http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/defense/256164-putin-and-the-shiite-axis-of-resistance
October 07, 2015, 10:00 am
Putin and the Shiite 'Axis of Resistance'
In the summer of 2006, the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah went toe to toe with Israel for 34 days. When the smoke cleared, Hezbollah declared "divine victory," and soon after, Middle Eastern capitals were plastered with posters featuring militia leader Hassan Nasrallah alongside his benefactors Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This Shiite so-called "Axis of Resistance" achieved widespread regional popularity, including unprecedented support among Sunni Muslims, which lasted until 2011, when Assad, backed by Hezbollah and Iran, began his campaign to eradicate Sunni regime opponents. [ to drag them in and leave them without options - convert and fight the "Mossad anti-Assad" rebels or die ]
In the aftermath of Russia's deployment of an expeditionary force in Syria, a new slew of posters have appeared. The current iteration features images of Nasrallah, Assad, Khamenei, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, with an Arabic caption that roughly translates "Men who bow to no one but God." The poster, reportedly displayed in central Damascus, suggests another emerging regional "Axis of Resistance." Unlike 2006, however, this new axis — which targets Syrian Sunnis instead of Israel — is deeply polarizing. Worse, the Obama administration, through acts of omission and commission, risks implicating the U.S. in the new alliance.According to Putin, Russia has deployed to Syria to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). But the public diplomacy belies a more limited Russian objective focused on protecting an increasingly vulnerable Assad regime. Indeed, Moscow holds that all of Assad's opponents are "terrorists" and has no compunction targeting Islamic and secular militias alike. Confirming Russia's unofficial agenda, the first week of airstrikes were directly almost exclusively at Idlib, Homs and Dera', regions of Syria absent significant ISIS presence. The administration says that Moscow is "intentionally" hitting CIA-backed rebels.
Meanwhile, as Russia has moved into Syria, Washington's position on the Assad regime has evolved. Four years ago, the administration's position was that "Assad must go." This month, Secretary of State Kerry suggested that the timing of Assad's departure was negotiable. While the administration won't admit it, the subtle shift highlights a growing ambivalence about the survival of the Assad regime in the shadow of ISIS territorial gains. In the region and particularly among Washington's erstwhile Sunni allies, the progression is being seen as the antecedent to U.S. acquiescence of continued Assad rule.
The Middle East has long harbored a predilection for conspiracy theories. Objectively, though, the regional perception of the U.S. policy shift is accurate. President Obama hinted at this new "equilibrium" between Sunni Gulf states and Iran in January 2014, more than a year before the nuclear agreement was signed. Now, Foggy Bottom is talking with Iran about Syria, and the Pentagon is de-conflicting air operations with Russia.
This nascent U.S. regional realignment has been operationalized in a de facto division of labor between Russia and the U.S. on Syria. The awkward arrangement has Moscow whacking the most proximate threat to Assad's regime, the relatively more moderate opposition — including militias purportedly receiving U.S. support — and Washington bombing ISIS. Working in tandem, the U.S. and Russian campaigns are targeting the broad range of Assad's foes, effectively insulating the regime from the threat of imminent collapse.
To be sure, the chief benefactor of this dynamic is Assad. But the campaign also offers Moscow a useful diversion from Ukraine and a chance to reestablish a foothold in the Middle East, something U.S. policy for the past four decades has worked to deny. At the same time, the U.S.-Russian understanding preserves Iranian equities in Syria and protects Tehran's proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah. It could also potentially limit Israel's ability to target Hezbollah operations in South Syria. Not surprisingly, many of the region's Sunnis view the developing U.S.-Russian condominium in Syria with great concern, a sign that Washington now views Russia and Iran as forces for stability.
[ note- they will be pushed to form a desperate caliphate or some kind of alliance, so much for CIA help]
While this arrangement may achieve perhaps the primary administration objective of preventing a U.S. quagmire, it has little chance of stabilizing Syria or stemming the flow of refugees. Surveys suggest that most of the 4 million refugees have fled the savagery of the regime, not ISIS [ courtesy of Vladimir (the impaler of sunnis) Putin]. The ferocity of Russia's air campaign will all but certainly exacerbate the crisis, fuel additional support for ISIS and further cleanse Syria of Sunni Muslims, improving the demographic balance for the nominally Shiite Assad regime.
