Russia Preps For End-Times Role As

Magog, Will Not Tolerate Further

Attacks On Damascus By Israel

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(Reprinted by Peter Braveheart)

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, while in Shanghai,

was given a sharp dressing-down by Russian President

Vladimir Putin, a warning that Russia would not tolerate

further Israeli attacks on Damascus and would respond.

Putin did not say how, but he did announce he had ordered

the acceleration of highly advanced Russian weapons

supplies to Syria. Israeli Debkafile's military sources disclosed

that the Russian leader was referring to S-300 anti-air

systems and the nuclear-capable 9K720 Iskander (NATO

named SS-26 Stone) surface missiles, which are precise

enough to hit a target within a 5-7 meter radius at a distance

of 280 kilometers. In his phone call to Netanyahu, the Russian

leader advised the prime minister to make sure to keep this in

mind. Since Syrian air defense teams have already trained in

Russia on the...

Russia Not to Tolerate Further Israeli Attacks on

Damascus

TEHRAN (FNA)- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,

while in Shanghai, was given a sharp dressing-down by Russian

President Vladimir Putin, a warning that Russia would not

tolerate further Israeli attacks on Damascus and would respond.

Putin did not say how, but he did announce he had ordered the

acceleration of highly advanced Russian weapons supplies to

Syria.

Israeli Debkafile's military sources disclosed that the Russian leader

was referring to S-300 anti-air systems and the nuclear-capable

9K720 Iskander (NATO named SS-26 Stone) surface missiles,

which are precise enough to hit a target within a 5-7 meter radius at

a distance of 280 kilometers.

In his phone call to Netanyahu, the Russian leader advised the prime

minister to make sure to keep this in mind.

Since Syrian air defense teams have already trained in Russia on the

handling of the S-300 interceptor batteries, they can go into service

as soon as they are landed by one of Russia's daily airlifts to Syria.

Russian air defense officials will supervise their deployment and

prepare them for operation.

Russia Not to Tolerate Further Israeli Attacks on

Damascus

TEHRAN (FNA)- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,

while in Shanghai, was given a sharp dressing-down by Russian

President Vladimir Putin, a warning that Russia would not

tolerate further Israeli attacks on Damascus and would respond.

Putin did not say how, but he did announce he had ordered the

acceleration of highly advanced Russian weapons supplies to

Syria.

Israeli Debkafile's military sources disclosed that the Russian leader

was referring to S-300 anti-air systems and the nuclear-capable

9K720 Iskander (NATO named SS-26 Stone) surface missiles,

which are precise enough to hit a target within a 5-7 meter radius at

a distance of 280 kilometers.

In his phone call to Netanyahu, the Russian leader advised the prime

minister to make sure to keep this in mind.

Since Syrian air defense teams have already trained in Russia on the

handling of the S-300 interceptor batteries, they can go into service

as soon as they are landed by one of Russia's daily airlifts to Syria.

Russian air defense officials will supervise their deployment and

prepare them for operation.

Moscow is retaliating not just for Israel's air operations against

Syria but in anticipation of the Obama administration's

impending decision to send the first US arms shipments to the

Syrian rebels.

Intelligence agencies in Moscow and the Middle-East take it for

granted that by the time Washington goes public on this decision,

some of the Syrian rebel factions will already be armed with

American weapons.

That the measure was in the works was signified by the introduction

Monday by chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations

Committee Bob Menendez of legislation allowing the US to provide

arms and military training to the Syrian rebels.

US military instructors have been working with Syrian rebels at

training camps in Jordan and Turkey for some months. So putting

the arms in their hands only awaited a decision in Washington, the

Israeli website alleged.

Putin's message to Netanyahu was intended to reach a wider

audience than Jerusalem, such as Barack Obama in Washington

and President Xi Jinping in Beijing ahead of Netanyahu's talks there

Tuesday.

Russia showcases military pomp for

Victory Day

Fighter jets screamed over Red Square and heavy tanks

rumbled over its cobblestones on Thursday as Russia flexed its

military muscle on the anniversary of its victory over Nazi

Germany in

the Seconf World war.

The first decision to hold Victory Day parades was taken by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin himself after the country lost an estimated 27 million people defending its territory and the Eastern Front.

The tradition has been given extra fanfare by President Vladimir

Putin – an ardent nationalist whose patriotic fervour has helped him

win strong backing from the middle class.

The Victory Day parades have expanded during Putin's 13 years in

power to include heavy intercontinental missiles and Tu-95 bombers

that can easily reach the shores of the United States.

Mr Putin, Mr Medvedev and Mr Shoigu smiling as they watch the Victory Parade (Reuters)

The tradition has been accompanied by a return of pro-Soviet

rhetoric and a defence of Moscow's decisive role in the war that

Putin alluded to on Thursday.

"We will always remember that it was specifically Russia, the

Soviet Union, that undermined the abhorrent, bloody, supercilious

plans of the Nazis and kept them from controlling the world," Putin

said at the nationally televised ceremony.

"Our soldiers saved freedom and independence by defending their

motherland without sparing themselves, liberating Europe and

claiming a victory whose grandeur will live on for centuries."

Russian military jets fly above the St Basil's cathedral (AFP)

The entire ceremony was also shown live on state television in war-

torn Syria – Russia's most important Middle East ally whose

regime relies on support from Moscow to avoid sanctions on

President Bashar al-Assad.

The 68th anniversary of what Russia still calls The Great Patriotic

War included 11,000 soldiers marching in lockstep to a military

band as huge banners reading "May 9" decorated the Kremlin's

walls.

About 2,000 veterans proudly wearing chests full of medals were

received by Putin for a special banquet reception in the Kremlin

after watching the procession from the stands.

Putin downed the customary 100 grams of vodka with the veterans

that soldiers received daily during the war. "You toppled a vicious

foe," Putin told the veterans. "You brought freedom to the people of

the entire world."

Vladimir Putin toasts with a WWII veteran (EPA)

The Russian leader – his macho image boosted by periodic televised

spins in fighter jets and new tanks – has unfurled a 23-trillion-ruble

(£480 billion) military spending plan over the coming decade that

will see the deployment of 400 new ballistic missiles and 600

warplanes.

"We must modernise our defence industry as comprehensively as it

was done in the 1930s," Putin said last year in reference to the worst

years of Stalin's deadly political purges.

The freedom not to condemn Stalin's atrocities under Putin has

given new strains to the cult of personality that dictated Soviet life.

A group of Communist supporters on Wednesday even unveiled a

bust of the wartime leader in the Far Eastern city of Yakutsk.

Putin's military plan has put pressure on other sectors of Putin's

budget and on outdated Soviet-era military factories that are unable

to cope with the sudden surge in demand for a new generation of

weaponry.

11,000 soldiers marched in lockstep to a military band (AFP)

Putin has expressed repeated frustration at the military churning out

products such as tanks and weapons systems that cost more than

their Western rivals while often failing in reliability tests.

The Kremlin chief said on Thursday that the extra military spending

was needed to secure Russia's role as a guarantor of peace across the

world.

"We will do all we can to strengthen security on the planet," he said.

Smaller Victory Day celebrations were held on the central squares

of cities across Russia as well as at Moscow's Black Sea port of

Sevastopol on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.

Edited for Telegraph.co.uk by Barney Henderson