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Washington is fanning the flames of conflicts in the Middle East by conducting unlawful strikes in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia has said.
Russia has requested an urgent session of the UN Security Council after the US carried out airstrikes in Syria and Iraq in response to a drone attack on an American military outpost in Jordan.
The bombings have “once again demonstrated the aggressive nature of US policy in the Middle East and Washington’s complete disregard for the norms of international law,” Nebenzia said during the UNSC meeting in New York on Monday.
The Russian diplomat argued that the US is “pouring gasoline on the fire” by conducting strikes that pose “a direct threat to international peace and security” and undermine “the central role of the UN.” He reiterated that US bases in Syria are “illegal” because American military presence has not been authorized by Damascus.
Addressing the Security Council, US Alternative Representative for Special Political Affairs Robert Wood said that the strikes were “necessary and proportionate, consistent with international law, and in exercise of the United States’ inherent right to self-defense.”
On January 28, a kamikaze drone hit a US outpost known as Tower 22 near the Jordanian-Syrian border. Three American soldiers were killed. Islamic Resistance in Iraq – an umbrella group for Islamist Shia militias – claimed responsibility for the attack.
The White House accused Iran of mastermining attacks on US personnel. Tehran denied the allegations, insisting that militias are acting independently and targeting US soldiers because of Washington’s continuing support for Israel during its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The US and UK have also been hitting Houthi sites in Yemen in response to Shia militants’ drone and missile attacks on merchant vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The Houthis vowed to continue targeting the ships until a permanent ceasefire is declared in Gaza. The US, meanwhile, promised to continue to protect the “freedom of navigation that serves as the bedrock of global trade in one of the world’s most critical waterways.”
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https://www.rt.com/russia/591924-us-threatens-peace-middle-east/
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Parks some troops in a country far away from US shores, (to do who-knows-what - we are not privy to that information - it was pretty hush-hush until we all found out about that ancient fort in the middle of the desert, (that Laurence of Arabia converted into a CentCom, nearly a hundred years ago). I guess the Arabs figured that those crazy, sweaty people could just go ahead and stay there - it was far away from urban centres, and anyway the hush-campaign was well-established, so many ordinary citizens had no idea.
Then, the US claim that the bombing of Syria and Iraq is an
Ok, so who said the Fort-base, and the border-tower overlooking the Jordanian border, were US SOIL?
The 'self defense' part was envisioned to protect civilians within the US borders - in case some party got it into their heads to attack said US soil.
So let's imagine a commonplace scenario: Say there is a conference of Football players talking tactics and core-values for its players, who are all locals. Some well-financed, perfumed and pampered creature comes in, and declares they 'own the place', and starts working the tables and talking loudly about how football is mysogyny personified, and that football must be banned before they give them any money to - say - help to afford a new roof (that the players themselves could afford, because they happen to have an oil-field at their disposal). And, if they do not ban football, or at least play according to a list of 'inclusive' rules (which contractually fixes the perfumed management credentials, and demands that foreigners, from the other sde of the world, should be allowed in the club). If the people in the conference do not agree, then the interlopers will get a team of pre-paid activists to start fire-bombing the club.
The Football club just got firebombed.
That is what is going on here.