USA strikes Syria again

[St. Phatty]

Then why aren't you dealing with the domestic enemies (what is it like 700 mass shootings last year)?

They're sort of dealing with it - unless of course 'dealing with it' means actually solving a problem.

The "save the children" theme is certainly being used for political purposes.

The Caste in Charge is using mass shootings to push the agenda of gun control - while avoiding the connection between mass shootings and SSRI/SNRI meds that most of the shooters were taking.

So, they will slightly reduce the chances of another incident 5 years out, by taking a few semi-auto rifles and handguns off the streets.

Deliberately leaving school children vulnerable in soft target schools, with American pseudo doctors still prescribing the SSRI/SNRI meds that make them go crazy.

Looks like America will have more attacks with nail guns, shot guns, arson, and in some cases, full size airplanes, a la the German Wings crash in March 2015.

Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 28, flew the Airbus into a mountain side after locking the pilot out of the cabin, with 150 people on board. He was taking anti-depressants and was coping with a bad outcome from LASIK eye surgery at the time, a combination of eye pain and fvcked up vision.

Actually a great day for Western 'medical' technology because both details of Lubitz' medical condition were mostly kept out of the press. So they could keep selling their dark potions and procedures.

One note about mass shootings - they create LOTS of revenue for medical providers. as do Wars.

Wonder how much all the shootings added to the GNP. The appearance of economic growth might be more important to TPTB, than protecting school children.

 

[gaiusmarius]

President al-Assad to Iranian Al-ALAM TV

President al-Assad to Iranian Al-ALAM TV

if you want to know what he actually says and plans and not what the propaganda says he is saying and doing, it's worth a read.

President al-Assad to Iranian Al-ALAM TV: Syrian-Iranian relation is strategic… the strongest response to Israel is to strike its terrorists in Syria

https://sana.sy/en/?p=140166

13 June 2018

Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad affirmed that the Syrian south is in front of two options; reconciliation or liberation by force, indicating that at this point, there are no concrete results for a simple reason which is Israeli and American interference, for they put pressure on the terrorists in that area in order to prevent reaching any compromise or peaceful resolution.

The President added in an interview given to Iran’s Al-ALAM TV that the Syrian-Iranian relation is strategic not subject to a deal and it is linked to the present and future of the region , affirming that neither Syria nor Iran has floated this relationship on the international political bazaar for it to be subject to haggling.

President al-Assad affirmed that since the beginning of the war, particularly when it started to have a clear military nature on the southern front in particular, the Israelis used to shell Syrian forces continuously, and consequently provide direct support to the terrorists. Israeli artillery and aircraft are the terrorists’ artillery and aircraft… Despite Israeli support to the terrorists, we have been doing our job, and the Syrian Army is fighting its way towards the southern front, and has liberated a number of areas within the limits of its capabilities. So, with or without its approval, the decision is a Syrian one, and this is a national duty we shall carry out.

Following the full text of the interview;

Question 1: Mr. President, there are many issues which we will talk about, but in the light of the victories you have achieved, the main focus remains the south of Syria. What’s happening exactly, or what is the nature of what is happening in the south of Syria?

President Assad: To put it simply, after the liberation of al-Ghouta, it was suggested that we should move south. We were faced with two options, as is the case in all other areas in Syria: reconciliation or liberation by force. At this point, the Russians suggested the possibility of giving reconciliation an opportunity, similar to what happened in other areas, in order to restore the situation that prevailed before 2011. In other words, for the Syrian Army to be deployed in that area, which is an area of confrontation with the Zionist enemy. And of course the terrorists should leave the area. This proposition suits us. Up till now, there are no concrete results for a simple reason which is Israeli and American interference; for they put pressure on the terrorists in that area in order to prevent reaching any compromise or peaceful resolution. That is how the situation stands now.



Question 2: So, it hasn’t been decided whether to move towards a military operation or towards reconciliation?

President Assad: No, contacts are still ongoing between the Russians, the Americans, and the Israelis, while nobody is communicating with the terrorists, because they are mere tools, and they implement what their masters decide ultimately. This is what happened, i.e. there was an opportunity to reach reconciliation, but the American and Israeli interference prevented that possibility.

Question 3: Of course, this is the reality there. But on the other hand, there are those who talk about many things taking place in the south. Mr. President, is there a certain deal, what is the price? Is there really a price for concluding this deal in the south? Let me talk frankly about the issue of getting the Iranians to leave the southern region in return for al-Tanf, for example. What did the Americans demand, or let’s say, what was the price the Americans asked to approve the reconciliation process in the south?

President Assad: For the Americans, there is a general principle they follow in dealing with any problem in the world. The only price they ask for is absolute hegemony, regardless of the issue and the place. Of course, we shall never provide that price; otherwise we wouldn’t have fought this war for years. We have been fighting for the independence of Syrian decision-making, for the Syrian homeland, and for the unity of Syrian territory. As for Iran in particular, let me be very clear: the Syrian-Iranian relationship is a strategic one not subject to a deal in the south or in the north. This relationship, in terms of its implications and results on the ground, is linked to the present and future of the region. Consequently, it is not subject to the price tags of the international bazaar. Neither Syria nor Iran has floated this relationship on the international political bazaar for it to be subject to haggling. The proposition was made by the Israelis with the objective of provoking and embarrassing Iran. At the same time, this comes in line with the international propaganda campaign launched against Iran regarding the nuclear file. It is not a separate issue; for everything happening now is linked to Iran in order to create an international position against it. As for us in Syria, the decision concerning our land is an exclusively Syrian decision. We are fighting the same battle, and when we have a decision concerning Iran, we will talk about it with the Iranians and not with any other party.

Question 4: Of course, we will talk more about Iran and in more detail, but since we are talking about the southern front, let’s explore it further. Practically, in the same context, there is the MOC which hasn’t stopped its operations since the beginning of the war on Syria about eight years ago. It is working and is still active, and is directly linked to the Israelis. But we have noticed recently that it has been reactivated, and there are more communications. Mr. President, does this mean that the Syrian state is practically moving towards a military decisive action in the south regardless of the consequences, whether things reach a stalemate or not? Is a decisive action in the cards for the Syrian leadership?



