Pentagon officials told reporters today that with Russian having withdrawn the bulk of its warplanes from Syria, they are continuing to launch artillery strikes against ISIS targets, particularly around Palmyra and Tadmur, which is the target of a Syrian offensive.
The officials seemed to be trying to present this as undercutting Russia’s pullout, though President Vladimir Putin openly talked yesterday about continuing to support the offensive around Palmyra, and never really ruled out continuing to back Syria in fights against ISIS.
Indeed, that Col. Ryder, the Centcom spokesman, admitted the US hadn’t seen a single Russian airstrike in Syria in the past week actually undercuts Pentagon claims Wednesday that they hadn’t seen any reduction in Russian military assets in Syria.
Russia has kept artillery and attack helicopters in Syria for now, and also left its S-400 air defense system in the country as a hedge against foreign attack. Putin added yesterday they could get their forces back into Syria in a matter of hours if they have to.
in other words “trainers”
If the current political and military classes in Washington had been present during World War2, they would have without doubt claimed that the Soviet Union was attacking that well-known democratic moderate Adolf Hitler. Do they have any self awareness at all.
No they do not. For some of us that lived in communist era, this is an old and well known condition. Our establishment has under the continuous guidance of “neocons” become a replica of an early Soviet revolution under the ideology of Trotsky. Many neocons have ancestors ghat hail from that part of the world and have been part of the Trotskyite movement. And many others have become Trotskyite during his exile in Mexico. He was too radical even for Stalin that pulled back from the internationalization wnd focused on the defense in the face of rising German threat. In fact Trotsky and his followers directed Lenin not the other way around. He famously objected thinking of German threat as he betted on communist revolution in Germany.
Trotdkyites were famous for deception and self-deception in the interest of permanent revolution and chaos. He was the ideological force behind the destruction of Russuan churches and killing of monks, dispossesing aristicracy, and insuring ghat culturally Russia has no way back. They were able to argue any issue with conviction, truth be damned. He and his underlings executed Romanov family. In lookin for a succesor go Lenin Trotsky and his then all powerful establishment believed that a non-Russian, a Georgian party stallwarth would be good for continuing the deconstruction of Russian nationhood. Many So iet republics were crafted induring rhat Russians were minority. In dxile he continued to ridicule Stalin’s obsession with the weakness of Russian defences and the lack of professionslism in Armed forces. He pulled out of forced retirement former Russian tsarist generals and reorganized leadership to remove political Trotskyite appointees. We have some of this happening in US and Europe. Generals like Breedlove are talking politics instead of being apolitical
Military professionals. This is happening all around us. The heads of states in Durope talk like a Trotskyite Politbiro — all in wooden, robotic unison divorced from the reality. The best example is “refugee crisis”. It is well known that Trotdkyite Soros ha funded the campaign for the dxodus of refugees to Europe. His Open Society –meaning society without borders, has printed and distributed millions of leaflets to refugees on how to get to Germany. It must have been total “coincidence” that Angela Merkel opened arms and send the message that Germany is open yo all. It is no coincidence that months before — all known Trotskyite talking heads and politicians were lamenting the demographic crisis in “aging” Europe, especially Germany. It could have been predicted. Faced with a popular revolt against Soviet style EU undemocratic controls of national economies, refugees became just the right medicine. For one, population will be divided into humanitarians and nationalists –with a golden opportunity to paint anti-EU people as right wing. Since extremists indeed captured the headlines — it was perfect tool for frightdning ordinary people — logic is that anti-EU movement may bring to power extremists. Hence, better EU slavery than the leap unto unknown. Added bonus — all the poor Balkan countries from Greece through Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary that have lately shown less enthusiasm for EU crippling “reforms” — are now going to be home to hundreds of thousands as Germany will just return to them anyone it does not need. And it can legally do it. Finally, long term these minorities will cause trauma to more racially homogenous societies, and EU will become their protector. What do you think will happen to the nations that will be divided snd forced yo willingly go into Trotskyite trap? Just like we today do not resist trade agreements — ghat have nothing yo do with trade snd everything with corporate control of our legislature. It wiill prohibit our government to renegotiate Medicare and Medicaid costs with pharma corporations. So why we do it? Black population will vote for the neocon queen Hillary out of conviction that democrats are saving them from racism. Cruz Bible republicans will do it as they are indoctrinated into believing that this is free trade and good for small business. Trillions of dollars of waste in decades of drployment on foreign soil has been touted as being strong -/ while it is a profit for suppliers, and boon to the economies that host thousands of our troups. In the hyphenated America, we are yo vote for what appears to be for our osn good while in process bring divided, marginalized, disenfranchised and in debt. I knew that sooner or later the neo-Trotskyites were going to scare us wigh Russia, as they are itching to revenge their ideological icon.
Racial diversity is neither traumatic nor Trotskyite.
Personally, I sort of thought that Russia would do the same as the US says they are doing. Pulling out but not pulling out. Remember when the US pulled out of Iraq but didn’t?
Right, we just lost a US Marine to an ISIS rocket.
Whose side is the Pentagon on anyway?
Its amazing and a bit sickening to watch how upset the Pentagon gets when someone bombs ISIS.