"Lord West, a former First Sea Lord and Security Minister, has advised against carrying out military action against Syria without UN backing."

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President Donald Trump
The White House, Washington DC
 
Dear Mr. President:
Enclosed is the 5th and 6th issue of 2017 of the Russian analytical magazine “Predstavitelnaya vlast’” (Representative power at www.vlast.ru) featuring you on the front cover. During my latest stay in Moscow, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Professor Aleksey Lyubimov, asked me to pass this copy to you. I am glad to do so.

The magazine features an article “Fenomen Donalda Trampa, ili kak Trampu peretrampit’ sebya”(pp. 44-54) by Mr. Ismail Gasanov, a Russian political analyst, about your presidency. It can also be found at the link http://pvlast.ru/archive/index.1201.php

Neither the Russia & America Good Will Association nor I take a stand on the thrust of the article. I am sending it to you as a gesture of Good Will consistent with RAGA’s non-partisan philosophy as is evident in the Open Letter to you written by Professor Rudolf J. Siebert of Western Michigan University, which RAGA posted earlier.
http://www.raga.org/news/open-letter-to-president-trump
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I wish you success in carrying out the best intentions of your presidency.  I do so in the belief that the betterment of US-Russia mutual understanding is the cornerstone for World Peace.
Sincerely,

Wladislaw “George” Krasnow
President, RAGA www.raga.org
president92@gmail.com
 
P.S. Aleksey Lyubimov participated in Dr. James Billington’s Open World program in the USA and now is professor at the Russian Diplomatic Academy. Read more http://a-tsm.ru/docs/lyubimov.pdf and http://www.pvlast.ru/glavred/

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This is one of the most important articles you can read at this time. The entire Western world has been told that there was a chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and the story came from a group of "rescuers"  called the White Helmets, which were founded by a shadowy ex UK intel officer and are funded by the UK, UN, USAID and others. The West is threatening to go to war over this unsubstantiated report. We have never been closer to nuclear annihilation.

The NYT wrote in breaking the "chemical attack" story that it got the report from the White Helmets "and others," meaning it was ONLY from the White Helmets because it did not name the "others."

I read this site and had sent out a link to it to all or most of you but then the site went down. It comes and goes, so I decided to copy it in case it goes down again.

The Western world is conjuring up a war based SOLELY on the "chemical attack" story by the White Helmets, which is a total fake. In fact, Vanessa Beeley, the author of this remarkable piece of investigative journalism, is in Douma right now and has tweeted that there is NO trace of any such attack anywhere in town! The Russian investigators has said the same thing. Of course, no Western msm are there because they claim it is too dangerous. Yet the whole area has been purged of militants and is safe enough for anyone. If I had an extra $5000 I would not hesitate to go now and send back a report.

We are being deceived big time! And Trump has said that, on the basis of this report, he will attack Syria. He has sent almost the entire US Navy to the Mediterranean for that purpose. We were fooled once by Bush in exactly this way, and to the credit of Western citizens, they are not swallowing this story whole the way they swallowed the wmd story that destroyed Iraq and started the rapid descent into bankruptcy of the US, from which there is no way out.

If you still have any suspicion that Assad "gassed his own people," read the whole article pasted below (or try the link, which may work) and you will be disabused. The whole Assad story in the West is a hoax and this is just the latest installment.

- Don Hank

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April 14, 2018

The President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
N.W. Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

Thank you very kindly for your thoughtful consideration of these urgent matters.

On October 26, 2016, while campaigning against Hillary Clinton in the general election, you discussed the importance of not intervening in Syria. “What we should do is focus on ISIS. We should not be focusing on Syria. You’re going to end up in World War Three over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton. You’re not fighting Syria any more, you’re fighting Syria, Russia and Iran, all right? Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk.”

Why, therefore, have you maintained a military presence in Syria and launched attacks against her? Why are you now making more threats to attack Syria and its president, Bashar al-Assad, while to do so would be illegal?

As you are aware, sir, a Joint Resolution passed by congress on September 18, 2001 states, “That  the  President  is  authorized  to  use  all necessary  and  appropriate force  against  those  nations,  organizations,  or  persons  he  determines  planned, authorized,  committed, or  aided  the  terrorist  attacks  that  occurred  on  September 11,  2001, or  harbored  such  organizations  or  persons,  in  order  to  prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”

This law does not permit Assad to be attacked since both he and his government have no ties with those who perpetrated 911. For, to be sure, Assad and his government are fighting ISIS. Neither does the War Powers Act justify waging war on Assad and his government for this law prohibits the president from committing the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress, which has not been given.

