thank Murphy I hate him too
lol
Don't plan for what will go right - plan for what will go wrong
I don't have to plan for the wrong things, they happen all on their own. lol
Blitzkrieg: When Air Defense Means Aggression | New Eastern Outlook
I March, 2017, Israel launched a series of air assaults on Syria. One attack near the ancient city of Palmyra brought about a series of events we will deal with today. The implications for modern warfare not only change the rules as we know them but expose hypocrisy at the heart of NATO policy. This Israeli attack which may have brought about the downing of an IAF F15E aircraft by Syrian air defense missiles was allegedly intended, according to Israel, to stop Hezbollah from transferring advanced weapons to Lebanon. Those weapons would be used to resist an expected Israeli assault on that nation or to be used to retaliate against expected Israeli bombing of Beirut residential neighborhoods as seen during the 2006 war.
One issue, of course, is that there were no Hezbollah units within more than a hundred miles of Palmyra, instead Israel was, as has been the case over and over, flying air support for ISIS fighters under attack by the Syrian Army and its Russian allies.
There is something far more important here. When Israel planned the attack, which is expressed in military terms as the “package,” a key component involved use of Israel’s “Iron Dome” air defense system to support the attack.
What this means is that the Iron Dome is not intended for defense at all. There has long been a suspicion that the reports of Israel using million dollar missiles to intercept small Hamas rockets, which many also believe may have never existed in the first place, are simply “fake news.”
You see, no missile air defense system, if confronted with thousands of rockets, and Israel’s enemies have not just thousands but tens of thousands of conventional warhead guided missiles, can have any real effect. The Iron Dome is useless, a fraud.
Moreover, sources in the Obama administration indicate that without American AEGIS ships offshore coordinating targeting and augmenting with their SM3 missiles, the Iron Dome is ineffective. During the low point of US/Israel relations in 2013, the US removed the AEGIS component from the Iron Dome system and redeployed it to the Black Sea.
There, the US was building, and may have secretly deployed long before announced, an onshore AEGIS system. We will get into this later as it is important. Ships like the USS Donald Cook, mysteriously disabled during a Russian “flyby,” made up an “air defense” system that covered hundreds of miles into Russia. Is this “defense” at all? This is the question we are going to address.
As we get back to the Syria attack and the “package,” it became clear that the Iron Dome was being used not for defense but to supply air superiority for the Israeli attack on Syria. The radars placed on the occupied Golan Heights and other capabilities, in violation of UN accord, look across Syria into Iraq and even Jordan.
Combined with Patriot, Arrow and “David’s Sling” missiles, according to Israeli sources, Israel can protect attacking fighters up to 200 miles inside Syria. You see, when attacking fighter bombers head across the border, the long range missiles, aided by radars set right on the border, are used to negate Syrian defenses, not protect “Israel.”
Blitzkrieg: When Air Defense Means Aggression | New Eastern Outlook
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Poison Intell
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[/FONT] [FONT="]Many in the US feel betrayed by recent bellicosity against Syria, which may, yet again, have been based on a False Flag narrative, enriching psychopaths, [FONT="]n[/FONT]eocons and arms suppliers.[/FONT]
[FONT="]As one webmaster, Mike Rivero, phrased it with graphics, on an iconic red baseball cap:
Make America Ashamed Again.[/FONT]
[FONT="](I would gladly post said pic, but google no longer permits free pic posting. And also reduces font size to miniscule-illegible; hopefully not again. Regrets to readers.)[/FONT]
[FONT="]Will sound, adult input be permitted by an embattled POTUS? Or will circling the wagons rule, around cozy nepotism and perhaps sycophants? [/FONT]
[FONT="]Beware of flattery...[/FONT]
[FONT="]Meanwhile, the Military Industrial Complex battens on war, and does not ever own up to its legacy of horrors. [/FONT]
[FONT="]The latest Sarin accusations may be bogus as to source, but the military's Nam use of Monsanto's Agent Orange has not gone away.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Am old enough to have watched the returning Viet Nam vets; many of those still living number among the homeless.[/FONT]
[FONT="]A man from Taos Pueblo stands by the highway once a month or so, asking for help as a Disabled Veteran. Cannot be easy to stand there; he does not walk well. Many license plates have the symbol, "DV" on them. Legacy indeed.[/FONT]
[FONT="]When I had an organic farm, I was poisoned by power company helicopter spraying the Agent Orange derivative, Agent White, aka 2,4-D.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I went into acute collapse, liver, kidneys, etc. But when the pain spread to my childbearing-age ovaries, I fell to the floor and wept.
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Award-winning Iran-Contra journalist Robert Parry says the chemical weapons attack in Syria was launched from a joint Saudi-Israeli special operations base in Jordan, according to his intelligence sources.
U.S. intelligence analysts determined that a drone was responsible for the attack and “eventually came to believe that the flight was launched in Jordan from a Saudi-Israeli special operations base for supporting Syrian rebels,” according to the source.
“The suspected reason for the poison gas was to create an incident that would reverse the Trump administration’s announcement in late March that it was no longer seeking the removal of President Bashar al-Assad,”
writes Parry.
As we
highlighted back in 2013 after another chemical weapons attack in Ghouta that was blamed on Assad, rebels freely admitted to Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak that they had been given the weapons by Saudi Arabia but had “handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions.”
