Posted on 09/10/2016 7:52:27 AM PDT by kindred
The Syrian cease-fire agreement that US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced Friday night, September 9, in Geneva hands Syrian affairs over to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and the country’s military. The accord marked a sharp reversal for Washington. In his meeting with Putin in China last week, US President Barack Obama did not agree to those steps for the simple reason that such an agreement would be in line with the policy and stance of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, not those of the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Trump suggested several months ago that the US should let Putin finish the war in Syria, asserting that the Russian leader would be able to do it better. Under the current situation it is no wonder that Kerry and Lavrov agreed not to release the details of the agreement. Publication of the details would reveal that the rebels in the Aleppo area, and perhaps in all of Syria, have been abandoned. The Syrian rebels now find themselves trapped by both the Russian-Turkish agreement and the Russian-US agreement, with a noose seemingly closing around them. Meanwhile, on Friday, debkafile released the following report: The fledgling “initiatives” reverberating this week in Washington, Moscow, Ankara, Jerusalem and the G20 summit were nothing but distractions from the quiet deals struck by two lead players, Russia and Turkey to seize control of the region’s affairs. Recep Tayyip Erdogan knew nothing would come of his offer on the G20 sidelines to US President Barack Obama to team up for a joint operation to evict ISIS from Raqqa. And, although Moscow was keen on hosting the first handshake in almost a decade between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), neither were known to be ready for the last step toward a meeting. But the game-changing events to watch out for took place in Hangzhou without fanfare – namely, the Obama-Putin talks and the far more fruitful encounter between Putin and Erdogan. According to debkafile’s intelligence and Mid East sources, Putin virtually shut the door on further cooperation with the United States in Syria. He highhandedly informed Obama that he now holds all the high cards for controlling the Syrian conflict, whereas Washington was just about out of the game. Putin picked up the last cards, our sources disclose, in a secret deal with Erdogan for Russian-Turkish collaboration in charting the next steps in the Middle East. The G20 therefore, instead of promoting new US-Russian understanding, gave the impetus to a new Russian-Turkish partnership. Erdogan raked in instant winnings: Before he left China, he had pocketed Putin’s nod to grab a nice, 4,000-sq.km slice of northern Syria, as a “security zone” under the control of the Turkish army and air force, with Russian non-interference guaranteed. This Turkish zone would include the Syrian towns of Jarablus, Manjib, Azaz and Al-Bab. Ankara would reciprocate by withdrawing its support from the pro-US and pro-Saudi rebel groups fighting the Assad army and its allies in the area north of Aleppo. Turkey’s concession gave Putin a selling-point to buy the Syrian ruler assent to Erdogan’s project. Ankara’s selling-point to the West was that the planned security zone would provide a safe haven for Syrian refugees and draw off some of the outflow perturbing Europe.
It now turns out that, just as the Americans sold the Syrian Kurds down the river to Turkey (when Vice President Joe Biden last month ordered them to withdraw from their lands to the eastern bank of the Euphrates River or lose US support), so too are the Turks now dropping the Syrian rebels they supported in the mud by re-branding them as “terrorists.” The head of this NATO nation has moreover gone behind America’s back for a deal with the Russian ruler on how to proceed with the next steps of the Syrian conflict. Therefore, when US Secretary of State John Kerry met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva Thursday and Friday, Sept. 8-9, for their sixth and seventh abortive sit-downs on the Syrian issue, there was not much left for them to discuss, aside from continuing to coordinate their air traffic over Syria and the eastern Mediterranean. Washington and Moscow are alike fearful of an accidental collision in the sky in the current inflammable state of relations between the two powers. As a gesture of warning, a Russian SU-25 fighter jet Tuesday, Sept 6, intercepted a US Navy P8 plane flying on an international route over the Black Sea. When the Russian jet came as close as 12 feet, the US pilots sent out emergency signals - in vain, because the Russian plane’s transponder was switched off. The American plane ended up changing course. Amid these anomalies, Moscow pressed ahead with preparations to set up a meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, as the Russian Foreign Ministry announced Thursday. Putin is keen to succeed where the Obama administration failed. John Kerry abandoned his last effort at peacemaking as a flop two years ago. But it is hard to see Netanyahu or Abu Mazen rushing to play along with the Russian leader’s plan to demean the US president in the last months of his tenure - especially when no one can tell who will win the November 8 presidential election – Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump – or what policies either will pursue. All the region’s actors will no doubt be watching closely to see how Turkey’s “Russian track” plays out and how long the inveterate opportunists can hang together.
