The US Navy is creating a strike group with hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles for a possible attack on Syria.
The USS Donald Cook has already drawn attention to its actions in the eastern Mediterranean where it has reportedly been “harassed” by Russian warplanes.
The USS Carney is also deployed somewhere in Mediterranean, while the USS Porteris somewhere en route to or has already entered it. Another guided-missile destroyer, the USS Laboon is also somewhere near the Mediterranean. These four guided-missile destroyers together can carry up to 240 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Considering that the USS Georgia and USS John Warner nuclear submarines are also deployed in the region, the US Navy could have about 406 Tomahawks to use for its attack on the Assad government.
On April 11, the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is set to depart Naval Station Norfolk for deployment in the Middle East and Europe. The strike group includes the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy and the guided-missile destroyers USS Arleigh Burke, USS Bulkeley, USS Forrest Sherman and USS Farragut. The destroyers USS Jason Dunham and USS The Sullivans will join the strike group later.
If the attack on Syria does not take place in the coming days, the USS Harry S. Truman will further strengthen the US offensive capabilities for a possible large-scale invasion against the Assad government and thus Russian and Iranian forces deployed in Syria.
SF recalls that on April 10, US President Donald Trump canceled his trip to South America. According to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, he “will remain in the United States to oversee the American response to Syria and to monitor developments around the world.”
It looks like Russia is not happy to see such developments. On April 10, a Russian Su-34 fighter jet armed with what looks like Kh-35 cruise anti-ship missiles was photographed over the Syrian city of Tartus, where the Russian naval facility is located. According to local sources, this was not the only Russian jet armed with Kh-35 cruise missiles flying in the area.
Russia’s envoy to the European Union told Euronews on the same day that “Russia has warned U.S. representatives, publicly as well as through proper channels, over the grave consequences that could arise if these strikes happen and whether deliberately or otherwise Russian citizens are hurt.”
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council failed to approve three draft resolutions on chemical weapons attacks. Russia vetoed a US text, while two Russian-drafted resolutions did not get nine votes to pass.
Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya also revealed that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons will send two expert teams to Syria later this week to investigate the April 7 Douma incident, which the US-led bloc seeks to use as a pretext for a military action against Syria.
However, the chances of a military escalation still remain high.
These are easy targets for Syrian anti-ship missiles and Russian missiles.
At this point, we’ve all run out of patience. Maybe it’s time Russia delivered the United States a “hard slap”.
I do not even particularly care anymore if it leads to a nuclear war. I just hope Russia vaporizes the Neocons in a sudden strike before they make it to their bunkers.
Such a disgusting state of affairs.
I’m getting to the stage where the unleashing of the missiles would be a blessed relief!
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distraction,distraction.all this is a monumental bluff.as they are loosing hold of the U.S.A. state apparatus that they grabbed after Kennedy”s assassination they concocted this move telling the world:”my way or the highway”.Trump is a charlatan who tries to cover his own ass:do not try to find any shadow of “virility” in the american ruling class.the whole country seems like an aged whore that the zio-lib pimps have decided to throw under the bus.President Putin, the french & the brits are dragged there to be sacrified.the choice is yours:sink any asset of theirs so Crimea shall be vindicated.AND THEY WILL LEAVE ALONE FOR GOOD.
I agree.
Life is really fuct up. If we just live in this prison where a few people can make up false flags just to bomb other ppl for no good reason ?
Forget it. Russia deliver a slap. If the world ends , who cares
Sink those USSA subs first, let them fire their missiles and give their position away then sink them easily as they are the only real threat.
high value items destoyed in a nano second by russian missiles together with unfortunately their crews.
time for those neocons sitting in armchairs thousand miles away together with all their children over 18 to boot up and lead from the front.
Do you think maybe Russia’s new nuclear-thrust cruise missile will give the Neocon scum something to think about in their armchairs? Putin could individually target them, as soon as they pop up in a live tweet or at a CNN studio – kaboom – Putin directs a cruise missile on patrol below the radar circling the US east coast toward the psychopathic scum….
The situation is very serious. We may be on the brink of nuclear war and I’m still having a hard time believing that the psychopathic neo-cons are ready to risk everything out of their hate of Russia. These are really times of madness.
An unsustanable western lifestyle is at stake here… The neocons will make the poor fight and die to save it for them. Syria, Russia, China, Iran must resist – the 99,9999%ers of the world support them.
There will be no conventional war between the U.S. and Russia. I think we can all agree that any armed conflict would quickly go nuclear.
I agree …. Too much pride at stake now….
and the washington deep state commentaries plus Trumps absurd way of doing Foreign policy communications says it all.
we are in for a dangerous ride….