President Assad: No, MOC has nothing to do with this decision. MOC has been linked to the presence and the role of the terrorists since the beginning of the war on Syria. That’s why it existed: in order to lead them militarily. Consequently, the continued existence of this operations room means the continuation of the role given to these terrorists, i.e. they are equipped and prepared to carry out more terrorist acts. MOC is linked to the terrorists and not to the role of the Syrian state. Our role has nothing to do with it. Our decision has been clear from the beginning: we will liberate all Syrian lands. As to when to move south, north, east, or west, this is a purely military issue. But regardless of MOC, we have moved towards the south and we are giving the political process a chance. If that doesn’t succeed, we have no other option but to liberate it by force.

Question 5: But there is a confrontation in the south, and the issue is not limited geographically to Syria in the larger political sense. There are the Americans, the Russians, the Iranians, the Israelis, and Hezbollah. All these parties are there in the area. What does that mean? How are you going to deal with this?

President Assad: You are talking about two axes: one supporting terrorism, and represented by the US, Israel, and some flunkies in the region including some Arab and non-Arab states, and an anti-terrorist axis. The first axis supports terrorism and seeks hegemony, while the second axis seeks independence. So, there can be only one result for this confrontation, i.e. the victory of one of these axes. At least, as far as the anti-terrorist axis is concerned, it will not give up the process of cleaning Syria and the region of terrorism and will not give up on the unity of Syrian territory.

As to the other axis, will it change as a result of the reality on the ground? Let’s wait and see. But in terms of substance and convictions, it will not change, while in terms of the political practices dictated by reality and the facts on the ground, it might.

Question 6: Will the Americans leave al-Tanf?

President Assad: The Americans say they are ready, but everyone knows that the Americans are historically professional liars in politics. So why should we believe them? Also, we have to wait and see.

Question 7: Mr. President, what’s happening now in Jordan? Is it linked to what’s happening on the southern front in particular, i.e. is it linked to what is being plotted in that region, in your view?

President Assad: In fact, the only information we have is what we hear in the media. In any case, we wish Jordan stability, not chaos, because the latter will have a negative impact on us.

Question 8: Since we are talking about the south, let’s close this file. Mr. President, what would make the Israeli occupation agree to the return of the Syrian Army to the borders, i.e. a return to the situation which existed at the beginning of 2011, after seven years of repeated Zionist attempts, directly and indirectly, to undermine the Syrian state, the regime in Syria, and stability in Syria. Why would it agree now to the return of the Syrian Army to the borders and to the occupied Golan?

President Assad: Certainly, neither conviction, morality, nor international law means anything to the Israelis. Since the beginning of the war, particularly when it started to have a clear military nature on the southern front in particular, the Israelis used to shell Syrian forces continuously, and consequently provide direct support to the terrorists. Israeli artillery and aircraft are the terrorists’ artillery and aircraft. That applies to Jabhat al-Nusra of course. Nothing is going to change this Israeli approach. As far as we are concerned, Israel’s approval had no role at all. Despite Israeli support to the terrorists, we have been doing our job, and the Syrian Army is fighting its way towards the southern front, and has liberated a number of areas within the limits of its capabilities. So, with or without its approval, the decision is a Syrian one, and this is a national duty we shall carry out.

Question 9: So, a return of the Syrian Army is better than having resistance in the Golan, for instance?

President Assad: For the Israelis?

Journalist: Yes.

President Assad: I think the two options are bad for the Israelis. Both of them are bad. Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah has repeatedly talked about Syria’s relationship with the resistance and a Syrian role in the resistance. So, how would the Israelis choose between two bad things for them?

Question 10: As you said, Mr. President, Israel has financed, supported, and more dangerously was capable of enlisting a large number of Syrians, some of whom were treated inside occupied Palestine. They talked about it. In the future, how would you deal with this large number of Israeli agents? Maybe some of them were misled and Israel might have exploited the financial and living conditions of some; and some have chosen to side with the Israelis. How would you deal with them in the future?

President Assad: This is true; we cannot put everyone in the same basket. There are different reasons for moving in this wrong direction; and these people have wronged the homeland and every Syrian citizen. Ultimately, they are the children of this homeland, and we all bear responsibility for this problem, not only those who have done wrong. When crime, for instance, becomes widespread in a certain country, the whole society bears responsibility for this crime, not only the security agencies or the criminals themselves. The first thing that should be done is to accommodate these people. Second, we need to address the root causes which led to this case of weak patriotism. The causes here are many and complicated, and the scope of this interview doesn’t allow for all of them to be mentioned.

Question 11: In the same context, while you are talking about restoring the Syrian air defense systems and confronting the Zionist occupation, statements have been made by leaders of the Israeli entity that they will strike at the depth of Syrian territory. How would you deal with that situation, particularly that balance has been achieved recently, i.e. balance between Israeli aggressions and Syrian responses?

President Assad: Basically, we haven’t stopped responding. First of all, we haven’t stopped fighting terrorists, and at the same time we haven’t stopped responding to Israeli aggression within the capabilities available to us, militarily and technically. Moreover, the more these capabilities improve; the response will be better and higher. But in fact the strongest response to Israel now is to strike the Israeli army existing in Syria which consists practically of the terrorists.

Journalist: You consider them an Israeli army?

President Assad: Of course, for they are acting clearly and starkly in Israel’s interest. The first acts they carried out were attacks against the air defense systems. What is the link between air defense systems and the terrorists acting as infantry on the ground? This was an Israeli order. It was an Israeli-American order because it is the same thing. So, they are Israel’s army inside Syria; and the first strike against Israel, politically, militarily, and in every other area, is to strike Israel’s terrorists inside Syria, whether they belong to ISIS, al-Nusra, or the other groups linked to the Israeli plan and strategy.

Journalist: If Israel escalates, are you prepared to respond more forcefully?



President Assad: This is what’s happening. It is escalating, and we are responding. Ultimately, we are fighting the war within the capabilities available to us, and we are doing our best within these capabilities. A response does not need a political decision. I stress that responding or not responding is not a political decision. It is a national decision, and it was taken from day one. But implementing this decision depends on what we can do militarily and not politically.

Question 12: In terms of capabilities, there is one issue in the media which we are always following, i.e. the S300 Russian missiles. Russia says, “We will deliver these missiles”, and then says, “We will not deliver them”, which means that the issue is not clear. What is happening exactly? Why this Russian hesitation, in your view, in delivering the S300 missiles to Syria, while some other countries have been seeking S400, i.e. they are ahead of us in this regard.

