Biden Regime Bombs Syria & Says Doing So Was Self Defense

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On February 25, Biden’s 36th day in office, he authorized an airstrike against Syria in retaliation for attacks against US forces in Iraq. The target in Syria was reported to be Iranian-backed soldiers from Iraq. The number of people killed in the airstrike is unknown. Caitlin Johnstone reported that the mainstream news is trying to justify the bombing as a defensive operation, even though the US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq. -GEG

On orders of President Biden, the United States has launched an airstrike on a facility in Syria. As of this writing the exact number of killed and injured is unknown, with early reports claiming “a handful” of people were killed.

Rather than doing anything remotely resembling journalism, the western mass media have opted instead to uncritically repeat what they’ve been told about the airstrike by U.S. officials, which is the same as just publishing Pentagon press releases.

Here’s this from The Washington Post:

The Biden administration conducted an airstrike against alleged Iranian-linked fighters in Syria on Thursday, signaling its intent to push back against violence believed to be sponsored by Tehran.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the attack, the first action ordered by the Biden administration to push back against alleged Iranian-linked violence in Iraq and Syria, on a border control point in eastern Syria was “authorized in response to recent attacks against American and coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats.”

He said the facilities were used by Iranian-linked militias including Kaitib Hezbollah and Kaitib Sayyid al-Shuhada.

The operation follows the latest serious attack on U.S. locations in Iraq that American officials have attributed to Iranian-linked groups operating in Iraq and Syria. Earlier this month, a rocket attack in northern Iraq killed a contractor working with the U.S. military and injured a U.S. service member there.

So we are being told that the United States launched an airstrike on Syria, a nation it invaded and is illegally occupying, because of attacks on “U.S. locations” in Iraq, another nation the U.S. invaded and is illegally occupying. This attack is justified on the basis that the Iraqi fighters were “Iranian-linked”, a claim that is both entirely without evidence and irrelevant to the justification of deadly military force. And this is somehow being framed in mainstream news publications as a defensive operation.

This is Defense Department stenography. The U.S. military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor. It’s the people trying to eject them who are acting defensively. The deaths of U.S. troops and contractors in those countries can only be blamed on the powerful people who sent them there.

The U.S. is just taking it as a given that it has de facto jurisdiction over the nations of Syria, Iraq, and Iran, and that any attempt to interfere in its authority in the region is an unprovoked attack which must be defended against. This is completely backwards and illegitimate. Only through the most perversely warped American supremacist reality tunnels can it look valid to dictate the affairs of sovereign nations on the other side of the planet and respond with violence if anyone in those nations tries to eject them.

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Additional source:   https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/26/after-just-one-month-in-office-biden-orders-airstrike-in-syria/

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Phillip Mezzapelle
Phillip Mezzapelle
3 years ago

BUSINESS AS USUAL.

terry shead
terry shead
3 years ago

Myself I cain’t wait for the dollar to collapse then these B can not pay the wages of these idiots.
In a minute Russia is going to lose patience with these mercinaries?

Spike
Spike
3 years ago

That didn’t take long. More murder in the Middle East. Back to endless eats and business as usual