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(COMMENT)The YPG has again invited the Syrian army to Afrin, which they say is Syrian land. The YPG officially applauds the downing of an Israeli F-16 by Syrian air defense and hopes they will down a Turkish warplane too.
Syrian Army can be present in any part of Afrin: YPG media adviser
Most of this is nonsene. Neither US nor Israel oppose ISIS (DAESH-Part of Trump´s Armed Forces). We can see: Since the end of the Syrian operations in the east, the US did not push the SDF to grab further soil and ISIS even retook land. US trains and deploys ISIS under the name of Deir Ezzor Militray Council: Syrian Democratic Forces military councils - WikipediaRE: Kurds Applaud Downing of Israeli F-16; Invites Syrian Army to Afrin
※→ Bleipriester, et al,
When the general public (of which I am a part) looks at the situation in Syria and the fight against DAESH (ISIS/ISIL), there is an unmistakable sign of confusion. The Title of this Thread (Kurds Applaud Downing of Israeli F-16; Invites Syrian Army to Afrin) is an example to many as an incoherent Foreign Policy in this regard.
(COMMENT)The YPG has again invited the Syrian army to Afrin, which they say is Syrian land. The YPG officially applauds the downing of an Israeli F-16 by Syrian air defense and hopes they will down a Turkish warplane too.
Syrian Army can be present in any part of Afrin: YPG media adviser
The nature of the paradox is the confusion in this regard:
✪ The US is an ally of Israel and opposes the DAESH. (Israel opposes the Assad Regime.)You could get air-sick just trying to draw this matrix. The US has the most complicated and irrational set of relationships in the Middle East, than any other nation on Earth. And while US Secretary of State Tillerson (SECSTATE) describes the relationship with the Turkish Republic as a time-tested alliance built on common interests and mutual respect, it is actually forming into an intermittent and alternating position which can flip-flop in the blink of an eye.
✪ The Israel is an ally of US opposes DAESH and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA-Part of Assad's Armed Forces).
✪ The SAA opposes Israel, the Kurds and DAESH.
✪ The Kurds (YPG), evidently, oppose:
• Israel, with the Kurds (YPG) applauding the Assad Regime's downing of an Allied Fighter (Israel).✪ The Kurds are opposing the Turks (President Erdogan) which condemn US' support for Kurdish YPG fighters.
• The Kurds (YPG) are seeming aligning with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA-Part of Assad's Armed Forces) inviting the SAA into Afrin.
• Turkey over the matter of a Kurdish state and sovereignty.
✪ The Turks and the US are allies through NATO.
I'm not sure there is a solution. The US is in so deep now, that it cannot even withdraw without starting an escalation.
Just My Thought!
Most Respectfully,
R
The Syrian army will enter Afrin tomorrow:
BREAKING: Syrian Army to enter Afrin following deal with Kurdish militia
RE: Kurds Applaud Downing of Israeli F-16; Invites Syrian Army to Afrin
※→ Bleipriester, et al,
When the general public (of which I am a part) looks at the situation in Syria and the fight against DAESH (ISIS/ISIL), there is an unmistakable sign of confusion. The Title of this Thread (Kurds Applaud Downing of Israeli F-16; Invites Syrian Army to Afrin) is an example to many as an incoherent Foreign Policy in this regard.
(COMMENT)The YPG has again invited the Syrian army to Afrin, which they say is Syrian land. The YPG officially applauds the downing of an Israeli F-16 by Syrian air defense and hopes they will down a Turkish warplane too.
Syrian Army can be present in any part of Afrin: YPG media adviser
The nature of the paradox is the confusion in this regard:
✪ The US is an ally of Israel and opposes the DAESH. (Israel opposes the Assad Regime.)You could get air-sick just trying to draw this matrix. The US has the most complicated and irrational set of relationships in the Middle East, than any other nation on Earth. And while US Secretary of State Tillerson (SECSTATE) describes the relationship with the Turkish Republic as a time-tested alliance built on common interests and mutual respect, it is actually forming into an intermittent and alternating position which can flip-flop in the blink of an eye.
✪ The Israel is an ally of US opposes DAESH and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA-Part of Assad's Armed Forces).
✪ The SAA opposes Israel, the Kurds and DAESH.
✪ The Kurds (YPG), evidently, oppose:
• Israel, with the Kurds (YPG) applauding the Assad Regime's downing of an Allied Fighter (Israel).✪ The Kurds are opposing the Turks (President Erdogan) which condemn US' support for Kurdish YPG fighters.
• The Kurds (YPG) are seeming aligning with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA-Part of Assad's Armed Forces) inviting the SAA into Afrin.
• Turkey over the matter of a Kurdish state and sovereignty.
✪ The Turks and the US are allies through NATO.
I'm not sure there is a solution. The US is in so deep now, that it cannot even withdraw without starting an escalation.
Just My Thought!
Most Respectfully,
R
(COMMENT)Most of this is nonsene. Neither US nor Israel oppose ISIS (DAESH-Part of Trump´s Armed Forces).
