With Palmyra still under ISIS control, and with ISIS threatening to capture Deir Ezzor, the Russian military has once against blamed the military crisis in eastern Syria on the US.
The Russian military first did so in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Palmyra in December when it complained - rightly - that the reason ISIS was able to send troops to Palmyra from Mosul and Raqqa was because ISIS is under no real pressure there.
The Head of the Main Operations Department of Russia's General Staff, Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoi, has now blamed the US again, claiming that the increase of ISIS fighters in eastern Syria is directly linked to the US-led operations against ISIS in Mosul:
The actions of the US-led coalition grouping near the Iraqi city of Mosul have largely boiled down to edging out considerable forces of the ISIL [the former name of the IS] towards the eastern part of Syria where militants are moving weapons, explosives and manpower almost unimpededly towards Palmyra, Deir ez-Zor and also the town of al-Bab bordering on Turkey.That this was what would happen - and even that it was planned in advance - was being said by many people at the very start of the Mosul operation in October. Here for example is what Vaughan Famularo wrote in The Duran on 19th October 2016:
The Russian news media RIA Novosti, has revealed that US and Saudi leaders have decided to allow the safe passage of 9000 ISIS terrorists to vacate Mosul in Iraq and, relocate into Syria.There is probably some truth to this claim. ISIS's forces in Mosul are not encircled, and with ISIS now finally driven out of the eastern part of the city across the Tigris, it is possible that some of ISIS's fighters are choosing to escape from Mosul in order to join the fight in Syria. Whether the number comes to 9,000 fighters is another matter.
The surprising information was leaked by an anonymous diplomatic source. It was also claimed that this decision was conditional on the terrorists agreeing to fight Syrian and Russian troops in Palmyra and Deir Ezzor.
There are now reports that Iraqi troops have launched an attack aimed at trying to close the Syrian border, presumably in order to prevent ISIS fighters escaping from Mosul fleeing to Syria. The joint operation by Russia and Turkey at Al-Bab may also be intended by Moscow to pave the way for more Turkish operations against ISIS in eastern Syria to deal with the current crisis.
General Rudskoi's comments show how seriously the Russians are treating this crisis, with the Russians claiming to be concerned about further threats from ISIS against Palmyra's monuments:
We've received evidence confirmed by several sources a large amount of explosives is being moved to Palmyra. Islamic State terrorists are plotting to wipe out the world's historical heritage in that city.and with the Russians also warning of a genocide in the event of ISIS's capture of Deir Ezzor:
The situation remains difficult in the Deir ez-Zor area, the city has been besieged by the IS terrorists for around three years. Taking advantage of their numerical superiority, the militants continue to attack the positions of the Syrian troops. In case the city is taken by terrorists, the residents will face a true genocide. The population of Deir ez-Zor may be exterminated.ISIS's advance in eastern Syria cannot threaten the security of the Syrian government in faraway Damascus. The heartland of Syria's power is in the populous coastal districts of the west. With eastern Aleppo recaptured, the countryside around Damascus largely secured, the towns of Hama and Homs firmly under the Syrian government's control, and with the Al-Qaeda led Jihadis driven out of most of Latakia province, advances by ISIS in the desert regions of Syria's east cannot threaten the survival of Syria's government.
Nonetheless neither Syria nor Russia nor ultimately any of the surrounding countries (Turkey, Iran and Jordan) can tolerate a force like ISIS in control of eastern Syria if only because of the threat it poses to all of them. Nor on any objective assessment of its own interests can the US.
What this situation urgently requires is much closer cooperation between all these parties, to ensure that crises of the sort we are now seeing do not recur as a result of ISIS shifting its forces from one front to another as it seeks to compensate for losses in one area by making gains in another.
Up to now that level of cooperation has been lacking, which is why the crisis in eastern Syria has arisen in the first place.
Possibly with Russia and Turkey now cooperating against ISIS with each other, and with the arrival in Donald Trump of a US President who genuinely seems committed to defeating ISIS as opposed to using ISIS to undermine the Syrian government, that cooperation may now happen.
