Syria – US CentCom Declares War On Russia

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Yesterday three high ranking Russian officers were killed in an “ISIS attack” in eastern-Syrian. It is likely that they were killed by US special forces or insurgents under US special forces control. The incident will be understood as a declaration of war.

The US Central Command in the Middle East wants the oil fields in east-Syria under control of its proxy forces to set up and control a US aligned Kurdish mini-state in the area. The Syrian government, allied with Russia, needs the revenues of the oil fields to rebuild the country.

Last week the Russians issued sharply worded statements against US coordination with al-Qaeda terrorists in Idleb province and warned of further escalation.

Yesterday the Russian Ministry of Defense accused the US military in east-Syria of direct collaboration with the Islamic State:

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US Army special units provide free passage for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) through the battle formations of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, the ministry said in a statement.

‘Facing no resistance of the ISIS militants, the SDF units are advancing along the left shore of the Euphrates towards Deir ez-Zor,’ the statement reads.

The newly released images ‘clearly show that US special ops are stationed at the outposts previously set up by ISIS militants.’

‘Despite that the US strongholds being located in the ISIS areas, no screening patrol has been organized at them,’ the Russian Ministry of Defense said.

This map marks the currently relevant conflict area – (US proxies – yellow, SAA – red, ISIS – black):

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The accusations are plausible. Large parts of ISIS in Deir Ezzor consist of local tribal forces from eastern-Syria. US special envoy Brett McGurk recently met tribal leaders who had earlier pledged allegiance to ISIS. Deals were made. As we wrote:

The US diplomat tasked with the job, Brett McGurk, recently met with local tribal dignitaries of the area. Pictures of the meeting were published. Several people pointed out that the very same dignitaries were earlier pictured swearing allegiance to the Islamic State.

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Just like during the ‘Anbar Awaking’ in its war on Iraq the US is bribing the local radicals to temporarily change over to its side. This will help the US to claim that it defeated ISIS. But as soon as the payments stop the very same forces will revert back to their old game.

The local criminal Ahmad Abu Khawla, who had earlier fought for ISIS, was suddenly installed as commander of a newly invented “Deir Ezzor Military Council”, set up under US special force control.

Last night a Russian three-star general and two colonels were killed in a mortar attack while they visited a Syrian army headquarter in Deir Ezzor:

Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov, of the Russian armed forces, has been killed after coming under shelling from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants near Deir ez-Zor, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced.

In its statement, the ministry said that Asapov was at a command outpost manned by Syrian troops, assisting commanders in the liberation of the city of Deir ez-Zor.

Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov is the highest-ranking Russian officer to be killed in the Syrian campaign. He was a commander of the 5th Army in Russia’s Eastern Military District, one of the four strategic commands in the Russian Armed Forces. The army is based in Russia’s Far East, in the city of Ussuriysk, some 98 km (61 miles) from Vladivostok.

For three years ISIS had besieged Syrian troops in Deir Ezzor city and its airport. It had not once managed to successfully attack the Syrian headquarter or to kill high ranking officers. Now, as US proxy forces “advised” by US special forces, have taken position north of Deir Ezzor, “ISIS” suddenly has the intelligence data and precision mortar capabilities to kill a bunch of visiting Russian officers?

That is not plausible. No one in Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran or Moscow will believe that.

The Russian military, as usual, reacts calmly and officially attributes the attack to ISIS. Doing so avoids pressure to immediately react to the attack. (The US will falsely interpret this as a face-saving Russian retreat.)

But no one in Moscow will believe that the incident is independent of other recent maneuvers by the US forces and independent of the earlier accusations the Russian military made against the US forces.

Nominally the US and Russia are both in Syria to fight the Islamic State. The Russian troops are legitimately there, having been invited by the Syrian government. The US forces have no legal justification for their presence. So far open hostilities between the two sides had been avoided. But as the US now obviously sets out to split Syria apart, openly cooperates with terrorists and does not even refrain from killing Russian officers, the gloves will have to come off.

US Central Command has declared war on the Russian contingent in Syria. A high ranking Russian general was killed. This inevitably requires a reaction. The response does not necessarily have to come from Russian forces.  Moscow has many capable allies in the area. The response does not necessarily have to come in Syria.

“Accidents” and “incidents”, like an “ISIS mortar attacks”, or unintentional bombing of troop concentration of the other side, can happen on both sides of the front. Cars can blow up, bridges can collapse. Any US officer or civilian official in the larger Middle East should be aware that they too are now targets.

Reprinted with permission from Moon of Alabama.

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Diogenes
Diogenes

Yep. CIA set up ISIS. Feed the fires of war. Reap those profits. Then order out of choas.
Deface the Currency,
Diogenes

Zarathustra

The good guys: Russia, Syria, Iran
The bad guys: US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, ISIS
The weird guy: Turkey

catfish
catfish

Russia aint gonna do sod all. They never do. Putin is a false opposition NWO gofer.

Zarathustra

Russia responds:

catfish
catfish

Hahaha – safe distance – that says it all!

RiNS

The Russians will respond by killing soldiers where they ain’t supposed to be and there won’t be any news conferences afterwards either..

This is from fall 2016…

Russia Bombs 30 CIA, Qatari, Mossad Officers in Secret Allepo Bunker

catfish
catfish

RiNS your information is from Iranian Fars news agency – no pictures- yeah sure the Russians did it!
Putin has been letting US and Israeli and Turkish planes bomb Syrian and Rusian troops for years now. Those are the facts, confirmed by pictures and statements from all sides.
Hahaha maybe Putin is also be playing 56th dimensional chess like the balding orange adulterer.

