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What will it take to bring America to live according to its own self image?
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Last week, the US Navy launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Ash Sha’irat military airfield operated by the Syrian Air Force near the city of Homs. The launch followed a large-scale media campaign aimed at blaming the Assad government for an alleged chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun. The move was described by the mainstream media as a justified response to criminal actions of the Assad regime. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that “steps are underway” on an international coalition to pressure the Syrian president from power. It is worth noting that no investigation was made by the US-led block to confirm these accusations. Despite this, a number of countries, including the UK, Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia expressed their full support to the US military actions.
Following the incident, Moscow suspended the memorandum of understanding on flight safety in Syria with the United States, suspended work of a hotline with the Pentagon and announced that it will take additional measures to strengthen the Syrian air defense capabilities in case of possible attacks against the country.
According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin described the US attack as an act of “aggression against a sovereign nation,” which was carried out based on a “made-up pretext.”
The meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the issue showed further deep divisions among sides involved in the conflict. The US-led block continued blaming Damascus, Moscow and Tehran for the ongoing escalation and opposed the Russian suggestion to investigate jointly the Khan Sheikhoun incident.
US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, threatened more military strikes on Syria and blamed Russia and Iran for casualties among civilians. Later, Haley clarified the Trump administration’s attitude towards Syria in an interview to CNN. According to the US official, the regime change in Syria is now one of the top priorities of the US foreign policy and a political solution of the crisis is not going to happen “with Assad at the head of the regime.” Haley declared that decreasing the Iranian influence in Syria and combating the ISIS terrorist group are important goals of the current US administration and added that President Donald Trump is already considering the issue of imposing new sanctions on Russia and Iran.
Separately, the Pentagon continued with accusations that Moscow was also responsible to the Khan Sheikhoun incident and it was finding out whether Moscow took part in the alleged chemical attack. Tillerson also pushed the idea that Russia had failed to prevent Syria from carrying out a chemical attack on a rebel-held town.
The large-scale US-led media and diplomatic campaign against the Iranian-Russian-Syrian alliance was strongly supported by the UK. British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson canceled a planned trip to Moscow and announced that London will call for new “very punitive sanctions” on Russia if Moscow does not cut ties with the Syrian government. Johnson also threatened Syria with new military strikes from the US.
In turn, Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Vladimir Safronkov said that the US aggression against Syria works towards the strengthening of terrorism and its aftermaths would affect negatively the regional security. Spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova emphasized that the US actions are not related to attempts to learn about chemical weapons in Syria.
“Only recently the Americans and their western allies demanded inspectors sent, some investigation begun into the aircraft which delivered strikes on the militants’ depots and production facilities,” she said. “They demanded a probe into those aircraft and the equipment used in the strikes, and then they deliver strikes right on that equipment.”
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that a US missile strike against a Syrian airbase last week was “basically wrong” and “benefited terrorism.” He emphasized that “A repeat of such an action could be very dangerous for the region.”
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying declared that China opposes “the use of force” against Syria and it is important “to prevent further deterioration of the situation and uphold the hard-won process of political settlement of the Syrian issue.”
The US missile strike against the Syrian military airfield became another rung on the escalation ladder in the ongoing Syrian war and complicated dramatically any efforts aimed at searching a political solution of the conflict. If the Trump administration continues such actions, the progress in reconciliation of interests of various powers in the conflict will be reversed and the region will be pushed back to the brink of a regional war. The situation will become especially dangerous in case of any incidents between the US and Russian militaries operating in the war-torn country.
Mattis is trying to back-pedal, in his press conference (preceded by playing Glory Glory Halleluja), claims the 59 Tomahawks were a “singular response on chemical weapons” and “priority remains defeat of ISIS”.
Mattis is still claiming he has actual info on Syrian use of chemical weapons… where do they find such gullible morons?
This SF report presented a summary up to Monday. Things changed today. Very important news coming from Russia today:
Russia Has Intel on Upcoming Chemical Weapons Provocations in Syrian Regions
https://sputniknews.com/military/201704111052527787-chemical-weapons-provocations-syria-intel-russia/
“Russia has intelligence from “trusted sources” that chemical weapons provocations are currently being prepared in more regions in Syria, including Damascus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella Tuesday.
“We have information from various sources that such provocations — and I cannot call them anything else — are being prepared in other regions of Syria, including in the southern suburbs of Damascus, where they intend to plant some substance and blame the official Syrian authorities for its use,” Putin told a briefing.
Russian President Putin announced that Russia will officially turn to the UN in the Hague for an investigation of the chemical weapons’ use in Idlib.
“We discussed the situation with President [ of Italy Sergio Mattarella] and I told him that these events strongly resemble the events of 2003,” Putin said at a briefing, outlining the prelude to the US intervention in Iraq.
Following Putin’s presser, Russian General Staff released a statement announcing that it has information of militants bringing poisonous substances to areas of Khan Shaykhun, West of Aleppo and Eastern Guta in Syria.
Chief of the Russian General Staff Main Operational Directorate Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy said that the militants are trying to provoke new accusations targeted at Syrian government for alleged use of chemical weapons. The militants aim to incite the US to conduct new strikes, Rudskoy warned, adding that such measures are impermissible.
Rudskoy is obviously pulling his punches saying the terrorists are behind the plan, since Putin makes it clear israeloamerica is running this. By comparing the current situation with the WMD fraudulent pretext for the Iraq war, Putin makes it very clear he thinks israeloamerica is working a similar strategy against Syria now.