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Zechariah 12 1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
It seems Obama/Clinton’s proxy-war in Syria against Russia and Assad, for the benefit of the Saudis and DC corrupt insiders, has failed.
Now is the point when everyone has simply recognized it.
https://jerusalemjournal.net/news-and-views/iran-backed-hezbollah-forces-stream-to-israel-s-border
At least that is better than handing Syria over to ISIS. Too bad the Kurds get screwed again, but that was going to be pretty much inevitable whenever they deal with us.
The Kurds have been wonderful warriors against ISIS, but they hardly are getting screwed; they currently control an area of Syria far larger than they ever have, and completely out of proportion to their smallish numbers. The main thing they do NOT get, however, if a contiguous territory linking Afrin to their main Kurdish-occupied territories across northeastern Syria and northern Iraq.
The plan for the end of these deals will lead to war against Israel and the Islamics will destroy her and America as they set up their caliphate world wide. The Islamic’s gatherings are warlike marked by their cries of “First, we will destroy the people of Saturday (the Jews), then we will destroy the people of Sunday (the Amereican’s whom they perceive as Christians). This will lead to the wrath of God on all nations who resist Him and deny His Son Jesus Christ by refusing His mercy. All the day long has He held out His hand to a disobedient and gainsaying people. We are seeing latter day prophecy being fulfilled by God the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel who created all things by and for Jesus Christ, His Firstbegotten.
What we don’t yet know is what the quid pro quo in this deal was. You can be certain that the good old USA got screwed over once again. Vote Trump!
Has Hillary expressed her outrage at this collaboration with the “DICTATOR”?
One goal of Barak Hussein that this probably will accomplish will be the destruction of the Syrian Kurds. The Kurds in Iraq will surely also be cut off though probably not by formal agreement.
Failed? Or perhaps he planned to destabilize the Middle East beginning with Mubarak of Egypt and then Qaddafi of Libya because they two fought against and killed Islamic terrorists in their nations, this has led to the Syrian handover to Russia, the land to the north of Israel where many Christians believe God will send the anti Christ from to start the tribulation on the earth by making a false peace agreement with the desperate Jewish people who are surrounded on all sides by enemies. God will curse all who curse Israel and bless those who love Israel.
Satan really uses the left wing dictators who are so very ignorant and greatly arrogant people who are fools but consider themselves wise. The left is now mentally ill as they have made themselves into the worst of human kind, even liars and thieves and murderers who call good evil and evil good.
The Kurds have fought valiantly and had been a wonderful ally of American forces but the worthless democrats have made them into another enemy of America by turning on them in Syria. I believe we are seeing the beginning of World War III, a war that will plague mankind stared by the scum Obama and Hillary, who did indeed destabilize the middle east to destroy Israel. These two are friends of Satan, their master.
Good. They can have it.
Who the hell wants a country in a region where there has been religious and tribal warfare going on for over 1000 years?
The Kurds don’t need Jordan. They have significant territory in Syria and Iraq. They need their brethren in Iran and Turkey to live in their homelands without being terrorized.
Bump
As I understand it, the one deal breaker in the past has always been that Obama insisted the Syrian leader, government be removed first. Russia would never agree. That was always the deal breaker.
I didn’t know Syria was Obama’s to do anything with.
Somebody has to do it. And the American people don't want to be the ones.
It’s just Obama being flexible after the election, as he promised Medvedev.
Mark
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