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Fueling tensions: Turkey & Saudi Arabia plan to conduct joint war games

Sputnik
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:33 UTC

At the risk of fueling sectarian tensions, Sunni-majority countries Saudi Arabia and Turkey plan to conduct joint military exercises.

According to Turkish diplomats, Ankara is planning to carry out military exercises with Riyadh in the coming year. The goal is for the two nations to "cooperate against common threats."

"The planned exercises do not particularly aim at any specific threat," said a senior diplomat, according to Defense News.

Comment: Further reading: Saudi Arabia and Turkey considering ground forces in Syria is just cover to protect ISIS against Assad

NATO expansion goes hand-in-hand with a 'blood-drenched' arms trade

Sputnik
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:39 UTC

With the United States quadrupling its military budget and NATO increasing its presence in Eastern Europe, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern speaks to Radio Sputnik's Brian Becker about the West's new Cold War with Russia.

"This has to do with what Pope Francis calls 'the blood-drenched arms trade.' Peace is very bad for business. War, tension? That's very good for business," McGovern tells Loud & Clear host Brian Becker.

Comment: The situation in the West gets darker by the day. Further reading:

"We don't have Nazis doing Kristallnacht in Berlin. [But] We have Nazis in Greece doing something similar in a suburb of Greece, where they are attacking in the middle of the night the shops and houses of migrants." [...]

In Varoufakis' mind, Europe is run by an elite that is more unaccountable than ever. The European Parliament is a toothless body, "a parliament in name only, a parliament that cannot legislate. It's the only parliament ever that can't."

Yanis Varoufakis: 'The cartel running Europe's disintegrating economy is making it up as they go along'

Race to Raqqa: A battle the Syrian Army must win

Moon of Alabama
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:14 UTC

The race to Raqqa is on. Syria and its allies are competing with the U.S. and its allies to snatch east Syria from the Islamic State.

Raqqa in eastern Syria is held by the Islamic State as are the other cities along the Euphrates towards Iraq. To defeat the Islamic State in Raqqa, Deir Ezzor and other eastern Syrian towns and to liberate them is the aim of all purported enemies of the Islamic State. But this question has to be seen in a larger context.

Could the U.S. and its allies capture Raqqa or Deir Ezzor and with it parts of eastern Syria, it could use them as a bargaining chip to gain some negotiation power with Syria and its allies over the future of Syria. Alternatively it could create a Sunni state in east-Syria and west-Iraq. Mosul would be part of such a Sunni state and it would probably be put under the tutelage of Turkey. There have been U.S. plans for such a "Sunnistan" and a revision of the Sykes-Picot borders for some time.

Comment: Further reading: Saudi Arabia and Turkey considering ground forces in Syria is just cover to protect ISIS against Assad

After dropping 23,144 bombs on six countries in 2015, Obama now "on verge of" launching another bombing campaign in Libya

Ben Norton
Salon
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:19 UTC

The U.S. persistently uses bombs to try to solve the very problems its own bombs created

The U.S. dropped at least 23,144 bombs on six Muslim-majority countries in 2015 — Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

The government has not officially declared war in Syria, Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia, but this hasn't stopped it from bombing them, or from waging a secretive drone war in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia for more than a decade.

Yet it appears these wars are not enough. The Obama administration is "on the verge of taking action" against ISIS in Libya, Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Politico.

The U.S. insists it does not plan to deploy ground troops to the oil-rich North African country, but Obama said the same thing about Iraq and Syria, and there are now 3,700 American soldiers in the former and scores of special operations forces in the latter.

Comment: The U.S. bombing of Libya at this juncture would satisfy several objectives:

1. Create more chaos for Europe where most refugees are attempting to find safe haven; thereby destabilizing, dividing and helping to "conquer" Europe towards imperial ambitions.

2. Justifies military industrial complex expenditures in the hundreds of $Billions.

3. Attempts to make it look like the U.S. is doing something effective in the war on ISIS.

4. Temporarily satisfies an unquenchable thirst for chaos and the death and destruction of mostly innocent people.

Nyet! Russia will not change its Syria strategy in accordance with the Pentagon's "recommendations"

TASS
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:37 UTC

"No, sorry Mr. Carter we will not stop our military operation in Syria. We take our direction from our own Ministry of Defense. Yes, Mr. Carter - we do know you've poured a lot of time, money and resources into building up the insurgency, but we feel that it was a terrible investment, not to mention illegal. Please stop calling."

The recommended change of strategy was aimed at helping the United States attain political transition of power in Syria

Russian Defense Ministry does not intend to change the strategy of its military operation in Syria in accordance with Pentagon's recommendations, the ministry's official spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Thursday.

"We have lately heard advice from the Pentagon on the necessity to change our strategy in Syria to 'help' the United States attain political transition of power there. We will remind especially for such advisors that the aim of our operation in Syria is to destroy terrorism - direct and clear threat to security of our country and the world," Konashenkov said.

Comment: Can the Pentagon be so naive as to think that Russia will now just stop what has been one of the most successful and significant campaigns against terrorism (by Western imperial design) since forever? It's like the Pentagonians are saying "c'mon guys, you're screwing all our plans up badly here - pretty please stop what you're doing so we can have a little time to re-group here."

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister: West trying to scare Sweden into joining NATO using fake Russian nuclear threat

Sputnik
Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:09 UTC

The West is trying to persuade Stockholm into joining NATO by making announcements that Russia has allegedly worked out a scenario to carry out a nuclear strike against Sweden, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov said.

According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's report released on January 28, over the past three years Russia has conducted at least 18 large-scale snap exercises, some of which included simulated nuclear attacks on NATO Allies, including Sweden.

