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Originally posted by THGRRI:
US forces reportedly killed more than 100 Russian mercenaries inside Syria

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/2/13/17008446/us-troops-syria-russia-me
rcenaries-killed

Dozens of Russians Are Believed Killed in U.S.-Backed Syria Attack

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/world/europe/russia-syria-dead.html

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
I was listening to a news report on TV I never listen to - one of those international news shows in English, with many accents. I think Christiane Amanpour was one of the newscasters/ hosts. And they brought on an Israeli investigative reporter and asked him about what was going on.

When it comes to Israel, his report was that Israel was acting out of the mindset 'if someone comes to kill you, you should rise up and kill him first'. But that Israel had planned a much more extensive mission. Only Netanyahu called Putin, and Putin told him to stand down. So Netanyahu did.

Also, I'd lost track of this, but Israeli police have opined there's enough corruption evidence against Netanyahu to bring charges. So Netanyahu seems like he's on a deadline.

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Dribble, no cites. Someone said something to someone else and it would have been worse but Putin told the Israel leader to make the mission smaller??????Dribble


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Originally posted by 1kiki:
For the first time ever, an Israeli jet was shot down.
Israel needs to rethink whether it still has air superiority.

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You're kidding right?
Or is that a real attempt to save face for Russia?

Either way, sad

Air supremacy is a position in war where a side holds complete
control of air warfare and air power over opposing forces.

And that my fried would be Israel and the U.S.
The Russian air force watched these two raids from the ground.
I would add, from inside bunkers.

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Russia attacked American troops in Syria. Big mistake...below is a
conversation about what happened.

'They beat our a--es': Russian mercenaries talk about humiliating
defeat by US in reportedly leaked audio

The audio recordings, in which voices can be heard saying
200 people died “right away,” appear to back up reports from Reuters,
Bloomberg, and the Pentagon that roughly 100 – if not more –
Russians died in the fight. Reuters has cited sources as saying
the advance’s purpose was to test the US’s response.

First clip:

“The reports that are on TV about … well, you know,
about Syria and the 25 people that are wounded there from
the Syrian f— army and – well … to make it short,
we’ve had our asses f— kicked. So one squadron f— lost
200 people …right away, another one lost 10 people … and
I don’t know about the third squadron, but it got torn up pretty badly,
too … So three squadrons took a beating …
The Yankees attacked … first they blasted the f— out of us
by artillery, and then they took four
helicopters up and pushed us in a f— merry-go-round with heavy
calibre machine guns … They were all shelling the holy f— out of it,
and our guys didn’t have anything besides the assault rifles …
nothing at all, not even mentioning shoulder-fired SAMs or
anything like that … So they tore us to pieces for sure,
put us through hell, and the Yankees knew for sure that the
Russians were coming, that it was us, f— Russians …
Our guys were going to commandeer an oil refinery,
and the Yankees were holding it … We got our f— asses beat rough,
my men called me… They’re there drinking now …
many have gone missing … it’s a total f— up, it sucks,
another takedown … Everybody, you know,
treats us like pieces of s— … They beat our asses
like we were little pieces of s— … but our f— government
will go in reverse now, and nobody will respond or anything,
and nobody will punish anyone for this … So these are our casualties.”

Second clip:

“Out of all vehicles, only one tank survived and one
BRDM [armoured reconnaissance vehicle] after the attack,
all other BRDMs and tanks were destroyed in
the first minutes of the fight, right away.”

Third clip:

“Just had a call with a guy – so they basically formed a convoy,
but did not get to their f— positions by some 300 meters.
One unit moved forward, the convoy remained in place,
about 300 meters from the others. The others raised
the American f— flag, and their artillery started
f— ours really hard. Then their f— choppers flew in and
started f— everybody. Ours just running around. Just got
a call from a pal, so there are about 215 f— killed.
They simply rolled ours out f— hard. Made their point.
What the f— ours were hoping for in there?! That they
will f— run away themselves? Hoped to f— scare them away?
Lots of people f— so bad [they] can’t be f— ID’d.
There was no foot soldiers [on the American side];
they simply f— our convoy with artillery.”

