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Another Escalation: US Freezes Diplomatic Relations With Syria, Orders Non-US Personnel To Leave Country
Putin 2 - Obama 0, which means it is time to go back to the one place where it all started last year, and where Putin had his most resounding victory over the US foreign policy apparatus (at least until the Ukraine, where we trampled not only over Obama's red line... again... but where nobody quite explained the "costs" to the ex-KGB leader): Syria. Sure enough, with the US unable to respond in Crimea, has decided to take its fight back to where Europe's natgas reliance on Gazprom product was first truly exposed.
BREAKING: US freezes diplomatic, consular relations with Syria; Orders non-US personnel to leave country.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 18, 2014
The US can order non-US personnel around? More from Reuters:
- U.S.
IMMEDIATELY SUSPENDS OPERATIONS OF SYRIAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON, AS
WELL AS HONORARY CONSULATES IN MICHIGAN AND TEXAS - STATE DEPARTMENT - U.S.
SPECIAL ENVOY FOR SYRIA SAYS 'UNACCEPTABLE' FOR INDIVIDUALS APPOINTED
BY ASSAD REGIME TO CONDUCT DIPLOMATIC, CONSULAR OPERATIONS IN U.S.
Regardless, if the bloodless Russian annexation of Crimea wasn't enough to push the S&P to new all time highs, this surely will.
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Wow - al-qaeda uber alles!
Syria was always owned by Russia. No surprise here ...
" Orders non-US personnel to leave country"
So... then only US people are left in Syria and we win by default?
Brilliant...
Sounds good to me ... fucking Syrians shouldn't be in America anyway
This is going to be hilarious.
Russia knows that if it comes down to a fight between the US and Russia, whoever acts first is going to win because MAD doctrine will basically preclude the other from escalating to war. Obama was too stupid to realize this in Ukraine/Crimea, and now they're pre-announcing their plans for Syria by requesting US personnel to leave. The US is attempting to cut Russian resources thin by getting them to think we are going after Syria, and then we are going to light the fire between Ukraine & Russia.
Law of unintended consequences be damned, full steam ahead.
I think it's more a case of, "OH FUCK! We can't fight that big kid Ralph, because he will beat the living shit out of us in front of all the other kids. Quick go get Marvin, so I can kick his ass to show how tough I am."
U.S. special envoy to Syria Daniel Rubenstein said the order responds to a decision by the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad to suspend its own consular services.
Obama: I have a great idea, let's make a Rubenstein the special envoy to an arab country that Israel has repeatedly sent jets in to bomb.
Hey maybe them Arabs will just think he's Amish:-)
Kerry seems to have been over ruled by Obama. People should get as many chances as possible, but at some point you got to say enough is enough!
milton bradley sales are going to soar with vallery, barry, karry et al playing battleship in their bathtubs
barry and karry are in tune with the script for vallery to gain more control of ukraine and other eastern territories
Does this also apply to all those undocumented folks on the west coast...
That 'they' been making a political football out of..??
Oops...
More dual citizens running the US Govt. They lost in the Ukraine though they looted the gold. Now back to Syria. Hopefully Putin will kick their ass again.
dual citizens are those in FED running american debts? or in state apartment selling american interests? or in Lollywood to brainwash the people?
By the way, how could you americans manage to let 1% of your population dominate everything? In Weimar time, 0,8% of jews possess almost 40% of the country. Niall Ferguson said in his book "Cash Nexus".
So, it is almost certain we would have a ww3 before sorting the things out.
Putin better have some Russian ships with their anti ship and anti aircraft missiles. Plus some S-300 and S400's ready.
Freddy you're so obvious,Russian cock is your favorite.
Russia announces no more USD for anything from Russia. Game, set, match - Putin.
All or nothing is WAY too simplistic.
Nuance and asymmetry count.
I wonder does this include Syrians ?!
Will you shut up now!!?? You are exposing Obama and Biden's plan to fool Putin. Damn!! Back to the drawing lined paper!
