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Russia Promises "Economic And Military" Aid To Syria As US Refloats Assad "Chemcial Weapons" Trial Balloon

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It has been a while since the US State Department, with the help of the UK-funded and US-supported Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, floated doctored YouTube clips of hundreds of Syrians dead as a result of Assad's chemical attacks. In fact, it has been almost exactly two years since the last time the US nearly launched an all out proxy war in Syria, one involving an axis of western powers and Qatar (whose natural gas this whole charade is all about) against another axis of Russia and China who were supportive of the Syrian government. Luckily, a last minute snafu by John Kerry allowed a de-escalation, which in turn resulted in the appearance of ISIS, whose entire purpose has been, as leaked Pentagon memos have revealed, to topple Assad.

And with collective memories short, and with the "diplomatic" playbook of the US State Department even shorter, the time has come to once again rekindle this particular fabulation.

Overnight the WSJ reported, in what may have been a far more pressing update than anything to do with Greece who ultimate fate has been known since 2010, that "U.S. intelligence agencies believe there is a strong possibility the Assad regime will use chemical weapons on a large scale as part of a last-ditch effort to protect key Syrian government strongholds if Islamist fighters and other rebels try to overrun them, U.S. officials said."

Note: no facts this time, not even planted ones - just beliefs.

The WSJ adds that "analysts and policy makers have been poring over all available intelligence hoping to determine what types of chemical weapons the regime might be able to deploy and what event or events might trigger their use, according to officials briefed on the matter."

But didn't the US supervise Assad's disposition of his chemical weapon stockpile two years ago as part of the military de-escalation? Nevermind, one needs a narrative and when creating fictions, facts are secondary.

Last year, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad let international inspectors oversee the removal of what President Barack Obama called the regime’s most deadly chemical weapons. The deal averted U.S. airstrikes that would have come in retaliation for an Aug. 21, 2013, sarin-gas attack that killed more than 1,400 people.

Since then, the U.S. officials said, the Assad regime has developed and deployed a new type of chemical bomb filled with chlorine, which Mr. Assad could now decide to use on a larger scale in key areas. U.S. officials also suspect the regime may have squirreled away at least a small reserve of the chemical precursors needed to make nerve agents sarin or VX. Use of those chemicals would raise greater international concerns because they are more deadly than chlorine and were supposed to have been eliminated.

The punchline: "the intelligence is “being taken very seriously because he’s getting desperate” and because of doubts within the U.S. intelligence community that Mr. Assad gave up all of his deadliest chemical weapons, a senior U.S. official said."

It would appear that the only thing desperate thing here is the ongoing attempt to regurgitate a plot which makes no sense. Then again, as we reported earlier this month in "The Noose Around Syria's Assad Tightens", the advent of ISIS has added a new wrinkle to the Assad "war", where as a result of a brutal, US-funded mercenary force which has taken over half of Syria's territory, Assad's days may indeed be numbered.

Which would provide for a useful return of the chemical weapons narrative: the "desperate dictator" is now a loose cannon, and all it takes is another false flag chemical attack to rerun the staged events of 2013, this time hopefully achieve the outcome the US is hoping for - planting a US-friendly regime, and one which would be agreeable to a Qatar pipeline crossing the land.

And then there are all the "positive" Keynesian externalities: after all there is nothing quite like a "limited" war to boost a nation's GDP. In this case, the nation being the US of course, by way of its military-industrial complex, which is to US military spending as the US banking criminal syndicate is to the Fed's monetary policy.

The only question is whether this would be a limited war, and as Syria just revealed it won't be, because yet again Russia has made it very clear that any US military intervention in Syria, no matter how depleted the Syrian army is due to fighting ISIS on the ground every day, will be met with a proportional Russian response.

As Reuters reported, Syria's foreign minister said on a visit to Moscow on Monday that top ally Russia had promised to send political, economic and military aid to his country.

"I got a promise of aid to Syria - politically, economically and militarily," Walid al-Moualem said at a televised news conference in Moscow after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin.

And so the US gambit for a quick and painless annexation of the only country that stands in the way of European energy independence from Gazprom has failed and if John Kerry's diplomatic apparatus wants to continue its crusade against Assad, it will have to do so against Russian and, shortly thereafter, China which has also made it quite clear any US aggression in the middle east will be met with an appropriate response.

Keep a close eye as this story unfolds because as the Greek (and perhaps Puerto Rican) debt crisis hits a crescendo, the world's largest military force will be sure to not let it "go to waste."

 

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Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:26 | 6249800 SickDollar
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WOW , TODAY HAS BEEN A CRAZY DAY

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:37 | 6249845 hedgeless_horseman
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"U.S. intelligence agencies believe there is a strong possibility the Assad regime will use chemical weapons on a large scale as part of a last-ditch effort to protect key Syrian government strongholds if Islamist fighters and other rebels try to overrun them, U.S. officials said."

Chemical weapons on a large scale like the USA does in every Hellfire Thermobaric missile fired from a drone or helicopter, or a different kind of large scale?

