This colums was originally written for the Unz Review: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/week-twelve-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria-zag/

In last week’s review of the Russian military intervention in Syria I wrote that Kerry had lost every single negotiation he ever had with the Russians and that he had a record of agreeing to A only to come back to the US and then declare non-A. This time again, the Americans did not change their modus operandi, except that it was Obama himself who declared, yet again, that Assad must go, resulting in some commentators speaking of a “White House Schizophrenia”. Others, however, notedthat this could be simply a case of face saving denials. Personally, I think that both of these explanations are correct.

There is no doubt that Obama is an exceptionally weak, and even clueless, President. The man has proven to have no vision, no understanding of international relations, his culture is minimal while his arrogance appears to be infinite – he is all about form over substance. This is the ideal mix to win a Presidential election in the USA, but once in the White House this is also a recipe for disaster. When such a non-entity is placed at the top of the Executive branch of government, the different part of government do not get a clear message of what the policy is and, as a result, they each begin doing their own thing without worrying too much about what the POTUS has to say. The recent article by Sy Hersh “Military to Military” is a good illustration of that phenomenon. Being weak and lacking vision (or even understanding) Obama’s main concern is conceal his limitations and he therefore falls back on the oldest of political tricks: he tells his audience whatever it wants to hear. Exactly the sames goes for Kerry too. Both of these man will say one thing to the Russian rulers or during an interview with a Russian journalist, and the exact opposite to an American reporter. That kind of “schizophrenia” is perfectly normal, especially in the USA.



To use the expression coined by Chris Hedges, the USA is an “Empire of Illusion”. The US society has an apparently infinite tolerance for the fake as long as the fake looks vaguely similar to the real thing. This is true on all levels, ranging from the food Americans eat, to the way they entertain themselves, to the politicians they elect and to the putative invincibility of the armed forces their taxes pay for. It is all one gigantic lie, but who cares as long as it is a fun, emotionally reassuring lie. In the Syrian context, this ability to ignore reality results in the support of terrorism in the name democracy, the conduct of an “anti-Daesh” campaign which results in Daesh dramatically increase it’s territory, the accusation that Assad used chemical weapons and now the “Assad can stay but he must go” policy. This ability to completely decouple rhetoric and reality can sometimes have a positive side-effect. For example, even if this week saw a Zag! From the US Administration in terms of rhetoric, this does not necessarily mean that the USA will continue to attempt to overthrow Assad. The opposite is also true, however. The fact that the US has said that Assad can stay in no way implies that the US will stop trying to overthrow him.

The bottom line is this: yes, there was definitely a Zag! this week, but only time will tell how much of a zag we are dealing with.

In this context I highly recommend the recent article by Alexander Mercouris entitled “Russiandiplomacy achieved a trio of Security Council Resolutions over the last month which give Russia adecisive advantage” in which he explains how Russia has achieved victory after victory at the UN Security Council. What is important here is that with each of these Russian-sponsored Resolution the number of available options for the USA are gradually being reduced. Another factor also reducing the US options are all the tactical successes of the Syrian military whose progress is slow, but steady. The intensive pace of Russian airstrikes is having an effect on Daesh and the Syrians are slowly advancing on all fronts. There has been no Daesh collapse yet, but if the Syrians continue to advance as they have done so far their offensive will eventually reach a critical point when the quantity of their small (tactical) victories will end up triggering a qualitative (operational) reaction and Daesh will begin to collapse. Of course, the Daesh fighters will have the option of finding safety in Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and elsewhere, but the psychological impact of a Daesh defeat in Syria will be huge.

So far there are no signs of a possible Turkish invasion of northern Syria, no signs that anybody is still thinking about imposing a no-fly zone, and besides the murder of Samir Kuntar in an Israeli airstrike (which I discussed here), it appears that the S-400s are achieving the desired deterrent effect.

In other words, while US leaders have their heads stuck deep up into their own delusions, the events on the ground are slowly but steadily reinforcing the Russian position and vindicating Russia’s stance.

In the meantime, the Syrian Christians who follow the Gregorian Calendar are celebrating Christmas in the streets of Latakia in a clear sign that a multi-confessional Syria still exists and has a future.

The Saker

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The term West has evolved over the decades,it's become a political ideology used to identify Capitalist First World countries,emerging European powers,and key regional powers in Asia as well that are said to operate a democratic system,having a good standard of living,with freedom constitutionally guaranteed for all citizens.

Russia doesn't fit into this political definition of the term West.It is relegated to the East as termed by the West who pride themselves as a beacon of democracy and human freedom.The East is identified as socialist or communist countries with semi-democracy,autocracy or totalitarianism,without constitutionally guaranteed freedom for its citizens,the standard of living in these countries are lower compared to the West.

The West is considered to be liberal and politically progressive than the East.

Russia is more than first world country by any definition. For someone that has lived in both Russia and NATO colonial states or vassal states. And it's pure propaganda to thinking Eastern states are communist. They have a mixture of all the systems. It has always been like that even during the soviet days. The oligarchs back then were always under full control on like now that the arrogant west use them for mainly geo-political purposes.

The West obviously is losing credibility and it's not all that credible but losing the information war. Now that word totalitarianism best defined the west via it's uni-polar world. If not why not allow a Multi-polar world ?

Again constitutionally guaranteed freedom. Also defines the same arrogant west that has the gods to even check your mails for you. You don't have freedom and privacy. You never had, just that it was being hidden but now open to the everyone. The west in any case is losing the battle.


You need to move out, live in Eastern state and Russia to know more.

This article was originally written for the Unz Review:http://www.unz.com/tsaker/week-eleven-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria-a-step-back-from-the-brink

This has been an amazing week. While last week I concluded that “The only way to avoid a war is to finally give up, even if that is initially denied publicly, on the “Assad must go” policy”. Now it is true that various US officials, including Kerry, did make statements about the fact that Assad need not go right now, that a “transition” was important or that “the institutions of the state” had to be preserved, but of course what I, and many others really meant, was that the US needed to fundamentally change its policy towards the Syrian conflict. Furthermore, since Turkey committed an act of war against Russia under the “umbrella” of the US and NATO, this also created a fantastically dangerous situation in which a rogue state like Turkey could have the impression of impunity because of its membership in NATO. Here again, what was needed was not just a positive statement, but a fundamental change in US policy.

There is a possibility that this fundamental change might have happened this week. Others have a very different interpretation of what took place and I am not categorically affirming that it did – only time will show – but at least it is possible that it has. Let’s look at what happened.

