Posted on 04/09/2017 8:16:19 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A statement issued on Sunday by a joint command centre consisting of forces of Russian, Iran and allied militia alliance supporting Syrian President Bashar al Assad said that Friday's US strike on the Syrian air base crossed “red lines” and it would "respond with force" to any new aggression while increasing their level of support to their ally.
In the statement published by the group on media outlet Ilam al Harbi, the pro-Assad alliances says that “what America waged in an aggression on Syria is a crossing of red lines. From now on we will respond with force to any aggressor or any breach of red lines from whoever it is and America knows our ability to respond well."
Earlier on Sunday the UK's Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, demanded Russia rein in Mr Assad (by which he really meant be willing to accept a new Syrian regime with a pro-western puppet leader, and one who is willing to allow the Qatar gas pipeline to cross the country on its way to Europe.
Fallon also claimed that Moscow is "responsible for every civilian death" in the chemical attack on Khan Sheikhun and said Putin was responsible for the brutal killings “by proxy”, because it was the Syrian president’s “principal backer." The defense minister said the attack had happened "on their watch" and that Vladimir Putin must now live up to previous promises that Mr Assad’s chemical weapons had been destroyed. His comments came after Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson pulled out of a Moscow visit hours before he was due to fly.
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Wow. That really is a picture worth a thousand words. I see the situation now. Thank you.
Thanks for the link in post 6.
Okay, we REALLY need to drill our own oil and become completely independent of the whole Middle East/Europe mess. Let them all kill each other. We drill Texas and Alaska and be out of it.
Exactly!
Let’s make America great again and let the Middle East solve their own problems.
Thanks for the mention.
I’ve seen a whole slew of what seem to be new news outlets, with strange names and very little credibility lately.
Sounds about right, from what I’ve been seeing.
Excellent post.
I really believe, as well, that Russia knew about this. As for timing, Trump gave them warning to save their lives.
However, I have no geopolitical military planning experience :) so I am probably wrong about this
The pipeline would carry Qatari gas to Europe to replace Russian gas now supplied.
The payments would be made through Western banks only and would be controlled by the Saudis funding Islamic terror in the West and East.
Assad would be paid for the rope he supplied to the Saudis to hang him with, and the Russians would lose funding from gas sales for their military effort against ISIS.
ZH is infested w 17 yr old Antisemetics and conspiracy nuts. Some articles are good, some not. The site has to coddle its crazies and they are most of the traffic. They’ve predicted imminent world war and/or collapse for years.
I love the “next time we’ll use force threat. Why wait? Assad just lost 20% of his Air Force.
Thanks. I don’t look up these sites and try to figure out who they are. After a while you just seem to get a sense of what they are about, and it doesn’t seem to be Trump or a United States that wants to get things back on track.
I appreciate the mention. Seems like you’re pretty close to the truth from what I’ve seen.
“all this is over a pipeline”
But its for the house of saud. That is why this crap never dies. The house of saud has its head to far up most of the politicians and the DOD’s rear ends.
John McCain for one...
Sounds like it was written in Moscow.
Yes it does. What it reported in Moscow?
What major news outlet there printed it?
Where is this coming from?
Am I missing it?
Attacks on ISIS by the NeoSoviet Empire® have been largely coincidental. If Russia were trying to destroy ISIS, Trump wouldn't have campaigned on having the US do it.
Since the announcement of that Israeli “under the Med” pipeline project, the idea of the US backed pipeline going through Israel has made sense. Just make the undersea section of the pipeline bigger, or double up on the route.
Does anyone know if the Russian-backed Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline would continue as a pipeline under the Med, or would gas be tankered out from the Syrian coast?
For that matter, if distrust of Israel is the issue, why not run the pipeline south of Israel, through the Gulf of Aqaba, and up through the Sinai to the Med? Portions of the Gulf of Aqaba may be too deep (6000 ft.!), but not all of it is. There doesn’t appear to be anything about the undersea terrain, going north into the Med from the Sinai, that looks much tougher than going into the Med from Israel.
Sure, it’s a lot of money to build such a pipeline, but compared to the costs and risks of all this conflict...???
The fly in the ointment is that this leaves the Iran pipeline in place. I am sure that is unacceptable to the Saudis, and maybe to us, as it gives Iran more money to develop nukes, fund Hezbollah, etc. The curious thing is that it also gives Russia more competition, so, does Russia REALLY support a pipeline from Iran, or does Russia intend to just keep the region in turmoil: Prop up Assad in power, but not dominantly so.
That last is a BIG “maybe” when it comes to Obummer, as he was giving money to Iran...
Man, this is really, really, really none of our business.
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