that Turkey might interfere in Syria to protect interests. Interesting point on 2003
    pic.twitter.com/IpgU3JDktk

    Erdogan says it was wrong for Turkish parliament to vote against allowing US troops to use Turkey in invasion of Iraq in 2003

    He says that vote meant Turkey was not on the table on Iraq, and same can't be repeated in Syria

    No doubt #Turkey will try to use the situation to push #US into backing a safezone again. #Obama too weak to decide. https://twitter.com/anshelpfeffer/st...45211714842624

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    Another night of cluster bomb attacks just north of Homs
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_XBB_BUnY

    Humanitarian Relief @IHHen
    IHH has started to distribute hot meals to 20,000 Syrians who have come to the Turkish border to save their lives.
    pic.twitter.com/lW3lBJTktL

    Humanitarian Relief @IHHen
    More than 55 thousand Syrians are now living in IHH's camps on the Turkish-Syrian border.

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    Interesting article .........in that Putin and Lavrov are constantly lying
    Russian banks, lies and emojis - Very good by @mashagessen in @nytimes on #Russia and the tradition of public lying
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/op...ype=collection


    Минобороны России ✔ @mod_russia
    Thoughtless actions of #NATO states have brought the Middle East region into the chaos, not the Rus #AerospaceForces

    http://on.fb.me/1PI5OsK

    Read the NYTs article and then reread the Russian MoD statement...part of the Obama and Kerry problem is that they do not understand the standard Russian lying concept...thus they think they can come to agreements with Putin....but Putin simply says yes and really means NO....

    Even in the face of the utter truth backed by countless videos the MoD makes this statement?????

    Social media has been pointing that out now for two years and yet the WH does not seem to "get it"....

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    Jaysh al-Islam killed over 50 #Assad soldiers tried to advance around Brig 39 in #EastGhouta #Damascus @aboasssem92

    Video: #RuAF airstrike during IV with Major Yasir Abdulrahim, Commander of #Aleppo Ops Room.
    http://eldorar.com/node/94439

    List of 36 Iranian Generals & Officers killed north #Aleppo in 2 days fighting for #Assad - @Arabi21News

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