To: THE ANT who wrote (138330 ) 1/19/2018 4:06:32 PM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (2) | Respond to re <<The elite have lost control of their tooges Just like occupy Wall Street there are limits on the stooges but the stooges are too dumb to know they are pawns now and forever I love the smell of napalm in the morning >>zerohedge.com Russian Military Pulls Out Of Syrian Kurdish Town As Turkey Initiates "Massive Cross-Border Attack" begun cross-border shelling of the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin in what he further describes as the "de facto start" of the operation in order to destroy - in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's words - Kurdish "terror nests " - and which has been dubbed previously by Turkey as a 'massive cross-border attack.'said Friday that Ankara "has no option" regarding the planned invasion of Northern Syria to dislodge the YPG (Kurdish "People's Protection Units") and other factions, which it considers an extension of the "terrorist" PKK. Kurdish YPG militias and their media arms began reporting sporadic shelling and clashes earlier this week. Russian military personnel have started pulling out of Afrin ahead of Turkey's "expected" and imminent cross-border military operation . Russia has administered 'deconfliction' zones in the Afrin area while controlling airspace overhead, and has sponsored trilateral talks with Turkey and Iran which seeks cooperation among the three powers to wind down the war in Syria. The Russian military has long had "military advisors" on the ground in Afrin , which have in the past helped coordinate the fight against ISIS. Image via AFP previously , the question of whether or not the large-scale Turkish assault on the Syrian Kurds moves forward or not depends in large part on Russia. On Thursday Turkey signaled that it had Russia cooperation in its planned invasion, though this was not confirmed by Moscow. As Reuters reported , "Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also told broadcaster CNN Turk that Turkey will coordinate with Russia and Iran on an air operation in Afrin ." The Turkish build-up of forces could constitute the largest external intervening force thus far in the entirety of the Syrian war, including special forces troops, Army units, Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and Turkey's air force. Syria said it will shoot down any Turkish jets carrying out attacks inside Syria. Bloomberg Turkey’s top general, Hulusi Akar, and intelligence agency chief Hakan Fidan flew to Moscow on Thursday seeking Moscow's approval for the use of Syria's airspace.not take any actions of that sort." the following major development : "The Syrian government rejected the Kurdish PYD's [Kurdish "Democratic Union Party"] proposal to restore state institutions in Afrin. Damascus demands their security forces be allowed in Afrin." So it appears the Syrian government is now intensifying the pressure for direct access to Afrin, even as Russian personnel pull out and a Turkish invasion threat looms.