First, there were some very unambiguous statements from John Kerry in Moscow. The most noticed ones were:

“As I emphasized today, the United States and our partners are not seeking so-called “regime change,” as it is known in Syria” source.
“Now, we don’t seek to isolate Russia as a matter of policy, no” source.
Now, I am acutely aware that Kerry has “lost” every single negotiation he has had with the Russians and I have written about that many times. I am also aware that Kerry has a record of saying A while with the Russians and non-A as soon as he gets back home. Finally, I also understand that Kerry is not the one really making the decisions but that this is what the US “deep state” does. But with all those caveats in mind, it is undeniable that these two statements constitute an official, if not necessarily factual, 180 degree turn, an abandonment of official US goals towards both Russia and Syria. Furthermore, we have seen not only words, but actual actions from the Americans. First, the US and Russia have agreed to draft a common list of “recognized terrorists” (as opposed to “moderate” freedom fighters). While it is debatable as to who will end up on the “good guys list”, it is certain that all those who matter in Syria – al-Qaeda and Daesh – will make it to the “bad guys” list. That, in turn, will make it much harder, but not impossible (remember the Contras!) for the US to continue to assist and finance them. But the US did something even more interesting:

The USA announced that it was withdrawing 12 of its F-15s from Turkey, 6 F-15C and 6 F-15E. Now this might not look like much, but these are highly symbolic aircraft as they are the aircraft which were suspected of “covering” for the Turkish F-16s which shot down the Russian SU-24. The F-15Cs, in particular, are pure air-to-air fighters which could only have been directed at the Russian aircraft in Syria. Of course, the US declared that this was a normal rotation, that it has been an exercise, but the bottom line is here: while NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg had promised to reinforce the NATO presence in Turkey, the US just pulled out 12 of its top of the line aircraft. Compare that with the Russians who continued to increase their capabilities in Syria, especially their artillery (see here, hereand here). Furthermore, there is this very interesting news item: “Erdogan’s Spin Machine Now Blames Su-24 Shoot-Down on Turkish Air Force Chief”. Read the full article, it appears that there is a trial balloon launched in the Turkish social media to blame the downing of the SU-24 on the Turkish Air Force Chief (nevermind that Erdogan publicly declared that he personally gave that order). Finally, Russia succeeded in getting a unanimous decision of the UNSC to adopt a Russian resolution targeting Daesh finances. Needless to say, if the Resolution was officially aimed at Daesh money sources, it really puts Qatar, Saudi Arabia and, especially, Turkey in a very difficult situation: not only does the Resolution foresee sanctions against any country or entity dealing with Daesh, but the investigation of any claims of such financial relationships will be conducted by the UN. According to Russia Today,

The resolution also asks countries to report on what they have accomplished in disrupting IS’ financing within the next 120 days. It also calls on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to write up a “strategic-level report” analyzing IS’ sources of revenue within 45 days. “We are counting on it to be a very concrete and honest report,” Churkin told RT. Churkin also mentioned Turkey’s involvement in the illegal oil trade with IS, stressing that Turkish individuals as well as companies could be sanctioned under the resolution. He added that countries could even be sanctioned “if it turned out that [one of them] has not implemented enough effective measures against the fight of financial terrorism.” According to the UN envoy, Russia was the only member that could provide proof of concrete schemes used by other countries to engage in illegal oil trade with Islamic State or how IS able to use the revenue from those transactions to purchase weapons from other countries, particularly from a few in Eastern Europe. The document, which is based on UN Charter Article VII and takes effect immediately, calls for members to “move vigorously and decisively to cut the flow of funds” to IS. It says that governments must prevent its citizens from funding or providing services to “terrorist organizations or individual terrorists for any purpose, including but not limited to recruitment, training, or travel, even in the absence of a link to a specific terrorist act.”
So not only do the Russians now have the means to channel their intelligence about the collaboration between Daesh and Turkey to the UNSC, but the Secretary General will now produce a report based, in part, on this intelligence. This is all very, very bad news for Ankara.

So what is happening here?

Here is what I think might have happened.

My hypothesis

First, the downing of the Russian SU-24 is becoming a major liability. The Russians have immediately claimed that this was a carefully planned and cowardly ambush, but now top western experts agree. This is very embarrassing, and it could get much worse with the deciphering of the flight recorders of the SU-24 (which the Russians have found and brought to Moscow). The picture which emerges is this: not only was this a deliberate provocation, an ambush, but there is overwhelming evidence that the Turks used the information the Russians have provided to the USA about their planned sorties. The fact that the Americans gave that information to the Turks is bad enough, but the fact that the Turks then used that information to shoot down a Russian aircraft makes the US directly responsible. The USA is also responsible by the simple fact that there is no way the Turks could have set up this complex ambush without the USA knowing about it. Now, it is possible that some in the US military machine knew about it while others didn’t. This entire operation sounds to me like exactly the kind of goofball plan the CIA is famous for, so maybe Kerry at State or even Obama did not really “know” about it. Or they did and are now pretending like they did not. Whatever may be the case, the US is now obviously trying to “off-load” this latest screwup on Erdogan who himself is trying to off-load it on his Air Force chief. What is certain is that the plan failed, the Russians did not take the bait and did not retaliate militarily, and that now the political consequences of this disaster are starting to pile up. As for Erdogan, he wanted to come out of this as the Big Pasha, the tough man of the region, but he now looks like an irresponsible coward (Putin ridiculed how the Turks ran to NATO as soon as the Russian SU-24 was shot down when he said: ”they immediately ran to Brussels, shouting: “Help, we have been hurt.” Who is hurting you? Did we touch anybody there? No. They started covering themselves with NATO.”). Even the US and Europe are, reportedly, fed up and angry with him. As for the Russians, they seem to believe that he is a “Saakashvili v2” – a guy with whom there is nothing to discuss and whom the Kremlin considers as politically dead.

Second, look at Syria. Even under maximal pressure, the Russians did not yield or show signs of hesitation but did the exact opposite: they more than doubled their presence, brought in heavy artillery systems and even floated the idea of opening a 2nd major airport in Syria (this intention was later denied by Russian officials). For the Americans this meant something very simple: while the Russians are much weaker in Syria than the USA, they were clearly undeterred and were not only holding their ground, but digging in. In other words, they were ready for war.

I want to believe that the various warnings issued by many, including myself, might have contributed to convince the US analysts that the Russians were really ready to fight. First, there is Peter Lavelle who on his RT show CrossTalk has been warning about the path to war for literally months now. But there have been many others, including Pepe Escobar, Paul Craig Roberts, Alastair Crooke, Stephen Landeman, Stephen Cohen, who were sounding the alarm and warning the Empire that Russia would not ‘blink’ or ‘back down’ and that war was a very real, possibly inevitable, danger (you can see some my own warnings about that here, here, here and, of course, in my last week’s column). I know how the intelligence process works and I believe that such a loud chorus of warnings might well have played a rule in the US decision to change course, if only for the immediate future.



As I have stressed over and over again, the “tactical-operational contingent of the Russian AirSpace forces in Syria” (that is their official name) is small, isolated and vulnerable. Syria is stuck between NATO and CENTCOM and the US can, if needed, bring an immense amount of firepower into Syria and there is nothing the Russians could do about that. See for yourself how many air bases the US has in CENTCOM and Turkey by clicking here: [img]http:///a/img908/9391/B61WCG.jpg[/img] (high resolution, 7MB image created by SouthFront). But there is one thing even a small force can do: become a “tripwire” force.

Regardless of the limited capabilities of the Russian task force in Syria, it was large enough to be considered a “tripwire” force – one which attacked would result in a full-scale war with Russia. If the Americans had any doubts about that, they were instantly dispelled when they heard Putin officially declared that “I order you to act very extreme resolve. Any targets that threaten Russia’s group or our terrestrial infrastructure is to be immediately destroyed”.

The combination of all these factors was, apparently, sufficient to convince the US to step on the breaks before things really got out of hand.

Again, I am not affirming that this is what took place, but I want to believe that I am correct and that somebody in the USA finally understood that war with Russia was inevitable if the USA continued on the same course and took the decision to stop before it was too late. If this is really what happened, this is extremely encouraging and very, very good news. While stupidity and insanity, not to mention outright evil, are definitely present in the AngloZionist Empire’s top command, there is always the possibility for decent and sane men to do the right thing and try to stop the crazies (like Admiral Mike Mullen did when the Neocons wanted to start a war with Iran).

