In a new tweet on Monday, President Trump warned Syria against attacking the rebels in Idlib Province. He also warned Iran and Russia against participating in any such attack if it happens.
“The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy,” Trump insisted, saying that “hundreds of thousands of people could be killed.”
Though Syria hasn’t confirmed any specifics, it is believed they are preparing to attempt to expel the rebels from Idlib, including the al-Qaeda dominated faction which UN officials say has 10,000 designed terrorist fighters within.
Others estimate that overall, some 70,000 fighters are within, and the densely populated area could indeed lead to large civilian death tolls in the fighting. The US opposition is particularly noteworthy, however, because recent offensives against other densely populated cities and provinces, like Deir Ezzor and Mosul, saw not only US endorsements but direct US participation.
Attack and destroy Raqqa, good. Attack and destroy Idlib, very bad.
Syria and allies won’t “recklessly attack” Idlib as the US would do, reducing the place (and people) to rubble. Russia, Turkey and Iran (not including the US) will have a conference in Tehran on Friday to agree on the final “responsibly attack” plan. I imagine that Putin said: Where can we have this meeting (their third) which would really stick to to Washington…..Tehran!
I know it won’t happen, but I wish Turkey would just roll its huge army across the border, right next to Idlib, and attack the “rebels”.
But a lot of these will be Turkmen, right? It’s in the north-west after all. Then I wish Turkey would tell them that they’ll get no more help, and that they must leave Idlib. That they’ll get money from Turkey after that but no more weapons.
Turks see they can’t have their dream of controlling northern Syria now. Next best thing is to let it all return to Damascus and help hold back the Pentagon side. Especially with the economic war against Turkey going on. Syria is on Iran’s side, and it’s obvious to the whole world that this is the stand that must be taken against the neocons.
Ah, I may get my wish. From NYT’s scare piece about “humanitarian crisis” just like they wrote about Aleppo’s liberation:
“On a recent visit to Moscow, the country’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, called for more time for a Turkish plan to negotiate with the rebels in Idlib, including radical Islamist groups”.
If Turkey can convince the Turkmen to lay down their arms in exchange for amnesty….
The National Front for Liberation is a Syrian rebel coalition identifying as part of the Free Syrian Army fighting in the Syrian Civil War. The group was formed by 11 rebel factions in northwestern Syria in May 2018, and was officially announced on 28 May 2018. The formation receives major support from Turkey.– wiki
have you seen any maps https://syria.liveuamap.com/
turkish military is all along the border of idleb within syria. they have enough military hardware in idleb to take out the terrorist but they are only there to protect them.
So now the USA is defending al Qaeda? With the anniversary of 9/11 coming up have we forgotten what those guys did to us? Osama would be laughing his ass off
It’s something we could never have imagined. But no, Osama bin Laden is not laughing. This “al-Qaeda” is simply Sunni Iraqis bitter that they lost the elections and power to the Shia in Iraq, so they went across the border to kill Christians and Alawites in Syria. They do exactly what Israel wants, since Israel wants Syria and Iran destroyed for being pro-Palestinian. There are also Shaz members of the Israeli government who dream of expanding into southern Syria, and they must get a bone for their voters. And in Syria, or is it Lebanon, or both, there is fresh water in the south, which Israel wants.
Osama bin Laden never wanted this Sunni-Shia war, he fought only because the U.S. starvation sanctions had killed half a million Iraqi children, and more Iraqis, as confirmed by the American UN ambassador and by Madeleine Albright. Osama bin Laden also knew that al-Qaeda couldn’t hold territory, and that it shouldn’t be their strategy. This “al-Qaeda” in Syria was doomed from the start, as was ISIS, exactly as Osama bin Laden could have told them.
I’m deeply moved by Trump’s humanitarian concerns.
It’s a joke… Right… Or some twisted fun house reflection of the Yemen horror…??? Seem’s if anybody owns Trump, it’s not Putin but its Netanyahu.
I mean that Trump’s statement is entirely disingenuous and it fits in a strategy to just sabotage things in general(for lack of any more concrete goals). The battle for Idlib is going to be messy, let’s try to exploit that to hurt Syria. Not because there is any concern for the people down there. There will be a lot of very vocal outrage everywhere about Idlib in the near future.
