At least nine of the 27 killed in the attack were Chinese and Russian. While this alone would indeed be curious, it is the identities and positions of those killed that is particularly striking.
In January following the abandonment of the South Stream, the Turkish Stream was announced as the “sole route”. Today, the Turkish Stream (sponsored by Moscow) is in jeopardy.
IS sells Iraqi and Syrian oil for a very low price to Kurdish and Turkish smuggling networks and mafias, who label it and sell it on as barrels from the Kurdistan Regional Government. It is then most frequently transported from Turkey to Israel, via knowing or unknowing middlemen, according to al-Araby’s investigation.
Although every war makes ample use of lies and deception, the dirty war on Syria has relied on a level of mass disinformation not seen in living memory.
Here’s something for the US government to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: propagandistic war coverage from the Washington Post.
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