An idiot American pilot shot down a Syrian fighter that was
attacking ISIS, thus confirming that Washington is not fighting ISIS, as
Washington claims, but is protecting ISIS, its agent sent to Syria by Obama and
Hillary to overthrow the Syrian government. General Michael Flynn revealed on a
TV interview that Obama and Hillary had, over his objection as director of the
Defense Intelligence Agency, made the “willful decision” to send ISIS to Syria.
Washington’s pretense that Washington is fighting ISIS, rather
than supporting it, is the excuse for Washington’s illegal presence in the
Syrian conflict. Russia and Iran are in Syria legally, invited there by an
elected government. The Americans are there uninvited as war criminals. Under
international law established by the Americans themselves, it is a war crime to
initiate aggression against a country that has not raised a fist against you.
So, to be in Syria, Washington has to pretend to be “fighting
terrorism” rather than supporting it. The lie has been given to this claim many
times, but now that an American pilot has proven that the US is in Syria to
support its agent, ISIS, not even a Megyn Kelly presstitute can honestly claim
to believe that Washington is fighting ISIS.
The Russians, Syrians, and
Iranians have known this from the beginning. However, these official sources
are all suspect in the presstitute Western media. So with the presstitutes’
complicity, Washington’s lie has stood until the idiot American pilot blew the
lie out of the sky along with the Syrian fighter and its pilot.
Washington, of course, will lie through its teeth. It is the
only thing Washington knows how to do. Washington will claim that it was a
“coalition fighter,” that is, someone else was flying the US F-18. It wasn’t
us. Or they will claim that the Syrian fighter was attacking women and
children, or a transgendered compound or a maternity ward for women raped by
Assad’s “brutal troops.” Washington will spin it in some way to make an
aggressive war crime into a heroic defense of a victim group.
One question is: Did the idiot US pilot do this on his own, a
hot shot playing Top Gun, or was this a planned provocation of the
military/security complex outside of channels to begin a conflict between the
US and Russia that would prevent any possibility of President Trump reviving
his goal of defusing the high level of tensions with Russia? A $1 trillion, 100
billion annual military/security budget paid by American taxpayers is at stake.
We don’t know if the pilot acted on his own or on orders.
What we do know is that it did not go down well with the
Russians. The Russian Defense Ministry said today that it regards the decision
by “the US command as an intentional violation of US obligations in the
framework of the memo on avoiding incidents and the safety of aviation flights
during operations in Syria signed on October 20, 2015.”
Surprise!
Surprise! The Americans broke yet another agreement Washington signed with
Russia.
How many agreements with Russia does Washington have to break
before the Russians finally understand that a signed agreement with Washington
is meaningless? Will the Russians ever learn? The American Indians never did.
There is a famous American T-shirt: “Sure you can trust the government: Just
ask an Indian.”
Perhaps the Russians finally have learned that any agreement
with Washington is worthless at best and a death warrant at worst. The Russian
Defense Ministry announced today that Russia is halting all interactions with
the US within the framework on the memorandum of incident prevention in Syrian
skies. Additionally, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that Russian missile
defense will intercept any aircraft in the area of operations of the Russian
Aerospace Forces in Syria and: “In areas where Russian aviation is conducting
combat missions in the Syrian skies, any flying objects, including jets and
unmanned aerial vehicles of the international coalition discovered west
of the Euphrates River will be followed by Russian air and ground
defenses as air targets.”
In other words, in Russia’s understated way, Russia has declared
a no-fly zone over all areas of Syria in which Syrian and Russian forces are
operating. Any intruder into that area will be blown out of the sky. American,
Israeli, whoever, they are dead meat.
As it is Russia, not Washington, who has air superiority in
Syria, all that is required is one more dumbshit American pilot, who will get
his stupid ass blown out of the sky, and the utter morons in Washington will
have to back off or make a mistake. As stupid as Washington is and as full of
hubris, the morons will make a mistake.
There is no
intelligence in Washington. Only arrogance and hubris. The quarter century I
spent there was with the most utterly stupid people on the face of the earth.
I expect Russia to win this because Russia has intelligent
leadership, and Washington does not.
Nevertheless, perhaps mistakenly, as no one can know everything,
I blame Russia for letting the Syrian crisis develop. Russia and Syria would
have won the war long ago, except Russia kept declaring premature victory,
pulling out, having to go back, always hoping to reach an agreement with
Washington. Indeed, reaching an agreement with Washington was more important to
the Russian government than winning the war or anything else.
Regardless of the evidence, the Russian government’s hope simply
could not die that Russia and Washington could reach an agreement to fight
terrorism together. What utter nonsense. The terrorism in the Russian province
of Chechnya was instigated by Washington. The Russian government does not seem
to understand that there are no independent terrorists. Terrorism is a
Washington weapon. So how can the Russian government make a pact against
terrorism with the country that is using terrorism as a weapon against Russia?
What does Russia think the neoconservatives’ plan to conquer
Syria and Iran is about if not to bring more terrorism to Russia.
Vladimir Putin is a knowledgeable, strong, and able leader of a
country. Perhaps he is the only one outside of China. Clearly, there are none
in the West, a wasteland of leadership.
Little
doubt that Putin is a moral leader who is opposed to war and wants the best for
all countries. However, by sacrificing the advantage every time he gains it to
the nonsensical idea of making an agreement with Washington simply conveys to
Washington weakness. Washington thinks Putin
is just another person who Washington can walk over. This is a miscalculation,
and it will result in war. It would be much better if Putin laid down the
gauntlet and made it completely clear that “if you want war, it will be there
in 30 minutes.” Suddenly, Russia would be taken seriously.
I admire Putin. But he is playing the wrong game. Instead of
parrying Washington’s aggression, he should be aggressive and force Europe and
Washington to come to him for a solution.
Putin, the leader of the free world, should not be on the
defensive from a bankrupt, two-bit punk, washed up a government in Washington
that wallows in evil.
Paul Craig
Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of
prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored
with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the
protection of law, has been released by Random House. Visit his website.
Copyright © 2017 Paul Craig Roberts
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