Foreign agent Charles Lister falsely claims in Foreign Policy that a US withdrawal would be a “disaster”
The US forces are already causing a disaster in Syria, maintaining safe zones for terrorists at Al-Tanf and Deir Ezzor that enable the US to steal oil belonging to the Syrian people.
Charles Lister is a foreign agent who writes on behalf of Israel, the genocidal rogue state that should be dissolved. He wrote the disinformation piece linked below falsely claiming a US withdrawal from Syria would be a disaster because, supposedly, Syria needs US help to rid itself of ISIS.
The truth is, ISIS is a US-Israeli project, as demonstrated in several articles linked below, and although Obama sent US forces into Syria in 2014, ISIS kept taking more and more territory until it was poised to drive the Syrian Arab Army into the sea. It was not until Sept of 2015 that Russia entered the conflict in Syria and ISIS began to lose significant amounts of territory. Nonetheless, according to US disinformation in media and the political class, it was the US coalition that forced the terrorists to give up territory.
Amererica is planning to Withdraw From Syria—and Create a Disaster
The Islamic State has regained its momentum, and the Biden administration might inadvertently give it another boost.
By Charles Lister, a senior fellow and director of the Syria and Counterterrorism and Extremism programs at the Middle East Institute. [A Neocon project]
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The following publications show why Lister is full of BS!
Before getting into that content, I want to remind that Trump was one of the presidents who supported the illegal US presence and oil theft in Syria. No matter who is elected in November, he or she will continue backing the presence of US troops in Syria. Charles Lister knows this and apparently wants this US presence to be supported by the US people, and that is why he is pretending that a US withdrawal would keep the US from fighting ISIS. However, the US is not sincere in its opposition to ISIS, which is just cover for their dirty dealings there.
Americans are under no obligation to support the illegal policies in Syria. You should be fighting this as hard as many of you are fighting the genocide in Palestine. It is all part of the same corrupt ideology and is done on behalf of the criminal state of Israel.
Abundant evidence shows the US supports terror to please Israel
Several articles below show why Charles Lister’s piece is disinformation:
ISIS is a US political project:
1. FIGHTING AS ISIS’S AIR FORCE
There are several instances of the United States providing air support to terrorist groups like ISIS but none quite as obvious — and dire — as Deir Ez Zor in 2016.
In September 2016, the humanitarian situation in the Syrian city of Deir Ez Zor was dire: the largest city in eastern Syria was completely besieged by ISIS fighters. Syrian civilians and soldiers alike were completely dependent upon airlifted supplies to survive. Then, on September 17, U.S. warplanes led British, Danish, and Australian jets on a series of airstrikes against the city’s defenders, the Syrian Arab Army. The air raids lasted about an hour and decimated crucial Syrian Army positions on the mountains that overlook Deir Ez Zor airport. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the airstrikes killed at least sixty-two Syrian soldiers and injured over 100 more. [They also killed 200-300 Wagner mercenaries who were contracted by the Syrian government. These mercenaries were there legally. The US troops were trespassers and were there to protect terrorists and steal Syrian oil. Most of all, they are there to please Israel, which sees Assad as an enemy because he does not support the criminal entity that slaughters Arab children]
Immediately following the airstrikes, ISIS fighters attacked the weakened Syrian troops defending the critical mountains. ISIS ultimately overran positions on the mountains threatening both the airbase and the cities roughly 200,000 residents. These particular airstrikes occurred during a ceasefire between “rebel” and Syrian Arab Army forces. After the strikes, the ceasefire quickly fell apart. [Thus, the terrorists were de facto allies of the US]
While the U.S. claims the airstrikes were intended to strike ISIS fighters, Russia and Syria see the situation differently. Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s U.N. ambassador said “It is highly suspicious that the US chose to conduct this particular air strike at this time,” adding that the strikes killing Syrian soldiers did not look like a mistake. Syrian President Bashar Assad went so far as to say that the U.S. airstrikes intentionally targeted the Syrian Army. [That’s a no-brainer]
More here
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Why did the US government find it necessary to let its secret support for terrorist groups leak to the public?
