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Syria Is Fixed! Kerry Devises Farcical "Transition Plan" With Russia, Others
As those who follow Syria’s nearly half decade-old civil war are probably aware, John Kerry, Sergei Lavrov, and their counterparts from other “interested” countries including of course Saudi Arabia recently began holding Friday meetings in Vienna in an attempt to work out a “political” solution to the conflict which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and precipitated the worst migrant crisis in Europe’s history.
Thus far, the results of the talks have been predictably underwhelming with all sides agreeing to little more than to keep talking.
The main sticking point: the fate of Bashar al-Assad. Earlier this month, Washington and Riyadh begrudgingly allowed Tehran to have a seat at the table in the negotiations which of course makes sense considering the Iranians (along with various militias backed by Tehran) are doing most of the fighting on the ground and considering that when it comes to the political future of Syria, no country is more keen on preserving its interests than Iran.
Predictably, things didn’t go so well. Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian accused Saudi Arabia of playing a “negative and unconstructive” role, while Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir accused the Iranians of being an “occupying force” in Syria. The spat culminated with Tehran telling Riyadh that is “none of Saudi Arabia’s business how Iran fights terrorism.”
A few weeks went by and Russia began to circulate a “draft” document that was a kind of “trial balloon” for a possible political solution to the conflict, but because it did not specifically call for Assad’s departure, it was promptly shot down by the Saudis and the Syrian National Coalition (which, as an aside, has fallen into virtual irrelevancy on the battlefield).
Well, in the wake of the Paris terror attacks (which themselves came on the heels of the Russian passenger jet disaster over the Sinai Peninsula and bombings in Beirut that killed 43), everyone involved apparently felt compelled to send some kind of message to the public regarding a collective desire to work towards a solution in Syria and so, the foreign ministers have now produced an amorphous “transition plan” for the country that calls for a meeting between Assad and “recognized” opposition groups followed by a cease fire within 6 months. Ultimately, there would be a new constitution and elections by the the end of 2017. Here’s Bloomberg with more:
Seventeen nations, spurred on by Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris, overcame their differences on how to end Syria’s civil war and adopted a timeline that will let opposition groups help draft a constitution and elect a new government by 2017.
As a first step, the United Nations agreed to convene Syria’s government with opposition representatives by Jan. 1, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday at a joint press conference in Vienna. A cease-fire between the government in Damascus and recognized opposition groups should be in place within six months, according to their statement.
“It is time to deprive the terrorists of any single kilometer in which to hide,” Kerry said. “There can be no doubt that this crisis is not Syria’s alone to bear.”
Assad has “cut his own deal” with Islamic State, buying oil from the group and failing to attack militants, Kerry said. Assad’s allies have conveyed that he’s prepared to be serious and engage in talks, but the “proof will be in the pudding,” he said.
Diplomats meeting in the Austrian capital also decided to place Islamic State, along with the al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front terrorist group, on a list of those subject to military strikes even when a cease-fire is in place. The list, managed by the Kingdom of Jordan, may later be expanded to include other groups in Syria, Kerry and Lavrov said.
The Paris attacks “show that it doesn’t matter if you’re for Assad or against him,” said Lavrov, “ISIS is your enemy.”
Well, maybe. Unless of course you view ISIS as a valuable destabilizing element that helps not only to keep Assad off balance but also to undercut Iranian influence in Iraq, in which case ISIS wouldn’t be your enemy. “Strategic asset” gone rogue, maybe. “Frankenstein” turned on its creators, maybe. But not exactly your “enemy.”
Here are the main points:
- 1 Month, or, by Dec. 14: Diplomats will reconvene to review progress
- Jan. 1: UN will seek to convene Syrian government and opposition in formal negotiations
- 6 Months, or, by May 14, 2016: Cease-fire between Syrian government and opposition groups; process for drafting new constitution
- 18 Months, or, by May 14, 2017: Free elections administered by the UN held under the new constitution
Obviously this is just a concilliatory half measure (at best) designed to pacify a panicked public. Need proof? Just look how excited Kerry and Lavrov are:
Make no mistake, there's no real "plan" here. What will almost invariably happen is that the US will go right back to dropping ammo to "moderates", the Saudis and Qatar will go right back to providing support to who knows which Sunni extremists in Syria, while Russia and Iran will go right back to eradicating anything that even looks like a rebel.