I think they mean that non-US personnel of the Syrian Embassy in Washington were ordered to leave the country. Obviously, they can't order non-US personnel in Syria to leave Syria.
Can't pull the wool over your ears...
Do I get the Captain Obvious award today?
I did a double-take myself..., twice.
think he meant CIA/Mossad shit disturbers should pack up and leave - for a few days... but they will be back like white on rice
"While driving down the freeway pull up beside someone, roll down your window, and yell "Pull over! Pull over!" while waving frantically. When they pull over, you keep on driving."
- George Carlin
Does that include illegal aliens?
Another foreign policy coup by Mr. Ed and the arrogant, narcissistic lying illegal alien kenyan muslim sociopathic ignoramus fudge packer in chief..... the sheeple must be proud of their great leadership... good luck with that one...
Or Obama just wants to cut some costs?
68 militairy deployments over seas costs a shitload of money.
And Syria also doesn't really have that many golf courses...
do the blackwater "consultants" also need to leave?
Soon we will read the following headlines:
Russia advances into East Ukraine and Poland. Putin has his eyes on the Protugal coast.
MH370 turns up - flown into Israel from Somalia - loaded with bio weapons and explosiuves.
House of Saud falls to rebellion.
Obama shoots par round with Reggie, and the Prez reminds everyone that Bin Laden is dead and Al Quadea is on the run.
Did we really elect this man over Romney? Wasn't a huge Mittens fan, but seriously... would he be this big of a pussy?
You're comparing two corporate turnips...
Mittens was bought and paid for so doubt the result would be much different. The Repuby's whine and stamper their feet but when push comes to shove they try to elect Mr. Romneycare himself. Anyone that can't see through this curtain needs to get an IQ.
Mittens may have made us look less stupid. There likely would have been extreme continuity of policy, but he may not have been as embarrassing. And no, that is not an endorsement. I don't like anything the red team or the blue team has to offer.
Maybe he'd have a different speechwriter or a different press secretary. But he'd have the exact same personnel at State, other than perhaps Kerry, and only perhaps. Maybe John (I am the Walrus) Bolton?
The policy would be the exact same Kissinger/Brzezinski psychopathy we've seen for the past 50 years.
Not Portugal, but I think he will send troops to Kiev.
@ Sudden Death,
Here, here. Assad just took control over another major city in Syria. The Criminal UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. are just cutting their losses short, doing an about face & getti g the fuck out with their tail between their legs.
Syria is in no way OWNED by Russia. Russia has provided a political back stop to the West's naked aggression and God bless them for that. I think that is what you meant to say.
Either way, this is not surprising. The SAA and Hezbollah just finished liberating a town called Yabroud during it's battle in the Qualamoon area. This is very important as Yabrood was a key place which is near the border of Lebanon and served as a supply line. Qualamoon was almost a "mini state" controlled by the satanic fake muslim terrorists who are backed by the west and funded by the bronze age monarchies in the Gulf.
Time is quickly running out for the Savage horde paid for by our tax dollars. Most if not all the key supply lines are toast, their ranks are withered, their safe harbors all but eliminated, momentum is against them. The West has to pull something big off or they are toast. Word is that the West is set to mount a push from the south ( something they've done several times and failed spectacularly at ) but there is purportedly some incendiary surprise waiting for them.
They need to ratchet up the axis of evil talk. THey have no choice. Meanwhile Saudi Arabia and Qatar are fighting like cats and dogs. The Fecal alchemy of the west is truly breathtaking. Everything they touch turns to shit.
When you take an action with bad intentions, you may get your way for a while, but eventually those you fooled will rally up against you.
Can't Putin loan Assad a few neutron bombs, that clears the field mighty quick and leaves the buildings standing. Just the perfect thing to blunt a Western offensive.
Starting the Iraqi "civil war" (in a heavily intermarried country that had no history of religious violence) was only possible with the occupation. A similarly suspicious Syrian "civil war" seemed doomed to failure without direct intervention.
The Russian Port at Tartous was always the key to the failure. Russia's only port in the Mediterranean ensured they would not be fooled again as per libya. This of course hasn't stopped them from Trying.
Regarding the hilarious notion of a sectarian civil war, let's not forget the majority of folks in the syrian army are, like it's populace Sunni. Who are fighting radical foreign fake Sunni's supported by the West.
+1
The shit they caused in Syria is sickening. The poor Syrian people and Assad were not bothering anyone and this vermin starts one of their fake proxy wars.
I do love how the Saudis and Qatar are at each others throats. The Saudis were demanding that Al Jeezera be shut down. The scum Saudis must be in a panic.
Who runs Barter Town?
more talk and no action...it's embarassing to be an american these days
The former USA
current USSA.
Run/ruined by dual citizens.
Obama's 3 step programm:
1. SIT BACK
2. RELAX
3. watch porn
4. boss everybody around with ridiculous orders...
5. Fire off a drone or ten...
6. Play golf
7. Buy wookie another $17K dress
8. Go fudge packing
@ Sudden Death,
Don't you mean:
3. Watch Gay Porn.
Don't be silly, Obama has a lot on his plate.
He's got to fill out his NCAA basketball bracket picks this week.
Wait, that's my plan.
Speaking of which, why is no one discussing the most pressing trade issue of this whole dust-up with Russia: How will this impact the supply of eastern european lesbian porn?
Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out, they leave the west behind.
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout...
4. Jerkoff with LEFT and surf with the RIGHT.
It is embarassing to be a Globalist Bankster or a Traitor but American that is well respected by those in the know. The worst thing to be these days is a Washington D.C. politician which 7 billion people around the globe hate.
A military tactic: split Putin's troops between east Europe and the Middle East so he can be conquered more easily. It's a good thing the USSA's troops aren't split...
The real agenda: use 'moral outrage' of Crimea (stupid, I know, the only moral outrage is in corporate media) to bomb in Syria.
Expect US action in Syria.
posted a link last week. a new zato offensive is now underway in Syria. This time, it seems that a real war is on the immediate horizon. what a bunch of evil fools run this world.
The only evil fools who run the world are the voters who accept the legitimacy of mob rule.
The rest are merely evil.
ZATO* needed re-escalation if you consider this headline:
http://respect-discussion.blogspot.com/2014/03/us-intel-assad-has-as-good-as-won.html
*ZATO = Zionist Ashkenazi Terrorist Organization
Expect the neocons to go and do something incredibly stupid again. Fixed it for ya.
They're bloodthirsty simpletons so that's always a safe assumption!
Why do you call increasing ones' wealth and power "stupid?"
Yep, just keep on believing that they're being stupid rather than you, and see who ends up with all of the benefits.
In other words, You're Fixing It for THEM.
Its like the little kid who can't fight the other kid cause he knows he gets his ass kicked so he takes out his aggression on the dog.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Putin has a multi-layered, sea/air/land defensive line built like a ovular diaphragm around Turkey, stretching from Bulgaria down to Syria, across to Iran, up through Georgia, across to Crimea, oh and BTW, good luck to American forces trying to maintain a supply line through the Asian steppes south from Afghanistan.
Yeah I'm sure it will ba as effective as the Maginot line,ask the French how well that worked for them.
Russia needs to tell the USSA (run by dual citizens) to stay out of Syria or your supply lines to Afghanistan will be cut. Hopefully, Russia, China, Iran and India will tell the USSA to stay out of Syria.
Whoa! President Pantywaist is acting all tough and stuff. Can't stand being laughed at by the world. Somebody get a straight jacket ready.
Your boss takes you into the office and berates you for being a slackard so you take your humiliation home and kick the dog. Not the wife, she may kick back. It must suck to have no spine. And to be a slackard.
Great point, DF, but... What's wrong with kicking the dog? Even without your boss screaming atcha? ;-)
Disclaimer: I don't have a dog... anymore ;-) JUSS KIDDIN"! ;-)
Looney
Does that order include the CIA sponsored terrorists?
That's my only question and I would guess - of course not!
