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  • Re: Regional geopolitics

    Originally posted by Azad View Post
    It is all in Russia's hand now. Time for another "event" to shift the attention away from the "event".
    Did Russia just played the card that might trigger the Middle East on Fire?

    "MOSCOW SURPRISINGLY SAYS WEST JERUSALEM IS ISRAEL'S CAPITAL"

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    • Re: Regional geopolitics

      Russia gave israel an oil massage that elated them. Now they are question the amount of oil applied toward their buttock.

      "Israel ‘studying’ Russian statement on Jerusalem recognition"

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      • Re: Regional geopolitics

        Originally posted by Azad View Post
        The Israeli PM also urged the “international community to fulfill its obligation from 2013 to fully and finally remove these horrible weapons from Syria.”
        The scum got what he wanted

        "Russia claims Trump administration's missile attack on Syria violates 'international law'

        Countries across the world praised the unilateral attack on the Bashar Assad regime in retaliation for its alleged role in chemical attacks that killed dozens of civilians earlier this week.

        But the Kremlin claimed the attack, targeting the Shayrat Air Base in western Syria, was dealt under "far-fetched pretext."

        Russia has vowed to help bulk up Syria’s air defenses after accusing the U.S. of breaking “international law” for a deadly overnight missile attack on one of the country’s a…

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        • Re: Regional geopolitics

          ^^^ Be ready in 6 hours markets will tumble and oil prices will skyrocket. aliyev will be happy!
          One positive aspect, the pressure from the Caucasus will dissipate at least for the short-term.

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          • Re: Regional geopolitics

            Good analysis

            "Trump's senseless Syria strikes accomplish nothing

            Donald Trump, the man who just over a month ago wanted to bar entry of all Syrian refugees into the United States, now wants us to think that he cares deeply about Syrian children. I don’t believe it.

            What I do believe is that our president is a bad actor. He was a bad actor on his old television show, and he’s still a bad actor today. And he’s a bad actor in both senses of the term, which is to say his actions are poorly executed and morally questionable.

            Addressing the nation from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, the president announced that he had authorized “a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched.” Trump was referring to a chemical weapons attack on Tuesday that killed more than 80 people, including dozens of women and children, in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun. The chemical attack had in all likelihood been carried out by the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

            But what will the US’s military strike – a barrage of at least 59 (offensively named) Tomahawk cruise missiles aimed at a lone airfield – really accomplish?

            According to reports, the missiles targeted only a single Syrian airfield and not Syria’s air defenses. In other words, the attack does not ground Syria’s air force. Nor did the attack strike any of the Russian aircraft currently bombing Syria. In fact, the Russians were alerted of the attack beforehand (who may, in turn, have also alerted the Syrians). The attack does not significantly degrade the military capabilities of Bashar al-Assad.

            So why attack in the first place? Once again, we’re being told by military officials that their actions are intended “to send a message.” What nonsense this is. Will Bashar al-Assad now cease his murderous actions because he’s just been delivered “a message”? How are we supposed to believe there is any strategy to Trump’s actions anyway? Just last week, Nikki Haley, Trump’s UN ambassador, said of Assad: “Do we think he’s a hindrance? Yes. Are we going to sit there and focus on getting him out? No.”

            What the erratic flip-floppery of Trump’s foreign policy really means is that America’s foes can easily manipulate the Trump administration into greater and greater military quagmires.

            Has the administration considered how Lebanon’s Hizbullah will react to the US bombing their close ally Bashar al-Assad? Is the Trump administration prepared to put large numbers of troops on the ground to accomplish its goals? Will it militarily challenge Russia if needed? Or does the US military now only “send messages”?

            The administration seems to have no vision of what it wants to accomplish or what it can accomplish. Trump ended his announcement of Thursday’s strike with the modest goal of ending “terrorism of all kinds and all types.” Good luck with that. Meanwhile, the heart of the problem is that the United States seems always to have only one solution to war: make more war.

            None of this exonerates the murderous, thuggish and brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad. The moral and strategic imperatives of our world today demand that the Syrian civil war be brought to a swift and just conclusion. And we must recognize that the end of Syria’s civil war will not be found through military means but through careful deliberation between many different parties.

            But we are moving farther away from those goals. At its best, Thursday’s reckless and largely ineffective bombing does little but make US lawmakers feel good about themselves. At its worst, it deepens a war which the US has no idea how to end.

            The US bombing of a Syrian airfield is flip-floppery at its worst. And it signals to America’s foes that Trump can be easily dragged into military quagmires

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            • Re: Regional geopolitics

              Shet is hitting the fan

              "Russia condemns U.S. missile strike on Syria, suspends key air agreement

              MOSCOW — Russia on Friday condemned the U.S. missile strike against Syrian government forces late Thursday, and said it was pulling out of an agreement to minimize the risk of in-flight incidents between U.S. and Russian aircraft operating over Syria.

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              • Re: Regional geopolitics

                turkey will soon shift back to the US. Most likely when they will hand Gulen to the Sultan.

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                  How did the Shekelists in one week took off the reasoning balance of Trump? The Zionists at work, doing it in the open now.

                  "Stephen K. Bannon — the combative architect of the nationalistic strategy that delivered President Trump to the White House — now finds himself losing ground in an internecine battle within the West Wing that pits the “Bannonites” against a growing and powerful faction of centrist financiers led by the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

                  The infighting spilled into full view this week after Trump removed Bannon from the National Security Council’s “principals committee,” a reshuffling that left the president’s chief strategist less fully involved in the administration’s daily national security policy while further empowering Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump’s new national security adviser.

                  But the benign explanation for Bannon’s removal belies the growing strife between Bannon, Kushner and Gary Cohn, the National Economic Council director. A registered Democrat who previously was president of Goldman Sachs, Cohn is close to Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, the president’s oldest daughter and adviser.

                  Rest of the article

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                  • Re: Regional geopolitics

                    Not sure if this is "fake news" or real. It is all over the net in different formats.

                    MailOnline Tuesday, Jan 29 2013

                    "U.S. 'backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad's regime'

                    Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad's regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country."

                    A leaked email exchange, reportedly between top officials at defense firm Britam, details a plan to use chemical weapons in Syria that has allegedly been 'approved by Washington'.


                    ^^^ Apparently the original article was taken down for an unknown reason.
                    Last edited by Azad; 04-07-2017, 03:01 AM.

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                    • Re: Regional geopolitics

                      Originally posted by Azad View Post
                      Not sure if this is "fake news" or real. It is all over the net in different formats.

                      MailOnline Tuesday, Jan 29 2013

                      "U.S. 'backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad's regime'

                      Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad's regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country."

                      A leaked email exchange, reportedly between top officials at defense firm Britam, details a plan to use chemical weapons in Syria that has allegedly been 'approved by Washington'.


                      ^^^ Apparently the original article was taken down for an unknown reason.
                      Very much the typical scenario for the way Zionists and USA operate. Its a replay of the Iraq scenario and the weapons of mass distraction. I do not see the results being the same though this time mainly because of Iran and Russia supporting Syria.
                      Hayastan or Bust.

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