I think it had to make some of its machinations public so that Israel – the US’ main protégé and client – would know that the US was doing its dirty work as agreed.
Every president is elected thanks to the stick-and-carrot machinations of AIPAC, which endorses candidates that swear allegiance to Israel while smearing those who do not. Therefore, each one does things to please Israel and makes sure this becomes known.to the occupying entity.
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The US government’s not-so-secret support for al-Qaeda and ISIS
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The general US policy of allying with the Gulf states (especially the Saudis) and Turkey in supporting radical Sunni insurgents [including ISIS and al-Qaeda!] to counter the “Shia expansion” was reported by Seymour Hersh back in 2007, shortly after that policy (“the Redirection”) was initiated by the Bush administration.
The Obama administration’s support of the Sunni insurgency in Syria against the Shiite-led regime of Bashar al-Asad following the 2011 Arab Spring was simply a continuation and intensification of that general policy. The administration claimed to be aiming their support at “moderates” and “secular, liberal reformers” in the opposition. But officials of the highest level in the administration have repeatedly betrayed how little they believe their own lie; especially when defending themselves against criticism for not intervening more.
Read more
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The Obama regime launched air attacks in Syria, supposedly against ISIS, for the first time in Sept 2014, but ISIS only increased its territory – until the Russian forces arrive in Sept 2015.
In Sept 2015, Russian forces entered the Syrian conflict.
But long before that, the CIA was meddling in Syrian internal affairs in ways that supported terrorism and weakened the Syrian government as described in the Yinon Plan, a blueprint for the takeover of swaths of territory by the Zionist Entity.
Global Research reports:
1947-1948 CIA attempts “to influence the 1947-8 elections by backing right-wing figures in the Nationalist Party…” [Recall that 1948 was the date that the UN, under heavy pressure from the US, voted to illegally disenfranchise (through ethnic cleansing) 700,000 Palestinians in order to create a Jewish state on their land. Whatever machinations were supported by the US at that time in Syria would have been coordinated with that CIA operation. BTW, you need to know that the current genocide in Gaza is just a continuation of the 1948 Nakba, which will never end until the illegitimate state of Israel is dissolved]
March, 1949 CIA sponsors Syrian coup d’etat; CIA directly involved.
1957 CIA and MI6 devise plan to assassinate 3 top Syrian leaders and overthrow the government. “…they planned to use agents provocateurs to launch a series of incidents.” “A ‘Free Syria Committee’ should be funded and ‘political factions with paramilitary or other actionist capabilities’ in Syria should be armed.” [Does this sound familiar?] See also here.
2006-2011 Prior to the onset of the Syrian war, the U.S. stirs up opposition to Syrian government (Assad). An April 18, 2011 article reads “Newly released WikiLeaks cables reveal that the US State Department has been secretly financing Syrian opposition groups and other opposition projects for at least five years, The Washington Post reports.”
March 2011 Daraa violence launches Syrian war. “The Daraa ‘protest movement’ on March 17-18 had all the appearances of a staged event involving covert support to Islamic terrorists by Mossad and/or Western intelligence.” “In Daraa, roof top snipers were targeting both police and demonstrators.” [Notice that this technique also occurred in the Kiev, Ukraine violence] [on the Maidan, which led to the current Ukraine war. The US tiger never changes its violent murderous stripes] See also here.
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If the US pulled out of Syria and left Syrian and Russian forces to deal with ISIS, we could expect victory over the terrorists. Yet foreign agents of Israel, like Charles Lister, insist the US is needed to fight ISIS. What lowbrow US propagandists refuse to acknowledge is that ISIS and al-Qaeda are US projects and are being protected in Deir Ezzor and al-Tanf, and if the US left these terror strongholds, Russian forces would have free reign to fight the terrorists currently sheltered there.
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://ria.ru/20211229/siriya-1765936954.html?ysclid=lrtdgqz1hn75952979
29.12.2021
The Foreign Ministry announced a significant weakening of the potential of IS* in Syria
Deputy Foreign Minister Syromolotov announced a significant weakening of the potential of IS* in Syria
MOSCOW, December 29 - RIA Novosti. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in close cooperation with the Armed Forces of Syria, in the past year [in the Trump era] managed to strengthen their success in countering the terrorist group ISIS* banned in the Russian Federation on the territory of this country, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Oleg Syromolotov told RIA Novosti.