Still, there’s a danger that Russia will cave into the neo-con threats. They believe Putin will back down when his only options are to retaliate and potentially start a nuclear exchange or admit defeat. Russian expert clearly spoke of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=hUlhH_qIhWQ
Russia must respond asymmetrically to hurt the Empire in any way possible.
Yeah, good link, thanks. We’ll see. I kind of think Putin/Russia will respond this time. But, nobody knows until it happens or doesn’t. Of course, the best scenario would be if the yanks apologized and went home…
they are trying to preserve the”american way of life”:the fake greenback:the whole world shoud produce for their ficticious dollar,not even worth the ink it holds.
Ziad’s latest. Very funny. Must read.
https://www.syrianperspective.com/2018/04/trumps-disporting-with-fire-zionist-attack-on-t4-miserable-failure-the-endless-bloviations-of-trump.html
I like it. Very little fear…….actually, NO fear by Ziad.
But I’d call it more tragic than “funny”.
Because there does seem to be fear by Trump caught in a No Win in the Short Term Even….(unless by a miracle Syria, Hezbollah and Russia all blink simultaneously) situation of having to explain what captured US, British and French advisors were doing in a Damascus suburb, on his watch, preparing a CW false flag just as the Russians and Syrians who captured them have plainly stated, weeks ago, was planned.
Too complicated to explain in tweets. So he falls under the control of those whose objective, in the short term..is.to run him out of office…not start WW 3 .
And figure out Iran later. Without a puppet that goes off script and talks about meeting with Putin and doing business with China.
Plausible hypothesis.
Trump’s base quite unhappy and not eager for their sons and daughters to enlist in this kind of serious shit. He’s got some serious wiggling to do to get out of this one without being the Fall Guy for Empire.
But the same goes for all US citizens who let the Republic slip away from them….decades ago.
The report carried by Ziad is not at all credible. It is a tissue of lies from the disinformation site Veterans Today. The purpose is to create confusion. However, there is a more credible report of the Syrian army having captured British advisors in Ghouta. You can search the incident on Duckduckgo.
If Trump is going to attack Syria with the same type of Tomahawk cruise missile he used against Syria last year, then he better not bother. I trust it was explained to him that those Tomahawks were intercepted by the Russian Khirbini electronic jamming system. Not one Tomahawk struck the runways of that Syrian airfield.
I trust it has also been explained to Trump that the Russians in Syria are supported by the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean (joined by Chinese ships), by the Russian Navy in the Caspian Sea, and by the Russian Air Force stationed in Russia. Russian cruise missiles are now superior to the US ones. Also, the Mediterranean is a pretty small sea as compared to the Pacific. In case of war, those US ships will be a pretty easy target. I also see that the USS Donald Duck has been positioned outside Syrian territorial waters. I trust it’s crew has gotten over the shock of the Russians blocking all their electronics back in 2014, when they were sailing in the Black Sea.
Wise and peace loving people do not engage in the kind of “games” these satanic demons engage in. But these evil beings delight in causing suffering and destruction. The final battle for the Soul of humanity is drawing nearer now……
This video from “rebels’” held area in Syria is one of the reasons why you don’t rush into war based on YouTube videos
https://twitter.com/BBassem7/status/983677065844019200
Virginia State Senator Richard Blackwho has been to Syria a number of times, lays out the case for “There Was No Chemical Attack in Syria”.
https://youtu.be/kTtAm0OHW24
Here’s some comic relief…..in the form of dark humor:
https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/04/john-bolton-wakes-terrifying-nightmare-world-peace/
It seems the veterans are getting weary of having their life and limb sacrificed in what looks like the stupidest and most dangerous pre-wrestling match trash talking in American History.
While it is quite embarrassing to be an American right now, the obedience of this President to orders from the British, (who are out to take him down by Storm) has got to be the All-Time Low IQ “Murican Moment.
All this show of force and chest beating.
Seems strange.
Feels like everything is staged and every one is following a script.
MSM war drum are not that loud compared to previous campaigns.
Western claims in Skripal case and Ghouta gas attack are ludicrous. But also half hearted and half baked.
All this show seems only staged to satisfy domestic politics in western countries and provide some appearance of support to client regime in ME.
It also permit Russia to justify concessions from Iran and resistance front.
Big powers (USA, Russia) seems to build stack of chips for serious negociation.
Increasing pressure and generating fear at home in order to justify concessions that would not be acceptable in another context.
I am sorry but for me it does not smells like prelude to WW. Some intuition ? Dont know. But something, some real tension in MSM is missing. There is no apetite for adventurism.
My take on the situation is that every one is aware that it is the end of the unipolar order.
That it is the end of globalization. And that is clearly Trump goal.
Now the line are being drawn in the sand allowing to determine the new map in the new fractured world.
