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Trump's Syria "Withdrawal" Was Textbook US Deception

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April 8, 2018 (Tony Cartalucci – LD) – The US media is now priming the global public for US intervention in Syria following alleged “chemical attacks” carried out in the remaining pocket of US-backed militants in Douma, just northeast of Damascus.

 

 

Image: Trump isn’t going to “withdraw” from Syria when the special interests he represents still fully plan on waging war – proxy or otherwise – on Syria’s ally Iran. The recent appointment of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo to key positions within his administration signal expanded war, not withdrawal.  

This follows comments made by US President Donald Trump just 3 days ago in which he claimed he had instructed the US military to prepare for a withdrawal from Syria.

US forces had illegally invaded and have since occupied Syrian territory for years, with the Washington Post in its April 4, 2018 article titled, “Trump instructs military to begin planning for withdrawal from Syria,” placing the current number of US troops at approximately 2,000.

The Washington Post also claimed that:

President Trump has instructed military leaders to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria as soon as possible and told them he wants Arab allies to take over and pay for stabilizing and reconstructing areas liberated from the Islamic State, according to senior U.S. officials.

However, just days after President Trump expressed a supposed desire to leave Syria, allegations of Syrian government chemical attacks on Douma have provided not only the prefect pretext to delay any withdrawal, but to in fact justify a US-led military intervention directly against the Syrian government.

While some have attempted to portray this as “Trump vs. the Deep State,” it is in fact a textbook example of US deception described in US policy papers – a deception President Trump played a central role in creating.

Feigning Withdrawal Before Greater Conflict is Documented US Policy 

In the 2009 Brookings Institution policy paper titled, “Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran” (PDF), everything from supporting terrorists in a proxy war to staged provocations and full-scale war were planned in excruciating detail.

Included among the US policy think-tank’s schemes was the description of a deception similar to the one now playing out in Syria.

The paper would state (emphasis added):

…any military operation against Iran will likely be very unpopular around the world and require the proper international context—both to ensure the logistical support the operation would require and to minimize the blowback from it. The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb offer—one so good that only a regime determined to acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down. Under those circumstances, the United States (or Israel) could portray its operations as taken in sorrow, not anger, and at least some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians “brought it on themselves” by refusing a very good deal.

For Syria, the “offer” was a US withdrawal and Damascus and its neighbors “given” the responsibility to humanely end the conflict and stabilize the region. The “rejection” inviting the US to intervene is the staged chemical attacks in Douma the US is now citing.

Regarding staged provocations, the Brookings paper mentions them as well, claiming (emphasis added):

...it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be. Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it. (One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression.)

Nothing could be more “outrageous” or “deadly” than using chemical weapons on civilians.

That such allegations of a chemical attack already served as a successful pretext for US military aggression in the form of cruise missile strikes across Syria under President Trump before, is precisely why the Syrian government wouldn’t have carried out such chemical attacks then, and most certainly would not carry them out now – especially if the US was allegedly seeking to exit Syrian territory.

Chemical Weapons Good For Only One Thing: A Pretext for US Aggression 

The Syrian military with the support of Russia and Iran, have soundly defeated US-backed militants across Syria with conventional weapons. The only significant territory Syria has yet to retake is that being occupied by the US and NATO-member Turkey. 

As it has been mentioned before, the extensive use of chemical weapons during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War – by the US military’s own assessment – proved such weapons to be highly ineffective and inferior to conventional weapons.
 

Added to the fact that the US has sought to use the deployment of chemical weapons as a pretext for direct military intervention in Syria toward long-sought after regime change in Damascus makes the likelihood that Damascus is using chemical weapons all the more impossible.

There is also the fact that Syria has already turned its chemical weapon stockpiles over under a Russian-brokered deal which was overseen by the United Nations itself. 

