On March 12, US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley actually threatened that the US will strike Syrian government forces if they don’t halt their operation against terrorists in Eastern Ghouta.
“We also warn any nation that is determined to impose its will through chemical attacks and inhuman suffering, most especially the outlaw Syrian regime, the United States remains prepared to act if we must,” Haley said.
The US diplomat proposed a new UN ceasefire resolution that “will take effect immediately upon adoption by this Council. It contains no counterterrorism loopholes for Assad, Iran and the Russians to hide behind”.
According to Haley, the previous resolution “failed” because it had allowed the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies to conduct operation in Eastern Ghouta against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) and other militant groups.
Russian ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia reacted by saying that Syria has all the legal right to fight terrorism near its capital. The US-drafted document was not put to the vote on March 12.
On the same day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that infighting had erupted among militant groups in Eastern Ghouta following a Russian proposal of safe passage out of the region for militants and their families which also demanded that Faylaq al-Rahman separate from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
The SAA liberated the village of Aftris where it found a militant chemical weapons workshop and advanced on Jisrin, Saqba and Hamuriyah.
Jaish al-Islam, which is the key group in the area of Douma, also claimed that no negotiations are ongoing between it and the government over a surrender or withdrawal agreement.
Reports are circulating that the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have started handing over checkpoints near Tell Rifaat, the Menagh airbase and nearby villages to the government’s National Defense Forces. However, the situation remains unclear.
Even if the reports are true, this may be too late for the YPG to reach any wide-scale deal with Damascus because the YPG-held city of Afrin is almost cut off from the government-held area by Turkish forces.
Somethings is UP! Putin ultimatum, Netanyahu in Iran FULL HYPE ! Syria unilaterally to be struck….
Tillerson FIRED!
There are heavy stuff happening that is panicking both sides except Putin got his Play Together.
It is going down soon..
Economist 2018
May Allah/Lord God Almighty protect us from the scenarios .
Yes… something definitly is going down but exceedingly dangerous should empire attack Damascus directly.
Haley is no diplomat but an embarrisising village idiot representing who? or what ?
Thankfully we have intelligent people forming and implementing policy in Iran Hezbollah Russia and Syria…. but there may be a tipping point soon.
especially as that elected UK idiot Theresa May shooting her mouth off without any evidence accusing russia.
Empire is dying and clutching at straws …. but this empire and its elected unrepresentive governments are dangerously armed and showing latent desperate behaviour ….. towards the only grouping of sane governments trying to prevent a global catastrophy …. and the end of life thru resorting to nukes …… (excuse spelling,,,,, written in anger)
Closing stage of conflict in Syria is heading towards head on collision with Rotten Empire, once Ghouta, Hama and Idlib are all free from cavemen. After that SAA and allies will focus majority of its forces towards Eastern Syria, as the only part of the country left to be liberated. And that is where the scariest part of Syrian conflict will start.
As for waitress Nikki, she is just a zionists shill, nothing else.
So Sheldon Adelson’s muppet at the UN says the US will strike the SAA if they violate a UN resolution guaranteed to be vetoed by Russia?
I wonder what Adelson paid to put his mouthpiece in a seat at the UN theatre of b.s. Was it a package deal when he bought her the governorship of South Carolina?
It sure ain’t a slow day in Syria, so why lead with the babblings of this twit?
Nimrata “Nikki” Randhawa Haley needs to swallow a big cup of shut the F- up.
What right does America or its allies have to be in Syria in the first place?
The USA sure as hell ain’t “fighting terrorism,” as it has been backing and arming jihadist terrorist groups like Al-Nusra Front and others for years.
The Americans hide behind a mask to disguise and rationalize their covert terror wars and aggressive expansion into other nations.
Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism, Humanitarian Intervention, Democracy and Freedom–all lies that the USA deploys to justify its criminal wars.
America crucially relies upon a subservient corporate “free press” that regurgitates every lie that the USA peddles so as to get away with these crimes against peace.
This is the nature of the American Media “Matrix.”