Marilyn Hewson's company, Lockheed Martin, makes the Hellfire missile...

...and a little
girl who was burned beyond recognition by a U.S. drone and left for
dead in a trashcan is about to undergo reconstructive surgery.

Hellfire thermobaric warhead using a metal augmented explosive charge is used primarily in urban warfare, against bunkers, buildings caves and other concealed targets. This warhead is designed to inflict greater damage in multi-room structures, compared to the Hellfire's standard or blast-fragmentation warheads. The Metal Augmented Charge or MAC (Thermobaric) Hellfire, designated AGM-114N, has completed rapid development cycle in 2002 and was deployed during OIF by US Marines Helicopters in Iraq. The new warhead contains a fluorinated aluminum powder that is layered between the warhead casing and the PBXN-112 explosive fill. When the explosive detonates, the aluminum mixture is dispersed and rapidly burns. The resultant sustained high pressure is extremely effective against enemy personnel and structures. The AGM-114N is designed for deployment from helicopters such as the AH-1W or UAVs such as the Predator drones.

    

    http://defense-update.com/products/h/hellfire.htm

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:39 | 6249880 COSMOS
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Is Assad getting desperate, or is it really the USSA?

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:02 | 6249983 hedgeless_horseman
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Desperate?  Pfffttt.  President Obama isn't desperate! 

The Nobel Peace Prize winner brags that he is, "Really good at killing people," with a Hellfire Thermobaric chemical weapon that...

"...contains a fluorinated aluminum powder that is layered between the warhead casing and the PBXN-112 explosive fill. When the explosive detonates, the aluminum mixture is dispersed and rapidly burns. The resultant sustained high pressure is extremely effective against enemy personnel and structures."

That isn't desperate, that is confident.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:11 | 6250063 pods
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Thanks HH, but man that is a tough fucking thing to stomach.  

And to think it has gone on over and over again, under the guise of protecting us fat fucking hot dog eating beer swilling degenerates.

pods

 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:39 | 6250452 Latina Lover
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Cosmos, my guess it is the USSA and EU that are becoming more desperate, as their central bankster controlled systems start to falter and fail.  Greece is merely the canary in the coal mine.

The USSA needs to destroy Assad so that their puppet Quatari state can build nat gas pipelines to the EU, nat gas sold in USD's of course.

Problems are that they are way behind schedule taking out Assad and the myth of USSA LNG coming to the EU's rescue is becoming exposed as a bald faced lie.  At the very least, USSA LNG gas will be 2x times more expensive than Russian gas, much more harmful to the environment, and unlikely to meet more than a few percentages of the EU's total mult decade needs.  Logically,  Russia and the EU should integrate energy and industry, joining the China led Silk Road 2.0, and leave the USSA to suck hind tit.  Of course the USSA central banksters would never allow anyone to cut them out of what they think is theirs, hence the wars, chaos, color revolutions etc.

Tue, 06/30/2015 - 05:07 | 6253167 not dead yet
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There won't be a Qatari, Israeli, or Iran pipeling through Syria in your lifetime if Assad goes. There will be more wars and the pipeline will draw bombs and bullets like stink draws flies. After the first few deaths only slave laborers, if you can find guards to keep them working, would be working the lines and they will die like flies. It's only in the movies that everything turns out peachy and back to normal the day after the a war ends.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:15 | 6250089 Government need...
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Think thermite vapor, plus the deadly effect of hydrofluoric acid.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:41 | 6250240 Colonel Klink
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Obama, if at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again!

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 20:15 | 6251960 stilletto
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Where does the article source the '1400' dead in the chemical attack?! No evidenced report or UN report goes above a few hundred. Casualty inflation in the media again. Why not mention that the UN report did not blame Assad and pointed to it being a 'unfriendly flag' attack by the rebels from rebel held territory on civilians to provide an excuse for US intervention. These facts are well established so why not give them prominance?

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:42 | 6249911 Mike Honcho
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Doug Rokke has reasearched the use of depleated uranium in Iraq from the USA.  The internationally illegal use I might add.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:50 | 6250293 sgt_doom
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Intelligence agencies???

Like Mikey Morell warning us about 9/11?

Oopsy, he forgot to????

Being one of the few Americans to have actually read the congressional after-action reports on the CIA and FBI after 9/11 --- there are no intelligence nor federal law enforcement agencies in America --- And that is for certain!

China which has also made it quite clear any US aggression in the middle east will be met with an appropriate response.

Huh?  What'll they do, raise the wages of their workers and refuse any more jobs offshored from Amerika?

Then I say, bring it on, Middle Kingdom!!!!!

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:15 | 6250769 Max Steel
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they will do what you always do bomb your boats if they dare to invade iran .