President Assad: You know that military action and military considerations are part of political considerations. Consequently, a statement, even if it is of a military nature, carries at the same time political messages. So, why did the Russians say that they want to send or not send? This is a statement that the Russians should be asked about because it might be part of their political tactics. As to the military aspect of the statement, which concerns Syria, it’s not our custom to talk about the weapon which will be delivered or not delivered. The evidence was that the weapons used in response to the last two aggressions, the tripartite aggression and after that the Israeli aggression, were not announced by Syria. We traditionally do not announce cases of a technical military nature.

Journalist: So, even the nature of the response is not linked to the issue of the S300 missiles?

President Assad: No. The same applies. Even if the S300 missiles will be provided or not provided, we will not say that they were delivered to Syria. A weapon is used when it must be used.

Journalist: Is there a possibility that you have developed certain weapons?

President Assad: This remains a possibility. In any case, the result is the same: weapons shouldn’t be talked about until they are used. Weapons announce themselves only when they are used.

Question 13: Mr. President, let’s return to the political aspect, since we are talking about the southern front. Regarding the general situation, in light of all that has been achieved on the Syrian arena today, the most prominent actor is the tripartite alliance, or what is being called the tripartite alliance. I mean Syria, Iran, and Russia. What is the nature of this alliance? Is it a temporary alliance, in the sense that it is linked to fighting terrorism or to certain developments on the Syrian arena? Recently, we have started to see – or let’s say some have focused on certain points in order to show – a certain fracture in this alliance. What is your take on that and what is the actual reality of this alliance?

President Assad: If we talk first about the Syrian-Iranian part, for 40 years, and in the different conditions that the Middle East region has gone through, this alliance remained solid. So, there is no reason to say that it is temporary or otherwise. The new element in the war on Syria is the Russian element, and that’s why this tripartite alliance came into existence. Our relationship with Russia is now about seven decades old. Despite the fluctuations and the fall of the Soviet Union, the rule of President Yeltsin, and the deterioration of these relations to a large degree for us, it has never reached the stage of reversing this relationship with Syria. Russia continued to deal with Syria as a friendly state, and we have imported everything from Russia, including weapons, during the different stages of the sanctions imposed on Syria. It is not in the nature of the Russians to build temporary or self-serving alliances or to sell out on relations in order to get deals done. The relationship is definitely a strategic one, but the political statements allowed for these speculations.

These statements also aim at sending messages in different directions. Maybe, sometimes the language or the choice of particular terminology might not be helpful and might take the statement in a different direction at odds with the content of the statement. This happens from time to time. However, these statements shouldn’t be taken out of context: the Russian view of the relationship with Iran is a strategic one. As for Syria, the Russians do not interfere in Syrian affairs. If they have a certain opinion, they raise it with us and say that in the end, the decision is that of the Syrian leadership and the Syrian people. This is a constant principle for Russia. Therefore, the alliance is a strategic one, and if there are differences, such differences happen within the Syrian state, and you see differences within the Iranian state and within the Russian state. It is natural for us to differ on daily tactical details, for why conduct a dialogue if we agree on everything? We meet extensively in order to reach agreement.

Journalist: So, this tripartite alliance is being consolidated.

President Assad: Of course. This is dictated by reality, interest, and international changes that make it necessary for this alliance to be consolidated. As long as the other axis supports terrorism, and as long as we, together with Iran and Russia, feel the danger of terrorism, not only in Syria, but also on all these countries and on the whole world, and as long as Syria, Iran, and Russia realize the importance of abiding by international law, these facts make the existence of this alliance necessary.

Question 14: But there are those who say that Syria will get a price if the Iranians leave Syrian territories. Is there a certain political, moral, or military price in this regard?

President Assad: As I said in the beginning, as long as this relationship is not floated in the bazaar, they cannot offer a price, and the answer will be clear. That’s why they don’t dare suggest this price. This issue was raised by different countries, including Saudi Arabia for instance, at the beginning of the war, and not only at the beginning, but at different stages. The proposition was that if Syria cut its relationship with Iran, the situation in Syria will be normal. This principle is basically rejected by us.

Journalist: So, there were initiatives, so to speak, made in this regard by Saudi Arabia.

President Assad: During the war?

Journalist: Yes.

President Assad: Of course, more than once, and in a clear manner.

Journalist: Directly?

President Assad: Directly. The relationship with Iran was the basis for every proposition; and Saudi Arabia’s position on this subject is public. I’m not revealing a secret.

Question 15: An issue is raised, whether in Syria, Iran, or Lebanon, about the nature of Iranian presence in Syria. Some call them Iranian advisors. Even the Syrian Foreign Minister used the same term. At the same time, we notice that there are Iranian martyrs. Frankly, Mr. President, what is the nature of Iranian presence in Syria now?

President Assad: The term adviser is sometimes used in a broad manner, i.e. these advisers have been with us, through the longstanding relationship with Iran, even before the war, because the military relationship is close. When a military formation moves to a fighting position, the adviser becomes a fighter. So, the word can be used in different senses. There are certainly Iranian advisers in Syria, and there are groups of Iranian volunteers who came to Syria, and they are led by Iranian officers. Iran has fought with and defended the Syrian people. It offered blood. That’s why when we say “advisers” this is a generic term, but this doesn’t mean that we are ashamed of any Iranian presence, even if it is official. But we use the word “advisers” because there are no regular Iranian fighting units in Syria.

Journalist: Full formations.



President Assad: Exactly. There are no battalions, or brigades, or divisions. First, we can’t hide them, and then why should we be ashamed of that? When we invited the Russians legally to come to Syria, we were not ashamed of that. And if there were an Iranian formation, we would announce it, because such relations need agreements between the two states endorsed by parliaments. Such relations cannot be concealed.

Journalist: And you invited Iranian advisers to come?

President Assad: Of course, from the beginning we invited the Iranians, and then we invited the Russians. We needed the support of these countries, and they answered the call.

Journalist: Mr. President, you said more than once that there are no Iranian bases in Syria.

President Assad: That’s correct.

Journalist: Why there are no Iranian bases, while we notice that there are a number of Russian bases?

President Assad: There’s nothing that prevents the existence of such bases as long as Iran is an ally as is Russia.

Journalist: This means that if Iran requested the existence of such bases, you would agree?



President Assad: If we ask. We will ask them to agree. I mean that we could ask for the existence of such forces to support us. Iran has never asked and does not have an interest except in fighting terrorism. But the evolution of the war made it necessary to develop the nature of this presence.

