Posted on 04/22/2022 5:23:10 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Based on declassified documents, news reports, and scattered admissions of U.S. officials, this overlooked history of how the Obama-Biden team’s effort to oust the Assad regime – in concert with allies including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey – details the series of discrete decisions that ultimately led the U.S. to empower terror networks bent on its destruction.
The U.S. pushed an enormous amount of weapons into Syria. Those weapons did not end up with the ‘moderate rebels’ the U.S. propaganda had elevated but in the hands the most ideological committed and most brutal actors on the ground:
Although the Obama administration claimed that the weapons funneled to Syria were intended for “moderate rebels,” they ultimately ended up in the hands of a jihadi-dominated insurgency. Just one month after the Benghazi attack, the New York Times reported that “hard-line Islamic jihadists,” including groups “with ties or affiliations with Al Qaeda,” have received “the lion’s share of the arms shipped to the Syrian opposition.
In a repeat of that ‘strategy’ the U.S. is currently pushing an enormous amount of weapons as well as mercenaries into Ukraine. The bigger stuff it delivers is not of much concern. But the huge amount of small arms and small ammunition, the anti-tank weapons and the handheld anti-air systems are of serious, long term danger. These fit into a car trunk and can easily be smuggled across boarders.
As I explained previously the rightwing ideology that is nurtured in Ukraine will become a danger primarily to European countries but also beyond:
A part of these are mercenaries currently getting recruited by western ‘security’ companies. These militia will use all the ‘small’ weapons NATO countries are now delivering to the Ukraine to attack Russian troops and their supporters.
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Sort of like the Russian Buk antiaircraft system the shot that Dutch airliner down with, killing 298 innocent people?
You OK with that?
From the last US customs report I read, small arms smuggling into Mexico begins in eastern Europe and Germany. From there, the arms are shipped into Venezuela. From Venezuela, arms merchants smuggle the weapons into Central America. Then it’s a short trip into Mexico. Soon, we’ll see Mexican drug cartels armed with manpads, RPGs, mortars and machineguns.
What are the chances of Biden weapons ending up in the southern United States? You tell me.
Russians as a people make Palestinians seem honorable that’s how scummy they are. And like you they adore their kgb master. But you did make it to three in counting, way to go progress!
“Sort of like the Russian Buk antiaircraft system the shot that Dutch airliner down with, killing 298 innocent people?
You OK with that? “
I recall that incident. Everyone blamed the Russians because according to the media they were the only ones that had BUK1s.
Funny how the Ukrainians are now bragging about using their BUK1s to shoot down russian planes. I thought they didn’t have any nor the trained personnel to use them??
“Yeah I can see some of those surface to air manpads getting into terrorist hands…no doubt…soon to bring down commercial airliners…”
After Russia’s failed Afghanistan venture, there was incredible terrorism concern about the 300 stingers that we donated to the Taliban and were simply lost.
Now we are sending thousands of manpads, antitank weapons, mines, portable drones, small arms, heavy machineguns, artillery, etc to Ukraine.
Meanwhile Ukraine is turning prisoners out and forcibly conscripting them to fight. Essentially we are putting thousands of extremely dangerous & unaccountable weapons into the hands of Ukrainian mafia members. What could go wrong????
I wonder what the going price for a case of javelins or stingers is in Kyiv these days? And how sketchy would a customer have to be for the Ukrainian mob to turn them away?
The Dutch investigation discovered that it was Buc operated and fired by the Russian 53rd Antiaircraft Regiment from eastern Ukraine territory. The Russians have refused to turn them over for trial.
Not Lancaster, and not a Russian tank (well it is now).
That investigation was based on the narrative that former com block Ukraine did not have any such soviet weapons. Why would a former soviet country have soviet weapons???
Am pretty sure that the info from the current conflict soundly refutes that.
Why “some”?
There is a video on Telegram of the Ukrainian officer selling the DNR militia a BTR for $15k and a Javelin for R100k ($1300).
So the investigating team didn’t do their job properly, in you opinion?
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