Russia Begins Operations in Syria: End Game for the US Empire?

sToRmR1dR said:
Russian 'Peresvet' combat laser system shot down a Israeli drone near the Golan Heights.
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bjorn said:
If true it marks a new era of weaponry and sends a clear message to Isreal and others that Russia's laser capability is a force they should not underestimate. Allthough we don't know the precise details of the effectiveness of this new weapon. But it surely will make their opponents nervous. It's said that Russia is ahead of laser weaponry because they are the only ones capable of building mini nuclear power plants. The ones that fit in a container and can generate enough energy to actually shoot airplanes down from a great distance. It will also reduce the costs because using missiles for the same task is a lot more expensive.:phaser:
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It seems pretty accurate. :-)

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The Russian Peresvet laser complex turned out to be a secret mission - it allows you to shoot down satellites
2020-06-22
The Russian Peresvet combat laser is designed to destroy satellites at a height of hundreds of kilometres.

The Peresvet Russian combat laser system, which was actively ridiculed by American experts about a year ago, believing that it is unlikely to be able to shoot a drone more than one kilometre away, turned out to be a truly unique weapon designed to destroy spacecraft and even ballistic missiles at several hundred kilometres high.

A key feature of the Peresvet Russian combat laser system is that it is able to focus the laser beam in such a way that practically all existing Russian missiles can be guided along it, including both anti-aircraft and cruise missiles launched from airborne carriers. By “highlighting” its target in the planet’s orbit, the laser allows you to hit space objects, including military spacecraft, at distances of hundreds of kilometres with an accuracy of a few centimetres, while the space sector covered by the laser allows you to control thousands of kilometres.

According to experts, in fact, the Peresvet laser complex is a gunner of Russian missiles to combat targets in space, and today no other country in the world has such a complex, and it’s impossible to somehow block the Peresvet operation.
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СРОЧНО: На базу ВКС России в Сирии идёт массовый налёт неопознанных летательных аппаратов
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22.06.2020 - 23:03

Примечание. "Khimki" это один из пригородов Москвы.

URGENTLY: On the base of the Russian air force in Syria there is a massive RAID of unidentified aircraft
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22.06.2020 - 23:03
On the evening of June 22, a massive RAID by unidentified aircraft began on the Russian air base at Hmeimim in Latakia, Syria.

Alarms are currently sounding at the Russian facility.

According to incoming reports, intensive air defense system the air base Hamim. Planes are in the air.

A military source told the "Russian Spring" that the calculations of air defense shoot down enemy UAV one after the other.

In the sky over the "Khimki" (as the troops call the air base) and the town of Dzhebla, several dozen explosions thundered.

The Pantsir and tor anti-aircraft systems are working.
СРОЧНО: На базу ВКС России в Сирии идёт массовый налёт неопознанных летательных аппаратов

Note. "Khimki" is one of the suburbs of Moscow.
 
youlik said:
URGENTLY: On the base of the Russian air force in Syria there is a massive RAID of unidentified aircraft
The news is updated
22.06.2020 - 23:03
On the evening of June 22, a massive RAID by unidentified aircraft began on the Russian air base at Hmeimim in Latakia, Syria.

Alarms are currently sounding at the Russian facility.
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Russian air defenses were activated while terrorists have launched a massive drone attack on Hmeimim air base.

'No, 'it is not regime change', it's just a 'change of behavior': No Jeffrey, you are not stupid, but your behavior surely is.'

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‘Assad must go’ no more, says US envoy for Syria. Except US policy is still regime change by another name

While special envoy James Jeffrey says the US no longer demands regime change in Syria, only “change of behavior,” his explanation shows this distinction is without a difference and no November election results will change it.
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By Nebojsa Malic - 22 Jun, 2020
 
Российские системы ПВО отразили крупнейшую атаку на авиабазу "Хмеймим" - сбито около 20 беспилотников
2020-06-23

В Сирии взрывом уничтожены два американских бронетранспортёра. Видео
2020-06-23

В Сирии заблокировали колонну американских военных, сорвали флаги США и сожгли их. Видео
2020-06-23

Russian air defense systems repelled the largest attack on the Hmeimim air base-about 20 drones were shot down
2020-06-23
Russian air defense systems repelled the largest attack on the Hmeimim air base.

