{"id":84701,"date":"2017-09-26T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T19:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84701"},"modified":"2017-09-26T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T19:42:23","slug":"russia-and-us-face-a-looming-crisis-in-eastern-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84701","title":{"rendered":"Russia and US Face A Looming Crisis In Eastern Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Santa Rosa, CA<br \/>\nSeptember 23, 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Political commentator Mike Whitney has produced an excellent article describing<br \/>\nthe looming confrontation between the US and Russia in Eastern Syria:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47874.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47874.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some commentators have assumed that the SAA and Assad have defeated ISIS:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/09\/23\/isis-now-defeated-whats-next\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/09\/23\/isis-now-defeated-whats-next\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But with the <em>Deep State<\/em> committed to regime change, the nightmare scenario<br \/>\ndescribed by Whitney becomes more likely as the conflict intensifies.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77635\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77635<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously Turkey&#8217;s President\u00a0Ergodan will resist the Kurds efforts in Iraq and Syria:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/09\/23\/iraqi-kurdistan-vote-poses-direct-threat-to-turkish-national-security-turkey\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/09\/23\/iraqi-kurdistan-vote-poses-direct-threat-to-turkish-national-security-turkey\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iran remains the main target for the Saudis and Israel: with President Trump sucking<br \/>\nup to them both, more war and turmoil are guaranteed in the months ahead!<\/p>\n<p>Russia will remain steadfast but the future looks grim despite the recent success<br \/>\nof Assad&#8217;s forces. It is absolutely a nightmare scenario that few are following because<br \/>\nof the hurricanes, health care debate and the claims of Russia election interference.<\/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-84701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84701","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=84701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}