Whether the administration was, as The Washington Post reported, "blindsided" by Russian military operations, or whether it quietly welcomed the bombing as some kind of macabre burden-sharing, Moscow's Syrian initiative makes matters worse. As Nancy Youssef of the Daily Beast recently tweeted that she "overheard" at the Pentagon, "Right now, we are Putin's prison bitch." (?????????????)
Russia's military deployment in Syria is a strategic boon for the Shiite "Axis of Resistance" and its new partner, Russia. This resurgent axis was in part made possible by the absence of a credible U.S. Syria policy, but it will only be bolstered should Washington embrace Russia and Iran as its regional security partners. Already in the Middle East, there is a widely held perception that the U.S. has made this decision. No doubt, the administration will continue to insist that the Iran nuclear deal doesn't signal a broader regional realignment. Should the U.S. tilt toward Russia and Iran persist, President Obama might find himself alongside Assad, Khamenei, Nasrallah and Putin on the next run of posters.
Schenker is director of the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
In the aftermath of Russia's deployment of an expeditionary force in Syria, a new slew of posters have appeared. The current iteration features images of Nasrallah, Assad, Khamenei, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, with an Arabic caption that roughly translates "Men who bow to no one but God." The poster, reportedly displayed in central Damascus, suggests another emerging regional "Axis of Resistance." Unlike 2006, however, this new axis — which targets Syrian Sunnis instead of Israel — is deeply polarizing. Worse, the Obama administration, through acts of omission and commission, risks implicating the U.S. in the new alliance.According to Putin, Russia has deployed to Syria to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). But the public diplomacy belies a more limited Russian objective focused on protecting an increasingly vulnerable Assad regime. Indeed, Moscow holds that all of Assad's opponents are "terrorists" and has no compunction targeting Islamic and secular militias alike. Confirming Russia's unofficial agenda, the first week of airstrikes were directly almost exclusively at Idlib, Homs and Dera', regions of Syria absent significant ISIS presence. The administration says that Moscow is "intentionally" hitting CIA-backed rebels.
Meanwhile, as Russia has moved into Syria, Washington's position on the Assad regime has evolved. Four years ago, the administration's position was that "Assad must go." This month, Secretary of State Kerry suggested that the timing of Assad's departure was negotiable. While the administration won't admit it, the subtle shift highlights a growing ambivalence about the survival of the Assad regime in the shadow of ISIS territorial gains. In the region and particularly among Washington's erstwhile Sunni allies, the progression is being seen as the antecedent to U.S. acquiescence of continued Assad rule.
The Middle East has long harbored a predilection for conspiracy theories. Objectively, though, the regional perception of the U.S. policy shift is accurate. President Obama hinted at this new "equilibrium" between Sunni Gulf states and Iran in January 2014, more than a year before the nuclear agreement was signed. Now, Foggy Bottom is talking with Iran about Syria, and the Pentagon is de-conflicting air operations with Russia.
This nascent U.S. regional realignment has been operationalized in a de facto division of labor between Russia and the U.S. on Syria. The awkward arrangement has Moscow whacking the most proximate threat to Assad's regime, the relatively more moderate opposition — including militias purportedly receiving U.S. support — and Washington bombing ISIS. Working in tandem, the U.S. and Russian campaigns are targeting the broad range of Assad's foes, effectively insulating the regime from the threat of imminent collapse.
To be sure, the chief benefactor of this dynamic is Assad. But the campaign also offers Moscow a useful diversion from Ukraine and a chance to reestablish a foothold in the Middle East, something U.S. policy for the past four decades has worked to deny. At the same time, the U.S.-Russian understanding preserves Iranian equities in Syria and protects Tehran's proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah. It could also potentially limit Israel's ability to target Hezbollah operations in South Syria. Not surprisingly, many of the region's Sunnis view the developing U.S.-Russian condominium in Syria with great concern, a sign that Washington now views Russia and Iran as forces for stability.