Russian air defense systems have repelled one of the largest drone attacks on the Khmeimim air base since the Russian military group was in Syria. It is reported that two dozen unmanned aerial vehicles launched by Pro-Turkish jihadists from several directions were hit.

Initially, it was reported that we are talking about the use of multiple rocket launchers, but later, a number of information sources reported that we are talking about unmanned aerial vehicles.

Given the information to the current hour, the drones failed to reach the perimeter of the Russian military air base, however, taking into account the fact that this is not only the largest escalation by the jihadists, but also the first attack since the conclusion of agreements between Moscow and Ankara, experts say that Russia will definitely prepare a response.

Among other things, there is some information that at least one of the drones fell on the outskirts of the city of Jableh, but as a result, no one was injured, and the damage was minimized.

At the moment, representatives of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation do not comment on the attack of militants.
Российские системы ПВО отразили крупнейшую атаку на авиабазу "Хмеймим" - сбито около 20 беспилотников

In Syria, an explosion destroyed two American armored personnel carriers. Video
2020-06-23
As a result of an unknown attack in Syria, two American armored personnel carriers were destroyed.

A powerful explosion that occurred in the area of the city of al-Rumeilan, as a result of an attack by unknown persons, and according to some reports, we are talking about the dropping of a small artillery munition (mortar shell) from a drone, two American armored vehicles were destroyed.

The presented video footage shows the first minutes after the attack of unknown people on the warehouses of weapons and ammunition of the Syrian democratic forces. As a result of the detonation of ammunition, the territory within a radius of several hundred meters was completely destroyed, while, according to the source, two American armored vehicles located near the site of the explosion were completely destroyed.

The source does not specify whether the vehicles belonged to the us military or were used by the Syrian democratic forces, however, such an attack, according to some reports, deprived the us allies of almost two hundred small arms, a large amount of ammunition, including anti-tank shells and missiles, artillery ammunition, etc. At the moment, information about the victims and possible victims is not announced.

Who exactly could be behind the attack is unknown, but it seems to be a demonstration of readiness to fight back against the Americans and their allies in the Northern, Eastern and North-Eastern parts of the SAR,
В Сирии взрывом уничтожены два американских бронетранспортёра. Видео

In Syria, they blocked a column of us military personnel, tore down US flags and burned them. Video
2020-06-23
The Syrians stopped a column of American armored vehicles and defiantly burned American flags.

Syrian residents staged another unexpected RAID on the us military, blocking the last access to one of the local highways, while one of the American armored personnel carriers was torn off the main relic of the US – the American flag, which was burned by local residents as a demonstration of how welcome Americans are in the Arab Republic.

According to Syrian sources, the U.S. military convoy moved through one of the highways in the province of Hasaka, however, at some point on the road were locals, which not only allowed the us military to go further, but was blocked by the armor so that the Americans could not even turn around. As one of the sources notes, during this fuss, two local residents tore the flag from the American armored car and defiantly burned it.

This is not the first time that peaceful Syrians have prevented the us military from moving in the Eastern part of the country, blocking their road and throwing stones and bottles at American equipment, which is obviously the best evidence of the attitude of Syrian citizens to the presence of the us military in this country.
В Сирии заблокировали колонну американских военных, сорвали флаги США и сожгли их. Видео
 
sToRmR1dR said:
Israeli jets have conducted airstrikes on 'Iranian targets' in Syria.
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Update: Suspected Israeli attack causes several Syrian Army casualties in eastern Syria

June 24, 2020 – A suspected Israeli Air Force attack on eastern Syria this evening has left several casualties within the ranks of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), a source in Damascus told Al-Masdar.

According to the source, the heavy missile strikes on the military sites in Deir Ezzor and Al-Sweida caused at least a half dozen casualties within the ranks of the Syrian Army. The source said the total number of casualties is likely to increase, as two soldiers were killed and four others were wounded in the Al-Sweida attack. If the Israeli Air Force was behind this evening’s attack, it would mark the first time since June 1st that they have carried out an attack against the Syrian Armed Forces.