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:35 | 6249857 CrimsonAvenger
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Yeah, but since gold and silver are less than a half percent off, clearly it's all for show - no real risk here.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:39 | 6249883 Dr. Engali
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Every day is a crazy day as the world accelerates its downward spiral into a chaotic mess that will conclude with a few billion less people when WWIII inevitability movies from proxy wars to hot wars.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:23 | 6250144 asteroids
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If Putin was smart he should fly in planes full of rubles and offer to refinance Greek banks as long as they promise to drop the Euro.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:36 | 6250548 Budd aka Sidewinder
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We haven't had a draft in 40 years....I just passed a mom walking 3 boys across the street to a friend's house...the boys looked to be about 12 years old!  Our boys can't even walk down the street by themselves anymore...those millenial soccer moms aren't going to let their babies go die in some God forsacken hell hole this time around

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:30 | 6249801 JustObserving
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As Seymour Hersh demonstrated, the Nobel prize Winner lied about sarin last time to try to start a war in Syria.

Seymour Hersh exposes US government lies on Syrian sarin attack 10 December 2013

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.

Hersh’s detailed account, based on information provided by current and former US intelligence and military officials, was published Sunday in the London Review of Books. The article, entitled “Whose sarin?,” exposes as a calculated fraud the propaganda churned out day after day by the administration and uncritically repeated by the media for a period of several weeks to provide a pretext for a military attack on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/pers-d10.html

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:36 | 6249859 silvermail
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Russia should begin arms shipments to different countries in order to protect the world from the United States and terrorism.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:39 | 6250866 datura
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Russia is already doing that (they have been arming Venezuela, Argentina, Syria, Iran, India, China, Vietnam, Egypt etc. etc.), but I agree that the scale of those weapons supply should really increase. 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:41 | 6249901 silvermail
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Barack Obama lied? Give me at least one case, when Barack Obama was not lying?

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:59 | 6249980 seabiscuit
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In the interest of fairness, here are some examples of Barack Obama not lying:

“the foreign intelligence Surveillance court is transparent.”
Politifact.com

“We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system”
cbsnews.com

“I think it’s important for us to understand that the Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration”
abcnews.com

“Every idea that we’ve put forward are ones that traditionally have been supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.”
Like Raising taxes?

No signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law
Obama Lies to Keep Czars

I Have Always Been Against Iraq
Washington Post

My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country
CNN

Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.
Obama Campaign Video

I Barely Know Rezko
Sun Times

“We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas.”
Politifact.com

“If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it”
Washingtonpost.com

“The NSA is not abusing its power”
Washingtonpost.com

SHIT! Nevermind.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:08 | 6250040 Ms. Erable
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How about: "We're five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

Though he has not transformed at all - still a red-diaper Kenyan munching on a bag of dicks with a Wookie cock up his ass - the country has completed its fundamental transformation into a tribally-run banana republic, waving a big stick at anyone its masters don't want sitting atop large piles of resources.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:39 | 6250566 Budd aka Sidewinder
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"Jonathan Gruber was some random guy that worked on somebody's staff.  I don't know who he is."

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:31 | 6250183 Calmyourself
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Deepstate dumbshits no one bought this crap story last time, perhaps you should det a tac nuke.. Where?  I think you know where...

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:23 | 6250136 El Vaquero
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When, in his 2008 campaign, he said he'd shift the focus from the Iraq war to the Afghanistan war.  He did send more troops to Afghanistan.

 

(Now that is a loaded statement.)

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:30 | 6249824 where_is the_nuke
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The Khazars gang cannot attack Iran until Assad is gone. Hence is the new blabbering by the Khazar controlled US media. The Khazars are in full retard mode.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:47 | 6249888 813kml
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Syria must surely have an imaginary nuclear weapons program that needs some regulating.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:55 | 6249978 petkovplamen
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Just like Iran's imaginary nukear program that USA/Israel keeps on babbling about for years but has never shown a shred of evidence.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:42 | 6249915 Freddie
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Russia, Iran and Hezbollah need to step it up to help protect Syria.  

Also Russia needs to help DPR and NPR rapidly detect and take out Ukie artillerry used to murder citizens in Donetsk and Lugansk.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:30 | 6250510 chunga
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With the Russian pipeline being diverted through Turkey, why would they (Turkey) want to stay in NATO? That doesn't make sense. Syria and Greece could also potentially connect to this pipeline. How far does the rest of Europe want to go in keeping this from happening, which would probably translate to lower energy costs, to appease USSA? It doesn't make any sense.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:30 | 6249830 Firewood
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"US Intelligence agencies believe..."

 

Oxymorons and just plain regular USSA morons

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:37 | 6249872 Z_End
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"US Intelligence agencies WANT you to believe..."  Fixed it for you.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:42 | 6249899 COSMOS
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I believe that if we let more African muslims into the USA and they procreate more AIPAC Uncle Toms like Obama, the USSA will be a better place.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:32 | 6249837 dcohen
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Israel today, articles in Israeli press, admitted they aid and abet Al Qaeda ( they call them "Rebels", "moderate" Head Choppers and Cannibals)

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:33 | 6249848 Z_End
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Russian Spetznaz to start showing up in Syria and capping the opposition shortly? I don't believe Putin will let go of Syria easily, if at all. Interesting times...