This happened as far as the Russians are concerned. In the beginning, Russian support, like Iranian support, was different from what it is today. The support for terrorism has developed internationally and globally when the Syrian Army confronted those terrorists, and with that Russian and Iranian military presence developed. At a certain stage, we found – with the Russians of course – that the existence of air bases was necessary to provide air support to the Syrian Army. And now, if we find, in cooperation, coordination, or dialogue with the Iranians, that there is a need for Iranian military bases, we will not hesitate. But now, Iranian support in its present form is good and effective.

Question 16: Why haven’t you visited Iran so far, although you visited Russia more than once?



President Assad: That’s correct. In fact, there was a scheduled visit to Iran a few months ago, and it was postponed and not cancelled. It was postponed because of an emergency in Syria related to the development of battles. There is certainly no reason which prevents such a visit, and I’ll visit Iran hopefully soon on the earliest opportunity. This is natural, but the issue is logistic, no more, no less.

Question 17: Mr. President, I move to another file. Last week, it was the Jerusalem International Day, and the Palestinian cause is going through its most difficult stages. We are talking about the “deal of the century”, and moving the American Embassy to occupied Jerusalem. What do you have to say about Palestine? Is Syria still capable of supporting the Palestine cause? Basically, wasn’t one of the most important objectives of the war on Syria to get Syria out of the axis of resistance and to prevent it from supporting resistance, whether in Lebanon or Palestine?

President Assad: The Palestine context, since 1948 up till now, has been a complicated one, because the regional context is complicated. Of course, it is complicated because the colonial West, which is particularly supportive of Israel, has always created elements which aim at one single thing. First, to drive to desperation the Arab citizen who is historically attached to the cause of Palestine and who has always considered it a pan-Arab cause that touched him even on the national level.

The other objective has been to distract the Arab peoples together with states or societies in general to marginal causes so that they do not have time to think about Israel. And they have succeeded to a great extent, most recently through the so-called Arab spring which has aimed at destroying the political, military, and psychological infrastructure of Arab societies.

Nevertheless, recent development have proven that the Arab people is still conscientiously attached to the cause of Palestine. As for Syria – since it has been part of these plots to undermine the Arab condition in general – first, for Syria to support the cause of Palestine, it should first of all destroy the Israeli army in Syria. Restoring stability in Syria, striking terrorism, and foiling the Israeli plot in Syria is certainly part of supporting the cause of Palestine. The support might be indirect with direct consequences, but these direct consequences are linked to the internal Palestinian condition. We shouldn’t forget that the Palestinians are divided between groups which resist Israel and are genuinely linked to the cause of Palestine, and other groups which are against the resistance and support surrenderist and defeatist peace, while there are other groups which use resistance as a title in order to achieve their political objectives under the slogan of religion. This is of course the Muslim Brotherhood’s approach.

Question 18: Are you prepared to offer whatever the resistance asks of you, whether in the form of political, military, or any other form of support?

President Assad: Politically, we haven’t changed. The Palestinian question for us is still as it was ten years ago and decades ago. It hasn’t changed. As to what we can offer, this has to do with two things: first, Syria’s current capabilities; and there’s no doubt that the priority is given now to cleaning Syria of terrorism. Second, it has to do with the Palestinian condition and the parties with which we can deal within the Palestinian arena.

Question 19: Since we are talking about resistance, there is the other side. In addition to some countries which stood beside Syria in fighting terrorism, there was also a role played by the resistance in Lebanon, particularly Hezbollah, which provided a great deal and contributed to fighting terrorism. What do you say, Mr. President, to resistance fighters and families of martyrs and the wounded?

President Assad: When all these groups of resistance get together to defend Syrian soil and Syrian citizens, including the Lebanese resistance and the brothers who came from Iraq some of whom reproached me for not mentioning them by name, I take this opportunity to stress that there are brothers from Iraq to whom we give the same weight of any resistance fighter who came from any other country.

There are also the families of resistance fighters who came from Iran and sacrificed their blood in Syria. We should put all these in the same basket next to the Syrian martyrs, fighters, and their families. To those I say that all the letters, the words, the sentences, and the whole of literature are much less than a single drop of blood. Therefore, words are of a much lesser value than what they have offered. What’s more important is what history will write about them.

In fact, when we talk about writing history, we need to highlight that history needs a strategy and needs tactics, but the fact remains that strategy without implementation on the ground has no value. It remains mere thought which we might include in books and essays. But the reality is that these individuals in these countries, this group of resistance fighters, not politics, write history. I would like to use the answer to this question to express to them all my love, respect, and appreciation, and my reverence to the fighters, the wounded, and martyrs, and to all their families who are courage incarnated and who sent these individuals to Syria to defend it and fight terrorism, so that these families become models of morality and principles for present and future generations.

Question 20: Have you asked Hezbollah to leave Syria? A few days ago His Eminence Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah talked about this issue and said that nobody can get us out of Syria unless the Syrian leadership asked us to do so.

President Assad: The battle is long and ongoing. When we talk about this tripartite alliance – and if we consider it a quadruple alliance when we add Hezbollah, we talk about the tripartite alliance in terms of the states included, but in the end Hezbollah is a basic element in this war – the battle is long, and the need for these military forces will continue for a long time. When there is a need, and when Hezbollah, Iran, or others believe that terrorism has been eliminated, they will tell us that they want to go home. As Sayyed Hasan said, they have families and daily interests, which is normal, but it is still early to talk about this subject.

Question 21: Up till now, there are still areas under the control of terrorism and areas under occupation. At the same time, regretfully, some Arab countries, and here I am talking particularly about Saudi Arabia, announced that it is ready to send forcers to Syria. On the other hand, a few days ago popular tribal units were formed to resist occupation. Are these really popular resistance units? Do they receive support from the Syrian government? Does this mean that the army cannot liberate those areas, and that’s why it is asking for the help of the tribes? What is the nature of this issue?

President Assad: There are different forms of this resistance which appeared a few years ago. In the beginning they were fighting ISIS before they started to fight the occupiers. They were against ISIS in the central and eastern regions, and there were cases where they appeared in other regions which were not given media coverage and about which we hear sometimes through information and indications.

Now, this situation has started to expand. So, it’s not one single case. There are a number of cases which might be individual sometimes, or in the form of small groups not affiliated to an organization. In any case, our position as a state has been from the beginning to support any act of resistance, whether against terrorists or against occupying forces, regardless of their nationality, i.e. American, French, Turkish, or Israeli. We support these resistance forces based on our national role as a government.

Question 22: What about Saudi Arabia and sending Saudi forces to Syria?

