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Syria Stunner: German Intelligence "Cooperating" With Assad, Berlin May Reopen Embassy In Damascus
John Kerry went to Moscow on Tuesday and was absolutely elated when he stumbled on a Dunkin Donuts:
But America’s top diplomat didn’t travel halfway around the world just to get coffee (we don't think). He also met with Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin to discuss (what else?) Syria. You can get a decent idea of which side prevailed by taking a quick look at the following priceless image captured during a discussion between three of the world’s most powerful government officials:
In short, Kerry ended up conceding once and for all that the fate of Bashar al-Assad has effectively been backburnered for the time being. That’s a painful concession for Washington to make. After all, the whole idea was to topple the Assad government by arming, funding, and training a hodgepodge of Sunni extremists. Now, the US is effectively being forced into a situation where the proxy armies of America’s regional allies will be systematically dismantled only instead of destroying them after Assad fell and a puppet government was installed in Damascus (which was likely to original plan), they’re being routed by Assad himself with the help of the Russians and the Iranians.
Put simply: Assad isn’t going anywhere in the near-term.
On Friday we get still more evidence that the West is begrudgingly coming to terms with the fact that Assad will be sticking around for the foreseeable future, as Bild (citing anonymous sources) says Germany is set to establish an intelligence cell in Damascus. Note the characterization of Assad as a "torturer":
“Germany's spy agency is working again with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's secret service to swap information on Islamist militants,” Reuters writes, citing the German daily.
Reuters continues: “Citing well-informed sources, the mass-circulation newspaper said German foreign intelligence BND agents had been traveling regularly to Damascus for some time for consultations with Syrian colleagues.”
Bild goes on to say that the BND intends to establish a station in Damascus imminently where agents will take up permanent positions. That could pave the way for the reopening on the German embassy, which was shuttered in 2012. As Sputnik reminds us, "diplomatic relations were broken off three years ago when, the then Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, expelled the Syrian ambassador from Germany [and] the German ambassador to Damascus was withdrawn and the embassy closed for safety reasons."
You'll recall that Germany is gearing up to join the military effort in Syria. Initially, Berlin will send one warship (to "protect" the French carrier), 1,200 troops, and six Tornado ECRs to the country.
The idea behind the BND's cooperation with Damascus is to establish a fixed communication channel for use in the event a German Tornado pilot is downed.
Apparently, Berlin isn't keen on seeing one of its pilots executed in mid-parachute by US-armed FSA fighters or, alternatively, burned alive by one of Qatar's proxy armies.
If Bild's report is accurate, it raises all manner of interesting questions about the West's ongoing military campaign in Syria. If Germany, France, and Britain adopt a more conciliatory stance vis-a-vis Damascus than the US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, Washington will need to figure out how to reconcile its hardline stance towards cooperating with Assad in the war on terror with the divergent approach adopted by America's Western allies.
Ultimately, this is yet more proof of just how senseless all of this is. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost and millions of people have been displaced only for the entire debacle to come full circle with Western powers looking to cooperate with the same government they sought to overthrow.
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I don't think that you need to look for any conspiracies. Putin is taking a tough stand. He backs up his words with actions. His meaning is clear. Right or wrong ... he takes a clear stance.
NATO is crumbling because it is not unified. Too many countries are following their own policies. Maybe NATO is out-of-date.
Russia is not pandering to the West. Putin doesn't need to "win the favor" of Americans. Russia is playing its own game here. If Russia wins, America loses. If Putin continues his steady march to the south, the New Russian Empire will soon include Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
This will be a huge change in the landscape of the Middle East, and the world. America has got no way to stop this - unless it is willing to put 'boots on the ground'.
primal scream, with the news regarding the missile strike in SA...one may also count yemen, making the entire ME very different.
NATO is corrupt to the core and evil.
NATO is like any US govt agency that steals money from the taxpayers just like The Pentagram. They just steal and engage in fraud.