Reading through the 2009 Brookings document, the US has gone through all possible options prepared for Iran – but against Syria – several times over, but to no avail. Even the prospect of Balkanizing Syria appears tenuous. An attempt to revisit accusations of “WMDs” yet again, signals desperation across Western policy circles.

For those who have invested hope into President Trump – his role in a documented scheme to deceive the global public and make US military aggression appear as a last resort after apparently withdrawing from confrontation – is sufficient evidence that it is not “Trump vs. the Deep State,” but that “Trump is the Deep State.”

It should be remembered that recent appointments to President Trump’s administration included prominent pro-war advocates including John Bolton and Mike Pompeo – both eager for a US-led military intervention in Iran which makes President Trump’s recent calls for a withdrawal from Syria all the more questionable. 

Terrorists are Gassing People to Advance Washington’s Agenda 

It is also worth noting that US-backed militants in Douma are essentially gassing people to advance the West’s political agenda. This comes as the UK’s case against Russia regarding the alleged assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter unravels.

Considering Washington and London’s history regarding false accusations surrounding chemical weapons – as well as policy papers plotting to stage provocations, the US and UK emerge as the prime suspects in serial crimes against humanity involving so-called “weapons of mass destruction.”

It is becoming abundantly clear that in addition to the West fueling the very terrorism it claims to be fighting globally, it is also the West that poses the primary threat to the globe regarding the use of chemical weapons. 

 

 


Source: http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2018/04/trumps-syria-withdrawal-was-textbook-us.html


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    • The Real Deal

      Of course it was. It’s all by design.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAjo9VXKZU

      • Anonymous

        Cartalucci is another waste of time. Covering for the zionists, like Alex Jones. CartaClown even claimed “Israel is unfairly blamed for M.E. problems”.
        Not kidding.
        That is why this one-trick pony pretends that the REGIME CHANGE campaign against Israel’s top rivals like Syria and Iran, in the region began in 2007. Which allows CartaCunt to Conveniently ignore ZIONIST’s 2006 war on Lebanon and zionists’ PRIME monopoly of PNAC, AIPAC, JINSA etc to incite war on Iraq in 2003. CartaCnt pretends that the jewish-run Rand isnt JEWISH-dominated and its docs are based on ZIONIST NEOCON think tank policies going back DECADES. Tactics used by the MSM. For some REAL truth on why 911 was staged and all the M.E. wars since…
        ODED YINON http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0005345.html

    • Just Dandy

      Hey DOPEY TRUMP, get your shit together and reign in your retards at the Pentagon and DOJ, free TIP, you are starting to look like OBAMA. Trump is a complete D’k head if he and the two muppets from the UK think these kind of tyrannical tactics can be used today after their moronic buffoonery in the Skripal debacle. They have just ORCHESTRATED ANOTHER FALSE FLAG ON INNOCENT CIVILIANS and want to blame it on Assad – UK and Pentagon (Proxy thug Mossad). America and United Kingdom have demonstrated OVER and OVER these pathetic and lame psychopathic, satanic, and BULLY threats. Is it any wonder that North Korea, Iran, and Russia are having to arm themselves to the teeth, really is it any surprise. The end goal of the cabal and deep state of which TRUMP IS CLEARLY A NEW MEMBER is to have all western nations NUKED to ashes and glass. These pathetic ploys, TIRED SCRIPT, and crimes against humanity are beyond RETARDED!! They are TRANSPARENT. Kick Sessions OUT and send the MARINES INTO THE PENTAGON, you have a ROGUE STATE and everyone knows it!!! For those who forgot what the end game to control Syria is about, it is for a natural gas pipeline through the country to supply Europe.

    • beLIEve

      The Lightbringers The Emissaries of Jahbulon

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjL9JGc1X7k

      *

      QUOTING from the video above…….@ 35:50

      The Freema$ons CONTROL….CULTURAL life, SCIENCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, and POLITIC$.

