Motus Mentis

9 Comments

1. Whitewall says

   Russians are having a rough time of it so here we get the ‘chemical attack’ narrative they used as a false flag in Syria.

   Posted April 24, 2022 at 1:25 pm | Permalink
2. Malcolm says

   About that: I recall Stephen F. Cohen calling to our attention the evidence that the Syrian gas attack was, indeed, a false-flag operation.

   Posted April 24, 2022 at 1:44 pm | Permalink
3. JK says

   https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/

   And as it happens … I reckon I maybe know something about what’s in that leaked stuff:

   https://www.areawidenews.com/story/2101182.html

   Posted April 24, 2022 at 9:29 pm | Permalink
4. Whitewall says

   JK, wasn’t that the chemical weapons removal and disposal deal the one with the Russians running the show? Seems like I remember it that way. If so, it would be all that were turned over for disposal, leaving out the ones not turned over of course.

   Posted April 25, 2022 at 7:41 am | Permalink
5. JK says

   In the end, however, the threat of military action and a surprise offer by Russia ended up achieving something no one had imagined possible: the peaceful removal of 1,300 tons of Syria’s chemical weapons (there have been reports of stray weapons and widespread use of industrial chemicals like chlorine, but no evidence of systematic deception on the part of the Syrian government).

   By October 2013, without a bomb being dropped, the Bashar Assad regime had admitted having a massive chemical weapons program it had never before acknowledged, agreed to give it up and submitted to a multinational coalition that removed and destroyed the deadly trove. From my perspective at the Pentagon, this seemed like an incontrovertible, if inelegant, example of what academics call “coercive diplomacy,” using the threat of force to achieve an outcome military power itself could not even accomplish.

   https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/obama-syria-foreign-policy-red-line-revisited-214059/

   Later …

   https://theintercept.com/2019/02/09/douma-chemical-attack-evidence-syria/

   & then there’s this:

   https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/medias-coverage-syria-april-2018-chemical-weapons-attack-disgrace-120806

   It’s been all-around and all-over Whitewall, an unmitigated confused mess, this chemical weapons scary business.

   But then too I suppose, depending on “interests” one helluva good PR opportunity – Some might use the term perspective management.

   (Now if I can only locate that goshdarned Obama-era flashdrive!)

   Posted April 25, 2022 at 10:23 am | Permalink
6. JK says

   Lemme try sumpin here (having, in the past, experienced a link failing to stick) …

   Russians are having a rough time of it so here we get …

   The link:

   https://voxday.net/2022/04/25/this-could-not-be-verified/

   Posted April 25, 2022 at 1:23 pm | Permalink
7. bob sykes says

   Perhaps connected, the US and EU/NATO appear to be working themselves up to a major escalation:

   https://www.indianpunchline.com/us-recruits-israel-against-russia/

   https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/the-dynamics-of-escalation-standing-with-ukraine

   World War Three by summer.

   Posted April 25, 2022 at 3:47 pm | Permalink
8. JK says

   Interesting Bob Sykes that Indian Punchline article because why, just this past

   February, Interfax Ukraine reported that the Israeli Defense Ministry told Baltic states that it wouldn’t meet requests for third-party transfer of Israeli-made weapons to Ukraine.

   https://www.jpost.com/international/article-704680

   So yep I reckon, it’d be a great thing to lay by a goodly stock of SPF 50,000 ’cause it looks like things are gonna go mighty incandescent.

   Sell Raytheon. Buy Coppertone!

   Posted April 25, 2022 at 5:30 pm | Permalink
9. JK says

   Well. Since this post is still open I reckon I’ll drop a couple links

   https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/

   (And as the US press hasn’t, as yet, seen fit to translate this for our consideration I’ll leave it in its Turkish form)

   https://www.aydinlik.com.tr/haber/macron-subaylarini-mariupolde-olume-terk-etti-312526

   “Wheels within wheels” indeed …

   Posted April 27, 2022 at 7:53 pm | Permalink