Those in between we do not hear much. (Germany someone ?…)
China will need to assert more firmly its position in global stage. Giving Trump the required excuse for dramatic review of business link and overcome US corporate interests.
Is that not the stated goal of Trump from day 1 ?
I share your assessment. First it felt real. Then came another “sending an armada” moment – which has flopped before with regard to North Korea. And Trump’s “Get ready. Russia!” tweet – ludicrous. This is a show.
Looks as the the public is very much in favor of war. Obviously it is only mean to bring the Great Satan and his Evil Twin to their we senses. War of not the innocent people will suffer from the Satanist. It is stupidity to fix a rotten house. It’s more reasonable to take it down and built a new one instead.That applies to the way of dealing with the criminal bastards. Let it go now to stop them and secure better peacefully world for the future generations.
the Russians should have sunk the 2 ZOG destroyers that launched missiles against Syria back when.
now it’s too late:
the Pompeo and Bolton appointments are a clear-cut war-signal. Trump, a life-long Zionist stooge. has received his marching orders.
the only question is: how far matters will escalate after the initial “exchange”.
unless Putin backs down (again), which possiblity I do not exclude.
Backs down from what? If Russia leaves, Syria will simply be destroyed. Kurdada will appear, Israel will expand, and so on.
You act as if Syria’s destruction was planned because of Russia. Ass-backwards.
Paul Craig Roberts, The Neocon in liberal clothes?
“According to the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, British submarines have been ordered to move within missile range of Syria, as strikes against the Assad regime are expected as early as Thursday night.
MORE DETAILS TO COME.”
Sputnik newz
“The CivMilAir Twitter account, which monitors airplane movements, posted information that the Boeing E-4B Nightwatch, commonly known as the “Doomsday plane,” took off from the Wright-Patterson airbase near Deiton on April 11 in 14:09 and flew towards Springfield, Illinois. What is curious about it is the fact that it left the airbase minutes after US President Donald Trump made his threat to launch a missile attack on Syria.”
Sputniknewz
Sending all those ships to the Mediterranean Sea is dangerous, theyll be running into each other.
Looks to me like this is simply another opportunity to test advanced Russian anti-missile capabilities with upgraded US missiles.
No world war simply the MIC of USA testing their colleagues at the Russian MIC.
Very sane comment and hope you’re right !
Just wasting a few hundreds million dollars/rubles for “the fun of it”.
Money buys us experience. Unfortunately, those with a lot of money tend to involve the rest of us in their experience. If we look at things a little deeper, however, we would come to understand that the collective karma of the human race has led us to the current destructive state of affairs. Today’s individual of consciousness was yesterday’s ignoramus. Its like the story of the fellow who went to a clairvoyant and was told, “you are the victim of so and so”. But before we were a victim, we were also a perpetrator. This world is a school for countless Souls, each learning at their own pace. Soul, an eternal being, will outlive this temporal world.
Looks like the plan is to put French and British assets at risk, as well as US, so Europe has serious skin in the game. Then when the smoke clears they can complete cutting Russia off from western trade and likely seize Russian assets under their control. Simple plans often have unforseen consequences… High stakes poker.
the Idea of taking the Assets is good one, because the Russians will make exactly the same
somewhere I read that the mutual investments are on the order of a 100 Billions each, with the little details that
Russian investment in other countries are mainly financial and speculation products, while the investments the EU and other countries made in Russia where used to built new Productive Factories and Industrial installations.
not a bad change… take the money, I take the productive infrastructure.
Less than 72 hours to go until Trump starts WW3?
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/04/11/less-than-72-hours-to-go-until-trump-starts-ww3/
Eve of Destruction? Russia prepared to military respond to any US strike on Syria
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/04/11/eve-of-destruction-russia-prepared-to-militarily-respond-to-any-us-strike-on-syria/
Dear Russia: Now is the time to challenge Israel
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/04/11/486279/
Now is the time to challenge Israel
First Russia would had to stop payments of pensions of ~1 mln Israelis.
Second, a purge never came. If there was one we would not have situation like today, we wouldn’t even have a such idiocy in today’ politics.
Within borders of Russia there is an army of Judas standing by.
For that very reason I have doubts that Russia have any will to challenge Israel.
Two soldiers of Judas’ army of Russia
Alexey Navalny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOx78CBq0Ck
Garry Kasparov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov
“Russia is and will always be my country.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkW205az1X0
Tweet storm by Elijah Magnier – 13 hours ago:
“1+/ The US/EU war on Syria is expected in the next 10 hours according to sources in Syria close to decision makers.
All Syrian troops were ordered to empty their barracks and keep 5% presence only.
2+/ USA and EU may target – as expected – the Syrian Air Force (many dislocated and other spread but not flying), the central for command and control, all radars and known anti-air missiles, Ministry of Defence, Presidential Palace and other sensitive Syrian bases.