      A…LARGE GROUP of INTERNATIONAL BANKER$ and INDU$TRIALI$T$

      …….supported the….BOL$HEVIK…..assumption of power in RUSSIA.
      In his book ‘WALL STREET and the BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION’ Anthony Sutton refers to some VERY INTERESTING DOCUMENTS from VARIOUS ARCHIVES of the AMERICAN government. According to these DOCUMENTS the…SAME FINANCIAL “elite”…armed….Adolf HITLER…and….
      ! ! BOTH SIDES….in the…KOREAN & VIETNAM WAR$ ! ! !

      @ 37:39 Harry S TRUEman !……High ranking Freema$on and $enator..
      after HITLER’$ attack on the Soviet Union; 24th June 1941
      …SAID in The New York Times……..

      IF we see that GERMANY is WINNING…WE OUGHT to HELP RUSSIA….
      and IF Russia is winning WE ought to HELP Germany…..and……
      THAT WAY…LET THEM KILL A$ MANY A$ PO$$IBLE….although, I DON’T WANT to SEE….HITLER……VICTORIOU$……under any circumstances.

      TRUEman….was at the time of the QUOTE a Freema$on of the 32nd degree
      and was a Grand Ma$ter of the Grand lodge of Missouri 1940 -41
      * * *

      As a matter of interest….to some…..

      :lol: :mad: @ 33:04…..The Freema$on “deity”……$PIDER man/cat/toad ! :idea: :mad: :lol:

      * *

      WE ARE ALL BEING…P L A Y E D. :idea:

      * * *

      ORIGINAL ARTICLE is on the Veterans Today site, which I was unable to access.
      I would suggest those who are interested SHOULD READ the ORIGINAL ARTICLE as IT CARRIES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

      * *
      Proof: Intel Drop, Trump, Bolton behind Syria chemical attacks, confirmed – VT

      https://madhousenews.com/2018/04/proof-intel-drop-trump-bolton-behind-syria-chemical-attacks-confirmed-vt/
      * * *

      ! ! CHLORINE GAS FILLED SHELL FROM PORTON DOWN, SALISBURY, FOUND IN EAST GHOUTA….WITH AL QAEDA. ! !

      LAST WEEK, Russia and Syria ANNOUNCED THE CAPTURE OF BRITISH CHEMICAL WEAPON STOCKPILES IN EAST GHOUTA ALONG WITH THE CAPTURE OF A “COALITION” COMMAND and CHEMICAL WEAPONS FACILITY…WITH ALL PERSONNEL.

      Taken from the combined STATEMENT CENSORED FROM the WESTERN PRESS, from March 25, 2018

      “The SYRIAN ARAB ARMY WITH THE HELP of RUSSIA CAPTURED A SHIPMENT OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS DESTINED FOR the EASTERN GHOUTA.

      These were BRITISH WEAPONS PRODUCED AT PORTON DOWN in SALISBURY.

      RUSSIA SUSPECTS that THE SKIRPAL INCIDENT IS RELATED as BY THEIR RECORDS, SKIRPAL WAS WORKING at PORTON DOWN AS A ……CHEMICAL WEAPONS TRAFFICKER… in partnership with a Ukrainian firm.

      Russia denies attacking Skripal but admits he was under surveillance for
      his activities involving support of terrorism in Syria and arms trafficking.

      RUSSIA ALSO CONFIRMS that THERE ARE BRITI$H, AMERICAN. I$RAELI and $AUDI INTELLIGENCE OFFICER$ WHO WERE CAUGHT BY THE SYRIAN ARMY IN ONE OF THE…HEAVILY FORTIFIED OPERATIONS ROOMS…DURING THE INVASION of the SYRIAN ARMY AND its ALLIES of the EAST GHOUTA.”

      VETERANS TODAY asked the SYRIAN GOVERNMENT FOR SERIAL NUMBERS AND CLOSE UP PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS USED.

      SYRIA SENT THEM TO US TODAY.

