Today is the day that the Kurdish people in northern Iraq and in northern Syria "vote" in a referendum for their "independence" and to create an independent "Kurdistan" that is to be carved out of both northern Iraq and northern Syria.... I will state it clearly that this "independence" is a done deal as the criminal US and psychotic Israelis both want this "Kurdistan" as their method of not only destroying Syria and Iraq by taking their territory and handing it over to the Kurds, but to give these criminals control of the huge Petroleum deposits that will be sitting right underneath this "independent Kurdistan"..... I do fear that as of tomorrow, we will see the bloodbath in both Syria and Iraq escalate dramatically as the Arabic nations will declare war on this "independent" Kurdistan!But meanwhile, things are already escalating in the war for the Syrian people to win their nation back... As I have already noted, the American proxy force known as "ISIS" has been already defeated in Syria and that proxy force is basically handing over its territory without a fight to the Kurdish-American fraud "SDF" force as part of the American plan to seize all of Syria's vital oil fields for themselves and also for this new "Kurdistan"! It is a diabolical move by the Americans and in clear violation of Syrian rights and the Syrian people's own territory!I have been keeping tabs on some interesting developments over the last few days concerning the new battlefield on the eastern side of the Euphrates River as the good guys, the SAA and their Russian and Arabic allies, have been slugging it out against what is left of the fraud "ISIS" forces, while the American led SDF proxy force has been given basically a free pass by these same "ISIS" forces as they march south to try to seize the vital and vast Deir Ez-Zor oil fields before the Syrians are able to..... And it has now led to some direct clashes between the SAA and SDF forces that could escalate into a full blown American/Russian regional war.....I found the following report that comes from The Saker's website, at www.thesaker.is, that gives an excellent analysis of this escalating situation in Syria as it does appear that the Americans are now hell bent on a showdown against the Russians and the Syrians with Syrian oil being the prize...Here is The Saker's report, entitled: "Very Dangerous Escalation In Syria" in its entirety for all of my own readers to view, and I do have my own thoughts and comments to follow:Very dangerous escalation in SyriaSeptember 25, 2017By now many of you must have heard the news: a Russian Lieutenant-General, Valery Asapov, and two Colonels have been killed in what appears to be a very precisely targeted mortar attack. Just as in the case of the Russian military police unit recently attacked near Deir ez-Zor, the Russians are accusing the Americans of being behind this attack. To make things even worse, the Russians are now also officially accusing the Americans of actively collaborating with ISIS:
US Special Operations Forces units enable US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces units to smoothly advance through the ISIS formations. Facing no resistance of the ISIS militants, the SDF units are advancing along the left shore of the Euphrates towards Deir-ez-Zor. The aerial photos made on September 8-12 over the ISIS locations recorded a large number of American Hummer vehicles, which are in service with the America’s SOF. The shots clearly show the US SOF units located at strongholds that had been equipped by the ISIS terrorists. Though there is no evidence of assault, struggle or any US-led coalition airstrikes to drive out the militants. Despite that the US strongholds being located in the ISIS areas, no screening patrol has been organized at them. This suggests that the US troops feel safe in terrorist controlled regions.
These are the maps and aerial photos provided by the Russians (for higher resolution, click here)What this all seems to point to is that the Pentagon has now apparently decided to attack Russian forces directly, albeit unofficially. From the Pentagon’s point of view, this (almost) makes sense.First, by now it is pretty darn clear that the “good terrorists” and the “bad terrorists” have lost the civil war in Syria. Simply put, the USA has been defeated, Syria, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah have won and the Israelis are now freaking out.Second, the American plan to use the Kurds as foot-soldiers/canon-fodder has failed. The Kurds are clearly too smart to be pulled in such a losing proposition.Third, the American plan-B option, the partition of Syria, is now itself directly threatened by the Syrian military successes.Last and not least, the Americans by now are deeply humiliated and enraged at the Russian success in Syria.Lieutenant-General Valery AsapovHence they have now apparently taken the decision to directly target Russian military personnel and they are using their considerable reconnaissance capabilities combined with US Special Forces on the ground, working side by side with “good” and “bad” terrorists, to target and attack Russian military personnel.This is not the first time, by the way. There is pretty good evidence that a Russian hospital near Aleppo was targeted using means not available to the local Daesh franchise. This time, however, the Americans are not even trying to hide. The message seems to be this all-time American favorite “watcha gonna do about it?“.There is a lot the Russians could do about it, in fact. I wrote about this in my article “Using plausible deniability against a systematically lying adversary“. If the folks at CENTCOM really believe that their generals are all safe and out of reach they are deeply mistaken. Unlike the Russians and, even more so, the Iranians, US Generals are mostly risk averse and hard to get to in Syria. But who said that Russia would have to retaliate in Syria? Or, for that matter, that Russia would have to use Russian forces to retaliate. Yes, Russia does have special units trained in the assassination of high-value targets in hostile countries, but that does not at all mean that they would decide to use them. Accidents can happen anywhere and the roads are notoriously dangerous in the Middle-East. Why do I mention that? To illustrate that Russia does have options short of overtly going to war.Of course, the Russians could simply fire a volley of Kalibr cruise missile at any of the ISIS positions shown in the photos above and then go “oops, you had personnel embedded with these al-Qaeda types? Really? We had no idea, no idea at all“. Syria also have a pretty solid arsenal of tactical ballistic missiles. The Syrians could mistakenly hit any such ISIS+US positions and express consternation at the presence of US military personnel in the midst of terrorists. There is also Hezbollah who, in the past, has even seized Israelis soldiers in raids across the border and who could decide to capture themselves some US SOF types. And let’s not forget the Iranians who have not had such an golden opportunity to finally get their hands on US military personnel since many years.The three key weakness of the US force posture in Syria are: first, their own force in Syria is too small to make a difference, but big enough to represent a lucrative target and, second, all the boots on the ground which matter are against them (Syrians, Iran, Turkey, Hezbollah and the Russians). Finally, the only two real US allies in the region are too afraid to put boots on the ground: Israel and the Saudis.The bottom line is that if the Americans think that the Russians and their allies don’t have options they are deeply mistaken. They also should seriously consider the consequence of having US SOF operating in forward positions. The Syrians are closing the distance fast and this might not be the best time to hunt Russian military personnel.So far the Russians have only limited themselves to protests and expressions of disgust. This has clearly not been an effective strategy. The Russians apparently don’t realize that very few people care and that the more the complain, the less credible their warnings sound. This is not a sustainable approach and the Russians will so “have to do something about it”, to use the American expression.Things might become very dangerous, very fast and very soon.The SakerNTS Notes: Honestly, I find it so alarming that most Americans are just too stupid these days to even realize that all of this bullshit "Liberalism" and "Disrespect of the American National Anthem" is a smokescreen to keep them in the dark like dumb ass sheep and not even aware of what their own criminal government is doing around the globe..... The escalation of this war in Syria is a prime example of the ignorance of the majority of the American public...And this idea that "US Special Forces" cleared the way to "enable" the SDF advances through the oil fields is pure bunk... The US Special Forces have already been part of the ISIS forces all along and all they are doin now is handing over that seized Syrian territory directly to the SDF criminal forces without a fight!In my own honest opinion, I see this escalation as being planned for quite some time as the criminal psychos in Israel have absolutely wanted to see their American minions slug it out in Syria against the Syrians and Russians while at the same time have their American minions grab as much territory as possible for the set up of their Jewish controlled Kurdistan... And yes, the criminal Jews have already made deals with the Kurds that will see this Kurdistan be completely controlled by Jewish interests (remember the 200000 or so Jews that are to be "parachuted" into Kurdistan after their "independence"? They are not going there to be squatters, but to control that country!)....I do agree with The Saker that this might become very dangerous very fast and very soon, for that is exactly what the Jewish scumbag want... These monsters want to see the Americans and the Russians duking it out while they sit on the sidelines laughing their asses off at the ignorance of the Goy! Then when both sides have basically destroyed each other, the Jews being the only survivors will have it all without even having to spill any of their own blood....And again, we will see after today's "referendum" that the Arabic nations will do.... I honestly can only see more bloodshed as the Kurdish/American alliance gets into a bitter regional war against the Arabic nations surrounding this ridiculous "Kurdistan".... Millions of innocent lives could be lost in that bloodbath...More to comeNTS