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newthinking

(3,982 posts) Thu Dec 3, 2015, 01:36 PM Dec 2015

How Russia is Smashing the Turkish Game in Syria

Why does the Turkey "Rat Line" (Seymore Hersh) remind me of (a neo-con/neolib) neuvo Iran-Contra affair?

(Seymore Hersh's original investigative work

How Russia is Smashing the Turkish Game in Syria

by Pepe Escobar

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/03/how-russia-is-smashing-the-turkish-game-in-syria/

So why did Washington take virtually forever to not really acknowledge ISIS/ISIL/Daesh is selling stolen Syrian oil that will eventually find is way to Turkey?

Because the priority all along was to allow the CIA – in the shadows – to run a “rat line” weaponizing a gaggle of invisible “moderate rebels”.

As much as Daesh – at least up to now – the Barzani mob in Iraqi Kurdistan was never under Washington’s watch. The oil operation the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) runs to Turkey is virtually illegal; stolen state-owned oil as far as Baghdad is concerned.

The Turkmen fifth column

Now the CIA is on a mission from God – frantically trying to prevent the rat line from being definitely smashed by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) on the ground and Russia in the air.

The same desperation applies to the Aleppo-Azez-Killis route, which is also essential for Turkey for all kinds of smuggling.

The advanced arm of the “4+1” alliance – Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, plus Hezbollah – is taking no prisoners trying to re-conquer these two key corridors.

And that explains Ankara’s desperation – with a little help from His Masters’ Voice – to come up with an entirely new rat line/corridor through Afrin, currently under Syrian Kurd control, before Damascus forces and Russia air power get there.

Full read:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/03/how-russia-is-smashing-the-turkish-game-in-syria/

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How Russia is Smashing the Turkish Game in Syria (Original Post) newthinking Dec 2015 OP

The crap that is done in our name amazes me sometimes CanonRay Dec 2015 #1

There are no good guys Cayenne Dec 2015 #2

Very interesting read.... KoKo Dec 2015 #3

CanonRay

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1. The crap that is done in our name amazes me sometimes

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Thu Dec 3, 2015, 02:44 PM

Dec 2015

This country used to stand for something good, even when it wasn't all good in reality, we usually tried. Now we don't even pay lip service to our ideals.

Cayenne

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2. There are no good guys

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Thu Dec 3, 2015, 05:20 PM

Dec 2015

KoKo

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3. Very interesting read....

Reply to newthinking (Original post)

Thu Dec 3, 2015, 06:13 PM

Dec 2015

and his embedded links for those who missed the earlier articles.

I remember when Sy Hersh's report about the CIA "Rat Lines" through Libya, for weapons transfer, was only picked up in the "London Review of Books" because it was so controversial that none of his other usual media outlets would publish it.

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