* I had to take one of those "me days" yesterday to do some catching up on personal business. I was tied up helping a family member over the weekend and needed yesterday to clear up some other family matters. My apologies to those who expect at least one article a day, but again family needs come first and foremost.Everyone is fully aware by now about the present situation in Syria in regards to Turkey's invasion of Kurdish held areas in northern Syria....I have long suspected that the Turks are aiming at the destruction of the PKK/YPG faction of the Kurdish forces, and have concentrated the bulk of their efforts presently on reducing the Kurdish held areas in and around the towns of Afrin and Manjib.... It does seem that Turkey is definitely not about to allow the American dream of having northern Syria handed over to the Kurds to create a "Kurdistan", for they know that such a creation could create chaos in Turkey itself that contains a large contingency of Kurds itself....I have been reading so many of the alternative media articles these last few days on the situation in Syria in regards to the Turkish invasion....As I said in my weekend rant, I have been looking for the answers as to why the Turks had decided to launch their operation at this time knowing full well that their actions would further destabilize the Syrian situation and could lead to even further American illegal intervention into the region.... Penny, over at "Penny for your Thoughts" (www.pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com) did give me some very reasonable and rational explanations as to the "why" for Turkey's actions, and I do want to thank her for her valuable insights....I have also been wondering how the criminal entity known as "NATO" would react to having one of its members, Turkey, upset their criminal actions in Syria by their invasion of northern Syria and attacking the US backed Kurdish forces there.... And for an answer to this key question, I once again want to turn to Penny's latest article from her "Penny For Your Thoughts" website, where apparently the criminals at NATO are trying to "save face" by trying to show some sense of "unity" in spite of again one of their key members, Turkey, taking action that disregards their whole sick plan in having Syria destroyed, dismembered, and Bashar al-Assad removed from office... Here is the link to Penny's article here:http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.ca/2018/01/nato-saves-face-as-un-security-council.htmlOK, I find the statements made by the NATO members of course to be sheer hypocrisy... They are trying to claim "unity" and have the nerve to say that they are in Syria to "fight terrorism" when of course they are in that sovereign nation to overthrow the legitimate government of Bashar al-Assad and basically shatter the entire nation.... I tend to agree with Penny's assessment that the Turks had no choice but to take action due to the criminal actions of the US in arming the YPG faction of the Kurds in northeastern Syria....AND I found it most interesting of course that the US "promised" these criminal Kurdish factions were going to be withdrawn "shortly" from the area around Manjib back in 2016... Now almost a year and a half after that "promise" those factions are still there and therefore that is another key reason the Turks have taken action to basically remove them by force...I also have been wondering about WHY the US has been so heavily arming and training the PKK/YPG factions in northern Syria and why they had the nerve a week ago to claim that they were going to build a "30000" strong "border army" in northern Syria? Exactly which nation was this "border army" being aimed at? I do believe that the Turkish leadership are no fools and can see this "border army" being aimed at Turkey itself, and therefore we have another reason for why the Turks have taken action against these forces at this time...Yes, as I feared, we may be seeing a potential US/Turkey "showdown" happening due to the American insurrection and illegal actions in northern Syria..... This potential war between two "NATO allies" is what I have written about in several previous articles here at this blog.....Well... With all of the attention turned to the Turkish invasion of northern Syria, there has been some very good news elsewhere as the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) forces have continued their victorious operations against the US backed "rebels" in a now every shrinking set of pockets in Idlib Province... Here in fact is the link to the latest update from the Southfront website, at www.southfront.org, that shows the present military situation as the SAA continues their advances towards elimination of the Idlib pockets:https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-abu-al-duhur-area-on-january-23-2018-syria-map-update/As I said in previous articles, with the fall of the town of Abu al-Duhur and its key military base, the SAA can now concentrate on destroying the estimated "1500 rebels and ISIS fighters" holed up in eastern Idlib, and then move rapidly to push what is left of "rebel" resistance westerly towards the Turkish border... Once Idlib falls, then other "rebel" held pockets elsewhere in Syria can be more easily tackled and destroyed as well..OK, I can guarantee the criminal US/Israel/NATO cabal is now at the point of full defeat in regards to their sick dream of having Syria destroyed.... Coupled with Turkey now acting in "defiance" of their want in having northern Syria split away to form an illegal Kurdish state, they have lost on all fronts in Syria itself and short of a full invasion of Syria, they have lost the war.....I will continue to watch the situation in Syria as it unfolds.... It will be indeed interesting to see what the criminal US government does now to try to save their "Kurdish allies" in northern Syria, and to have the sick dream of having Syria dismembered continued as they had planned....More to comeNTS
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