More on the Whore of Zion, Nimrod Nikki:
https://friendsofsyria.wordpress.com/2017/04/30/zionist-shill-nikki-haley-should-keep-the-sanctified-name-of-hizbullah-out-of-her-vile-mouth/
US Commander: ‘US Troops Prepared to Die for Israel’ in War against Syria, Hezbollah
https://friendsofsyria.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/us-commander-us-troops-prepared-to-die-for-israel-in-war-against-syria-hezbollah/
Describing Haley as a diplomat is incredulous. She has been put there to f–k up any chance of rational and meaningful diplomacy.
US policy on Syria will not change according to the former Syrian diplomat Bassam Barabandi.
He told Sputnik: “We don’t have any more Syria. Syria is ddivided. We have five million refugees,
seven million internally displaced persons, [and] 60% of Syria’s infrasructure destroyed.”
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201803141062504388-usa-syria-tillerson-pompeo-policy/
I cannot find words to express the outrage and disgust I feel at the spewings of this hag Haley and all that she represents. The spectacle of the USA illegally in Syria setting conditioins for what the govt of Syria can do on its territory is so mind-boggling as to suggest megalomania based in madness.
Re the firing of Tillerson, I fear that Paul Craig Roberts is right: the war party now have a death grip on Trump.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48940.htm
But, I still don’t understand why he is caving to them, to Kelly or whatever his name is. Kelly seems to have announced the firing to the world, and then to Trump . . .
Maybe Tillerson can become a reasonable behind-the-scenes back-channel kind of guy.
Clutching at straws, like everyone else . . .
Feels like very bad confrontation in Syria is near.
Katherine
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/with-mike-pompeo-at-the-state-department-are-the-uber-hawks-winning
This is the New Yorker. Now they seem to be scared that the uber-hawk faction is winning. But what has the NY done to prevent this? They and their “liberal” pals have undercut Trump from the get-go and never dreamed of allying with him on a policy-by-policy basis, as advised by AFAIK just one person on the left, Stephen Cohen. These know-it-alls even decried Trump’s “impulsive” agreement to meet with Kim Jong Un (sp?).
Now they are scared that the wrong faction is “winning” with Trump. But they have implicitly supported this faction all along by not supporting any other faction. By dumping on all factions that had any connection to the Trump White House. By working to sideline this president and even get rid of him. So apparently he is now effectively neutered, at least as far as foreign policy goes.
The NY continues to offer a platform for rantings about Russian meddling in US elections (although they do say “by *some* intelligence agencies,” unlike most other ranters) and other issues.
These people all appear to be living in an alternative universe. But htey will succeed in blowing up this one, where the rest of us live.
Katherine
K
“the war party now have a death grip on Trump”
“I still don’t understand why he is caving to them”
“Kelly seems to have announced the firing to the world, and then to Trump”
“They and their “liberal” pals have undercut Trump from the get-go and never dreamed of allying with him on a policy-by-policy basis”
“winning” with Trump”
“working to sideline this president and even get rid of him. So apparently he is now effectively neutered, at least as far as foreign policy goes”
Ah yes, trump the sweet innocent lad beset upon by his cabinet, the “deep state”, the “liberal media”. If only they would stop “tormenting” him, and get behind him, trump would cerate the “paradise” he promised he would to everyone in order to sucker them to vote for him.
Isn’t it time to stop believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy? And isn’t it time to cease playing a role in promoting this extremely duplicious psywar?
For Nikki Haley to make threats in the UN against Damascus raises the question if the UN should exist at all. It was ostensibly created to prevent war, yet how many wars has it prevented ? If the US does attack Damascus, using fake reasons, then we shall have one more example of international gangsterism instigated by Washington. Maybe Haley can explain if Damascus has given Washington permission to station US troops on sovereign Syrian soil.
USA, UK and satellites are not going to stop, and all Russian attempts to make any deal or agreement with them are pointless. Because Empire have their goal to destroy Russia and to make genocide over Russian people. I do not know if Russians are aware of this.
They will keep pushing Russia and sooner or later Russia will have to respond with force. Moscow is buying time but this is going to happen sooner than we all believe.
So, I am not any optimist, we are on the brink of great war. Empire is preparing EU and NATO slaves to start war.
Russia cannot rely on anyone. China is watching and waiting, they are just verbally allies with Russia. Russia will fight great evil and the rest of the world will be watching and waiting for outcome.
SO, God help us all, and we can only pray God for Russia and its great people.
Bosnian Croat
Yes, China is watching. However, the Chinese are not fools. They will not fall for the old divide and conquer tactic, sitting back and waiting for Russia to be attacked, and then waiting for themselves to be attacked.