The Jewry has been way to quiet lately
And the Norks just shot off a salvo of missiles. What of the Norks? THINK OF THE NORKS.
Daniel Rubinstein the brand spanking new U.S. Special Envoy for Syria.... after the always stabilizing presence...ehm.... of Robert Ford a Zionist Neo-Con is just the ticket for peace in Syria. Obozo the clown administration strikes again.
They alwways start this shit during Purim.
FUCK THE EU..... All day and night. They are nothing but mother fucking puppets. They will surely brown spot their white pants soon.
Gotterdammerung
Twilight indeed.
As I've said before, it would be funny if it weren't lethal.
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted
and left to flocks, which will lie down,
with no one to make them afraid.
3 The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of the Israelites,”
declares the Lord Almighty."
Currently the favourite quote of the American ruling class' pseudo-Christians and pseudo-Jews...
and so they dream, and try to make it reality... all folly, as time will tell.
Me thinks had the Russians known the USA and EU were just going to keep on pushing borders and trying to box in and destroy Russia, they wouldn't of let the Soviet Union break up. I mean seriously, they had half the world all most of the natural resources.
Meanwhile...Omar the tentmaker is turning away business.
Look over here - no. not at Crimea & Ukraine.... way over here at Syria.
I've been waiting for this to pop back up. The yellow king never rests.
John Kerry will fix things just like Hillary did....now go back to sleep!
They are REELENTLESS and couldn't care less that everyone now sees that the emperor has no clothes. Is that all that democracy was? A thin veneer to hide a monstrous gestapo aparatus?
"Is that all that democracy was? A thin veneer to hide a monstrous gestapo aparatus?"
Well, Good Morning to you too...
"The illusion of freedom [in America ] will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
~Frank Zappa
Democracy = The serfs get the illusion of change while the rulers continue to do whatever they want.
I guess this was on Obama's multiplie choice test this morning.
Do something serious about Syria
[ ] - Favor
[ ] - Don't Favor
[ ] - Let's Talk
[X] - Make a fool of America over Syria.
"were we trampled not only over Obama's red line..."
what do you mean we?
Obama you're drunk. Go home.
On power or too many beer summits?
the friend of my enemy, who was my enemy a few years ago, but before that my friend in afghanistan- but maybe my enemy from before that ... Obozo must be brushing up on his Sun-Tzu ?
He would have had to heard of him first.
Besides, it's quite obvious that he isn't that smart.
Denied a win in Ukraine, the Nobel Prize winner needs a whipping boy to salve his ego. What lies will he come up this time for Syria?
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has published an article demonstrating that the US government and President Barack Obama knowingly lied when they claimed that the Syrian government had carried out a sarin gas attack on insurgent-held areas last August.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/pers-d10.html
Absolute Shocker.... the fudge packer in chief lied????????? Unbelievable!!!!!! Incomprehensible!!!!!!!! What is the world coming to??????
No surprise.
They restrcited the travel area of the Syrian ambassador to the UN a week ago.
Lets see if the narcissist pansy in the white hut , has a hissy fit and starts bombing.
Those neocons must be spitting blood about now.
The lunatics are now truly in charge of our asylum.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26626363
Explosion near Syria border wounds four Israeli soldiershttp://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.580498
"near the syrian border" likely means 20 miles into syrian territory.
Israel will not send their wonderful Merkava tanks into Syria because they are sitting ducks to the Russian anti tank AT-14 Kornet and newer missiles. The Palestinians and Hezboolah figured out how to take out their tanks.
Forget 'principles' and all the blah, blah, blah about democracy, protecting people, etc.
To them its just moves on the grand Risk game board.
They have substantial military assets in the region surrounding Syria, (unlike in Ukraine) - - - - so that's where they will cause trouble next.
They will come up with all sorts of 'justifications' (example - false gas attack on civilians) and their owned western media will repeat it.
Unfortunately, they play their global 'games' and drag all the rest of humanity along with them.
The war mongers in Washington won't stop, until they have a major military conflict on their hands.
