The Watchman On The Wall

The Watchman On The Wall
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

The War In Syria Flares Up Again; Война в Сирии снова вспыхивает Voyna v Sirii snova vspykhivayet

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Remember friends, keep your eyes on Jerusalem, it is the stumbling block for the world. As Bible prophecy corrects reflects, Russia, Turkey, Iran (Persia) the United States, Israel and the Kurds are being dragged into the quagmire in Syria.
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Personally, I think the "deep state" has co-opted Donald Trump on his foreign policy, just as they did with Ronaldus Magnus. 300 Can you recall the last time an Israeli jet was shot down?  Saturday's shoot-down marked the first time an Israeli aircraft has been brought downed in combat since the Lebanese civil war in 1982. 
I have a feeling that the air defenses in Syria are going to be more and more like the air defenses in Hanoi during the Vietnam war and we lost quite few jets to North Vietnamese air defenses. Reportedly, this shoot down was by Buk and S200 missiles, not the top of the line Russian S300 or S400.

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Above, the S200 air defense system

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Above, the mobile S300 air defense system
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Above the S-400, "Trump" aka Triumf air defense system named for Trump's collusion with Putin, just kidding!

 Candidate Donald Trump may have promised to extricate us from Middle East wars, once ISIS and al-Qaeda were routed, yet events and people seem to be conspiring to keep us endlessly enmeshed.
On 9 February, a drone, apparently modeled on a U.S. drone that fell into Iran's hands, intruded briefly into Israeli airspace over the Golan Heights, and was shot down by an Apache helicopter.
Israel seized upon this to send F-16s to strike the airfield whence the drone allegedly originated. Returning home, one of the Israeli F-16 was hit and crashed, unleashing the most devastating Israeli attack in decades on Syria. Prime Minister Netanyahu says a dozen Syrian and Iranian bases and antiaircraft positions were struck.
Monday's headline on The Wall Street Journal op-ed page blared:
"The Iran-Israel War Flares Up: The fight is over a Qods Force presence on the Syria-Israeli border. How will the U.S. respond?"
Op-ed writers Tony Badran and Jonathan Schanzer, both from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (FDD) closed thus:
"The Pentagon and State Department have already condemned Iran and thrown their support behind Israel. The question now is whether the Trump administration will go further. ... Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (has) affirmed that the U.S. seeks not only to ensure its allies' security but to deny Iran its 'dreams of a northern arch' from Tehran to Beirut. A good way to achieve both objectives would be back Israel's response to Iran's aggression, now and in the future."
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The FDD is an annex of the Israeli lobby and a charter member of the War Party.
Chagai Tzuriel, who heads the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence, echoed the FDD: "If you (Americans) are committed to countering Iran in the region, then you must do so in Syria — first."
Our orders have been cut.
Iran has dismissed as "lies" and "ridiculous" the charge that it sent the drone into Israeli airspace.
If Tehran did, it would be an act of monumental stupidity. Not only did the drone bring devastating Israeli reprisals against Syria and embarrass Iran's ally Russia, it brought attacks on Russian-provided and possibly Russian-manned air defenses.
Moreover, in recent months Iranian policy of suspending patrol boat harassment of U.S. warships appears crafted to ease tensions and provide no new causes for Trump to abandon the nuclear deal Prime Minister Hassan Rouhani regards as his legacy.

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Indeed, why would Iran, which, with Assad, Russia and Hezbollah, is among the victors in Syria's six-year civil war, wish to reignite the bloodletting and bring Israeli and U.S. firepower in on the other side?

In Syria's southeast, another incident a week ago may portend an indefinite U.S. stay in that broken and bleeding country.
To recapture oil fields lost in the war, forces backed by Assad crossed the Euphrates into territory captured from ISIS by the U.S. and our Kurd allies. The U.S. response was a barrage of air and artillery strikes that killed 100 soldiers.
What this signals is that, though ISIS has been all but evicted from Syria, the U.S. intends to retain that fourth of Syria as a bargaining chip in negotiations.
In the northwest, Turkey has sent its Syrian allies to attack Afrin and President Erdogan has threatened Manbij, 80 miles to the east, where U.S. troops commingle with the Kurd defenders and where U.S. generals were visible last week.
Midweek, Erdogan exploded: "(The Americans) tell us, 'Don't come to Manbij.' We will come to Manbij to hand over these territories to their rightful owners."
The U.S. and Turkey, allies for six decades, with the largest armies in NATO, may soon be staring down each other's gun barrels. It seems secular, pro Israeli Turkey is gone replaced by anti-Israeli Muslim fundamentalist regime, thus fulfilling Bible prophecy.
Has President Trump thought through where we are going with this deepening commitment in Syria, where we have only 2,000 troops and no allies but the Kurds and Israel, while on the other side is the Syrian army, Hezbollah, Russia and Iran, and Shiite militias from Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Clearly, we have an obligation not to abandon the Kurds, who took most of the casualties in liberating eastern Syria from ISIS. And we have a strategic interest in not losing Turkey as an ally.
But this calls for active diplomacy, not military action.
And now that the rebels have been defeated and the civil war is almost over, what would be the cost and what would be the prospects of fighting a new and wider war? What would victory look like?
Bibi and the FDD want to see U.S. power deployed alongside that of Israel, against Iran, Assad and Hezbollah. But while Israel's interests are clear, what would be the U.S. vital interest?
What outcome would justify another U.S. war in a region where all the previous wars in this century have left us bleeding, bankrupt, divided and disillusioned?
When he was running, anti-war Donald Trump seemed to understand this. Now, it seems DJT is become part of what Eisenhower called “the military industrial complex” or what we call today the “deep state.

Friends, keep in mind, the Bible is never wrong, as time has proceeded each Bible prophecy has been completely fulfilled. Yeshua fulfilled every Old Testament prophecy concerning His death and resurrection. Yeshua is coming back and this time it will not be as a lamb but rather as Lion of Zion. Yeshua’s word alone will ultimately defeat Israel’s enemies not the United State of America or Israel. Watch the interesting South Front videos below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9wDTvF7YYg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYfuj2f-e1s

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