Me too, then I have to wipe…
New York Times – only in paragraph 9 does it mention that the “rebels” are actually al-Qaeda. (Which was started by Iraqi Sunnis moving across the border.)
“Syria’s strongest rebel faction, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or H.T.S., which is affiliated with Al Qaeda.”
And they “facilitate trade” and “organize aid deliveries”.
In Vice News, two sons of HTS “rebel” fighters in Idlib interviewed:
What do you want to be when you grow up?
-Osama bin Laden’s son.
-A suicide bomber.
If the big media would show this, would it affect what people think about liberating Idlib?
This is not bad news yet. He doesn’t sound committed to a military response by the U.S.
Trump could much easier stop the killing in Afghanistan and Yemen. I don’t think it is the killing of terrorists and there families as much as Russia and Iran defeating U.S. proxies in Syria .
Hope Ivanka doesn’t cry. Thousands could die as a result.
Trump doesn’t seem concerned about the “grave humanitarian mistake” that is happening in Yemen. And aren’t we now required to bomb the s**t out ourselves for supporting terrorists?
We will be doing just that bombing ourselves because we Support Islamic extremists and take Muslims into our country .
We shouldn’t take Muslims into our country?
The judges say we can not stop Muslims it would be unconsitutional
Why should we stop them based on what their religious beliefs are?
Please excuse my French: Fuck Trump…
And Dems and the deep state and the establishment and the sheeple…. (I used to be a Dem supporter; that was a long time ago)
Sounds like you’ve got a lot of f**king to do. Stay hydrated.
Yeah…indeed it is a long list.
Trump wanted out of Syria, out of Iraq. He wanted to end the mass killings committed by Bush, Obama and Hillary. He has built Trump Towers in Turkey and Dubai, he wants a world where you do business with each other and that’s it. (And the seven towers of Trump World in Seoul. So it was obvious he’d never start a war against North Korea since those towers would be the first to be destroyed. The media could easily have mentioned that but wouldn’t.)
But Trump has now allowed the neocons to get everything they want, because he needs allies in the party. Benjamin Netanyahu tells AIPAC and the rest of the Lobby to tell GOP congressmen not to revolt against “racist” Trump. But only if the neocons/Netanyahu get their attack on Iran and its allies. Iran, Syria and Lebanon being the last M.E. governments to support the Palestinians.
Right, he also wanted to carpet bomb cities occupied by ISIS, wanted to kill terrorist families, bring back waterboarding and worse, wanted to not pay contractors at those towers, and stiffed investors. He escalated war in all theaters (Syria too). I will give him a chance tho, he promised the “best healthcare plan, at half the cost”….waiting
Trump’s gonna hook us up with his dealer from the Eighties. We’ll be drowning in Quaaludes in no time.
there is no 3 dimensional chess going on, an ignoramus being taken for a ride.
Not even a game of tic tac tow.
C’mon Carp, you and I both know that Trump has been Bibi’s bottom b*tch since Sheldon Addleson bankrolled his campaign. You think he wasn’t gonna repay that debt with blood. That’s how America does business. Trump is no exception to the rule.
He is an idiot full of sound and fury, and signifies nothing good.
God I love French, Beautiful f**king language.
With that being said, I can think of 79 things I’d like do to Trump and f**king him isn’t one of them.
I assume that you don’t understand English too well…
I was joking.
But no, I am, how you say? Russian troll. I no speak English so good. 😉
…Trump…aiding / abetting The Deep State and The New World Order. He’s going to get The US into WW III and get a few of our carriers sunk in the Gulf. If he turns out to be a traitor to America as well…I hope they all legally hang from a rope.
RJ O’Guillory
Trump won’t do anything to stop this attack. If there is a White Helmets false flag “chemical attack”, all Trump will do is another “firecracker” display which does no real damage like the last two. Trump won’t cross Russia which is prepared to retaliate seriously if he does. All he can do is bluster like he usually does.
