The US
escalates the confrontation with Russia and Iran, their two main
competitors in the region, demanding a new division, more convenient
to themselves and their allies. The Americans, however, do not even
keep any pretexts by presenting some plausible evidence.Washington sends a powerful message to Moscow and Tehran through Damascus, making the two countries jointly responsible for a possible use of chemical weapons on Syrian territory. Meaning that the White House could use any provocation to escalate the diplomatic - and not only - attacks on Russia and Iran.
It is
perhaps ironic that this is exactly the scenario in the latest series
of episodes of the US television series House of Cards: The president
and vice president of the United States "set up" a chemical
attack in the city of Homs in Syria to solve internal problems, and
at the same time, to hit Moscow, underground, which cooperates with
the Syrian government. The only possible difference is that President
Trump's "reality" is far worse directed compared to the TV
series.
Without
presenting any essential evidence linking the Assad regime with the
use of chemical weapons (apart from some "movements"
observed on an air base allegedly used in a previous attack), the
White House launched a proactive threat with many recipients. An
indication of sloppiness was that in the first 24 hours since the
announcement of the White House, top Pentagon officials and secret
services were stating ignorance concerning the issue.
Trump's
threat, which puts a dynamite in any possibility of conciliation with
key players in the region, comes just 24 hours since the veteran
journalist Seymour Hersh, relying on senior US officials, revealed
that Syria had not used chemical weapons in early April - as
Washington claimed at that time to justify the missile attack ordered
by Trump against Syrian army facilities. Without excluding the use of
Sarin-type chemicals by local forces, the sources of the
award-winning journalist explicitly excluded that this was related to
government forces.
On the
contrary, according to Seymour Hersh, the Syrian army on that day had
bombarded a building where leaders from groups of jihadists had
gathered to determine their next moves. As Hersh explained, the only
thing Trump had in his hands when he ordered the attack, was some
photographs of the victims of chemicals - whose source does not seems
anyone knows, even today. Despite the fact that the US Tomahawk
missile attack had zero value in operational level (the United States
allegedly warned Russia and Syria, while the targeted airport was
operating normally just hours after the attack), Trump sent a clear
message to the US deep state that he is prepared to meet all its
demands - and especially the escalation of confrontation with Russia.
It is worth
noting that the Pulitzer award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, who
has in his backround some of the most important revelations about the
role of US forces since 1968, has been put in an informal "blacklist"
of the dominant US media for years. It is characteristic that after
he found closed doors in the magazines and newspapers he was
cooperating with for decades, he turned to British press and
eventually managed to publish his latest research only in the large
German newspaper Die Welt.
While White
House's theories of what really happened in April 2017 were in danger
of collapsing as a tower from playing cards, a UN agency rushed to
"support" Donald Trump's arguments. The Organisation for
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons argues that in the beginning of
April, Sarin (or a chemical "similar to Sarin") was used in
the region. However, the organization's experts, who, according to
Seymour Hersh have not visited the region, reported that they are
unable to identify which of the opposing parties has used these
chemicals.
However, the
time they have chosen to publish their findings, only 24 hours after
the White House's threats of a possible use of chemical weapons,
raises several questions: whether the agency is actively involved in
offering political coverage to the White House, or, Trump was aware
of the announcement of the findings and use it to orchestrate his
communication policy. In any case, the United States seems to be
setting, globally, a climate for escalating military operations,
which could also bring them into direct conflict with Russia.
American
raids are increasing already on a daily basis, and with them, the
number of civilians among the victims is rising too. On Monday, the
Pentagon struck prisons in the Islamic State, in which about 70
civilians held by ISIS reportedly killed. Independent organizations,
far from being described as Assad-friendly, report that 1953
civilians have lost their lives since the recent US bombings in
Syria, including 456 children and 330 women.
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by Aris Chatzistefanou translated from the original source:
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