When militants attacked civilians with WMD in Syria Russia
called for sanity. The US/Israel/Britain/Saudi Arabia promoted
the false flag and called for military attacks upon Assad.
Russia used it’s credibility to stand in the way, thwarting the
false flag.
Now Russia’s credibility with respect to WMD has taken a big hit.
It is blamed for using WMD in Britain. And when Russia tries to
thwart the next false flag in Syria it will have no credibility,
it had just used WMD itself.
The above is why Mossad/MI6/CIA instigated a false flag on British
soil in the attack upon Skripal. Clearly Mossad/MI6/CIA was
actually responsible for the attack.
The clock is ticking on another Sarin (or related substance) false
flag attack in Syria. Our (the US) al Qaeda allies are taking it
on the chin as we speak, they need to call in the calvary — US bombers.
How many hours until the next WMD attack in Syria?
Interesting piece at VT worth reading.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/03/13/unconfirmed-russia-reinforcing-syria-for-trump-netanyuhu-onslaught/
My take on the situation is that all parties are conveying that they’re ready to go kinetic, at any moment. NATO’s strategy is to draw all it’s members in via propaganda. And they’ll have their false flags ready in case their adversaries don’t take the bait. Anyone who’s played poker even once can see NATO’s bluffing. They’re simply trying to create wars that they can profit from. But fought by others – that’s the critical part. If there is war, I hope that the focus is on eliminating the oligarchs behind all this, they’re the high value pieces in the game. Not just the military forces. They’re just the pawns.
The British (and Germans) are issuing threats/ultimatums against Russia over the Sergei Srkipal attack.
The Russian response was classic, citing Newton’s Third Law of Motion: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Russia “Threatens” UK: “One Does Not Give 24Hrs Notice to a Nuclear Power”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-threatens-uk-one-does-not-give-24hrs-notice-to-a-nuclear-power/5632110
Meanwhile, the USA’s UN Viceroy, Nikki Haley, has been running her mouth about Syria and soon might find that those words will be shoved unceremoniously down America’s throat.
Russia Vows Decisive Response to Nikki Haley/White Helmets False Flag
https://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-vows-decisive-response-to-nikki-haleywhite-helmets-false-flag/5632106
The European-American Axis of Evil obviously has a death wish.
So be it.
They will reap what they have sown and deservedly so–with interest.
These Euro-trash and Anglo-Americans should not “play the innocent victim” and demand sympathy from others.
The European Americans are neither innocent nor victims, though they attempt, in Orwellian fashion, to posture as bastions of freedom and democracy who are threatened by Evil-Doers Who Hate Our Freedoms.
That Big Lie is over. Done. Finished.
The Euro-Americans’ Day of Reckoning is coming….
World War 3 Is Approaching
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/03/13/world-war-3-approaching/
Just some speculation:
U.S. and U.K. are dragging Russian Federation’s through an extra layer of mud by accusing it of the use of CHEMICAL weapon’s in killing INDIVIDUAL opponents.
By default, they are preparing the public opinion for the linking of unsubstantiated allegations of the use of chemical weapons in Syria and Russian’s perceived indifference to it.
They want to accuse Russia of not having any scrupulous of using “poison gas” in poisoning “it’s own citizens”, let alone against foreigners. This will prepare the battleground for “kinetic action” against the Syrian government.
One way to counter them is to be proactive and start accusing the PREVIOUS administration of the provision of precursors of chemicals to Al Qaeda by Crooked Hillary and Bombama. Who knows, maybe Trumpet will sing the same tune to discredit the institution of the Big Government and by default Barry Obama and Hillarator Clinton.
https://the-newspapers.com/2018/03/13/in-the-state-duma-proposed-to-impose-syria-no-fly-zone-when-attacking-us
Duma propose to make Syria a no-fly zone for NATZO aggression.
Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad repeatedly accused the US-led coalition, which is fighting in the
country without UN mandate, of supporting terrorism
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201803141062519256-assad-syria-sovereignty-unity-syria/
Trump Humiliated: Russia Threatens to Destroy Any US Equipment or Facility Attacking Syria
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/03/14/trump-humilaited-russia-threatens-to-destroy-any-us-equipment-or-facility-attacking-syria/