You are all in denial.

rhs jr
rhs jr

I’m sure Russia is very tired of the US and Israel supplying and using ISIS and other “mercenaries” in the Middle East and the Ukraine to attack their interests, and the US inspired Sanctions against Russia etc; but rather than them start a large costly ground war (like our Vietnam or their Afghanistan Wars) and risk WWIII, I expect they will increase the BRICS offensive to weaken and ultimately destroy the US Dollar (BRICS sanctions on trade in dollars and as of 1Sept2017, the Gold Redeemable Yuan); and thereby destroy the US Economy and shortly thereafter the US Military. I bet a lot of the Leftist protesting here (Occupy Wall Street, BLM, Ferguson, Take a Knee, etc), every Cloward-Piven Liberal program protest for Obamacare, Student Loans, Section 8 housing etc has Soros/BRICS support and funding; and all aided and abetted by our own Pinko Press just like when they supported Stalin, Castro, North Vietnam, the two Iraq invasions, the invasion of Libya, the Ukraine take over, all the False Flag Chemical Attacks supposedly carried out by Syria, etc. There is something rotten in Washington.

Mary Christine

While the sheeple are distracted by this whole NFL nonsense, relations between Russia/China and the US are quickly deteriorating. War is inevitable and most likely it will be sooner, not later.

No one does a better analysis of Russia then J. R. Nyquist. I used to read his posts on Financial Sense. He quit writing there when they decided they didn’t like what he had to say.

He doesn’t blog very often, it used to be once a month but he skipped June and July. His latest, dated Aug 18 is even more applicable 6 weeks later.

It was hard to decide what part I should include as an appetizer, the whole article is worth the 5 minutes it should take to read it.

” Western leaders are psychologically incapable of seeing that Russia and China — as the No. 2 and No. 3 Powers — are logically obligated to strive against the No. 1 Power. As of this writing, the President of the United States may boast that America is ready to rain “fire and fury”on its enemies, but the reality is quite different. America’s enemies are now ready to rain fire and fury upon America; for America is a divided country, intellectually confused, deracinated and demoralized. It is not the powerful, united and stable country of the past. The American people have, in large part, lost their instinct for national self-preservation. They have no real civil defense, yet they do not even feel their defenselessness. They are unprepared and ignorant of their enemy’s motives. Their leaders are a patchwork of plausible crooks, panderers and empty suits.”

He contends, and I agree, that there is strong evidence that they are goading Trump into a first strike against North Korea.

This incident in Syria will be used as further evidence of our aggression and the need to take us out.

http://www.jrnyquist.com/strategic-significance.html

Johnny A
Johnny A

Maybe Nyqvist wrote the great post a few years ago called “The Double Helix” on the Russia-China alliance. It was brilliant and showed exactly why Russia and China must unite to destroy the Neo-Cons, ESF (Exchange Stabilization Fund) and Federal Reserve. The politicians in the US will melt away like dirty snow as the money disappears to support them. Americans struggle on against the political terror daily in the US, the fluoride poisoning them, GMO poisoned food, a predatory medical system and a 65% tax rate. It’s not the people’s fault. But only those who have resisted the medication and financial slavery will survive with much will left to rebuild. I’m happy to be rescued from a system that ravages us, no matter who.

CCRider
CCRider

That was extremely interesting. Thanks for posting Mary. I also have stayed out of this silly and superficial NFL example of shaking the shiny object to occupy the peanut gallery while behind the scenes the real pot is about to boil over. There is no doubt in my mind that the u.s. is ready to be taken. The decay of american culture, industriousness and moral virtue has rotted out all that made victory in past wars possible. The american military is an arrogant, politics infected, horribly expensive bureaucracy with multi-billion dollar hardware that can be defeated by weapons at a fraction of the cost, softened by warring on defenseless opponents and backed by an economy held afloat by massive amounts of debt and financial chicanery. I have long held this nagging, terrible fear that we are going to one day reap the whirlwind of our decades of decay, debauchery and the murder of millions of innocents the world over. I sense that sad day rapidly approaching. I’ll too will keep my eye on Nyquist going forward.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Mary, thanks for the link. I plan to read his articles in the future.

Stucky

For 7 months much of the MSM has been FURIOUS (!!!) at Russia meddling in our election … no proof needed.

Meanwhile, the USA!USA!USA! talks about carving up a sovereign NATION, as if it was a turkey dinner.

Such hypocrisy is breathtaking to behold. Eventually the world will tire of us, and discard us like a pair of worn out shoes.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

The globalists will get their WW3 one way or the other….especially now that their newest US puppet is falling in line.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

President Kelly takes issue with your unpatriotic characterization.

Fiatman60
Fiatman60

VERY interesting read Mary…….
Indeed NK is very strategic militarily for China & Russia, and would be an “overreach” for the US, if the US was to strike first.
I would have to agree with many here on TBP that the only solution would be to arm SK and Japan with nukes and back away.
As for the US being divided, all I would say is if China & Russia believes they could hit the US with a surprise attack, well I want to talk to them about a bridge complete with waterfront views to sell them….

kokoda - AZEK (Deck Boards) doesn't stand behind its product
kokoda - AZEK (Deck Boards) doesn't stand behind its product

Russia and China are helping, but the US is defeating itself financially – the BRICS know this.

Gerold

First, today’s Jews are not Hebrews; most are Khazarian Ashkenazi Jews http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-history.html tightly controlled by the Russians in the “Pale of Settlement” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement for which they never forgave the Russians and sought revenge by forming the Bolsheviks who killed more than 60 million Christians. http://www.texemarrs.com/062004/soviet_gulag.htm

Second, Russia is the world’s largest, most undeveloped resource-rich country.

Do I have to connect these dots?

rhs jr
rhs jr

It also goes back to the Czar who kicked their criminal asses out.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Which is why they took the Czar down.

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