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/russia-leaked-audio-humiliating-def
eat-by-us-forces-2018-2?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=businessinsider.com.au&utm_term=68814&utm_content=2198520


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Ah, Syria.

Much has happened since Syria was posted about as its own independent topic.

For one thing, Israel and Saudi Arabia became open partners in the "topple Syria" project. Of course, one warlike theistic government would have much in common with another.

Since Saudi's proxies (terrorists) have failed to do the job, Israel has pulled a lot of provocations in Israel. The one that caused Russia to respond was the shooting down of a Russian reconnaissance aircraft as if flew over the Mediterranean. As a result, S300s were installed in Syria. Isreal then launched an attack on Damascus airport, using a commercial jetliner as a human shield for its attack.

But, no matter. Despite Trump's weaseling out of his withdrawal of American troops, the Kurds ... facing "extermination" by Turkish troops ... are drawing up agreements with the Assad government.

So despite the Trump administation's plan to carve up Syria ... like "Picot-Sykes on acid" ... the fun is done. Our pet terrorists ... both the jihadi and the Israeli kind ... have lost.

Fuck the deep state and their plans for world domination. The sooner Trump stops listening to/ tolerating these assholes, the better off we'll all be.

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I'm sorry, Trump is no longer withdrawing troops from Middle East? How new is that?
I know it was incredibly stupid of him to announce to the world our future troop movements, but I thought it was a done deal.

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Are you hoping the Kurds flourish, or are exterminated?

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US Army Takes 50 Tons Of Gold From Syria In Alleged Deal With ISIS


As the remaining pockets of ISIS fighters faced imminent defeat in northeast Syria, the United States allegedly gave them an offer they couldn’t refuse: give us your massive caches of gold - or die.

According to reports by Syrian state news agency SANA, U.S. forces struck a deal with ISIS whereby the terrorist group would give up 50 tons of gold across eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zour province in exchange for safe passage.

The precious metal, worth about $2.13 billion, was plundered by the self-designated “caliphate” as its reign of terror spread across Syria and Iraq between 2015 and 2017.

Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah reports that local sources claim U.S. Army helicopters have already transferred the gold from the U.S. forces’ base in Kobani, the Kurdish-controlled city that lies close to Syria’s northern border with Syria. A portion of the gold was also distributed to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which dominates the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The news comes after SANA claimed that locals witnessed U.S. helicopters airlifting large cases of gold amounting to about 40 tons from the al-Dashisha area in Hasaka’s southern countryside earlier this month. The gold was purportedly looted by ISIS from Mosul in Iraq and other parts of Syria.

The Syrian state media outlet claimed that ISIS leaders were on-hand to guide the U.S. helicopters to the places where the gold was stashed, “closing a deal by which Washington spared hundreds of the terror organization’s field leaders and experts.”

The claims by the Syrian government outlet coincide with reports by U.K.-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), which alleged that the U.S. and its Kurdish allies had been sparing ISIS fighters in hopes of acquiring the group’s war spoils.

The SOHR said:

“The U.S.-led coalition forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deliberately do not target the areas under the control of the ISIL terrorists and commanders in Eastern Euphrates in Deir el-Zour as they are trying to locate this treasure by forcing the ISIL militants to speak about its location after surrendering.”

Syrian and Russian media alike have long alleged that, contrary to Washington’s claims, it is waging a war on the extremist group. U.S. forces are instead collaborating with them in myriad ways.

During the destruction of ISIS-controlled Raqqa in Syria by the U.S.-led coalition, a secret deal was struck with the group that granted members safe passage as it evacuated the area. The deal, uncovered by the BBC, ensured the survival and freedom of many top ISIS leaders and a number of foreign fighters.

The U.S. still maintains its base in al-Tanf at the Syrian-Jordanian border in contravention of international law and against the wishes of the Syrian government on the pretext of combating ISIS. Moscow has repeatedly accused the United States of forming new armed groups from the remains of ISIS, where they are allegedly given free rein and pop up “like a jack-in-the-box” to ambush Syrian troops before fading back into the U.S.-controlled region.