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:35 | 6249854 q99x2
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Dear Putin, Please save the United States of America from the NWO.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:37 | 6249867 where_is the_nuke
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The NWO is not the problem you fool. The OWO is.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:48 | 6249944 HonkyShogun
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Eat a dick, tyrant lackey.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:02 | 6250025 where_is the_nuke
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Seems like lifelong brainwashing has taken a toll on you. Be very afraid of a coming hypothetical NWO while bending over and getting fucked by the OWO everyday. And don't forget you absolve yourself of all individual responsibilities and keep shivering at the thought of a NWO.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:38 | 6250564 froze25
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OK, I am ignorant here.  What is the OWO, is it different than the NWO?  Is the NWO just a reemergence of the OWO?

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:59 | 6250932 where_is the_nuke
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Even I am not sure about that. But it is ridiculous to be afraid of a NWO while we all are basically slaves in the OWO. There are too much disinfo about everything on the net. One of the version says-- the NWO will be a meritocratic one world government , basically a synthesis of capitalism and communism.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:28 | 6250827 Anusocracy
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The currently sought after NWO will be the OWO on steroids. After the dust settles, it would have a budget in excess of 50% of the world economic output.

Only an idiot or a fool would want that.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 16:09 | 6251019 where_is the_nuke
Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:07 | 6250050 Freddie
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The ZWO.

I was reading some web site about Dale Earnhardt being against the Confederate Flag.   Maybe white couthersn will start shutting off Trayvon Ball Team idiocy and NASCAR And TV.  The dumb white southern males love cheering on SEC college football trayvons, the NFL, NBA and ZWO shit heads in NASCAR.   Wake up idiots,

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:37 | 6249873 MFL8240
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Dishonesty has become the new trademark of American since they elected the Kenyan liar!  I would protect my country too if I were Mr. Putin.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:46 | 6249933 Bankster Kibble
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It's been longer than that,but good point.  I keep thinking the plotters in D.C. are finally going to be embarassed because they keep getting caught in lies, but no . . .

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:31 | 6250165 El Vaquero
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Nope, they only give a fuck about our opinions so far as they will meet actual resistance to their goals.  They are either going to get vaporized in a nuclear fireball in a war that they started, or they are going to take and take from the US populace until it is pandemonium here and we tear ourselves apart, hopefully stringing them up by their balls in the process.  A lot of those fucks really need to be taken out back, beaten to within an inch of their lives, and then have it pointed out repeatedly that is what violence is. 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:18 | 6250109 Freddie
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The USA has been corrupt since at least 1861 with the banksters war. 1.1 million American men murdered to carpet baggers could take over the south and loot it for the banksters. 

Just like the Ukraine and Libya.   All about destabilizing and looting.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:38 | 6249874 Fun Facts
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The USA has lost it's sovereignty and now takes all orders directly from the ZWO elders who borrow the US military for illegal wars to rape, plunder and destroy sovereign states.

It's as simple as staging hoaxes such as the PNAC New Pearl Harbor to manufacture the political consent for any depraved agenda in donkeystan USA.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:39 | 6249885 reader2010
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WW3! 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:00 | 6249920 seabiscuit
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Hmmmm, bidness as usual. Where did Assad get these alleged weapons?

CIA director William Webster said in Senate testimony back in 1989: “West European firms were instrumental in supplying the required precursor chemicals and equipment.” Asked why the companies did it, Webster answered: “Some, of course, are unwitting of the ultimate destination of the products they supply, others are not. In the latter case, I can only surmise that greed is the explanation.”

The German government acknowledged that between 2002 and 2006, it had approved  the export to Syria of more than 100 tons of so-called dual-use chemicals. Among the substances were hydrogen fluoride, which can be used to make Teflon,  and also sarin. The exports were allowed under the condition that Syria would only use them for civilian purposes. The British government also recently acknowledged exports of dual-use chemicals to Syria.

Both the British and German governments said there’s no evidence the chemicals were used to make weapons. Snowden showed the close working relationship between the British and the US yet now we are to believe that the left hand does not know the right hand exists. Only the witless can believe this chorus again.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:45 | 6249930 localizer
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If it wasn't for the Russian support Assad would have been removed a LONG time ago... in fact the whole Ukraine adventure was orchestrated by the USSA as a direct response to the Russian "meddling" in Syria...

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:54 | 6249974 COSMOS
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They were going to do the Uke thing no matter what.  The long term play was to marginalize the Russians and try to break them down into pieces for USSA corporations to exploit.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:44 | 6250260 localizer
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Agreed. Yet that Syrian deal that Putin brokered was the last straw for the neocons... someone messing up their war plans must be taught a lesson... if Putin didn't step in there at the time Syria would have been carpet bombed by NATO and Assad would have been dragged through the streets of Damascus with an AK47 up his ass, just as it happened with Gaddafi in Libya. 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:06 | 6250384 Stumpy4516
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Putin cooperated with NATO/US to force Syria to give up what little chemical weapons they had.  Those were the only weapons that concerned the US should they put ground troops into action.  Putin to this day refuses to honor the contract to sell S-300 anti aircraft missiles to Syria.  Putin to this day STILL has not delivered S-300 or S-400 missiles to Iran as required by a contract signed long ago.

