He Who Hesitates Is Lost And Russia Hesitated — Paul Craig Roberts
Paul
Craig Roberts
24 September, 2016
The Russian government
deceived itself with its fantasy belief that Russia and Washington
had a common cause in fighting ISIS. The Russian government even went
along with the pretense that the various ISIS groups operating under
various pen names were “moderate rebels” who could be separated
from the extremists, all the while agreeing to cease fighting on
successive verges of victory so that Washington could resupply ISIS
and prepare to introduce US and NATO forces into the conflict. The
Russian government apparently also thought that as a result of the
coup against Erdogan, which was said to implicate Washington, Turkey
was going to cease supporting ISIS and cooperate with Russia.
Alas, the Russians so
fervently, or perhaps I should say feverishly, desired an agreement
with Washington that they deceived themselves. If Finian Cunningham’s
report is correct, Washington has taken advantage of Russia’s
urging that Washington and Turkey join in the attack on ISIS by
invading northern Syria under the guise of “fighting ISIS.”
Syria has now been
partitioned, and the pretend or fake “moderate rebels” can be
built up inside the US/Turkish occupied areas of Syria and the war
against Syria kept going for as long as Washington wants. The western
presstitutes will report that the Turkish/American forces occupying
areas of Syria are not invaders but are attacking ISIS.
With US, Turkish, and,
little doubt, soon other NATO troops operating inside Syria, the
neoconservatives will have many opportunities to provoke a conflict
with Russia from which Russia will have to stand down or reply with
force. In the event of a Trump presidential victory, the neocons want
to make certain Trump is embroiled in a war that will prevent an
accommodation with Russia.
It is unclear whether US
Secretary of State Kerry’s effort to arrange a Syrian ceasefire was
sincere and he was sandbagged by the Pentagon and CIA. Regardless, if
Kerry was sincere, he is obviously unable to stand up to the neocons,
blessed as the State Department is with Victoria Nuland and a number
of other warmongers.
Obama is equally weak,
which is why he was chosen by the oligarchy as president. A person
without experience and knowledge is an excellent tool for the
oligarchy. American blacks and white liberals actually believed that
an inexperienced candidate from nowhere without an organization of
his own could make a difference. Apparently, the gullibility of a
majority of Americans is endless. This American hallmark of
gullibility is why a handful of neoconservatives can so easily lead
the sheeple into endless wars.
The idiot Americans have
been at war for 15 years and the morons have no idea what has been
achieved. The fools are unaware that the US in its decades long
accumulation of weakness now confronts two major nuclear powers:
Russia and China.
Americans have been
taught by the presstitutes serving the military/security complex that
nuclear war is not all that different from ordinary war. Look at
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two targets of American atomic bombs. Today,
seven decades later, the cities are flourishing, so what’s the
problem with nuclear weapons?
The atomic bombs that
Washington dropped on these helpless civilian centers while the
Japanese government was trying to surrender, were mere popguns
compared to today’s thermo-nuclear weapons. One Russian SS-18 wipes
out three-fourths of New York state for thousands of years. Five or
six of these “Satans” as they are known by the US military, and
the East Coast of the United States disappears.
Russia had a victory for
Syria and democracy in its hands, but Putin lacked the decisiveness
of a Napoleon or a Stalin and let his victory slip away as a result
of false hopes that Washington could be trusted. Now a Russian/Syrian
victory would require driving the Turks and Americans out of Syria.
If Russia struck hard and
fast, Russia could succeed by using Washington’s lie and claiming
that Russia thought the US and Turkish forces were ISIS, just as
Washington claimed when Washington intentionally struck a known
Syrian Army position.
If Russia actually
annihilated the Turkish and US force, which Russia could easily do,
NATO would collapse, because no European country wants to be
destroyed in World War 3. But Russia won’t collapse NATO by
decisive action. The Russians won’t fight until war is absolutely
and totally forced upon them. Then they will pay a huge price for
their indecisiveness rooted in their foolish belief that Russia has
common grounds with Washington. The only common grounds Russia has
with Washington requires Russia’s surrender. If Russia will
surrender, Russia can achieve Western acceptance, and Washington’s
agents, the Russian Atlanticist Integrationists, can rule Russia for
Washington.
US-Turkey
Lurch to World War in Syria
By
Finian Cunningham
Following US President Barack Obama’s dubious stellar
performance this week at the UN General Assembly recounting a litany
of lies for almost one hour before the eyes of the world, it was the
turn of Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan to insult humanity’s
intelligence.
Like
his American ally, who inverted reality by claiming that
US war crimes against numerous nations were a virtuous legacy,
Erdogan performed a similar spellbinding conjuring trick. In his
address to the UN, the Turkish president said his
military has rendered peace to the Middle East region by invading
Syria last month.
Can
you imagine Adolf Hitler declaring to the then League of Nations that
Germany had just invaded Poland to restore peace to Europe? It is
astounding, when you think about it, how the august international
forum in New York City indulged Erdogan and Obama with such polite
attention, when they are both responsible for the supreme war crime
of aggression against the sovereign state of Syria?
Turkish
and American troops are occupying a 100-km wide swathe of northern
Syria after they both launched Operation Euphrates Shield on August
24, with tanks and warplanes in support of ground forces.
Syria
and Russia have both expressed concern over the incursion, with
Damascus denouncing it as a violation of its sovereignty and
territorial integrity. American warplanes have been violating Syrian
sovereignty for nearly two years.
Just because Turkey and the US
claim that the latest operation is aimed at fighting the ISIS terror
network, that still does not confer legitimacy.
