By Dr. Patrick Slattery — Things are coming to a head. Tillerson is in Moscow. He has spent time in Moscow in the past doing business as head of Exxon Mobile. He knows Putin, and to know Putin is to respect Putin. While it had been reported that he would only meet with Foreign Minister Lavrov and not President Putin, he is at the time of this writing meeting with President Putin. All hope is not lost.
(CNN)US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as a diplomatic rift between the two nations deepens over a chemical attack in Syria.
The meeting is taking place at the Kremlin along with Tillerson’s counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the US State Department and Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed.The talks come after Lavrov issued Tillerson a warning Wednesday against any further US strikes on the Syrian regime. Russia is Syria’s most powerful ally.The two top diplomats had sat down together earlier in the day to work through the fallout of last week’s chemical attack in northwestern Syria, which plunged the old Cold War enemies to a new low.Moscow and Washington have traded barbs over last week’s chemical attack, which killed 89 people, and prompted the US to carry out its first strike against the Syrian regime in the six-year conflict, taking out aircraft and infrastructure at a Syrian military air base.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. left, with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow on Wednesday. Tillerson is on a fool’s errand. Is he the right man for the job?
Putin said in an interview with state-run MIR television earlier Wednesday that relations with the US had deteriorated.“The working level of confidence in Russian-American relations, especially at the military level, under the administration of Donald Trump, has not improved, but rather worsened.”A White House memo to the press last week mentioned a meeting between Putin and Tillerson had been scheduled, but the Kremlin appeared to have rolled back on the talks as the Syria rift worsened.Putin has traditionally met with the US Secretary of State on their visits to Moscow. And Tillerson and Putin are no strangers — Putin in 2013 awarded the Order of Friendship to Tillerson when he was CEO of ExxonMobil, the highest honor Russia gives to foreigners.
For the Kremlin to have previously announced that Putin would not meet with Tillerson was a snub designed to send a message. The fact that he is now meeting with Tillerson means that he has a very blunt message to send to President Trump that must arrive unfiltered and undiluted. Trump better listen. Putin is OUR GUY now.
An icy welcome
Lavrov gave Tillerson an icy welcome Wednesday, diving straight into Moscow’s grievances with Washington in what would usually be warm opening remarks.Russia “saw some very troubling actions regarding the attack on Syria,” he said, according to an official Russian interpreter.“We believe it is fundamentally important not to let these actions happen again.”The White House on Tuesday accused Russia and Syria of carrying out a confusion campaign over who was responsible for the chemical attack. Russian President Vladimir Putin has made comparisons between the US response and its 2003 intervention in Iraq, calling it a “tedious” story.The deaths have been widely blamed on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, but Russia has denied the regime carried out the attack.
Notice that fake news CNN used the passive voice “have been widely blamed” as a way of avoiding presenting a single shred of evidence that Assad has any responsibility for the “gassing of babies,” which would make absolutely no sense unless he woke up one day and said to himself “I have been struggling to save my country from vicious terrorist invaders for the past six years and am now on the verge of victory. Maybe I should just let ISIS and Israel take over the country after all…” As laughable as it seems, the “U.S. intelligence community” is basing its advice to Trump on ISIS Twitter and on YouTube videos uploaded by anti-Assad terrorists.
Lavrov also complained about the mixed messages coming out of Washington on the Trump administration’s policy on Syria, with the US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, making clear Assad should have no future in Syria as Tillerson took a softer line.“I will be frank that we had a lot of questions regarding a lot of very ambiguous as well as contradictory ideas on a whole plethora of bilateral and international agenda coming from Washington,” Lavrov said.Nikki Haley has no future in AmericaHe hit back at remarks Tillerson made a day earlier that Russia would have to decide whether it was with the US and the West in standing up against Assad, or against them, describing the comments as “wrong choices.”…It was a hostile start to the long-awaited meeting, which began with the two men entering a conference room making very little eye contact.…Russia’s position
Washington has said that Russia and Syria are trying to “confuse the world community about who is responsible for using chemical weapons against the Syrian people in this and earlier attacks.”Russia claims the Syrian regime is being unfairly blamed for the chemical attack, and on Wednesday Putin said that the attack was “simply staging” and a provocation, in his interview with MIR.Putin suggested on Monday that forces within Syria were plotting more chemical attacks, including near Damascus, that they intended to pin on the Syrian regime.Moscow earlier claimed that the deaths had been caused when a Syrian regime airstrike hit a chemical weapons stockpile held by terrorist groups.
It is so obvious that Trump is being Jewed into a war for Israel and its ISIS proxy. Even a substantial number of the American sheeple can see this, despite saturation propaganda by CNN and the rest of the Zio media. Nobody knows what is going through Trump’s mind. Let’s just hope that OUR GUY Putin can get Tillerson to take the message of sanity back to Trump.
What is the US’ Syria policy?
Following the chemical attack, US President Donald Trump ordered a Tomahawk missile strike against the Shayrat airfield in Syria, from where the US says the aircraft took off to launch the attack.The US claims the strike destroyed 20% of Syria’s operational aircraft, a figure disputed by Russia’s Defense Ministry.But the White House has also caused a great deal of confusion — the US position on Syria is still woefully unclear, as Trump has made no comprehensive statement on Syria since last week’s missile attack. He has made some comments to Fox News on Syria, saying he did not plan for the US to be drawn fully into the Syrian war.White House press secretary Sean Spicer has said that the Trump administration would respond if the Assad regime used barrel bombs against his own people, something that has been a regular occurrence in the six-year civil war. Aides later clarified that this “did not signal a change in administration policy.”Haley, the UN envoy, said removing Assad from power was a priority, whereas Tillerson said he merely “hoped” the Syrian people would choose to oust Assad and reiterated that defeating ISIS was the US’ first priority in Syria.US Defense Secretary James Mattis has said that while defeating ISIS was first priority, further use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime would not be tolerated and could warrant additional military action.“If they use chemical weapons, they are going to pay a very, very stiff price,” Mattis told reporters during his first Pentagon briefing as secretary.
The fact is that the Trump Administration does not have a policy. It has a power struggle, and right now the same Zionist neocon Jews, who were the biggest Never Trumpers during the election, seem to have the upper hands. Heads must roll. But whose? If Bannon is out, that would likely mean a complete derailment of the Trump Train. Hopefully Tillerson will bring back a persuasive message from OUR GUY.