President Assad: First, when we talk about a state, we should assume that such a state can take decisions independently. That’s why we will not talk about the role of Saudi Arabia. You better ask me about the American decision on this issue.

Question 23: On the other hand, there are a number of Arab countries which we talk about and which had a role or contributed to the role or to the destruction of Syria. These countries are now trying to get to Syria through the reconstruction process. What do you say in this regard, particularly that these countries are the ones which have capital and huge financial power? How are you going to deal with that?

President Assad: Reconstruction in Syria is not a cause for concern for us. It needs two factors: first, the human factor which is more important than the financial factor. When a country like Syria possesses the human factor, the financial cost will be less when it comes to reconstruction. This is self-evident, and we possess all these factors despite the fact that many competent and qualified Syrians have immigrated because of the war.

But we still have the capability to start reconstruction. And the evidence is clear now, for the state is moving forward and reconstruction has begun. As to money, the Syrian people have financial capabilities, capital, most of which is not in Syria, but outside Syria. But there is capital waiting for reconstruction to begin, so it will begin investing. On the other hand, there are the friendly countries which have capabilities and have the desire; and we have the desire to have them participate in reconstruction, so that they benefit and we Syrians benefit from this process. In the end, we do not need those countries and we will never allow them to be part of reconstruction.

Journalist: Never?

President Assad: Absolutely.

Journalist: Not even if there was a need in this regard, I mean in terms of financial resources?

President Assad: Financial resources are not everything. As I said, this is available. There are different sources in the world and in Syria for capital.

Question 24: With these tough years, we are talking about the legendary steadfastness of the Syrian Army, the Syrian people, the Armed Forces. If you wanted to talk about two cases, the most difficult case or incident that you have encountered during these years, and on the other hand the best and most beautiful case.

President Assad: It is natural, at the heart of the military battle, for the best and worst cases to be linked to the development of the military battle. If I say that the worst cases were when terrorists used to control a certain area, this is self-evident, but it is related more to specific battles, particularly when the area is strategic or the city is big with a large population. Consequently, the impact will be much greater psychologically and in terms of morale.

But there was an ongoing situation which we are still living and we must think about: when a martyr or a group of martyrs fall, and this is ongoing on a weekly basis for us, we must think that a family lost a dear one who cannot be compensated. He might be compensated by achieving victory at a certain stage, but on the family, psychological and human level, you cannot compensate a dear one lost to a certain family, or maybe a friend. This is a very painful situation which we have lived and continue to live. This will not stop until the war itself stops. But there were painful cases at the beginning of the war, when you see this huge lack of patriotism. They were perhaps a minority, but a large minority, of individuals who were prepared to sell the homeland and trade it together with their principles, if they had ones, in return for money or a certain interest, in addition to a certain percentage of extremism.

On the other hand, there were victories, particularly when victories started in the city of al-Qsair in 2013, and culminated in the city of Aleppo in 2016, that was the beginning of the major victories. That was followed by Deir Ezzor, and today we are living the joy of liberating Damascus and its countryside. This is a situation we have all lived through, and you were with us, and I am sure you feel the same joy.

Question 25: Have you felt tired at a certain moment? Have you felt hesitant at a certain moment, in light of all the decisions you have taken, have you ever, even for a moment, thought of leaving? Haven’t you said to yourself: let me save my family and resign, as some people did at a certain point in time?

President Assad: This question might be raised in a personal manner. When I am faced with a personal situation as an individual, I might feel despair after a few months. I might feel tired or bored or I might want to move to a different situation, or give up. That is possible.

Journalist: As an individual?

President Assad: Of course, as an individual, but the case you are proposing is not personal, it is national. Imagine yourself in a different condition, perhaps building something on your own. You feel tired, but when you see a large number of people helping you build it and share the same determination, you forget the tiredness.

Now we are in a national situation. We are talking about millions of Syrians. When you see a shell striking and victims falling anywhere in Syria, you feel frustrated. But when you see life being restored to the same area after one hour, your psychological condition changes. When you see that the electricity worker, the oil worker, the teacher, the employee, are moving side by side with fighters, moving without despair and without tiredness, how can you feel tired? This is a collective condition not related to me as a person. It has to do with our human condition when we are together as a society. How do we live? This defines whether you are tired or not. Would the Syrian society have arrived at this stage of despair and surrender, I would certainly have been with it. I would have surrendered because I do not have the necessary elements for steadfastness. This is self-evident.

Journalist: Thank you very much, Mr. President, for giving us this opportunity, and for your candidness in answering these questions. Thank you very much.

 

[militia420]

ANTIFA may have a militant side, but they are definitely not fascist; they are anti corporate military state. And as with any group that stands to gain any traction at all in confronting Goliath, the MSM has vilified them at every opportunity.

The Brown Shirts were an extension of the Reich. ANTIFA is anything but an extension of the Neo Fascists.

ANTIFA is pro-communist and primarily jewish led. I'd have to ask around on another site but I believe there's evidence they were founded as part of the "partisans"/communists in Germany during the war. Their roots are in Germany to the best of my recollection. As of now they openly campaign for the genocide of all Germans and make disgusting displays with slogans such as "Bomber Harris do it again.", "Bomb Dresden again". These were civilian centers where no military actions or activity were going on. They were used for hospitals,etc. That city was firebombed into oblivion during carpet bombings which included Hamburg and other locations.

 

[militia420]

deaths from antifa = 0
deaths from alt-right/neo fascists/neo nationalists = around 100


also a bit of irony here is the alt right and neo fascists love talking about cultural marxism.

cultural marxism = cultural bolshevism (a term coined by the nazis)

"Bolshevism Unmasked"
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I'd like to see where you get your stats from. I've seen video on youtube of a nationalist in Spain who was on a train and had hundreds of antifa start to mob the train and attack him. He defended himself fatally wounding one idiot who laid hands on him. And now the guy sits in jail for simply defending himself from these rioting antifa members.

The ideologies that came out of the Frankfurt school need labels to identify them because their own labels, such as critical theory, and what ever else they came up with didn't help NORMAL people identify who these subversives and radicals were. Is there some sort of problem with having labels that encompass a thing that comes from these jewish ideologues? You use the label nazi which is a term american jewish press used for the German NSDAP so certainly you must have no problem with such labels as applied to other ideologies...?