Russia also forced Saddam to give up his chemical weapons by consenting to the UN sanctions.  Then Iraq was invaded, twice - and Russia did nothing. 

Russia/Putin did nothing for Libya.  Or Serbia.   Putin gave consent to the UN/US actions and blockcades against the rebels in Yemen.

 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 16:10 | 6251021 localizer
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You make some good points and there's been justified criticism about Russia 'abandoning' its friends time after time yet there's as much Russia can do and they're really walking on a tightrope. I mean what would you suggest they should have done in the case of Libya - send troops in? That would mean war with NATO since that mission was authorized by NATO members... same with Iraq, that operation was authorized even by the UN... how they got that authorization is another story. Also one must realize - if Russia starts supplying advanced weapons systems to US/Israel enemies they will be slapped with massive sanctions that will send their economy down the drain, that would basically mean sanctions similar to those imposed on Iran. We are still at a stage whereby negotiations are possible (and there are indeed many angles here and things happening in the background that we're not fully aware of, e.g. what the Saudis agreed with the Russians recently), but if shit does hit the fan and the gloves come off then the situation can change very rapidly.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 19:13 | 6251796 Stumpy4516
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Yes, Russia should have sent troops in.  If the Russia's leadership elite class intention is to protect Russia long term they should have taken a stand long ago.  The UN sanctions against Iraq happened because Russia gave it's consent for the sanctions.  As they have betrayed other allies in a like fashion.

Not only should Russia have supplied advanced weapons to their allies they should have built military bases.  The gloves have been off for a long time, it is just that Russia keeps running backwards, loosing ground and weaker as allies are destroyed.  They will stop once Russia is clearly pushed back within the confines of Russia, and then the econimic warfare will really ramp up.

Based upon actions the leadership of Russia has deep conflicts of interests and fractured allegiances.  It is easy to make a case that they, including Putin, have cooperated and trying to position themselves to have a place at the feast should Russia again fail and be dismantled.  At the very least they have made decisions based upon short term profits.

Clearly, all remaining "allies" of Russia must not trust Putin's intent.  For Syria to allow Russia to now negotiate on Syria's behalf is beyond stupid. 

The best summary one might try to make on behalf of Russia is that Russia would have liked to help it's allies but is far too weak to put up any resistance.

Tue, 06/30/2015 - 06:16 | 6253155 localizer
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I think we need to understand that "making a stand" risks a major confrontation with USSA/NATO and a possible WW3, this is clearly not what the Russians want. Also I think some people are underestimating what it actually takes to "make a stand" - the costs are massive. Look at the history of countries who tried to "take a stand" - they are all in the shitter one way or the other. The USSA uses all the means available to take them down - political, economic, military, you name it. So Russia today is in no position to openly fight USSA anywhere. USSR times are over. What the Russians are hoping to achieve from what I see is close cooperation with China and BRICS to reduce the role of USD and establish a truly multipolar world in the long term. Time may actually be on their side as the West may in fact implode under the burden of debt created by the big ponzi scheme...

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:46 | 6249940 Dr. Engali
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I swear I'm reliving the 70s minus the afros and bell bottoms. It's like everything that happened between the bad acid trip I had in the 80s and now was just a dream.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:11 | 6250412 Berspankme
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I'm still wearing bell bottoms but my afro has thinned

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 12:53 | 6249972 lasvegaspersona
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Control of the media is very handy. Just pick a perp (Russia, China); describe the 'crime' (hacking, slaughter of innocents, copyright infringements, littering) and there ya have it...public opinion swayed....for a few hours....

There can be no challenge to the official party line.

The problem is that one good earthquake (or wardrobe malfunction) and you have to remind the folks all over again what you need them to believe and who they are supposed to hate.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:02 | 6250021 WTFUD
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It's reassuring to hear that Russia is standing by one of its Ally's.

FUCK YOU VICHY DC!

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:01 | 6250024 farflungstar
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dupe

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:13 | 6250028 farflungstar
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Just fucking do it already! Christ almighty the AmeriKans aren't happy unless others are suffering for their lies! Their belligerence thru that obvious douchenozzle Asshole Carter knows no bounds!

Put your fucking boots on the ground and get rid of the "eeeeevil" dictator of the week or shut the fuck up about it and leave these poor people alone, or better yet - get rid of the fucking terrorists that you and your scumbag buddies Turkey and Saudi Arabia have unleashed. Fucking giant assholes always wanna help, don't they? But the help comes with more death and destruction and anarchy than most people expect. Clearly they don't care about their already shot to hell credibility (as they keep lying, getting busted, and DOING IT AGAIN), and it may be safe to surmise that what we are seeing is how warmongering cunts who don't wanna get their hands dirty or be called warmongering cunts, who have no experience at war other than barking for it from a safe distance - wage war. 

