Neocon Strategy through Syria - The Geopolitical projection to Eurasia from Syria to everywhere

The NEOCON wants to use Syria as an excuse to promote projection through Eurasia and Middle East, promoting invasion of the natural reserves of those places, implementing military power through those continents and also, specially, siege Russia, Iran and Turkey.

Using the psywar strategy and fake news, media power is promoting deception at those places and world wide propaganda, with the same excuse that they used in Iraq, the idea is to invade Syria to protect the world wide interests of peace and protect the people against the government. But also there is a politician of anti immigration for exemple, and xenophobic propaganda, and also, zionist propaganda, to maintain Syrians insinde the borders, with the excuse of the possible terrorist migration to Europe and USA.

Also, promote the idea of Russia and Iran are historic rivals, based on medieval proposes, to instigate rivalry between them, and make those military and paramilitary personal into conflicts.

Bolton's use to make the PNAC idea of the USA is capable to promote the peaceful conditions and the idea is to promote geopolitical influence in world wide by USA military personal, making the USA politics presente world wide, enjoying the environmental resources, natural ones, using the local military to promote USA leadership, and if it's not legitimated, the idea is proposed to create a situation of terror state than give the military or preventive solution.

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Bolton: US to act 'very strongly' if Syria uses chemical arms

Trump's national security adviser John Bolton also says Washington seeks to change Iran's behaviour, not its regime.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/bolton-act-strongly-syria-chemical-arms-180822081216464.html

US President Donald Trump's national security adviser has warned that the United States would respond "very strongly" if forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad use chemical weapons in an offensive to retake Idlib province.

Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday during a visit to Jerusalem, John Bolton said: "We now see plans for the Syrian regime to resume offensive military activities in Idlib province.

"We are obviously concerned about the possibility that Assad may use chemical weapons again.

"Just so there's no confusion here, if the Syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly and they really ought to think about this a long time," he added.

The Idlib region, a refuge for civilians and rebels displaced from other areas of Syria as well as powerful armed forces, was hit by a wave of air attacks and shelling this month, in a possible prelude to a full-scale government offensive.

In April, the Trump administration mustered a coalition of US, French and British forces to attack Syrian government facilities allegedly related to the production of chemical weapons after a poison gas attack killed dozens of people in Douma district.

Damascus, endorsed by Moscow, has denied using such weapons.

Under Trump, the US has sought to disengage from Syria, where the previous administration deployed some troops and gave limited support to rebel Kurdish forces over the objections of NATO partner Turkey.

Iran sanctions

Bolton also said that the Trump administration was not seeking to overthrow Iran's leadership with its reimposition of sanctions on Tehran.

"Regime change in Iran is not American policy but what we want is massive change in the regime's behaviour," he said.

Bolton arrived in Israel on Sunday for three days of talks expected to focus mainly on Iran and its presence in Syria.

Israel and Syria share a border and Iran is backing Assad in his country's civil war, along with Russia and Iranian-backed Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to prevent Iran from entrenching itself militarily in Syria, and a series of recent attacks that killed Iranians there has been attributed to Israel.

"Every time that Iran has brought missiles or other threatening weapons into Syria in recent months Israel has struck those targets," Bolton said.

"I think that's a legitimate act of self-defence on the part of Israel," he added.

The Trump administration slapped back sanctions this month after withdrawing from the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran, which Washington regards as insufficient for denying Tehran the means to make an atomic bomb and as a spur for its meddling in neighbouring Middle East countries.

The US turnaround outraged Iran, which has taken a defiant stance, and has rattled other world powers where some businesses have been debating whether to divest from Iran.

"Let me be clear, the reimposition of the sanctions, we think, is already having a significant effect on Iran's economy and on, really, popular opinion inside Iran," Bolton told Reuters in advance of Wednesday's press conference.

"I think the effects, the economic effects certainly, are even stronger than we anticipated," Bolton said.

"But Iranian activity in the region has continued to be belligerent: what they are doing in Iraq, what they are doing in Syria, what they are doing with Hezbollah in Lebanon, what they are doing in Yemen, what they have threatened to do in the Strait of Hormuz."

The Iranian economy has been beset by high unemployment, inflation and a rial currency that has lost half its value since April. The reimposition of sanctions could make matters worse.

Thousands of Iranians have protested in recent weeks against sharp price rises of some food items, a lack of jobs and state corruption. The protests over the cost of living have often turned into anti-government rallies.

Commenting on the speech, Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, reporting from Jerusalem, said: "It is clear that both he [Bolton] and Israeli prime minister and Israeli government are almost in lockstep in their view on the 'Iran problem', as Netanyahu continues to outline it."