I've not even read it but..I'm going to guess.... 'Straight from Mosul, Iraq to Syria.' (Why? Part of Obysmal's plan to f*** up everything for Trump as much as possible; the interests of Americans, be damned! (He should have been impeached long ago. It’s still not too late!)
On the way down, I saw a picture of a bunch of trucks, which I presume were/are some of all those brand new Toyota Trucks that 'somehow' all of the ISIS folks manage to drive. Way better than my car! I sure wish Obysmal had instead run a US lottery and instead bought and simply given all of those brand new Toyota Trucks to American Citizens in a free lottery with all and only American Citizens eligible - in a truly random drawing. (Of course, like all such contests, employees of the givers (i.e., all government employees and their subcontractors, etc. would be ineligible.)
Meanwhile, the US Secret State War Machine should let ‘our’ (not mine, damn it!) EVIL, Head Chopping, Heart and Liver Eating Non-Human Cretin ‘Moderate Terrorists’ of ISIS walk the whole damn way!
(Forecast: if they’re dumb, they’ll go in a convoy, and watch to see a legitimate Russian/Syrian version of ‘our’ illegal Iraq war’s “Highway of Death”. See, e.g., [Link] )
(Of course, the Kuwait invasion only occurred AFTER the US Diplosh*t had told Saddam, before their Kuwait invasion, “Sure! Go ahead: they’re slant drilling into your oil. What do we care? You’re our guy, right, Sahddy? After all, we didn’t give you all those illegal gas bombs to sit and corrode, right?” )
Well, time to quit dreaming, wake up read the article and see if my guess is correct. (Even if I'm 180 degrees out, I'm going to leave above guess here. verbatim.)
Soza, hereza weza goeza..
Well, the first paragraph covers it, eh? "Russian military makes public complaint that ISIS attack on Deir Ezzor and ISIS threats against Palmyra are the result of the intentional relocation by the US of ISIS fighters from Mosul to Syria."
But when did America's foreign policy become so blatantly obviously evil? They don't even try to hide it any more. (Hmm. I wrote something like that recently... hm.. At this link, (
The CIA and Donald Trump: The blackmail attempt that failed
With hindsight the Trump Dossier episode looks like a failed attempt by the CIA to blackmail Donald Trump into toeing the line on Russia. The CIA however underestimated Trump and misjudged his..."Those are the people to whom the MSM now most successfully still sells its blatant lies. Indeed, it appears the MSM is getting so desperate as to have entirely written off continuing to try to fool open minded folks, and is instead solely focusing only on the idiot ‘proles,’ i.e., those who NEVER open mindedly question any of the PTB/MSM’s Killaryesque lies and who can’t or won’t see that they are being used as the useful idiots they are, so as to institute geopolitical agendas based on lies and hidden under sundry euphemisms like ‘refugees’ and ‘diversity’, each and all of which are used to justify AmeriKa’s practice of ‘nation-busting’, and which also consistently and concurrently work to slough** our skins/shields of protective rights - both natural and declared - on the road towards the PTB’s goal of getting rid of national sovereignty, and, with it, government from the bottom up, i.e., local government - which has a feel for what’s on the ground at the place, how best to fix it, AND, most importantly, is held more responsive to the wishes of those whom that government supposedly serves: i.e., you, me, US!; and to move even further down that road towards the PTB’s Ultimate Wet Dream of a worldwide and feudalistic government from the top down , which, of course, THEY will control. (A/k/a,. A ‘One World Government’ or ‘A New World Order.)***
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"** Slough off rights as we Slouch? . . . towards Bethlehem?
"*** Or, as written on one of those green pieces of toilet tissue in your wallet: “Novus Ordo Seclorum” (a new political order..) which certainly describes - while understating - what a NWO is/will consist of. (I.e., YEP! YOU GOT IT: It’s just another euphemism but hidden WITHIN another language!)" (Snip and end of excerpt from my diatribe at: https://www.sott.net/article/339797-The-CIA-and-Donald-Trump-the-blackmail-attempt-that-failed#comment176373)
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