 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:09 | 6250053 fightapathy
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BRICS bank customer #1= Assad's Syria, should he win. The whole freakin country is one giant ruin. It'll take 20 years to rebuild it. But if Assad falls and the FSA or ISIS take charge, the place will never be rebuild.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:13 | 6250080 Government need...
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Are we going to be fooled again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMD_W_r3Fg

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:20 | 6250118 SmedleyButlersGhost
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Where is that douche bag Kerry?  Certainly a Bronze star 3 time Purple Heart winner wouldn't let a couple of broken bones keep him out of action this long.  Something ain't right.  Not saying he is worth a  shite but it is curious.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:42 | 6250588 BarkingCat
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Purple Heart? That is nothing.

He's a lightweight compared to his boss who collects purple helmets by the mouthful.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:51 | 6250914 Wahooo
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Peace Prize and Purple Heart will take care of everything.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:23 | 6250147 lolmao500
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Yeah but Russia is busy in Ukraine so...

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:29 | 6250829 Max Steel
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Eh ? Busy ? Syria is standing only because of him .

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:25 | 6250155 Herdee
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The biggest blow to the U.S. and Saudi Arabia will come when Iran signs the nuclear treaty.Oil will drop bigtime.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:39 | 6250220 newsoutlet
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People in Donetsk who live under putin regime terrorist occupation gathered into protest. They demand from putin terrorists to stop using them as human shield because putin regime terrorists are placing their artillery next to civilian houses, makes fire against Ukraine civilians and army and then run away from position because they know that there is reply fire to position from which putin regime terrorists made attack. So in result it's Donetsk civilians who suffer and are used as human shield by putin goons.

After this video from the ground you can observe how putin regime propaganda media once again twists and lies about this event saying it was protest against Ukraine government.

 

https://youtu.be/tRMuqO9ZjnI

 

That is what putin regime supports.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:51 | 6250294 SMC
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Replace "putin regime" with Israeli and "Donetsk" with Palastine and you might get some to believe you.

Propaganda requires finesse.  

Back to the school house with you, perhaps Madame V.N. will punish you pleasureably!  ;-)

ROFL!

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:33 | 6250533 Latina Lover
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Ukie clowns like Newsoutlet are parroting mindless pro Kiev propaganda, while filling out visa applications to the EU to avoid the draft.  I personally find it amusing that the EU added the United Arab Emirates , Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu Timor-Leste to the visa-free list, but somehow forgot to add the Ukraine, ROTFLMAO! I guess you losers are the wrong color, as in fascist Blue.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:48 | 6250632 BarkingCat
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Fuck, would you stop putting "THE" in front of "UKRAINE"!!!!

Holly shit, do you say - I am flying to THE FRANCE with a layover in THE GERMANY.????

 

 

EU added those countries because they want to import more 3rd world shit into Europe. Pollute the countries within it and erase nationalism. Evil fucks that they are.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:01 | 6250677 Latina Lover
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The Ukraine is a literal translation from Russian of 'the borderlands' or 'the steppes', in other worlds a plurality of regions. If there was only one homogenous borderland, then Ukraine as a singular would be appropriate.

Think  'united states of america'  versus 'the united states of america' and you may get the distinctions.

Russian lacks a definite article so this can be confusing.

As for the last  2 sentences of your post, I agree 100%

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 20:50 | 6252054 Sir Edge
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Plus ONE Kabillion For Handling That With Intelligence Instead Of With Rancor...  +K

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:51 | 6250642 froze25
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Seems the immigration strategy since the 1960's has been to flood the West (US/Eurozone) with Muslims or basically non-Caucasians in general.  So this makes sense to me.  Ukrainians are still Caucasians so NO SOUP FOR YOU!  Unless of coarse you are a woman and wish to be an American Stripper.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:47 | 6250899 Mike Masr
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Newsoutlet is a Latvian troll. He use the following: a.k.a. viedoklis_lv, a.k.a. freedom123, a.k.a. newsoutlet

 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 16:02 | 6250977 silvermail
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If the people in Donetsk, so much do not like Putin and Russia, then why the fascists, who illegally seized power in Kiev, so afraid to hold a democratic referendum in Donetsk?

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:05 | 6250371 newsoutlet
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I love to see ho putin regime puppies slime to my comments and try to make a stand - it's so cute :D

And than they bark in pathetic way without any point because they know very well that they can't do anything with truth I bring in materials I post.

Just like in this case - I post video materials from the ground that poves putin regime terrorist crimes and how putin regime propaganda manipulates and lies to viewers and what is reply from putin regime pathetic puppy trolls? Nothing - just a small farts :D

That great!