"Particularly in terms of the rejection of the Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran and its deleterious effects and the need for continued pressure for the sanctions the US has imposed to be shared and endorsed by the [other] countries," he added.

Putin would be happy to see Iranian forces leave Syria, John Bolton says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/putin-happy-to-see-iran-leave-syria-says-bolton/2018/08/22/d33a02ba-a609-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e5495e1a461a

JERUSALEM — Russian President Vladimir Putin told the United States that an Iranian presence in Syria does not tally with Russian interests and that he would be content to see all Iran-linked forces go home, national security adviser John Bolton said Wednesday.

Bolton made the comments at the end of a three-day visit to Israel, where he spoke with officials ahead of a meeting with his Russian counterpart in Geneva. His claims clashed with recent statements by Russian officials, who have said that Iran is playing a constructive role in Syria.

Israel has been lobbying the United States to do more about Iranian entrenchment across its northern border in Syria as the civil war winds down, demanding that all forces linked to its arch foe leave.

Persuading Russia to assert its influence in containing Iran could be one of Israel’s best hopes to achieve this. Alongside Iran, Russia has provided Syria with the military assistance that helped tip the civil war in President Bashar al-Assad’s favor.

The issue was raised in discussions between Putin and President Trump in Helsinki last month, and the Russian president also spoke with Bolton on the subject three weeks earlier, the U.S. national security adviser said.

Putin said that “Iranian interests in Syria were not conterminous with Russian interests in Syria and that he would be content to see the Iranian forces all sent back to Iran,” Bolton said. “It was not a question of where they might be inside Syria. We were talking about a complete return of both the regular and irregular Iranian forces.”

However, Putin said that “I can’t do it myself” and that a “joint U.S.-Russia effort” may be needed, Bolton said. He was responding to a question about a Reuters report that quoted Bolton as saying that Putin told Trump that he could not eject Iranian forces from Syria.

Other Russian officials have struck a different tone in public, however, casting Iran as a constructive partner to Russia in ridding Syria of extremist militants.

“In contrast to the United States and its coalition, we and the other guarantor countries, Turkey and Iran, are promoting stabilization and normalization in that country with deeds, rather than words,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, the Interfax news agency reported Wednesday.

Anatoly Viktorov, Russia’s ambassador to Israel, said in July that Russia could not ask Iran to leave Syria. He said Iran’s withdrawal from Syria would be “unrealistic” because Tehran is “playing an important role in our common efforts toward extermination of terrorists in Syria,” according to Russia’s Tass state news agency.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Bolton’s upcoming meeting with Nikolai Patrushev, Russia’s Security Council head, would deal with many “complicated” issues.

“Bilateral relations continue to deteriorate,” Peskov told reporters Wednesday. “We need to find points of interaction and to understand whether such points exist and whether our counterparts want that.”

Earlier comments by Bolton from Israel were not received well by the Kremlin. Peskov also said Wednesday that Bolton’s comments that Russia is “stuck” in Syria and looking for others to fund postwar construction, made in an interview with Reuters, were incorrect.

“It is not correct for anyone, let alone our counterparts in Washington, to claim that Russia has stuck someplace,” he said. “Let us not forget that U.S. military personnel is present on Syrian soil, too.”

Bolton said the United States remains determined to finish eliminating Islamic State forces in the country, but also to “deal with the presence of the Iranians.” He cautioned Syria against using chemical weapons as the government gears up for an offensive in Idlib province.

“If the Syrian regime uses chemical weapons, we will respond very strongly,” he said.

Previously a vocal advocate of regime change in Iran, Bolton has stressed since taking his position in the Trump administration last year that ousting the Iranian government is not U.S. policy. However, the United States wants a “massive change” in Iranian “belligerence” in the region, he said.

By reimposing sanctions after pulling out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, he said, the United States has brought “the hammer down again,” which has caused a “profound” impact: “I think more serious than we would have predicted.”

European nations have been attempting to save the deal, although the threat of U.S. sanctions has caused private-sector companies to flee the Iranian market.

Bolton said he briefed Israel’s prime minister and other officials on diplomatic discussions that U.S. officials have had with the Europeans and on the American determination to drive Iranian oil exports “down to zero.”

“We’ve talked about the president’s determination in reimposing the sanctions, that we are not just going to stop at where the sanctions were in 2015,” he said.

Bolton also touched on Trump’s comments at a rally Tuesday night in Charleston, W.Va., where he said that Israel would “have to pay a higher price” in negotiations with the Palestinians in return for the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in May. “They won that very big thing,” he said.

Bolton said that as a “dealmaker,” Trump would expect that the Palestinians would say: “Great, so we didn’t get that one; now we want something else.”

But it’s “not an issue of quid pro quo,” he said.

Troianovski reported from Moscow