‘US wary of Russia military technology in Syria’
Many across the political spectrum are of the opinion that Saturday’s airstrikes jointly launched by the US, Britain and France against targets in Syria were conducted for purposes other than those declared. The trio announced that the strikes were meant to paralyze Syria’s chemical weapons facilities in retaliation for an earlier gas attack in Douma for which they failed to provide any compelling evidence, and which Syria and Russia insist never took place.
E. Michael Jones, the editor of the Culture Wars magazine, has told Press TV that the coordinated attacks on Syria were nothing but a “false flag operation” conducted with the intention of prolonging US military presence in the country.
Right from the start, Moscow has highlighted this fact. Russia’s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia told an emergency session of the UN Security Council on Saturday that there was absolutely no proof of a chemical attack in Syria and that it was only used as a pretext for military action.
Jones also took notice of the fact that the United States collaborated with Russia on this attack.
“They let the Russians know in advance that they were not going to violate the Russian air space. They told them pretty much what the targets were. The people were able to evacuate from these positions before they were attacked and there were no casualties as a result of this.”
US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman made it clear that Washington had communicated with Moscow “to reduce the danger of any Russian or civilian casualties” ahead of the overnight strikes on Syria, insisting that the military action was not “about the conflict between superpowers.”
Jones interpreted this as indicative of the US admission of its failure in Syria and of accepting the status quo there.
He also stressed that what has prevented the United States from starting a full-scale attack against Syria is the presence of Russia and the fear Americans feel about Moscow's military technology.
“So, I think what we are seeing here is one of those technological thresholds in the history of warfare. One technology has made another technology obsolete and I think the Russian missiles have made a couple of trillion dollars worth of military hardware obsolete and the United States fears this and they don’t want to press the issue,” he concluded.
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