In a day of diplomatic snafus by the Pentagon, which first admitted it had spec ops forces in Syria (remember when it was just “advisors” and the Obama administration was blaming Russia for escalating the conflict by daring to join the fight against ISIS and sending its own troops in Damascus) then promptly retracted, using the old “there was no Freudian slip” explanation, the US promptly needed another diversion to cast the blame back in Putin’s court.
Which brings us to our post from Monday in which “anonymous” US officials told Reuters that “Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at a Syrian airfield where it has been steadily building up defenses” with Reuters adding that “one of the U.S. officials said seven Russian T-90 tanks were seen at the airfield near Latakia, a stronghold of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The two U.S. officials said Russia had also positioned artillery there” adding that “the two U.S. officials said Russia had also positioned artillery, which they said appeared.”
Our request was simple: “We can only hope the “anonymous” US officials will soon provide photographic evidence of their claims.”
Today, we got this “evidence” when Foreign Policy magazine released a satellite image which, according to the author Jeffrey Lewis “Leaves No Doubt That Russia Is Throwing Troops and Aircraft Into Syria.”
