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The Stage Is Set For The Syrian Invasion
One week ago, when reporting on the latest bizarre plan presented by the Pentagon, namely providing Syrian rebels (but only the moderate ones, not the jihadists like al Nusra, or, well, ISIS) with B-1B Bomber air support in their attacks on ISIS, when we wrote that this "means in the coming weeks and months look forward to a surge in false flag "attacks" blamed on the Assad regime, aiming to give Obama validation to expand the "War against ISIS" to include Syria's regime as well."
We didn't have long to wait: in an entirely unsourced Time article written today by Aryn Baker, the Middle East Bureau Chief, the stage for the second attempt at invading Assad regime is finally set.
The article, titled "Why Bashar Assad Won’t Fight ISIS" is essentially an essay that, as the title suggests "proves" that the Syrian leader is, in fact, quite close with ISIS and derives strategis benefits from his relationship, which is why he won't attack them, and thus by implication is just as bad as ISIS and worthy of America's wrath.
How does Baker build up her propaganda? First, she cits a "Sunni businessman who is close to the regime but wants to remain anonymous for fear of repercussions from both ISIS supporters and the regime" and who "trades goods all over the country so his drivers have regular interactions with ISIS supporters and members in Raqqa, the ISIS stronghold in Syria, and in ISIS-controlled areas like Dier-ezzor." According to this Syrian version of Amazon:
The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has long had a pragmatic approach to the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria. Even from the early days the regime purchased fuel from ISIS-controlled oil facilities, and it has maintained that relationship throughout the conflict. “Honestly speaking, the regime has always had dealings with ISIS, out of necessity.”
"Honestly speaking" of course being used quite loosely, considering that it is by now no secret that ISIS, in the words of General Wesley Clark, "got started through funding from our friends and allies", most notably Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and according to some even the CIA is involved so, no: honestly speaking, if anything, the Assad regime has been doing its best to stay away from ISIS, which at least on paper, was created as a result of extremist Al Nusra factions, who were fighting Assad in 2013, and were funded and weaponized by the US.
Of course, none of that is mentioned. What is, however, duly emphasized is the goalseeked conclusion that Assad and the Islamic State are like two peas in a pod:
Assad does not see ISIS as his primary problem, the businessman says. “The regime fears the Free Syrian Army and the Nusra Front, not ISIS. They [the FSA and Nusra] state their goal is to remove the President. But ISIS doesn’t say that. They have never directly threatened Damascus.” As the businessman notes, the strikes on ISIS targets are minimal. “If the regime were serious about getting rid of ISIS, they would have bombed Raqqa by now. Instead they bomb other cities, where the FSA is strong.” That said, the businessman does not believe that the regime has a formal relationship with ISIS, just a pragmatic one. “The more powerful ISIS grows, the more they are useful for the regime. They make America nervous, and the Americans in turn see the regime as a kind of bulwark against ISIS.”
Actually, the "Americans" see ISIS as the perfect false flag placeholder to build up yet another case about invading Damascus, after the humiliation of the bumbled attempt to use a doctored YouTube clip showing paid actors following what the CIA guaranteed was an Assad "chemical weapon" attack as a pretext to launch an invasion on Syria in the first attempt to topple Assad. It took an escalation that involved numerous Russian ships side by side with US cruisers in the Mediterranean before John Kerry realized that building Qatar's nat gas pipeline to Europe is not worth rising World War III over, and promptly backed off.
This time, ISIS is the bait.
Back to the Time article, where next we get the next "source" of information:
A senior Western diplomat who specializes in the Syrian civil war agrees that ISIS is seen as an asset by Assad. “They will do whatever it takes to devalue the opposition, even if it means strengthening ISIS. They know that if it comes to choosing between the black flag [of ISIS] and Damascus, the international community will choose Damascus.” And the strategy has worked extremely well. “The way it’s going now, it’s a matter of months, not even a year, that the moderate opposition is so weakened that it won’t be a factor anymore. So in just a few months from now the regime will be able to achieve its strategic goal of forcing the world to choose between Damascus and the black flags.”
Actually, according to that logic, the "international community" will choose both Damascus and the "black flags", in fact the community will be delighted to have the "flags" as a cover in an invasion, both air, sea and ground, toppling Assad and replacing him with yet another US-puppet regime (whose fate, following such sterling examples as Egypt, Libya and Iraq will be just spectacular), one which will be glad to accept Qatar and Syria hush money, while thousands of kilometers of pipes are laid under the territory in attempt to dethrone Gazprom as the provider of first and last resort to Europe... which as a reminder is what it is all about.