      TODAY, the SYRIAN ARMY CAPTURED the following GERMAN MADE POISON gas sells,
      shipped into Syria though Ukraine and Turkey and DELIVERED TO JEISH al ISLAM by A U$ …CH53 HELICOPTER…according to statements “allegedly”….gotten from POW interrogations.

      !!! AMERICAN, BRITISH and I$RAELI MILITARY PERSONNEL …CAPTURED in SYRIA…HAVE CONFIRMED…THEY WERE ORDERED TO STAGE CHEMICAL ATTACKS…in EAST GHOUTA…..BY….THEIR….GOVERNMENTS ! ! !

      The AMERICANS ARE STILL BEING HELD along with Israeli’s while ! ! BRITISH PRISONERS ARE BEING NEGOTIATED FOR ! ! !
      SOURCES in DAMASCUS TOLD US THAT REPRESENTATIVES of OMAN in Damascus APPROACHED the RUSSIAN OFFICE of RECONCILLIATION …ON BEHALF of BRITAIN…..FOR THE RETURN OF BRITISH CHEMICAL WARFARE PERSONNEL.

      The SHELLS IN THE ABOVE VIDEO (see ORIGINAL Veterans Today article) ARE IDENTIFIED as VX GAS FROM BRITISH STOCKPILES.
      RUSSIAN OFFICIALS in SYRIA INFORMED BRITAIN through Oman that THEY WOULD HAVE TO DEAL DIRECTLY WITH SYRIA FOR THE RETURN OF THEIR PERSONNEL.

      We have received no further information since, Damascus has remained silent on
      how or if negotiations were proceeding.

      We do know that US REPRESENTATIVE Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a US Army combat veteran
      of Iraq, MET WITH both President ASSAD AND DONALD TRUMP, in order TO ARRANGE
      FOR COVERT EXCHANGE, FOR…..SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL CONSIDERATION….
      OF CAPTURED AMERICANS. ! !

      Initial introductions for this meeting were done by VT.

      Israel bought back a Brigadier General (they claimed he was a colonel) in 2015 that we know about.

      The RECENT GAS ATTACK IN SYRIA, timed as the last terrorists we re
      surrendering for relocation inside the Douma region of the Ghouta
      pocket, WAS PLANNED PERSONALLY BY NOMINATED PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR…JOHN BOLTON…AND….PRESIDENT TRUMP PERSONALLY……ACCORDING TO HIGHLY PLACED SOURCES. ! ! !

      Our SOURCES in RUSSIA, at the highest level, TOLD US THE ATTACK WAS COMING BASED ON…… INFORMATION they RECEIVED FROM US and ISRAELI PRISONERS….TAKEN IN EAST GHOUTA….AFTER an EVACUATION ATTEMPT FAILED.

      US CASUALTY ANNOUNCEMENTS IN THIS EFFORT………
      HAVE BEEN RELEASED OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS AS HAPPENING IN OTHER AREAS…..TO COVER US COMPLICITY IN TERRORISM….

      THIS DISHONOURS FAMILIES OF THE DEAD…..NOT JUST IN THE MISUSE OF SERVICE MEMBERS TO SUPPORT TERRORISM….BUT IN LYING TO FAMILY ABOUT COMBAT DEATHS.

      ! ! ! THIS…..$HAME GOES DIRECTLY to COWARD …TRUMP ! ! !

      “The Marine Corps identified FOUR MARINES KILLED ON TUESDAY in a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crash near El Centro, Calif.
      The Marines were assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron
      (HMH) 465, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine
      Corps Air Station Miramar.

      “The loss of our Marines weighs heavy on our hearts,” Maj. Gen. Mark Wise, commanding general of 3rd MAW, said in a statement.
      “Our priority is to provide support for our families and HMH-465 during this critical time.”