“We also consider it positive that in 2021, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in close cooperation with the Armed Forces of the Syrian Arab Republic, continued to strengthen their successes in countering the activities of ISIS* in the territory of this country,” he said.
“As a result, the potential of this group has been significantly weakened: its significant forces and assets have been eliminated, its organizational structure has been destroyed, and its resource provision has been reduced,” added the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation.
The armed conflict in Syria has been ongoing since 2011. At the end of 2017, victory over IS* was announced. At the moment, a political settlement, the restoration of Syria, and the return of refugees are coming to the fore.
Russian Aerospace Forces have been in Syria since 2015. During this time, thanks to the help of Russian pilots, the Syrian government army almost completely liberated the country from militants of Islamist groups.…
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://life.ru/p/971870?ysclid=lrtiwxo9yj3965335
February 10, 2017
Earlier, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov also noted that the Western coalition had not achieved significant success in two and a half years of conducting a special operation against ISIS in Syria.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in an interview with Yahoo News, called the actions of the coalition against ISIS* terrorists in Syria cosmetic and opposed the creation of security zones in the country.
“This is an absolutely unrealistic idea,” Bashar al-Assad answered the question about security zones.
Let us recall that the idea of creating security zones in Syria was previously expressed by US President Donald Trump. He instructed the US State Department and the Pentagon to prepare a plan for creating safe zones for civilians in the country.
[The idea of creating safe zones would have given the US coalition total control over certain zones, which would have been off limits to the Syrian Arab Army. US ideas like this are ONLY about control. And BTW, why did the US coalition ONLY become interested in fighting ISIS AFTER the Russians entered the fray in Sept 2015 (in the Obama regime)? The US was leading from behind. It was shamed into doing this. If it had done nothing, it would have been obvious that the US was allowing ISIS to capture all of Syria – which it was doing in fact. Too much of an embarrassment for Obama, who had pretended to be fighting ISIS since 2014 but was allowing it gradually to capture all of Syria.]
* The activities of the organization are prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation by decision of the Supreme Court.
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In February 2018, during the Trump regime, a US gunship slaughtered from 200 to 300 Russian Wagner mercenaries on their way to an oil refinery that was operated illegally refining oil that legally belonged to the Syrian people. As representatives of the Syrian government, they were in their legal right.
This was an act of war by Trump, who purported to understand Putin and is still upheld as a president who will make peace with Russia. Guess we’ll have to see. Not holding my breath.
One step away from war: Wagner PMC under fire from Gunship
It is reported that on February 7, in the province of Deir EZ-Zor, American artillery launched a targeted strike on the 5th detachment of the Wagner PMC, which was on the march, after which the remnants of the column were finished off by coalition aircraft, including helicopters and an AC-130 gunship.
The sources of this information are posts on social networks and messages from several bloggers, including the leader of the “January 25 Committee” Igor Girkin, as well as a transcript of a certain recording in which two unknown people discuss the losses they have suffered.
Official Russian sources do not confirm this information. Recognizing the fact of the American attack on the government forces of the Syrian Arab Republic, representatives of the Ministry of Defense reported that there were no Russian military personnel at the scene of the incident.
“The militias were subjected to “sudden shelling from mortars and MLRS, after which they were attacked by helicopters of the US-led “international coalition,” the department noted. “As a result of the shelling, 25 Syrian militiamen were injured,” the Ministry of Defense said.
However, PMC employees are not military personnel, and representatives of the defense department have never reported their losses.
Let us note that similar incidents have already occurred during the war in Syria. Thus, according to reports from a number of Iranian, Western and Russian media, on September 20, 2016, a Kalibr missile launched from a Russian ship destroyed the headquarters of the operational control of Syrian terrorists, which included about 30 instructors from the USA, Italy, Great Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel.
