Russia Attacks Syria, USA Stand Down! Guess What? Russia Bombs Assad Enemies Not ISIS

 

30 Sep 15

 

Strange bedfellows indeed. Putin has bombed the enemies of Assad in Syria and not ISIS. We are NOT playing here. Folks, this is deadly serious, get the lead out & get your spiritual like IN ORDER!

 

Russia launches first airstrikes in Syria

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, warplanes targeted eight ISIS positions, including arms, transportation, communications and control positions.

But U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter countered that claim.

“I want to be careful about confirming information, but it does appear that they (Russian airstrikes) were in areas where there probably were not ISIL forces,” he told reporters. ISIL is an acronym for ISIS.

“The result of this kind of action will inevitably, simply be to inflame the civil war in Syria,” Carter said.

A senior U.S. administration official told CNN’s Elise Labott that a Russian airstrike near the Syrian city of Homs “has no strategic purpose” in terms of combating ISIS, which “shows they are not there to go after ISIL.”

Syrian state-run news agency SANA reported that Russian warplanes had targeted “ISIS dens” in al-Rastan, Talbiseh and Zafaraniya in Homs province; Al-Tilol al-Hmer, in Qunaitra province; Aydoun, a village on the outskirts of the town of Salamiya; Deer Foul, between Hama and Homs; and the outskirts of Salmiya.

The official said the United States had no intention of preventing the strikes, but that Russian planes didn’t seem to be flying in areas where the United States is operating.

“They are not stupid,” the official said. READ MORE

 

Russia Pours Gasoline on Syria War

U.S. fears a clash with Russia over Syria

Putin’s airstrikes set up a new dilemma for Obama — and fuel critics of his foreign policy.

It is Syrian Quagmire 2.0. And in the view of American officials it is anything but an upgrade.

Four years into Syria’s civil war and more than a year into a U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State terrorist group, the U.S. military now faces a new, potentially far more dangerous prospect: backing the opposite side of the Russian Air Force.

Russian airstrikes inside Syria on Wednesday were seen as an effort to prop up the embattled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad — its chief ally in the region — despite recent assurances from President Vladimir Putin that Russia’s military objective would be to also help defeat the Islamic State, also known as ISIL.

And if Moscow deliberately or accidentally kills members of the U.S.-backed New Syrian Force, a group of moderate elements that Washington hopes will ultimately topple Assad while beating back Islamic militants, it would put President Obama and his national security team in a very dicey position.

The Pentagon has said it plans to pause sending fresh units of the New Syrian Force into the country as it reviews potential changes to that program. But at least 70 fighters are still somewhere in Syria. Many other so-called “moderate” Syrian fighters have been trained under a secret program by the CIA, increasing the danger that some U.S.-supported groups might come under Russian attack.

“If his first military campaign, his first military action in Syria is to bomb non-ISIL organizations that are against Assad, that sends a pretty sharp message to us that we don’t have the same objectives in Syria,” Michael McFaul, who stepped down as U.S. ambassador to Russia in 2014, told POLITICO.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter lashed out at Russia on Wednesday for escalating the conflict, saying its actions were equivalent to “pouring gasoline on a fire.” Read More

BREAKING: “Russia Attacks Syria” USA Stand Down!

Russia Bombs Assad Enemies Not ISIS