See also:
Russian General Staff Warns Against New US Missile Strikes on Syria
https://sputniknews.com/military/201704111052528327-russia-warns-us-missile-strike-syria/
“Moscow warns against new US missile strikes on Syria, chief of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operational Directorate Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi said at a news briefing on Tuesday.
The general reiterated that the Syrian army does not possess chemical weapons, while the remaining two chemical weapons production and storage facilities in Syria are located on the territory controlled by the so-called armed opposition groups.”
This article has more detail and a summary of the WMD false flag that already took place. See also:
Idlib ‘chemical attack’ was false flag to set Assad up, more may come – Putin
https://www.rt.com/news/384333-putin-idlib-attack-provocation/
I want to stress that Putin does not make statements about things unless he has the facts. He is not a scare monger. He doesn’t exaggerate.
Too bad no mention is made that Syria had all it’s chemical stockpiles destroyd, the last batch in 2016:
ORGANISATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS:
“Destruction of declared Syrian chemical weapons completed”
Monday, 04 January 2016
https://www.opcw.org/news/article/destruction-of-syrian-chemical-weapons-completed/
While it is known that the armed opposition does possess chemical weapons, and they were never destroyed:
“FSA – Turkish Chemicals – Nerve Gas test on Rabbits and promise to use it against Syrian minorities!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AufB1Eq2gXM
Also:
“BBC News Carla Del Ponte ‘stupefied by Syrian opposition sarin use’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBsW342pMKM
The Zionist war-machine is in full attack mode. Laughably it claims that it will simultaneously fight the Jihadis and Assad. Russia will be invited to abandon its allies, but it would be very foolish to do so. As Alexander Dugin argues:
The neo-cons understand the American missile attack on the Syrian base as what it really is: a military attack on the Russians. Trump expressed this more softly: “Assad’s friends will be disappointed”. This is the rhetoric of a delusional parrot, not a victorious realist who decided to make America great again. The Swamp applauds.
One thing is clear: this is a war against us.
But this war will be dressed up as a war against our friends and allies, against Assad (of course), against Iran, against Shiites and Hezbollah in particular. As a bow-out – here once again CFR’s networks come in – Moscow will be offered to join operations against Assad and Tehran on the side of the US and its allies: “Trump changed his position overnight. Come on, you guys. You’re supposed to be ‘realists.’” Someone will calculate that if we surrender, then we can avoid a Third World War. But we cannot. It is being waged against us, and our friends are only a secondary, local target, the main test of our endurance. If we surrender them, they can do whatever they want with us.
FUBAR or deliberate fake or staged propaganda is interesting question about claim of chemical attack. but 4th r always use anything, smallpox, anything at all, choice is simply based on effect.
the third reich might have said the same things – just as the 4th reich say now…
The affair at Bari was similar FUBAR,,, Bari? You never heard of it?
poison gas…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raid_on_Bari
http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-german-raid-on-bari.htm
The Daily mail says Putin will meet Tillerson.
He is supposed to be going there with ultimatum
Wish I could be a fly on the wall
Putin and Lavrov will perhaps invite Rex to enjoy some Bavarian beer and pretzels and watch a movie…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vg8tLuvqN0
(Nuremberg docu)
After the attack on Syria:
“Syrian people should decide Assad’s fate, Tillerson tells US media”
https://www.rt.com/usa/384142-tillerson-syria-regime-change-isis/
I hope Trump doesn’t change is mind again. The terrorists feel supported by that US attack on the Syrian army, and might provoke another one with yet another gas attack, blaming it again on Assad. After all the White Helmets get paid to do their part.
This proud FSA clip is subtitled, the other one I posted a link to isn’t:
“FSA Terrorists Threaten Alawites and Government Supporters with Genocide
Using Chemical Weapons”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs86RJR3ZUk
You should realise that Johnson only speaks for the dictator of Britain, not the British people.
The British people are all economic slaves to the private owner and joint (98%) shareholder of The Bank of England.
Johnson is a puppet, a very nasty individual behind the clown facade, and an inveterate liar.
Never trust Johnson, May or Rudd any further than you can throw them.
Johnson’s ancestry is Turkish, he is not really British at all, just that he went to posh private boarding schools in England and has more money than sense!
The buggered zionazi subhuman the tuppence regime uses as their press conference mouth claims Assad is worse than hitler.
Sean Spicer forgets Holocaust, claims Hitler did not use chemical weapons in WWII (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/usa/384406-spicer-chemical-weapons-hitler/
““We didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II. You had someone as despicable as Hitler, who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons. So you have to if you are Russia, ask yourself is this a country and a regime that you want to align yourself with,” he said.”
What a pathetic israeli faggot club this regime is turning out to be.
And speaking of “closet cases” (look at the freak, if you doubt it):
Mad Dog’s Proof: I Saw Intel on Syrian Chemical Attack Myself
https://sputniknews.com/world/201704121052544750-mad-dog-proof-intel-attack/
“It seems that Mattis must be trusted on his word that Assad acted to kill his own people, because he seems unable to furnish any evidence for his bold claims. “The Syrian regime attacked its own people using chemical weapons,” Mattis said. “I personally reviewed the intelligence, and there is no doubt the Syrian regime is responsible for the decision to attack and for the attack itself.”
Yeah, sure, faggot. This israeli owned traitor should have been hung after his war crimes committed in Fallujah.