Under both U.S. presidents, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, a steady stream of unfounded claims and dubious ‘evidence’ has been used to fashion a case against the Syria government for ‘using chemical weapons against its own people.’ One of the key actors in assembling their case against Damascus has been the western-funded pseudo ‘NGO’ known as the White Helmets. Where does the ‘official’ fiction end and the truth begin?
It’s no longer a secret that the America’s illegal occupation of Northeastern Syria was never about defeating ISIS as they claimed, but rather ‘managing’ the terrorist entity so as to further justify an expansion of U.S. ground and air operations in Syria and Iraq.
Imagine a country where a royal family spends billions of dollars on US and UK weaponry in order to increase their domestic and regional hegemony, engaging in brutal regime change wars by force by bombing its neighbors, as well as funding and arming radical Wahhabi terrorists throughout the Middle East, particularly in Syria, along with killing and beheading hundreds of its own citizens and activists. Would such a country be entitled to demand that Syria reforms its democracy and rewrites the Syrian constitution?
According to military-diplomatic source, there are a large number of foreign citizens among hostages being kept by Daesh terrorists in Hajin area, a small city in eastern Syria, administratively part of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, located along the Euphrates River, south of Deir ez-Zor.
George Monbiot.
Rainer Shea
Medium
At what point do the people of US, UK and EU, start to reign-in their governments’ aggressive war machines?
When Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu announced that Russia would be delivering its s30o anti-missile and antiaircraft defense system to Syria – it effectively altered the military and geostrategic landscape of the Middle East, and specifically in the Syrian theatre.
According to a recent Syria News report, Mr. Shoigu stated that primary defensive advantages are as follows:
