November 19, 2017
US Two-faced Syria Game Continues: Russia Losing Patience
From the tone of their latest statements, it is now patently obvious that
Russia's patience with the US's obstructionist presence in Syria is wearing thin,
insisting that their "flirtation" with the terrorists is the "main obstacle" to eradicate ISIS!
insisting that their "flirtation" with the terrorists is the "main obstacle" to eradicate ISIS!
Sowing the seeds of confusion seems to be a mainstay of US Middle-East policy.
On the one hand waging a pretend war against ISIS, whilst on the other providing support
in the form of logistics & weaponry, to frustrate & delay legitimate efforts at their eradication.
Though studiously unreported by the Western media, the BBC has now broken ranks,
revealing in a bombshell report that US & UK colluded to allow ISIS fighters to escape Raqqa.
More than 3,500 fighters were allowed free passage to Abu Kamal, US jets deploying flares to aid
their night-time progress, so as to thwart the Syrian army's efforts to recapture the key border town.
Included among them was a group headed toward France to carry out attacks in "a day of reckoning"!
According to neighboring Turkey, the US now has as many as 13 military bases in Syria.
Reports also indicate the presence of 4,000 or more troops, despite an official claim of only 500.
All this, despite the fact that the US very presence in Syria is illegal according to international law.
From here it does not require much imagination to see that the conflict could all too easily erupt
into a conflagration between 2 major powers - only one of which has a legal basis for its presence.
Against this backdrop, recent declarations by a top military official about open-ended plans to stay
to supposedly fight ISIS appear ominous- proving again the power of the military-industrial complex!
Rather than continuing to hinder the legitimate efforts to terminate ISIS presence in Syria,
the US coalition would do well to see the writing on the wall, simply pack up its bags and leave.
But if, as many suspect, the real purpose for being there is not 'as advertised', then watch out world!
Reports also indicate the presence of 4,000 or more troops, despite an official claim of only 500.
All this, despite the fact that the US very presence in Syria is illegal according to international law.
From here it does not require much imagination to see that the conflict could all too easily erupt
into a conflagration between 2 major powers - only one of which has a legal basis for its presence.
Against this backdrop, recent declarations by a top military official about open-ended plans to stay
to supposedly fight ISIS appear ominous- proving again the power of the military-industrial complex!
Rather than continuing to hinder the legitimate efforts to terminate ISIS presence in Syria,
the US coalition would do well to see the writing on the wall, simply pack up its bags and leave.
But if, as many suspect, the real purpose for being there is not 'as advertised', then watch out world!
Finally! - The BBC Outs U.S./ISIS Complicity in Syria
Even Western media can't keep a lid on U.S. assistance to ISIS
I
know this will come as a shock to my regular readers, but the U.S. has
been working with ISIS the entire time. Previously the Russian Ministry of Defense released unequivocal evidence of our allowing ISIS to move through areas controlled by U.S/Kurdish SDF forces to avoid Syrian Arab Army confrontation.
Now, no less a news source than the BBC,
itself a major member of the U.S. Department of Disinformation, is now
openly reporting this and outing Secretary of Defense James Mattis’
lies about why we are still in Syria. Of course, the BBC is
whitewashing all of this and portrays it as some triumph of
humanitarianism.
But,
it isn’t. Allowing ISIS to roam freely was always the plan in Syria so
that it could overthrow the Assad government. Now that that operation
has failed, Plan D is to remain in country to keep a toe-hold in the
region.
Without
them as the bogeyman how can the McCain-wing of the U.S. Deep State
and the Pentagon continue to justify our presence there? And the
reason why we are there is to keep Iran and Russia from running the
table.
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But, newsflash, they already have. So, leaving our troops there is, at this point, sour grapes with no upside for anyone.
Remember,
we are there illegally. Our original allies in this operation,
Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are all operating there illegally as
well.
Turkey,
led by Racep Tayyip Erdogan, is still trying to act like it’s playing
both sides against each other, but they are in Syria without an
official invite from President Bashar al-Assad to both clean up its
former proxies in Idlib and keep the Afrin Kurds from taking advantage
of the power vacuum.
