By Pepe Escobar
June 20, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Russia has given the US a Sarajevo warning, according to one of my top Middle East intel sources.
Referring to the downing of a Syrian fighter
jet by the Pentagon, he says, “the United
States did not use the deconflict line which
has infuriated the Russians. This has to be
interpreted as a premeditated provocation of
Russia to start a war, and the Russians have
answered.”
The Pentagon seems to have gotten the
message – and decided to back off, at least
for now.
The source adds; “In the meantime, the
United States Senate by a nearly unanimous
vote have decided to declare war on Russia
(sanctions are war) and Germany has
threatened retaliation against the United
States if it initiates sanctions. Germany
accused the United States of trying to stop
the Nordstream 2 pipeline of Russia to the
EU so that the US can export their liquid
natural gas to the EU making the EU
dependent on the United States.”
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The
new sanctions against Russia basically
amount to telling the EU to buy expensive US
gas instead of cheap Russian gas. The
Germans and the Austrians basically told the
Americans to buzz off.
The source; “That spells out the end of NATO
if a trade war between the EU and the United
States takes place. The premeditated
shooting down of this Syrian plane can be
viewed as a form of distraction to get
Germany in line by having a war break out in
the Middle East.”
The Pentagon is not foolish enough – well,
who knows, the Dr. Strangelove syndrome is
alive and well – to start a war with Russia
by not using the “deconfliction” line in
Syria set up to avoid exactly what has just
happened.
Is Moscow worried? Doesn’t seem so. At his
recent live annual phone-in on TV Rossiya 1,
Putin did give away an extra –
ultra-practical - reason to be involved in
Syria:
“We can say that the experience of using our
Armed Forces in combat while employing
modern weapons is absolutely priceless, I am
saying this without any exaggeration. You
know, our forces have even gained an
absolutely different quality… Combat
experience also gave a chance to military
engineers to test and tune the weapons on
site.”
Bring it on, Pentagon.
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