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Pentagon: Increasing demand for US weapons from global armed conflicts


Press TV
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 09:36 UTC
Rixey
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Vice Adm. Joe Rixey, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency
The US Defense Department says there is a growing demand for US weapons due to the ongoing fight against the ISIL terrorist group as well as other armed conflicts across the world. "It's worldwide. The demand signal is coming in Europe, in the Pacific and in the Middle East," Vice Admiral Joe Rixey, who heads the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), told Reuters in an interview late on Monday.

US foreign arms sales jumped 36 percent to $46.6 billion in fiscal 2015 and look set to remain strong in coming years, Rixey said. "Projections are still strong," he said. The Pentagon official said the US government is working hard to keep up with surging arms sales, largely through process improvements and better training.

torpedos
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Couple o' these, couple o' those, a nice box...
US companies and some foreign countries have expressed growing frustration in recent months about delays in arms sales approvals. The demand for US weapons in the past 10 years has shifted from fighter jets to US missile systems, helicopters and munitions. Rixey said requests from countries that were "well-behaved" and protected US technology were generally processed quickly.

Rixey said his agency was coordinating more closely with the US State Department, the US Commerce Department and other Pentagon agencies and leaders to advocate for US arms sales as a key instrument of US foreign policy.


Comment: What? How does that work, exactly?


Comment: Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching...the sound of profits from killing, maiming, destabilizing societies. War is just another business, capiche? Create ISIL and sell arms to combat it...how can an exceptional country lose on such an exceptional deal?

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Rescued pilot of downed Russian Su-24 says 'Turkish jets gave us no warning before shooting'


RT
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:22 UTC
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© Dmitriy Vinogradov / Sputnik
Rescued pilot of the Russian Air Force's Su-24 jet, Captain Konstantin Murakhtin, center, answers journalists' questions at Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia.
The navigator of the Russian Su-24 shot down by a Turkish fighter jet on Tuesday insists that his plane did not cross into Turkey's airspace, and says he was given no visual or radio warning before being fired at.

"It's impossible that we violated their airspace even for a second," Konstantin Murakhtin told Russia's Rossiya 1 channel. "We were flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters in completely clear weather, and I had total control of our flight path throughout."
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Snakes in Suits

Sultan Erdogan's war on Russia

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:18 UTC
Erdogan
© AP Photo/ Lefteris Pitarakis
Sultan Erdogan
Let's cut to the chase. The notion that Turkey's downing of a Russian Su-24 by a made in USA F-16 was carried out without either a green light or at least pre-arranged "support" from Washington invites suspension of disbelief.

Turkey is a mere vassal state, the eastern arm of NATO, which is the European arm of the Pentagon. The Pentagon already issued a denial — which, considering their spectacular record of strategic failures cannot be taken at face value. Plausibly, this might have been a power play by the neocon generals who run the Pentagon, allied with the neocon-infested Obama administration.

The privileged scenario though is of a vassal Turkey led by Sultan Erdogan risking a suicide mission out of its own, current, desperation.

Comment: Also read this excellent article: NATO Orders Stool-Pigeon Turkey to Shoot Down Russian Jet

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Black Magic

Terror state Turkey's blatant hypocrisy and treachery

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:10 UTC
Immediately after the shoot-down of a Russian bomber jet near the Turkish-Syrian border, Ankara and Moscow told two different stories. Turkey claimed:
  • it warned the Russian jets 10 times in 5 minutes (presumable before airspace violation) to change their course
  • the Russian jets violated Turkish airspace for 17 seconds ("to a depth of 1.36 miles and 1.15 miles in length)
  • the downed jet was fired upon by Turkish F-16s "while in Turkish airspace"
In contrast, Russia claimed:
  • no warnings were received
  • the jets did not violate Turkish airspace; the downed jet was shot down 4 km from Turkish border
  • a Turkish jet entered Syrian airspace to target Russian jet
Both sides have released maps showing the alleged violation (or not). Here they are roughly overlaid, showing that the alleged flightpaths do not correspond. The Turkish one clearly shows the Russian jet crossing over Turkish territory (dotted pink) 1-2 km from the southern border; the Russian one shows it avoiding the border (solid red) by around 1 km.
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Ice Cube

Gazprom ceases gas supplies to Ukraine for lack of new payments


ITAR-TASS
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:08 UTC
Gazprom
© Yegor Aleyev/TASS
Gazprom ceases gas supplies to Naftogaz of Ukraine until new payments; Ukraine refusing to buy Russian gas creates risks for gas transit to Europe and gas supplies for the Ukrainian consumers, Gazprom Head Alexey Miller said Wednesday.

"Today, as of 10:00 AM Naftogaz of Ukraine has chosen previously prepaid volumes of Russian gas. There was no additional pre-payment. No applications for gas supply from Naftogaz of Ukraine either. Thus, the deliveries stop until we receive new payment from the Ukrainian company. At the same time even now, before seriously cold weather, Ukraine started active selection of gas from underground storage facilities, which are insufficiently filled as it is. Refusing to buy Russian gas creates risks for gas transit to Europe and gas supplies for the Ukrainian consumers before this coming winter," he said.

Comment: Looks like it will be cold winter for Ukraine and Europe.