The other big even of the week was, of course, the annual press conference of Vladimir Putin. I have posted the full text on my blog, so I will only mention one particularly interesting part here: Putin was asked about whether Russia wanted to keep a base in Syria forever. Here is what he replied:

[b]Some people in Europe and the US repeatedly said that our interests would be respected, and that our [military] base can remain there if we want it to. But I do not know if we need a base there. A military base implies considerable infrastructure and investment. After all, what we have there today is our planes and temporary modules, which serve as a cafeteria and dormitories. We can pack up in a matter of two days, get everything aboard Antei transport planes and go home. Maintaining a base is different. Some believe, including in Russia, that we must have a base there. I am not so sure. Why? My European colleagues told me that I am probably nurturing such ideas. I asked why, and they said: so that you can control things there. Why would we want to control things there? This is a major question. We showed that we in fact did not have any medium-range missiles. We destroyed them all, because all we had were ground-based medium-range missiles. The Americans have destroyed their Pershing ground-based medium-range missiles as well. However, they have kept their sea- and aircraft-based Tomahawks. We did not have such missiles, but now we do – a 1,500-kilometre-range Kalibr sea-based missile and aircraft-carried Kh-101 missile with a 4,500-kilometre range. So why would we need a base there? Should we need to reach somebody, we can do so without a base. It might make sense, I am not sure. We still need to give it some thought. Perhaps we might need some kind of temporary site, but taking root there and getting ourselves heavily involved does not make sense, I believe. We will give it some thought.[/b]

I find that reply quiet amazing. Can you imagine a US President actually thinking that way and openly saying it? Putin is quite obviously making fun of the so-called “experts” who have been telling us for years how much Russia cared about a base in Tartus and who now tell us that the airbase in Khmeimim is the next “forever base” for Russia not so much to protect Syria but to project Russian power. It turns out that Russia has no interest and no desire for any such costly power projection: “Should we need to reach somebody, we can do so without a base”.

By the way, this translation is incorrect. What Putin really said was “Если кого-то надо достать, мы и так достанем”. The word “dostat’” is translated here by “reach” but I would translate it by “get” meaning “if we need to get somebody (in the sense of “strike at somebody”) we can already do that (i.e. without a base)”. This was most definitely a veiled threat even if the official translation does not render it accurately (and yes, a supersonic and stealthy cruise missile with a reach of 4’500km does allow Russia to ‘get’ anybody anywhere on the planet, especially when delivered by aircraft with a 12’000km flying range).



When western leaders and expert assume that Russia is about building bases abroad they are really only projecting their own, imperial, mindset. I have said that over and over again: Russia has no intention of ever become an empire again simply because being an empire is bad for Russia. All Russia wants is to be a truly sovereign state and not to be a colony of the AngloZionists, but she has no intention whatsoever of becoming an “anti-USA” or a “Soviet Union reloaded”. Hillary can scare herself at night with nightmare of Putin rebuilding the USSR, but there is no constituency in Russia for such a plan. Russia wants to be free and strong, yes, but an empire, no.



It is quite amazing to see how western leaders and experts project their own mindset unto others and then end up terrifying themselves in the process. It’s quite pathetic, really.

In conclusion I will just add that it is quite likely that the focus will shift back to the Ukraine again. Not only is the Ukraine hours away from an official default, but the Ukronazis are openly threatening Crimea with, I kid you not, a “naval blockade”! Considering the lack of US and NATO enthusiasm for Erdogan’s shooting down of the Russian SU-24, I very much doubt that anybody in the West will be happy with that goofy idea. So between the economic collapse, the political chaos, the coming winter and the Nazi freaks and their crazy plans to fight Russia, there is a pretty good chance that the next flashpoint will be in the Nazi-occuppied Ukraine again. I doubt that the US has the “mental CPU power” to deal with both crises at the same time, at least not in a sustained and energetic manner. That, again, is good news – the Empire is over-committed and overstretched and that is typically the only situation when it is willing to compromise. We shall soon know if my very cautious optimism is warranted or not.

The Saker

Week Ten of the Russian Intervention in Syria: the “Assad must go” policy leads to war with Russia, Iran and Hezbollah

This column was written for the Unz Review:http://www.unz.com/tsaker/week-ten-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria-the-assad-must-go-policy-leads-to-war-with-russia-iran-and-hezbollah/
The “news” that Israel and Turkey are systematically violating international law is hardly news at all. After all, we all know that Turkey has been regularly bombing the Kurds in Iraq and Syria, that Turkey still illegally occupies northern Cyprus just like the Israelis have been bombing Syria and Lebanon for decades and that they are still illegally occupying Palestine.

The interesting development this week is that France, the UK and Germany have all officially decided to join these rogue states and act just like the Turks and Israelis by illegally intervening in Syria – in direct violation of international law – supposedly to fight Daesh. And even though Daesh is the official enemy, it “just so happens” that Syrian army positions were bombed by the USAF while the Israelis bombed Hezbollah missile depots. Apparently, the “Assad must go” policy is still the order of the day. In a way, one could argue that the West has now (re-)affirmed the principle that “might makes right” and that threats and violence are still the only “policy” of of the Empire in lieu of a legal, negotiated, policy. The problem with that is that the “other side” strongly feels that surrendering to the Empire’s demands is simply not an option.

The Russian warning:
In reality this has been going on for years. From the decision to bomb Serbia to the recent decision by the IMF to bail out the Ukraine in direct violation of IMF rules (which, apparently, shall now be re-written), the AngloZionist Empire has now been violating its own so-called “rules” and “principles” for decades against the background of a quasi-general indifference to the end of the international world order agreed upon after WWII. The big difference today is that the Empire’s reckless arrogance has now brought it in direct contact with the Russian Armed Forces which, apparently, are not willing to accept that kind of thuggery and who will fight back if attacked: in his annual address to expanded meeting of the Russian Federation Defense Ministry Board Putin has clearly indicated that the fact that Russia chose not to strike back at Turkey was a one time exception saying:
I want to warn those who might again try to organize any kind of provocation against our troops: we have taken additional measures to ensure the security of Russian troops and air base. It is reinforced by new air force squadrons and air defenses. All our strike aircraft are now flying with fighter cover. I order you to act very extreme resolve. Any targets that threaten Russia’s group or our terrestrial infrastructure is to be immediately destroyed.
What Putin is doing here is warning Turkey and, really all of NATO and the Empire that next time Russia will shoot back, immediately.

This also shows that the authority shoot back has now been given to the Russian forces in Syria and that no top-level decision will have to be requested to return fire. It is true that this is not a first. The RAF was also given similar order in October already, but since the notion of antiquated Tornados shooting down a SU-30SM is rather far fetched (even if the British press insist that their 1970s-era aircraft are “and are capable of blasting any aircraft out of the sky”), the capability of the SU-30SMs and even the SU-34s to shoot down Western 4th generation aircraft is not in doubt. The Russians have the resolve and the means.

But will the West take the Russian warnings seriously?
The Israeli counter example:
The contrast between the NATO countries and Israel could, in this case, not be bigger. Bibi Netanyahu, by far the most intelligent actor in the AngloZionist Empire, immediately traveled to Moscow to sit down with his Russian counterparts to hammer out some kind of deal which would allow the Russians and Israelis to pursue their objectives without risking a shootout. When the first Russian Air Force incursion into the Israeli airspace occurred the Israelis handled it as a completely harmless event. Israeli Defense Minister Ya’alon declared:

“There was a slight intrusion a mile (1.6 kilometers) deep by a Russian plane from Syria into our airspace, but it was immediately resolved and the Russian plane returned towards Syria. It was apparently an error by the pilot who was flying near the Golan. Russian planes do not intend to attack us, which is why we must not automatically react and shoot them down when an error occurs”.
Later, an Ya’alon aide, General (res.) Amos Gilad, stated at a weekly event in Tel Aviv that Russian planes have occasionally crossed into Israeli airspace – but that the “very close cooperation between Russia and Israel” vis-a-vis operations in and around Syria had prevented any misunderstandings.