3+/ The USA/EU are drawing the attention t the gathering of forces in the Mediterranean. But information to the Syrian command confirm gathering of forces and preparation for the strike are expected coming from al-Tanf, al-Hasaka, Jordan, Turkey and from the sea.
4+/ Russia is hassling foreign war ships coming closer opposite the Syrian coast to inform all these that this is a Russian operational area. However this Russian show of force doesn’t change much because missiles can be launched from afar.
5+/ Russia will deal with fired cruise missiles but not expected to bring down a large number, impossible for any superpower no matter how many anti-air missiles are deployed over a large territory like Syria and coming from intensive fire power (USA and EU).
6+/ Iran informed Russia that any israeli intervention means an Iranian direct involvement in this war under the agreement of defence w/ Syria. Putin informed Netanyahu of the Iranian intension.
S.A. Khaminei met with the leadership of IRGC and missile force units leaders
7+/ It is clear that USA and EU are not waiting for the @UN decision or approval. In Syria, leadership believes the UN meeting served for stacking forces to gather their units and prepare their bank of objectives.
8+/ USA and SaudiArabia are very hurt of what happen in Ghouta: nothing to do with “fake chemical attack” but due to the end of 20-30.000 jihadists shipped to the north of Syria. These were the hope of US and Saudi to keep the menace on Damascus: Russia destroyed this hope.
9+/ If this forthcoming battle on Syria lasts only one night/day with hundreds of missiles, then it is ok.
But if it lasts more than 2 days, then the situation may go towards a wider unexpected confrontation.
The answer will be in Daraa, Quneitra where it hurts the most.
10+/ I believe Russia can’t stand alone against this coalition because it is not looking for a wider war (WWIII) and the attack is not on Russia territory.
However, USA/EU may attack tonight or tomorrow night. Attacking forces will try to destroy the Syrian Army. However…
11+/ However, in 2013, the Syria Army was about to be defeated. In 2015, the Syrian Army was cornered in main cities and retrieved from most rural areas.
Those who rebuild the Syrian Army and injected 12,000-20,000 men expressed their readiness to inject 120K men if necessary.
12/12/ The more Trump is willing to destroy Iran’s ally, the more influence Tehran will enjoy in replacing the vacuum needed in Syria so a secular non-jihadists government can prevail in the Levant and Takferee and their sponsors are defeated.
I hope the Russian-American continuous contact reaches a compromise and stops the possibility of war on Syria.”
As I recall, in 1999 NATO with 19 countries attacked lil’ old Yugoslavia.
The USSR was no more, Russia was bogged down in Chechnya and didn’t lend a helping
hand, and the NATO/Western countries were at their peak….
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….and yet after 70+ days of bombing all NATO destroyed was 10 or something tanks and APCs.
The Yugoslavian army knocked down over 150+ NATO airplanes,
most famously the stealth bomber F117 and even one B2 bomber that crashed in Hungary.
The F117 was retired shortly after the debacle and is no more.
So NATO achieved nothing.
Fastforward till today:
Syria is not alone – Iran & Russia are helping, Russia is stronger then ever,
the West is morally and financially bankrupt, the populace tired of endless wars,
the army at its lowest moral and stretched so thin trying keep the vassals down.
By introducng the petro-Yuan China & Russia basically took away the ability
for the US to fight its wars on a ‘credit card’. No more free money, no more printing $$$.
From now on, each dollar printed will cause hyper inflation in the US. Talk about the
upcoming Zombicalypse when that happens.
And yes, for each tomahawk fired there won’t be money to buy a replacement. 35 tomahawks knocked down last time, how many this time…soon you are talking real money. Ouch!
Maybe better build a school, fix a bridge in the US.
Mr. Cockburn has “changed” side:
“But there is mounting evidence from neutral observers to confirm that chlorine was used last Saturday. The World Health Organisation says that local health authorities in Douma, with whom it is cooperating, confirm that on the day of the alleged bombing they treated 500 patients with the symptoms of exposure to toxic chemicals. It reports that “there were signs of severe irritation of mucous membranes, respiratory failure and disruption to the central nervous systems of those exposed”. ”
And the “neutral observers” were … who?
Yup…apparently”partners” of WHO…….maybe same as oeoples who got so called samples our for testing in the previous major incident?
Here’s my question: are naval ships becoming obsolete when facing top modern naval missiles? We have witnessed several times same battle between combat armor vs. AT-weapons. Or like in Yom Kippur: aircraft vs. AA-missiles.
Macron Begs Russia Not to Retaliate Against French Syria Strikes
Oooo la la
https://www.checkpointasia.net/macron-begs-russia-not-to-retaliate-against-french-syria-strikes/