"Statements like these have a completely different angle. Very hot debates are currently going on in Sweden today on the issue of the country retaining its neutrality, and there are other forces that are trying to bring Sweden into NATO. One of these 'scary things' was done in statements by a NATO report on alleged Russian nuclear exercises."

"There's only one reason, which is to try to increase the development of Russophobia and fear in the Swedish society's opinion so as to try and bring the country into the Alliance," Meshkov told RIA Novosti in an interview.

Meshkov stressed that Russia sticks to so-called negative security assurances that stipulate that the nuclear powers will never use nuclear arms against non-nuclear states that have no relevant contractual relationship with the nuclear states, so the speculations around alleged nuclear strike scenario and Sweden are "meaningless."

Top Iranian official claims Republicans in the US asked Iran to delay prisoner exchange until US elections

Tasnim News Agency
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:38 UTC

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said a recent prisoner exchange between Iran and the US went ahead as planned despite calls by Republicans for a delay until US presidential elections.

"In the course of the talks for exchanging prisoners, the Republican rivals of the current US administration who claim to be humanitarians and advocates of human rights sent a message telling us not to release these people (American prisoners) and continue this process (of talks) until the eve of US presidential elections," Shamkhani said Thursday in an address to a rally held in the central city of Yazd to mark the 37th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution's victory.

"However" he said "we acted upon our independent resolve and moved the process forward."

Iran's move to exchange prisoners was based on the country's humanitarian approach and was made in accordance with ensuring the country's interests and securing the release of Iranian citizens in the US, he added.

Comment: For the corrupt US politicians, this kind of maneuver is Standard Operating Procedure: New Reports Say 1980 Reagan Campaign Tried to Delay Hostage Release. In what's now known as the October Surprise, in 1980 presidential hopeful Ronald Reagan delayed the release of prisoners in Iran until after the elections so as not to benefit then-president Jimmy Carter.

Lavrov: Russia has made Syria ceasefire proposal, awaits US response

RT
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:12 UTC

Russia has made "specific proposals" on a ceasefire in Syria and is waiting for a reaction from the US, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

"We made proposals on implementing a ceasefire, quite specific ones," Lavrov said. "We are waiting for a US response before putting them before the International Syria Support Group."

Lavrov made the statement before meeting his US counterpart John Kerry on the eve of the start of the Munich Security Conference.

Earlier on Thursday, Moscow said that negotiations about a possible ceasefire were still ongoing and no solution has yet been found.

"The process is very fragile, discussions are under way, one can't speak about unanimity in the process of a Syrian settlement," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a conference call. His statement came in response to a question asking if Moscow had proposed March 1 as a possible date for the start of a ceasefire.

Russian Defense Ministry: Terrorists are fleeing Syria disguised as Aleppo civilians

TASS
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:08 UTC

Terrorists in Syria are trying to flee to Turkey 'blending into' civilians of Aleppo as they know Russian warplanes don't attack peaceful population, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Thursday.

"Mass desertion is fixed among gunmen groups operating in the area of Aleppo. Terrorists intimidate local population and use force to drive people to the Turkish border," he said.

Dropping their weapons, gunmen are trying to hide among these crowds as Russian warplanes and Syrian government troops never target civilians, he told reporters.

Erdogan calls for no-fly zone in Syria, again

Press TV
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:07 UTC

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renews a call for the establishment of a no-fly zone in Syria in the face of Russian airstrikes which have led to a series of militant losses recently. The Syrian army is closing in on the last pockets of militant positions in Aleppo which borders Turkey, prompting an outcry among supporters of armed groups which are warning of a refugee influx.

Turkey has long pushed for the creation of a no-fly zone in northern Syria but the proposal has so far gained little traction with the US or NATO allies. The US and Europe fear such a move could put them in direct confrontation with Russia and other allies of the Syrian government.

Erdogan accused the United Nations of insincerity in calling on Turkey to do more to help Syrian refugees instead of taking action to stop Russian airstrikes. Russian war planes have been bombing areas around Aleppo in support of a Syrian government offensive to recapture the city.

A Greek news website said on Monday that Erdogan had threatened to flood Europe with refugees if EU leaders did not offer a better deal to Turkey. On Wednesday, Erdogan accused the US of creating a "pool of blood" in the region by failing to recognize Kurdish organisations fighting Takfiris in Syria as terrorist groups.

Comment: Erdogan would love the establishments of 1) a Syrian no-fly zone, and 2) the proposed buffer ("refugee safe") zone in order to gain access to supply the Daesh Takfiris without risk of Russian intervention. He would then gain Daesh support for his long-standing primary goal: to eliminate the Kurds, currently fighting for Syria. He is using the Turkish refugee gate-keeper issue as leverage against the EU to bolster support for his demands.

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Puppet Masters

Fueling tensions: Turkey & Saudi Arabia plan to conduct joint war games

NATO expansion goes hand-in-hand with a 'blood-drenched' arms trade

Race to Raqqa: A battle the Syrian Army must win

After dropping 23,144 bombs on six countries in 2015, Obama now "on verge of" launching another bombing campaign in Libya

Nyet! Russia will not change its Syria strategy in accordance with the Pentagon's "recommendations"

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister: West trying to scare Sweden into joining NATO using fake Russian nuclear threat

Top Iranian official claims Republicans in the US asked Iran to delay prisoner exchange until US elections

Lavrov: Russia has made Syria ceasefire proposal, awaits US response

Russian Defense Ministry: Terrorists are fleeing Syria disguised as Aleppo civilians

Erdogan calls for no-fly zone in Syria, again

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