The counterpart on Russia side was just as obvious, if not officially admitted: when the Israelis bombed a Hezbollah weapons depot near Damascus the Russians “looked the other way”. Considering that almost at the same time Hezbollah operatives were risking their lives to rescue a downed Russian airman, this kind of deal is of less than exemplary morality, but Hezbollah people are also realists: just look at the way they put up with Assad even while he was torturing people for the CIA (the infamous “rendition” program) or when Imad Mughniyeh was murdered with obvious complicity of high-ranking members of the Assad regime).

The leaders of Hezbollah understand what is happening here: like it or not, but Russia and Israel do have a “special relationship” which, while hardly a love fest, does include a unique combination of hard realism, often bordering on cynicism, and a mutual recognition that neither side wants an overt conflict. In this case, the Israelis were told in no uncertain terms that the Russian intervention to save the Syria from Daesh was not negotiable, but that Russia does not intend to protect Hezbollah from Israeli actions as long as these actions do not threaten the Russian objectives in Syria. Being a realist, Netanyahu took the deal.

Though there was some confusion about this, it is my understanding that while the Russians have deployed S-400 in Syria, there is also some evidence that the Syrians were finally given at least some S-300 batteries and that they might have used them against the Israelis on at least one occasion. What is absolutely certain is that under international law the Syrians will have the right to shoot at any US, French, German, Turkish or other aircraft flying in Syrian airspace and that if that happens the countries in violation of international law will not have a legitimate self-defense argument to make. By extension, this also means that Russia does also have the right to shoot down any aircraft or land or sea based weapons system targeting Russian aircraft. Unfortunately, western politicians and propagandists (aka “journalists”) are going to extraordinary lengths to avoid ever even mentioning these facts. And if somebody dares to actually ask the right question, western officials have a fit. This is exactly what happened recently between RT reporter Gayane Chichakyan and State Department spokesman John Kirby. See for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMS8tYFk9Bc


The Iranian warning:
Russia is not the only country which has been repeatedly warning the West about the dangers of remaining stuck in a “Assad must go” policy: Iran has also repeated such warnings. The latest one came directly from the foreign policy advisor to the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Ali Akbar Velayati, who openly stated that Bashar al-Assad is Syria’s lawful president and that “Iran considers him as its redline”. Velayati also said that “only Syrian people, who elected Assad, are entitled to decide the future of their country (…) and no foreign country will be allowed to interfere in Syria’s internal affairs”. Furthermore, another senior Iranian official, Iran’s Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani, said that“Russia does not need prior agreement to use Iranian airspace to bomb sites in Syria” – in other words, such an agreement has already been negotiated.

Considering that Larijani and Velayati are amongst the most influential and authoritative officials in Iran, one can only conclude that the Iranians are openly declaring that they are fully backing the Russian efforts in Syria. And that, in turn, means that Iran will send as many “boots on the ground” as needed to prevent Daesh from taking Damascus. This is the other crucial factor which the West is desperately trying not to think about.

The western narrative currently tries to show that it is Russia (and only Russia) which is keeping Assad in power. But this is completely false. The reality is that both Hezbollah and Iran are fully committed to preventing Daesh from overthrowing the Syrian government and their commitment has gone way further than words: Hezbollah has send hundreds of its best fighters to Syria and Iran has committed thousands of soldiers, mostly of the al-Quds Brigade, to the war in Syria. What this level of determination shows is that, just like Russia, Iran and Hezbollah have concluded that their vital, existential, interests are at risk and that they have no choice than to take the fight to Daesh. I believe that this assessment is absolutely correct.

So this is the key question here: do the deep state elites which run the US Empire understand that neither Russia, nor Iran or Hezbollah believe that they can back down and accept a Daesh victory in Syria? Do the western leader realize that Russia, Iran and Hezbollah cannot let the Empire overthrow Assad? Is there anybody out there who does not realize that the “Assad must go policy” implies a war against Russia, Iran and Hezbollah? The only way to avoid a war is to finally give up, even if that is initially denied publicly, on the “Assad must go” policy.
The Saker

mazeltov:
Smelling pigI could see how passionate you are, ni flaunting your foolhardiness and illiteracy here on nairaland. No be only Ifa na Ife. Olodo rabata

May Ifa continue to show you the way. It's sad how so many people with lost identities are living in Nigeria. Their voices have been taking away long time ago.

The grassroots of our civilization is right there. From the SW. It's understanding what religion truly is. And how it's being used as pretext obviously by the foreign powers to launch a terror campaign.

They have used this several times.
The grass-root of our Civilization is Ile Ife. Our tradition, our religion. Make no mistake, they have poisoned a lot of our traditional people's mind. They have taken a lot of their voices, what that means is making them a second class citizen already in their own country. But nonetheless, they ought to learn from this invisible African religions or traditions in which they have in some aspect successfully subjugated or suppressed.
It's worst in SE where they are burning Shrines.

When you don't remember where you are coming from, how can you know where you are going to ??

And one lesson here is, among those African traditional religions, or cultures. You will never find any of them, in its entire histories, you will find that none of them has engaged in what you might call a religious war. Either a crusade or jihad in its entire history. And I think this arrogant, east (Islam) and West (Christianity) can humble themselves and try to learn from this invisible religions, African traditional religions in which they have successfully suppressed .

Now that's is our original civilization or foundation. Built on religious tolerance and freedom to choose from about 200 Irunmoles in Yoruba Traditional religion of Ifa/Destiny.

Now this one says illiterate. Do you even know the meaning of that word ? Word illiterate calling someone else an illiterate. literacy means ability to read and right. Meanwhile, if you can read and write in any language automatically you are not an illiterate.

There is another way to use the word illiterate. E.g Computer illiterate.

After weeks of clashes, Syrian forces have wiped out al-Nusra Front militants from the mountainous regions in the northern part of Latakia province alongside the Syrian-Turkish border.

The Syrian Army announced it defeated Islamists from the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front north of Latakia, near the border with Turkey.
"Al-Nusra as one of the strongest terrorist group in Syria has withdrawn from its strongholds near the border with Turkey," an army source told FARS News.

The anti-terrorist operation by the Syrian Army in Latakia has been supported by Russian airstrikes since September 30.

On Thursday, aircraft of the Russian Air Force intensified their airstrikes against positions of the Takfiri militants in the province of Latakia, destroying a group of terrorists.

A large group of militants were killed and injured in Russian airstrikes on militants’ positions in the northern part of Latakia.

by Auslander

I am an old man, born shortly after the second war which in reality was a continuation of the first war. They had to grow another generation of men to slaughter and slaughter they did in a hideous dance of death the likes of which the world has never seen.

Since the moment I was born, and before, there has not been one moment of peace on this planet, not one. Why? I have no idea. You can tell me of the evil empire, the Soviet Union. You can tell me of the ever rapacious Hegemon, you can tell me of the great Zionist plot. None of them matter a wit to we ordinary people. All the ordinary citizens of this planet have ever wanted is peace and while some civilizations have given their citizens unimaginable prosperity and wealth they never gave them peace. Why? Is it because deep down in the buried psyche of our species we are nothing but killers who evolved opposing thumbs and a tiny ability to reason so that we can come up for eons with incredibly cruel and painful ways to kill our fellow members of the species?

