Regional geopolitics

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Bulgaria denies airspace use for Russian supply flights to Syria

http://www.rt.com/news/314719-bulgaria-airspace-russia-syria/

Bulgaria has denied use of its airspace for Russian aid flights to Syria due to doubts about the nature of the cargo Moscow sends to the war-torn country. It comes on the heels of a similar Washington request to Greece.

The move has been confirmed by the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry.

Bulgaria "refused to issue permits for flights through Bulgarian airspace of Russian military transport aircraft en route from the Russian Federation to Syria in the period between September 1 and 24, 2015," Sofia's statement said.

"We have information which gives us grounds to doubt the correctness of the information stated in the request about the purpose of the flights and the cargo transported," ministry spokeswoman Betina Joteva said, citing the reason behind the refusal.

Earlier, the ministry official told TASS news agency that Sofia had doubts whether the nature of the goods intended to be carried complied with that stated in the request. The ministry "made the decision independently," Joteva added, giving no further details.

Earlier Tuesday, Greece’s Kathimerini newspaper reported that Bulgaria had denied Russia use of its airspace, meaning that two Russian planes would have to use Iranian airspace.

The news from Bulgaria came a day after the Greek Foreign Ministry confirmed it had received a request from Washington asking that Russia be denied use of Greek airspace for aid flights to Syria.

Russian authorities are yet to comment on the matter.

Russia has repeatedly delivered humanitarian aid to Syria. In August this year, Moscow sent over 20 tons of humanitarian aid, including tinned meat, fish and milk, sugar and blankets to the city of Latakia. In May, the city received 21.5 tons of supplies from Russia.
Russian planes also transported hundreds of people, both Russians and foreigners, from the conflict zone.

War-torn Yemen, Iraq and Ukraine are also among the countries to have received humanitarian aid from Russia this year.

In 2014 Russia delivered 11,000 tons of humanitarian aid to 24 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq, the Emergencies Ministry told RIA Novosti. Apart from that, 13,400 tons of aid were delivered to Donbass in eastern Ukraine, where the civil war has already killed almost 8,000 people.

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Bulgaria denies airspace use for Russian supply flights to Syria

http://www.rt.com/news/314719-bulgaria-airspace-russia-syria/

Bulgaria has denied use of its airspace for Russian aid flights to Syria due to doubts about the nature of the cargo Moscow sends to the war-torn country. It comes on the heels of a similar Washington request to Greece.

The move has been confirmed by the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry.

Bulgaria "refused to issue permits for flights through Bulgarian airspace of Russian military transport aircraft en route from the Russian Federation to Syria in the period between September 1 and 24, 2015," Sofia's statement said.

"We have information which gives us grounds to doubt the correctness of the information stated in the request about the purpose of the flights and the cargo transported," ministry spokeswoman Betina Joteva said, citing the reason behind the refusal.

Earlier, the ministry official told TASS news agency that Sofia had doubts whether the nature of the goods intended to be carried complied with that stated in the request. The ministry "made the decision independently," Joteva added, giving no further details.

Earlier Tuesday, Greece’s Kathimerini newspaper reported that Bulgaria had denied Russia use of its airspace, meaning that two Russian planes would have to use Iranian airspace.

The news from Bulgaria came a day after the Greek Foreign Ministry confirmed it had received a request from Washington asking that Russia be denied use of Greek airspace for aid flights to Syria.

Russian authorities are yet to comment on the matter.

Russia has repeatedly delivered humanitarian aid to Syria. In August this year, Moscow sent over 20 tons of humanitarian aid, including tinned meat, fish and milk, sugar and blankets to the city of Latakia. In May, the city received 21.5 tons of supplies from Russia.
Russian planes also transported hundreds of people, both Russians and foreigners, from the conflict zone.

War-torn Yemen, Iraq and Ukraine are also among the countries to have received humanitarian aid from Russia this year.

In 2014 Russia delivered 11,000 tons of humanitarian aid to 24 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq, the Emergencies Ministry told RIA Novosti. Apart from that, 13,400 tons of aid were delivered to Donbass in eastern Ukraine, where the civil war has already killed almost 8,000 people.

I still do not get the point:
Distance from North Kavkaz, over Capian, to Iran, Irak, Damascus: 2500 Km
Distance from Sotchi, over Tcherno Sea, Bulgaria, Greece, Syria: 3000 Km

What's the interest of this ban??
As long as Irak is under Iranian influence, and airspace open, this makes no sense.
Unless Iran is not open??

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I still do not get the point:
Distance from North Kavkaz, over Capian, to Iran, Irak, Damascus: 2500 Km
Distance from Sotchi, over Tcherno Sea, Bulgaria, Greece, Syria: 3000 Km

What's the interest of this ban??
As long as Irak is under Iranian influence, and airspace open, this makes no sense.
Unless Iran is not open??

If its so unimportant or irrelevant why is the US doing it.

The plan of the US is to encircle Russia and it has a huge geopolitical significance.

If all the current events lead to WW 3 then the strategic decisions would have been fulfilled.

If you know history, that is how WW 2 started.

