{"id":76672,"date":"2016-07-16T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/16\/aristote-et-le-vide-syrie-et-state-department\/"},"modified":"2016-07-16T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T14:19:02","slug":"aristote-et-le-vide-syrie-et-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/16\/aristote-et-le-vide-syrie-et-state-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Aristote et le vide, Syrie et State Department<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aristote et le vide, Syrie et State Department<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Il n’est pas pass\u00e9 compl\u00e8tement inaper\u00e7u que, ces derniers jours, le secr\u00e9taire d’État Kerry \u00e9tait encore \u00e0 Moscou pour une nouvelle visite, la quatri\u00e8me en une ann\u00e9e depuis la fin du printemps 2015. C’\u00e9tait l’ultime tentative sans doute, du fait de la brillante et performante administration Obama, de r\u00e9gler une entente entre la Russie et les USA pour une coop\u00e9ration des deux puissances en Syrie. Kerry et Lavrov ont \u00e9t\u00e9 de concert porter des fleurs \u00e0 l’ambassade de France pour saluer les victimes de l’attaque de Nice, ce qui montre sans aucun doute la proximit\u00e9 des esprits. Kerry a rencontr\u00e9 Poutine et a longuement discut\u00e9 avec lui d’une nouvelle proposition US. Ces conversations ont \u00e9t\u00e9 officiellement d\u00e9crites comme \u00ab\u00a0extr\u00eamement franches et tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieuses\u00a0\u00bb, – ce qui a le m\u00e9rite de la clart\u00e9 pour souligner le plus complet \u00e9chec.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Le 15 juillet 2016<\/a>, Alexander Mercouris constate cet \u00e9chec et il le commente en ne dissimulant pas une certaine stup\u00e9faction devant \u00ab\u00a0l’incapacit\u00e9 des USA de s’ajuster \u00e0 la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 de la Russie avec laquelle ils n\u00e9gocient\u00a0\u00bb. Il faut pr\u00e9ciser qu’en substance, en effet, la proposition US semble revenir \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0offrir\u00a0\u00bb aux Russes un nouveau plan pour renverser Assad, cette fois avec leur aide (celle des Russes), en \u00e9change d’une place dans la coalition que contr\u00f4lent, dirigent et manipulent les USA<\/strong> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

« If that is in outline what Kerry was proposing then it is not difficult to see why the Russians would reject it. Essentially what Kerry seems to have offered them was yet another plan to overthrow President Assad, this time with their assistance, in return for a place in a US led military coalition. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

» Assuming that that was the offer – and all the indications are that it was – then it provides a further example of the US’s inability to adjust to the reality of the Russia it is now dealing with. What the US offered Russia was essentially nothing more than a symbolic gesture in return for the sacrifice of Russia’s entire position in Syria. The days are long past when the Russians were prepared to sacrifice fundamental positions in return for symbolic gestures. It is the sort of offer a Gorbachev or a Yeltsin might have accepted. With Putin it stood no chance. It is perplexing the US has still not grasped the point<\/em>… »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sur le m\u00eame site TheDuran.com<\/em>, le 14 juillet 2016<\/a>, Oliver Richardson donne une analyse g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la situation en Syrie, notamment certaines difficult\u00e9s rencontr\u00e9es par les Russes apr\u00e8s leurs succ\u00e8s initiaux depuis leur intervention de septembre 2015. Richardson explique que ces difficult\u00e9s sont essentiellement dues \u00e0 la \u00ab\u00a0politique\u00a0\u00bb US, qui est quasiment de la seule nature de l’obstruction sans autre raison que l’obstruction<\/strong>, avec soutien \u00e0 divers groupes \u00ab\u00a0rebelles\u00a0\u00bb, certains labellis\u00e9es \u00ab\u00a0mod\u00e9r\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb mais la plupart pouvant \u00eatre en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 identifi\u00e9s comme des groupes terroristes divers, y compris sans doute Daesh<\/em> dans l’une ou l’autre occasion, – personne ne sait tr\u00e8s bien mais l’on peut conjecturer que \u00ab\u00a0oui, sans aucun doute\u00a0\u00bb… De ce fait ou malgr\u00e9 ce fait c’est selon, enchaîne Richardson selon la plus impeccable logique, la politique russe et la campagne militaire qui va avec sont « fortement conditionn\u00e9es par les espoirs d’une coop\u00e9ration avec les USA qui ne pourrait \u00eatre effective que dans l’hypoth\u00e8se d’une victoire de Donald Trump aux \u00e9lections pr\u00e9sidentielles <\/em>». Autrement dit, la Russie ne cherche pour l’instant qu’\u00e0 gagner du temps en attendant novembre, et en esp\u00e9rant que Trump l’emportera.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

« …After the core of Palmyra was liberated, Russia then focused its attention on Aleppo. Turkey and Saudi Arabia issued rhetoric threatening an invasion. Iran then sent 6000 \u00ab\u00a0Al-sabereen\u00a0\u00bb troops to Aleppo to totally block such a possibility. By this time, the US’ proxies – both the \u00ab\u00a0moderate rebels\u00a0\u00bb and Al-Nusra – had started to create demarcation lines, which the US aims to use to partition the country. This resulted in Aleppo being split into two – North and South, with the latter being a source of Takfiri infighting (Jaish al Islam and Faylaq Al-Rahman). Due to Russia’s \u00ab\u00a0withdrawal\u00a0\u00bb and a lack of air support for the Syrian Arab Army, Jabhat Al-Nusra was able to reclaim what it had lost when Russia initially began its campaign. This created a scenario where Russia was forced to focus on North Aleppo in order to help cut the supply off to the South. Fortunately, the Syrian Army was able to capture some key areas in Aleppo such as Al-Mallaah Farms, thus cutting major terrorist supply routes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

» Despite these successes, Russia now finds itself in a testing situation. The US wanted Russia to enter Deir Ezzor at the same time as its units were aiding the YPG in Raqqa. Russia was unwilling to do this as priorities change all the time, and at this moment Aleppo is the \u00ab\u00a0mother of all battles\u00a0\u00bb. The benefit of liberating Deir Ezzor would be securing the highway that goes to Iraq, as well as a key area near Raqqa. As a result, Russia did something that angered many – they signed a ceasefire deal with the US. It is this deal that leads us to the main point: Russia is waiting for Donald Trump’s election victory in November<\/strong><\/em>. »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Pour diverses raisons par cons\u00e9quent et pour ce qui est du temps pr\u00e9sent et de l’administration en cours, les Russes se heurtent \u00e0 une politique US qu’ils ne comprennent pas, essentiellement pour la raison qu’elle est rationnellement sinon compl\u00e8tement incompr\u00e9hensible<\/strong>. Richardson note qu’une des lignes strat\u00e9giques US actuelles dans le conflit g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la r\u00e9gion est la lib\u00e9ration des villes de Faloujah et de Mossoul, en Irak (ou pr\u00e9tendu-Irak) selon l’argument effectivement strat\u00e9gique et dans tous les cas p\u00e9remptoire que le pr\u00e9sident Obama veut voir r\u00e9aliser ces (ou ses) deux \u00ab\u00a0conqu\u00eates\u00a0\u00bb pour en faire \u00e9tat dans son legs, ou disons son curriculum vitae (« The US is actually more interested in liberating Fallujah, and soon Mosul. Both these conquests will give Obama the legacy he wanted<\/em>… »).