The real question - when you really sit down and think about it - is why, if the West is so determined to wipe out ISIS, Washington hasn't simply embedded 1,000 or so spec ops with the Kurds and marched on Raqqa, the ISIS capital. Kurdish forces just retook the Iraqi city of Sinjar (where ISIS displaced and terrorized the Yazidis last year) with relative ease under cover of US airstrikes. You can drive from Sinjar to Raqqa in less than six hours:
We're no West Point graduates, but what exactly is the problem here? Look where the YPG (the Syrian Kurds with whom the US has always worked closely and who are always ready to fight) are in relation to Raqqa:
And it's not like the US has to worry about running into the Russians in the course of providing air cover. After all, Russia has for now pretty much conceded that airspace to the US while Moscow and Tehran restore Assad's power base in the West. Just take a look at the Russian airstrike map (it's not up to the minute, but you get the idea):
The point is that this is completely farcical. Russia and Iran are doing exaclty what they set out to do. That is, first they'll restore the Assad regime and stabilize the country by taking back major cities in the west, then they'll turn to ISIS in the east.
But what, may we ask, is the US doing? Look at the maps above, consider that the US and the Kurds just took back Sinjar in the space of something like 72 hours and ask yourself this: "What is The Pentagon waiting for?"
If Washington is serious about defeating ISIS, just send in 1,000 spec ops, gather up some YPG soldiers, fire up the air support (the Russians aren't even in the area), walk down to Raqqa, and just take it from them. It's almost like the US and America's regional allies don't want to the world to know what's down there. Either that, or (for the thousandth time), Washington is more interested in toppling Assad than in defeating ISIS and no amount of Friday night massacres in major Western capitals is going to change that. That of course doesn't mean the West isn't looking for excuses to put boots on the ground. It's just a question of what exactly it is that those "boots" intend to do.
So in the meantime, we get a "draft plan" that, if it does anything, just buys the US, the Saudis, and Turkey another year to see if Russia gets bogged down and thus loses some of its bargaining power.
Our sincere condolences to the French public: due to complex geopolitical wrangling and world powers' insatiable desire to essentially conquer territory by installing puppet regimes in strategic areas, the "war" or terror isn't really a "war." If it was, it would have been won in Syria long ago.
Also, our sincere condolences to Syrians: you have simply been reduced to cannon fodder and unfortunately, there are no 24-hour CNN specials or candlelight vigils when you die.
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Peace for Paris symbol that went viral in Zakaria - Kerry interview fireplace!!
WTF
Please check this out and share... very creepy.
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Wow, right out there for all to see.
This is their owning the chaos.
Russia calls the West Empire Chaos.
So this right before the meeting, and they are saying they will bring
this to Moscow and it costs a fortune to chase these guys down.
We are dealing with a demonic enemy and perfect in the fireplace.
There was an interesting interview on Al-Jazeera yesterday.
General Asad Durrani, the former head of the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence agency, where he said (and repeated multiple times) that not a single Intelligence Agency in the world should be “bothered with morality” and “none of them ever are”.
I think all unusual geopolitical events should be treated as False Flags, unless proven otherwise. That is… BEFORE you even start trying your Tinfoil Hat on. ;-)
Looney
Because it needs to be said over and over and over:
The official line is that getting rid of Assad will stop ISIS when ISIS is fighting against Assad. This is pure lunacy. Killing Assad will not result in ISIS laying down it's arms anymore than it will result in unicorns roaming free in Syria. We helped create ISIS and they are a fucking monster.
Lunacy.
BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG!
Edit: Looney, if you create a monster, and it turns on you or your allies (predictably so,) is that a false flag, an engineered flag, or just straight up collateral damage?
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If you take away Greenhill's Farrah Faucet hair it is a Jewess face.
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Blowback?
Whatever you want to call it, it is just beginning, and there is a damned good chance that the US isn't going to take the brunt of it. I'm sure some shit will happen here, but Europe is about to get bent over. Actually, Europe is in the process of gleefully bending over, expecting something plesant.
