War in Syria 4

Turning Reality on its Head - US & UK Accuse Russia of 'Warcrimes' in Syria  -  by Finian Cunningham

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/384251-war-crimes-syria-attack-trump-uk/

"Russia's position is rock solid and  based on objective, geopolitical and legal analysis. The six-year war in Syria is a criminal western regime-change operation from start to finish, utilizing terrorist proxies to overthrow a sovereign government. 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has rightly called for an impartial investigation into the chemical weapons incident last week..."

Senator Lindsey Graham Hints Boots on the Ground Coming in Syria. War on Iran is Next (and vid)

https://theduran.com/senator-lindsey-graham-hints-boots-on-the-ground-co...

"Senator Lindsey Graham admits we need to remove Syria to destroy Iran:

'Assad is a threat to the region and eventually to us because he's backed by Iran. He's a puppet of the Iranians. Iran is run by religious fanatics. Iran has missiles on the side of which they write 'death to Israel'...

'ISIL is Germany, Assad is Japan.'

So how do you like the 'US-led Coalition' so far Canada? Ready  to fight for Lindsey, Al Qaeda and Israel?

realpolitik

"a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations"

This lens that I use to analyze the world through.  Nations have no friends but have interests. 

I found something refreshing on CNN this morning a little bit of truth.  One of the presenters talked about the idea of realpolitik, did use the word but explained how real world works.  The idea is that Russia has interests in the middle east and has had them for 60 years.  And US has interests in the middle east for the last 60 years.  The problem is that these interests clash.  The guest used the idea no matter the pressure with somesort moral message that assad is beast will zero impact becasue interest are number one and moral arguments talk a back seat to all. 

Wag the Dog - How A/Q Played Donald Trump and the American Media  -  by Scott Ritter

http://t.co/5dApn2gakP

Scott Ritter is a former weapons inspector in Iraq

Idlib 'Chemical Attack' Was False Flag To Set Assad Up, More May Come - Putin

https://www.rt.com/news/384333-putin-idlib-attack-provocation/

"Russia has information of a potential incident similar to the alleged chemical attack in Idlib province, possibly targeting a Damascus suburb, President Vladimir Putin said. The goal is to discredit the government of Syrian President Assad, he added."

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Rania Khalek, Ben Norton

https://t.co/PTzQIPq7WB

"How kinky are the Salafists?"

The Fire of the Syrian War is Spreading Following US Tomahawks Deployment

https://t.co/3TRJu0w1AT

"Sacrificing the people of the Third World in order for a liberal democracy to survive is unfortunately part of a widespread and general policy and practice adopted for centuries...Keeping the Middle East busy with wars and containing terrorism within the 'walls' of the Middle East is apparently considered the best way for liberal democratic societies to survive. 

This is called politics."

It seems everyone is out of step except Russia, eh! 

Doesn't look good.

Sarin traces found in Syria chemical attack victims' blood, Turkey says

Tests on victims find traces of substance sarin degrades into while Russia claims they come from leaked chemicals stored in nearby rebel warehouse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/11/turkey-says-sarin-gas-was-...

White House Accuses Russia of Trying to ‘Cover Up’ Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-declares-u-s-relations-worst-pe...

Mattis said today there is no question Assad gassed his own people. 

What I found interesting was how assured Mattis was about question of spirialing out of control in regards to russia.  He basically no chance of that happening.  While I say that russians position in syria is not all that strong.  The forces amassed by the russian in the syria area cannot match what forces US has available in the area.  There is no land link between Russia proper and syria.  The Kurds, ISIS, US block the movement to iran so link.  All stuff that russia have is deleivered through air and sea to syria.  In war the air corridor would be closed the sea lanes interdicted US naval power. 

         That said the russian would not keep things bottled up in syria.  They would at minimum over run urkaine and probaly invaded the baltic countries to create a corridor to kalingrad.

I just wonder had hard Trump is going push Putin.  Every strike the americans luanch destroys Putin political base.  I have no idea where that point is and I hope we do not find out. 

RT News - April 11, 2017 [1700 MSK]

https://rt.com/shows/news/384371-rtnews-april-11-17msk/

Lawrence Wilkerson: "We all need to pay very close attention...I see us moving ever further into the Syrian morass."

Professor Stephen Cohen - The Last Voice of Reason in a World Gone Mad (and vid)

http://thesaker.is/professor-stephen-cohen-the-last-voice-of-reason-in-a...

"Things are really that bad..."

