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While Obama Longs For ‘Paris Nights’, Russia Moves Missile Cruiser off Syrian Coast, Warns Turkey ‘There Are Consequence’
21st Century Wire says…
No matter what cheap spin is being deployed by Washington and NATO in terms of painting Turkey as the victim, and its al Qaeda and ISIS ‘rebels’ as moderates – the fact is that both Turkey and its fellow NATO allies are the ones responsible for escalating tensions in the Middle East and around the world. Even if the US is able to hide this fact from US audiences – everyone outside of the US now knows it. This puts the US public at a sever disadvantage, as its own rogue regime continues to conduct one of the biggest foreign policy frauds in history.
President Barack Obama did something astonishing in his joint press conference with French leader Francois Hollande today.
Rather than try to appear as an honest broker and mediate the international incident (NATO’s first shoot-down of a Russian aircraft since 1951), the US leader instead blamed Russia for its Turkey shooting its fighter down and for its pilots being killed or captured by US/NATO/Turkey-backed militant Islamist insurgents embedded along the Syria’s northwest border with Turkey.
CNN ran with the tired old camp sound bite, running the headline, “Obama: We are all French now”. If only Barack could speak French like John Kerry, then he’d have said, “Je suis Français.”
Presidents Obama and Hollande (Image: White House)
Cringe worthy would be an understatement. It was a national humiliation by a President who remains suspended in an imaginary bubble of his own. With World War Three knocking at the door, you’d expect the President to right down to business, but no. He began his speech by musing, “They’re part of our memories, woven into the fabric of our lives and our culture. I am very grateful to the French people for the hospitality they’ve always shown me, and when they welcomed Michelle and our daughters on their first visit to the City of Lights. By my bed, in the residence, is a picture of me and Michelle in Luxembourg Gardens, kissing. Those are the memories we have of Paris. As early on, I had no gray hair.”
After 15 minutes of talking about the Statue of Liberty and his romantic ‘Kodak moments’ from his taxpayer-funded vacation in Paris, the President finally got around to addressing, the World War provocation carried out this morning by NATO member Turkey.
After the crowd was softened up, Obama then rolled out the lies: “I do think that this points to an ongoing problem with the Russian operations in the sense that they are operating very close to a Turkish border, and they are going after a moderate opposition that are supported by not only Turkey but a wide range of countries. And if Russia is directing its energies towards Daesh and ISIL, some of those conflicts, or potentials for mistakes or escalation, are less likely to occur.”
Today’s speech by President Barack Obama was nothing less than a coded warning to Russia, effectively threatening:
“Leave our terrorist fighters on the ground alone and let us overthrow the Syrian government, or else.”
Obama and Hollande proceeded to wring-out tired old State Department propaganda line, that “Assad must go”, but without actually offering up a real case to support that old policy. The French President tried to add to an already inflated Syrian civilian death toll which last month was being touted by western propagandists at 240,000 – a figure invented by the long discredited UK-EUfunded ‘Syrian opposition NGO’ outfit cynically titled, the Syrian Observatory For Human Rights (SOHR). Yesterday Hollande pumped it up to 300,000. Next month it will be inflated up to half a million. Goebbels would be proud. Hollande embellished the fiction stating:
“I commend the work done by ministers Fabius and Kerry to agree a timeline that will enable a ceasefire, of course, as quickly as possible, and to open up to a process that will lead to Bashar al-Assad’s departure. Because we cannot imagine the Syrians getting together, gathering around the leader who is responsible for some — the most of 300,000 dead in a few years. So a government of unity is required, but that must lead to Assad’s departure. ”
That’s right. It’s never been about ISIS, and it’s still about regime change.
It should come as no surprise then, that Russia would react the way it has – by freezing any diplomatic relations with Turkey and ceasing any military cooperation in the region, and positioning a Naval Destroyer off the coast of Syria to provide sea-to air missile coverage against any threat to its forces in Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russians today that they should cancel any vacation or travel plans to Turkey – a trade which nets Turkey tens of millions per month. In a word, this is war.
Meanwhile, President Obama is still cracks jokes, trying to be cute and clever with a clueless press corps in the East Room of the White House. Another low-point in modern US diplomatic history.
Russian Black Sea Fleet Moskva Class cruise missile destroyer in position off the coast of Latakia.
