{"id":50925,"date":"2016-10-02T16:46:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50925"},"modified":"2016-10-02T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:50:26","slug":"syria-update-has-there-been-a-pentagon-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50925","title":{"rendered":"Syria Update: Has There Been A Pentagon Coup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Santa Rosa, CA<br \/>\nOctober 2, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Global tensions are rising in the face of a new banking crisis<br \/>\nand the breakdown of US\/Russian negotiations over Syria:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/russia-warns-against-us-attack-on-syrian-forces\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/russia-warns-against-us-attack-on-syrian-forces\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some observers think that the attack on Syrian government<br \/>\ntroops last week represents a &#8220;silent coup&#8221; against the efforts<br \/>\nof the Obama Administration to end the suffering through the<br \/>\nState Department diplomacy of John Kerry.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2016\/10\/01\/pentagon-silent-coup-undermines-us-russia-engagement-on-syria\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2016\/10\/01\/pentagon-silent-coup-undermines-us-russia-engagement-on-syria\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia has responded by aggressively backing what they and<br \/>\nPresident Assad hope is a final push to recapture control of<br \/>\nAleppo as well as preparing their Homeland for possible attack.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rumormillnews.com\/cgi-bin\/forum.cgi?read=58118\">http:\/\/www.rumormillnews.com\/cgi-bin\/forum.cgi?read=58118<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate Turkey may be siding with Russia&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;again.<\/p>\n<p>The US is on shaky ground here for many reasons including that\u00a0there is no legal basis for its military intervention in Syria under\u00a0international law: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50867\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50867<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is all going on in the context of a presidential election in\u00a0which the candidates seem incapable of getting past personal\u00a0animosity with talk of sex tapes and tax returns while the serious business of the country is ignored.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50776\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50776<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there really was a military coup, can we expect that the Pentagon<br \/>\nwill listen to a President Trump&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;or even a President Clinton?<br \/>\nWill there even be an election?<\/p>\n<p>The situation is very fluid so predictions are difficult. Who wins on<br \/>\nthe ground and how the derivatives crisis at Deutsche Bank plays<br \/>\nout will all impact the course of events in the coming days.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50751\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=50751<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned: interesting times have arrived!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}