The anonymous "western diplomat" continues:
... by ignoring the conflict between the Syrian opposition and the Assad regime to focus purely on ISIS may solve problems in the short term, says the diplomat, “but there will be more problems to come. These are the ingredients for a further escalation of the conflict — alienating large parts of the Sunni population, so that they have no choice but to join ISIS. Not for ideological reasons, but because they will do whatever it takes to overthrow the regime in Damascus.” Not only that, it will widen the geographical boundaries of the conflict by making this a fight of all Sunnis. “It’s a clear recipe for further escalation well beyond the geographical boundaries of the current conflict.”
Which is why in order to prevent further escalation in the future, the US will be delighted to provide much more escalation right now.
And here is the piece de resistance of the article that may as well have been written by a 6th grader who is about to flunk propaganda class:
Damascus believes that once it has neutralized most of the opposition, it can then defeat ISIS with ease. “ISIS alone, the regime can deal with them. What Assad wants is international recognition of his legitimacy as Syria’s President,” says the businessman. “When the war is over, he can easily handle ISIS with the help of Hizballah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.”
So let's get this straight:
- A "terrorist" group which was created and funded by US allies in the middle east (there are many) is fighting a war on behalf of a regime that the US and its allies in the middle east are desperately trying to topple; a "terrorist" group which until recently did not exist and which, inexplicably according to the author, Assad refuses to fight because.... unlike the US he has not seen the dreadful beheading movies which lead to so much daily water cooler talk across the US?
- Ths US now believes that "ISIS is seen as an asset by Assad" and that the moderate (this distinction is key: their flag has a pink skull and crossbones as opposed to the red one used by the "non-moderate") opposition which spawned ISIS in the power vacuum following the incomplete first US invasion of Syria in the symmer of 2013, is about to be destroyed by the same ISIS.
- Assad is confident he can "defeat ISIS with ease" once he has destroyed his so-called moderate enemies; the same ISIS which the US has been "fighting" now for half a year, and achieved absolutely nothing.
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We know all those due to an essay of amateur propaganda caliber, which derives its entire narrative and conclusions based on two anonymous sources.
At this point we probably speak for everyone when we say: just invade Syria already, and let's proceed to the inevitable, and quite understandable, Russian retaliation, because frankly this endless propaganda and false-flaggery is now as obvious and pathetic as the Greek default which is also about 5 years overdue.
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P.S. from Aryn Baker's LinkedIn profile:
- Producing breaking news, features, analysis and investigative stories from the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan for the world’s most influential English language weekly newsmagazine.
- Frequent reporting travel to countries affected by the changes of the Arab Spring, from Syria to Saudi, Yemen, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, and Libya, as well as continued reporting in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which I have been covering since 2003.
- Managing a widespread network of stringers, fixers and translators to enable thorough coverage of a rapidly changing region for both the magazine and the associated website.
- Maintaining contacts with diplomats, politicians, think tanks, influential actors, activists and intelligence sources in all regions in order to provide context and analysis for on-the-ground reporting.
- Working with world-renowned photojournalists on story development and logistics.
Among her previous articles one can find "The YouTube War"
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Oh they will wake up allright when the emps hit and fry their TVs in the middle of the NFL playoffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1P3mhaNt4k
(Gears of war, gears of war, gears of war, gears of war)
(Gears of war, gears of war, gears of war, gears of war)
Ethnic cleansing with no defending
These acts of genocide
A fatal ending with no surrendering
To cover up the crimes and lies
Smart bombs, precision guided armament
A more sophisticated way to end up dead
Still we search and invent such intelligent weapons
That kill each other like the gears of war
(Gears of war, gears of war)
Ho-rah!
(Gears of war, gears of war)
When you ride with thieves, then you die with thieves
Cross my heart and hope that you die (that you die)
When the smoke has cleared, the devil's in the mirror
And you see his warheads paint the sky, now you die!
Smart bombs, precision guided armament
A more sophisticated way to end up dead
Still we search and invent such intelligent weapons
That kill each other like the gears of war
Dave Mustaine is an interesting guy - claims to be a Messianic Jew and has been through addiction hell. Sure seems to write a lot of stuff about the ZWO and he can play the hell out of the guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcjN5BNU9CY&list=RDhcjN5BNU9CY
Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand
Fools like me, who cross the sea
And come to foreign lands
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs
Do you kill on God's command?