[Note that this kind of coalition could not exist today. The US tried recently to piece together a coalition to fight the Houthis in Yemen, but none of the above-listed Middle Eastern countries signed on. Qatar was the only Arab member. The rest sympathized with the Houthis, who were motivated by the desire to end the Israeli genocide in Palestine. This Israeli aggression, which has claimed nearly 25,000 lives in Palestine, has been polarizing, with very few countries daring to “stand with Israel” any longer. It has upset the entire equation of power in the world]
This precise strike was Russia’s response to the bombing of SAA positions by US Air Force aircraft in support of the advancing terrorists in the province of Deir eZ-Zor. [Interesting, because the US’ thinly veiled excuse for being in Syria has always been to fight ISIS and al-Qaeda, terrorist groups covertly founded and supported by the US and allies, as demonstrated above]
This was not only retribution, but also a warning, a “red line” designation.
The Americans and their allies remained silent at the time. And not only because the destroyed bunker was located on territory controlled by the organization Jabhat al-Nusra, banned in the Russian Federation (collaboration with which would have to be recognized), but also because official recognition of these losses would require retaliatory steps to which Washington was not prepared for.
There were no statements from the Russian side either - the hint was made and understood, and there was no point in aggravating the situation further.
Several times, American instructors operating in the Kurdish People's Self-Defense Units came under fire from Turkish special forces and Ankara-controlled formations. It is believed that there were American casualties. But even in these cases, no official statements were made.
However, the current situation does not fit this scheme, which has become familiar. The American media almost immediately announced that Russian PMC fighters were in the “international coalition retaliatory strike zone.” [This designation was intended to lend legitimacy to the US presence, but did not serve as a legal basis, of which there was none]
CBS News, citing a Pentagon spokesman, announced that Russians were among the Syrian militias hit. Moreover, as the source believes, Russian citizens, together with the militias, did not intend to attack the Americans and the Syrian Democratic Forces, but planned to take control of the territory of the oil refinery. [Which, again, was within the legal right of the Syrians and their legitimate contractors, the Wagner fighters]
The channel emphasizes that if the information is confirmed, these are the first Russians killed by US forces in Syria.
Similar messages are heard on other American resources, and suggest a very clear idea that the task of the US military was precisely to strike at Russian fighters. And this is not just a “warning” fire, designed to mark a “line” and call for a cessation of the offensive. The forces that were reportedly involved - MLRS, F-15s, F-22s, AC-130s, and Apache helicopters - directly indicate the intention to create a real meat grinder for the enemy.
At the same time, as we see, Pentagon representatives themselves admit that irregular Syrian formations (and, possibly, Russian PMC fighters) did not threaten either them or their allies, but intended to take control of the oil refinery.
In light of this, what happened appears to be a completely conscious provocation, the deliberate creation of a casus belli. Moreover, the fact that representatives of the military department are telling the media about this may mean that Russia is being deliberately driven into a corner, seeking a response from it in order to “save face.”
It may well be that the Americans are not sure that there are Russians among the victims of their attack, or even know that there are none [but there were a LOT of Russian dead]. But they [the Trump regime] are trying to get the maximum propaganda effect from the current situation - to demonstrate to their fellow citizens their ability to give a decisive rebuff to Moscow, and to try to undermine the position of Vladimir Putin on the eve of the presidential elections, who is “not able to answer for the dead soldiers.” [This massacre of Russian mercenaries was apparently Trump’s attempt to see Putin defeated in the election, thereby shaking off the accusation of “Russian meddling” in the US election that saw Trump emerge victorious. De facto, it was a US attempt at meddling in the Russian elections] After all, it is in this spirit that many opposition bloggers and media outlets in Russia are covering the incident in Deir EZ-Zor.
Moscow remains silent for now, choosing the most appropriate place and time for its “response.” Which, there is no doubt, will follow regardless of whether the Russians or “only” the Syrians died from American bombs and shells.
Washington is playing to “raise the stakes,” and there is no way it can give in in such a situation.
