Syria in 2017 (April-December)

[OUTLAW 09]

As long as the Trump WH and Trump himself is in total chaos there will be no US FP on just about anything.....

Trump called Obama weak on #SouthChinaSea patrols. 100 days in, he seems to have halted them entirely.

Fmr AG Yates warned WH Jan26 that Flynn could be compromised by Russia. Did Trump lie on Feb10 when asked about it?

Sally Yates to contradict White House about Flynn & Russia. She told WH on Jan 26; Feb 10 Trump said he knew nothing
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politi...y-contradict/#

Lies..bluffs and "Wag the Dog moments" are not FP....and Assad is still using chemicals...

[OUTLAW 09]

Playlist of videos relating to the April 2nd 2017 bombing of Maaret al Numan national hospital
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...gvDw66-1bYnGr#

[CrowBat]

US military official suffers slip of the tongue and says PKK is part of the SDF

...In response to a question regarding the Turkish attitude against the YPG during press briefing on Wednesday, Colonel John Dorrian, the spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against Daesh, accidentally acknowledged that the PKK was part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

"But with regard to the PKK, they are a part of the Syrian Democratic Forces, and the Syrian Arab Coalition is a part of the Syrian Democratic Forces as well. The forces that are isolating Raqqa are now largely made up of Syrian Arabs, but they are a part of the Syrian Democratic Forces," he said.
...

Ah, speaking truth is now called 'slip in the tongue' in Pentagon's jargon?

Good to know that.

Guess, this happened to the CENTCOM Because they are in a rush. Namely, the CIA seems to be active in Syria again:

Analysis: The Free Idlib Army’s Role in the U.S. Battle Against Al-Qaida in Syria

...and that's 'no good news' for any of generals currently trying to run the US foreign politics in the Middle East.

[Azor]

As long as the Trump WH and Trump himself is in total chaos there will be no US FP on just about anything.....

Trump called Obama weak on #SouthChinaSea patrols. 100 days in, he seems to have halted them entirely.

Fmr AG Yates warned WH Jan26 that Flynn could be compromised by Russia. Did Trump lie on Feb10 when asked about it?

Sally Yates to contradict White House about Flynn & Russia. She told WH on Jan 26; Feb 10 Trump said he knew nothing
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politi...y-contradict/#

Lies..bluffs and "Wag the Dog moments" are not FP....and Assad is still using chemicals...

[OUTLAW 09]

I will remain on my soap box as long as US FP is operating under the Trump Principle of "Wag the Dog".....which is neither a strategy or a FP and simply uses any action to deflect and or direct attention away from a lack of a strategy and or FP....on anything!

Weeks After Massive US Bomb, IS Still on Air in Afghanistan
by Voice of America

An article here in SWJ.....

Almost three weeks after the United States dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb in Eastern Afghanistan, the Islamic State group continues to show battlefield resilience as well as run its FM radio channel in the area.

THIS Azor is exactly what I posted previously ..you simply cannot "defeat IS militarily on the ground".....they will simply fade as they did in Iraq back into guerrilla warfare....

Actually if one really does reread Mao and his writings on guerrilla warfare....IS is in a phase two actually possibly a full phase three and when pushed hard simply backs back down to a phase two and or phase one guerrilla war..if pushed harder.

AND here is the key in both Iraq and Syria...there will be a lot of disaffected Sunni's remembering the ethnically cleansing by Shia militias or sectarian genocide conducted by Shia's in general and West standing by doing nothing and they will then support quietly that new guerilla war...

[OUTLAW 09]

Usage of Soviet-produced 240-mm rocket-assisted cluster mortar shells (3-O-8 "Nerpa") continues in Eastern Ghouta

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Second Russian military death in Syria in as many days.
http://www.interfax.ru/world/561062?utm_source=topmain#

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Is it a surprise that the 2 least honest & reliable sources, Putin & Trump, would have 2 different versions of their phone call on Syria?

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English translation of #Erdoğan's senior adviser's threats on #Chinese radio @criturk to hit U.S. forces in #Syria.
http://www.criturk.fm/cevik-cri-turk...rinda-olacak/#

[OUTLAW 09]

Azor...back on my soap box for this morning in a very rainy Berlin.....while we have sparred a lot over the Russian Trump connections and the Steel Dossier...we are slowly seeing the FBI close in on indictments...

If you noticed yesterday Comey did admit to three ongoing investigations....

A social media poster had pointed to three grand juries in progress with two being close to and or finished with indictments/warrants coming out of them...

Many bashed him and his sources for being incorrect, BUT Comey did in fact confirm yesterday what he had posted...

THEN he posts this....

I now have 2 sources within legal community confirming that a D.C. area judge has signed 2 warrants related to Comey's Trump investigation.
(Warrants could be to force someone to testify in a grand jury and or actual arrest warrants...although normally a person would not refuse to testify unless there is something to hide and a GJ can provide immunity to get you to testify).

So exactly if you are the Trump WH on the verge of being charged with obstruction and or worse just how do you conduct FP...ANY FP?

"Wag the Dog" takes over as the easiest way to deflect from his "troubles" does it not........???

Even yesterday the Chinese were warning the US to stop their bomber overflights hardening their line actually and coming to the open support of NK which many said they would in the end...."as a cause for potentially triggering a war".

In Syria if you have read the CrowBat postings and mine from today... Trump/CENTCOM/US SOF are now in one hell of a mess....

With Trump/CENTCOM/US SOF now supporting openly terrorists of multiple stripes and all Shia based...and supporting FIVE US named terrorist groups when they are suppose to be fighting two terrorist groups?

SEVEN terrorist groups and the US is in the middle of all SEVEN?

What in the hell did Trump get the US into in his "rush to eradicate IS from the face of the earth" and ALL just in under 110 days?

Even Obama did not stumble this badly....

THIS goes to the heart of all the Trump lies.....remember he bashes constantly the "failing and fake news NYTs" on just about anything....

The failing @nytimes added 308k new digital/print subscribers in the first quarter of '17, according to our latest Fake News press release

308,000 new subscriptions in one quarter and MSM is :failing and fake"?