{"id":23529,"date":"2017-04-10T19:28:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T00:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23529"},"modified":"2017-04-10T19:28:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T00:28:29","slug":"russia-demands-evidence-to-support-us-attack-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23529","title":{"rendered":"Russia Demands Evidence to Support US Attack on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/international-news\/politics\/russia-demand-evidence-to-support-us-attack-on-syria\/\">Russia Demands Evidence to Support US Attack on Syria<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"contentMeta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Russia-at-UN-4-9-2017.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63181 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Russia-at-UN-4-9-2017.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Russia-at-UN-4-9-2017-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Russia-at-UN-4-9-2017-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Russia-at-UN-4-9-2017-600x422.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Russia-at-UN-4-9-2017.jpg 815w\" alt=\"Russia at UN 4-9-2017\" width=\"575\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov telephoned Rex Tillerson concerning the attack on Syria. The minister had told Tillerson that allegations that the Syrian military had used chemical weapons in the so-called \u201cpoison gas incident\u201d lacked any proof whatsoever. Lavrov and Tillerson had agreed to personally continue the talks on Syria, because it is increasingly looking like the \u201cintelligence\u201d community was deliberately trying to mislead the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson had to come out on CBS television stating\u00a0that the priority of the US in Syria is to defeat the jihadist militia Islamic state (IS). Trump looks very stupid for allowing the intelligence community to\u00a0create false flags. This is far more of a crisis than meets the eye. It is not likely that Syria will escalate from here, but there is a clash going on between the bureaucracy and the Trump White House. Can the intelligence community be trusted any more?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia Demands Evidence to Support US Attack on Syria Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov telephoned Rex Tillerson concerning the attack on Syria. The minister had told Tillerson that allegations that the Syrian military had used chemical weapons in the so-called \u201cpoison gas incident\u201d lacked any proof whatsoever. Lavrov and Tillerson had agreed to personally continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5496,1897,5479,2089,4121,694,9845,776,827],"class_list":["post-23529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-evidence","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-proof","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-russia","tag-sergey-lavrov","tag-syria","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23530,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23529\/revisions\/23530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}