Als gevolg van het neerhalen van een Russisch militair vliegtuig door terreurstaat Israël, heeft Bolton Rusland gewaarschuwd haar aanwezigheid in Syrië niet uit te breiden met de zo door Israël en de VS gevreesde Russische S-300 raketten (terwijl de VS zelf al 2 maal onterecht kruisraketten afschoot op Syrische doelen....).
Levering van deze raketten aan Syrië is bepaald niet vreemd als je de brutaliteit van de Israëlische luchtmacht ziet, zo maakt het 'te onpas en te onpas' gebruik van het Libanese luchtruim om haar (illegale) terreur te zaaien in Syrië >> met de S-300 raketten kunnen de Israëlische straaljagers uit de lucht worden gehaald.
Geen
hond die het over dat laatste heeft, alsof het de normaalste zaak van
de wereld is dat een uiterst agressieve staat bombardementsvluchten
uitvoert, met als aanvliegroute een ander land, zoals gezegd Libanon........ In feite is dat een
oorlogsmisdaad en zoals je waarschijnlijk wel weet in het plegen van oorlogsmisdaden
behoort Israël tot de wereld top 3 (met op nummer 1 terreurentiteit VS en
nummer 3 de reli-fascistische terreurstaat Saoedi-Arabië).
Bolton wenst voorts niets te weten over het sluiten
van het luchtruim voor gebieden waar Rusland actief is, wat Rusland en Syrië volgens zeggen zouden overwegen na het neerhalen van het Russische militaire vliegtuig. Dit terwijl er al langere tijd geruchten rondgaan dat
de VS zelf 'no-fly zones' in Syrië wil instellen, waar de straaljagers en bommenwerpers van dat land nooit zijn aangevallen door Syrië of Rusland......
In feite
stelt Bolton dat er stront aan de knikker komt als de Syrische
defensie werkelijk een bedreiging zou worden voor de ongebreidelde
illegale Israëlische en VS terreur in haar land (terreur is altijd
illegaal, maar het wordt tijd dat iedereen het beest bij de naam gaat
noemen)
Het is
voor de Syrische bevolking te hopen dat Rusland nu op haar strepen
blijft staan en zich niet laat intimideren door de VS.
Syria: Bolton Throws Down the Gauntlet
A
terrible beauty was born last night with the sequence of dramatic
events taking a curious turn, following the shooting down of the
Russian plane on September 17 near the coastline of Latakia, Syria,
killing fifteen personnel on board the aircraft.
After
a meticulous investigation by the Russian side, Moscow has blamed
Israel. It has also constituted a criminal case. Indeed, under
international law, a criminal act took place and a crime is per se
accountable and punishable. Tel Aviv must be acutely conscious of
that.
Meanwhile,
Russia has begun initiating moves that ensure that such tragic
incidents do not recur. As initial step, Moscow proposes to equip
Syrian air defence establishment with the formidable S-300 missile
defence system. More such measures are expected in the coming days
and weeks.
At
which point, last night, US National Security Advisor John Bolton
came in from the cold and tweeted that the Russian move regarding
S-300 is a “significant escalation” and that Moscow should
“reconsider”. Washington has decided to make a lateral entry into
what so far wore the look of a Russian-Israeli-Syrian triangle. It
stands to reason that Bolton has been watching developments with an
eagle’s eye all but kept mum until Russia made its first big move.
Last
night, the Russian-Israeli-Syrian triangle morphed into a
US-Russian-Israeli triangle. That in turn brings up the big question:
Wasn’t the latter triangle the real one all along? Put differently,
was Israel acting alone at all on September 17 or is it that Tel Aviv
pulled strings in Washington for the big daddy to intervene since
Moscow turned on the heat?
In
either case, a terrible beauty is born, as Bolton’s crisp, cryptic
wording underlines. He didn’t elaborate what he meant by
“significant escalation” and, equally, he left a challenge
vaguely suspended in the air by calling for a Russian rethink on the
S-300 decision. Importantly, Bolton’s tweet ignored Moscow’s
clarification at the highest level on Monday that the Russian
motivation is principally to “avert any potential threat” to the
lives of Russian personnel deployed to Syria.
