Thus, during the battle of Kobane, the Syrian
Air Force were unable to bomb the Islamic Emirate, and Syria
was obliged to attempt a land attack to save the city. Since
it was unable to advance the last thirty kilometres, the
Atlantist Press presented the Kurdish forces of the YPG as
being independent of Damascus, although the Syrian Arab
Republic had supplied it with weapons and was paying its
soldiers.The Patriot missiles,
initially deployed by Germany and Holland, are today German
and Spanish. They will first of all be revised and
modernised, then redeployed in Lithuania, at the Russian
frontier.
The entrance of the Russian army into the
war against Syria
Although Russia had abstained from
participating in military operations since the beginning of
the conflict, it has now created a Russo-Syrian Military
Commission. And yet, NATO had organised all the events
concerned in what was called the « Arab spring », including
the war against Syria, and coordinated foreign jihadist
groups and their Libyan and Syrian collaborators, called «
rebels », from the Turkish base in Izmir [3], now also the
location of LancCom (command of the land troops of the 28
member states of the Atlantic Alliance).
Within a few weeks, many military advisors
arrived in Damascus.
Six Mikoyan-Gourevitch MiG-31’s were
delivered. These planes are the best interceptors in the
world. They had been bought in 2007, but the contract had
been frozen. Their delivery is not affected by the arms
embargo, since they can not be used in operations concerning
the maintenance of law and order, but only for national
defence, in this case, possible incursions by Israël or
Turkey. Under various pretexts, these two states acted many
time during the war to support the jihadists whenever they
were in difficulty.
So, on the 30th January 2013, Tsahal
bombed the Centre for Military Research in Jemraya, under
the pretext of destroying weapons that were destined for
Hezbollah. In fact, the attack was intended to destroy a
communications brief-case captured by the Syrian Arab Army,
containing NATO satellite data, before they were able to
decipher it [4]. The operation had been commanded by the
Israeli Air Force in coordination with the Free Syrian Army,
which in turn was directed by officers of the French Foreign
Legion under the supervision of NATO’s LandCom.
Simultaneously, and for the first time,
the Russian army has just supplied satellite images to
Syria. This decision, awaited for five years, inverses the
military situation. Indeed, so far the jihadists have often
escaped the Syrian Arab Army thanks to satellite images
supplied by NATO in real time. Even though, over a six-month
period, it would seem that NATO no longer shares its
intelligence with the Islamic Emirate, but only with the al-Nusra
Front (al-Qaïda).
Finally, the Russian military advisors
possess a wealth of information which they use in order to
study the possibility of an international deployment under
banner of the UNO. They have to present a report to the
Kremlin which would also study the possibility of a Russian
operation as well as a joint operation by the Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
The CSTO will be meeting in Douchanbe,
Tadjikistan, on the 15th September. A deployment by the CSTO
had aleady been envisaged, in June 2012, during the
preparation for the « Geneva Conference 1 » [5]. Indeed,
this military alliance includes three states with a Muslim
population – Kazakhstan, Kirghizistan, and Tadjikistan, who
are better prepared than Russia to fight terrorists who
claim to be Islamist. However, at the time, the CSTO had no
agreement with the UNO to carry out peace operations. This
situation was resolved on the 28th September 2012 – it could
also be applied as well in Afghanistan as in Syria [6].
The limits of the cooperation between the
Kremlin and the White House
In any event, the cooperation between the
Kremlin and the White House has its limits – Russia wants to
eradicate the jihadists before they turn against her, while
the United States hope that some of them could be
re-activated in other conflicts, as was earlier the case in
Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chechnya and Kosovo.
Already, certain elements of Daesh have
arrived in Kherson (Ukraine), where a so-called « Crimean
Government in Exile » already exists.
It is apparent that from the US side, the
withdrawal of the Patriot missiles is a trap. Washington
would be happy for Russia to reduce the number of active
jihadists, but at the same time, it would not be dismayed if
it were to get bogged down in Syria. That is why the Russian
bear is advancing prudently.
French intellectual, founder and
chairman of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace
Conference. His columns specializing in international
relations feature in daily newspapers and weekly magazines
in Arabic, Spanish and Russian. His last two books published
in English :
9/11 the Big Lie and
Pentagate.
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