Kim Sengupta, The Independent: How Saudi Arabia sending ground forces into Syria will have huge ramifications on the civil war
While the soldiers are intended to fight Isis, they may find themselves clashing with Iranian ‘volunteers’ and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in what is a highly combustible situation
The sending of ground forces by Saudi Arabia into Syria will have immense ramifications for the country’s civil war and the wider region. The question, however, is whether it will actually take place.
The Saudi announcement comes at a time when prospects for peace have faded with the collapse of the Geneva talks and the conflict has intensified with regime forces attempting to encircle Aleppo backed by heavy Russian air strikes.
The already sour relationship between Russia and Turkey, backers respectively of the Syrian regime and rebels, has also worsened. Ankara accuses Moscow of being complicit in trying to impose a “starvation siege” on Aleppo while the Russians claim the Turks are planning to invade Syria.
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Update: Here’s What Would Happen if Saudi Arabia Deployed Troops to Syria (Paul D. Shinkman, US News and World Report)
WNU Editor: Saudi Arabia has made it very clear that they are prepared to intervene in Syria using ground troops .... Saudi Arabia Ready to Send Troops to Syria to Fight ISIS (NBC). Bahrain has also made it clear that they will join Saudi Arabia in sending ground forces into Syria .... Bahrain says ready to commit ground forces to Syria (Reuters). The US reaction to this offer of intervention has been supportive .... Defense secretary welcomes Saudi offer of ground troops in Syria (The Hill). And while Syria and Iran have voiced opposition to such a Saudi deployment .... it is the Russia reaction that concerns me .... some deputies are saying that this will mean war .... Saudi military intervention in Syria amounts to war: Russian deputy (Press TV).
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WNU Editor,
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain wonn't be sending ground forces to Syria.
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKKCN0R40V120150904?irpc=932
http://atimes.com/2015/10/saudis-desperate-as-they-are-not-winning-the-war-in-yemen/
If the lightly armed and unsupported Ansruallah tribal fighters can curb stomp the "Parade Ground" Saudi and GCC forces,
And they can't even hold Aden against their supposed "Army of Conquest" al Quida "allies",
The hardened and battle tested soldiers of the SAA, the SPDF, Hezboallah and the PPDF, will go through them like a hot knife through butter.
As MoA, Sic Semper Tyrannis and others have noted, the US/Turkey/Saudi/GCC is going to use "threats" and "humanitarian" claims, to win at the so called "Peace Talks", what they have/had lost on the ground in Syria, to try to preserve their pet jihadi project.
The US is going to have their "bluff" called, and will either have to curb their "dogs", or let them off the leash.
I doubt that the US is willing to start a world war over Syria.
It's baloney. The main point to understand is that the ISIS fighters are derived from the Anbar Awakening, when Petraeus was in Iraq and the US was paying Sunni tribes in western Iraq to attack al Qaeda. Those tribes plus former members of the Iraq army which the US dismissed after it conquered Iraq in 2003 form the ISIS fighters.
Saudi Arabia is entirely on board with this US policy, which in fact resulted in Sunni Saudi-allied ISIS occupying a swath in western Iraq and eastern Syria, So the idea of Saudi Arabia fighting ISIS is as phony as the US war on ISIS.
Saudi Arabia is ready to send troops? And I'm ready to buy a Lamborghini. Any day now.
I'm sure that Russia is capable of dealing with Turkey, and Russian pilots especially are itching for a change of revenge.
i.e. chance
When watching and reading about Turkey, I ask myself "has Turkish leadership gone stark raving mad?" I think the answer is a resounding "yes." I think the same goes for all of NATO and the United States.
WNU Editor,
Ergodan's desperate enough,
but is the Turkish Military?
Probably not with out US backing.
Is the US desperate enough?
Probably not until after the Presidential Elections, and given the R+6 progress since Sept 30, 2015, ( 4 months), I doubt there will be many Jihadi's left in Syria.0
House of Saud can field players on either team, and have all along. Stepping into Syria as a nation state on the Coalition side would be a bad move, better keep it on the down and low with their Daesh crew. The world is a ghetto.
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