Russia: US funded Militias in Northeastern Syria through Illicit Trade in Syrian Oil
US forces in Syria
June 24, 2020 - Russia accused the US OF encouraging and financing separatist militias in northeastern Syria with money earned from illicit trade in stolen Syrian oil.

Director-General of the Department of International Organizations at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pyotr Ilyichev told Sputnik that the move by Washington was aimed aimed against the Syrian government.

“In the beginning, the Americans and their allies justified their invasion of Syrian lands by the need to fight Daesh (ISIL) terrorist organization, but over time their efforts shifted to imposing political realities … ISIS was not defeated despite Washington’s declarations on achieving victory … while the United States focused through its measures against Syria on encouraging separatist militias by funding them with money earned from illicit trade in stolen Syrian oil.”

Syrian Army uncovers large arms cache with western-made weapons
Published on Jun 23, 2020 (1:42 min.)

US not seeking to remove Assad, but to 'change his behavior': envoy

June 23, 2020 – The Special Envoy of the United States to Syria, Ambassador James Jeffrey, said on Monday, that his country is not asking Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to step down, but rather wants him to “change his behavior.” According to reports, Jeffrey said that the United States does not insist on the immediate resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or the withdrawal of Russia from the Arab Republic.

“We are not saying that Assad should leave, we are saying that Assad and his government should change their behavior, ” Jeffrey said during an online conference at the Middle East Institute .He added that the United States wants to “return to the status of 2011”, that is, when there were no Russian and Iranian forces in Syria, stressing that despite the fact that the United States has always opposed Russia’s presence in Syria, “it is not our policy to try to persuade them to leave.”

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs David Schenker announced earlier in June that Russia should “exit the Middle East” because it plays a “destructive role” there.

Trump was worried about striking Russian forces in Syria: Bolton
June 23, 2020 - The former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said President Donald Trump was concerned about possible losses among Russian military personnel if a U.S. strike was launched against Syria in the April of 2018.

Bolton, in his memoirs about his work in the White House, described the meetings that took place in the White House after a chemical attack in Syria, which Washington blamed on the Syrian government.

Bolton said Trump was worried about accidentally hitting the Russian forces while their missiles targeted the Syrian government installations and troops. “Trump was concerned about possible Russian losses in Syria, given the large military presence of Russia there, which increased dramatically during the Obama era. ”

According to him, there was a basis for this concern. Participants at the meeting asked the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, “to contact his Russian counterpart, Valery Gerasimov, and to assure him that the actions that the United States will take will not be directed against facilities and elements of the Russian army in Syria.”

Bolton stressed that the channel of communication between the chiefs of the general staff of the Russian and American armies was and remains one of the important means of communication between the two countries, which in many cases is more appropriate than normal diplomatic contacts. Speaking of possible losses among Iranian military elements in Syria, Bolton said that this matter received no attention among the participants in the meetings.
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Syrians dread impact of Caesar Act sanctions aimed at Assad
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June 23, 2020 - Trapped in a country devastated by 10 years of civil war, the lives of ordinary Syrians are being buffeted by a collapsing currency, medicine shortages, skyrocketing inflation and deepening poverty. And, by all accounts, the worst is yet to come.

As the Caesar Act, the tough new Syria-specific US legislation, entered into force on June 17, the official exchange rate for the dollar nearly doubled, jumping from 704 to 1,256 Syrian pounds. The previous day, the black-market value had fallen sharply, with 2,950 Syrian pounds — instead of 2,850 — fetching $1.

The Caesar Act seeks not just to prevent members of President Bashar Assad’s inner circle from continuing to profit from the war, but also to hold them accountable for crimes against humanity.

While the objective may be to cut off Assad from Iran, Hezbollah and Russia and force him to share power with the opposition, regular people in Syria (and Lebanon) are already feeling the pinch.

No sweet victory for Assad as economy collapses and U.S. sanctions hit
June 24, 2020 - Just last year, President Bashar al-Assad seemed on the brink of crowning military victories by easing his diplomatic isolation and recovering more of Syria without a bullet being fired. Not only had U.S.-allied Kurds invited government forces back to the northeast, but businessmen from the once hostile United Arab Emirates visited Damascus to scout out investment opportunities and regional trade had started to pick up.