Four
weeks on from the US and Turkey launching the incursion into Syrian
territory, Ankara says that it is expanding its occupation.
Earlier
this week, Erdogan said his
troops would push further south into Syria to take a total area of
5,000 square kms – about five times the area already under its
present control. In Orwellian jargon, the Turkish-US forces are
labelling the annexed territory as «safe zones». Exactly to whom
this is being made «safe» for is not yet clear.
While
in New York City, the Turkish leader urged the
US to step up its military cooperation with Ankara to, as he put it,
«finish off Daesh [ISIS]» in Syria. Erdogan is pushing Washington
even harder to get onboard with the long-held Turkish objective of
setting up «no fly zones» in the occupied northern Syrian
territory.
Erdogan
also hinted that he expected a Clinton presidency to be more gung-ho
about escalating military involvement, and in particular implementing
no fly zones. Hillary Clinton has already said that she would take a
more hostile line towards Syria and Russia, going as far as declaring
she would deploy military force to oust President Bashar al-Assad.
It
is notable that Erdogan is making his appeals solely to Washington
for greater military intervention «to finish off Daesh» in Syria.
Surely, if Turkey was serious about this stated objective then it
would be entreating Russia to join forces, given that Russia has
shown itself to be the most effective military power against the
terror groups, after it was requested to intervene by the Syrian
government last year.
That
Erdogan wants to go it alone with the US on his supposed
«anti-terror» mission in Syria points to an ulterior agenda. That
agenda is nothing less than war on Syria.
Using
the pretext of «fighting terrorism» is a risible cover for the fact
that Turkish and American military forces are illegally operating on
Syrian soil. And as they expand their presence towards the northern
Syrian city of Aleppo, what should become apparent is that these two
NATO members are involved in an full-on invasion of Syria.
Forget
about ISIS or any other terror outfit that Washington and Ankara are
publicly claiming to be combatting. Turkish media last
year exposed the
Erdogan government’s cross-border weapons supply to illegally armed
insurgents in Syria. The notoriously «porous» Turk border is porous
because that is part of Ankara’s covert war on Syria, in league
with Washington and other NATO members, Britain and France, as well
as the Wahhabi terror-funding Saudi regime.
Russian
military surveillance footage has also proven that
the Turkish authorities were colluding with terror groups in running
oil-smuggling operations, until, that is, Russian aviation forces
obliterated this Erdogan war racket.
The
so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) militias that Turkish military are
collaborating with in their latest offensive into Syrian territory
are equally complicit in horrific crimes of terrorism as the more
infamous ISIS and Al Nusra extremists.
The FSA terror gangs are
sanitized in the Western media as some kind of «vetted opposition».
But they were involved, for example, in the massacre at
Kassab in Latakia Province back in March 2014, along with the Al
Qaeda throat-slitters and Turkish military support.
For
Turkey to claim now to be working with FSA militias to «cleanse»
border areas from «terrorists» is a derisory illusion.
Far
more conceivable is that Erdogan’s Ankara regime feels that the
US-led «regime change» plot against Syria is facing defeat at the
hands of the Syrian army bolstered by Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. The
battle for Aleppo is the last stand for the foreign-backed proxy army
of terror gangs, which were unleashed on Syria in March 2011 for the
purpose of waging covert war for regime change.
The
US-led criminal conspiracy against Syria is failing, largely due to
Russia’s intervention a year ago this month. In 12 months, the tide
of war has been turned in favor of the Syrian state’s victory
against the foreign-backed insurgency.
Given
the grim prognosis for the regime-change conspirators, Turkey and the
US appear prepared now to ratchet up direct military intervention. In
short, they are moving to fully-fledged war on Syria.
Erdogan
seems to be using the failed coup in
his country in mid-July as added leverage on Washington. Reeling from
Turkish accusations that the US was somehow complicit in aiding the
coup attempt (probably overblown), Washington seems keener to
accommodate Erdogan’s demands over Syria.
During
negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the UN
this week, US Secretary of State John Kerry was talking the language
of Erdogan by calling for
no fly zones around Aleppo as a condition for restoring a shattered
ceasefire.
Erdogan’s
Turkey has always been the most belligerent protagonist among the
US-led gang of state terror-sponsors. After the failed coup, Erdogan
appeared to abandon the secret war agenda towards his southern
neighbor. The Turkish president went on a charm offensive towards
Russia and Iran, the main allies of Syria. He even muted earlier
bellicose demands for regime change against Assad. That apparent
conciliatory attitude was short-lived though. Maybe it was a foil to
catch Russia and Iran off guard when Erdogan ordered his tanks to
roll over the Syrian border. It seems so.
As
the rhetorical smoke and mirrors clear away, what should be evident
is that Turkey and the US are openly at war with Syria. That puts in
proper context the massacre of
Syrian troops at Deir ez-Zor last weekend by US warplanes. American
claims of it being an «accident» are as ridiculous as other tenuous
American claims of «fighting terrorism».
If
the analysis presented here is correct, then the startling conclusion
is that a world war is underway, with Russia and the US being pitted
against each other.
And
if we are honest, we would have to admit that that war has been
coming for a long time, a war that Washington bears responsibility
for.
Moody’s
ratings agency cut Turkey’s sovereign credit rating to junk thus
concluding its post-coup review.
Turkey
and Russia are currently in talks over a protocol to coordinate
combat flights in the Syrian airspace to prevent incidents, a Turkish
military source told Hurriyet Daily News.
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