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Indeed, this slipped into another article announcing a new supposedly harder response to the current Assad-Putin massacre going on in Idlib: "Asked whether the United States would consider its own airstrikes against terrorist forces who are interspersed with Syrian rebel fighters in Idlib, Jeffrey said, “We have asked repeatedly for permission to operate” there, and “that would be one way” to respond." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-a-shift-trump-approves-an-indefinite-military-and-diplomatic-effort-in-syria-us-officials-say/2018/09/06/0351ab54-b20f-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html?utm_term=.689651109268) So US sour grapes about not being allowed to continue its own bombing of rebels in Idlib alongside Assad and Putin, as it was doing till the end of the first quarter of 2017, seems to be a factor in this "new" rhetorical approach. This produced events such as the US bombing of a mosque in western Aleppo province (ie, part of 'Greater Idlib') in March 2017 that killed 57 worshippers (https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/03/16/us-missile-remains-reportedly-recovered-from-site-of-aleppo-mosque-bombing/). Supposedly the US was targeting "terrorists" (ie, HTS) who it claimed used that mosque,sometimes. Of course, neither Russia nor Assad had any objection to the US bombing Idlib alongside them. The problem is that a couple of weeks later, after Assad, encouraged by this Trump policy, bombed another Idlib town with chemical weapons, the US launched a credibility strike against an emptied Assad airbase in nearby Homs, from where the chemical attack had been launched. Of course, as Trump had tipped off Putin who had tipped off Assad, there wasn't much of value hit, and thankfully no-one was killed (unlike with the US bombing of rebels and "terrorists"), but for this affront, Russia effectively banned US air operations in the northwest corner of Syria (the Russian area of operation) after that. That's why the US now has to ask permission "repeatedly" to rejoin the Assad-Putin bombing of "terrorists" in Greater Idlib that Obama and Trump had both excelled in. On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 7:48 PM RKOB via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > A bourgeois propaganda article reflecting the general agreement of US > and Russian imperialism to fight "terrorism" in Idlib. > > https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/09/turkey-syria-hts-alqaeda-idlib-erdogan-ceasefire.html > > -- > Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG > (Österreichische Sektion der RCIT, www.thecommunists.net) > www.rkob.net > ak...@rkob.net > Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 > > > > --- > Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mkaradjis%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