A country that's divided
Surely will not stand
My past erased, no more disgrace
No foolish naive stand
The end is near, it's crystal clear
Part of the master plan
Don't look now to Israel
It might be your homelands
Holy wars
Upon my podium, as the
Know it all scholar
Down in my seat of judgement
Gavel's bang, uphold the law
Up on my soapbox, a leader
Out to change the world
Down in my pulpit as the holier
Than-thou-could-be-messenger of God
Wage the war on organized crime
Sneak attacks, repel down the rocks
Behind the lines
Some people risk to employ me
Some people live to destroy me
Either way they die
They killed my wife, and my baby
With hopes to enslave me
First mistake, last mistake!
Paid by the alliance, to slay all the giants
Next mistake, no more mistakes!
Fill the cracks in, with judicial granite
Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't
Thinkin' it
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away
I know what I said, now I must scream of the overdose
And the lack of mercy killings
So, we are both Gog and Magog, all rolled up into one.
Excellent, at least the 2nd coming will be easy to set up. I'm getting popcorn.
Of course they have probably not considered the Russia and Syria and the Iran and Syria defence pacts. Or that Russia China and Iran are signatories to a mutal defence pact signed in 2008.
Remember the anonymous informant that told the u.s Iraq had WMD.... Code named Curveball and later admitted he lied....
Well here we go again. Same shit, different nation.
And most Merikans will buy it,,, hook,,,line,,, and sinker.
We just can't get enough WAR!
We just can't get enough WAR!
Well, that is the Rothschild way of getting rich. They've been financing both sides of wars since the Napoleonic era. JP Morgam learned well from him and they has bee financing both sides since WWi.
Blood spilled in war is the oil for the money making machines gears.
"JP Morgam" was their employee. Do a search.
yes, I am aware.
No. They, "the powers that be," can't get enough war. The American people have had enough. While as Patton said, "Americans love to fight," is true. We do not trust the amateurish, incompetent, inept, inferior, clumsy, unqualified, ham-fisted, cack-handed, bush league Obama White House to undertake any military activity. Moreover, Barry's a coward -- thank God. That maybe our salvation. And sales of Bourbon just keep on rising!
FOX news 24/7 that's all you need
The new evidence came from an anonymous president, codename "Golfball".
Time for Russia to place their fleet near Syria yet again
This Ukraine thing has been all about Syria. This is The US behaving just like you would expect. Russia saved Syria last time around, so the US figures, if it can sidetrack Russia in Ukraine, it can get what it wants. Ain't gonna happen.
The world is wise to the US hegemon.
The interweb is on to the game.
Next step, count on it, control the inter web.
We need to find an alternative. All you geeks out there, we need your help. Save us from our saviours!
https://freenetproject.org/
15 years and going strong...
Baghdad Bob somewhere is laughing his a** off at the US.
Syria is not going to invaded you can have that for sure. It doesn't matter what the Pentagon or NY times say.
In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird. (1984, Part two, Chapter 6)
In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. (Idem, Chapter 9)
War, it will be seen, not only accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way. (Idem, Chapter 9)
The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. (Idem, Chapter 9)
1984, by George Orwell, published in 1948. Was it a warning, Mr. Orwell? A prediction?
Between republican war mongers and democrat war mongers.. . I would say war is inevitable. They need it to prop up the failing system.
Putin should nuke the city of London now and stop Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon. When the NWO took down the World Trade Centers I lost all respect for them.
According to the Propaganda Piece,
"The Frenemy of my Frenemy...just happens to be my Enemy..."
I know what you did last summer.
The planners (and corporates) want their war. This time around UNSC will likely authorize.
It's easier to sell fear to Joe and Jane Sixpack around ISIS (Syria) rather than East Ukrainian rebels (Russia).
More references needed. Its just conjecture.
Police arrest lawyer questioning DNI James Clapper AFTER Senate hearing ends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biCjuQC3ogQ
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this occurred just after j.mccain nearly lost his mind
when the general advised him that a weapons build up to
ukraine was stupid, basically. mccain could not comprehend
that it would be not only irresponsible but perhaps deadly
to those he claims to support. he then pretty much dismissed
the relevance of the many lives that would likely be extinguished
and almost shit himself in stupefaction at the thought of a lost
opportunity to spread death and misery via arms deals.
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25.02.2015 Ukrainian crisis news. Latest news of Ukraine, Donbass, ISIS, NATO, USA, Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU7SUTt0BGo#t=73
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Jimmy Carter Hands John McCain His Ass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OYU0raRvJA
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General Petraeus Faints Reptilian Shapeshifting - Reptilian McCain look stunned (Original Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUwo6BOCH8U
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Police beating people protesting currency collapse in Kiev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oxNcFW1tQA#t=17
Russia China Iran need to get troops and equipment into Syria, Enforce an exclusion, ( no fly zone) around Syria, drive out ISIS, then we will see if the US NATO are prepared to risk confrontation with Russia /China
another whore heard from. lmao
Erm I don't think so...