The current world situation is the most dangerous I have ever seen. I liken the current times to late July 1914, that time when the rush to War led to a five year bloodletting that ended The Age of Empire and directly led a scant generation later to unimaginable slaughter that ended with The Death of Cultures. And nobody on the face of this earth learned a damned thing.

Today you have USA, Russian Federation and China. No one else matters, the rest of the entire world are bit players on this stage of life that is rapidly approaching extinctions on a scale we can not imagine. At this time you have Russia and US engaging in point and counterpoint, move and counter move, both gathering the allies they can. China is the five hundred kilo gorilla in the room. What will she do? No one knows.

However, neither of the two main protagonists understand each other. One regards the other as an implacable enemy who must be subdued for ‘world peace’. Peace at the point of a gun? Subservience at gun point? Neither will tolerate that as an outcome to the current world crisis, the citizens of both will not accept such a ‘peace’.

So what to do? I have no idea. I have friends, dear friends, many of long term standing, on both sides of this yawning divide. Will I fight them if they come to my city? Yes, to the death and they know it. Will they fight me if I come to their city? Yes, to the death and I know it. What is the answer? For we ordinary people there is no answer, all we can do is prepare as best we can for the looming disaster, the dark and ominous clouds of War on the very near horizon, that and put our faith in Him, for He will be the ultimate decision maker in this mess of our making.

Auslander

scully95:


Kid, playing with the keyboard is here again. Must you always talk on post that is meant for adults ? this is not xbox war video game, this is reality. Ode! double accent indeed. double mother tongue nko ? omo ale jati jati

Don't mind him !

3000 newly trained dead men to be wiped out by Russian, Iranian and Syrian bombs. The US is desperate to keep Syria in pieces. The direct, non-proxy air space will test Putin’s will against the demonic will of the US. It is inevitable that Russia will have to enforce a no-fly zone over Syria.


I have for some time been puzzled as to *why* the US is making no serious attempt to deny its alliance with ISIS – or indeed its approval of Turkey’s shooting of the Russian plane. Can we simply put it down to the arrogance of empire? Is it that the imperialists simply don’t care whether they’re believed or not? I guess it must be that.

As I see it, the corporate rulers of USA are engaged in a massive urban-clearance exercise that will net them billions of dollars in profits. The destruction of existing residences and the provision of transport, temporary accommodation and security – there’s big money to be made at every step of the way. The link bellow made it a little clearer
http://barlowscayman..com/2015/11/slum-clearance-on-massive-scale.html

KingMEXX:
Here we go again...

I see yu @Mazeltov...I guess our friend's obsession for the West's downfall is growing excessively like Cancer cells

@Scully95 I can see yu can't let go of The US and co...I went through the pains of reading yur entire post and I can only say one thing, Balderdash!
Do yu think wars are as simple as yur post made it look?? do yu think The US will sit and watch like a dog under hypnosis while the Ruskie rascals bomb the hell outta dem? Do yu think that half these missiles would come near the shores of USA without being shot down? Do yu think yu entirely know the military capabilities of USA Army just by sitting behind yur PC and reading every trash online put up by enemies of Western Policies?? Do yu think UK, Germany, Israel, France etc will sit and watch while the whole drama unfolds?? Which Allies can Russia boast of that will come to their rescue that will have the military capabilities of UK and France together?? How many Allies do the Ruskies have compared to that of the US??
Lastly, do yu think the Russians or US are stupid enough to allow complete destruction of their countries by engaging in a senseless battle? Why do yu think they haven't attacked each other since the era of cold war??

I can go on and on with these questions and until yu answer them, then a war between Russia and Us or like yu call out "Annihilation of the US" won't be possible, for now until situation changes..There's no war between the two Countries that won't involve Nukes and a total destruction of both countries, and trust me, the two Presidents ain't that silly!

I respect yur admiration for the Ruskies and how yu believe they can change the world via their policies and by eliminating the west..There's a thin line between being factual and being Unrealistic (daydreaming). Yu my friend, have crossed that line tending towards the unrealistic.
If yu have any corrections, feel free to holla! Cheers!!

I have just few things to say. The united west lost 3 times already while facing Russia. The only time they won was when Ottoman empire (Turkey), France, Italy and Britain took Crimean peninsular from Russia.. It was taken back from them. And about 150k Russians died protecting the Sevastopol..

Again, let history be the father here.. In a Nuclear war, Forget all those missile defense systems..

Now, let me tell you what U.S is doing and this is U.S strategy.. it would rather send all its puppets ( while giving them moral back up) or vassal states to fight a war with Russia than confronting Russia itself. That is note number one.

And again check the facts on ground. Which U.S military capability ?? Which one ? (The one that is only good at molesting their 3rd world countries?) Honestly I do not see anything except war Business here. Unlike the Russians, the Serbs that build real system. By the way, U.S technologically still buys Russian jet engine.. That tells you who is above who in Aero-Space..


I have read the article as well. By the time Russia destroys U.S vassals state. The only two options U.S will have is to retaliate with Nuclear strike or be forced to just eat the humble pie. Then, you will hear it. They have tried everything but nothing is working. What makes them think this war will work ? Honestly, it is had to eat the humble pie.



Let me even tell you the recent realities today.. Those that has fought in the past with Russia and lost does not want any confrontation with Russia..

What U.S has on the table as we speak is the eastern Europe. Mainly Poland, Romania and half of Ukraine as we speak.. These are the countries that is their turn to try Russia. The message the Puppet master(U.S +Zionist+UK) is getting from France, Germany(Which are the main power) is we re not going into any confrontation with Russia..

So the puppets U.S has on the table as we speak now are those in eastern Europe. And the funny thing Russia too made sure it got the covert buffer zones if a real time war breaks out.. Luganks, Donetsk and the Crimean Peninsular.



Check the map..

fineguy11:
no force in the 21st century can defeat the MERGER OF THE RUSSIAN BEAR AND THE CHINESE DRAGON

You are on point. Obviously, the empire did try everything it could to make the two enemies but it has failed woefully...For the first time in history, you are seeing a Russian -Chinese alliance. If militarize will be ten times more powerful and stronger than NATO, U.S and all its Arab puppet military combined.

that stup(i)d Roshen tycoon anglozionist recently installed puppet petro poroshenko will not learn anything... sooner or later, they will encircle them again like they did the last time.

NATO should learn and re-learn something. It's just obvious and clear that a nATO or U.S general is no match to any Russian general. A Russian general was in-fact covertly directing the don-bass and the lugansk and it's not only shameful but sad that thousands of Ukrainian mobilized army usually drunk on duty can't even take back the donbass..

They don't have brains at all. U.S will make the last Ukrainian bled to death in this conflict. This is what happens when you turn to a complete puppet state. Nigerians, are you learning ??

how many times has the kievian puppet regime re-aram and still lose ?

That reminds me of Victoria Nuland ( F&ck the EU) hahaha .. Devil in human flesh..


Plus it's true.. ANytime anyone from the top U.S politician visit Ukraine.. This is not lie oh.. Death and destruction always follow for real.. For how long ? Sometimes, i don't know why Russia always wait for too long to restore order. That Georgian Puppet that is now the Governor of Odessa did not do this much before Dmitry Medvedev restored order in Georgia.