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Attention

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk instructs Naftogaz to halt purchases of Russian gas


Sputnik
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:11 UTC
Gas compressor station
© Sputnik/ Stringer
The Ukrainian government has instructed the country's Naftogaz to halt all further purchases of Russian gas, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Wednesday.

"The government has made the decision to instruct Naftogaz to halt the purchase of Russian gas, and so there is no confusion, it isn't them who is not delivering gas, it's us who is not buying gas. This was done, first of all, because the offers coming from our European partners, the pricing offers, are much lower than from our eastern neighbor," Yatsenyuk said during a cabinet meeting.

Comment: Can Europe really afford to sell gas to Ukraine? Without Russian gas supplies, looks like it will be a cold winter in Ukraine.

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People

Russian Ambassador Orloff: Russia willing to create anti-Daesh 'joint staff' with US, France


Press TV
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:20 UTC
Orlov
© sputniknews.com
Ambassador to France, Alexander Orlov
The Russian ambassador to France says Moscow is prepared to "create a joint staff" with Paris, Washington, and even Ankara to fight Daesh terrorists operating in Syria.

Alexander Orlov made the remarks during an interview with Europe 1 radio, on Wednesday.
"We are prepared to... plan strikes on Daesh positions together and create a joint staff with France, the US, with all the countries who want to be in this coalition," the Russian diplomat said, adding, "If the Turks want to be in [the joint staff] as well, they are welcome."
Orlov's comments came as tensions between Moscow and Ankara continue to rise a day after Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24M Fencer jet along its border with Syria, accusing it of violating Turkish airspace.

Reports indicate that one of the two pilots was killed by ground fire after ejecting from the plane, while the Syrian army has claimed to have rescued the second pilot.

Earlier in the day, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country did not seek to escalate tensions with Russia. However, Erdogan defended the move by his country, adding that Ankara was only trying to defend its borders.

Russia has denied all of Ankara's claims, saying that the jet was shot down in Syrian airspace, where Moscow has been carrying out operations against Daesh Takfiri terrorists since September 30 upon a request by the Damascus government.

Daesh militants have been carrying out atrocities against hundreds of thousands of people in Syria and neighboring Iraq over the past few years.

Comment: Russia is exemplary in patience for and offers to the West to come together as a united force to eliminate terrorist activities. The voice of reason and commitment has the higher purpose. The voice of division is stuck in its hubris and self-interests. The state of the world is in the balance.

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Red Flag

Turkish intelligence chief: Must 'thwart Vladimir Putin's plans to crush Syrian Islamist revolutionaries'


AWD News
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:36 UTC
Hakan Fidan

Hakan Fidan
Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, known by the MİT acronym, has drawn a lot of attention and criticism for his controversial comments about ISIS.

Mr. Hakan Fidan, the Turkish President's staunchest ally, condemned Russian military intervention in Syria, accusing Moscow of trying to 'smother' Syria's Islamist revolution and serious breach of United Nations law.

"ISIS is a reality and we have to accept that we cannot eradicate a well-organized and popular establishment such as the Islamic State; therefore I urge my western colleagues to revise their mindset about Islamic political currents, put aside their cynical mentalité and thwart Vladimir Putin's plans to crush Syrian Islamist revolutionaries," Anadolu News Agency quoted Mr. Fidan as saying on Sunday.

Comment: And from Fort Russ:
Wiki: In 2014, voice recordings, where Hakan Fidan, foreign minister Davutoğlu, Deputy Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Yasar Güler, and other military personnel discusses a potential false flag incursion into Syria, was leaked to YouTube and shared across Twitter. The event resulted in the Turkish government blocking access to Twitter, then YouTube, and finally the DNS servers of Google DNS and OpenDNS.[10] In the voice recording, he is heard saying, to a military personnel, "... [i]f legitimacy [of a possible incursion into Syria] is an issue, I can simply send a few men there [across the Syria-Turkey border] and have them launch missiles over to us. Legitimacy is not a problem. Legitimacy can be manufactured." Seymour Hersh later linked what was said in this leaked meeting with CIA-Erdoğan dealings on Syria


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Lavrov: Russian plane downing was a planned provocation


Press TV
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:38 UTC
Lavrov
© www.iran-daily.com
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane bombing terrorist groups in Syria was a "planned provocation", saying terrorist groups are openly using Turkish territory.

"We have serious doubts that this act was unintentional. It looks very much like a pre-planned provocation," Lavrov told a press conference on Wednesday.

He said it is "no secret" that terrorist groups are using Turkish territory in their operations against the Syrian government.

He also said Russia had no plan to go to war with Turkey, adding, "We do not plan to go to war with Turkey, our attitude toward the Turkish people has not changed."

Comment: See also: NATO Orders Stool-Pigeon Turkey to Shoot Down Russian Jet

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Radar

NATO Orders Stool-Pigeon Turkey to Shoot Down Russian Jet

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:38 UTC
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Want to know why the Russian Su-24 was shot down yesterday? Read on.

Turkish, Saudi, French, British and US-backed terrorists have been operating in Syria for the past 4 years in an effort to overthrow the Syrian government. This cabal wants to remove Assad in order to a) pave the way for Qatari gas to supplant Russian gas to Europe, b) possibly open up a front for a jihadi invasion to destabilize and pressure Iran and Russia, and c) secure Turkish territorial integrity and its long-term role as a buffer zone for Western powers to play in the Middle East sandbox with impunity.
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