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Churkin stares down a terrorist.
For the second week in a row, developments abroad in Syria have been closely followed by chaos and violence at home in the United States. Yesterday, in a pathetic copy-cat maneuver of the (justified) emergency UN Security Council meeting called by Russia last week following NATO's egregious act of war against Syria, the U.S., UK, and France yesterday called an emergency UNSC meeting over the Syrian Arab Army's "shocking" and "barbaric" offensive on eastern Aleppo. The collective Western idiocracy called for an immediate end to the offensive, with pseudo-humanitarian troll Samantha Power laying all the blame on Russia and Assad, as usual:
What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-terrorism, it is barbarism. Instead of pursuing peace, Russia and Assad make war. Instead of helping get life-saving aid to civilians, Russia and Assad are bombing the humanitarian convoys, hospitals and first responders who are trying desperately to keep people alive.
No, Samantha is the barbarian for supporting terrorists. She is the barbarian for bombing humanitarian convoys and hospitals. She is the barbarian for representing the most odious, murderous, genocidal regime in recent history. She represents terrorists, defends them, and deserves to be held accountable for her lies and her glib denial of American-supported war crimes. Maria Zakharova had an appropriately cutting response:
Historically speaking... a barbarian is someone not belonging to an empire, and we have only one of those today ... As for the imagery... the world has seen nothing more barbaric in modern history than Iraq and Libya done the Washington way.
Power also accused Russia of abusing its "historic privilege" of sitting on the UNSC, and Britain's UN lapdog, Matthew Rycroft, played fetch with the suggestion, saying Russia would be excluded from the Syrian peace process due to the recent escalation in fighting, adding:
"The regime and Russia have instead plunged to new depths and unleashed a new hell on Aleppo. Russia is partnering with the Syrian regime to carry out war crimes."
The pusillanimous French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault joined in, calling for Russia and Iran to rein in Syria, lest they too be complicit in war crimes. It looks like Power really does corrupt...

UN 'special envoy' Staffan de Mistura quoted information received "from sources on the ground", alleging that airstrikes have resulted in 139 fatalities in east Aleppo, and 74 in rural Aleppo, "all including dozens of women of children." At least he had the integrity to add that the UN "can't verify" these numbers. As far as we are aware, the UN does not have any observers embedded with al-Nusra in eastern Aleppo, so they rely on a pizza maker in Coventry, and a U.S./UK-created 'humanitarian' terrorist group, for the bulk of their information. See: The full video of the UNSC meeting is available here, if you can stomach it. Expect a bunch inane statements, such as "Russia is only prolonging the conflict". And how is that exactly? Do these morons expect the Syrian Army to just unilaterally stop all fighting, allowing al-Nusra terrorists in eastern Aleppo to storm their positions, kill thousands more civilians, and eat their livers? This 'peace plea' is coming from the same people who have "prolonged this conflict" for over five years by creating and supporting these jihadi nutjobs!

We can only conclude that these people are either so completely deluded that they're crazy, or they're perfectly aware that their 'rebels' are liver-eating maniacs, thus making them cold-blooded psychopaths. To get a grasp on the depth and depravity of their lies, consider the following: the cessation of hostilities was supported by all these people, and the deal was predicated on the idea that there are "moderates" intermingled with the terrorists. No one publicly objects to the Syrians and Russians fighting real terrorists.

The main condition of the agreement was that the U.S. would use its influence to separate these "moderates" from the terrorists, and provide detailed information about which groups were which. Once this was done, there would be no problems: the moderates wouldn't shoot anyone, and they wouldn't be shot at. And everyone would team up to fight the terrorists who were not included in the agreement. Simple, right?

The cessation of hostilities failed because the U.S.'s "moderate" groups refused to disown the terrorists with whom they are partnered. They publicly denounced the truce, praised al-Nusra, and continued to attack Syrian civilians and troops. The agreement also failed because the U.S. military coalition teamed up with Daesh terrorists to massacre Syrian troops in Deir ez-Zor. (See: SOTT Exclusive: Deir ez-Zor survivor: "U.S. coalition warplanes finished off wounded with machine guns" - Is Daesh calling in US airstrikes? and Deir ez-Zor airstrikes no 'mistake', locals say: US drones scouted area, coordinated bombings with ISIS units.) That's the reality. That's what people should be talking about.


Now the Syrians have resumed their offensive against the very groups - al-Nusra and their allies - who violated the ceasefire (see: Syrian Army launches major three-pronged offensive on Aleppo city following heavy airstrikes), and U.S. leaders are losing their heads. Hypocrisy much? The U.S. and its allies violate the ceasefire, the 'moderates' expose themselves as terrorists, and that sanctimonious little war harpy Samantha Power has the audacity to condemn the very people who are actually fighting terrorism - not supporting it, as she does.

This shouldn't come as a surprise, however. The mask is off, as Syria's UN Ambassador, Bashar Jaafari, put it in New York City this weekend. The truth that "alternative" media have been shouting in the wilderness for years is now out in the open: al-Nusra (formerly known as al-Qaeda) and ISIS/Daesh are strategic U.S. allies, and they always have been. As if it weren't clear enough that the coalition airstrikes on Deir ez-Zor were conducted in cooperation with Daesh ground forces, Damascus now says it has audio of Daesh communications with U.S. military before the airstrike. (Rumors of similar intercepts have been floating around for months, if not years, but this is the first time the Syrians have officially acknowledged it.) Churkin also upped his rhetoric during his speech to the UNSC:
They [al-Nusra] are armed by tanks, APCs, field artillery, multiple rocket launchers... dozens and dozens of units, including heavy weaponry... Of course, they couldn't have made this equipment themselves. All of this has been received by them and is still being shipped to them by generous Western backers, with the US, presumably, turning a blind eye.
So it's only natural that the U.S. would use every lying scheme in the book to defend their terrorists, now that it's clear who they work for.