Parry’s background lends the information credibility. He covered the Iran-Contra scandal for the Associated Press and Newsweek and was later given a George Polk award for his work on intelligence matters.
The contention that the incident was a “false flag” to create a justification for air strikes has also been voiced by former
Congressman Ron Paul as well as numerous other prominent voices, including
Vladimir Putin himself, who went on to warn that rebels could now stage a similar incident in Damascus to goad the U.S. into toppling Assad.
Whoever was responsible for the attack does not take away from the horror of the event and the fact that innocent people and children died.
Those Condemning Syria Have Themselves Recently Used Chemical Weapons
Posted on
April 12, 2017 by
WashingtonsBlog
The Trump administration accuses the Syrian government of using chemical weapons, and claims this is a rare occurrence from a rogue government.
Not only did Sean Spicer
say that Hitler never used chemical weapons, but Secretary of Defense Mattis
said:
Even in World War II chemical weapons were not used on battlefields. Even in World War II, chemical weapons were not used on battlefields. Even in the Korean War, they were not used on battlefields.
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Since World War I there’s been an international convention on this.
But U.S. used chemical weapons against civilians in Iraq in 2004. Evidence
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here. The use of those weapons
greatly increased the
rate of birth defects.
The U.S.
armed and supported Iraq after it invaded Iran and engaged in a long, bloody war which included the use of chemical weapons. The U.S.
provided chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein to
use against Iran.
CONFIRMED: US sharply cuts air operations in Syria fearing Russian missiles
The media is barely reporting the fact but the immediate effect of the US missiles strike on Syria’s Sharyat air base has been to
reduce US air force flights over Syria as the US worries about Moscow’s reaction.
That this is so is confirmed by the New York Times which – presumably because its anti-Trump campaign overrides all other issues – has actually been doing some proper reporting about the Syrian conflict following the US missile strike.
This is all set out by New York Times in the following
article, which says the following:
The American-led task force that is battling the Islamic State has sharply reduced airstrikes against the militants in Syria as commanders assess whether Syrian government forces or their Russian allies plan to respond to the United States’ cruise missile strike on a Syrian airfield this past week, American officials said.
The precautionary move, revealed in statistics made public by the command on Saturday, was taken as Russian officials have threatened to suspend the communication line the American and Russian militaries use to notify each other about air operations in Syria.
So far, the Russian military does not appear to have taken any threatening actions, such as directing its battlefield radar or air defense systems to confront the Americans, or carrying out aggressive actions in the skies, United States officials said.
But officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning said the commanders needed time to determine whether the Syrian president,
Bashar al-Assad, and the Russian military would treat the American cruise missile strike as a one-time operation that they would not respond to militarily. As a precaution, the Pentagon is flying patrols in Syrian skies with
F-22 jets, the Air Force’s most advanced air-to-air fighter……
Some American and other Western counterterrorism officials have said the missile strike could………make the fight against the Islamic State in Syria more difficult.
“It seems clear that the strikes will complicate our efforts to pursue our counter-ISIS campaign in Syria,” said Matthew Olsen, a former director of the National Counterterrorism Center. “In particular, the ability to carry out U.S. airstrikes in Syria in support of the coalition against ISIS requires some degree of cooperation with Russia, which is now in serious jeopardy.”
Other security experts said that much depended on the Trump administration’s next steps, and how the Assad government and its Russian patrons responded.
“U.S. aircraft operating over Al-Tabqah are already ostensibly in range of the Russian S-400 system at the Humaymin Air Base, and we might see Russia deploy more air defense assets to Syria,” Jeremy Binnie, the Middle East editor of Jane’s Defense Weekly, said in an email. “But if the U.S. makes no moves to threaten Assad’s position, then they may well accept the punishment and move on.”
William McCants, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of “The ISIS Apocalypse,” offered a similar assessment.
This is the military reality that is causing the US to give repeated assurances to the Russians that the missile strike on Sharyat air base – largely ineffective as it appears to have been – is intended as a one-off, and that in
President Trump’s words: “Are we going to get involved in Syria? No.”
Large U.S. Military Convoy Seen Heading To New Base In Northern Syria
In what appears to be the second in a ramped up but gradual invasion of Syria by the United States, a massive convoy of U.S. military vehicles was seen making its way from Turkey to their new home in Kobane (Ayn al-Arab), in Northern Syria, Aleppo province.
A new report by Al-Masdar reveals satellite imagery that was able to capture the vehicles on their way to the newly constructed base.
Although the base is yet to be fully completed, it appears to be mostly finished as satellite imagery taken on April 11 shows.
The staffing of an American military base in Northern Syria comes only days after 20 U.S. armored vehicles entered Syria from the Jordanian border, an incident that itself took place only days after the United States launched 59 Tomahawk missiles into Idlib Province, hitting the al-Sha’aryat airbase.
Some of the missiles found their way into the al-Sha’aryat countryside,
killing nine civilians, four of whom were children.
Russia has condemned the U.S. act of aggression while Syria has repeated demands that the United States vacate the country, as its presence there is a violation of international law.
The United States’ presence in Syria has always been an illegal act of Western imperialism. However, we have finally reached a point where American aggression is threatening the stability of the world and posing the very real possibility of a third World War of the nuclear variety.