(COMMENT)We can see: Since the end of the Syrian operations in the east, the US did not push the SDF to grab further soil and ISIS even retook land. US trains and deploys ISIS under the name of Deir Ezzor Militray Council: Syrian Democratic Forces military councils - Wikipedia
(COMMENT)The government does not appose the Kurds but regards them as Syrian citizens.
(COMMENT)And it is very easy again: The government is the only one that would help them.
Secretary of Islamic State Boylover Oilthug Tillerson wants to remove the Kurds from Manbij.
Trump´s advisor McISIS´ (aka "McMaster") only contribution to the Siko in Munich was to incite against Russia, Syria, Iran and North Korea.
RE: Kurds Applaud Downing of Israeli F-16; Invites Syrian Army to Afrin
※→ Bleipriester, et al,
When the general public (of which I am a part) looks at the situation in Syria and the fight against DAESH (ISIS/ISIL), there is an unmistakable sign of confusion. The Title of this Thread (Kurds Applaud Downing of Israeli F-16; Invites Syrian Army to Afrin) is an example to many as an incoherent Foreign Policy in this regard.
(COMMENT)The YPG has again invited the Syrian army to Afrin, which they say is Syrian land. The YPG officially applauds the downing of an Israeli F-16 by Syrian air defense and hopes they will down a Turkish warplane too.
Syrian Army can be present in any part of Afrin: YPG media adviser
The nature of the paradox is the confusion in this regard:
✪ The US is an ally of Israel and opposes the DAESH. (Israel opposes the Assad Regime.)You could get air-sick just trying to draw this matrix. The US has the most complicated and irrational set of relationships in the Middle East, than any other nation on Earth. And while US Secretary of State Tillerson (SECSTATE) describes the relationship with the Turkish Republic as a time-tested alliance built on common interests and mutual respect, it is actually forming into an intermittent and alternating position which can flip-flop in the blink of an eye.
✪ The Israel is an ally of US opposes DAESH and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA-Part of Assad's Armed Forces).
✪ The SAA opposes Israel, the Kurds and DAESH.
✪ The Kurds (YPG), evidently, oppose:
• Israel, with the Kurds (YPG) applauding the Assad Regime's downing of an Allied Fighter (Israel).✪ The Kurds are opposing the Turks (President Erdogan) which condemn US' support for Kurdish YPG fighters.
• The Kurds (YPG) are seeming aligning with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA-Part of Assad's Armed Forces) inviting the SAA into Afrin.
• Turkey over the matter of a Kurdish state and sovereignty.
✪ The Turks and the US are allies through NATO.
I'm not sure there is a solution. The US is in so deep now, that it cannot even withdraw without starting an escalation.
Just My Thought!
Most Respectfully,
R
There are many articles and videos that show the cooperation. If you want me to give examples, ask for it. Just one: In 2013, ISIS started in Syria as ally of "rebels":(COMMENT)
I don't think that is accurate at all. The military goal and objective of Central Command and the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR) is to "to degrade and ultimately destroy" DAESH through the establishment of a US-led international coalition against those hostile forces, set up by the US Central Command to coordinate the military efforts.
I'm not sure where you get the impression that there is a positive alliance between DAESH and the US.
McISIS is far fetched, admittedly. Likewise is McMaster´s claim that the Syrian government is a "global security threat" and a "rogue state". This government has done the most to destroy ISIS, so if somebody now does not respect this fact but instead puts blame on this government this person should not wonder when his name is altered this way.(COMMENT)
I'm not sure what you intent here might be. But LTG McMaster is not a pro-DAESH advocate. I see no reason to tarnish or slander his name. You can always express disagreement on the content of ideas and the way forward, but the man himself is one of the best educated and one of the finest men you will ever have the opportunity to meet.
As to the matter of the one of the main disputes over the Kurd is the way the US distributes support. Again, this is not an easy thing to explain as it is part of the incoherent policies in the US follows.
Most Respectfully,
R
I mean, if a lowly used car salesman from Iran knew the truth about our dealings with Iran, then it must be common knowledge on the streets of the Middle East, and our media had been keeping it hidden from the public. ....
I'll share a story with you about how much the American media keeps us in the dark about the Middle East.
It was mid 1980 and I had driven to Oklahoma City to purchase a car I had seen advertised in the newspaper. The salesman was a brown skinned fellow with a short beard and a foreign accent. After we make a deal on the car, I asked him where he was from? He told me Iran, and we started talking politics, as the Iranian hostage situation was still fresh on everyone's mind.
During the conversation, he told me the American people were being lied to about the embargo the U.S. had placed on Iran, and that America was selling weapons and airplane parts to the Iranian government.
On the drive home I was laughing at how idiotic this foreign guy was, because everyone knew our President hated the Iranian government. And besides, it was against U.S. law to sell or trade anything with Iran, because they were the evil enemy.
Well about three or four months later the Iran-Contra affair was front page news and all hell broke loose. And that defining day, I figured out that most of the things I believed concerning international politics was bunk. I mean, if a lowly used car salesman from Iran knew the truth about our dealings with Iran, then it must be common knowledge on the streets of the Middle East, and our media had been keeping it hidden from the public. ....