The only reason certain Washington players wanted a ceasefire in the first place was because the Syrian Army was winning against the terrorists in Aleppo. Some, like Kerry and Obama, probably wanted the ceasefire to work, but the administration appears to have lost control of its own foreign policy. Lavrov made this fact clear today, revealing:
[President] Barack Obama always supported, as I was told, cooperation with Russia, and he confirmed it himself during the meeting with [President] Vladimir Putin in China. It seems to me that the military may not be obeying their supreme commander too much.
But the U.S. military is also in a bind. It can't establish a no-fly zone (that would mean war with Russia); it can't send in ground forces to defend al-Qaeda (that would mean war with Russia); it can't get a ceasefire for al-Qaeda (separation of al-Nusra and moderates is now a precondition for any future negotiations). All it has left is the information war, which means that all it can do is lie more often. From now on, we can expect a barrage of reports from terrorist groups and their supporters of Syrian army atrocities, Russians targeting civilians and eating babies, and humanitarian crises perpetrated by U.S.-backed terrorists which are blamed on Syrian and Russian airstrikes (e.g., In retaliation to Syrian air strikes, US-backed rebels shut off water to 1.5 million civilians). As The Duran put it:
It is this US awareness of its own impotence as its Jihadi proteges in Aleppo face total defeat which accounts for all the angry rhetoric and cranking up of atrocity stories we have been seeing over the last week. These have now culminated in some typically furious denunciations of Russia by US ambassador Samantha Power on Sunday's 25th September 2016 at the UN Security Council, over the course of which she actually accused Russia of "barbarism".
The problem is, this is the same strategy the U.S. has been using for the last five years, so it's hard to see what they think they can accomplish, other than more of the same. The fact is, Russia has already radically changed the dynamic of power in the Middle East. As an advisor for the ruling Lebanese Democratic Party told Sputnik:
"Now we are counting on the Russian role to return the balance of forces in the region," Dr. Saleem Hamadeh said. "The only thing that we can expect in the future [is that] the United States of America will not play alone again in this region." The adviser with the LDP, a junior partner in the Lebanese coalition government, said Lebanon was "thankful to Russia for its approach in the region."
The Syrian terrorist 'opposition', in contrast, is taking its ball and going home. The Saudi front group "Syrian High Negotiations Committee" coordinator Dr. Riad Hijab, who was in New York for the UN General Assembly session, cut his visit short to return to Aleppo to "coordinate opposition actions". No doubt he'll do so in the most "moderate" way possible. The 'original rebel group', the 'Free Syrian Army' and the "National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces" said the current negotiation process is "meaningless" in light of the fact that their jihadists are getting their butts kicked in Aleppo. If these people were serious about wanting a ceasefire, they would be pressuring Washington, not Damascus. Conclusion: they're not really interested in peace, just regime change.

Meanwhile, the International Red Cross successfully sent 71 trucks of aid all over Syria (no mention is made in Western media of all the aid that does get through, when U.S.-backed terrorists aren't blowing it up or threatening to do so). The World Food Program delivered 45 trucks of aid to four besieged towns in Damascus and Idlib provinces. 26 UN aid trucks have crossed from Turkey into Idlib, with 10 more expected later today. Russia and Iran have reaffirmed their readiness to work with the Syrian government, Syrian Red Crescent, and relevant UN bodies to deliver aid, including to Aleppo. And the jihadis are jumping ship in the face of imminent defeat (apparently the Norwegians are the most eager to return to their Nordic paradise). And the Kurds are reportedly finally fleeing back across the Euphrates from Turkey and the Turkish-backed jihadists.

Rumors in the alternative media have for some time speculated about the possibility (or likelihood) of Putin's government releasing bombshell information that would expose 9/11 as an inside job. What if this exposure of the US controlling and using al-Qaeda/ISIS is 'it'? It's certainly a question all patriotic Americans ought to be asking themselves: how did we go from a situation where al-Qaeda attacked us on 9/11 because they hate us for our freedoms... to us being allied with al-Qaeda against a regime that had nothing to do with 9/11? And, perhaps, this follow-up question: why in God's name are we against the Russians on this issue, not with them?

America reacts with violence and chaos

As their leaders' penchant for terror and chaos becomes clearer overseas, the spike in mass shootings, stabbings and other bloody mayhem in many major US cities in the last 48 hours is perhaps American society mirroring their elites' terror and chaos. Last weekend, as the U.S. teamed up with Daesh to attack the Syrian Army in Deir ez-Zor, we saw a mass shooting in Philadelphia, a mass stabbing in Minnesota, and numerous bombs go off in New Jersey and New York. This weekend was even crazier: It looks like this trend is just going to continue. Having careened into objective reality, thanks in no small part to Vladimir Putin's successive imposition of roadblocks against their activities in Syria, the reality-creators' American Dream - fueled as it is by illusion, lies and debt - is fast becoming the American Nightmare.