 

[militia420]

big facts

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I don't know if you guys have bothered to look at who established capitalism and communism but they both have jewish roots. Marx wrote the communist manifesto AND das kapital. Two different forms of enslavement for the non-jews. Communism involved the immediate implementation of ethnic cleansing of the native non-jewish populations with a focus on the intelligentsia and the "best of the gentiles" as the jewish talmud commands. Capitalism involved the plundering of western resources through various scams carried out on Wall Street by jewish financiers who then sent the plundered wealth to support their brethren in the newly formed communist Russia. It further plundered the USA population through the installation of the jewish controlled central bank called the federal reserve, which is not a government entity and only has the name "federal" to fool people. They came up with a fancy name for the unlawful usury that this bank and it's subdivisions engage in, "INFLATION". People who never research this never get that from the inception of the federal reserve system the people using the federal reserve debt notes (AKA FRN "dollars"), can never EVER get out of debt and it only gets worse because for every dollar the USA government borrows at interest from this bank, it must borrow the interest to pay off more interest and there's interest on the interest.

The fact is, that the last organized effort in modern history to remove jewish tyranny from controlling non-jewish people in Europe was squashed by the end of WWII. There is very little in the way of real resistance at the national level any more. Hugo Chavez, may have been one of the more belligerent people to speak out against them and to try to implement aspects of national socialism to benefit his people. He was poisoned and attributed it to them. Muamar Gaddafi tried to benefit the whole of Africa by setting up a gold backed currency out of Libya and from every thing I've seen he was a great and just man trying to do the right thing for his people only to be slandered for decades by the jewish controlled press because he did not operate like other puppets they have control over, hence their wide spread glee showing him murdered and sodomized on television. That should speak volumes about the people that were against him. In some of the leaked emails involving Hillary CLinton they discussed getting their hands on the massive gold reserves in Libya after it fell.

I really don't understand the disconnect here but I know most people haven't had the same amount of time to study politics, history, legal history, other people's cultures and writings, etc.

Any modern things like the so called "alt-right" are literally controlled opposition and primarily run by jews with homosexuals, transexuals, pedophiles, and others set up as leaders. Milo what ever his name is a homosexual pedophile jew. Richard Spencer is jewish and gay yet he's put out as controlled opposition for the clueless.

It's incredibly fucked up seeing these things, digging into the backgrounds of these people, seeing they are all linked in with the intelligence community. This is why there haven't been many grassroots things popping up. Various intel communities are swamping the alternative media with their plants to create followings and to keep people from taking effective action. None of these agents, left or right attack things like the usury based financial system, which if dismantled would completely change the value of things and labor again. This is one of the major reasons Germany is so heavily attacked. They set up a labor based economy and while the rest of the world took it up the arse from major rothschilds central banks, the German economy flourished. But don't study what happened there because they're the most evil people in the world turning people into lampshades and soap, or is it well accepted by others at this point that these things were black propaganda as it has been admitted by officials?

And it goes on and on...

 

[militia420]

liberal fascist is a contradiction. fascism is a far right ideology.

Reagan is a moron and he marked the beginning of the end of this country.

The dems and repubs are neither for limited government. And why would they? The government is their biggest source of welfare and handouts. You guys are right, the US is socialist... Just not the good kind of socialism. Reverse socialism where the middle class gives their money to the richest of the rich through taxes, corporate welfare, corporate subsidies, ect. They are the real parasitic class.

If you look at the planks of the communist manifesto most of them have been in effect for decades and longer in the USA. The media and schools beating "USA=capitalism" into our heads doesn't help because few will look at the planks. Losses are placed on the back of the public, while gains are privatized. One only needs to look at who owns the companies plundering the masses, who controls the federal reserve, who controls the media to condition minds and attitudes, and it's pretty clear there's a war going on against the masses. This thread's title touches on one aspect of a bigger racial war intended to weaken all parties while power is consolidated in "Greater Israel" as laid out in the Odid Yinon plan.

 

[militia420]

Ronald Raygun was a demented puppet.


a murderous actor playing the part of a "nice guy".

how many people did he put in prison during his drug war?

while at the same time shipping cocaine into the country to finance secret wars that massacred thousands of innocent women and children in central america

Keep in mind the ex head of the CIA George Bush was his VP and in reality the man running the white house and tied in with moving that coke into this country and establishing intel network operations to take over the non-jewish and non-intel controlled aspects of the cocaine industry. If one studies what Pablo Escobar and his immediate associates were involved in it appears to be no less than a popular uprising attempting to throw off the yoke of the old money that has tyrannized latin america and south america. One really has to study this deeply and the details come out. Carlos Lederer was a strong proponent of national socialism and the overthrow of the plutocratic government that was running Columbia. Bush and company were the clean up crew for regaining control of the coke trade which had put too much power in the hands of people who weren't old money or tribe members.

I can't stand that people like my folks are so blinded by people like reagan. How hard is it to see that the guy was employing his acting and soft spoken nature to make so called conservatives feel good and cozy. It's no different than bill clinton. These people do not have the best interests of the masses at heart and are snakes in the grass. Still people jump behind "liberal" or "conservative" puppets.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Don't believe a word. They're all fucking liars and you'll never know the truth.

If they were all such good guys, they all would stop fighting. But that ain't gonna happen.

The only thing you can believe is that I'm going out to water and feed a few plants. It's been a little dry.

 

[militia420]

How many people did Obomber kill with Afghan heroin? Or the guns he sold to Mexican drug cartels? To also finance secret wars around the world, that also massacred thousands actually I think millions of women and children in a lot more than just Central and South America.

They both did some good and some bad, but I think Obomber takes the cake, as he started shit all over the Middle East, Africa, North America, Eastern Europe, Asia and restarted the Cold War with Russia.......

Not too mention the opioid epidemic that has killed so many Americans that the average life expectancy has dropped dramatically in our nation.

Reagan was a dick with the War On Drugs, but overall Obomber has much much more blood on his hands, hands down.

These guys are just the face for the powers behind them. Really what they have in operation is that when the "left" gets in power, they fuck the masses of their conservative rights, and when the "right" gets in power, they fuck the masses of their liberal rights. To be crass, they're playing chinese fingercuffs fucking us and swapping places with each other every 4 to 8 years. It's one operation with different spokes people selling sweet lies to the population. Both parties are subverted and compromised via bribery, blackmail and extortion. If you resist you have charges put against you like Jim Traficant and then wind up dead with a tractor allegedly flipped over on you because you spoke out against this tyranny and took it to the heart of the beast by calling out Israel for viciously prosecuting innocent old men who they allege were le ebil nazi's back in the day. Look up some of the stories about this hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkgLjbpEa6c . Like any one he wasn't perfect, but to act truly independent in terms of TRUTH and to not get in line with the rest of the party is a heroic act and probably cost him his life.