I predict a Kurdish state in Raqqa that will refuse transit of a Shiitte pipeline
Obama will not finish his second term! WW3 already Started...
http://motivationdose.com/alive-after-the-fall/
TY, always liked Warren's overview, too bad he cleaned his YT channel and discontined regular videos.
On the subj, look at the map of ISIS controlled areas: they are interestingly stretched right from Turkey border with exception of Kurdish-controlled areas along Euphrates. It's as if Turkey was the main entrance for ISIS into Syria, not Iraq.
Yes, France's NATO ally Turkey is at least the main supply route, if not an important supply source, for the ISIS invasion of Syria. But NATO's no longer an alliance; it's the US poodle pack. So unlike you, nobody in France will be able to read a map.
Putin made a deal with them, which I posted a long time ago.
This is about who gets to run Eurasia.
Step by step is the plan, they can wait.
Assad remains is all you need to know about who 'won' these negotiations.
18 months is forever, and Pax Americana' window for action will be closed before it
tolls out..
Assad remains as a total dependent of Putin. Putin even refused to sell him the legally contracted for S-300 system. Putin did not want Assad to be in any way independent or to have the ability to protect Syria's sky from NATO.
Either Putin is being checkmated, or he is party to an understanding that Syria will be split up between US/Israel and Russia, or he has a plan to a bold move to confront NATO.
More and more the idea that Putin is a member of the club, but a junior member trying for a bigger piece, is becoming more and more believable.
And if you do not think so. Lets see Putin actions when NATO moves into Syria. Lets see if he has been playing brillant chess or just stumbling along.
If Putin was what his fans claim then there would already be a no-fly zone over Syria, Assad would have the S-300/400, official notice would be given that any foreign troops in Syria without Assad's permission were terrorist and would be attacked.
Putin has made Assad his slave. Putin negotiates away Syria and dictates the actions of Syria and it's military (what is left of it). Iran, beware of Putin - just ask the EUke's who he forced to accept a cease fire (twice!!) when they had trapped their enemy who was murdering them.
Iraq1, Iraq2, Serbia, Libya, Yemen, and others can tell you - With Friends Like Russia/Putin Who Needs Enemies
There are no friends in geo-politis, only interests, and they can change on a whim.
Your morality has no place in geo politics either.Things are just what they are.
Putin will control the Golan, and therefore Israel before this is over.
Assad has been his slave for a long time.
Stop expecting noble aims, the US has a habit of stabbing its 'friends' in the back as soon
as its interests wane..
Sofar Putin hasn't.Who would you deal with ?
Who would you rather be over the last 20 yrs. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, ever Turkey - (US/West) or Iraq, Serbia, Syria?
Wendy's, MacDonalds and Burger King deciding on the fate of a cow.
Watch out for that "methane".
Kerry? Isn't he the guy who married some rich bitch?
Plain Ketchup are ya?
Yes. And now Uncle Warren's business partner, sucking up local government subsidies and laying of a few thousand workers.
Fuck Riyadh; let them defend themselves and see how long the Wahabist shitbags can last.
The sad truth is that Putin needs a port more than he needs Assad; anything which keeps the status quo Russia had under Assad is on the table.
Don't you think it helps him to show the world that he is a loyal ally? By contrast the Americans have pretty much betrayed everyone who has ever trusted them.
It does, but realpolitik has a way of ripping the shit out of such niceties.
The US has never betrayed Israel (can't say the same for them), pretty loyal to Pakistan too (though I can't see why).
Both those shitholes have nukes.
Israel owns USA and Pakistan is about a pipe for now.
double post
Send Cheney in t o take Isis hunting. Problem solved.
"Well it looked like a FUCKING SQUIRREL TO ME, GERALD."
"
Never has so much lying, as before the election, during the war and after fishing.
of course Russia is shoring up the west of Syria... that's where all the normal people are and where is landing point is.... Putin needs to send more planes, or just give the Syria army more anti tank arms, and a dozen new advanced tanks, little special forces atvs
ISIS has no air power...
Someone has to do something about evil Saudi... Iran needs to arm Houties with manpads and MOAR...