[ note- they will be pushed to form a desperate caliphate or some kind of alliance, so much for CIA help]
While this arrangement may achieve perhaps the primary administration objective of preventing a U.S. quagmire, it has little chance of stabilizing Syria or stemming the flow of refugees. Surveys suggest that most of the 4 million refugees have fled the savagery of the regime, not ISIS [ courtesy of Vladimir (the impaler of sunnis) Putin]. The ferocity of Russia's air campaign will all but certainly exacerbate the crisis, fuel additional support for ISIS and further cleanse Syria of Sunni Muslims, improving the demographic balance for the nominally Shiite Assad regime.
Whether the administration was, as The Washington Post reported, "blindsided" by Russian military operations, or whether it quietly welcomed the bombing as some kind of macabre burden-sharing, Moscow's Syrian initiative makes matters worse. As Nancy Youssef of the Daily Beast recently tweeted that she "overheard" at the Pentagon, "Right now, we are Putin's prison bitch." (?????????????)
Russia's military deployment in Syria is a strategic boon for the Shiite "Axis of Resistance" and its new partner, Russia. This resurgent axis was in part made possible by the absence of a credible U.S. Syria policy, but it will only be bolstered should Washington embrace Russia and Iran as its regional security partners. Already in the Middle East, there is a widely held perception that the U.S. has made this decision. No doubt, the administration will continue to insist that the Iran nuclear deal doesn't signal a broader regional realignment. Should the U.S. tilt toward Russia and Iran persist, President Obama might find himself alongside Assad, Khamenei, Nasrallah and Putin on the next run of posters.
Schenker is director of the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Russia-Israel-Iran alliance: the PURPOSE.
http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.bg/2015/09/russia-israeli-iran-alliance-purpose.html
"Israel to provide Russia with intelligence about Syrian opposition" [article]
http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.bg/2015/10/israel-to-provide-russia-with.html
....... ISIS is a tool FOR Iran
" “ISIS got started through funding from our friends and allies. People will tell you in the region that if you want somebody who will fight to the death against Hezbollah, you don’t put out a recruiting poster saying ‘sign up for us we’re gonna make a better world.’ You go after zealots and you go after these religious fundamentalists. That’s who fights Hezbollah. It’s like a Frankenstein.”"
Gen Clarke"Born Jewish, raised Baptist and converted to Catholicism" [...and serving the Iran-Isreali Pact]
http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.bg/2015/09/born-jewish-raised-baptist-and.html
"How is it possible to be more pro-Putin than this??! Frankly, it is impossible! If you make out of the Hellish mess of Syria an "happy talk", it means only one thing: you want DISENGAGEMENT. And if you want disengagement, it is only to make a favor to Putin & Iran, to leave to them the total control of Syria (and Middle East) - period.
Therefore this is the best evidence that ISIS is not "under the control" - figure it out "created", by US intelligence. At the opposite, this is an evidence that ISIS and Al Nusra are firmly in the hands of the "regime", truly speaking of the Kremlin and Tehran, which can play whatever kind of dirty game with them, being the US intelligence only the spectator of events whose masterminds and goals are quite as much true out of the control of CIA & Pentagon. "A Shia genocide of Sunni in sight in Iraq? part 2: with Obama's and Pope Francis' approval, also in Syria.
http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.bg/2015/09/a-shia-genocide-of-sunni-in-sight-in.html
https://twitter.com/nancyayoussef/status/649243859025854464
Nancy Youssef, نانسى "Overheard at the Pentagon: "Right now, we are Putin's prison bitch."
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" The present "captivity" of Sophia is materialized in the Putinist dictatorship. Therein is the theme of sophia captured and enslaved as a prostitute or kept drugged in a psychiatric ward."
Pope Lamech and 49 revised and expanded
http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.bg/2015/08/pope-lamech-and-49-revised-and-expanded.html
And Putin's trophy female prisoner:![]()
At the time, the Kremlin urgent needed a salient figure to be use for propaganda purposes. As a woman, a senior lieutenant, and a pilot, Savchenko was a very eye-catching image for kindling hatred among the subjugated electorate.Putin’s hostage Savchenko is awaiting her fate
http://www.4freerussia.org/putins-hostage-savchenko-is-awaiting-her-fate/
Just to begin (i have to finish to read it all), --->
ОтговорИзтриване"In the summer of 2006, the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah went toe to toe with Israel for 34 days. "
34 = 2 X 17 aka "year 2017. You are perfect right. Israel DIDN'T abandon like a rat the boat of NATO (as that commenter said in 2010, anyway demonstrating much much more perception than the average dumb spectator), but was already on the Putin's wavelenght. Indeed the disgustous spectacle of an Israel which signs a military agreement with RUSSIA just some months AFTER the assassination of Kaczinski at Smolensk, is only the effect of a long time dated turning of front of Israel. Obama didn't "betray" Israel, he is only the man awaited since long time to have an alibi for such back-stab.
"The Soviet period
ИзтриванеFrom late 1944, Joseph Stalin adopted a pro-Zionist foreign policy, apparently believing that the new country would be socialist and would speed the decline of British influence in the Middle East.[2] Accordingly, in November 1947, the Soviet Union, together with the other Soviet bloc countries voted in favor of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine,[3] which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel. On May 17, 1948, three days after Israel declared its independence, the Soviet Union officially granted de jure recognition of Israel,[4] becoming only the second country to recognise the Jewish state (preceded only by the United States' de facto recognition) and the first country to grant Israel de jure recognition.
Golda Meir was appointed Israel's minister plenipotentiary to the Soviet Union, with her term beginning on 2 September 1948 and ending in March, 1949.[5] During her brief stint in the USSR, Meir attended Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services at the Moscow Choral Synagogue.[6]
In addition to the diplomatic support, arms from Czechoslovakia, part of the Soviet bloc, were crucial to Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. During the war, the Soviet Union supported Israel when it was attacked by Arab countries that opposed the 1947 United Nations General Assembly resolution for the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations
" just some months AFTER the assassination of Kaczinski at Smolensk,"
ИзтриванеI forgot to tell why: Kaczinski took care to let Polish youth to know the Holocaust and was much appreciated in Israel. When he died Israel's public opinion mourned.
Another evidence of the bitching of Israel about Iran & Hezbollah - in the last war with Hamas, thanks to the pro-Putin vote at the UN as regard the Ukrainian borders, Israel was awarded by Putin (Iran) with a friendly Hezbollah:
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"...Hezbollah Talks Big but Bows Out of the Gaza War
The Gaza War
07.23.14
by Jamie Dettmer
Hamas is increasingly isolated in the region as it fights its ferocious war against Israel. In the old days Hezbollah might have helped—but not now.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah boss Hassan Nasrallah made a phone call to Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal on Monday and vowed to support “the resistance in Gaza in any way necessary.” Then Nasrallah, whose fame has spread far and wide over the years as the head of the Iranian-backed Lebanese “Party of God,” called Palestinians Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Salah to talk about maintaining close diplomatic ties in the fight against Israel.
But here’s the real message from Nasrallah: Hamas, you’re on your own.
Etc. etc. etc....
From the Daily Beast in:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/23/hezbollah-talks-big-but-bows-out-of-the-gaza-war.html
" this new axis — which targets Syrian Sunnis instead of Israel — is deeply polarizing"
ИзтриванеIndeed. And Israel vs Iran is only a colossal hoax. I believe long-long time ago both agreed and keep the enmity only to deceive. To the Ayatollah Jerusalem is of no importance except in order to make of it a flag to wave in order to make gulp down to the Sunnis the KHOMEINISM. Once Khomeinized, such Sunnis can be transformed in "ISIS" and "Al Qaeda" supporters or even themselves.
What interest to the Iranian Rat is the Cheese called MECCA, but I believe that the bunch of cats of the Catholic Brothel (Russia, fleshy Israel, USA, etc.) at the last moment will push the Iranian rat in a trap to drown it.
The title of your post is the best one:
ИзтриванеBetter stay away from Iran.... and Israel
http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.it/2015/08/fleshly-israel-and-iran.html
"Therein is the theme of sophia captured and enslaved as a prostitute or kept drugged in a psychiatric ward.""