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According to mideast newpapers, a UK-based Syrian rights group, and the BBC ...

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US Army Takes 50 Tons Of Gold From Syria In Alleged Deal With ISIS


As the remaining pockets of ISIS fighters faced imminent defeat in northeast Syria, the United States allegedly gave them an offer they couldn’t refuse: give us your massive caches of gold - or die.

According to reports by Syrian state news agency SANA, U.S. forces struck a deal with ISIS whereby the terrorist group would give up 50 tons of gold across eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zour province in exchange for safe passage.

The precious metal, worth about $2.13 billion, was plundered by the self-designated “caliphate” as its reign of terror spread across Syria and Iraq between 2015 and 2017.

Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah reports that local sources claim U.S. Army helicopters have already transferred the gold from the U.S. forces’ base in Kobani, the Kurdish-controlled city that lies close to Syria’s northern border with Syria. A portion of the gold was also distributed to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which dominates the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The news comes after SANA claimed that locals witnessed U.S. helicopters airlifting large cases of gold amounting to about 40 tons from the al-Dashisha area in Hasaka’s southern countryside earlier this month. The gold was purportedly looted by ISIS from Mosul in Iraq and other parts of Syria.

The Syrian state media outlet claimed that ISIS leaders were on-hand to guide the U.S. helicopters to the places where the gold was stashed, “closing a deal by which Washington spared hundreds of the terror organization’s field leaders and experts.”

The claims by the Syrian government outlet coincide with reports by U.K.-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), which alleged that the U.S. and its Kurdish allies had been sparing ISIS fighters in hopes of acquiring the group’s war spoils.

The SOHR said:

“The U.S.-led coalition forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deliberately do not target the areas under the control of the ISIL terrorists and commanders in Eastern Euphrates in Deir el-Zour as they are trying to locate this treasure by forcing the ISIL militants to speak about its location after surrendering.”

Syrian and Russian media alike have long alleged that, contrary to Washington’s claims, it is waging a war on the extremist group. U.S. forces are instead collaborating with them in myriad ways.

During the destruction of ISIS-controlled Raqqa in Syria by the U.S.-led coalition, a secret deal was struck with the group that granted members safe passage as it evacuated the area. The deal, uncovered by the BBC, ensured the survival and freedom of many top ISIS leaders and a number of foreign fighters.

The U.S. still maintains its base in al-Tanf at the Syrian-Jordanian border in contravention of international law and against the wishes of the Syrian government on the pretext of combating ISIS. Moscow has repeatedly accused the United States of forming new armed groups from the remains of ISIS, where they are allegedly given free rein and pop up “like a jack-in-the-box” to ambush Syrian troops before fading back into the U.S.-controlled region.

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https://themindunleashed.com/2019/02/50-tons-gold-syria-isis.html

If true ... and I have no reason to believe that it isn't ... this is exactly what happened in Libya. Qaddafi had a large gold reserve; and was going initiate a pan-African gold-based currency. THAT, of course, was his mortal sin: Like Saddam, he was going to go off the petrodollar reservation, and that just wouldn't be tolerated,


So, whatever happended to that approximately 150 tons of gold and approximately the sameamount in silver? No one is saying, but I'd bet that some western nation stole it.

MORE ABOUT LIBYAN GOLD
https://awfulavalanche.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/who-stole-143-tons-of-
gold-from-the-libyan-people/

Aside from rhyming with Iraq (It too was going off the petrodollar. Was its gold stolen as well?) and Libya, Venezuela is another one of those oil-states with plans to go off the petrodollar reservation. So it's not surprising that Britain refuses to give Venezuela its gold back, which it held "in trust" for the Venezuelan government. And of course the USA is doing everything it can to keep Iranian oil (and gas) off the world market. If Saudi Arabia chooses to peel from the petrodollar, that will be the death-knell.

The one knotty "petrodollar" problem that the USA can't seem to solve is Russia, which is also a big oil exporter and which is adding to its huge reserves of gold, and which (with China) is developing a non-petrodollar, non-SWIFT system of exchange. No wonder the western central banks are so anxious about their dollar reserves!

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