And
that’s the way Iran, Iraq and Turkey want it. The Kurds will be put
back into their bottle and the U.S. will eventually have to leave.
But, for now, we’re continuing to try to have it our way by trying to
get Assad to step down in Damascus.
And that is not going to happen.
Geneva Two-Step
So,
despite the propaganda which terms our involvement as saving Syrians
from the evil Assad, quite the opposite is the truth. We are there to
continue sowing chaos and prevent peace from breaking out.
Russia
is adding to the pressure by putting the diplomatic screws to the
Pentagon and its mendacity concerning the end of the Syrian ‘Civil
War,’ a war began by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and
continued as policy now a year into the Trump administration.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has taken the diplomatic gloves off calling
ISIS and other separatist forces “wards of the United States.” And
they are the ones in the most danger. Moreover, the Pentagon has given
these ISIS fighters cover to leave under the Geneva Convention since
they ‘surrendered.’
But, in many cases they ‘surrendered’ while leaving with their war materiel.
The
deal involved allowing more than 4000 ISIS fighters to leave Raqqa, a
city the U.S./Kurdish SDF forces leveled by the way, as a convoy. This
is not the first time this has happened. The Russians bombed a similar
convoy that was allowed to leave the Tabqa Dam months before the
supposed “Battle for Raqqa” was even engaged.
Again,
to repeat, these ISIS fighters and their families left under U.S.
cover of the Geneva Convention but did so with their weapons in hand.
That’s, by definition, not surrender.
The
U.S. military is in Syria to provide tactical and strategic cover for
ISIS for future operations (Iran? Afghanistan?) while it and its
Kurdish proxies build a myriad of military bases in Eastern Syria. And
then to make things worse the actual Battle for Raqqa was simply a
controlled evacuation while the U.S. Air Force leveled the city to
hinder its rebuilding.
It’s a proud day to be an American, let me tell you.
Why
we’re doing this is to continue influencing the settlement process
along the lines of Israeli desires. The problem is that the U.S. no
longer has much, if any, diplomatic pull around the region. And this
comes right back to Putin’s masterful turning of Turkish President Erdogan towards Russia.
That
Putin and Erdogan were all smiles after yesterday’s meeting tells you
that Putin realizes the Kurds are no longer needed to contain Turkey.
Watch the statements that come from Russia in the near future. They
will stress the ‘territorial integrity of Syria.’
That’s code for, “the Kurds get to stay split across Iran, Iran and Syria.” It is also code for, “Turkey works with us, now.”
The End of U.S. Diplomacy
So,
when Gen. Mattis makes statements about our mission in Syria it is
looked at as a cruel joke by foreign diplomats, much like Nikki Haley’s
performance at the U.N. This level of double-speak was the hallmark
of the Obama administration. It’s supposed to have no place in
Trump’s.
The
continued shrieking about evil Iran lurking behind every minute move
in the Middle East is becoming as ridiculous sounding and
contra-factual that the Democrats’ continued harping about Russiagate
is.
The
BBC filing the report that is has which attempts to make cooperating
with ISIS palatable for a western audience suffering from an unending
string of disgusting terrorist attacks on their homes, is the height of
chutzpah.
You
can’t demonize ISIS for four years, allow them to run amok in London,
Lisbon, Paris and New York and then call the Russians animals for not
following the Geneva Convention’s Rules on treatment of prisoners. And
then, after letting them go their merry way, TOW rockets in hand, say
that we need to stay there to combat them in the future.
And yet, that’s exactly what we are doing.
Diplomacy
rests on the ability to keep to one’s deals. If you continually say
one thing and do something else eventually no one will listen to a word
you say. The U.S. is in that place now in the Middle East, so short
of invading the entire region and/or ‘turning it into a parking lot,’
there is little influence we can exert over what happens next, other
than to leave our troops there, stranded and without clear operational
purpose.
Mattis
should know this is an unacceptable outcome and should be talking
about withdrawal, not an open-ended commitment to further the interests
of our own nightmares.
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