Thanks to intervention from Russia and Iran on his behalf, nearly all of Syria’s main cities and towns are under government control, with rebels who fought since 2011 to overthrow Assad now confined to a patch of territory near the Turkish frontier.

But today, the mood in Damascus is gloomy.

Assad’s hopes of rehabilitation have been put on ice by new U.S. sanctions that will likely scare off all but his closest friends and deter the investment he needs to deliver on promised reconstruction. The economy, already ravaged by a decade of war, is in deep trouble, hit not only by sanctions but also by the fallout of a financial meltdown in neighboring Lebanon that has choked off dollars.

While sanctions alone seem unlikely to bring down Assad, experts say they will make it harder for him to consolidate gains and rebuild patronage networks in loyalist areas that paid a heavy price in battle.

With Syria split in three, heavily sanctioned and governed by a pariah, comparisons are being drawn with Iraq in the years between Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled him.

“The cascading effect of the sanctions could undermine Assad’s ability to re-extend or maintain control over much of the country. I don’t think it will overthrow him in the near-term, but it will restrict his ability to maintain control,” said David Lesch, a Syria expert and Middle East History professor at Trinity University in Texas.

The war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced more than 11 million from their homes, around half the pre-war population. The once productive economy has suffered hundreds of billions of dollars of destruction.

As Assad steadily recovered ground, Syrians in government areas had been hoping for better times. But their already battered purchasing power has been demolished this year by a collapse in the Syrian pound. The currency, steady at around 500 to the dollar for several years, began falling last year and hit a low of 3,000 this month.

Assad is counting on the allies that saved him in battle - Russia and Iran - to help him again. But with both sanctioned themselves, neither has the wherewithal to offer the investment Damascus had hoped would flow from countries such as the UAE, China and India, which now run the risk of U.S. sanctions if they deal with Syria.

Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem told a Damacus news conference on Tuesday the aim of the new U.S. sanctions imposed in a law called the Caesar Act was to create hunger and instability. Syria could depend on its friends and allies, he said: “This needs a bit of patience. It’s been a week since Caesar was passed. No one has a magic wand to say Russia has to give this or Iran that.”

Syria’s allies in an Iran-backed alliance known as the resistance axis are looking for ways around the sanctions, a regional official told Reuters. Iran has provided Syria with credit lines and oil during the war. “The resistance axis will work on opening gaps,” the official said.

Washington, which once armed some of Assad’s enemies, says the goal is to hold Damascus to account for war crimes and deter it from pressing the war. The sanctions exempt humanitarian aid.

Washington will this summer apply “unprecedented political and economic pressure on the Assad regime to return to the political process”, U.S. special envoy for Syria Joel Rayburn has said. Sanctions are not Washington’s only tool.

Though President Donald Trump last year ordered U.S. forces to withdraw, they remain in the east, denying Assad control of oil fields and farmland and providing a security umbrella for a Kurdish-led autonomous zone. Turkish forces in the northwest also obstruct Assad’s recovery of the last rebel stronghold.

Assad’s grasp over some recovered areas is shaky, including the south which is still restive two years after the defeat of rebels. The dire economy recently triggered protests in Sweida, a loyalist area in the south.

The financial problems led the state to seize vast assets held by Assad’s cousin Rami Makhlouf, formerly a pillar of the ruling elite.

“Assad’s strategy and the promise he has been selling to his supporters has always been that we have to win this war militarily ... and be patient and then eventually the Americans and Europeans are going to tire and sanctions would be lifted or eased,” Aron Lund, a fellow at The Century Foundation, said.

“If poverty turns to extreme poverty and hunger turns to famine over time and the patronage network ... starts to weaken and wither away, we could start to see different threats rising that could be really, really severe for Assad.”
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Bashar Al-Assad's uncle sentenced to 4 years in French prison

June 18, 2020 – On Wednesday, the French authorities sentenced the uncle of Bashar Al-Assad, Rifaat Al-Assad, to
four years in prison. The court further called for the confiscation of all properties owned by Rifaat Al-Assad in France, as well as the confiscation of one of the real estate assets in London, amounting to 29 million euros.

Rifaat Al-Assad was convicted of money laundering charges, which first surfaced in 2016. It is noteworthy to mention that Rifaat Al-Assad is the uncle of the Syrian President, he has not lived in Syria since the mid-1980s.

