I’m not a military historian. I suppose there have been other instances in our long history of military adventures whereby the Generals took the battle into their own hands. However, did they do so on such a grand and highly visible scale?
1)- Obama/Kerry wanted a ceasefire in Syria.
2)- The Military/CIA/Deep State did not.
3)- So, they unilaterally tanked the deal.
4)- There is zero evidence the Russuans bombed the aid caravan. Only baseless accusations.
5)- All this is additional proof (as if needed) that President Oreo is nothing but a Marionette controlled by others.
What the fuck will the military do next on their own? Does this concern you? Or, is it no big deal?
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SYRIA SHOWS U.S. UNDER MILITARY RULE
A schism within US government has come spectacularly into the open, with the Pentagon and CIA militarists seemingly subverting the president’s authority over Syria policy.
This amounts to a brazen pulling of rank by the militarist elements within the US power structure over the civilian titular head of government. This power struggle came to light dramatically – if briefly – with the US air strike last weekend on the Syrian army base near Deir ez-Zor in which over 60 troops were killed.
That massacre was no accident, as the Pentagon subsequently claimed. It was a deliberate mortal blow to the shaky ceasefire worked out the week before by US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
Within hours of the Deir ez-Zor attack on Saturday evening, there were reports of air strikes on civilian areas of insurgent-held eastern Aleppo. But none of the reports were able to confirm the identity of the warplanes involved.
It is true that the Syrian government declared earlier on Monday that the ceasefire was over. Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have resumed air strikes and ground operations against insurgents in eastern Aleppo and around the capital Damascus. Russian air power is also providing support in the resumption of operations by the Syrian army.
But it is the aforementioned sequence of violence that needs to be particularly ascertained in order to appreciate the real significance of why and how the latest Syrian ceasefire has broken down.
First of all, we should note that the Pentagon and its CIA covert arm were conspicuous in their dissent to the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts to implement a ceasefire in partnership with Russia.
When John Kerry met with Sergey Lavrov in Geneva on September 9 to finalize a planned truce, the head of the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, was openly telling media outlets that he opposed any deal with Russia. It wasn’t just Carter. Other American military chiefs were also deprecating any liaison with Russia over Syria.
Nevertheless, Obama and his top diplomat Kerry persisted – despite the objections of the US military – in coming up with a “deal” with Russia that envisaged a cessation of violence, humanitarian aid to war-torn cities like Aleppo, and, remarkably, an ambitious proposal for US and Russian military forces to form a joint task force to go after al-Qaeda-linked terror groups, such as the rebranded al-Nusra Front and Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/IS).
For the ceasefire to take hold and for US-Russia joint operations to begin, the Kerry-Lavrov deal hinged on the separation of US-backed supposed “moderate rebels” from the notorious al-Qaeda-type extremists.
Even as the ceasefire came into effect on September 12, the Pentagon was contemptuously voicing doubts about its success. It was obvious that the US military establishment did not want the ceasefire arrangement with Russia. That dissent was tantamount to subverting Obama’s presidential authority and his favored diplomatic option.
President Obama and his foreign secretary John Kerry may talk all they want about “vetted opposition fighters” and purportedly “fighting against terrorists”.
But the war planners in Washington know all too well that in the real world of America’s dirty war in Syria there is no such division of “good” and “bad” rebels among the insurgents. They are all part of a proxy terror front of illegally armed militants, which the US and its NATO and Arab allies have funded, armed, trained and directed for the past six years to overthrow the Syrian government.
That’s why the Pentagon was expressing such pessimism about Kerry’s diplomatic efforts with Lavrov. The US militarists have a more realistic, if unspoken, awareness of the true criminal nature of the militant groups fighting against the Assad government. Simply because the Pentagon and the CIA have masterminded the proxies, all of which are acting as terrorists, whether they go by the media monikers of “moderates” or “extremists”.
A second crucial reason for why the US military planners opposed the ceasefire was because they were apprehensive that if the truce failed – as it surely would – then the failure would demonstrate the fallacy of the official Washington narrative of it only supporting “legitimate, moderate, vetted rebels”.