It may take some effort to see it, but the people put in the presidents office have likely long been controlled and vetted by the CIA and other controlling groups. Kennedy may have been the last who tried to be completely independent but passing executives orders such as #11110 which was going to have the USA treasury department start issuing non-debt based currency again (cutting the rothschild federal reserve out) and standing against israel becoming a nuclear power got him killed.

In those positions of power there is no real left or right. They function to damage our rights in the manner that is opposite of their party label and then the agenda swaps after the public gets tired of taking it raw from the one party for 8 years (4 years only if they're hemorrhaging from taking it raw a la Jimmy Carter) and they start taking it raw from the other side.

Do some google searches and see the pictures of huge, genuine smiles on the faces of people from opposite parties but who socialize together like the Bushes and the Clintons, or Trump and the Clintons.

George Carlin may have had a heart attack alone from the aggravation of seeing these things so clearly yet being incapable, even in his best political rants, of getting the general masses to see that "it's a big club and you ain't in it".

There are a SLEW of pictures of these people who are supposedly ideologically opposed just having a ball together and I can assure you all, it's at OUR EXPENSE.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

These guys are just the face for the powers behind them. Really what they have in operation is that when the "left" gets in power, they fuck the masses of their conservative rights, and when the "right" gets in power, they fuck the masses of their liberal rights. To be crass, they're playing chinese fingercuffs fucking us and swapping places with each other every 4 to 8 years. It's one operation with different spokes people selling sweet lies to the population. Both parties are subverted and compromised via bribery, blackmail and extortion. If you resist you have charges put against you like Jim Traficant and then wind up dead with a tractor allegedly flipped over on you because you spoke out against this tyranny and took it to the heart of the beast by calling out Israel for viciously prosecuting innocent old men who they allege were le ebil nazi's back in the day. Look up some of the stories about this hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkgLjbpEa6c . Like any one he wasn't perfect, but to act truly independent in terms of TRUTH and to not get in line with the rest of the party is a heroic act and probably cost him his life.

It may take some effort to see it, but the people put in the presidents office have likely long been controlled and vetted by the CIA and other controlling groups. Kennedy may have been the last who tried to be completely independent but passing executives orders such as #11110 which was going to have the USA treasury department start issuing non-debt based currency again (cutting the rothschild federal reserve out) and standing against israel becoming a nuclear power got him killed.

In those positions of power there is no real left or right. They function to damage our rights in the manner that is opposite of their party label and then the agenda swaps after the public gets tired of taking it raw from the one party for 8 years (4 years only if they're hemorrhaging from taking it raw a la Jimmy Carter) and they start taking it raw from the other side.

Do some google searches and see the pictures of huge, genuine smiles on the faces of people from opposite parties but who socialize together like the Bushes and the Clintons, or Trump and the Clintons.

George Carlin may have had a heart attack alone from the aggravation of seeing these things so clearly yet being incapable, even in his best political rants, of getting the general masses to see that "it's a big club and you ain't in it".

There are a SLEW of pictures of these people who are supposedly ideologically opposed just having a ball together and I can assure you all, it's at OUR EXPENSE.

Well put.

 

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

Hegelian Dialectic - Problem, Reaction, Solution

Hegelian Dialectic - Problem, Reaction, Solution

These guys are just the face for the powers behind them. Really what they have in operation is that when the "left" gets in power, they fuck the masses of their conservative rights, and when the "right" gets in power, they fuck the masses of their liberal rights. To be crass, they're playing chinese fingercuffs fucking us and swapping places with each other every 4 to 8 years. It's one operation with different spokes people selling sweet lies to the population. Both parties are subverted and compromised via bribery, blackmail and extortion. If you resist you have charges put against you like Jim Traficant and then wind up dead with a tractor allegedly flipped over on you because you spoke out against this tyranny and took it to the heart of the beast by calling out Israel for viciously prosecuting innocent old men who they allege were le ebil nazi's back in the day. Look up some of the stories about this hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkgLjbpEa6c . Like any one he wasn't perfect, but to act truly independent in terms of TRUTH and to not get in line with the rest of the party is a heroic act and probably cost him his life.

It may take some effort to see it, but the people put in the presidents office have likely long been controlled and vetted by the CIA and other controlling groups. Kennedy may have been the last who tried to be completely independent but passing executives orders such as #11110 which was going to have the USA treasury department start issuing non-debt based currency again (cutting the rothschild federal reserve out) and standing against israel becoming a nuclear power got him killed.

In those positions of power there is no real left or right. They function to damage our rights in the manner that is opposite of their party label and then the agenda swaps after the public gets tired of taking it raw from the one party for 8 years (4 years only if they're hemorrhaging from taking it raw a la Jimmy Carter) and they start taking it raw from the other side.

Do some google searches and see the pictures of huge, genuine smiles on the faces of people from opposite parties but who socialize together like the Bushes and the Clintons, or Trump and the Clintons.

George Carlin may have had a heart attack alone from the aggravation of seeing these things so clearly yet being incapable, even in his best political rants, of getting the general masses to see that "it's a big club and you ain't in it".

There are a SLEW of pictures of these people who are supposedly ideologically opposed just having a ball together and I can assure you all, it's at OUR EXPENSE.

Please allow me to explain..........for all my fellow "thought criminals" that have posted on this thread with this 40 second long video :


[YOUTUBEIF]0xsLXuUEqbI[/YOUTUBEIF]


Capiche ?

Any questions ?


RMS

 

[militia420]

so the military runs the country not the puppet presidents

The bankers run the military. Google "Smedley Butler war is a racket". He was a General.

 

[militia420]

This should all tell you something though. The so called "liberal" candidate HRC sided with establishment GOP elites like Jeb Bush on foreign policy over the actual anti-war left.

Yes, there's simply going to be more and more of a merger between left and right as the israeli's and judeo-masonry controlling things get more of a lock down and maintain a lack of cohesion and effective resistance to their power. Foreign policy is controlled by them period. It has been for a long time.

 

[Cannavore]

The bankers run the military. Google "Smedley Butler war is a racket". He was a General.

Wasnt just bankers.... dupont, goodyear tire, other companies, and men like prescott bush.