He was involved in a coup against his brother, Hafez, who was then president of Syria and recovering from a heart ailment. Rifaat was exiled from Syria and only allowed to return to the country on one occasion for the funeral of his mother.
 
Неожиданный манёвр российских ПВОшников в Сирии заставил Турцию дрожать - такого Эрдоган не ожидал
2020-06-26

The unexpected maneuver of Russian ADS in Syria made Turkey tremble - this Erdogan did not expect
2020-06-26
Russian air defense systems arranged a very unpleasant maneuver for Turkey.

According to objective information sources, Russian air defense systems "Pantsir-S" and " tor " conducted a very unexpected maneuver for the Turkish military and Ankara-controlled militants. Night attack using drones began to impact the Russian military "wrong," because drones, and it, according to reports, is about the spirit of the almost dozen goals, was a failure due to the fact that air defenses were placed on several tens of kilometers North of the Russian military base, in fact, intercepting the drones-bombers long before the approach to the airbase, not direct from its perimeter.
According to "Veterans Today", the Russian military's air defense systems are currently positioned in such a way as to exercise full control over the positions of the militants, and, apparently, this came as a complete surprise to Turkey, since, according to analysts, it is Ankara that is responsible for the actions of the jihadists, not to mention the fact that now Russian complexes fully control possible missile attacks on the positions of the SAA from Turkey.

When exactly Russian air defense assets were relocated to these areas is unknown, but it is obvious that this creates a lot of trouble for Erdogan – any attempt by Turkish f-16 fighters to enter the airspace of the Syrian Arab Republic may end in the defeat of these aircraft.
Неожиданный манёвр российских ПВОшников в Сирии заставил Турцию дрожать - такого Эрдоган не ожидал
 
angelburst29 said:
Syrians dread impact of Caesar Act sanctions aimed at Assad
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Like the mysterious figure it is named for, the Caesar sanctions bill is the product of an elaborate deception by shadowy US- and Gulf-backed operatives. Instead of protecting Syrian civilians, the unilateral measures are driving them towards hunger and death.

How a US and Qatari regime change deception produced 'Caesar' sanctions driving Syria towards famine | The Grayzone
June 25, 2020 - The US Department of Treasury’s imposition this June of the so-called Caesar Civilian Protection Act, a draconian set of economic sanctions on Syria, amounts to a medieval-style siege on all Syrians living inside the country.

Inspired by photos that Western governments and media claim were smuggled out of Syria by a supposed Syrian military whistleblower codenamed “Caesar,” the sanctions are the product of a highly deceptive intelligence operation orchestrated by the US and Qatari governments.

As this investigation will demonstrate, a network of US- and Qatar-backed regime change operatives marketing themselves as human rights lawyers and concerned Syrian activists groomed the supposed whistleblower, managed his files, and worked overtime to obstruct public scrutiny.

Desperate to stimulate support for war on Syria, this network worked with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in a cynical campaign to portray the Syrian crisis as equal to – and possibly worse than – the Jewish genocide in Europe.

Shockingly, investigators have determined that at least half of the photographs in the “Caesar” trove depict the bodies of government soldiers killed by the armed opposition. This highly inconvenient fact, which undermines the entire narrative of Caesar’s promoters and exposes them as cynical liars, has been ignored across the board by mainstream US media, Congress, and of course, by the network of operatives that managed “Caesar.” (Article continues.)


Russia quits U.N. system aimed at protecting hospitals, aid in Syria
June 25, 2020 - Russia said on Thursday it has quit a voluntary United Nations arrangement that aimed to protect hospitals and humanitarian aid deliveries in Syria from being hit by the warring parties.

Russia made the decision following an internal U.N. inquiry in April found it was “highly probable” the Syrian government or its allies carried out attacks on three healthcare facilities, a school and a refuge for children in northwest Syria last year.

Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused “various ‘opposition groups’ and terrorists through their proxies” of abusing the humanitarian deconfliction process. Russia believed the United Nations should give any relevant information to Syrian authorities, he said.

“We do not see withdrawal as a threat to the humanitarian workers on the ground if information provided is accurate and trustworthy,” Nebenzia told Reuters.
 
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