By now, anyone with a brain should see what’s actually been going on in the region:
Russia is in the region to fight the terrorist conclave, while Turkey supports it…
RT reports:
Three steps as announced by top brass:
- Each and every strike groups’ operation is to be carried out under the guise of fighter jets
- Air defense to be boosted with the deployment of Moskva guided missile cruiser off Latakia coast with an aim to destroy any target that may pose danger
- Military contacts with Turkey to be suspended
Sergey Rudskoy, a top official with the Russian General Staff, condemned the attack on the Russian bomber in Syrian airspace by a Turkish fighter jet as “a severe violation of international law”. He stressed that the Su-24 was downed over the Syrian territory. The crash site was four kilometers away from the Turkish border, he said.
#SYRIA #MoDprotest Efforts of Rus MoD specialists to organize coopertion with Turkish party by emergency communiction link were unsuccessful
— Минобороны России (@mod_russia) November 24, 2015
BREAKING: Downing of Russian jet over Syria stab in the back by terrorist accomplices- Putin https://t.co/UP9WK05eN7 pic.twitter.com/1QXFbLpitN — RT (@RT_com) November 24, 2015
Rudskoy said the Russian warplane did not violate Turkish airspace. Additionally, according to the Hmeymim airfield radar, it was the Turkish fighter jet that actually entered Syrian airspace as it attacked the Russian bomber.
The Turkish fighter jet made no attempts to contact Russian pilots before attacking the bomber, Rudskoy added.
“We assume the strike was carried out with a close range missile with an infra-red seeker,” Rudskoy said. “The Turkish jet made no attempts to communicate or establish visual contact with our crew that our equipment would have registered. The Su-24 was hit by a missile over Syria’s territory.”
Russia now plans to implement new measures aimed at strengthening the security of the country’s air base in Syria and in particular to bolster air defense.
Russian guided missile cruiser Moskva, equipped with the ‘Fort’ air defense system, similar to the S-300, will be deployed off Latakia province’s coast.
“We warn that every target posing a potential threat will be destroyed,” lieutenant general Sergey Rudskoy said during the briefing.
The Moskva (‘Moscow’) missile cruise is a flagship vessel of the Russian Black Sea fleet and is one of the fleet’s two biggest ships. The cruiser was stationed in Sevastopol but left in summer 2015 after being deployed to the Mediterranean Sea where it joined Russia’s standing naval force in the Mediterranean.
Turkey claims that it downed the Russian bomber in Turkish airspace after the plane was given 10 warnings in the space of five minutes as it approached the country’s territory.
“Nobody should doubt that we made our best efforts to avoid this latest incident. But everyone should respect the right of Turkey to defend its borders,” Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech in Ankara.
“The data we have is very clear. There were two planes approaching our border, we warned them as they were getting too close,” another senior Turkish official told Reuters.
“Our findings show clearly that Turkish air space was violated multiple times. And they violated it knowingly.”
US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Francois Hollande urged Russia and Turkey away from further escalation during a meeting in Washington, while NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg voiced the alliance’s support for Turkey.
A US military spokesman also said that the incident involves only Turkey and Russia and does not affect the US-led campaign in Syria, which will continue “as planned”.
Since September 30, the Moskva cruiser acts as a covering force for the Russian air forces in Syria while deployed in the eastern Mediterranean.
“All military contacts with Turkey will be suspended,” Rudskoy added.
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Source: http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/11/25/while-obama-longs-for-paris-nights-russia-moves-missile-cruiser-off-syrian-coast-warns-turkey-there-are-consequence/
Russia said before this incident that they will work with the “Moderate Rebels” and help them to fight ISIS by providing air cover and invited then to peace meetings but they never got took up on the offer.
Now we keep hearing about this strange beast known as moderate rebels so maybe the US government can help but when Russia asks the US for details on “the good guys” so they can avoid bombing them the US will not answer any questions asked by Russia.
Everyone fighting the Syria government must be “Moderate” at this rate.
The UK’s David Cameron has said he is ready to send our forces to help Turkey if Russia hit back but Mr Pig man forgot to ask anyone on the streets if they minded attacking Russia and to think he talks about removing dictators abroad when he acts like one himself.
No David you don’t have my permission to go up against Russia but you do have my permission to investigate scum like yourself for helping ISIS to grow so big in the first place.