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ENDGAME: Syria ‘No Fly Zone’ Is Last-Ditch US Effort To Save Al-Qaeda (Video)

Wed, Aug 24, 2016 By Daniel McAdams  (Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity)

“… this de facto “no fly zone” … may be a US last-ditch effort to prevent Syrian government forces, aided by Russia, from taking back Aleppo and thus breaking the back of the foreign-backed insurgency.”

“Call it whatever you want to call it”

Reading between the lines in today’s Pentagon press briefing, a bombshell US policy shift is becoming more apparent: Syrian forces and their Russian partners are being told that conducting military operations in some parts of Syrian airspace opens them up to being shot down by the US military.

Pentagon Spokesman Peter Cook was asked numerous times in numerous ways whether this amounts to a US “no fly zone” over parts of Syria. His first response was vague but threatening:
We will use our air power as needed to protect coalition forces and our partnered operations. …We advise the Syrian regime to steer clear of [certain] areas.

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