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Russia’s defense ministry has announced it is now in the process of\u00a0establishing two permanent military bases in war-torn Syria after President Putin authorized prior deals with the Syrian government to move forward.<\/strong>\u00a0Though Russia maintains merely\u00a0up to ten military bases on foreign soil<\/a>, the installations in Tartus and Khmeimim will be the most strategically located, allowing for a growing and permanent Russian presence on the\u00a0Mediterranean, something which has already\u00a0raised eyebrows in the Wes<\/a>t.<\/p>\n

Though Putin formally\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0the planned withdrawal of Russian forces from active operations in Syria in early December, there were parallel plans going back to at least early summer to maintain a smaller permanent presence based on\u00a0an agreement with the Damascus government to host Russian forces for at least 49 more years<\/strong>, which includes the option of being prolonged further. Personnel and military hardware will be stationed at permanent Russian bases in Tartus and Khmeimim – both of which are on or near the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

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Satellite image of Russia’s facility at\u00a0Tartus Navy docks. Left: (Source: WikiMapia); Right: (Source: GoogleMaps)<\/em><\/p>\n

According to Russian media reports, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu\u00a0stated<\/a>\u00a0at a ministry meeting on Tuesday,\u00a0\u201cWe have started the process of formation of our permanent forces [in Syria].”<\/strong>\u00a0Though Tartus has operated as a Russian naval port since 1971 (referred to as a\u00a0Material-Technical Support Point and not a “base”) and was until recently minimally staffed mostly by civilian contractors, it will reportedly undergo a massive transformation and expansion, which is\u00a0to include the capability of hosting nuclear-powered ships.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Russia Establishes Two Permanent Bases In Syria To Host Nuclear Warships And Warplanes Russia’s defense ministry has announced it is now in the process of\u00a0establishing two permanent military bases in war-torn Syria after President Putin authorized prior deals with the Syrian government to move forward.\u00a0Though Russia maintains merely\u00a0up to ten military bases on foreign soil, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17684,694,776,4318],"class_list":["post-29193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-military-base","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29194,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29193\/revisions\/29194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}