ИзтриванеExcellent bro! Just curious to see what happens to the archon Putin when his fall start .
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0S21AQ20151008
Изтриване''Thu Oct 8, 2015 | 2:17 PM EDT
ИзтриванеBelarussian writer wins Nobel prize, denounces Russia over Ukraine
Thu, Oct 8 2015 | 01:07
Alexievich, chronicler of Soviet life, wins Literature Nobel''
''"It is occupation, a foreign invasion," she said at a news conference in Minsk, adding that she wept when she saw photographs of those killed during pro-European street protests in the Ukrainian capital last year.
Изтриване"I love the good Russian world, the humanitarian Russian world, but I do not love the Russian world of Beria, Stalin and Shoigu," she said, referring to Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the security chief responsible for Stalin-era mass purges, Lavrenty Beria, and the current Russian defense minister, Sergei Shoigu.''
Pure gnosticism
ИзтриванеBELORussia = WHITE RUSSIA
SVETLANA = "BRIGHT LIGHT"
Obama is leaving the stage in order to allow the next destruction of Turkey ---->
ОтговорИзтриванеUS WITHDRAWS PATRIOTS DESPITE TURKEY'S APPEAL TO KEEP THEM
October 09, 2015, Friday/ 18:29:36/ EMRE SONCAN / ABDULLAH AYASUN / ANKARA
http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_us-withdraws-patriots-despite-turkeys-appeal-to-keep-them_401117.html
"TECHNICAL REASONS"????
Изтриване"A day after Ankara urged NATO to keep up Patriot defense systems in Turkey following Russian incursions into Turkish airspace over the weekend, the US began withdrawing its Patriot batteries from the country, on Friday, in line with its earlier announcement of pulling out on technical grounds -- for updating its systems -- and its assessment of the downgrading threat level from Syria.
Dozens of US trucks transported pieces of batteries and other systems to the port of İskenderun for shipment to the US on Friday.
While the US made the decision to withdraw its Patriot systems for mere technical reasons and due to the decreasing threats from Syria, imminent threats in northern Syria precipitated by Russian air strikes against rebel-held areas and the Russian violation of Turkish airspace twice over the weekend expose a troubling reality for Turkey."
HA, A DAY OF COINCIDENCES. 500 mil $ = 500 years of reformation OVER
Изтриванеhttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/world/middleeast/pentagon-program-islamic-state-syria.html
Obama Administration Halts Program to Train Syrians to Combat ISIS
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday abandoned its effort to build a rebel force inside Syria to combat the Islamic State, acknowledging the failure of its $500 million campaign to train thousands of fighters and saying the remaining money would be used to provide lethal aid for groups already engaged in the battle.
Jesuit silly math games
ИзтриванеNow Obama helped Putin to recycle the total desperation of ABANDONED Sunny leaving them only two alternative: 1) to remain in Syria & join the ''bad guy'' aka ISIS and supplyin Putin with alibi to build a war machine in Syria to destroy Turkey; 2) to emigrate in EU (and partially in USA) to stir anti-SUNNI hate and push EU & USA public opinion to love - as you righteously named him - Vlad the ''the impaler of Sunni'' (Putin).
ИзтриванеThese Jews are obsessed with the atoning blood of Christ the Lord, and you see it reflected in the obession for the "aristocratic" lineage:
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"Like the Islamic Mahdi, the expectant messiah of Shi’ite Islam, for up to four hundred years after his suicide and death in 68 CE, it was imprinted into the legendary memory of the Romans that Nero was not dead and would return. In 422 CE, Augustine of Hippe, writing on the lingering hopes of the admirers of Nero these words:
Augustine the Great – “Others, again, suppose that he (Nero) is not even dead, but that he was concealed that he might be supposed to have been killed, and that he now lives in concealment in the vigor of that same age which he had reached when he was believed to have perished, and will live until he is revealed in his own time and restored to his kingdom.” (Augustine of Hippo, City of God XX.19.3)"
http://destination-yisrael.biblesearchers.com/destination-yisrael/2012/05/-fuehrer-adolf-hitler-was-the-grandson-of-freiherr-salomon-mayer-von-rothschild-the-head-of-the-vien.html