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Given the damning revelation of US terrorist collusion in Syria, the Pentagon apparently took the decision to blow up the incriminating ceasefire. The first sabotage came with the US air strikes on the Syrian army base near Deir ez-Zor. It is inconceivable that such a massacre, accompanied by Daesh temporarily taking over the base, could have been caused accidentally.
In short order, a series of unidentified warplanes carried out strikes in and around Aleppo, including the blast on the UN aid convoy. No one knows as yet who carried out those strikes, but it is plausible that they were false flag attacks by US forces intent on obliterating the waning ceasefire, and distracting from the earlier US massacre at Deir ez-Zor.
Since you are busy and not often visiting TBP:
I want to know how the work on the house is coming along; do you enjoy working on the cabinets to save money (maybe) or in retrospect should you have gone to the Bog Box store and bought contractor grade cabinets?
It’s not like I totally disappeared. I’m still commenting and submitting an article or two.
Do I enjoy it? Well, I enjoy the end result. We got quotes in the $6,000 dollar range to do what I wanted … the entire kitchen, not just the cabinets. I enjoy saving money.
No, the Big Box option was never under consideration. Too expensive. I did the whole thing for under $500. Besides that, the cabinets were in perfect physical condition …. just, ugly. Why replace them?
Everything is reassembled and all the goods back in the cabinets. I am now in the process of hand rubbing polyurethane. The third coat will be done by this evening. I’m then going to wait 48 hours and see what it looks like. Maybe more coats will be needed, maybe not.
The countertop/backsplash guy will be here on Oct. 3rd. The kitchen will we completely done by Oct. 5th. An article about this wonderful experience will follow a few days later.
Thanks for asking.
(BTW, it wasn’t me who thumbed you down. We have some real assholes here lately.)
Hope you can provide before and after pics. And, where you performed physical labor, a detailed process would be great.
thanx
The Deep State wants the gas pipeline across Syria into Europe. They don’t care how many have to die to make that happen. Funny how there’s all this theater about global warming, but the people running this country (and world) are still scheming over hydrocarbons.
Hey Iska! Of course they still want people burning hydrocarbons. How can they collect any carbon tax if people stop burning fuels!
An article in RT.com under Op-Edge = ‘US priority in Syria: Stop Aleppo from falling to pro-Assad forces’. This was related to the UN Security Council meeting on 09-21 and featured Kerry and Lavrov.
I listened to both speeches and did not hear any confirmation by Kerry of ‘US priority in Syria: Stop Aleppo from falling to pro-Assad forces’. Kerry’s speech was very good and forceful; Lavrov seemed to be wimpy (may have been due to the translator process).
Obama is Commander of the US military, he can order them to either stand down or attack and they will do so.
The reason things are the way they are with our military action is because Obama, in spite of what he may or may not say publicly, wants them that way (and for reasons you aren’t being told).
Nothing is done without Obama and Valerie agreeing. The US backed “Moderate Rebels” will launch an Inchon style breakout as the October surprise that crowns Hitlery’s victory finale. OTOH where is Gen. Wesley Clark when we need him?
kokoda – Les Deplorables
Before and after pics should not be a problem.
The physical labor was performed in the kitchen (obviously), the workbench in the garage, and the deck ….. which I did NOT sufficiently cover with tarp, and so I had to restain it. UGGHHH!!!
Stucky,
What makes you so sure Obama/Kerry wanted a ceasefire? Is it impossible that the speechifying is just for public consumption here in the good ol’ USA?
Just a minor thought , from putting together multiple threads from , well basically everywhere lol .
It appears , that elements from usa inc , is having a power struggle with other elements of usa , inc.
Whichever elements of usa ,inc ?win? . Damn near everyone else loses .
POCB’s fighting against each other , with only their own particular power structure in place when the dust settles.
Live, Love , Laugh .
It is the only thing that makes sense to me anymore .