And where is my favorite pathetic puppies stoogie and maxi stili? Did they pissed their self again? :D

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:09 | 6250400 Berspankme
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Actually nobody pays any attention to you newsdouche. You are a good little troll but recognized as an infintessimal prick

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:16 | 6250432 newsoutlet
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First of all everyone can observe that my comments receive lot of attention on many pages long from putin regime goons :D

And second - from ZH I have received booming amount of visitors to my blog https://stopputinregime.wordpress.com/ - so THANKS! :D

 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:17 | 6250448 Berspankme
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Is that your faggot trolling site for BFF's?

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:22 | 6250478 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Are you aware that you graze?

Jughead botlike copypaste with a list of the same phrases, you had nowhere to fart?

It is obvious that you are an employee of the program on the vilification of the Kremlin. Salary you're not going to receive for such ticky-tacky posts.

Your reasoning at the level of plants. You wasted the money employer pay. Need to check such as you to a psychiatrist.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:33 | 6250507 newsoutlet
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Ahhh here you are my little pathetic putin puppy :D I was talking about you and  - hey - here you are - pissed yourself all over but still made it to my comments as I expected. Well, little feller? What is that you are barking there? Wanted to make a stand? Well that’s a good boy, you do that. Try to be like a real troll not like this pathetic thing you are. So predictable, so pathetic. I call you and you are here. Just like pathetic puppy :D

 

Hey you farted again little feller :D

Now, make a bark! I order you - BARK! You listen when I tell you! BARK! :D

 

ha ha ha :D

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 16:26 | 6251109 silvermail
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You're a WH puppy who loves the truth in the video? Then look the truth in the video, I'll give you it! LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AQKyedLAsg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrU_p_zUZis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WlJB0A9MxI

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:06 | 6250387 rejected
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I am wondering if this is some damn machine they got rigged with Artificial Intelligence or just plain dirt human stupid.

I'll go with the latter as I don't think a machine can be this stupid...

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:13 | 6250431 TheFourthStooge-ing
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It is a standard troll, lives here for the amusement of those present.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:26 | 6250818 Volkodav
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ignorant...

That crowd was little over 100   was never 200

not all one opinion, and many just observe

Donetsk is over 2 million population

so one in 10,000 is there...? 

this maybe your worst "proof" ever?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:43 | 6250258 Moustache Rides
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I wonder if Kirsten Dunst is available to help sell this.

 

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://content7.flixster.com/photo/9...

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:06 | 6250381 PrayingMantis
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... looks like a Putin gambit ... it gives him good long-term chances to avoid opening Assad's position to the West's sneaky development for control (invasion) ... Putin's position is solid but passive ... in return for the promises of economic and military aid to Syria, Putin receives a lead in military and economic development and a strong business initiative to quash Qatar's pipeline challenge to Russian dominance (monopoly) of energy provisions to Europe ... Knight takes Pawn ... Check! ...

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:16 | 6250438 Berspankme
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If someone like Russia would just launch a tactical nuke on DC, I think they'd find the rest of the country(minus California) is filled with pretty agreeable sorts

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:54 | 6250650 froze25
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I think, even to my dismay because I don't wish to see anyone get nuked anywhere the responses would be, "ehh, it could of been worse."

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:30 | 6250833 Wahooo
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That would be the most direct way of dealing with the problem but it won't happen. More likely a malcontent overseas organization will let loose a dirty bomb there, which will leave the terrorist infrastructure intact and our liberties will be furthered locked down as a resilt.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:16 | 6250441 Raul44
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Just like Netanyahu used malaysian plane crash in ukraine as a cover to launch Protective Edge against palestinians(so that world press is occupied more by something else), now US is using EU crisis to continue warfare in the Syria(so that they can kill syrian civilians while press is occupied by Greece and the EU).  

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:39 | 6250567 newsoutlet
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Everything calm in putinsland  - people literally drowns in oil :D

https://youtu.be/zcGbg5CqiVA

Everything just fine.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:55 | 6250657 froze25
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That is true for more than just Putin, if you control energy, you control human output and productivity and advancement.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:03 | 6250686 Latina Lover
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Newsoutlet is just jealous that Russia has energy to spare, while the Ukies have rotating blackouts. Guess he misses the Crimean Gas supply, LOL>

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 16:34 | 6251138 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Latvian President: "The reality is that Russia is our neighbor and in any case, we should look for the ways of developing good neighborly relations between our countries."

http://tass.ru/en/world/803808

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 18:13 | 6251527 Volkodav
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Jealous?         

I Love Oil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EucLgHzuZaw

 

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:06 | 6250708 newsoutlet
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The whole page is my and little pathetic trolly barked I have no attention :D

Ha ha ha..

little stoogie puppy got shy suddenly - I wonder why :D

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:37 | 6250863 Max Steel
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never underestimate the collective diatribe of nato baltic shoeboys . You need obamacare .

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 16:25 | 6251102 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Made me laugh with heartiness. Shit, there you have a panic or something at the headquarters, such nonsense post?