War is health of the Zionist State
Wasn't there something about mending relations and the world loving us again with Mr. Hopey Changy?
He even received a pre-award for it.
insanity, This is the end, Europe and middle east will be all out war. China has some stuff in Syria probably along wiht the Russians. Things must be about to collapse on the economy, they have no other options now.
i hope u c how your banker controlled governemnt bitches r acting out like a spoiled little child who has been told he cant have anymore....
like a impudent little runt who needs to have his ass worn out with a firm switch...
the US is done......
Never fear! Mommyjeans has his NCAA bracket picks in and he's finished watching Season 4 of Game of Thrones. He's on the motherfucking job!
not so fast - have you seen the seven day forecast for DC area - clear my schedule bitchez i gotz to work on ma swing
Wait a gall-darn minute! I thought the peace prize Prez would bring security to the world! That's what the state-controlled media said.....
Does that alert anyone here that Russian Spetnaz and other forces are alive and well in Syria?
This is old news as Syria made the announcement last week they would be pulling their embassies in Washington, London and Saudi Arabia anyway.
After losing more than 140,000 civilians in the past 3 years and the treachery of an American and Saudi government committing yet another war atrocity with the failed chemical weapons false flag attack -it's beyond belief that they didn't recall their diplomatic corps after last September.
Putin should cut his losses and throw them out of Moscow and recall his people from the U.S., U.K. Israel and EU.
Russia if it wants to survive, has to go after the petrodolar. As long as the money is controlled by the invisible elite, they rule.
"...has decided to take its fight back to where Europe's natgas reliance on Gazprom product was first truly exposed..."
SOME of the the commenters on ZH may think Peak Oil is a hoax. But the geopolitical movements by the big beasts clearly show that the water hole is getting smaller. Many small animals will suffer as the last of the big carnivores get theirs first.
I would agree, i think Oil is becoming a thing of a past and Gas is going to be the future, cheaper and cleaner.
Notwithstanding the rumours around Saudi and the GCC Countries telling porkies about there oil reserves....
Whoever controls Syria will control the gas to EU. NATO = Pipeline from Qatar through to Europe, Russia = Pipeline from Iran through to Europe.
Assad is pro Iran pipeline, so he needs to be overthrown to get the Qatar pipeline through instead.....
This suggests that the US will turn up the heat in Syria by providing more military assistance to the liver eating jihadis there.
i hear that's delicious with fava beans.
... and a nice chianti....
We don't have to do Syria ourselves.
Saudi already cutting support of rebels in Syria. Qatar under threat from Saudi to stop funding rebels. Russian countertheats???
Assad kicking western ass.
Isreal looks to be surrounded.
This could get ugly.
Actually my understanding is that Qatar have been liaisng with Iran about a joint economical plan for supplying gas to the western world (because Syria is not going anywhere), this is like taboo to Saudi and the rest of the GCC.
Saudi wants to remain the king of arabia but Iran thinks the leadership needs to change, this goes in tandem religious beleifs as well....
Thanks. I was wondering why the Saudis are going so mental. Iran knows who the Saudis are allies with. The Dual Citizens.
Saud soon to turn East. Reluctantly. Not willingly. Petro$ soon dead.
<--will the petro$ go quietly into the night?
<--or out with a bang?
Israel will shoot first and refuse to answer fucking questions later.
First it was the chemical weapons "oops those were the wrong shells we fired!" Next it will be the mushroom cloud "oops their not supposed to know we had tactical nukes!". Vlad get the suitcase nukes out we have a customer!
Rabid dogs are shot.
The US is not leaving other choices.
Would someone in the Pentagon please make a stand and ice this fucker now before its too late. Its now or never guys.
Sorry, but NO ONE enters the Pentagon without licking LOTS and LOTS of boots first.
Honestly, it's the most worthless part of the military. Nothing but scumbag suckups who cannot even be bothered to keep their uniforms from looking like shit.
To think that it has a military function is to forget its the most powerful organ of the "boys club."
I'm feeling great because the chemical weapon in Syria were evacuated after Obama's ultimatum.