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[Hakob]

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If its so unimportant or irrelevant why is the US doing it.

The plan of the US is to encircle Russia and it has a huge geopolitical significance.

If all the current events lead to WW 3 then the strategic decisions would have been fulfilled.

If you know history, that is how WW 2 started.

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That is how US got Japan starting war in pacific.
U.S. Embargoed Japan of raw materials and got other countries join in.

[Vrej1915]

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If its so unimportant or irrelevant why is the US doing it.

The plan of the US is to encircle Russia and it has a huge geopolitical significance.

If all the current events lead to WW 3 then the strategic decisions would have been fulfilled.

If you know history, that is how WW 2 started.

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WWIII ... nothing less??
And who's going to fight whom?

[Vrej1915]

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That is how US got Japan starting war in pacific.
U.S. Embargoed Japan of raw materials and got other countries join in.

Exact, thank you.
But yet, here it has nothing to do with it.
No one is starving Russia or pushing it in a corner, by just closing an air corridor, to transport some small amounts of arms..... if it is such an easy thing to avoid it.
Plus do not forget it, even they do close the Mediterranean and Iranian access, Russia has still the possibility to use ships. From Sebastopol to Tartus/Latakia/Beirut, it will take a maximum 3 days for any decent cargo....

The real point might be:
- or it is fuss, Russians trying to force Bulgarians and Greeks to deny their alignement, thus trying to crack the NATO block against them.
- or it is the versus, the US trying to consolidate its block.
- or it is really a concerted move by the US, in which cas the real question to be asked is: Does it mean, the US has a real possibility to close the Iraki airspace? If so, this is a major change.... and thus, it implies a huge change in Iran's positioning. That is NEWS....

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Exact, thank you.
But yet, here it has nothing to do with it.
No one is starving Russia or pushing it in a corner, by just closing an air corridor, to transport some small amounts of arms..... if it is such an easy thing to avoid it.
Plus do not forget it, even they do close the Mediterranean and Iranian access, Russia has still the possibility to use ships. From Sebastopol to Tartus/Latakia/Beirut, it will take a maximum 3 days for any decent cargo....

The real point might be:
- or it is fuss, Russians trying to force Bulgarians and Greeks to deny their alignement, thus trying to crack the NATO block against them.
- or it is the versus, the US trying to consolidate its block.
- or it is really a concerted move by the US, in which cas the real question to be asked is: Does it mean, the US has a real possibility to close the Iraki airspace? If so, this is a major change.... and thus, it implies a huge change in Iran's positioning. That is NEWS....

PS: I'm not denying that a containment/encirclment of Russia plan exists. Of course it does, and long ago. Just as similar plans exist at least against Turkey, Iran and China.. but yet, in this specific case, I do not see this marginal detail explained only by that general sheme. There must be an other explanation....
This simplistic explanation can't match.
If they do fly as easily over Bagdad, this does not make sense to me.

[Hakob]

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Exact, thank you.
But yet, here it has nothing to do with it.
No one is starving Russia or pushing it in a corner, by just closing an air corridor, to transport some small amounts of arms..... if it is such an easy thing to avoid it.
Plus do not forget it, even they do close the Mediterranean and Iranian access, Russia has still the possibility to use ships. From Sebastopol to Tartus/Latakia/Beirut, it will take a maximum 3 days for any decent cargo....

The real point might be:
- or it is fuss, Russians trying to force Bulgarians and Greeks to deny their alignement, thus trying to crack the NATO block against them.
- or it is the versus, the US trying to consolidate its block.

- or it is really a concerted move by the US, in which cas the real question to be asked is: Does it mean, the US has a real possibility to close the Iraki airspace? If so, this is a major change.... and thus, it implies a huge change in Iran's positioning. That is NEWS....

The plan to isolate Russia on and off exists from early Victorian times. Brits are the architects by their "big game". They had this kind of plans against French and Germsns too by cutting and isolating them from their colonies.
However this time it is more likely the issue is about putting political pressure from one block to other.
U.S. Is trying to consolidate it's influence in area and Russia playing exaggerating PR theatrical, since U.S. Power being huge, still lacks direction and is not unanimously supported among all members.
Russia is always trying to explore cracks in NATO.
Denying the airspace automatically puts bulgaria's pro west elite under pressure from pro Russia sector in that country.

[Haykakan]

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US SEEKS OCCUPATION AS US FIGHTERS FLOOD SYRIA

[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]

08.09.2015 Author: Tony Cartalucci

Column: Politics
Region: Middle East
Country: Syria

300664221 US corporate-funded policy think-tank, the Brookings
Institution, published a June 2015 paper titled, "Deconstructing Syria:
Towards a regionalized strategy for a confederal country."

The signed and dated open-conspiracy to divide, destroy, invade,
then incrementally occupy Syria using no-fly-zones and both US and
British special forces is now demonstrably underway.

The paper would lay out in no uncertain terms that (emphasis added):

The idea would be to help moderate elements establish reliable safe
zones within Syria once they were able. American, as well as Saudi and
Turkish and British and Jordanian and other Arab forces would act in
support, not only from the air but eventually on the ground via the
presence of special forces as well. The approach would benefit from
Syria's open desert terrain which could allow creation of buffer zones
that could be monitored for possible signs of enemy attack through a
combination of technologies, patrols, and other methods that outside
special forces could help Syrian local fighters set up.

