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Did John McCain Actually - Literally - Choke on His Own Rage While Discussing Russia and Syria?
79-year-old warmonger ran a little hot while discussing Russia and Syria in a recent interview

Jay Vogt | Russia Insider


Screen shot of Mad John from an interview this week

Is it just me, or does John McCain - a man that everyone knows is full of hate (especially for Russia) - actually choke on his own rage at two different places in this recent interview he gave to France 24?

Two things really got his goat in the interview: (i) Assad himself, who McCain blames for killing 250,000 people, and (ii) the Russians, who he still hasn’t forgiven for Crimea. In fact, he’s still utterly enraged over it.

You can tell that he starts to get riled up at the 7:13 mark when he ‘ffffffirmly disagrees’ with an alliance between Russia and France in Syria. Then, at the 7:26 mark while discussing the evil of Assad, he appears to choke a bit in a moment of pure angst.

By the 9:00 mark, it’s clear that McCain is trying as hard as he can to contain his fury while discussing a Russian role in the Syrian crisis, but you can tell that his rage over Ukraine is simply uncontrollable, and at the 9:13 mark, he seems to choke on it again.


I don’t know, maybe I’m seeing something that isn’t there; but with his long track record of anger and hatred, I think he may actually have choked on his own rage.
 

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Russia, France target militants in Syria
  • It is ironic that CIA is upset that Russia is targeting people CIA had supported, given that many of these have joined al-Nusra.
  • The Russians will stabilize the situation.
  • Lavrov said US position is confusing and Lavrov is correct.
  • Russians are acting, French are acting, British are acting (?), but US are not.
 

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This video shows how NATO acts as a blanket protector for terrorists.
Great Russian TV report from the Syrian town Kessab on the border with Turkey
 

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Did John McCain Actually - Literally - Choke on His Own Rage While Discussing Russia and Syria?
79-year-old warmonger ran a little hot while discussing Russia and Syria in a recent interview

Jay Vogt | Russia Insider


Screen shot of Mad John from an interview this week

Is it just me, or does John McCain - a man that everyone knows is full of hate (especially for Russia) - actually choke on his own rage at two different places in this recent interview he gave to France 24?

Two things really got his goat in the interview: (i) Assad himself, who McCain blames for killing 250,000 people, and (ii) the Russians, who he still hasn’t forgiven for Crimea. In fact, he’s still utterly enraged over it.

You can tell that he starts to get riled up at the 7:13 mark when he ‘ffffffirmly disagrees’ with an alliance between Russia and France in Syria. Then, at the 7:26 mark while discussing the evil of Assad, he appears to choke a bit in a moment of pure angst.

By the 9:00 mark, it’s clear that McCain is trying as hard as he can to contain his fury while discussing a Russian role in the Syrian crisis, but you can tell that his rage over Ukraine is simply uncontrollable, and at the 9:13 mark, he seems to choke on it again.


I don’t know, maybe I’m seeing something that isn’t there; but with his long track record of anger and hatred, I think he may actually have choked on his own rage.
Did Muckain just say ISIS is the godchild of Assad?
:wtf:
It is the godchild of the USA.
You only have a few more years, at least start speaking the truth now, john mccain.
 

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If the United States created the ISIS (according to the Kremlin's media), then why Moscow wants it to cooperate with Washington?
 

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If the United States created the ISIS (according to the Kremlin's media), then why Moscow wants it to cooperate with Washington?
Let's put it this way. A lot of people believe that the US was behind the creation of ISIS. Almost everyone says that US created the conditions for ISIS to rise, while some say US willfully created ISIS.
 

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Let's put it this way. A lot of people believe that the US was behind the creation of ISIS. Almost everyone says that US created the conditions for ISIS to rise, while some say US willfully created ISIS.
I will not say otherwise, because I do not know. The opposition in Syria reminds local wars of the Cold War.
 

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"The President Blinked": Why Obama Changed Course on Syria | FRONTLINE
Obama seeking approval from the Congress was actually a very American thing to do. Those in the military who were disappointed were not at all being Americans. The guy speaking at 3:55 does not speak for the Syrian people. He is just another civilized façade for the terrorists.
 

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In the fight against ISIS, Russia ain’t taking no prisoners
At the G-20 in Antalya, Putin had already, spectacularly, unveiled who contributes to Daesh’s financing – complete with“examples based on our data on the financing of different [Daesh] units by private individuals.”
The bombshell: Daesh’s cash, “as we have established, comes from 40 countries and, there are some of the G20 members among them.” It doesn’t take a Caltech genius to figure out which members. They’d better take the “you can run but you can’t hide” message seriously.
Additionally, Putin debunked - graphically – to the whole G20 the myth of a Washington seriously engaged on the fight against Daesh: “I’ve shown our colleagues photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil.” He was referring to Daesh’s oil smuggling tanker truck fleet, which numbers over 1,000.
Apparently acting on Russian satellite intelligence, the Pentagon then miraculously managed to find tanker truck convoys stretching “beyond the horizon,” smuggling out stolen Syrian oil. And duly bombed 116 trucks. For the first time. And this in over a year that the ‘Coalition of the Dodgy Opportunists’ (CDO) is theoretically fighting Daesh. The only such bombing that happened before was by the Iraqi Air Force.
Turkish Socialist party member Gursel Tekin has established that Daesh’s smuggled oil is exported to Turkey by BMZ, a shipping company controlled by none other than Bilal Erdogan, son of “Sultan” Erdogan. At a minimum, this violates UN Security Council resolution 2170.
 

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ISIL Militants Surrender to Kurds En Masse Amid Major Supply Route Cut

ISIL militants have been surrendering to advancing Peshmerga troops on the regular basis since supply routes connecting Iraq and Syria have been cut off heavy pounding by the US-led coalition airstrikes, a frontline commander of Kurdish forces in Gwer, Qadr Qadr, told Kurdish media outlet Bas News on Sunday.


According to the Peshmerga general, there are no Iraqi government troops fighting against ISIL, but several units of Kurdish volunteer militia forces.
 
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‘US rushed to strike ISIS oil network only after Russia intervened’
Commenting on the effectiveness of the US-led coalition’s efforts to fight IS in Syria thus far, Rogachev stressed that, despite an air campaign lasting over a year, their airstrikes had caused almost no damage to oil fields controlled by IS.“There were almost 8,000 military flights. Almost quarter of the time the jets came back without striking, taken to mean that they found no targets to attack. Meanwhile, ISIL continued to receive oil … thousands of tanker trucks drove all across the region.”
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/322776-isis-syria-russia-strikes/
 

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The report of the Russian intervention in Syria (23-11-2015)
The Russian defense Ministry has indicated the balance of the air operation Russian in Syria in the last few hours:
In the past two days, Russian aviation has carried out 141 outputs a combat against 472 white in the provinces of Aleppo, Damascus, Idlib, Hama, Homs, Latakia, Raqqa and Deir ez-zor.
Between what is attacked is quoted the following:
- Refineries in the zones of Palmira, Raqqa and Deir ez-zor
- 2 columns of trucks in the area of Raqqa. About 80 trucks destroyed. Attacked by Su-34
- Refinery 50 kms from Raqqa. Attacked by Su-34
- Fuel tanks 50 kms north of Deir ez-zor. Attacked by Su-34
It was also noted that in the last 5 days the air attacks russians destroyed over 1000 tanker trucks.

The videos of the day:
Attacked with cruise missiles.
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https://youtu.be/MGZHMSI17nc
https://youtu.be/s96OR5K7Ego

Attacked by Su-34...
https://youtu.be/lQZvNCRpdnQ
https://youtu.be/Re3fW_Maj10

Attacked by Tu-22M3, recorded by-34...
https://youtu.be/aYHbCuPodAw



 

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After Paris New Debate in DC Over the Crazy ‘Assad Must Go’ Line
There’s always been intelligence and military officials who thought US policy in Syria was bonkers, but the problem has been political appointees, State Department and the Arab Gulf allies

Gareth Porter | (Middle East Eye) | Russia Insider



Originally appeared at Consortium News

In the wake of the ISIS terrorist attack on Paris, President Barack Obama declared that his administration has the right strategy on ISIS and will “see it through.” But the administration is already shifting its policy to cooperate more closely with the Russians on Syria, and an influential former senior intelligence official has suggested that the administration needs to give more weight to the Assad government and army as the main barrier to ISIS and other jihadist forces in Syria.

Obama’s Europeans allies as well as U.S. national security officials have urged the United State to downgrade the official U.S. aim of achieving the departure of President Bashar al-Assad from Syria in the international negotiations begun last month and continued last weekend. Such a shift in policy, however, would make the contradictions between the U.S. interests and those of the Saudis, who continue to support jihadist forces fighting with al-Qaeda’s Syria branch, al-Nusra Front, increasingly clear.

Russia had proposed to the United States in September that the United States and Russia share intelligence on ISIS (also known as ISIL, Islamic State and Daesh) and exchange military delegations to coordinate on joint steps against ISIS. The initial Obama administration response was to reject either intelligence sharing or joint planning with Russia on Syria out of hand.

The reasoning was that the Russians were engaged primarily, if not exclusively, to shore up the Assad regime, which was unacceptable to Washington. Secretary of State John Kerry declared on Oct. 1: “What is important is Russia has to not be engaged in any activities against anybody but ISIL. That’s clear. We have made that very clear.”

But that was before Paris. The fallout from that attack has changed the political vectors pushing and pulling Obama administration policy. The most obvious shift came two days after the attacks and just hours after Obama announced new intelligence arrangements with France.

CIA Director John Brennan reversed the earlier U.S. decision to reject intelligence sharing with Russia on Islamic State. Revealing that he had had several conversations with his Russian counterpart since the beginning of Russia’s air offensive in Syria, Brennan said the ISIS threat “demands” an “unprecedented level of cooperation” among international intelligence services. Brennan said he and his Russian counterpart had begun exchanging intelligence focused primarily on the flow of terrorists from Russia into Iraq and Syria but that now U.S.-Russian cooperation needed to be “enhanced.”

At the G-20 summit in Antalya, Turkey on Nov. 15-16, Obama acknowledged for the first time in his meeting with Putin that Russia was indeed combating ISIS, according to a White House official. In fact, the Russians had been hitting ISIS targets regularly during October, including what it said was a command center in the ISIS capital, Raqqa. The Obama administration had refused to acknowledge that fact in October and instead focused on the Russian targeting of non-ISIS groups. But the White House press leak about the Obama-Putin conversation did not repeat that complaint.

The issue of whether Assad must go as part of a settlement has been a fixture of U.S. Syria policy ever since 2011, although it has now been modified to allow the Syrian president to stay in power for a period of six months as part of a settlement. But the Paris attacks may well be sparking new debate within the Obama administration on whether that demand makes sense.

In an interview with CBS News on Nov. 15, the former deputy director of the CIA, Michael Morell, suggested that the exclusion of Assad may need to be revised. “I do think the question of whether President Assad needs to go or whether he is part of the solution here, we need to look at it again,” Morell said. “Clearly he’s part of the problem. But he may also be part of the solution.”

It is not likely that Morell, who was acting CIA director twice in 2011 and again from 2012 to 2013, was merely reflecting a personal view on the matter. Statements by U.S. intelligence officials since 2012 have emphasized the importance of the Syrian administration and military as the primary buttress against both ISIS and al-Qaeda and its jihadist allies seizing power in the country – a point that the Obama and Kerry chose not to make. Since the “moderate” forces have all but disappeared in late 2014 and early 2015, and al-Qaeda and it jihadist allies have become the only rivals to Islamic State, that point became even more critical.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this week, “I cannot agree with the logic that Assad is the cause of everything” in Syria. That contrasts with John Kerry’s argument that unless Assad leaves Syria, “this war will not end.”

But Kerry’s position is based on the assumption that the major forces fighting against the regime would end the war and enter into peaceful competition if Assad could be induced to leave. In reality, of course, those forces are committed to using force to achieve the destruction of the old “secular” political order in Syria and establish an extremist conservative Islamic State.

The issue of whether to continue to demand Assad’s departure arises just as the UN peace negotiations process on Syria – meaning negotiations among the outside powers intervening in the conflict – begin a new and highly political phase.

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has revealed that the next phase will turn on bargaining among the international sponsors of anti-Assad groups about who would be allowed to join a new government. Those decisions, in turn, would depend on which of the groups are deemed by the foreign sponsors of those very groups to be “terrorists” and which are deemed acceptable.

As Hammond acknowledges, the Saudis are certainly not going to agree to call Ahrar al-Sham or other extremist jihadist groups allied with it and al-Nusra “terrorists.” They may have to give up al-Nusra Front, which has expressed support for the Islamic State terrorist assault on Paris.

Unless Obama is prepared to face a rupture in the U.S. alliance with the Sunni Gulf Sheikdoms over the issue, the result will be that the very groups committed to overthrowing the remnants of the old order by force will be invited by the United States and its Gulf allies to take key positions in the post-Assad government. It’s the right time for Obama to rethink the administration’s policy toward both Assad and his jihadist foes.
 

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Russia ‘must change strategy’ in Syria if it wants to join US-led ‘anti-ISIS’ coalition – State Dept

Russia is already doing what is in its best interest. It is targeting all terrorists.

Russia need not join the US-led coalition. It is upto the US to decide whether it wants to join the Russia-led coalition, or remain ineffective like the past 15 months.
:rofl:arre... itna mat hasaon jee... bacche ki jaan lenge kya?

The State dept seems to have been successfully infiltrated by the worst kind of morons of US Civil services. They don't even have any idea how ludicrous their statement sounds even to the laymen!
 

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Russian SU24 downed by the Turks
https://www.rt.com/news/323215-warplane-crash-syria-turkey/
A military jet that had reportedly violated Turkish border has crashed in Syria near the Turkish border, media said, adding the jet of unknown origin was shot down by Turkish F16 jets. Two pilots are reported to have ejected.
crashed in Syria means that got hit in Syria, so Turks have much to explain now


A Russian Su-24 fighter has been shot down in Syria, Russian Defense Ministry said, adding the plane hadn’t violated Turkish airspace and was at an altitude of 6,000 meters.
 

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