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Carefully, but powerfully: Russia has rid Syria of dozens of ISIS fighters in a month
November 30, 2020
The Russian contingent in Syria has completed the 62nd month of hostilities in the Arab republic. Over the past 30 days, the London-based [supposedly] non-governmental organization Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) [it is very much linked to the Western power elites] has not recorded a single civilian death as a result of Russian airstrikes. At the same time, during the operations of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Syrian Arab S, dozens of militants of only one terrorist group, Daesh (Islamic State, IS*, ISIS*, banned in Russia), were destroyed in a month.
[So these were dozens of ISIS terrorists that would likely have survived that month if only the US “anti-terrorist” forces had been there and no Russian forces. So how does foreign agent (working for Israel) Charles Lister have the chutzpah to claim that if Iraq kicks out the Americans, there will be a “disaster”? Looks like keeping the US troops in place is creating a disaster.]
During the 62nd month of Russia's military operations in Syria, SOHR documented the elimination of 45 ISIS militants as a result of Russian airstrikes on their positions in the Syrian desert, most of whom were killed in the Aleppo-Hama-Raqqa geographical triangle.
According to the NGO, since the start of Russia's anti-terrorist operation in Syria on September 30, 2015, activists of the Syrian Observatory have documented the elimination of 5,638 members of ISIS* and 6,210 militants of other Islamist factions, including the jihadist alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* (the leading role in its composition is played by the terrorist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly Jabhat al-Nusra*, banned in Russia), the Islamic Party of Turkestan (banned in the Russian Federation) and other groups.
As EADaily reported earlier, ISIS militants continue to be active throughout the Syrian desert, staging ambushes and surprise attacks aimed at firing positions and checkpoints of government troops and allied pro-Iranian militias in the region. In recent days, the main fighting has taken place in parts of the provinces of Aleppo, Hama and Raqqa and in the area of the administrative center of the province of Homs. The clashes were accompanied by artillery shelling, as well as intensive Russian airstrikes to repel ISIS attacks and neutralize Islamist militants in the territories under their temporary control.
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Here’s your daily air strike update for Jan 25, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://www.rbc.ru/politics/25/01/2024/621a39ba9a79472784f029d4?from=copy
Military operation in Ukraine
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An industrial enterprise was hit in Odessa, said the head of the regional military administration, Oleg Kiper. Earlier, an air raid alert was announced in the city. The Ukrainian authorities also announced a fire and damage at one of the enterprises in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast. The Russian Ministry of Defense has repeatedly stressed that the strikes are carried out only on Ukraine's military and energy facilities and related infrastructure.
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The latest news from the SMO front and the map of hostilities in Ukraine today 25.01.2024
Russian fighters used cunning and infiltrated the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdiivka:
Soldiers of the assault brigade "Veterans" of the Volunteer Corps penetrated into the "Tsarskaya Okhota" area in the south of Avdiivka through a pipe that scouts discovered a year ago.
To mask the noise from the work, artillery and mortars regularly shelled the positions of Ukrainian militants.
The first attempt to penetrate the rear was unsuccessful, as there was not enough oxygen. Additional ventilation holes had to be made. Later, pipe was flooded with water.
The other day, the fighters were able to organize a daring assault and went to the rear of the positions of the Ukronazis, cutting off most of the fortifications near Avdiivka and replenishing the exchange fund.
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Western media claim that the DPRK transferred 5 million 120 and 152 mm shells to Russia, so Russian artillery fires 10,000 shells per day, and militants only 2,000.
[This pretty much rules out any chances that Ukraine could somehow prevail over Russia. The combined West is unable to boost its military industry to the extent of providing sufficient artillery shells to Ukraine. Experts agree that artillery is the key to success in war]
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For once I agree with Trump
Trump attacked Nikki Haley for claiming victory after she fell behind Trump in the primaries by less than expected. Trump scolded her for taking a victory lap with no victory to back it up, and called her a birdbrain.
Yes, Donald, Nikki is a birdbrain. She is running on a hate-Russia platform. Anti-Russia rhetoric is the last refuge of candidates who have no plan to benefit Americans.
BTW, there is documented evidence that Birdbrain cheated on her hubby.