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Title: Putin’s Hesitation Has Lost Syria’s Idlib Province
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URL Source: https://russia-insider.com/en/putin ... -syrias-idlib-province/ri24807
Published: Sep 24, 2018
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2018-09-24 15:50:25 by Ada
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The provocations that Putin invites are now escalating. Peter Ford, former British ambassador to Syria, points out that Washington has quickly taken advantage of Putin’s hesitancy in Syria to escalate the pretexts on which Washington will launch a military attack on the Syrian forces. Formerly Washington’s pretext was to be a false flag “chemical attack” that would be blamed on Syria. Washington’s new pretext precludes the liberation of Idlib as Washington has declared that any attempted liberation of the province from Washington’s terrorist allies will result in a US military attack on Syria. Indeed, even a refugee flow whether or not caused by a Syrian attack is deemed to be a “humanitarian issue” that justifies a US military attack on Syria. President Trump’s Special Envoy for Syria, James Jeffrey, just announced that the United States will not tolerate an attack, period.www.strategic-culture.org.../09/19/idlib-lull-before- hurricane.html Clearly, the Syrian/Russian liberation of Idlib from Washington’s terrorists cannot now happen, unless Putin is willing to establish such air superiority over Syria, backed up by Russian weapons, that the US would be incapable of launching an attack. Washington’s escalation of its provocations means that Putin would have to accept the risk of destroying any US attack forces that were sufficiently reckless to test the defenses. Another puzzle is Putin’s decision to pacify Erdogan by substituting a demilitarized zone in Idlib instead of liberating the province. How did Putin and Erdogan reach the fantasy conclusion that the US and its terrorist allies in Idlib province would cooperate with their demilitarization plan? Has Russian foreign policy dissolved into self-delusion? www.globalresearch.ca/video-al-qaeda-militants-reject- demilitarization-zone-agreement-in-idlib/5654577 We are watching unfold my concern that the acceptance of provocations results in more provocations and that the provocations escalate in their danger. What will Putin do now? If he backs down again, he can expect a yet more dangerous provocation until the only choice becomes surrender or nuclear war. Washington’s provocations would not have reached the current level of intensity if Putin had put his foot down several provocations ago. Indeed, the entire Syrian crisis would have been over except for the repeated hesitations and premature withdrawals of Russian forces. Does the Russian government not understand that Washington is conducting war against Russia, not against terrorists?
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
I wonder if the downing of the II-20 was a Russian false flag. It may have been remote controlled, and they may have known in advance that Israel was planning an attack by way of embedded intelligence assets in Israel. If so, they have surpassed the US in such productions, and have done it without the loss of life. The reason Russia would do this would be for it to have a strong reason to supply Syria with more advanced air defense systems, such as the S-300 which they are now deploying. The Syrian coastline will also now be under active electronic countermeasures as well. These developments should thwart western plans for any attack against Syria. Unspecified percentage of the Russian Air Force moving to Iran The White House & Grasley need to find more Kavanaugh sluts, to keep this kind of stuff from making the MSM news. These predicted measures are exactly the ones Defense Minister Shoigu announced today. Syria will get the S-300, its air defense will be further updated, Syria's coast will be more heavily defended: Syria ordered the S-300 systems in 2013 but Russia held back the delivery on Israel's request. Syria also had more urgent needs, especially for short range air-defense systems, which Russia delivered in large numbers. It were these systems that allowed the Syrian air defense to disable a high number of U.S. cruise missiles fired against it in April. The S-300, with a reach of up to 250 kilometers, will be able to target Israeli planes over Lebanon as well as deep within Israeli air space. The delivery of the S-300s via transport planes from Russia already begun. There are several sub types of the system and a number of different radar combinations to guide them. There is no information yet about the exact types Syria will be equipped with and in what numbers. The first deployment will likely be around the capital Damascus. Shoigu also announced that Syria's air defenses will now be equipped with Russian IFF systems: Identification Friend or Foe systems are the holy grail of any air force. With IFF an air defense radar sends an secret challenge to any unidentified airplane it detects. If the code is correct, a friendly airplane will respond with an identification token. The systems use special frequencies, strong cryptography and a daily changing code that is kept ultra secret. (NATO procedures demand that two officers cooperate in any update of such codes.) Russia held back these codes from Syria to avoid them leaking to potential enemies. It is likely that Russian officers will be present at the Syrian air defense command posts to handle the issue. Russia will also take additional electronic warfare measures to hinder potential attacks near its bases in Syria: Shoigu said the measures are meant to “cool down ‘hotheads’ and prevent misjudged actions posing a risk to our service members.” He added that if such a development fails to materialize, the Russian military “would act in accordance to the situation.” Israel knows that it can only do little against these Russian measures. That is why some of its lawmakers now ask for even greater U.S. involvement in Syria. S-300 action radius from Damascus The PTB in no way, shape or form want the U.S. on a friendly footing with Russia. Even though the U.S. has had friendly relations in the 19th and early 20th centuries with Russia, if we have them today the result would be no NWO and no globalism. The potential break up of the Eurozone is one aspect that will act as driving a stake into the heart of the vampire. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination 
#2. To: Ada, no fly zone, for Israel, more Kavanaugh sluts please (#0)
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Russia Beefs Up Syria's Air Defenses - Tells "Hotheads" To Cool Down
The incident will have consequences on several levels. For one - the airspace along the Syrian coast will now be off limits for Israeli flights
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The Syrian air defense will be further strengthened and modernized. Its personal will get more specialist training. But the probably worst issue for Israel's military will be cooled down relations with the Russian forces. There will be no more freebies, no more looking aside and direct Russian fire on Israeli forces should they again try such stunts.MOSCOW, September 24./TASS/. Within two weeks, the Syrian army will get from Russia S-300 air-defense missiles to strengthen its combat capabilities following the downing of a Russian Ilyushin Il-20 aircraft in Syria, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday.
"The command posts of Syrian air defense forces and units will be equipped with automated control systems only supplied to the Russian armed forces. This will facilitate centralized control over all forces and resources of the Syrian air defense, monitor the situation in the air, and ensure operative issuance of orders. Most importantly, we will guarantee the identification of all Russian aircrafts by the Syrian air defense systems," Shoigu said.
The third measure announced by the Russian defense ministry is a blanket of electronic countermeasures over Syrian coastline, which would “suppress satellite navigation, onboard radar systems and communications of warplanes attacking targets on Syrian territory.”
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#3. To: Ada (#0)
If he backs down again, he can expect a yet more dangerous provocation until the only choice becomes surrender or nuclear war.
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