According to Russian military officials the warship left its Black Sea base of Sevastopol for the Mediterranean during the weekend and will soon arrive at Syria’s second largest port of Tartus.
Navy officials said that the ship would receive fresh supplies of food and water before carrying out planned exercises maneuvers near the Syrian coast.
“This will be a purely technical port call that is conducted by almost all Russian navy ships conducting exercises in the Mediterranean,” Interfax news agency quoted a senior source in the Russian navy as saying.
The team on board the destroyer will not be leaving the ship while it is docked, the source added.
The Port of Tartus that lies on Syria’s western shores is the only base used by Russia in the Mediterranean Sea.
Here’s how it could play out from here:
Israel bombs Syria. Syria invokes its mutual aid pact with Iran in order to deal with Israel. Iran must cross Iraq to help Syria, which puts Iran at war with America, regardless of what America does or does not do at Israel’s behest. America uses its mini-nuclear “bunker buster” bombs on Iran, in response, because America quite literally has no other option available. Israel helps out with air support.
Iran and Syria launch Silkworm or Russian Sunburn missiles (which cannot be defended against) against American naval forces in the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, respectively, thereby neutralizing America’s navy and cutting off resupply of ground troops in Iraq. Or, perhaps, with the nuclear shackles off, a handful of nuclear air bursts take out all of America’s carrier groups. Regardless, kiss the American Atlantic fleet goodbye. Resupply becomes impossible and it is a long walk from Baghdad to Kuwait, so America’s Middle Eastern ground forces, too, are removed from the equation and likely annihilated.
They are there to help prevent a surprise attack on Syria.