The incidents, the ministry said, will be used as a pretext for airstrikes on Syrian government troops and infrastructure.
“We have reliable information at our disposal that US instructors have trained a number of militant groups in the vicinity of the town of At-Tanf, to stage provocations involving chemical warfare agents in southern Syria,” Russian General Staff spokesman General Sergey Rudskoy said at a news briefing on Saturday.
According to the Russian spokesman, “early in March, the saboteur groups were deployed to the southern de-escalation zone to the city of Deraa, where the units of the so-called Free Syrian Army are stationed.
“They are preparing a series of chemical munitions explosions. This fact will be used to blame the government forces. The components to produce chemical munitions have been already delivered to the southern de-escalation zone under the guise of humanitarian convoys of a number of NGOs.”
The repeat of “planned provocations will be widely covered in the Western media and will ultimately be used as a pretext by the US-led coalition to launch strikes on Syria”, as was previously done, Rudskoy warned.
In early March, The Washington Post also reported that it now appears that an attack is imminent: “We’re registering the signs of the preparations for the possible strikes. Strike groups of the cruise missile carriers have been formed in the east of the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf and Red Sea.”
The 76.7 percent of Russians who voted for Vladimir Putin – his best result in four presidential elections – is proof that the overwhelming majority of the population considers his policy to be right and trust the country’s leadership.
Since President Vladimir Putin came to power 18 years ago, Russian government action has always been the expression of a majority opinion.
The OSCE has also confirmed that the Russian election result has not been significantly distorted by manipulation, despite claims by the Western mainstream media that the elections were not free and fair.
Currently, all rivalries on the Eurasian continent are determined by the antagonism between Russia and the Americans. In this unique position lies Putin’s biggest risk, German pundit Thomas Fasbender noted. “If he [Putin] stumbles, no country will rush to his aid. Not the Chinese, not the Turks, not Iran.”
Fasbender added: “The pressure on the US is growing to prove the rest of their authority, and the pressure in Russia is great to oppose it. No one can rule out that the cold and hybrid war will turn into an armed US-Russian conflict in the short-term and unseen, in Syria, in Ukraine or elsewhere.”
Fasbender fears that “transatlantic forces make Europe a willing instrument of American-Russian rivalry for purely ideological reasons” and could draw the EU into a conflict with Russia.
“The Eurocentric perspective, from which our politicians judge the world situation, has blinded us to the real conditions. High time to pull the emergency brake before the cart drives against the wall.”
Say it ain’t so.
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— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 19, 2018
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