....

vedaxcool:
A country repeatedly violated another country's airspace and gets slap but still maintains it is being provoked by the country whose airspace itviolated. I wonder what brain produces this nonsensical thoughts.

A man attempts to rape a woman by repeatedly placing his hands where he shouldn't despite warnings he keeps up the act and finally gets landed a slap by the woman. According to the RUssians the woman's slap is an attempt to provoke the man into actions. Sick mind will claims such but unfortunately lies remains central in the Russian foreign policy strategy.

You are funny oh. What about the NATO countries that continue violating Syrian Airspace ? Turkey recently stopped all flight to Syria.

Turkey violated Greek Airspace many times already after the Syrian incident, what about that ?
Please when you are typing always talk the truth and not western propaganda or what they propagated in the media.

This is a pure provocation by Turkey and it's being backed by U.S. it's pr-determined. Pushing turkey to commit suicide. Russia is more advance than this, and knows the game very well. Trust Russia to push the button at the right time.

scully95:


I really hope so.. Cos the Article is pointing to what could or would lead to U.S first strike. U.S only knows how to bully. It may also continue to spread its famous propaganda that it's building missile defense system in Europe.

I think U.S should accept the recent realities and stop this pushing of its puppets, vassals, protectorate states, war mongering with Russia.

Russia is obviously the wrong person to fight with. NATO expansion won't help matters either.. The Bear is awoken.


Russia has put its future on the table.. A multi-polar world.. Now left for U.S to fight or just let it be.. Soviet broke without major wars.. U.S should eat the humble pie.. U.S and its puppets.. ( AngloZionist Empire)

Talking real sense here. U.S should eat the humble pie. #Confirmed!! You truly understand where U.S is going and coming from.
Nice one.

scully95:



That post on the link was 8h ago.. This post above was yesterday.
I have told you.. These are posts for highly matured people. Not for kids.

When foolishness is your second name and western propaganda is your first name.. You obviously do not know how google Algorithms work.
mental slavery is a disease for real. It's sad that a kid like you could even be talking. I have told you several times.. You and you cohorts to grow up and stop being kids...

Like I said again.. These are posts for hightly matured people with brains not for brainless crooks like @mazeltov and @vedaxcool

You are smart lol

ValerianSteel:
Lol,am sure you are on some FSB paylist,you are relentless with how you dish out lies bro.

You claiming Russia succeeded in Chechnya,today,there's still a large and active formation of Chechen militias

Chechen militias lol. Except those ones in Syria as we speak. About 5-8k of them are even being recruited by British instructor that speaks Russian. That is one of the reason Russia got vexed. Crossing the red-lines.. As for Grozny, forget. The real Chechens are great fighters alone and are enough to defend Grozny and the republic in General.

Considering the remarkable success of the Russian intervention in Syria, at least so far, it should not have come as a surprise that the AngloZionist Empire would strike back. The only question was how and when. We now know the answer to that question.

On November 24th the Turkish Air force did something absolutely unprecedented in recent history: it deliberately shot down another country’s military aircraft even though it was absolutely obvious that this aircraft presented no threat whatsoever to Turkey or the Turkish people. The Russian Internet is full of more or less official leaks about how this was done. According to these versions, the Turks maintained 12 F-16 on patrol along the border ready to attack, they were guided by AWACS aircraft and “covered” by USAF F-15s in case of an immediate Russian counter-attack. Maybe. Maybe not. But this hardly matters because what is absolutely undeniable is that the USA and NATO immediately took “ownership” of this attack by giving their full support to Turkey. NATO went as far as to declare that it would send aircraft and ships to protect Turkey as it it had been Russia who had attacked Turkey. As for the USA, not only did it fully back Turkey, it now also categorically denies that there is any evidence that Turkey is purchasing Daesh oil. Finally, as was to be expected, the USA is now sending The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group into the eastern Mediterranean, officially to strike Daesh but, in reality, to back Turkey and threaten Russia. Even the Germans are now sending their own aircraft, but with the specific orders not to share any info with the Russians.

So what is really going on here?
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TURKISH DAESH MATRIOSHKA

Simple: the Empire correctly identified the weakness of the Russian force in Syria, and it decided to use Turkey to provide itself an element of plausible deniability. This attack is probably only the first step of a much larger campaign to “push back” Russia from the Turkish border. The next step, apparently, includes the dispatching of western forces into Syria, initially only as ‘advisors’, but eventually as special forces and forward air controllers. The US and Turkish Air Forces will play the primary role here, with assorted Germans and UK aircraft providing enough diversity to speak of an “international coalition”. As for the French, stuck between their Russian counterparts and their NATO “allies”, they will remain as irrelevant as ever: Hollande caved in, again (what else?). Eventually, NATO will create a de-facto safe heaven for its “moderate terrorists” in northern Syria and use it as a base to direct an attack on Raqqa. Since any such intervention will be completely illegal, the argument of the need to defend the Turkmen minority will be used, R2P and all. The creation of a NATO-protected safe heaven for “moderate terrorists” could provide the first step from breaking up Syria into several smaller statelets.

If that is really the plan, then the shooting down of the SU-24 sends a powerful message to Russia: we are ready to risk a war to push you back – are you ready to go to war? The painful answer will be that no, Russia is not prepared to wage a war against the entire Empire over Syria, simply because she does not have the capabilities to do so.

As I have already mentioned many times now, Syria is beyond the Russian power projection capability (roughly 1000km), especially if that power projection has to be executed through hostile territory (which Turkey most definitely is). So far, the Russians have succeeded, brilliantly, to organize and support their small force in Syria, but that in no way indicates a Russian capability to support a major air operation over Syria or, even less so, a ground operation. The fact is that the Russian intervention in Syria was always a risky and difficult one, and it did not take the Empire much time to capitalize on this. Though I get a lot of flak from flag-wavers and “hurray patriots” for saying this, but the fact is that Russia cannot ‘protect’ Syria from the US, NATO or even CENTCOM. At least not in purely military terms. This does not mean that Russia does not have retaliatory options. Russia has already engaged in the following:

Economic sanctions: Russia has declared a number of sanctions against Turkey, including the freezing of the Turkish Stream project. Furthermore, Russian tourism in Turkey – a huge source of revenue – is most likely to dwindle down to a tiny what it used to be: Russians will not be banned from going to Turkey, but no tours or packages will be offered by Russian travel agencies. Some Turkish goods will be banned in Russia, and Turks will not be invited to bid for various types of contracts. All in all, these sanctions will hurt Turkey, but not in a major way.

Political sanctions: here Russia will use one of her most terrifying weapons: the truth. The Russian military presented a devastating series of photos and videos shot by Russian air and space assets proving that Turkey does, indeed, purchase oil from Daesh. What was especially shocking about this evidence is that it showed the truly immense scale of the smuggling: one photo showed 1’722 oil trucks in in Deir Ez-Zor region while another one showed 8’500 oil tankers are used by Daesh to transport up 200’000 barrels of oil. What these figures mean is that not only is this smuggling organized at the level of the Turkish state, but it is also absolutely obvious that the USA knows everything about it.

Predictably, the western media made no mention of the actual evidence, it only spoke of “images the Russians claim to show”, but the damage is still done, especially in the long term. Now everybody with a modicum of intelligence knows that Erdogan is a lying crook. More importantly, it has now become undeniable that Turkey is not only an ally, but a patron and sponsor of Daesh. Finally, in the light of this evidence, it also becomes rather obvious why Turkey decided to shoot down the Russian SU-24: because the Russians were bombing the Daesh to Turkey smuggling routes.

