Guest Post by Moon of Alabama
Yesterday 3 U.S. troops were killed and 34 wounded due to an attack that allegedly hit on a place known as Tower 22. This is part of the Al Tanf area where U.S. troops illegally occupy parts of Syria to control the traffic on the main road between Iraq and Syria.
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Tower 22 is on the Jordanian side of the boarder but Jordan insists that no attack had happened on its grounds.
Another anomaly are the high rate of wounded from the alleged drone strike. Drones are used in mass in the Ukraine war but the casualties they cause are usually less than a handful per drone.
The highly automated short and medium range air-defenses (C-RAMs, the equivalent of naval Phalanx guns) at the base should be able to shoot down any drone. Why didn’t they work?
The U.S. has also used Al Tanf base and the Rukban camp to house and train ISIS splinter groups so they are able to attack perceived U.S. enemies. Were any of those folks around?
The U.S. claims that an Iraqi resistance group, allegedly supported by Iran, is responsible for the strike. There are several such groups allied with Iran in Syria and Iraq. Which one of them did this? Does the U.S. know this at all?
Iran denies any involvement in the attack.
The attack is certainly an escalation over previous ones. President Biden has said that he will respond to it.
The question in then to where to respond (Syria, Iraq, Iran) and to what grade. Most likely the U.S. will escalate from its previous bombing of this or that Iraq resistance group. Should the U.S. attack any state related institutions or position, the situation will escalate further.
The resistance camp would then try even harder to damage more U.S. assets. Since the U.S. assassination of General Quassam Suleimani its overall aim is to remove the U.S. from the Middle East.
The U.S. immediate response to the hit was the activation of long range tanker planes:
OSINTdefender @sentdefender – 0:21 UTC · Jan 29, 2024At least 6 U.S. Air Force KC-135 Aerial-Refueling Tankers, most from March Air Reserve Base in Southern California, are heading Northeast across the United States and preparing to Transit the Atlantic towards the U.K. and Europe. I wonder what kind of Aircraft they are Refueling? 🤔
Aerial-refueling tankers are used to keep fighter jets in the air for several hours. The reasons to keep jets in the air may not necessarily be to attack someone, but to prevent them from being destroyed by an attack on ones own airports.
The U.S. has plenty of bases in the Middle East which house a lot of expensive jets.
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One could conclude from this that the U.S. will attack a target so important that it has to prepare for an all out response attack on its own Middle East bases.
There are several other possibilities but this seems to be the most likely conclusion.
Now let’s take a step back to take a look at the larger picture.
The current escalation in the Middle East is happening because the Zionist attempt to ethnically cleanse Gaza, the West Bank and south Lebanon. The U.S active support for this aim has led to more U.S. wars in Yemen, Iraq and now in Syria. While the U.S. has claimed that it did not want an all out war in the Middle East it has done its best to further one.
The dystopian decision by the U.S. and its European vassals to deny all support for UNRWA as response for the International Court of Justice decision against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians was a further escalation. That a dozen or less of the 30,000 UNRWA worker were probably involved in the October 7 events was known for weeks. To roll this out just after the ICJ dictum happened is a clear act of revenge against the whole UN system.
This is the rule based order, where the U.S. makes and discards all rules at will, fighting against long established international and humanitarian law.
Sam Husseini @samhusseini – 18:58 UTC · Jan 27, 2024Francis Boyle states that with States (including US and UK govs) cutting off funding to UNRWA, it is “no longer the case of these States aiding and abetting Israeli Genocide against the Palestinians in violation of Genocide Convention article 3(e) criminalizing ‘complicity’ in genocide. These States are now also directly violating Genocide Convention article 2(c) by themselves: ‘Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part…'”
ICJ is the highest independent court humanity has. The U.S. and its proxies decided to fight against the standing law of the world.
It is the rules based order against anyone not following it. This is the unilateral past fighting the rising multilateral future. A dangerous time.
As Arnaud Bertrand quotes:
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
Antonio Gramsci
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The Neo-cons have wanted war with Iran for years. Don’t rule out that the attack on those US soldiers was a false flag whether from Israel or the US.
border is spelled b o r d e r.
A boarder is someone renting a room.
🏴☠️ a person who boards a ship, esp one who forces his or her way aboard in an attack
stand by to repel boarders
I’m VERY liberal. crossing a land border? Pirates!
I heartily approve your action here.
8n 1967, 34 US personel were killed when Israel attacked The Liberty.
And no one called for war with Israel.
Looks like a huge double standard eh?
johnson ordered the liberty sunk so that he could use the sinking as justification for bombing cairo with a hydrogen bomb.
