On the morning of December 30th, warplanes of the Israeli Air Force once again carried out strikes on alleged Iranian targets in the countryside of Damascus. According to reports one person was killed and 3 others injured in the attack.
Earlier, an unidentified, unmanned aerial vehicle struck several oil tanks near the village of al-Hamran, which is located north of the town of Manbij in northern Syria. The village is situated on the contact line between territories controlled by Turkish-backed forces and the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
According to local sources, the oil tankers belonged to SDF-linked oil smugglers, who were selling oil looted from the US-controlled oil fields on the eastern bank of the Euphrates to Turkish-linked entities. This oil smuggling business sheds light on the real face of the Kurdish SDF leadership, which likes to make loud statements about its alleged patriotism and its plans to expel the Turkish Army from northern Syria.
In Idlib, three Russian service members received minor injuries as a result of an ATGM strike on their armoured vehicle, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on December 29. The report said that an armored personnel carrier of the Russian Military Police came under attack from the territory controlled by Turkish-backed militants. Russian forces, in cooperation with the Turkish military and Syrian security forces, are looking for those involved.
These developments came as the Turkish Armed Forces were working to evacuate their observation point near the town of Tell Touqan. This was one of their last remaining points within the territories, which have been liberated by the Syrian Army.
Over the past months, Turkey has withdrawn a group of its posts, which had been besieged by Syrian troops. In light of this, the recent increase in attacks by Turkish proxies along the contact line may be a part of the Turkish game aimed at demonstrating that any decrease of the Turkish military presence in Greater Idlib would lead to the deterioration of the security situation there.
Here is an article that looks at the most recent moves by Washington against Syria:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2020/11/syria-and-how-washington-has-become.html
Washington simply cannot admit that its efforts in Syria have come to naught and that Bashar al-Assad has not followed the examples of Muammar Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein.
Link by Scheider contains Congressional Letter from World’s Chosen Policeman. Synopsis:
“There was a stone in the middle of the road…”
…and the stone was Bashar al Assad.
Just the prelude… A redo of 9/11 will set it all in motion, this time blamed on Iran. That Israeli submarine currently lurking in the Persian Gulf isn’t there for reconnaissance purposes. May Heaven help the crew of the USS Nimitz.
One may easily imagine a fraudulently anointed and vastly unpopular and unqualified female person once known by several uncomplimentary nicknames having to do with her choices of playmates becoming a vastly weak “presidente” of a banana republic dressed in the guise of a great power. Easy to imagine such a situation.
Following the Thatcher model, such a person might imagine that she could cloak herself in the robes of Victory over Persia.
For Thatcher the little game very nearly was lost, and according to Robert Green, would probably have gone nuclear but for luck. https://youtu.be/s7chmzc0-GE
Imagine the zuswang she’d make for herself when images of a ruined Carrier and news of 5,000 dead sailors washed over the internet.
Of course there are alternatives…but a Empire in collapse cannot survive being seen to suffer a Strategic defeat….the “lady” or the “gentleman” (if they can keep the drool wiped off) is quite liable to see “authority” by making war, and discover that it’s lost a war… Thus the nuclear “option” is, I think, quite likely… or shall we have a laugh and say “highly likely”?
Given the Russians and Iranians are well aware of another potential 1967 ´USS Liberty´ mistake by Israel or 9/11.
However, a combined Russian and Iranian hi-tech network in the air, on the surface and below the sea surface will be registering any possible ´engineered´ movement/noise/ magnetic frequency.
Plus China has passed on info and technical specs of their own capable ´anti-navy´ technology to the Iranians.
Given that the German gifted Israel submarine is extremely silent and covered with a rubber coating, plus nuke Tomohawks etc., but the Iranians have had more than a year to fine tune their shore and off-shore monitoring network..
The insidious psychotic ranting of Mrs. *we came, we saw, we killed..*..does not carry much weight with US Navy commanders, who perhaps represent the most realistic and wary US military minds.
USS Nimitz represents 100,000 tons of steel full of the most up-to-date US high-tech on the surface and in the air. Therefore, it is extremely doubtful Naval brass would tolerate Langley interference – a repeat scenario of a crude bellicose LBJ getting a blow-job from a Mossad honey-pot while Israeli Mirage jets repeatedly strafed the a rusty ex-freighter of US Navy – was a one off case. With John McCain´s subservient Admiral daddyo completing the orchestrated farce…that was 53 years ago!!!
Today, both USA and Israel face continual domestic discontent, an extremely over-bloated military budget and the various branches of the armed services determined to justify their worth and metal to a war-wary public.. This is surely more for domestic consumption with electioneering jingoism from Trump, Biden and Bibi…
Sputnik news.. USS Nimitz withdrawn from Indian Ocean/outside of Persian Gulf and to return back to base in Portland, USA.
Will be interesting to see how other US Navy vessels (and Japanese, Chinese, Russian..) will cope with a record BOMB cyclone in Northern Pacific that breaks all records. December 31.
Welcome to 2021 where Climate Extreme Events will be severely testing global Navy, Air and Ground forces to the limit…
PS..Is HMS non-aircraft carrier ´Lizzy´, till languishing in Portsmouth under repairs for repetitive leakage problems.. stupid poms/Brits, should have got a Chinese shipyard to build it…