Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
December 6, 2015
The US has kicked the crazy up a notch, confirming the authenticity of Russian satellite images showing oil trucks leaving Syria for Turkey, then claiming that it isn’t happening.
Iran ready to present proof of Turkey’s oil trade with ISIS – Tehran official https://t.co/QNhyYDaq0d pic.twitter.com/cxSnz2M9I1
— RT (@RT_com) December 5, 2015
“My eyes deceive me” say they.
RT:
Russia’s Defense Ministry has slammed Washington’s reaction to the outing of the secret oil trade between Turkey and Islamic State terrorists, calling it a “theatre of the absurd” and saying it looks rather like “direct patronage.”
“Finally, our colleagues from the State Department and the Pentagon have confirmed that the photo-proof, which we presented at a briefing [on December 2], of the origin and destination of the stolen oil, coming from the areas controlled by the terrorists, is authentic,” Major General Igor Konashenkov, a Defense Ministry spokesman, told a media briefing on Saturday.
“However, the US claim that they ‘don’t see the border crossings with tanker trucks crossing the border,’ raises a smile, if only, because the photos are still images,” he added.
The spokesman advised the American side to have a look through the videos, which were also presented by the Russian Defense Ministry, showing “how the tanker trucks not only drive through checkpoints at the Turkish border, but pass through them without even stopping.”
Apparently, they didn’t actually comment on the videos, which Russia released and posted on YouTube, just the still images… bizarre.
If the Russian evidence is not enough, the US and its allies should look at the footage from their own state-of-the art drones, “the number of which has recently tripled above the Turkish-Syrian border and oil-rich areas controlled by the terrorists,” he said.
According to Konashenkov, it should be impossible for the Western coalition to miss the oil smuggling business running between Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and Turkey, given their range of technical capabilities in Syria and Iraq.
“So when US officials claim that they do not see oil smuggled by terrorists to Turkey, this is already not dodging the issue, but smacks of a direct patronage,” he added.
Well, there is definitely direct patronage of the Turkish state, whether the US is actually buying ISIS oil or not. Probably they are not. The Jews, however, are.
The spokesman pointed out that the coalition’s drones and warplanes have been intensively using Incirlik Air Base in Turkey for their operations.
On Friday, an unnamed US State Department official confirmed to Reuters that the Russian photos of thousands of oil tanker trucks in Syria were authentic.
However, the official stressed that he hasn’t seen “the imagery of the border crossing with trucks crossing the border, and that’s because I don’t believe that exists.”
There you have it: he hasn’t seen it because he doesn’t believe it exists.
This is like that story about how American Indians looked out and saw ships coming in, but couldn’t perceive they were there because they didn’t know ships existed (eh, it’s in “What the Bleep do We Know“).
Konashenkov also commented on a recent statement by US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who said at a Senate hearing that “over the past several weeks” the Pentagon has “intensified the air campaign against ISIL’s war-sustaining oil enterprise.”
With the US-led air campaign against Islamic State beginning in September 2014, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman wondered: “Does this mean that over the last one and a half years the Americans were only destroying non-war-sustaining infrastructure of the militants?”
Yeah, I think that means that.
They were also randomly bombing the desert.
“Now we know where the bandits got the money to buy weapons, recruit new supporters, and stage bloody acts of terror, and why the territory controlled by IS increased by hundreds of times during this period,” he said.
Konashenkov called recent statements by the US State Department and Pentagon “‘a theater of absurd,’ based on double standards and the wordplay.”
Overall weird, yes.
That is correct.
In other news, Zero Hedge is claiming that Turkey has invaded Iraq to protect ISIS oil routes.