Russia Says Syria Air Raids To Last “3-4 Months” As Moscow Releases New Videos Of Strikes

Friday, October 2, 2015
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
10/02/2015

Russian warplanes bombed anti-regime targets in Syria for a third day on Friday, and as we outlined in detail earlier, both the West and Russian media have launched an all-out propaganda blitz in an effort to spin the narrative.

For their part, the US and its allies are clinging to the notion that they are shocked – shocked – that Russia is striking targets unrelated to ISIS. This, apparently, is a direct violation of the unspoken Western policy of allowing any extremists not called “ISIS” to continue to operate on the way to ousting Assad. Of course the US and its regional allies are also fine with ISIS continuing to operate, although because “establish medieval caliphate” probably wasn’t on the list of CIA-approved operational objectives, Washington has to conduct a bombing run or two every once and a while to ensure Frankenstein doesn’t escape the lab.

As for The Kremlin, the fact that the West has managed to create any number of extremists groups on the way to destabilizing the regime in Syria means that rescuing said regime can be pitched as a “war on terror” rather than what it actually is, which is a Mid-East power grab. That is, the narrative for Russia is that when no one else could get the job done, Vladimir Putin entered the phone booth, changed into his Superman outfit, and saved the world from the Sunni extremists who threatened to destroy it. Of course that narrative isn’t entirely accurate either, but as we discussed earlier today, it’s at least closer to the truth than the West’s story. Here’s Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov summing it up: “If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it’s a terrorist, right?”

Right.

But don’t tell anyone in Washington that.

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