TND Guest Contributor: Petr Lvov |
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If
someone had the impression that the visit of Secretary of State John
Kerry to the town of Sochi, followed by negotiations with Victoria
Nuland, his deputy in Moscow, could be regarded as first steps in the
direction of normalization of US-Russian relations, they would be deeply
mistaken. In short, Washington, particularly the Obama administration,
is trying to solve its problems at the expense or rather with the help
of Russia, to ensure the victory of Hillary Clinton in the upcoming
elections. However, the United States continues to apply pressure on
Russia, using a variety of different strategies.
Special attention is now paid to Syria and the weakened regime
of Bashar al-Assad in the face of a new armed assault against Damascus.
The attempts to trade the support of Syria for a number of concessions
on Ukraine and Crimea allegedly made by John Kerry failed. Then
Americans attempted blackmail, which is the strategy of choice for
Washington in the countries that resist its dictate. On May 19 the
Russian embassy in Syria was shelled by militants, presumably Jaysh
al-Islam, which resulted in one of the shells exploding in the main
building of the diplomatic mission. Fortunately, there was nobody there
in the room destroyed by the explosion. Immediately after the attack the
State Department swiftly condemned this act of terrorism. But we all
are well aware of the fact that the “southern front” operating in the
suburbs of the Syrian capital is controlled by Jordan with a certain
amount of US assistance, unlike the “northern front” guided by Turkey
and Saudi Arabia. The shelling of the Russian embassy – is clearly a
signal to Russia that it should abandon its support of the Syrian
regime.
Russian Embassy Attack: Terrorism Or Act of War?
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/21/russian-embassy-attack-terrorism-or-act-of-war/
On
Tuesday, May 19th the Russian consulate in Damascus suffered another
attack by NATO proxy forces trying to overthrow the government of Syria.
The Russian Foreign Ministry responded with a statement condemning the
attack as an act of “terrorism” and asked the “international community”
to respond to the attack and urged “all parties enjoying influence on extremists in Syria to demand they immediately stop such actions.”
But was this an act of terrorism or an
act of war? Let’s examine what an act of terrorism is. It is an attack
on civilians by individuals or small groups with the objective of
creating terror in the population in order to achieve political
purposes. An attack on a military post or an attack on a military unit
are not acts of terrorism, but are acts of war. The shelling of a
foreign embassy by organised armed units engaged in a war is not an act
of terrorism either. It is an attack on the foreign state itself and
therefore is an act of war and meant as such.
And who is this mysterious
“international community” they refer to? Well, everyone who is not
blind, deaf and dumb knows it is the United States of America and its
lieutenants in crime who are engaged in the war against Syria; Britain,
France, Canada, Jordan, Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia. It is not a
matter of these countries “enjoying influence” as the Foreign Ministry
stated but a matter of their direct support and control of the forces
that attacked the consulate.
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/21/russian-embassy-attack-terrorism-or-act-of-war/
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/21/russian-embassy-attack-terrorism-or-act-of-war/
