Syria in 2017 (January-April)

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THIS sums up the Trump FP....and that of his merry band of WH brothers....

Trump means nothing he says

NATO "no longer obsolete...America has the best friends & the best allies in the world"

"The #NATO Alliance has been the bulwark of international peace and security" ever since its founding 68 years ago -- @POTUS Donald Trump

Again Trump changes his very own statements....

Trump clarifies meaning when he says US "go it alone": "going it alone means going it with lots of other nations"
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press...etary-general#
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Latakia: #FSA blowing up #Assad regime position in Northern #Latakia with #TOW today.

The regime's mode of disinformation amounts to: "I know you are but what am I?"
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/1.783270#

Russian MoD
In order to monitor and observe the situation, Russian UAVs have been sent to the region of Deir ez-Zor

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Palmyra: Video shows the #ISIS attack against pro-#Assad forces near the #Palmyra Silos yesterday.

An agreement is being negotiated to hand over Tell Rifaat and Menagh in northern Aleppo to FSA by the Syrian Democratic Forces.

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Syria's Assad says Idlib chemical attack 'fabrication' - AFP interview
http://reut.rs/2pxE4xr

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MIT Tech Review
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@techreview
Russia gets “the true nature of the battlefield” in a way the West does not. The power lies in information.
http://trib.al/7ibtNhY

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MIT Tech Review
✔
@techreview
Russia gets “the true nature of the battlefield” in a way the West does not. The power lies in information.
http://trib.al/7ibtNhY

Pollock doesn't seem to get it either.

Russia is using a whole-of-government approach, including generous use of propaganda, to fight what it regards as a conflict with the West. The West does not agree that there is even a conflict, whereas it did during the Cold War.

There is nothing new here. Plausible deniability and stunts such as Crimea only work during small proxy wars of choice where there is no direct great power war.

The West now believes that there is a conflict between it and Russia, and has begun countering Russia's non-military or "soft power" offensives.

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Syria's Assad says Idlib chemical attack 'fabrication' - AFP interview
http://reut.rs/2pxE4xr

The smoking gun…

- U.S intel intercepted comms of #Syria “military & chemical experts discussing preparations" prior to 4 April CW attack.

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Anatomy of a Sarin Bomb Explosion (Part I)
by @DanKaszeta
via @bellingcat
http://bit.ly/2obN6it

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Combat reports for northern Syria are right now extremely quiet....

REALLY extremely quiet...too quiet actually...