The Russians are not perfect but their military technology continues to advance and improve. The US has the F-35 pile of junk, the F-22 which can cut of the pilots oxygen, defective new techonolgy ships and also some new radar. The Patriot is a joke compared to the S-400/500.
The T-900 can take a TOW hit while the M1 Abrams is easily popped by a Russian Kornet anto tank missile and even older 1970s Russian ATM. Yemeni's are making the Saudis look like fools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0nDHV_mkiY
"If Germany, France, and Britain adopt a more conciliatory stance vis-a-vis Damascus [...]"
This will be interesting to watch. Brit PM Cameron has been among the most vociferous in declaring "Assad Must Go". Time after time.
To see Cameron turnaround and swallow his own words will take some masterful spinning to avoid choking.
Cameron is a 2-bit punk.
And like so many punks, he allegedly snorts (!)
Merkel was mouthing "Assad Must Go!" and we will not coordinate with Syria as late as 12/15/2015.
I doubt anything has changed. The West is trying to buy time. Remember NeoCultists do not flip-flop, just flop.
Whoops again...
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151218/1031964714/iraq-us-airstrike-...
MIDDLE EAST15:39 18.12.2015(updated 18:05 18.12.2015) Get short URL 26 6814 4 78 At least 30 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 20 others injured in US air strike, Hakim al-Zamili, the head of Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Committee said.
"Thirty soldiers from the Iraqi Army's 55 brigade were killed and 20 were injured in a US airstrike on the town of al-Naimiya in the al-Fallujah province," al-Zamili's statement obtained by Sputnik reads.
© AP PHOTO/ U.S. AIR FORCE VIA AP US-Led Coalition Against Daesh Launches 18 Airstrikes in Syria, IraqThe politician stated that he demanded "the [Iraqi] prime minister to conduct an investigation into the airstrike against the 55 brigade, which had previously had huge success in the fight against Daesh terrorists."
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151218/1031964714/iraq-us-airstrike-casualties.html#ixzz3ugqqZ5RY
and of course:
The Pentagon denied claims that Iraqi soldiers were killed as a result of the US airstrikes.
© AP PHOTO Over 30 Iraqi Soldiers Killed in US Air Force Strike, 20 Others InjuredWASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Claims of a US airstrike killing more than 30 Iraqi soldiers are not accurate, US Defense Department spokesman Maj. Roger Cabiness told Sputnik on Friday.
“This is not true,” Cabiness said when asked to confirm reports of the incident.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151218/1031975640/airstrike-pentagon-iraq-casualties.html#ixzz3ugrDDA50
I'm sure it must have been the Russians again!
First France and now Germany are shifting their stance on Russia. This isn't just about Syria. This is also about a shift in global power.
Assad never actually did anything to deserve all this crap Obama started. He is just from a minority group that is in the way of Obama's Islamic ambitions in the ME, like the Kurds. That lie that he killed 250k people is laughable. The only thing he did was stand up to the BS CIA Arab spring nonsense and kill 6 protestors. Then Obama decided he could just go the full military route. I seriously doubt he tortured more poeple than Dick Cheney. And Assad probably had good reasons to do it. Look at what is going on there now.
Gadaffi didn't deserve what happened to him either. Not long ago libya was the most prosrerous country in the ME. His poeple loved him, and deservedly so.
Theres been a change of plans...
and youre not in them.
Bild & others continue on with the Assad bashing. They've been doing it week in week out for the last 4 odd years, so even when the facts clearly demonstrate that he is battling against violent, sadistic Salafist mercenaries (and also protecting Christians & other threatened groups), well the MSM finds it nearly impossible to go back on their propaganda. Because to do so would reveal their true role as the collective mouthpiece of NATO and their Gulf puppets.
"Collaborate with these torturers"?
Well, I don't know. Isn't it a little too harsh to call BND torturers? Or is there something we don't know?