Unlike Latvian troll paid potato daily when not cleaning toilets for Poles or moonlighting as honeydipper, and unlike Ukrops Navoz Brigade three-kopek paid trolling and more the same lala and jumping, I working not for internet money.

My work precedence takes over ZH comment sections. Busy sometimes less, sometimes more. When time for amusement allows, sometimes fun to kick around cheap banderatarded propagandists such as yourself.

Recognize that you're on my emotions fixated. I am your master. If you think that I am upset, you feel good. And not to think, you feel bad. To me, this is a very primitive behavior you exhibit. Virtual prize illusory, and the real profit is non-existent.

You're sick, son. You do have internet addiction, boorish education and virtual ideals. You're thinking stereotypically, as taught by your grandfather-warden. From the likes of you, beaten only road down the hill - at first the computer, then bottle, then cirrhosis. Turn on the brain before it is too late.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:11 | 6250741 gun4A
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Well, this is what baba Vanga said ~40 years ago:

World war 3 will start shortly after the fall of Syria. Syria will collapse down to the feet of its conqueror but the conqueror is going to turn out to be somebody else. In 2016 Western Europe will be empty - without people. Everybody will die because of some strange chemical in the air, soil and food.

 

She was illiterate, so she didn't know anything about radiation...

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 15:34 | 6250850 robertocarlos
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Russian backing of Syria is what saved us from a shooting WWIII last year. Keep it up Putin.

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 16:43 | 6251187 Tigermoth
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Gas, Syria, Greece, Russia, EU, USA; all these things are tied together. The EU has finally figured out it needs Russian gas (Northstream doubling) and the southern route being revisited, via Turkey and Greece, is only one of the EU alternatives; the other being Eastring via Bulgaria and Romania. This is why Qatar needs Syria cleaned up quick before Gazprom gets their pipeline in and makes Qatar's pointless. Its hard to lay a pipeline through a war zone, and Gazprom won't be, so the pressure on Assad is going to get heavier and Russian support for him is going to get stronger to keep the brakes on Qatar's dreams.

This article is a great analysis of the geopolitical game being played out via gas pipelines to EU. Syria isn't mentioned but hotting up the war makes sense after reading this.

 

http://thesaker.is/eastring-vs-balkan-stream-the-battle-for-greece/

Eastring vs. Balkan Stream: The Battle for Greece

"Thus, the future of Balkan energy geopolitics currently comes down to whatever happens in Greece in the near future. While it’s possible that a Greek Prime Minister other than Tsipras could continue moving forward with Balkan Stream, the likelihood is significantly less than if Tsipras stayed put in office. Creating the conditions for his removal is the indirect way in which the US and EU prefer to influence the course of Russia’s future energy shipments through the Balkans, hence why such pressure is being applied on Tsipras at this moment. His referendum proposal clearly took them all by surprise, since real democracy is practically unheard of in Europe nowadays, and nobody expected him to directly refer to his constituents prior to making one of the country’s most pivotal decisions in decades. Through these means, he can escape the Catch-22 trap that the Troika set for him, and in doing so, also save the future of Balkan Stream.

Concluding Thoughts

There’s more to the Eastring pipeline proposal than initially meets the eye, hence the need to unravel the strategic motivations behind in it in order to better comprehend its asymmetrical impact. It’s clear that the US and EU want to neutralize the geopolitical applicability that Balkan Stream would have in spreading multipolarity throughout the region, which explains their tandem approach in trying to stop it. The US is stoking the flames of violent Albanian nationalism in Macedonia in order to obstruct Balkan Stream’s intended path, while the EU is handily proposing an alternative route through the unipolar-controlled Eastern Balkans as a predetermined ‘way out’ for Russia. Both Euro-Atlantic forces are conspiring together in indirectly trying to topple the Greek government through an engineered election or internal coup in order to remove Tsipras from office, knowing that this singular move would deal the greatest and most immediate blow to Balkan Stream. While it’s not clear what will eventually happen with Tsipras or Russia’s pipeline plans in general, it’s irrefutable that the Balkans have become one of the main and repeated flashpoints for the New Cold War, and the competition between the unipolar and multipolar worlds in this geostrategic theater is only just beginning to play out."

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 17:00 | 6251282 Tarshatha
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Time for a distraction (War).

Mon, 06/29/2015 - 20:18 | 6251970 stilletto
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Where does the article source the '1400' dead in the chemical attack?! No evidenced report or UN report goes above a few hundred. Casualty inflation in the media again. Why not mention that the UN report did not blame Assad and pointed to it being a 'unfriendly flag' attack by the rebels from rebel held territory on civilians to provide an excuse for US intervention. These facts are well established so why not give them prominance? all we see is another attempt by the USA to manufdacture an excuse to indulge in bloody wars. Vampire washington at play again.

Tue, 06/30/2015 - 00:42 | 6252903 onmail
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Bible promises a thousand year peace after the great war
(But is it a peace of nuclear radiation?)

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