Het volgende artikel van Alexander Mercouris vond ik op Information Clearing House, hierin aandacht voor de smerige rol die de VS in het Midden-Oosten en m.n. in Syrië speelt. Alexander Yakovenko, de Russische ambassadeur voor Groot-Brittannië, stelt dat de VS vorig jaar plannen had om in de zomer op grote schaal stellingen van het reguliere Syrische leger te bombarderen…… Daarmee zou IS de kans worden geboden Damascus in te nemen en Assad definitief te verdrijven, waarna Syrië opgedeeld kon worden onder de verschillende terreurgroepen (‘gematigde oppositie’)………..
De VS was al in gesprek met Turkije en Jordanië voor een ‘no fly zone’ en ‘veilige gebieden’ in Syrië…….. Als de VS spreekt over een ‘no fly zone’, is dat het teken, dat deze terreur producerende natie voorbereidingen treft voor grootschalige bombardementen, dat heeft de (recente) geschiedenis uit en te na bewezen……….. Mercouris betoogt dat het verhaal van Yakovenko bijzonder geloofwaardig is.
U kan voor een vertaling, onder het artikel klikken, dat neemt wel enige tijd in beslag:
Russian
Diplomat Drops a Bombshell: US Expected ISIS to Seize Damascus by
October
In
an article in a British newspaper Russia’s ambassador to the UK
reveals the Russians were told by the Western powers that after the
US proclaimed a no-fly zone ISIS would capture DamascusBy
Alexander Mercouris
February
16, 2016 “Information
Clearing House”
– “RI”
– Alexander Yakovenko, Russia’s ambassador to Britain,
dropped something of a bombshell on Monday, though one that has gone
completely unnoticed.
In
a piece in the print edition of the London Evening
Standard defending
Russian policy in Syria he made the following extraordinary
disclosure:
“Last
summer we were told by our Western partners that in October Damascus
would fall to IS (ie. the Islamic State – AM).
What
they were planning to do next we don’t know. Probably, they
would have ended up painting the extremists white and accepting them
as a Sunni state straddling Iraq and Syria”.
The
summer – when these conversations between the Western powers and the
Russians allegedly took place – was the time when the US was in
discussions with Turkey and Jordan about setting up a no-fly zone and
safe havens in Syria.
I
discussed in this article how “no-fly zone” is today simply a
euphemism for a US bombing campaign.
What
Yakovenko is therefore in effect saying is that the US was planning
in the summer to start a bombing campaign to overthrow the government
of Syria in the knowledge that this would result by October in the
victory of the Islamic State and its capture of Damascus.
Russia
Insider has
previously explained that it
was to stop the US proclaiming a no-fly zone – i.e.
commencing a bombing campaign aimed at overthrowing the Syrian
government – that Russia intervened in Syria.
The
fact Yakovenko says the US told the Russians this would result in the
Islamic State capturing Damascus by October explains why the Russians
felt they had to act as they did.
Is
Yakovenko however telling the truth?
The
first thing to say is that the British and US governments have not
denied what he is saying.
That
however is not conclusive. It is not difficult to see why the
British and US governments might think that in light of the
incendiary nature of what Yakovenko is saying denying it would simply
give his comments more publicity if they denied them and that the
better approach is silence.
If
so, then the fact Yakovenko’s comments have been almost entirely
ignored shows this approach has worked.
Is
Yakovenko however senior enough to know the details of the
discussions that took place in the summer between the Russians and
the Western powers as he says?
The
answer to that question is almost certainly yes.
Though
London is no longer the most important diplomatic posting for a
Russian ambassador in Western Europe, it remains an important
posting, and any official appointed to be Russia’s ambassador to
Britain is by definition a senior official whom Moscow will ensure is
kept well-informed.
If
there were discussions of the sort Yakovenko says, he would almost
certainly have been fully briefed about them.
What
Yakovenko says is also consistent with things we know.
In
the summer – having just captured Palmyra – the Islamic State was on
a roll, making it not implausible that it might reach Damascus by the
autumn.
The
Syrian army in the meantime had suffered a succession of heavy
defeats, and had been forced to withdraw from Idlib province.
In
light of all this, in the context of a US bombing campaign, it is not
implausible the US was telling the Russians in the summer that the
Islamic State would seize Damascus by October.
As
for the US’s discussions about setting up a no-fly zone and safe
havens, there was nothing secret about those, and they were openly
acknowledged.
Why
however would the US tell the Russians that they expected the Islamic
State to seize Damascus by October?
That
is not a difficult question to answer.
No-one
in the early summer thought there was any likelihood the Russians
would intervene militarily in Syria. The US probably thought it
was not risking anything by telling Moscow its military plans and
what their likely consequences would be.
Probably
what the US expected was that the threat of a bombing campaign
leading to the seizure of Damascus by the Islamic State would terrify
Moscow and persuade the Russians to force Assad to stand down,
which has been the US objective all along.
In
that case the US seriously underestimated the Russians’ resolve and
their willingness to act to prevent what the US was threatening from
coming to pass.
Overall
Yakovenko’s disclosure makes sense, and is therefore probably true.
What
it shows is how reckless the US’s Syrian policy had become.
At
the very time the US was pretending to fight the Islamic State it was
in fact preparing steps that it knew would facilitate its victory.
Even
if this was intended as a diplomatic play it was an extraordinary
thing to do.
The
families of US victims of jihadi terror would surely feel betrayed if
they were ever find out about it, whilst it is not difficult to
imagine the consternation and recriminations in Washington when the
Russians unexpectedly pre-empted the US strategy by intervening in
the way they did.
As
for the people of Damascus – spared not just US bombing but rule by
the Islamic State – and the people of Europe – who would have faced a
far bigger refugee flood if what Washington was telling the Russians
had come to pass – they both have reason to be grateful to the
Russians for making sure that things turned out otherwise.
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