<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="">...Showing restraint and control, the US Secretary of Defence James
Mattis – he who said “the Pentagon still has no independent evidence to
confirm that there was a chemical weapons attack in Syria last
week”- contested any wide scale attack on Syria that could have triggered
a direct Russian involvement and deadly return of fire against US
objectives. Mattis accepted “an honourable strike” to save his boss’s
inexperienced face. In point of fact, the trio’s strike on Syria seems
have boosted the Syrian Bashar al-Assad’s reputation: the population
celebrated in the streets of Damascus, and mocked the western attack on
their country!</p><p class="">The trio [FUKUS] avoided at all times direct provocation of Russia,
circumvented Russian bases and operational theatres instead of
overflying. Russia imposed its presence and provoked the US and French
navy by carrying out a simulated air attack, to show its willingness to
hit back. The Russian navy was positioned opposite the Lebanese coast to
cover that angle and avoid blind spots.</p><p class="">Moscow managed to avoid a direct confrontation with Washington
outside its territory: US military bases surround Syria (Israel, Jordan,
al-Tanf, al-Hasaka, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrein, Iraq,
Turkey). Russia remembers how <a title="Leonid Brezhnev" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" class="">Leonid Brezhnev</a> fell
into the CIA’s trap in 1979, supporting the Mujahedeen six months
prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan- trap. Zbigniew Brzezinski
said the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was deliberately provoked by the
US: “It was an excellent idea. It drew the Soviets into the Afghan war
and we gave them Vietnam”. Putin has avoided the same US trap almost 40
years later… <<a href="https://ejmagnier.com/2018/04/15/the-us-secret-plan-on-damascus-foiled-the-russian-role-before-and-after-the-us-uk-france-attack-revealed/" class="">https://ejmagnier.com/2018/04/15/the-us-secret-plan-on-damascus-foiled-the-russian-role-before-and-after-the-us-uk-france-attack-revealed/</a>></p></body></html>