It’s heating up: Syria readies to recapture Idlib, Moscow warns of provocation to frame Assad

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  1. Jazz

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    But Margot, Bolton is a famous Zionist!!! Are you an Anti-Zionist???
     
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    I met Bolton briefly in 2000.. He's a creep. No, I'm not a Zionist, but that's not an excuse to cave in to lies and rumors.
     
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    how do you meet such a person in person? Are you a famous political figure too?
     
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    I sat next to him on Saudia airlines in May of 2000 flying out of Riyahd. He's a creep. No, I'm not famous.
     
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    Flying First Class, though?
     
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    Yeah, why?
     
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    Another financial benefit for Iran that could result from the reconstruction process is the transfer of agricultural land to Syria, left in Iranian hands by Syrian citizens who have become refugees in the last seven years.

    Brodsky wrote about the "resettlement systems" of the Assad regime, which some would hand over to members of the pro-Iranian Shiite militias to help them consolidate their presence in Syria.

    Some in Israel believe that these countries will eventually accommodate new construction projects being built by Iranian companies.


    https://newsbeezer.com/israeleng/ir...er-the-control-of-post-war-syria-israel-news/
     
  8. Jazz

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    Well, figuring that Bolton was surely flying first class.
     
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    There is no heat to speak of when Donald Trump is in Putin's pocket and is handing Syria to Russia.
     
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    I thought Syria was a sovereign state? Aren't they supposed to make their own decisions - or do you think the world is under Washington's control? Which means of course, that you believe those who control Washington are controlling the world, or at least should be controlling the world. Hmmm, I wonder who they can be?

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    It's me George.
     
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    Now for some serious news, and what can be more serious than a massive build up for war games by Russia off Syria, and a build up for attack by the U.S coalition in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf?

    "I would still not talk about the risk of using chemical weapons, but about the risk of provocations using chemical weapons in order to blame the Syrian government afterward, because such a provocation is being prepared, there is no doubt.

    In the UN and in The Hague, where the headquarters of the OPCW is located, we submitted concrete facts that were obtained from different sources," Lavrov said.
    According to locals in Idlib, 40 children have been kidnapped, and it is believe they will be used by the terrorists in the false flag chemical attack so as to accuse Assad.
     
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    Since everybody and his uncle already knows about it, expects it and waits for it to go off, do you seriously think they will still play this same old trick?
    Me thinks they are no fools. Me thinks we are in for a surprise!!!
     
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    I read that there is a lot of propaganda in the MSM against a Syrian attack on the 'poor terrorists' of Idlib by the monster Assad, so thank God that RT and the rest are trying to stop what might turn into a major war with their own propaganda.
     
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    He's looking pretty competent now.
     
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    You think?
     
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    UN Chief Fears 'Humanitarian Catastrophe' in Syria’s Idlib
    August 29, 2018 4:02 PM

    UNITED NATIONS —

    U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern Wednesday that there could be a “humanitarian catastrophe” in the Syrian province of Idlib if there is a full-scale military operation there.

    The government of President Bashar al-Assad, with support from Russia, has said it plans to clear the area of militants from the Nusrah Front. There has been a surge in air strikes and shelling in the area this month, raising fears of an all-out offensive similar to what happened previously in Aleppo and Eastern Ghouta.

    "Idlib is the last major stronghold of terrorists who are trying to gamble on the status of the de-escalation zone and hold civilians as human shields and bring the armed formations ready for negotiations with the Syrian government to their knees,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Moscow earlier Wednesday according to the state-run Itar-Tass news agency. “So, from all standpoints, this ‘abscess’ has to be liquidated," he added.


    Some 3 million people live in the northwestern Idlib governorate, including more than a million who were displaced from other parts of Syria. The U.N. says more than 2 million people in Idlib need humanitarian assistance and that aid agencies are prepositioning supplies to prepare for a further deterioration in the situation.

    “The secretary-general urgently appeals to the government of Syria and all parties to exercise restraint and to prioritize the protection of civilians,” said U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. “He calls on the Astana guarantors to step up the efforts to find a peaceful solution to the situation in Idlib, the last remaining de-escalation zone.”

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    https://www.voanews.com/a/un-chief-fears-humanitarian-catastrophe-in-syria-idlib/4549609.html
     
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    Yup.
    Almost complete regained control over the country after a massive uprising and a massive invasion funded and aided by no end of foreign powers against him.
    He's lucky to still be alive let alone back in complete control of the country.

    He has done it. He was won against all odds.
     
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    According to Greekpronews, a major offensive against Idlib will start in a couple of hours - although there are reports that there has been some action.
     
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    And his ethnic cleansing has gone pretty well.
     
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    As has yours.
     
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    Well, not against Idlib, but against something for sure:

    Arms warehouse in Damascus razed to the ground

    On 2 September 2018, at around 0h35, the Damascus anti-air defense sprung into action. However, an enemy missile succeeded in striking the military air base at Al Mazzeh (Damascus), triggering a short-circuit which caused an ammunitions warehouse to burst into flames. For several seconds, an enormous flame could be seen.
    For almost an hour you could hear more than a thousand explosions, resulting in the complete destruction of the warehouse and around 70 fatalities.