I noticed the call to rally for yesterday in Vancouver......no mainstream type organizations involved.....suggested evidence that antiwar movement in Canada is dead.......

perhaps I may be wrong here......but undoubtedly the rally received zero coverage by MSM

as long as we permit the existence of the lying CBC type MSM.... building movement will be difficult

White House 'Intelligence Assessment' Is No-Such-Thing But Shows Support For Al-Qaeda

https://t.co/1moQTV0BrA

"The Trump White House published three and a half pages of accusations against the governments of Syria and Russia. These are simple white pages with no header or footer, no date, no classification or declassification marks, no issuing agency and no signatures. It is indiscernible who has written them.

US media call this a Declassified US Report on Chemical Weapons Attack. It is no such thing. It starts with 'The United States is confident that the Syrian government conducted a chemical weapon attack..'

The US is 'confident', it does not 'know', it does not have 'proof' - it is just 'confident.'

'Nodding Like Bobble Heads': Putin Slams NATO's Support For US Violation of Intl Law in Syria

https://www.rt.com/news/384421-nodding-like-bobbleheads-putin-nato/

"The missile strike on Syria was a clear breach of international law, while Washington's claim that Damascus carried out the chemical attack that the US used as its casus belli, is yet to be proven by any hard evidence, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

'What was the reaction of the NATO allies? All of them are nodding like bobble heads,' Putin said in an interview with Mir 24 TV channel. 'Where is evidence that Syrian troops used chemical weapons? No evidence. And what about the violation of international law? It is an obvious fact,' he added."

The Liberals might have made a different decision had it not been for the level of protest. I wouldn't assume it had no effect at all.

Lavrov, Tillerson Press Conference After Talks in Moscow

https://youtu.be/yVsTCEy1IOI

CrossTalk: War-A-Lago

https://youtu.be/Os5FOQ4kHdM

"Why the reversal and what will be the political costs?"

Trump Joins Democrats in the War Party  -  by Margaret Kimberley

https://blackagendareport.com/trump_joins_war_party

"...And what of the resistance? The pink pussyhat wearers and their ilk? They too approve of an American hegemon waiting to kill at the first sign of a propaganda lie. They aren't resisting anything at all. Angela Merkel and Justin Trudeau have backed Trump too. 

If we didn't know before we now know who the imperialists are in this country and around the world..."

Trump Brags About Eating The 'Most Beautiful' Chocolate Cake During Missile Strike Decision

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/trump-syria-chocolate-cake-m...

"Then forgets which country he just bombed..."

Assad: Idlib Attack 100% Fabricated - Syria Destroyed All Chemical Weapons

https://on.rt.com/88s4

"Definitely, 100 percent for us it's fabrication...Our impression is that the West, mainly the US, is hand-in-glove with the terrorists. They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack..."

US-Led Coalition Airstrike Mistakenly Killed 18 SDF Ally Fighters in Syria on April 11 - Pentagon

http://on.rt.com/88rl

I'd like to believe you but then again why is Russia refusing to allow an investigation? What is Russia hiding?

This appears to be similiar to that Malaysian plane shot down in the Ukraine, eh!

Russia is becoming more and more isolated on this particular issue. Either you want a thorough investigation or you don't. Doesn't look good.

Let's live in the present.

Without responding with gobbledygook like we just heard from Mobo why did Russia use their Security Council veto yesterday to prevent an investigation into the chemical weapons being used in Syria which is eerily similar to the Malaysian plane shot down in Ukraine? 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-un-vote-idUSKBN17...

This does not look good for the Russians as what you are saying is nobody has any grounds to defend Russia's UN's SC veto which prevents an investigation just like what the Russians did in the Malaysian air tragedy in the Ukraine. 

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/12/russia-vetoes-un-resolution-...

Russia Vetoes U.N. Resolution on Syria as Questions Linger over Deadly Chemical Attack

quote:

JONATHAN STEELE: Well, I think the people who’ve benefited from this terrible gas incident in Khan Sheikhoun last week were certainly not Assad, certainly not the Russian government. The people who’ve benefited are, as you suggested in the question, the people who were defending themselves against the allegation that Trump is somehow a puppet of Moscow. It was the military-industrial complex in Washington, what we would now—it’s Eisenhower’s phrase, but what we would now call the deep state, you know, the kind of alliance between the top military brass in Washington, the arms manufacturers and the intelligence agencies, who were really worried that Trump was somehow getting out of control and opening up good relations with Russia, and they wanted to get him back on the traditional track of confrontation with Russia.

And, of course, a third group that’s really benefited are the armed opposition to Assad, because they’ve suddenly got a new lease of life, when it looked as though they were on the verge of losing their last sliver of territory around Idlib in northwest Syria. They’ve been given the option, the—perhaps the option of being defended militarily by NATO with airstrikes. They’ve had one airstrike, and they’re obviously hoping for more. And they’re certainly not going to compromise in the Geneva talks. So everybody who’s benefited is on the non-Syrian, non-Russian side.

eta:

NERMEEN SHAIKH: But there are those who argue, Jonathan Steele, that the Assad regime has benefited, simply by warning the rebels not to continue their fight against the regime.

