Greek officials are confirming today that they have received requests from the US government asking them to block Russian aid flights into Syria from using their airspace. The Greek government has not yet responded but says they are “considering” the matter.
US officials are said to be mad about recent Russian shipments of military aid to Syria, and believe that the move risks making the situation in the country even worse, though they also say Russia’s aid is entirely centered on helping Syria’s government fight against ISIS, who the US is also fighting.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry appeared perplexed about the sudden US anger at the shipments, noting that they have been sending similar shipments to Syria throughout the civil war, adding “we are supporting them, we were supporting them, and we will be supporting them” against ISIS.
The US has struggled to keep its message consistent on the Syria war, insisting they simultaneously want to destroy ISIS and al-Qaeda, and oust the Syrian government. All that leaves is some very small pro-US factions, who show no signs of being able to take over any real territory. Earlier in the war, US officials were more direct about wanting to maintain a stalemate in the war, and this seems to be continuing, even with direct US military involvement.
The constants are that our government lies to us about what it does and why, and our press is largely going along with that even when it is transparent. It reeks of the same things done to Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War, when we claimed not to be there while destroying those countries.
The US are arming terrorist groups in Syria, the Russians are arming
a legitimate government of Assad.
Who is the bad guy here?
Obama!
Obama? So you're saying, replace Obama with someone else and everything's going to be just ducky? C'mon.
We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false CIA Director William Casey
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Greece should shoot down US flight to Iraq, Syria, and every country in the region. F*ck off from the region. You are hated.
Russia's problem in Syria is its naval base. It's militarily useless but is a prestige object in Putin's dreams of imperial grandeur. The problem is that it has no air cover and no significant guard force other than the sailors themselves and would therefore be a sitting duck if Putin got into a war with NATO, a war which he seems to regard as inevitable. Putin probably beleives that any government without Assad would kick him out of the base, so he wants to reinforce the base by pretending to fight ISIS. After so many lies, nobody now beleives a word Putin says. The only route for aircraft to reach Syria from Russia is over Bulgaria and Greece or over Turkey (the most direct route). Bulgaria has already said no (BBC) but that in turn suggests that Turkey has also said no. So Putin is going to have to send his cargos by sea, which the Montreux Convention allows him to do no matter what their content.
Let's see Uncle Sam is fighting ISIS and so is the Assad Gov't. But Assad and Hizbollah are anti israel so the anti terrorist gov't needs to go. For Uncle Sam the welfare of israel trumps all.
We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false CIA Director William Casey
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USA has created and trained ISIS but has lost control of it. ISIS is used against Assad. The problem for USA is that Russia could fight ISIS and Assad could remain. USA do not care about refugees (that it created). The only aim is to fight Assad at any cost.