Now every1 can sing Kumbaya
No reason not to go for regime change in Syria now.
Gosh! Nothin but moar great news for stawks! I can't mash the Buy button fast enough! Sure glad I got that lobotomy, now I'm a real stawk trader!
i was in iraq the last round of sabre rattling that obama did...when he was thinking of bombing syria. the Exxon boys could not get out of Iraq fast enough. they left skid marks all over iraq. then fluor and them were fighting over seats on the emirates flights. it was hilarious. anyone with a US passport in Iraq became persona non grata overnight and a bona fide militia target.
the minute obama goes for syria, Iraq, Iran and the Saudis will be chopping each other up with swords (and US provided weapons). US oil companies will pull people out of Iraq (their equipment will stay and become part of Iraq) and they will go on the sidelines - Exxon, Fluor, Baker, Weatherford etc.
not that obama cares about that.
I think Exxon is more worried about Sakhalin.
They are worried about things falling apart is Obama tries to bomb Syria? If he tries - Russia will be shooting down a lot of shit. I thought I read that supposedly a Tomhawk was fired and the Russians shot it down but is was hushed up.
The Iranians (Shia) want to get their hands on the House of Saud very badly. I bet many in the Middle East want to get their hands on the Saudi Royals for all the people who have died throughout the Middle East due to the Saudis.
Putin has no reason to avoid sending his military to diectly back Assad now that Obama has started WW3. Maybe that is what we are expecting.
HE who controls the spice controls the Universe!
...the spice must flow
They need a war so badly but Muricans don't care about countries across the pond. I know, just say that Canadians are insulting the NFL and claiming that it can't hold a candle to the CFL; Muricans would sprint to the marine recruiters office and sign up to invade Canada.
Boy, time must be up, looks like they really do need a WaR !!!!
Interesting.
So how do I get American politicians and military to fuck off out of my country as well?!
Eliminate the pols, crats and banksters in your country.
Meanwhile, while US "defense" officials are fixated on non-vital interests, China is moving on a reef with Phillippine military camped out. China may make a move and the US won't be able to stop it.
Of course we're now going to reignite Syria. That's the whole point of the Kissinger/Brzezinski strategy, which as actually going swimmingly. None of these are failures. People just don't understand the true goal. The goal is not to take over areas, or impose Pax Americana. The purpose is to create violent, chaotic, bloody upheaval all around Russia and China, with an emphasis on energy deposits and trans-shipment paths. Or, as in the case of our interventions in Africa, wherever China has made large infrastructure investments.
We befriend the worst, most psychopathic and least willing to negotiate parties in all these places, or we even import our own to put in place. Then we arm them, train them and egg them on. We stoke up whatever existing tensions there are. We put in an otherwise powerless, but utterly ruthless, strongman. He knows his people will kill him the second we stop providing the muscle, so he turns over everything worth looting to our finance system. The violence against civilians keeps anybody from being able to do anything constructive, so the best-armed can either do what they want or at least block anybody else from doing anything.
It's a classic scorched-earth, well-poisoning strategy. Once you start to think like these psychopaths and see the world as they do, it's all pretty obvious. And contrary to US partisan bickering memes, it's going very well, and it's been uninterrupted for about 50 years. All of it is meant to use our military power to cover up the decline of our finance system, which is based on unlimited growth but is hitting the physical limits of our finite world. Can't expand outward anymore, so we'll eat each other. Anything but transition to a system that doesn't require infinite energy, resources and markets.
Swmnguy,
You have it all there for people to see... My family and neighbors argue with me using what was told on CBS, NBC and ABC news sources. So they cover everything so nicely and keep their own populous believing in the lies...
Sounds like a plan hatched before the invention suitcase nukes and a nuclear Middle East. In the present context, it sounds utterly insane.
Given that we've seen our government fly planes into skyscrapers, spy on us en masse and strip us of nearly every constitutional right we had, what's a nuked city to them?
In fact, a nuked city would give their agenda even more momentum. MOAR destruction = MOAR dependence.