Russia Dispatches Sub, Cruiser; UK Sends 6 Jets To Cyprus; China Repeats “Dire Consequences” Warning!

• Russia Dispatches Sub, Cruiser; UK Sends 6 Jets To Cyprus; China Repeats “Dire Consequences” Warning! 
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
  Some took a prior report the that the “developed” nations would use Cyprus as a warplane strike base just as a leaked memo predicted in 2011, skeptically. Today we finally got official confirmation from that Britain that it is sending six RAF Typhoon jets to Cyprus “as a defensive measure amid growing tensions over Syria and talks of Western military intervention.” It’s defensive in case Syria launches an airborne assault of the UK we take it?
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  A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said the air-to-air interceptor jets would be deployed to the British Akrotiri base in Cyprus on Thursday.
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  “This is purely a prudent and precautionary measure to ensure the protection of UK interests and the defence of our Sovereign Base Areas at a time of heightened tension in the wider region,” the spokesman said.
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  “This is a movement of defensive assets operating in an air-to-air role only. They are not deploying to take part in any military action against Syria.”
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  And just as expected, with the US already piling up naval assets in both the Mediterranean and the Arabian Sea, Russia is responding in kind, and has dispatched a submarine and a cruiser to the Mediterranean. CBS reports: 
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  Russian news service Interfax is citing military sources as saying Moscow is dispatching an anti-submarine ship and a cruiser to the Mediterranean. Interfax says the moves are being made due to the “well-known situation” there — referring to the Syria crisis. But a Russian government news service, Rianovosti, says the reassignments are part of a planned rotation and aren’t linked with the situation in Syria.
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