The announcement comes as Japan, which had long adopted a stance of not allowing exports of deadly weapons, seeks to boost its defence industry amid an increasingly tense security environment in the Indo-Pacific.
fox that they are watching these matters closely and there has been no delivery s 300 is an advance air to surface missile mobile and difficult to protect and defend against. it would make it more difficult western allies to set up a no-fly zone. israel has threatened to take military action if those russian missile shipments were made. chairman of the joint chiefs general martin dempsey explained earlier this month why the u.s. would consider delivery of the russian s-300 a game chamber. changer. what i really worry about since assad decides he has got these systems he is somehow safer or more prone to a miscalculation. so, you know, again, an unfortunate decision. meanwhile, syria is deeply divided opposition is calling for help from the town of where battling
for that reason, the israeli defense minister said today, quote, if, god forbid, they do reach syria, well will know what to do. and of course, israel has already shown its willingness to carry out air strikes inside syria against missile shipments they say were directly headed to hezbollah militants. there is a certain irony here that the russians are being highly critical of the european nations spraying weapons to the syrian opposition. the russians are saying we will continue to fulfill our contract to arm the syrian government of assad, while criticizing a move by the european union to now allow european nations that want to, to send weapons directly to the rebels. state department officials were asked about this today at their daily news briefing. they didn t want to be withdrawn