    Read here:
    http://www.voltairenet.org/article202701.html
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    Whose missile was it? Israels?
    Of course, it was Israel... they say so themselves:

    The reported strike came as senior US officials from the State Department were in Israel to discuss Syria with Jerusalem officials.

    In January 2017, Syria accused Israel of launching missiles that hit the Mazzeh base, and threatened repercussions. Israeli missiles also reportedly targeted the base in late 2016.

    Officials in Jerusalem have said they take action to stop the transfer of advanced weapons to terror groups and to keep Iran from gaining a foothold in the country; Dozens of strikes inside Syria have been attributed to Israel.

    On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel would continue taking action against Iran and its proxies in Syria, and would not be affected by a defense cooperation agreement signed between Damascus and Tehran.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/missile-attack-reported-at-damascus-military-air-base/
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    I guess, Israel is not interested in peace. They make no effort to get along with their neighbors. No will either to negotiate, only brute force.
    So, what will come next?
     
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    All US military strikes against the legitimately elected government of Syria, in fact, not against Syria or Assad. All this is a military provocation for domestic US consumption. Because soon the inevitable collapse of the American economy will come. And to direct the wrath of society not to domestic enemies of the United States, such as an incompetent government mired in corruption or oligarchs exploiting the American people, but will direct the inevitable anger of society to a mythical external enemy.
    The US military budget is more than the military budgets of the whole world. What kind of military threats can we talk about?

    But what really constitutes a danger is that the rich get richer, and the poor become poorer.

    Did you know that last year almost every third employee of Amazon, for example, in Arizona, received food cards? The fact that Jeff Bezos pays his employees is not enough for food. At the same time, personal status of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is about $ 150 billion.
    And what about the Waltons family, the founders of Walmart? In total, their condition is about 175 billion dollars. This exceeds the GDP of Qatar - a state in the Persian Gulf with huge oil wealth. Of course, the Waltons can afford to pay employees generously. They can, but do not pay. In 2013 (more recent data is simply not available), Walmart employees received more than $ 6 billion in aid from the state for poverty - in the form of food cards, health insurance payments and housing subsidies.
    In fact, American corporations, becoming transnational, work against the US population and destroy America. The case went so far that even Donald Trump was forced to announce that Facebook, Google and Twitter deceive the Americans.
    A simple example - if you enter into Google's request "Trump News", then links are given almost exclusively to those sources that we call fake news.
    And at this time the trade war, which was supposed to make America great again, as it turned out, is killing America itself. Too everything turned out to be interconnected.
    For example, a small state of Arkansas, according to the US Chamber of Commerce, has already lost $ 339 million as a result of the trade war. And this is only a direct effect of the retaliatory sanctions of China, the European Union, Mexico and Canada, which seriously threaten the export of local products, mostly farm products. The damage from the decline in foreign investment in this statistics is not taken into account. Meanwhile, since 2000, businessmen from China have participated in 11 projects in Arkansas. This is a bit (in California for this time, 490 deals were concluded, in New York state - 143), but this money played a decisive role in the development of the region and its economy. The peak of investment from Chinese companies was fixed in 2016 and amounted to 46 billion dollars. 46 billion per year in one state! And now, instead of money - penis.
    For example, the Chinese paper maker Sun Paper was going to build a pulp and paper mill in Arkansas. The forest industry of the southeastern United States would have a new market, a lot of jobs, and all that. 1.8 billion dollars of real investment in equipment and construction. However, the condition of the Chinese was that the city authorities would also invest $ 100 million in the project (this is a typical Chinese insurance so that the municipalities do not suddenly change their minds and no start obstruct). City authorities under this, as usual in the United States, issued bonds - the percentage of which it was planned to repay from the city's share in the plant's profits.
    And then bang - sanctions, the Chinese snorted and said that the plant will not be built. The city is bankrupt.
    At one time Tianyuan Garments was inspired by the example of Sun Paper and after it decided to open a business in the US state. It was followed by Pet Won, building a veterinary clinic in Danville, and Ruyi Technology Group, which is building a textile factory with 800 jobs in the city of Forrest City. Now all this was annulled.
    But in general an indicative picture - even the veterinary clinic the American authorities can not build themselves, they were built by the Chinese. Textile factory, sewing on the release of goods Adidas - and the US could not build it themselves, the Chinese built it. The fact that all the "American" electronics, which still remained, at least 90% consists of Chinese components - even to say something funny.
    And remember the solar panels - about which so many have repeated? Suddenly it turned out that virtually ALL solar panels installed in the US are Chinese. What was called "Made in USA" was just American frames stuffed with Chinese solar modules. And what Ilon Mask gave out for "solar shingles" - also was of Chinese production. Nothing of its own "Made in USA" was not and is not. The degradation of industry has gone too far.

    And all this degradation did not begin today. The start of the destruction of the American economy was given by Reagan.
     
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    Wages at Amazon are $400 a week.
    More than you see in two months.
     
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    There was an explosion, but Israel had nothing to do with it.

    As for Syria..Their drug smuggling has been a problem for the whole region. The Alawites are above the law..
     
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    No one invaded Syria.
     

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