JONATHAN STEELE: Well, but not by the use of chemical weapons. I mean, that’s why it seems so unlikely that the Syrians would have used chemical weapons. Of course, they’re still using conventional bombing, and they’re using their ground forces to try and push them out of Idlib. But the gas attack was the last thing they wanted. But it’s important to point out, too, that although the Russians vetoed the resolution in the U.N. Security Council last night calling for Syria to cooperate, the element of cooperation which the West wanted, the U.S., Britain and France, was that they should show their flight logbooks of all their aircraft. That’s a huge violation or intrusion of sovereignty, which the Syrians couldn’t accept.

But as Lavrov pointed out in his remarks with Tillerson when they were having their joint press conference, the Syrian government has written to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, offering an inquiry, offering access to the airfield that was hit by the American cruise missiles, but also calling, quite legitimately, for the rebels to give access to the site where the sarin gas was used, to see whether indeed it was caused by an airstrike or caused by somebody on the ground who was doing a dirty trick to try and discredit the Syrian government.

Russia-Baiting Pushed Trump to Attack Syria—and Increases the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation

The anti-Russia bandwagon has gained so much momentum that a national frenzy is boosting the odds of unfathomable catastrophe.

Vast efforts to portray Donald Trump as Vladimir Putin’s flunky have given Trump huge incentives to prove otherwise. Last Thursday, he began the process in a big way by ordering a missile attack on Russia’s close ally Syria. In the aftermath of the attack, the cheerleading from U.S. mass media was close to unanimous, and the assault won lots of praise on Capitol Hill. Finally, the protracted and fervent depictions of Trump as a Kremlin tool were getting some tangible results.

At this point, the anti-Russia bandwagon has gained so much momentum that a national frenzy is boosting the odds of unfathomable catastrophe. The world’s two nuclear superpowers are in confrontation mode.

It’s urgent to tell ourselves and each other: Wake up!....

from Voltairenet......

which was one of the last holdouts re the Trump transformation....

During two weeks of intense fighting within the Trump administration, the United States have illegally attacked the air base at Chayrat (Syria), then multiplied contradictory signals before showing their hand - finally, they are relaunching their imperialist policy.

In less than two weeks, the Trump administration has defended 7 different positions concerning the Syrian Arab Republic [1].

On 12 April 2017, the United States made their great about-face.......

in support of epaulo...it`s time for people to wake up! it`s time for the NDP to wake up, the Greens to wake up.....read the NDP milktoast cover their asses statement...just typical milktoast cover their ass NDP politics...when will the Greens make a move?

Where are the traditional voices for sanity, not to mention alarm...where in fact is the so called environment movement, with the likes of Monbiot supporting the rush to armeggedon...the climate change activists? global warming? How about global incineration!

NorthReport wrote:

Not choosing sides, but blocking the UN investigation does not appear to lend credibility to Russian claims.

Being wilfully blind to the response to  that line of attack which more than one person has posted for you is actually choosing sides.

NorthReport wrote:

Utter nonsense.

If there is nothing to hide why do you not want to have a UN investigation, eh? 

Again the resolution implied guilt and it required a country engaged in a civil war to supply senstive military information to parties that support the insurgents and it had a literal poison pill in that if the "investigating" body got its nose out of joint it authorized immediate UN sanctioned attacks.

I've sat at a lot of negotiating tables and I'll tell you no one in their right mind would agree to do this.

Golan Heights, Israel, Oil and Trump

http://journal-neo.org/2017/03/30/golan-heights-israel-oil-and-trump

"Events are moving rapidly to a possible new war involving Israel, the United States, Syria and Russia. Only this oily war somehow feels more dangerous.

Virtually no mention was made by CNN or other US mainstream media of the most strategic point the two [Netanyahu/Trump] discussed. Netanyahu asked the US President to recognize the illegal occupation of Syria's Golan Heights, something no US President has done.

What has unfolded in the region, since February 16 Trump talks gives reason to believe the US and Netanyahu's Israel covertly agreed to a strategy to allow Trump to recognize Israel as the de facto occupier of Golan Heights amid what they will call the growing chaos of the Syrian 'civil war.'"

Rabbis Urge President Trump To 'Act Decisively' in Syria

http://forward.com/scribe/368405/rabbis-urge-president-trump-to-act-deci...

"...We believe that a strong response from the US is essential to stopping these war crimes...Israel's President, Reuven Rivlin called the attack 'a stain on humanity' and urged the international community...The Assad regime will not cease these brutal attacks unless it faces the threat of serious military repercussions such as airstrikes...Order targeted airstrikes on the Assad regime..."