France should attack Saudi
Lots of Black Swan events gonna go down before 2017 arrives
not gonna happen
Best laid plans often go astray...good luck with it anyway
They are going to split Syria in 4. Golan heights; damascus; north for the kurds; east oil for the west plus a corridor for the Qatari pipeline and a bonus for the saudi to cut off the iranians from syria and hezbollah.
War of Terror. Next false flag... queue, who's next, Germany?
England; Germany and France have a more dramatic touch... these countries get more votes "emotions" for more war!!! :)
"Syria’s nearly half decade-old civil war" : what civil war, it's a proxy war.
From the horses mouth.
Well that's manure covered, should I put the carrot in the other end then?
the zionazis are backed into a corner. paris is just the beginning. these fucks are evil. thank god we have putin on our side. usa leaders are bought and paid for zionazi agents. after isis, zionazis must die.
Yup. Literally every formal "institution" on earth such as government, finance, religion, and the media is corrupt and a scam. Public execution of all Zio scum.
A year of bargaining is code for a year to carry out several more false flag incidents culminating in WWIII.....
Also a year to let refugees stream into the U.S. unabated......
I was born and raised in America and I now consider President Putin to be my president.
Israel and USSA have blood in there hands.. Israeli people can't seem to get over the fact your despise for a reason running over Palestinian boys with your tanks to name one..USSA is a dying empire instead of throwing out the Jews in political power you are just like them. Arrogant cowards and narcissistic psychopaths. Clearly the Monkeys are running the Zoo in JEWMERICA.. Unfortunately this is leading to WW3 and like the JEWS believe throw an idiot plan together for the sake of Israel and if we don't get a DEAL EVERYONE DIES>
The real problem is how does one reverse the flow of "refugees" into Europe.
The next problem is what happens next if there is another and another attack in Europe?
Following all that, there is the longer term issue of low oil prices bringing Middle Eastern economics to a crunch point.
"The real problem is how does one reverse the flow of "refugees" into Europe."
Cutting off all of their freebies would be a good start.
A "negative and unconstructive role?" That's putting it very mildly.
A peace plan with more than a chance in a million of working would be discussing how soon a replacement could be installed for the House of Saud, not Assad.
Peter Pan>I trade the Forex market and commodities. From my Geopolitical outlook oil prices have been suppressed(by USA) to break Russia.. Refugees is part of the schemes of plan by Zionist/JEWS to destabilize the region.. NWO thought it would be easy t0 invade Syria they did not consider MR. PUTIN say in this matter which is all about OIL pipeline....
Fuck Saudi Arabia the dirty filthy cunts, forward an arab (Shiite) uprising in their country, down with the morally, decrepit house of Saud and their filthy fucking, shit loving neighbours...start selling oil for gold bitchez.
Oh, and by the way ... 1967 borders, Syria own the Golan heights....Not the fucking, kiddy fiddling Jewboys.
That wouldn't happen to be where the water is, would it? ;)
Did Kerry forget to mention that we'd stop fighting if Syria allowed us to build the pipeline? Great negotiator.
Great, the US has another plan.
God help us.
Ps sounds just like Russia's plan from 3 weeks ago but you know now it's John kerry's plan so it's ok...they got this one
Putin already has S-300 in the country and maybe S-400's one source for this is Colonel Cassad a fairly solid point when looking at the Russian angle. We should not forget that Russian naval ships are in the region and they most definitely are carrying S-400 systems, plus a whole lot more.
The reality on the ground is that the Russians are in control and short of battlefield nukes being deployed they are going to roll up and massacre a lot of Saudi/US trained and armed scum. Why the USA continues to support the Saudis a corrupt and doomed gang of butchers is frankly amazing.
This site and others like it make it clear to me that this murder is not being done with the approval of the American people rather it is a small group of Zealots who have promoted their blindly stupid agenda on the world.
The only air power threat to Syria is Israel. And they're looking for soft targets these days.
The House of Saud has bought every US president since Carter. The Bush family takes their money directly, the Clintons through their foundation, and Obama? Maybe he's the first one to get stiffed. We'll have to see.
You just figured that out. Progress I guess.
You just figured that out. Progress I guess.
Who gave John Kerry the authority to overthrow other governments?
Someone should punch him in his ass face
Whenever John Boxtox face Kerry enters a room..it is like throwing a "stun grenade" into the crowd.. you really never know what is going to happen..