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.
So the Obama administration is in a snit because the Russians, and Syrians, are thwacking the US’ terrorist proxies. So Obama’s advisors are talking about giving the green light to Saudi Arabia and Qatar to provide the terrorists with Manpads to shoot down Syrian and hopefully Russian helicopters. Ah, those good old days in Afghanistan.
No matter that those Manpads could later be used to shoot down Western commercial airplanes. That could never happen, right? The Islamists will be so grateful to us.
Husain is hell bent on getting his caliphate assembled before his term is up. Can’t have Russia bombing his beloved Daesh (ISIS). His last shot at “Arab spring”
Obama can’t be gone too soon and Hillary can never go anywhere except to a private life for the rest of her life and leave us alone.
Go bless Trump and God bless America.
We don’t have a dog in this fight. Obama is playing a dangerous game in service to...who?
This IS a Suadi-Iran proxy war we’re fighting the supposed Shoa crescent after just recently getting bent over on the Iran nuke deal.
It makes no sense otherwise.
Frankly... It would have been unimaginable to do so, but our basic human nature makes us gravitate towards leadership and the current occupant of the White House is completely unqualified in that respect. Rooting for Putin proves that I am an unfortunate victim of my human nature.
Obama is and has essentially been a real life version of Jerzy Kosinski’s “Chauncey Gardiner”, wondering about the White House and world summits these past 7+ years wondering why he’s even there, he’s basically just ‘Being There’.
It’s too bad Jerzy Kosinski, who survived world war 2 and lived through the Russian occupation of Poland, wasn’t about to give his opinion on the matter. He checked out way too soon to realize that he was more of a profit, than an author.
I didn’t intend to imply they were.
I can’t really agree with the comparison to Chauncey Gardiner. Zero is not an amiable dunce, he was raised and trained to inflict the damage he has done in his years in office. We might attribute stupidity based on the sheer wrong-headedness of his policies that are in contradiction to reason and common sense, but it isn’t. It’s completely and thoroughly deliberate.
Gettin’scarier.
He is 100 times better. I hope he wipes Aleppo off the map.
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