Posted on 09/29/2016 12:58:04 PM PDT by orchestra
In the most dramatic diplomatic escalation involving the Syrian conflict in the past years, yesterday John Kerry issued an ultimatum to Russia, in which he warned his colleague Lavrov to stop bombing Aleppo or else the US would suspend all cooperation and diplomacy with Russia.
24 hours later, this appears to be precisely what is about to take place, leading to an even greater geopolitical shock in Syria. According to Retuers, the United States is expected to tell Russia on Thursday it is suspending their diplomatic engagement on Syria following the Russian-backed Syrian government's intense attacks on Aleppo, U.S. officials said on condition of anonymity.
Why now and what happens next? According to US officials, the Obama administration is now considering tougher responses to the Russian-backed Syrian government assault on Aleppo, including military options. According to Reuters, the new discussions were being held at "staff level," and have yet to produce any recommendations to President Barack Obama, who has resisted ordering military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country's multi-sided civil war.
However, now that diplomacy with Russia is set to end, this will give the greenlight for Obama to send in US troops in Syria, with Putin certain to respond appropriately, in what will be the biggest military escalation in the Syrian proxy war in its five and a half year history.
> Appears that his goal is to get us in a shooting war with Russia before the election.
Time to buy some iodine pills. Unless we get our asses kicked by Russian ground troops(which I doubt) it will go Nuclear.
Ever think you’d live to see the day where you were rooting for Russian leadership over America’s ?
Because the U.N./NWO cabal needs to clear a path for Iran to take over the entire Middle East. Even our invasion of Iraq was part of this mission. "Bad intelligence on Saddam's 'yellow cake'" YEAH RIGHT.
This fits the narrative of the Russians hacking the DNC and interfering in our elections. Obama and Hillary will blame Trump for encouraging Putin to act.
October Surprise!! A real shooting war - we can’t have elections in the middle of this!!
“Reset button”? Yeah, right.
Obama wants to spin up a real war with Russia. Why? The goals have to be power and profit.
What I just don’t get is how they cannot realize a war with Russia inevitably ends in a nuclear confrontation, which will make most of this planet uninhabitable. What good does their money and power do after that?!
Zerohedgers must be in a panic. According to the commenters Deutsche Bank is about to trigger a crash. But ZHers say WAR is always good for the market.
What to do, what do!?!?!?!?!
Re Assad being worse than the ISIS thugs we seem to support, you said,
“Because the U.N./NWO cabal needs to clear a path for Iran to take over the entire Middle East. “
That doesn’t compute, because the Iranians are helping Alawite Assad in conjunction with the Russians. If we were helping the Iranians in this matter, wouldn’t we just do nothing?
“Assad was the only one trying to keep the islamo whackos at bay.”
Quite the opposite. From 2004 - 2010 Assad supported Al Qaeda in Iraq (AIQ) providing them safe havens, equipment, intelligence, training and volunteers. Many Syrians Al Qaeda fighters were captured in Iraq. It was only after the US withdrawal that Assad dis-invited AIQ from Syria. They said no thanks; started fighting Assad in Syria; then re branded themselves as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria -ISIS.
No pity for Assad. If he hadn’t provided support for AIQ we wouldn’t have paid such a high price in Iraq and Iraq would have remained stable. He fed a wild animal, then decided to stop feeding it so the animal turned on him. F Assad.
My bad. They’re clearing a path for ISIS. Better?
Well, not really better, and not because of what you wrote.
I’m still confused. Is Obama bowing to the Saudis? Then why give $150 billion and a nuclear green light to the Iranians. I know they’re both Muslims, but don’t they hate each other?
“Ever think you’d live to see the day where you were rooting for Russian leadership over America’s ?”
I don’t concede that the people running this country right now are true Americans.
Dems are already pushing this Wikileaks, Russia, Trump meme.
Lard-ass Nadler yesterday: http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/09/28/rep-nadler-asks-fbi-director-comey-about-trump-confidant-roger-stone-s-ties-wikileaks-and-julian/213402
They have been pushing it since the DNC hacking. Robbie Mook said it almost immediately.
this is what happens when you have aging ideologue amateurs who really are NOT smart people, all running US foreign policy as an exercise in groupthink
Nicely said.
Sometimes I think Obama pictures himself as the great Muslim unifier, so he roots for Sunni and Shia as the situations arise, unless it interferes with his immediate election needs. Syria is an unexplainable mess to me. Our threatening Russia in their backyard is writing a check we can't (and shouldn't) cash. It would as if the Russians were fooling around somewhere near the US. It's a geographically impossible situation, especially with unreliable Turkey as a key part in the logistics chain.
I think it’s about ‘whatever UNDERMINES THE U.S. SPHERE OF INFLUENCE’. Yeah, that’s it.
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