A. Gramsci- a bigger fucking Communist will be hard to find.
WHy does the USSA have something like 14 brigades in the map area displayed? Bringing TheM Democracy!
The monsters have been in control of this shit show for a mightly long while now.
“The monsters have been in control of this shit show for a mightly long while now.”
They’ve been in control since before I was born, and I’m old enough to keep thinking that dirt is just a fad.
Well since it supposedly happened in Jordan, obviously we should bomb Amman.
You could use those tankers to refuel B1s B2s and B52s in flight on extended missions. Just sayin.
Submitted without comment other than Georgia and chickens coming home to roost.
https://www.cbs17.com/news/ap-georgia-father-ids-army-reservist-daughter-24-as-among-3-us-troops-killed-in-mideast-attack/
Jerry: “That’s a shame.”
I doubt they could keep the planes in the air for an extended period of time. Pilots need sleep and aircraft need maintenance, lots and lots of maintenance. The 135’s are there to refuel for long range missions
Top off your fuel tanks, get some cash in hand and make sure your generator is functional. Most importantly, stay away from large crowds. If we hit Iran, they will unleash the terror network they have inserted over the past 20 years and reinforced the past 3 years. When Iranian terrorists strike, we can expect the Chinese spec ops troops imported under Joey’s nose to implement their plans, since we will be blaming the muzzies for all of it.
Infrastructure will be a primary target with large gatherings presenting targets of opportunity.
“If we hit Iran, they will unleash the terror network they have inserted over the past 20 years and reinforced the past 3 years. When Iranian terrorists strike, we can expect the Chinese spec ops troops imported under Joey’s nose to implement their plans, since we will be blaming the muzzies for all of it.”
Different garb, oodles of spray tan in a can, etc. SAME. People
The disruption I expect will happen will be MUCH bigger than the FIB can even imagine. They are too busy hunting down grandmas who were in the District of Corruption on J-6 to be looking for these sleeper cells and the newly imported army of martyrs.
I suspect that you’re right, that the Qods Force and Revolutionary guard sleepers have dead man orders to activate and create havoc in the US if there’s an attack on the Persian homeland.
And I also suspect that Joe Biden’s handlers know this as well, on fact that’s what they want to happen, because a big enough terrorist attack on the US would give the regime the fig leaf excuse it needs to “postpone” the election. Which is why the Biden regime had sacrificial staked goats in Jordan in the first place.
“The highly automated short and medium range air-defenses (C-RAMs, the equivalent of naval Phalanx guns) at the base should be able to shoot down any drone. Why didn’t they work?”
Because the M.I.C. needs these casualties to sell the war.
Or, maybe because it was a high altitude missile armed drone like, Hmmm, I dunno… a Predator?
Supposedly, they mistook it for a US drone, which means another friendly fire incident to be blamed on the iranians.
Mistook it for a US drone, did they?
Maybe it was.
That is what my statement implies.
Let me dispell any doubt, It was a US drone tha killed US troops.
The MIC must be fed, and the dog must be wagged.
An election with existential Deep State consequences is coming.
I heard the Iranians, who are clever bastards, noticed that US drones did patrols that flew near US bases for video surveillance. They launched this drone behind one of ours and followed it close enough to make us think it was our drone. When they got to the targeted base it flew into the base and Boom! Any advantage we once had with weapons technology no longer exists.
Well, you’ll hear all kind of retarded shit if you listen long enough. The simplest explanation is that some some Israeli drone jockey flew a Predator over the base and launched a Hellfire.
No, TN, that’s an MSM talking point. That little base didn’t have any defense against what hit them. They never saw it, which points to the strong possibility that it was a US drone commanded from Israel. False Flag…period.
I said it was probably friendly fire that is being blamed on Iran, so wouldn’t that make it a False Flag, as well?
Be all.you can be mutha fukka s yo.
This is the beginning of The End. No idea of the timeline, but all should prep.
OH! It’s Bill Fields B-Day! Bring up Charlie Mc Carthy & listen to WCF torment him.
iran is not the target. this event is a ruse against russia in jukraine. it is being done in conjunction with the pending military exercises in europe. everyone is looking in the wrong place. this move may be the beginning of the nato invasion of russia of which nato generals and politicians have spoken.
“US and its European vassals”? Does anyone not know that jywi$h ‘banks’ call the shots, LITERALLY?
And who GAVE them such power? Where’s your intellectual curiosity?
The story that the drone wasn’t shot down because it was mistaken for a U.S. drone…makes me think it really was a U.S. drone…
After seeing the diversity team there at the mythical tower 22, I would believe friendly fire, or maybe they did not hear the alarm chirping