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Putin warns Israel against selling arms to Ukraine

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Putin warns Israel against selling arms to Ukraine

04.19.2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Israel against supplying weapons to the Ukrainian government, which is battling a Russian- backed insurgency in its eastern province.
Well now. Vlad has had no qualms about supplying lethal arms to the pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine which has resulted in well over 6,000 dead and over 1,000,000 displaced.

Considering also that Putin is beginning to supply Israel arch-foe Iran with high-tech weapons systems ... the pinnacle of audacity and hypocrisy.
 
Simpleχity;1064543284 said:
Putin warns Israel against selling arms to Ukraine


Well now. Vlad has had no qualms about supplying lethal arms to the pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine which has resulted in well over 6,000 dead and over 1,000,000 displaced.

Considering also that Putin is beginning to supply Israel arch-foe Iran with high-tech weapons systems ... the pinnacle of audacity and hypocrisy.

Yes, I know you love to say that. But there's not complete comparison there. And show me a country in the fray where there isn't hypocrisy in policy.
 
Yes, I know you love to say that. But there's not complete comparison there. And show me a country in the fray where there isn't hypocrisy in policy.

I suspect that Israel's calculation is rather simple. The S-300 transaction has raised Israel's security costs by making it more difficult for Israel to operate air operations against Iran, if necessary. By considering supplying Kiev with some weapons--not assured right now--Israel is at least signalling to Moscow that it could raise Russia's costs with respect to perceived Russian interests, even if it never goes ahead and supplies Kiev. The overall idea is to discourage Russia from engaging in future transactions that pose a threat to Israel's security interests.
 
I suspect that Israel's calculation is rather simple. The S-300 transaction has raised Israel's security costs by making it more difficult for Israel to operate air operations against Iran, if necessary. By considering supplying Kiev with some weapons--not assured right now--Israel is at least signalling to Moscow that it could raise Russia's costs with respect to perceived Russian interests, even if it never goes ahead and supplies Kiev. The overall idea is to discourage Russia from engaging in future transactions that pose a threat to Israel's security interests.

That's too bad that Iranian defense is seen as a complication for Israel. It seems to me that folk are complaining about Russian opposition to NATO defense systems.
 
That's too bad that Iranian defense is seen as a complication for Israel. It seems to me that folk are complaining about Russian opposition to NATO defense systems.
Yup, we can't let the big bad terrorists (Iran isn't one) defend themselves, we need to keep them in fear.

See how well that worked for Cuba.
 
That's too bad that Iranian defense is seen as a complication for Israel. It seems to me that folk are complaining about Russian opposition to NATO defense systems.
And too bad that isn't the topic. Care to address the OP? It would be nice if there would be a couple coherent replies before it is diverted into an anti America/Israel bash fest.
 
And too bad that isn't the topic. Care to address the OP? It would be nice if there would be a couple coherent replies before it is diverted into an anti America/Israel bash fest.

Hypocrisy is always the topic, deal with it.
 
Hypocrisy is always the topic, deal with it.

You mean the hypocrisy of you focusing on supposed Israeli and American aggression and ignoring Russian aggression. Yeah that does happen a lot.
 
You mean the hypocrisy of you focusing on supposed Israeli and American aggression and ignoring Russian aggression. Yeah that does happen a lot.

No, the hypocrisy pointed out in my post that you didn't like.
 
Simpleχity;1064543284 said:
Putin warns Israel against selling arms to Ukraine


Well now. Vlad has had no qualms about supplying lethal arms to the pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine which has resulted in well over 6,000 dead and over 1,000,000 displaced.

Considering also that Putin is beginning to supply Israel arch-foe Iran with high-tech weapons systems ... the pinnacle of audacity and hypocrisy.

He is not so much a hypocrite as a thug.
 
And too bad that isn't the topic. Care to address the OP? It would be nice if there would be a couple coherent replies before it is diverted into an anti America/Israel bash fest.

Wasn't it started as a 'bash Russia fest'? How dare those Russians say anything bad to those poor Israelis?
 
The ex-Republican conservative darling, Putin, is threatening the current conservative darling, Bibi.

Time to sit back, pour and drink and enjoy the show.

:cheers:
 
Wasn't it started as a 'bash Russia fest'? How dare those Russians say anything bad to those poor Israelis?
I didn't get that out of it, but if you want to defend Russian aggression in Ukraine go ahead.
 
The ex-Republican conservative darling, Putin, is threatening the current conservative darling, Bibi.

Time to sit back, pour and drink and enjoy the show.

:cheers:
Since Putin was never a darling of the right, clearly you poured those drinks long before you started posting.
 
I didn't get that out of it, but if you want to defend Russian aggression in Ukraine go ahead.

We send troops and equipment from the other side of the globe, and you would call it diplomacy I suppose.

The Russians send troops and equipment across a river and you call it aggression. Got it! :lol:
 
We send troops and equipment from the other side of the globe, and you would call it diplomacy I suppose.

The Russians send troops and equipment across a river and you call it aggression. Got it! :lol:
Are you saying the Russian invasion of Ukraine isn't aggression?
 
Are you saying the Russian invasion of Ukraine isn't aggression?

So far, there is no Russian invasion of Ukraine, despite the provocative actions of the US and NATO.

There may come a time that Russia DOES invade Ukraine, to defend against what it perceives as belligerence by outsiders. Only time will tell.
 
The Russians send troops and equipment across a river and you call it aggression.
No different than if US troops and equipment crossed the Rio Grande and began shelling Mexico.
 
So far, there is no Russian invasion of Ukraine, despite the provocative actions of the US and NATO.

There may come a time that Russia DOES invade Ukraine, to defend against what it perceives as belligerence by outsiders. Only time will tell.

Ok. You aren't a serious poster.
 
Wasn't it started as a 'bash Russia fest'? How dare those Russians say anything bad to those poor Israelis?

He can say pretty much anything he likes. That is part of the dictators' job discription.
 
That's too bad that Iranian defense is seen as a complication for Israel. It seems to me that folk are complaining about Russian opposition to NATO defense systems.

Only that you're drawing a comparison here between committing a preemptive strike against the no.1 sponsor of terrorism on the planet that directly manages proxy terror organizations that carry massacres throughout the planet and aspires to gain nuclear weapons while calling for the destruction of other nations, and between committing an act of aggression against what... ****ing Denmark?

Right.

Yup, we can't let the big bad terrorists (Iran isn't one) defend themselves, we need to keep them in fear.

Defend themselves how, by massacring innocents around the globe in the name of Shia Islam through proxy organizations?
Perhaps by threatening to annihilate other nations?
And how exactly is the murder of innocents in the name of a sect of Islam and its geopolitical goals not terrorism, do elaborate on that since you claim that the Iranian government are not engaging in terrorism.

Wasn't it started as a 'bash Russia fest'? How dare those Russians say anything bad to those poor Israelis?

If you fail to recognize the irony in Putin asking Israel not to arm Ukraine when he arms Syria, Iran, and pretty much every single individual with an ill intention out there, then that's entirely your problem.
 
Defend themselves how, by massacring innocents around the globe in the name of Shia Islam through proxy organizations?
Perhaps by threatening to annihilate other nations?
And how exactly is the murder of innocents in the name of a sect of Islam and its geopolitical goals not terrorism, do elaborate on that since you claim that the Iranian government are not engaging in terrorism.

Other than the propaganda that you apparently believe, perhaps you should look closer at Saudi Arabia before condemning Iran. You know, the people who actually do sponsor terrorism by Islamic Radicals.
 
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