The final blow to the prestige and credibility of Erdogan and Turkey came from Vladimir Putin himself who, in his annual address to the Parliament said:

[b]We know who are stuffing pockets in Turkey and letting terrorists prosper from the sale of oil they stole in Syria. The terrorists are using these receipts to recruit mercenaries, buy weapons and plan inhuman terrorist attacks against Russian citizens and against people in France, Lebanon, Mali and other states. We remember that the militants who operated in the North Caucasus in the 1990s and 2000s found refuge and received moral and material assistance in Turkey. We still find them there.
Meanwhile, the Turkish people are kind, hardworking and talented. We have many good and reliable friends in Turkey. Allow me to emphasize that they should know that we do not equate them with the certain part of the current ruling establishment that is directly responsible for the deaths of our servicemen in Syria.
We will never forget their collusion with terrorists. We have always deemed betrayal the worst and most shameful thing to do, and that will never change. I would like them to remember this – those in Turkey who shot our pilots in the back, those hypocrites who tried to justify their actions and cover up for terrorists.

I don’t even understand why they did it. Any issues they might have had, any problems, any disagreements we knew nothing about could have been settled in a different way. Plus, we were ready to cooperate with Turkey on all the most sensitive issues it had; we were willing to go further, where its allies refused to go. Allah only knows, I suppose, why they did it. And probably, Allah has decided to punish the ruling clique in Turkey by taking their mind and reason.

But, if they expected a nervous or hysterical reaction from us, if they wanted to see us become a danger to ourselves as much as to the world, they won’t get it. They won’t get any response meant for show or even for immediate political gain. They won’t get it.
Our actions will always be guided primarily by responsibility – to ourselves, to our country, to our people. We are not going to rattle the sabre. But, if someone thinks they can commit a heinous war crime, kill our people and get away with it, suffering nothing but a ban on tomato imports, or a few restrictions in construction or other industries, they’re delusional. We’ll remind them of what they did, more than once. They’ll regret it. We know what to do.[/b]
Of course, in a society thoroughly habituated to lying, dishonesty and hypocrisy, these are “only” words, and they shall be ignored. But in the Middle-East and the rest of the world, these are powerful words which the Turks will have a very hard time “washing off” from their reputation.

Military measures: these are limited, of course, but not irrelevant. First, Russia has now admitted that S-400 are now in Syria (I suspect they were there all along). Second, Russia has began building a 2nd air base, this time in Shaayrat, in central Syria. If this base is indeed built, then bringing in a few Russian AWACS and/or MiG-31s would make sense. Third, Russia will now used more modern SU-34 equipped with advanced air-to-air missiles in northern Syria and Russian strike aircraft will now be escorted by dedicated SU-30SM fighters. This combination of measures will make it much harder for the Turks to repeat such an attack, but I personally doubt that they have any such intentions, at least not in the immediate future.

Evaluation:

In order to fully understand what is happening now we need to look at the bigger picture. The first major consequence of the shooting down of the Russian SU-24 is that NATO has now become an impunity alliance. Now that the precedent has been set by Turkey’s act of war on Russia, because that is what this shooting down undeniably was, any NATO member can now do the same thing while feeling protected by the alliance. If tomorrow, say, the Latvians decide to strafe a Russian Navy ship in the Baltic Sea or if the Poles shoot down a Russian aircraft over Kaliningrad, they will immediately get the ‘protection’ of NATO just like Turkey now did: the USA will fully endorse the Latvian/Polish version of the events, the Secretary General of NATO will offer to dispatch more forces to Latvia/Poland to “protect” these countries from any “threat” from “the east” and the world’s corporate media will turn a blind eye to any evidence of Latvian/Polish aggression. This is an extremely dangerous development as it gives a strong incentive to any small country to deal with its inferiority complex by should its “courage” and “determination” to challenge Russia even if, of course, this is done by hiding behind NATO’s back.

NATO is also deliberately escalating its war on Russia by admitting Montenegro into the Alliance and by re-starting talks about admitting Georgia. In a purely military sense, the incorporation of Montenegro into NATO makes no difference whatsoever, but in political terms this is yet another way for the West to thumb its nose at Russia and say “see, we will even incorporate your historical allies into our Empire and there is nothing you can do about it”. As for Georgia, the main purpose behind the discussion of its incorporation into NATO is to vindicate the “Saakashvili line”, i.e. to reward aggression towards Russia. Here again, there is nothing Russia can do.

We thus are facing an extremely dangerous situation:

The Russian forces in Syria are comparatively weak and isolated
Turkey can, and will, continue its provocations under the cover of NATO
The West is now preparing an (illegal) intervention inside Syria
The western intervention will be made against Syria and Russia
NATO politicians now have an easy way to score “patriotic” points by provoking Russia

If we strip all the NATO verbiage about “defending our members” what is happening now is that the Empire has now apparently decided that going down the road to war is safe because Russia will not dare to “start” a war. In other words, this is a game of chicken in which one side dares the other to do something about it. This is exactly what Putin was referring to when he said:

If they expected a nervous or hysterical reaction from us, if they wanted to see us become a danger to ourselves as much as to the world, they won’t get it. They won’t get any response meant for show or even for immediate political gain. They won’t get it. Our actions will always be guided primarily by responsibility – to ourselves, to our country, to our people

What the imperial deep state is missing is the fact that Russia might not have a choice but to confront the Empire. Yes, the Russians do not want war, but the problem here is that, considering the absolutely reckless arrogance and imperial hubris of the western elites, every Russian effort to avoid war is interpreted by the western deep state as a sign of weakness. In other words, by acting responsibly the Russians are now providing an incentive for the West to act even more irresponsibly. This is a very, very, dangerous dynamic which the Kremlin will have to deal with. Putin, apparently, does have something in mind, at least this is how I understand his warning:

But, if someone thinks they can commit a heinous war crime, kill our people and get away with it, suffering nothing but a ban on tomato imports, or a few restrictions in construction or other industries, they’re delusional. We’ll remind them of what they did, more than once. They’ll regret it. We know what to do.

I have no idea as to what he might be referring to, but I am confident that this is not some empty bluster: this was not a threat to Russia’s enemies, but a promise to the Russian people. I sure hope that there is a plan because right now we are on a collision course leading to war. In conclusion, here is a short quote by Putin western leaders might want to ponder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QxWYIAtCMU

chigo931:
Op this article is pro Russian. I love putin,i see him as a good man,a president that says no to America's double standards,but believe me Russians, I mean putin wants no war with Nato.

You just stated all the gallantry of russia,you didn't tell us what the usa who has the highest defence spending in the world has in its armoury,not to talk of smaller countries like france,denmark,uk,infact all nato member states...anyways I think in the case of a war,Germany being a member state might choose to play neutral.

They have 600- 800 bases scartared all over the world. Isn't that enough military spending ? To U.S military is Business as usual but Russia is opposite. This is why. It's not about military spending pal.

And again the united west lost not once not twice in past with Russia, NATO is just a learner. Those countries you mentioned are vassals, NATO colonial states. They do not have a say. This is why they are vulnerable in an all out war with Russia.

mighty SS-18,

mighty Satan can do it for real.. Mind you Esu is not satan.. mighty SS-18, is the real satan..