Were Assad foolish enough to challenge these zones, even if he somehow
forced the withdrawal of the outside special forces, he would be likely
to lose his air power in ensuing retaliatory strikes by outside forces,
depriving his military of one of its few advantages over ISIL. Thus,
he would be unlikely to do this.

Not only does Brookings lay out an open conspiracy to invade and
occupy Syria, it does so with the open admission that the goal is
not to degrade the fighting capacity of the so-called "Islamic State"
(ISIS or ISIL), but rather to undermine and eventually overthrow the
Syrian government. In fact, Brookings makes a point of stating that the
goal would be to seize and hold Syrian territory to further advance
American ambitions toward regime change, and would move quickly to
degrade the Syrian government's ability to resist ISIS if any attempts
were made by Damascus to stop the US invasion.

News reports have trickled out regarding US and British "fighters"
operating in Syria. Their backgrounds, affiliations, logistical
support, and transportation to the battlefield have been intentionally
left ambiguous by the Western media. Occasionally, open admissions
are made that US and British special forces are operating in Syria,
with one recent report indicating British Special Air Service (SAS)
operators were in Syria "dressed as ISIS fighters." The UK Express
reported in their article, "SAS dress as ISIS fighters in undercover
war on jihadis," that:

The unorthodox tactic, which is seeing SAS units dressed in black and
flying ISIS flags, has been likened to the methods used by the Long
Range Desert Group against Rommel's forces during the Second World War.

More than 120 members belonging to the elite regiment are currently
in the war-torn country on operation Shader, tasked with destroying
IS equipment and munitions which insurgents constantly move to avoid
Coalition air strikes.

Of course, this alleged and very risky military operation to "destroy
IS equipment and munitions" in Syria begs belief as all of ISIS'
equip first enters Syria at the very Turkish-Syrian border the SAS
likely staged to begin their operation. Strategically and tactically,
interdicting ISIS' supplies before they reach Syria would effectively
cripple ISIS' fighting capacity in the matter of weeks. It is clear
that the SAS and other Western special forces are not in Syria to
fight ISIS, but as Brookings itself admits, to take and hold Syrian
territory from which terrorist groups, including ISIS can more safely
wage war against Damascus.

As the number of US and British forces on the ground in Syria grow,
a variety of cover stories have been invented. The latest has been
posited by Foreign Policy magazine. In their report titled, "Meet
the Americans Flocking to Iraq and Syria to Fight the Islamic State,"
they claim:

...the number of Americans traveling abroad to fight the Islamic
State is picking up, with 44 percent of all fighters identified in
the report arriving between May and mid-August of 2015. Whether you
think of them as brave patriots stepping up to oppose a pressing
threat or meddlesome war tourists taking foolish risks, one thing
seems certain: More Americans will be arriving in Iraq and Syria to
take up the fight against the Islamic State in the near future.

The anecdotes used to qualify Foreign Policy's claims that these
fighters are "volunteers" and not special forces or paid mercenaries
are the clearest indication that the article, and many like it,
are a cover story. Ironically, it would be one of Cass Sunstein's
"independent credible voices," Eliot Higgins - who regularly claims
Russian volunteers in Ukraine are in fact sanctioned by Moscow -
who would publish a "report" supporting Foreign Policy's "volunteer"
premise.

In reality, Foreign Policy is covering up the immediate implementation
of admitted and documented US foreign policy to invade and occupy
Syrian territory using special forces. A growing number of US and
British special forces in Syria to take and hold territory will
be impossible to cover up perpetually, so alternative narratives
explaining the large and growing numbers of Western fighters in Syria
has been fabricated.

And while the prospect of volunteers travelling to Syria is not
entirely fantastical, the transportation, funding, arming, and both
tactical and political support of these fighters requires state
resources. The fact that American citizens are forbidden by law to
partake in foreign conflicts in this manner, yet are able to freely
enter Turkey, then cross at Turkish-controlled checkpoints to fight in
Syria - like the flow of weapons, supplies, and fighters to bolster
ISIS at these same checkpoints - suggests stated US foreign policy
to both use armed terrorist groups to overthrow the Syrian government
by proxy, and now the use of US and British military forces to do so
directly, is being executed before the eyes of the world.

Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer,
especially for the online magazine"New Eastern Outlook".

Firstappeared:http://journal-neo.org/2015/09/08/us...-as-us-fighter
s-flood-syria/

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Assange on 'US Empire', Assad govt overthrow plans & new book 'The WikiLeaks Files' (EXCLUSIVE)

VIDEO

http://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/314808-assange-corbyn-us-wikileaks/

Afshin Rattansi goes underground with the world's most wanted publisher – the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. He just co-authored a book called “The WikiLeaks Files,” which paints a picture of systemic US torture and killing as well as the destruction of the lives and livelihoods of billions of people right around the world.

We speak to Julian about the UK/US special relationship, when he is going to be free, and the war on Syria.

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