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Patrick Henningsen is a geopolitical analyst and has been to Syria in the last year. On a recent edition of the Global Research News Hour with host Michael Welch, he addresses the actual reasons for U.S. interest in the overthrow and undermining of President Assad.
Patrick also gets into Washington’s ‘Plan B’ for Syria and interprets Turkish operations in Afrin, Israeli involvement near Damascus, and Kurdish activity within the north of Syria within that context. Watch:

Saved this yesterday, with the intent to post at that time, but real life comes first.Plans for a false flag and a serious warning regarding consequences of those possible actionsThe Warning:

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — While the media decries the Syrian government’s alleged actions in Eastern Ghouta, governments and media institutions across the globe continue to turn a blind eye to the mounting evidence that a NATO ally is committing mass murder on a scale equal to that of the Syrian regime – in Syrian territory. Approximately seven weeks ago, Turkey invaded the Syrian […]

I can recall a time, not too long ago, when the statements made by myself, years before M.K. Bhadrakumar's oped, earned heaps and heaps of scorn- How the times have changed..Turkey and the US aren't besties anymore- The USrael machine is working on Israel 2.0 aka Kurdistan.. It's all here

In the last few days the pattern the Syrian conflict has been taking is one of continuing advances by the Syrian army against the Jihadi fighters in East Ghouta, and by the Turkish army against the Kurdish militia in Afrin.
Reports from East Ghouta suggest that 40% of the former Jihadi enclave has now been recaptured by the Syrian army, up from the 30% of the enclave which the Syrian controlled just two days ago.

haaretzI guess we’ll have to wait and see if this Fox News report is like “cocking a gun”

The Kurdish region of Afrin in northern Syria has become a new geopolitical pivot point in the conflict. With so many actors’ interests overlapping, whose positions will be weakened and whose solidified if hostilities escalate? With so many different agendas now converging along the borderlands, many fear that Turkey’s latest military masterplan and march towards Afrin threatens to open up […]

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I had mentioned this as a distinct possibility last week in more then one report: 

Originally from WaPo link above to stars and stripes

As reported today

Turkey Needs to Win Afrin Quickly Or Risk It’s Own Border Security

Most recent reports have Syria retaking about 25 percent of Ghouta: