from RT
Washington has defended Israel’s military incursion into Syria, with State Department spokesman Matthew Miller stressing that the operation is in self-defense. At a press briefing on Monday, Miller claimed that the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) advance to the Syrian side of the Golan Heights was done to prevent Syrian-based militants from taking over the border areas and launching an offensive into Israel in the future.
Israeli troops moved into the demilitarized buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights on Sunday, after Syrian opposition forces seized Damascus and forced former President Bashar Assad to flee the country. On Monday, Israeli forces moved beyond the buffer zone and into Syria proper, with Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz saying they intend to create a new “security area” there that would be clear of “heavy strategic weapons and terrorist infrastructure.”
According to Miller, by abandoning its positions in the area around the buffer zone, the Syrian Army “potentially created a vacuum” that could be filled by terrorist organizations.
“That would threaten the state of Israel and would threaten civilians inside Israel. Every country has the right to take action against terrorist organizations,” Miller stated, adding that “ultimately, it’s important that there is security along that border,” which, according to him, the Israeli military can now ensure....
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That's exactly why you've now got rampant idiocy, war whoops, rebel yells, psychotic drooling, and threats of Armageddon from luminaries like Lindsey the crazy-ass southern fried Graham cracker threatening Erdog aka Two Horns Rising, a zato ally yet, against jumping in (against the kurds?) and messifying their Mackinder chessboard game.
ReplyDeleteI realized a decade ago at least, maybe even before that aborted 2016 July coup against him, that his fate would be like every other useful idiot who is no longer useful or getting too 'unreliable' (like Noriega 1989 panama) going back to nato starting 1949.
FACT is Turkey was admitted in in 1952, along with very suspiciously Greece their historic enemy which should have caused many to say 'WTF!', for the sole reason of the promise whispered in their earthen that they would get back those lands they lost to russia, 3 times out of 3 in wars going back 300 years.
Turkey has been russia's biggest land donor NOT landowner in russia's 1000 year history (since kiev rus);