(COMMENT)There are many articles and videos that show the cooperation. If you want me to give examples, ask for it. Just one: In 2013, ISIS started in Syria as ally of "rebels":(COMMENT)
I don't think that is accurate at all. The military goal and objective of Central Command and the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR) is to "to degrade and ultimately destroy" DAESH through the establishment of a US-led international coalition against those hostile forces, set up by the US Central Command to coordinate the military efforts.
I'm not sure where you get the impression that there is a positive alliance between DAESH and the US.
Battle of Raqqa (March 2013) - Wikipedia
This does not only show the true nature of the "rebels" but also that if a country is willing to enable and support this "rebels" there is no further step required to support ISIS as well.
The 60+ countries of the coalition did little to fight ISIS. In fact they tried to claim the airspace to avoid Syrian and later Russian airstrikes. Thank to Russian moral cowardice, they now succeeded in what they didn´t in 2014.
(COMMENT)McISIS is far fetched, admittedly. Likewise is McMaster´s claim that the Syrian government is a "global security threat" and a "rogue state". This government has done the most to destroy ISIS, so if somebody now does not respect this fact but instead puts blame on this government this person should not wonder when his name is altered this way.(COMMENT)
I'm not sure what your intent here might be. But LTG McMaster is not a pro-DAESH advocate. I see no reason to tarnish or slander his name. You can always express disagreement on the content of ideas and the way forward, but the man himself is one of the best educated and one of the finest men you will ever have the opportunity to meet.
As to the matter of - one of the main disputes over the Kurd is the way the US distributes support. Again, this is not an easy thing to explain as it is part of the incoherent policies in the US follows.
After all we can see the true intentions of the US in Syria: Destroy the government. They are not hiding this. After all, ISIS is as good as defeated. If your claim ("to degrade and ultimately destroy" DAESH) was true, the US mission is now finished and the US can leave Syria. They don´t. Instead they train ISIS and al-Qaeda forces in Deir Ezzor to occupy eastern Syria and at least prolong the conflict. They could gather more terrorists from a number of countries like before to launch attacks on the Syrian government again.
"On 8 December 2016 the Deir ez-Zor Military Council was created during a SDF conference in Hasaka. The members consist of remnants of the former armed rebel council of the same name, expelled from the city by the Islamic State in 2014, having joined the SDF in November 2016 and former Islamic State fighters which have been re-trained by U.S. forces."
Syrian Democratic Forces military councils - Wikipedia
I think this is your personal assumption and - with all due respect - it is naive and also wrong.(COMMENT)
One of a big mistake that the US Intelligence Community commits on a reoccurring basis is: • using dated material on foreign threats, ⇒ and then • creating a story that supports their pet theories. And in doing so ⇒ not taking into account abrupt changes political personalities and the influence it has on abrupt changes in the formulated political picture of today.
Some see the linage of DAESH as stretching back to the time of Abd al-Wahhab (early 1800's) and the adoption of ultra radical doctrine. While these ideas capture the heart of Ibn Saud, it only gives modern day DAESH a reference to fall back upon. It was not a direct philosophical amalgamation. The three main ideas that attached themselves and survive to this day are: (1) Arab Tradition, (2) Jihadism, and (3) Martyrdom. The battlefield outcome (mid-2014) result of the fall of Mosul (Iraq) to the very rapidly development Salafi-Jihadi entity DAESH (also referred to as IS, as evolved from ISIL, or ISIS) actually started under an imaginary concept described as an "Islamic Caliphate." So swift was its formation, that it moved much faster and outstripped the more slow and cumbersome political reactions of both Washington and Baghdad. The Political-Military and Religious branding of the DAESH. The evolution, development, and alteration of the Salafi-jihadi ideology was a result of a Lineage going back a century.
Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists gain strength hidden under the name "SDF" and protected by the Coalition and one day the Coalition will leave eastern Syria and this will put an and to their "good behavior". Another scenario is that the US wants to display those terrorists as lawful opposition and to provide air cover when they try to expand beyond the Euphrates but that´s hard to realize as those terrorists will not behave. One thing is for sure however: ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists never lead to a happy end and it is incomprehensible how you can assume this to be a possibility.(COMMENT)
Scattered throughout the region from generation to generation - for over a hundred year (or more), from Afghanistan - on and arc - right to the Lebanese Coast, there are all sorts of combat personnel remnants of the former armed entities. This is not so dissimilar from the Avenue of Professional Adventurers along the California Coast.
Re-branding Arab Fighters (Professional Adventurers) is not uncommon at all. Don't read too much into the term "former IS fighters." Look at the intent and the plan. It is certainly not unreasonable to assume that the Central Command and Special Operations Command will take advantage of every resource available to defeat DAESH and continue to provide assistance to entities of the SDF having the goal of fighting and defeating ISIS. In all kinds of proxy and asymmetric warfare there are risks. What you are pointing out are risks factors; and you imply an unfavorable outcome. That is your judgment; but, not necessarily one with all the data points to make a reasonable assessment.
Most Respectfully,
R
