Israel Matzav

Change: Russia and China to hold war games with Iran and Syria, Egypt to play along

This will make you really glad that President Obama pushed that reset button with Russia and made relations so nice and warm and cozy. Iran's FARS News is reporting that Russia and China are going to join Iran and Syria to hold the biggest war games ever held in the Middle East. The Iranian, Russian, Chinese and Syrian armies are due to stage joint amphibious exercises along the Syrian costs in coming weeks, informed sources revealed on Monday. And as a bonus, Egypt is playing along too.

According to informed sources, 90,000 forces from the four countries will take part in the land and sea wargames due to be held in Syria.

Ground, air and sea forces as well as air defense and missile units of the four countries will take part in the exercises.

Sources also said that Egypt has acceded to grant passage to 12 Chinese warships to sail through the Suez Canal, adding that the military convoy is due to dock at the Syrian harbors in the next two weeks.

Russian atomic submarines and warships, aircraft carriers and mine-clearing destroyers as well as Iranian battleships and submarines will also arrive in Syria at around the same date.

Syria plans to test its coast-to-sea and air defense missiles in the wargames.

A sum of 400 warplanes and 1,000 tanks will also be used in the exercises.

I'm just so, so happy that the Hussein Obama administration has brought us all this hope and change. He got rid of Mubarak, he reset relations with Russia, he's incurred trillions of dollars in debt to China, and he stood by and watched a pro-democracy movement be crushed in Iran and allowed another pro-democracy movement to be taken over by Islamic jihadis in Syria. What a set of accomplishments! Imagine what a second term of Obama will bring us (God forbid)!

What could go wrong?

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, China, Egypt, Iran, Russia, Syria, war games

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:48 PM