Syria already have air defence capability to knock out B-1B and cruise or ballistic missiles crossing their sovereign borders.
Putin has warned back in 2013 that things will escalate quickly in the Middle East with weapons "not seen before":
http://www.globalresearch.ca/russian-advanced-weapons-for-syria-unreveal...
So dream on!
You have to bomb Syria to see what's in Syria.
"... for the world’s most influential English language weekly newsmagazine"
Aryn Baker has a habit of making things up. I'm sure Time Magazine is widely read and quoted in the US, but I know of no one who buys it, let alone reads it, in the UK and I'd guess something similar in other English-speaking countries.
Time Magazine's hey-day is long passed and like so many other printed publications, it has been largely displaced by the Internet. Articles like Aryn Baker's simply speed up the demise. In this vain, I'm puzzled why 24hr TV news channels still run a Press Review each evening to go thru tomorrow's papers and the relentless propaganda.
our past is destroyed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-36f3cR7Vvw
When Barry says 'sell gold'.... the war is on
Confirmed: ZIO USSA Goes Supernova Insane.
Sleep-on though, Amerikan sheeple - bother yourselves not.
Nothing is expected of you now.
Go gentle into that Good Night. Shh...
if anyone ever tells me horseshit like "oh we're helping the moderate rebels" I point out that the psychotic Jihadist who gleefully cannibalised a Syrian soldier was a member of those "moderates".
Tends to shut them up very quickly.
Aryn Baker. . . . was Judith "Stovepipe" Miller too busy at Fox News? Or maybe its a condition of her prison release terms that she use a pseudonym
So which will they invade FIRSt : Libya or Syria?
Another propaganda piece from the Herr Goebels media land. Does anyone read these rags anymore?
Good God people...Are you all dense?
This woman, Aryn Baker, has not only extensive ME experience but "Maintaining contacts with diplomats, politicians, think tanks, influential actors, activists and intelligence sources".
Really.
If you can't trust actors and activists for incisive knowledge and analysis of foreign policy, who can you trust?
Okay. Maybe just a bit more than politicians and intelligence sources, but you get the point.
I'm sure Putin, faced with these facts, will undoubtably volte face and allow his client state to be carpet-bombed by the Leader of the Free World.
It only makes sense.
'anonymous sunni businessman' said it all to me...
Clowns, just like this guy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdySeAEPKBM
They've got too much time on their hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=6z75PwWWNtI
Where's the UN ? They've been awfully quite lately.
They are working on global warming and universal gun control. No time to mediate.
I see a shovel but it's unclear whether the UN is mucking out the shit or digging it's own grave. At this rate the picture should come clear by 31December15.
Just make sure that after you bomb the crap out of Syria, import lots of pissed off Syrian "refugees" over here so we can enjoy the cultural enriching experience of living in fear of another jihadist attack on our own shopping malls.
There will be no US Syrian invasion. I call bullshit.
Not much of a proclamation, via proxy it has already happened.
I don't care who is getting killed as long as it's not Americans. I'm all for giving all ragheads all the bullets they want to kill themselves.
"Assad aligns with Russia"
Ho hum.
"Assad aligns with ISIS"
Yawn.
"Assad hacks Facebook and shuts down accounts of millions of Americans"
BOMB THAT FUCKER NOW!!
You’re welcome NSA, glad I could be of assistance.
meanwhile AFRICOM is in full swing?
When the time is right things will happen very quicly
I pretty sure Russia will not allow Syria to fall
not that I am pro Russian or pro US
That's just the way it is
New currency
chip
Hey it could be worse. You could be the carbon based life form in-lieu of a CIC and have to look at yourself in the mirror every morning. I think that selfie fake a couple of weeks ago was just to show us he actually likes looking at himself but I ain't buyin' it.
So,as an American, I'm supposed to support Putin and Co. In it's efforts to dethrone the dollar? Don't think so. Given a choice between a world dominated by Russia, China, or America,I choose America. Have fun down voting me.
Choose sides all you want, the bottom line is that the American Empire is finished.
DC slit all our throats years ago - we're just watching the train wreck happen in slow motion.
I don't think there are sides - it's top versus bottom
Pantsir-S1 test time coming up, perhaps.