Simply
put, what emerges from Bolton’s tweet is that any Russian moves
towards the “significant” strengthening of the Syrian capability
to deter aggression or closing the Syrian air space in regions where
Russian personnel are deployed will not find favor with Washington.
This is a curious stance, to say the least. Especially when there are
strong and persistent rumors that the US is also feverishly working
to establish a “no-fly zone” in northeastern Syria that might
possibly cover a big swathe of territory stretching from Manbij in
Aleppo province to Deir Ezzor bordering the Euphrates, and that an
advanced air defence and radar system has already been established
near the Turkish border with northern Syria’s Ayn al-Arab (also
known as Kobani), held by Kurdish groups. This is, by the way,
despite the fact that the ISIS is not known to possess any capability
to stage air attacks.
That
is to say, one the one hand, US is establishing an air defence system
to protect its Kurdish allies in Syria from attacks while on the
other hand, it is contesting any Russian move to strengthen the
deterrent capability of the Syrian government against Israeli air
attacks. What is the game plan?
The
US strategy in Syria has phenomenally evolved through the past
one-year period from the professed agenda of fighting terrorism to
shaping the political future of Syria. The US has all but
acknowledged its intention to keep an open-ended presence in Syria.
President Trump no longer talks about a withdrawal of US troops from
Syria. Alongside, Washington has also reopened the regime agenda in
Syria.
All
in all, it must be understood very clearly that the US not only
refuses to accept defeat in the Syrian conflict, which it engineered
some 7 years ago, but is determined to be the winner, and will use
all power at its disposal to reach that desired goal. This means that
the Washington expects Moscow not to stand in the way of the
Pentagon’s action plan to degrade the Syrian government forces to a
point where they stood in a priori history in mid-2015 before the
Russian intervention.
Enter
Israel. The US-Israeli congruence in the above project does not need
elaboration, because a regime change in Syria and the potential
dismemberment of that country could guarantee that Israel’s illegal
occupation of the Golan Heights will never be challenged on the
ground, leaving the Trump administration a free hand to accord
international legitimacy to that occupation as part of any “Syrian
settlement”.
Suffice
to say, Russia is the proverbial dog in the Syrian manger. Iran’s
presence in Syria is more of a nuisance that can be tackled
separately by Israel, but so long as Russian aerospace capabilities
provide cover for the Syrian government forces, the US and Israel run
into headwinds in demolishing them systematically for advancing the
regime change project.
The
logical conclusion of the US-Israeli project lies in the removal of
the Russian bases from Syrian territory. Neither the US nor Israel
can countenance a military presence superior to Israel’s in the
entire Middle East region. The actual Russian deployment to Syria may
not be big, but Israel is very well aware that Russia has vast
strategic depth, which it cannot hope to match.
The
bottom line is that so long as Russia has a strategic presence in the
Middle East, Israel cannot regain its military dominance in the
region. And time doesn’t work in Israel’s favour, either. Iran is
rising and Turkey remains unfriendly. The sooner things get done, the
better for Israel – preferably while Trump remains in office.
Clearly,
Bolton has thrown down the gauntlet. The tragic incident of September
17 cannot be viewed in isolation.
==============================PS: een aantal grote mediaorganen durven keihard te stellen dat Syrië het Russische vliegtuig per ongeluk heeft neergehaald......... Ach ja, zo worden we dag na dag besodemieterd door de reguliere (massa-) media, die daarnaast het gore lef hebben te klagen over 'fake news' (nepnieuws) op de sociale media...... E.e.a. terwijl ze zelf het meest gevaarlijke nepnieuws brengen, neem de aanloop tot de illegale oorlogen en het nepnieuws dat werd en wordt gebracht tijdens die illegale oorlogen van de VS tegen Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en zoals hierboven beschreven Syrië...... (om nog maar te zwijgen over de ronduit anti-Russische propaganda aangaande Oekraïne en De Krim, alles gebaseerd op leugens...)
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