      The four Marines killed in the crash were Capt. Samuel A. Schultz, First
      Lt. Samuel D. Phillips, Gunnery Sgt. Derik R. Holley and Lance
      Cpl. Taylor J. Conrad.”

      OTHER US CASUALTIES WERE LISTED AS a US Air Force F16 that ALLEGEDLY CRASHED
      at NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE in NEVADA…AND……UP TO 6 AMERICANS who US CLAIMS WERE KILLED by “Kurdish Forces” in the north of Syria.

      ALL DIED IN…..A FAILED….COMBINED US/Israel RESCUE OPERATION….TO REMOVE
      NOT ONLY…COMMUNICATIONS and COMMAND PERSONNEL…BUT ALSO…CHEMICAL WEAPONS OPERATIONS TEAMS as well.

      Last week, VT DAMASCUS RECEIVED EVIDENCE THAT Americans, US Army Special
      Forces along with ISRAELI CHEMICAL WEAPONS OFFICERS had BEEN CAPTURED IN EAST GHOUTA.We were told that not only was A COMMAND FACILITY CAPTURED
      WITH modern weapons but A STOCKPILE OF BRITISH MADE 81mm POISON GAS MORTAR SHELLS, numbering in the hundreds, was seized as well.

      VIDEO’S were viewed by former MOD weapons specialists who identified the green
      stripe on the shells seized in East Ghouta as VX gas from British
      stockpiles.

      The Obama administration investigated alleged chemical
      attacks in 2012 and 2013 and advised Syria to turn over chemical
      stockpiles as a way of discouraging TERRORISTS from CONTINUING TO STAGE CHEMICAL ATTACKS …TO BLAME ON DAMASCUS.

      MOST efforts had their roots in BRITAIN’$ MI6 AND its AFFILIATE, the Syrian
      Observatory for Human Rights AND the WHITE HELMET$.

      The US…..IS CURRENTLY FACING MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST ITS OCCUPIED ZONE in SYRIA…by IRAQI, SYRIAN and RUSSIAN FORCES.

      ! ! The US…..HA$ BEEN TOLD TO REMOVE FORCES…OR…FACE A WIDER CONFLICT. !

      The US AND…RUSSIA….HAVE BEEN AT WAR…..AGAINST ONE ANOTHER INSIDE SYRIA FOR ABOUT A MONTH NOW. ! ! !

      Veterans Today says….More coming…..reference information.

      https://madhousenews.com/2018/04/proof-intel-drop-trump-bolton-behind-syria-chemical-attacks-confirmed-vt/

      • beLIEve

        Israel Launched Deadly Airstrike Against Syrian Airbase: Russia

        by Tyler Durden…Mon, 04/09/2018 – 07:25

        Despite President Trump adopting his harshest rhetoric yet to condemn Russia and the government of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for an alleged chemical attack in rebel-held eastern Ghouta, a missile strike carried out overnight on a Syrian airfield was not the US’s doing.

        Instead, RUSSIA and SYRIA…HAVE ACCUSED I$RAEL of CARRYING OUT THE $TRIKE on Syria’s T-4 AIRFIELD… situated about halfway between Homs (Syria’s third-largest city) and Palmyra (famously the site of ancient ruins).
        RT REPORTS that TWO ISRAELI F-15 JETS FIRED EIGHT GUIDED MISSILES AT THE AIRFIELD FROM LEBANESE AIRSPACE.
        The JETS NEVER ENTERED SYRIA.

        https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-09/israel-accused-launching-deadly-airstrike-against-syrian-airbase

    • OBSERVER

      It was not deception, everyone knows anything they say is a calculated lie nowadays. If they say anything it is nearly the exact opposite thing that will happen. Only the dum dums get fooled.

    • Takealook

      To think that Trump who pimped his daughter to an Israeli punk is
      not owned by Israel and a slave to the racist state is pretty naive.
      Just like the gay black racist Obama Trump is their Goy…

    • FC

      I agree with this assessment . . . .

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