{"id":37674,"date":"2018-09-12T06:36:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T11:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37674"},"modified":"2018-09-12T06:36:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T11:36:51","slug":"on-the-brink-with-russia-in-syria-again-5-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37674","title":{"rendered":"On the Brink with Russia in Syria Again, 5 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the Brink with Russia in Syria Again, 5 Years Later<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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It\u2019s deja-vu all over again in Syria, with the U.S. on the verge of a confrontation with Russia as Donald Trump faces his biggest decision yet as president, comments Ray McGovern.
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\"\"<\/a>The New York Times<\/em>, on September 11, 2013, accommodated Russian President Vladimir V. Putin\u2019s desire \u201cto speak directly to the American people and their political leaders\u201d about \u201crecent events surrounding Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s op-ed in the Times<\/em> appeared under the title: \u201cA Plea for Caution From Russia.\u201d<\/a> In it, he warned that a military \u201cstrike by the United States against Syria will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond Syria\u2019s borders \u2026 and unleash a new wave of terrorism. \u2026 It could throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three weeks before Putin\u2019s piece, on August 21, there had been a chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was immediately blamed. There soon emerged, however, ample evidence that the incident was a provocation to bring direct U.S. military involvement against Assad, lest Syrian government forces retain their momentum and defeat the jihadist rebels.<\/p>\n

In a Memorandum for President Barack Obama five days before Putin\u2019s article on September 6, the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) had warned<\/a> President Barack Obama of the likelihood that the incident in Ghouta was a false-flag attack.<\/p>\n

Despite his concern of a U.S. Attack, Putin\u2019s main message in his Op-Ed was positive, talking of a growing mutual trust:<\/p>\n

\u201cA new opportunity to avoid military action has emerged in the past few days. The United States, Russia and all members of the international community must take advantage of the Syrian government\u2019s willingness to place its chemical arsenal under international control for subsequent destruction. Judging by the statements of President Obama, the United States sees this as an alternative to military action. [Syria\u2019s chemical weapons were in fact destroyed under UN supervision the following year.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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On the Brink with Russia in Syria Again, 5 Years Later It\u2019s deja-vu all over again in Syria, with the U.S. on the verge of a confrontation with Russia as Donald Trump faces his biggest decision yet as president, comments Ray McGovern. The New York Times, on September 11, 2013, accommodated Russian President Vladimir V. […]<\/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":[2928,6963,7844,296,1921,7000,694,776,827,21058,857],"class_list":["post-37674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-consortium-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-false-flag","tag-new-york-times","tag-ray-mcgovern","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-veteran-intelligence-professionals-for-sanity","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37674","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=37674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37675,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37674\/revisions\/37675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}