Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today revealed that discussions with Russia are likely during the G20 summit, with a focus on issues related to the Syrian War, including humanitarian aid and the possibility of mutually imposing a no-fly zone in parts of the country.
Tillerson suggested that such a deal could greatly improve military-to-military communications between the US and Russia, which have been strained during the war as the two sides often find themselves with conflicting goals.
Tillerson’s comments on “enforcing” no-fly zones may suggest that there is no expectation that US and Russian planes would actually abide by the no-fly zones imposed, but that this would rather be limitations imposed on other nations involved in the fighting.
This is a potential complication for such a deal either way, as the US would doubtless expect a no-fly zone to primarily limit the Syrian government’s strikes against rebel forces, while Russia would likely not want to limit their allies so much as limit the chances of the US-coalition getting into air battles with the government’s air force.
Since US’s cutthroat mercenaries on the ground has no air force (except US itself of course) Since Syria is winning on all fronts, this is all about grounding SAAF, AND more importantly, the de facto NFZ Russia has imposed on the US fascist regime (Pentagram & CIA) and it’s vassals.
The rules imposed by Russia is that US can’t fly west of the Euphrates, or it will be painted, targeted and eventually shot down. US has been severely crippled by this and Syria has hence started to build and repair the important civilian infrastructure that US bombed on a regular basis, such as water treatment plants, dams, electricity and so on.
If Russia lift this NFZ, US will sure as h*ll start acting ISIS-air force again so don’t expect that to happen. It would more likely, according to the SAA’s advances, be expanded.
You are so close to what I think Keith . United States bombed for AlQaeda in Yugoslavia , Than again for AlNusra , AlQaeda and ISIS to destroy Libya , Now United States says they are fighting ISIS but not Al Qaida and Al Nusra in Syria . The U.S. deep state tries to separate our moderate rebels from ISIS while they fight from side to side and we pretend the terrorists are our moderate freedom fighters . As I have previously said with fake news and fake intelligence the deep state can fight anyone they want too . We best come home and stop fighting and immigrating people until the US can figure out what’s going on .
The US is just desperate to re-assert themselves in Syria.
After the GCC began eating its own tail, the whole thing came off the rails.
In the Syrian boxing match between Trump and Putin the Russian president has already won rounds 1 and 2. After Trump bombed Syrian troops Putin threatened to shoot down US planes. No bombing of Syrian troops has happened again. When Trump threatened retaliation for another gas attack Putin warned of serious consequences and gave Trump a way out: the Syrians have called their gas attack off.
No fly zones are non-starters with Putin. Putin will win this round too. But Obama was a weak president. Right?
How do you call that a win? Turkey a NATO ally blew a Russian jet out of the sky,U.S.jet shot down a Syrian jet no response,U.S.took out 20%of Syria’s air force with it’s tomahawk missiles and don’t forget they bombed Assad’s army 4 months ago killing those Russian puppets but,hey in your mind they’re winning.In the meantime we’re busy liberating Raqqa from ISIS and are building a base inside Syria equipped with surface to air missile launchers but,hey y’all are winning keep telling yourself that…USA
This will go exactly no where based on the fact that they only three air forces of significance are the US (and its allie), Russia, and Syria. And Russia will not allow Syria’s air force to be grounded, nor its own.
So the only purpose is to carve out areas where the three could fly without encountering the others. This is potentially possible given that some areas of Syria are more or less “pacified” now. But since those areas are no longer a threat, what would be the purpose since fewer air strikes would be happening there anyway.
This is just Tillerson desperately trying to get some traction with Russia over the objections of the CIA and Pentagon, to avoid WWIII. Russia will probably go along to a certain degree because they want to lessen tensions. But since the rest of the US government doesn’t, it won’t make any difference in the long run.
Tillerson is clearly being marginalized in the Trump Administration and has become mostly useless except as someone who can issue mollifying statements to Russia on occasion.