Assuming Russia is not on Iran's side, and U.S also is not on Israel's side. Who do you think will survive if war breaks out between Israel and Iran. No nukes

Iran: Either Victory or Martyrdom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPg75AtJvio

Goodnews !

scully95:



Hahaha lol.. I kuku did not mention the sanction list, you mentioned it yourself. Well, gas is where it hurt the most and sure, there won't be Russian tourist inflow. Lets even forget about that. Turkey will lose on both sides now..One, no more Deaseh stolen oil, it recently decided to sign gas contracts with qatar. Honestly, there won't be any gas pipelines across Syria, the reason Qatar started sponsoring its own arms of terrorists in Syria. (Far back as 2009..Long story)

No more Daesh oil, no more Russian gas contract or huge pipelines.(I could remember, the south stream (Bulgaria) was canceled and started Turkish stream). Now who be the loser nah ? It won't end there oh.

I am even very ashamed that I have to argue with a sub-human that ignores the use of common sense. Turkey stealing Syrian oil, sponsoring terrorist, then someone that has normal human brains bombed the illegal oil tanks and this sub-human and its miscreants like someone (jnhmaxxwell) said, are supporting terrorist. Obama leading the terrorist group, the terrorist alliance NATO. You actually expect Putin to look into terrorist eye and say good job terrorist leader Obama ?

If you have lost your senses or sense of humanity, you really need to re-think about being human. May be it will be nice if you turn to a real robot. Because robot is obviously better. Now who is on the right side of history ? Me or you ? NATO or Russia ? Stealing Syrian oil sponsoring terrorists or those who are against it and said enough is enough ?

Now you see why the empire is falling everyday ? I am sad for you. Obama i repeat is a dead idiot, stupidity at maximum level is what is wrong with him. He has no say by the way, a mere puppet to the Neocons, the Zionist.

Neocons kangaroo that says as I do. And this nonentity @ ValerianSteel supporting the dead is just cynical.


Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Qatar, Turkey and the head of the empire U.S.A and NATO are birds of a feather. On the wrong side of history and you shall see. The war is on Syrian Army side which ever way you want it.. Turkey is just a Scape-goat and Russia knows very well.

Still waiting for what Saudi will do. It has started increasing its power covertly. We shall see. Isreal for sure will continue it covert and pressurizing its neocons in the U.S...



The videos of turkey stealing Syrian oil are propaganda nah.. Ode oshi..

A lot of people do not understand why the love for Mr Putin is high and keep rising. It is simple, and written above. He's on the right side of history and the only Politician with Norman human being sense. This is just the simple truth.

Bible

After the Ukraine disaster, what Iran was saying for years about the US bandit empire was proven beyond doubt. The axis of evil and the great Satan - US bandit empire, stealer of the earths resources, destroyer of the soveregnity of nations world wide and supporter of terrorism to "control" the world. ISiS and neo-nazis in Ukraine are two poster terrorist children of the Great Satan of our time.
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Suspicion that the US is collaborating with Daesh (also known as ISIL/The Islamic State), instead of fighting the military group, is spreading among Iraqis, primarily due to the country's minimalist approach toward the crisis.

To Americans, accusations that the US government is helping Daesh may seem ludicrous. However, many Iraqi fighters and civilians claim they have seen evidence of collusion between the US and the notorious terrorist group citing, for instance, videos allegedly showing US helicopters airdropping weapons to the militants, The Washington Post reported.

The idea that the US is supporting Daesh is being persistently promoted via social media and voiced in parliament by Shiite politicians in Iraq, US military officials claim. In one popular video, recently released on a Shiite militia group's Facebook page, a lawmaker with the country's biggest militia group, the Badr Organization, waves seemingly new US military MREs (meals ready to eat), allegedly found at a recently seized Daesh base in Baiji, saying it is proof that the US supports terrorists.
The US military's Baghdad-based spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said the charges are "beyond ridiculous."

"The Iranians and the Iranian-backed Shiite militias are really pushing this line of propaganda, that the United States is supporting ISIL," he said. "There's clearly no one in the West who buys it, but unfortunately, this is something that a segment of the Iraqi population believes."

Many accuse the US of "creating" the antagonist so that it could fight to restore its damaged image in the region, while others assume America wants to assert its control over Iraq and throughout the Middle East in order to control oil supplies. These ideas are triggered by the ubiquitous belief that US should be doing more in the Middle East. This confusion of outcomes with intentions has resulted in the popularization of conspiracy theories.

"The reason is that the Americans aren't doing the job people expect them to do," said Mustafa Alani, director of the Dubai-based Gulf Research Center. "Mosul was lost and the Americans did nothing. Syria was lost and the Americans did nothing. Paris is attacked and the Americans aren't doing much. So people believe this is a deliberate policy. They can't believe the American leadership fails to understand the developments in the region, and so the only other explanation is that this is part of a conspiracy."

According to Warren, The US military reported near-daily strikes in support of the offensive to recapture Baiji and continues to respond to requests for strikes in the vicinity on a regular basis. However, the fighters there claim there were no strikes by the Americans at all and that the only air support they received was from the Iraqi air force.

Naseer Nouri, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense who himself thinks the allegations are groundless, said America is "so slow", it doesn't surprise him that some Iraqis think they are supporting Daesh.

"We don't believe the Americans support Daesh," He said. "But it is true that most people are saying they do, and they are right to believe that the Americans should be doing much more than they are."

It's not today.. World Terrorist known as U.S.A and NATO vassal states..

This Putin is a Political Comedian. The reality speaks for it. Lesson learned here is know when to stop being a puppet. Also know when to stop stealing or thieving.

Everyday is for the thief but one day is for the owner..

scully95:


The truth hurts.. Wake up to the present realities.. You are a learner... Anglozionist Empire will fall... It's in mess right now. Russia is winning the information war.. it won it during the Crimean referendum.. It will win it again..

The mental disorderliness is common with the colonial states of the brits. Yes, and this is why majority of Nigerians are so glued to the western mass brainwash media. Mere effigy of Propaganda. Mental slavery is really a disease curable..
Our likes that sent the brits parking are already in good terms, doing great things of mutual interest with Russia, China and far away from its major adversary.. The west, brits, Anglozionist empire, the Evil..


Western "values" are the bane of our present day civilization. We must turn "eastward", towards China, Russia, Latin America, India. The future of the planet depends on this. The Anglo zionist kleptocracy has defiled our planet. We need to reset our compasses to turn away from this scourge."

Anglozionist empire will die a slow but painful death, (the same way Soviet empire passed out) so as its proxies, Biafra and boko haram, NATO, DEASH, ISIL.. They will eventually pass on.

Wahhabi saudi arabia terrorist organization backed by the same west, anglozionist empire, will soon pass on..

Israel does not have a future in the middle east. These are the recent realities.

The future of the Planet is a muti-polar world. A world that makes super sense.. ADF ( African development bank) BRICS, AIIB, SCO are the next world economic frontiers..

Now deal with that... Anglozionist Prick head.

Please update these miscreants that are far away from realities. These brain dead permanent Anglozionist Empire's Nigerian id*ot. May be they don't know the meaning of AngloZionist Empire. They (AngloZionist Empire) are wrong and on the wrong side of history as we speak.

scully95:

Where is that Kid @mazeltov pro-agloionist Empire that was arguing the last time about S-400 cannot shoot down raptor. Use your n@ked eye to see the pic here.. Just seeing it alone means that S-400 can shoot down any 5th gen fighter jet. U.S has never in history of human face any power equivalent to that of Russians. What they are good at is pushing their puppets to start up the war while they watch from behind the scenes.

Why yankee fighter jets have not been flying on Syrian airspace since the deployment of S-400 nah ? Kid mazeltov ??