SPECIAL BULLETIN So this is what the empire's Neocon policies have brought the world to, actually the brink of nuclear war, a fact reinforced by the idiotic, baseless and criminal campaign of Russian demonization conducted by the deep state, the Clinton Democrats and their army of media shills and legion of low info idiots and abject complicit celebrities. Late on Monday the 19th, was reported by Russia’s Sputnik: "In areas where Russian aviation is conducting combat missions in the Syrian skies, any flying objects, including jets and unmanned aerial vehicles of the international coalition discovered west of the Euphrates River, will be followed by Russian air and ground defenses as air targets” — meaning ordered out, or else immediately shot down. Pentagon spokesman Adrian Rankine-Galloway. Al Masdar News, the go-to site for the latest news regarding the Syrian war, headlines, as of 3PM Eastern time, “Pentagon changes disposition of US-led coalition aircraft in Syria”, and reports, from several reliable sources, such as Joseph Dunford, the head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, a U.S. climb-down, and a desire to cooperate with Russia in Syria. If this is not a lie (as so much from the U.S. government has turned out to be), then the U.S. will stop protecting its jihadists in Syria; and, consequently, the war in Syria will end on terms which are suitable to Syria, Russia, and Iran, but which have not heretofore been acceptable to the U.S.-Saudi (and other fundamentalist Sunni) coalition. AL MASDAR ANNOUNCEMENT EXCERPT. APPENDIX “If you want, it’s actually help for the terrorists the US is fighting, declaring that they are conducting a counterterrorism policy,” the official added. Ryabkov added that he believed the strike “should be first of all regarded as the continuation of the US agenda of neglecting the norms of international law. Regardless of who has power in Washington, people there are used to the fact that there are circumstances allowing them to arrogantly look down on – and in some situations, to openly ignore – the basics of international relations.” Source: RT [premium_newsticker id=”154171″]
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (9:40 P.M.) – The United States decided to re-position fighter jets belonging to the US-led international coalition, Pentagon’s spokesman Adrian Rankine-Galloway told reporters on Monday. “As a result of recent clashes with Syrian pro-regime and Russian forces, we took precautions to change the disposition of the aircraft in Syria in order to continue fighting Islamic State, while maintaining safety of our pilots – considering the known threats on the battlefield,” he told Interfax agency. Rankine-Galloway did not give a straight answer regarding Russia’s decision to halt participation in the Memorandum on incident prevention in Syria.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
RT.com and Al Masdar also report that the downing of a Syrian jet fighting ISIS in the Raqqa region by US-led “Coalition” aircraft (actually an F-18 Hornet), is an act of lawless aggression. Apparently Moscow and its allies had just about enough of US continued meddling, criminality and hypocrisy and decided to draw the line. See report below.
Moscow sees U.S.-led coalition downing Syrian jet as ‘an act of aggression’
In international law, and as recognized by the U.N., Syria has been invaded by the United States, was never invited into the country but is instead there as an invader. Russia was invited in; Iran was invited in; but the U.S. are only invaders. And, now, Russia and Syria will start treating the U.S. as such.
What do you do with political rebels who survive defeat on the battlefield. After the Spanish American war, Teddy Roosevelt ordered his attorney general, was it, (remiss to recall his name), to machine gun 5000 Philippine rebels and bury in a mass grave. A better solution is to subject them to reeducation, which the Chinese have employed. Russia under Stalin used labor camps. The US, who preferred extermination, criticized both methods as human rights abuses. Hitler, btw, had gotten his idea of concentration camps from the US example in the Philippines. In the present instance, perhaps reeducation might simply be… Read more »