REVEALED: Russians are Syrians!
I'm so used to reading the regional news that this sort of thing hardly even makes me laugh anymore:
Russia will never accept "foreign interference" in Syria's internal affairs, Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told a news conference on Tuesday.
"No one can doubt the strength of the Russian-Syrian relationship," based on their history and the interests of both people, Muallem said.
"Russia will never accept foreign interference in Syria's internal affairs. That is the red line," he added.
Yes, that would be Damascus, the ancestral homeland of the Russian people. You all knew Dostoyevsky was from Aleppo, right? The portrait above depicts Peter the Great of Homs. Russians have been indigenous to Syria since the Mithridatic Wars. Everyone knows that.
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Oct '11
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My Russian friend told me there is no word for ''sea'' in Russian, they instead use what can literally be translated as ''great pond''.
This of course means that Russian where in Syria before there was a Mediterranean Sea, +- 10000 years ago. /Provedbylogic
Apr '11
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Well if I were Putin I would be worried about allowing a strong precedent to be set for western governments supporting popular protesters protesting a sham democracy...Why if the Syrian regime falls, whats next?
Really If Russia or China did not back either Iran or Syria, do we really think we would not press the SOBs harder...
I mean look at it. Every dictatorship that fell was either isolated or depended on US backing for international support...the moment these guys become isolated with no powerful friends they fold like a cheap lawn chair.
Aug '11
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It seems they think Syria = Serbia,... and 2012 = 1914...
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I just don't know how the Russians get away with it. Just replace "Russia" with "America" and imagine the media reaction to that.
Jul '10
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Pffft. "Says Syria's Foreign Minister." Russia's Foreign Minister? Not so much.
Oct '11
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Nobody cried over Cuban/Soviet Imperialism in Ethiopia and Angola, they ain't gonna start today.
May '11
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Buy enough Soviet hardware and they throw in paternity.
May '10
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Ah, well, there are all sorts of ways to determine national affinity or citizenship in international law (e.g., naturalization, consanguinity, birthright). Maybe the Russians just have another one - buy enough of our military hardware and you're in the club.
I wonder if the Syrians will be allowed the full benefit of being Russian, including things like borscht (or the gulag)? And now with the market open to Russian dressing, you may finally get a decent reuben in Damascus.
Jun '10
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For added confusion I recommend The Sabers of Paradise by Lesley Blanch. It's a history about the Russian conquest of the Caucasus. The people of Daghestan (who call themselves Avars) are racially white, Muslim by faith, and a Turco-Tartar by language. Throw in some Armenians, Georgians, and Circassians, and the tale becomes an exercise in trying to separate coleslaw into its constituent components.
Apr '11
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The Russians are not going to admit they favor Syria's brutality (which they may not) but they certainly don't mind it. The point is Russia can only feel like a big country if it opposes the US and western Europe. They lost their client states when the Wall fell, so now they have gone and got some others...They will support Syria through being passive and slow in the security council. This will also be what China does. They will not ever say "We support Asad" they will say "We should not rush into this. The US must prove X, Y and Z before we vote." This is not direct support but it keeps the pressure on Syria lighter and thus gives them time to crush the protesters.
If they do quell the protesters the violence stops at which point the Russians and Chinese will say "Hey, the violence stopped what's the problem they solved it internally."
It is disgusting...but that is who these people are...they have no shame or morals.
Aug '10
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So I guess I can just throw out that idea of making a board game based on the wanderings of the Rus people. Man.
Dec '10
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That Syria is as of now a monsterous rouge murdering nation, killing it's own people at will is of no importance. Genocide is an unimportant detail. "Interference in the internal affairs of another country", even one that is an absolute dictatorship with a meaningless rubber stamp constitution, is the greater sin in the mind of Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem.
What a guy. What a sense of morality. What a useless parasitic vicious lying animal from Hell !!! Did I leave anything out?