Furthermore, the War Powers Act requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30-day withdrawal period, without a Congressional authorization or a declaration of war by the United States. So, because our military has been in Syria since 2017 without a declaration of war, this law has been egregiously violated.
 
By sharp contrast, Russian troops are in Syria under the auspices of a legal agreement clearly defining the parameters of their actions, which should come as no surprise since Russia and Syria are close allies.  

And so, the US Secretary of Defense makes a moot point by saying, “The United States has a right to carry out preemptive strikes against Assad’s forces to defend its own troops.” For, US troops are there illegally as invaders and, if they are in danger, they should simply be withdrawn rather than expanding the international crimes that our military and political leaders have forced upon them.

Indeed, the United States invasion of Syria is an egregious violation of international law, violating the Charter of the United Nations, which vouchsafes “universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction.”

Yet, Niki Halley, your appointed ambassador the United Nations said, “The security council has proved itself to be useless.” Sir, is it appropriate to have an ambassador who represents our country to the United Nations and yet publicly states that she thinks the UN Security Council is “useless?” How could her work on behalf of over 327 million American Citizens be effective or even taken seriously?  
 
I am thankful that Bolivia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, the Honorable Sacha Sergio Llorenty Soliz, feels differently and, consequently, called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in response to the United States’ threats to use force against Syria.

Ambassador Llorenty said, “We believe the United Nations Charter and its principles should guide the resolution of any conflict or problem. The problem we are facing is that the United States is wiling to go against the Charter. If the United States takes unilateral action, it will be a violation of international law. And the United Nations system should not accept that. And, as I’ve said, it will not be an attack against Syria but also an attack against the whole United Nations system.”

Therefore, sir, according to domestic and international law, I ask you to end this illegal military occupation and these attacks by implementing an orderly yet expeditious withdrawal from Syria without delay.
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The 20th century American sociologist Robert Merton is credited with discovering  the phenomenon of “imperious immediacy of interest.” By that he was referring to instances in which someone wants the intended consequence of an action so much that he or she purposefully chooses to ignore any unintended effects. The ultimate result then is a serious mistake due to incomplete analysis.

​In the current century America has committed this error by targeting Russia without a fully thought out plan.  Let's take a look at a number of "sure-fire" actions intended to weaken Russia and bring her to her knees - an ill-conceived plan which took the form of a three-pronged attack.

1. The Economic War. "Sanctions and a dramatically low Oil price will destroy the Russian economy!" Why? Because "Russia doesn't make anything" as Barack Obama stated. This is a glaring example of believing in one's own propaganda. The cause of this error is simple: instead of employing scholars and professionals with expertise on all things Russian, recent administrations have hired ideologues and outright Russophobes hoping for Russia's demise. In the first instance sanctions only strenghtened Russia economically by forcing her to become more self-sufficient. Sectors of the economy that relied on foreign goods and technology have been "Russified". In the second instance lower Oil prices did not destroy Russia's economy because - as it turns out- Russia does have a moderately diversified economy not wholly reliant on the high price of Oil.     
2. Information warfare. There is a popular belief that if you repeat a lie often enough most people will confuse it with an unassailable truth. This tactic can often succeed, but not always. The flip side to this technique is the unexpected "sky is falling" phenomenon. If you make a claim too often without any empirical  evidence (Collusion, Hacking, Poisoning etc) people will no longer pay attention to you and even scoff at continuous attempts to convince them of your dubious claims.
3. The War Trap. America and its peceived allies in the Middle East (most notably Saudi Arabia and Turkey) funded and supported ISIS and Al-Qaeda to overthrow the Syrian president (a thorn in the side of the American Empire) and draw Russia into an unwinnable war. Syria was intended to be "Russia's Vietnam". The  Pentagon/CIA braintrust behind the gameplan convinced the political leaders of America that Russia's military was woefully inadequate to the task of taking on such a formidable opponent with an unlimited supply of weapons and troops. After years of proxy war the Russian military has proven to be more than capable, surprising the "experts" with superior tactical knowledge and cutting-edge technology. In addition to this shocking discovery is the loss of a key NATO ally in Turkey.

These blunders have not only failed to weaken Russia; they have actually weakened America. The great super power now appears not only fallible, but ineffectual and geo-politically impotent.  

And THAT is the most serious of all unintended consequences.

By Paul Kindlon

This post first appeared on Russia Insider: 
https://russia-insider.com/en/americas-war-russia-actually-making-america-weaker/ri23038

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