Bolton Warns Russian Missile Sale To Syria Would Be “Significant Escalation”

• Liar Bolton is war mongering again. How is the delivery of the S-300 be a significant escalation? ISIS, Al Qaeda … do not have an airforce. The S-300 is an entirely air defense system. Unless, of course, Bolton is implying that it is a threat to America and its allies’ air force ie. the real ISIS, Al Qaeda air force.
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• Bolton Warns Russian Missile Sale To Syria Would Be “Significant Escalation”
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  Update: U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Monday that the Russian plans to supply Syria with a S-300 missile system would be a “significant escalation” by Moscow and hopes it will reconsider. His statement follows the Russian announcement from early Monday that Russia will supply the surface-to-air missile system to Syria in two weeks, one week after Moscow blamed Israel for indirectly causing the downing of a Russian military plane in Syria, despite strong Israeli objections.
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  It appears Israel has paid a huge price for last week’s attack on Syria which led to the accidental “friendly” fire downing of a Russian reconnaissance plane with 15 personnel on board as the door could now be forever shut on striking targets in Syria with impunity. The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has announced plans to deliver its advanced S-300 air defense system to Damascus within two weeks.
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  Prior plans to deliver the system, which is considered vastly more effective and can strike at a greater range than Syria’s current S-200 and others, were nixed after Israeli threats that delivery would constitute a “red line” for which Israel must act.
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  The Russian MoD acknowledged this and said the situation has “changed” upon announcing its intent to follow through on what Syria has already purchased: “In 2013 on a request from the Israeli side we suspended the delivery to Syria of the S-300 system, which was ready to be sent with its Syrian crews trained to use it,” the MoD statement said.
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