 

[Bumbatar]

I was just looking at the /r/syriancivilwar sub Reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/new/ and it looks like the Russian M.O.D just got info there will be another false flag chemical attack by the White Helmets in Deir ez-Zor province Syria this was reported around June 11th by Newsweek. This is right after the G7 talks where a "coalition" was discussed to counteract "Russian aggression in Syria"

newsweek.com/syria-chemical-attack-false-flag-chlorine-us-special-forces-staged-russia-deir-970336

 

[militia420]

Wasnt just bankers.... dupont, goodyear tire, other companies, and men like prescott bush.

These companies are all using the fiat currency for their businesses. The bankers flood the market and they'll kill the value of the businesses. Grandpappy Bush was just a front man doing dirty work for the people who run the banks. There's an umbrella covering people involved with this. The kehillah is probably the structure running it all. Including the banks. Top down tyranny.

 

[militia420]

Bagelian dialectics

Bagelian dialectics

Please allow me to explain..........for all my fellow "thought criminals" that have posted on this thread with this 40 second long video :


[youtubeif]0xsLXuUEqbI[/youtubeif]
Capiche ?

Any questions ?

I wonder at what point referencing such a video to allude to how these mechanisms work would result in getting locked up? I could totally see it if they push "hate" crime nonsense further. A crime is a crime period, attempting to attach an emotional state to further penalize someone is an abuse of power to enable punishing someone for holding a different attitude even if it isn't hate. If WWIII is ever some how kicked into higher gear I don't doubt they would use citing such videos against any dissidents. BTW, I dunno if you've seen the title spoof before but I'm a fan.

 

[gaiusmarius]

I was just looking at the /r/syriancivilwar sub Reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/new/ and it looks like the Russian M.O.D just got info there will be another false flag chemical attack by the White Helmets in Deir ez-Zor province Syria this was reported around June 11th by Newsweek. This is right after the G7 talks where a "coalition" was discussed to counteract "Russian aggression in Syria"

newsweek.com/syria-chemical-attack-false-flag-chlorine-us-special-forces-staged-russia-deir-970336

yeah i saw that, also saw an article on yahoo news yesterday saying Trump has restarted the funding for the terrorist white helmet group. this might be connected to the terrorists in al Tanf protected by the US, who the Russian say are preparing a new provocation.

 

[Bumbatar]

Ok, something strange is getting stirred up here, first there were discussions at the G7 meeting on forming a coalition against Russia in Syria then the Russian military got info another false flag gas attack was going to happen as I said in my previous post with a link, now the U.S. military conducted a airstrike on the Syrian military in the Deir ez-Zor area of Syria "the same place Russia said the false flag gas attack are being prepared" It seems like the Syrian army is getting to close to something sensitive in that area. We may see another gas attack in the near future.

https://www.rt.com/news/430046-syria-army-positions-strike/

US-led coalition strikes Syrian army positions in Deir ez-Zor province – state media




US-led coalition aircraft have reportedly bombed Syrian military positions in the Al Bukamal area of Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria, state media outlet SANA reports, citing a military source.
The strike, according to the military source, allegedly targeted a Syrian “military position” in al-Harra, southeast of Al Bukamal. There are dead and wounded following the strike, the source added.
The strike was “probably” carried out by American drones, a source from among the local pro-government forces told Reuters, adding that the attack allegedly targeted Iraqi factions between Albu Kamal and Tanf, as well as Syrian military positions.
The Pentagon, however, denied any involvement. “Not a US or Coalition strike,” US Department of Defense spokesman Adrian Rankine-Galloway told Sputnik, about the reported attack.
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All remaining ISIS resistance zones in Syria are in US-controlled areas – Russian MoD
The reported strike would not be the first time the US-led coalition targeted the positions of Syrian military and pro-Damascus forces in Deir ez-Zor, where the Western-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) operate.
The SDF, with the support of the US-led anti-IS coalition, began Operation Roundup on May 1, with a declared goal of driving out remaining jihadists from the Iraq-Syria border region and the middle Euphrates River Valley. To help their allies gain ground, the coalition has conducted 225 strikes with 280 engagements in May. “This demonstrates a 304 percent increase over the 74 strikes conducted in March and a 123 percent increase over the 183 strikes recorded in April,” the Pentagon noted earlier. US-led strikes in the vicinity of Abu Kamal have been carried out daily during June, allegedly targeting IS positions and supply routes.
Damascus has repeatedly denounced Washington’s actions as a violation of Syrian sovereignty, arguing that the US presence only benefits terrorists and those who want to carve up the country.
US ‘losing its cards’ in Syria: Highlights of RT’s interview with Bashar Assad
“The United States is losing its cards. The main card was Al-Nusra, that was called ‘moderate,’ but when scandals started leaking that they’re not moderate, that they’re Al-Qaeda, which is supposed to be fought by the United States, they started looking for another card. This card is the SDF [Syrian Democratic Forces] now,” Bashar Assad told RT in a recent interview.
READ MORE: US warns against attacking its troops after Assad says they’ll leave Syria ‘one way or another'
Most of the Syrian territory has been liberated by government forces, with the help of Russian air power and Iranian advisers on the ground. The only remaining major pockets of militants are found in the US-protected zones of ‘interest.’ In addition to the coalition’s air support, over 2,000 US soldiers are embedded with the SDF in the northeast, as well around Al-Tanf base, established not far from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
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No agreement on Southern Syria’s de-escalation zone until US leaves al-Tanf base – Damascus
Damascus says that the American presence discourages ‘moderate’ militants from engaging in any constructive negotiations with the government. After each Syrian military victory or successful reconciliation effort, the US and its partners are trying to counteract these gains by “supporting more terrorism, bringing more terrorists to Syria, or by hindering the political process,” Assad told RT in a recent interview, blaming the US for prolonging the seven-year war.
“Somehow, they’re going to leave,” Assad said, adding that the Syrian government will focus on dealing with the US-backed forces, including the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), “with the Americans, or without the Americans.”
Washington seemingly took Assad’s statement as a threat and has warned the government troops against any attempt to remove them by force. “Any interested party in Syria should understand that attacking US forces or our coalition partners will be a bad policy,” Director of Joint Staff Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie noted.
The US will remain in Syria as long as needed, to maintain the so-called “deconfliction zone” under the coalition's umbrella, the US military official added. Damascus, however, does not recognize any unilaterally declared “deconfliction zones” – unlike the internationally recognized “de-escalation zones,” which Russia, Turkey and Iran established, with the full support of the United Nations Security Council.

 

[watts]

John McCain's plans for Syria and Ukraine aint working out so well.