Anti War and Jason Ditz in his articles, keeps calling the terrorists ( HTS and all al- Nusra affiliates) as Rebels.
There are at least 10k foreign terrorists in Idlib……and those will be eliminated….ore do you want them to came back to their countries….mostly western.
“Rebels” is a more neutral word than “terrorists,” and I commend Jason’s journalistic judgement in selecting that word. A “terrorist” is a rebel guerilla you oppose; a “freedom fighter” is a rebel guerilla you support. No intelligent journalist has any business using either phrase. Leave that to the opinion writers and pundits.
What a piece of crap. “Rebels” is a more neutral word than “terrorists,” Are you insane, stupid, ignorant, or all 3 together.
It is especially US MSM, US and Western politicians who funded, supplied and trained al these Takfiri, Jihadist, Islamic extremes and Mercenaries….. who are being called opposition, moderates, freedom fighters and rebels, to confuse the public and make it impossible for ordinary people to get to the button of this…. on top of that, those groups are constantly changing their names to hide their true face, so to confuse and keep the supply and funding floating.
No, I am logical; apparently more so than you, who is triggered by an obviously mild statement regarding the use of words. “rebels” simply means “people who are in rebellion,” and nothing more. It says nothing about one’s view of said “rebels,” only that they are in revolt. You rather idiotically seem to think that Jason is favoring them by calling them “rebels.” Or are you one of those fools who thinks the rest of the world thinks as rigidly and stupidly as he does?
No, i just see that you are making a complete ass off yourself, only morons would display their stupidity in public…and keep defending it. You americans, if it is the Times, the Post, MSM, politicians on both sides and morons like you keep labeling the Takfiri, ISIS, HTS, Jihadist groups, Islamic extremes and Mercenaries, your country funded and trained, as Rebels. Before that, your country relentless called them moderates…..makes the confusion and funding easier. Those creeps are not in revolt or in rebelion, but creating havoc in the middle east on the order of your country. Do you also call the Taliban for rebels, you have been at war with for 17 years in Afghanistan. The US used to call them freedom fighters when they where at war with Russia in the late eighties, back then they where Mujahedins funded by the US and labeled as freedom fighters, after the war they became the Taliban and al Qaeda, the CIA funded.
When it suits the US interest and geo policy, they are called freedom fighters, moderates, rebels, opposition…..if it does not suit US policy, they are called terrorists. By jumping on that wagon, you and many journalists from MSM and elsewhere are just contributing to the confusion, crisis and suffering.
This article describes exactly the point.http://theduran.com/new-york-times-gushes-with-admiration-over-kindness-of-isis-al-qaeda-towards-people-of-idlib/
And what are you going to do about it if they do?
Let’s not forget the human tragedy caused by the US in Mosul and Raqqa.
–news quotes:
>You remember. It was supposed to be 21st-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a carefully identified and tracked human being just about anywhere on Earth; special-operations raids so pinpoint-accurate that they would represent a triumph of modern military science. Everything “networked.” It was to be a glorious dream of limited destruction combined with unlimited power and success. In reality, it would prove to be a nightmare of the first order. If you want a single word to summarize American war-making in this last decade and a half, I would suggest rubble.
>’More artillery shells were launched into Raqqa than anywhere since the end of the Vietnam war’ l. … Air and artillery strikes by the US and its allies inflicted devastating loss of life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa.
LOL! Like Dotard would ever do anything against Putin.
If Vlad wants Idlib for Assad, Idlib he will have.
Two scoops will tweet some BS and do nothing.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cd7e682538a3637aa4807397b510ae0a1820b16066fff3c4c46d985f3fd465da.jpg
Hah, two scoops, good one. Still like spanky tho.
Of course, the USA has a right to tell anyone, anywhere, what to do-it is called freedom and democracy, American-style.
“hundreds of thousands of people could be killed.” Really? Lots of crocodile tears being shed. Were was all that compassion when hundreds of thousands of Syrians, Iraqis, Yemanese, Libyan ….. at the behest of the same creatures who now pretend to care about human life.
true bizzaro world.
the united states may just start a war to defend al qaeda literally on 9-11