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Cette seule hypoth\u00e8se \u00ab\u00a0strat\u00e9gique\u00a0\u00bb n’exclut aucune autre, – bien au contraire, – des tr\u00e8s nombreuses hypoth\u00e8ses qui pourraient \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9es par un observateur neutre comme \u00e9tant de type-dyspraxie<\/a> et de type-dysphasie<\/a>, et qui r\u00e9pondent en v\u00e9rit\u00e9 aux deux grandes normes<\/a> de la psychologie am\u00e9ricaniste de l’inculpabilit\u00e9 et de l’ind\u00e9fectibilit\u00e9.<\/strong> Pour autant, on conviendra qu’elle (cette hypoth\u00e8se \u00ab\u00a0strat\u00e9gique\u00a0\u00bb) dessine gracieusement une belle et bonne illustration parmi ces nombreuses autres de la diplomatie US parvenue \u00e0 l’\u00e8re du vide caract\u00e9risant la postmodernit\u00e9, et y barbotant en faisant des bulles avec le plus grand d\u00e9lice, et faisant donc de l'\u00a0\u00bbEmpire\u00a0\u00bb tant vant\u00e9 par ses thurif\u00e9raires appoint\u00e9s autant que ses adversaires secr\u00e8tement fascin\u00e9s, – ce qu’on nomme aujourd’hui \u00ab\u00a0l’Empire du Vide\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>. (Cela propos\u00e9 comme expression, en se rapportant \u00e0 la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence que forme sans aucun doute la pertinente observation de ce qu’est la postmodernit\u00e9 selon Karel Kosic, r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e9tendue \u00e0 toutes les activit\u00e9s, dont naturellement la manufacture de la politique de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale et des relations internationales des USA : « [A]vec l’accroissement rapide de la consommation et du niveau de vie, s’accroît et se r\u00e9pand un fl\u00e9au auquel le temps pr\u00e9sent est \u00e9galement impuissant, comme le fut le Moyen Âge avec la disette et le chol\u00e9ra, le fl\u00e9au de l’\u00e8re de la globalisation : le vide<\/em>. »)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Cela conduit Mercouris \u00e0 observer que m\u00eame Aristote ne comprendrait pas la politique ext\u00e9rieure des USA, et ne pourrait donc en donner une explication coh\u00e9rente. Tout cela n’est d’ailleurs nullement incompr\u00e9hensible, puisqu’il est effectivement impossible d’expliquer ce qui est inexplicable par simple absence, par le seul vide : l\u00e0 où il n’y a rien, il n’y a rien que soit explicable sinon \u00ab\u00a0le rien\u00a0\u00bb lui-m\u00eame (ce qui n’est pas rien, au reste)<\/strong>. Mercouris, donc, cite une porte-parole du d\u00e9partement d’État dans une passe fameuse, dont il dit qu’il ne faut en aucun cas lui en tenir rigueur puisque commenter le vide est aussi d\u00e9licat et complexe que comprendre et expliquer le vide (14 juillet 2016<\/a>, \u00ab\u00a0Not Even Aristotle Could Explain US Foreign Policy<\/em>\u00ab\u00a0)… « Watching the video post and comments from Alex Christoforou entitled<\/a>, \u00ab\u00a0Watch the US State Department Try To Explain Why US Weapons Keep Ending Up in Al-Qaeda’s Hands\u00a0\u00bb I thought to myself… It is easy and usually right to ridicule State Department spokespersons. However let us be kind to them and admit they have an impossible job. Trying to give coherent explanations of US policy would be beyond the skill of a mind as great as Aristotle’s – and of course none of them is an Aristotle<\/strong><\/em>. »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Une fois n’est pas coutume (sort of<\/em>…), place au vide et au commentateur du vide, la porte-parole du d\u00e9partement d’État, madame Trudeau. Il s’agit d’un extrait du briefing quotidien du minist\u00e8re, le 27 juillet 2016<\/a>, au cours duquel madame Trudeau s’emploie \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre qu’elle ne peut r\u00e9pondre aux questions dont l’assaillent les journalistes accr\u00e9dit\u00e9s, dont l’in\u00e9vitable Matt Lee<\/a>, de AP (celui qui dit \u00ab\u00a0Je retiens mon souffle [jusqu’\u00e0 ce que vous me donniez une r\u00e9ponse\u00a0\u00bb – « I’m going to hold my breath<\/em> »). Madame Trudeau r\u00e9pond m\u00e9caniquement, avec une constance et un courage louables, qu’elle ne peut faire de commentaire, qu’une \u00ab\u00a0enqu\u00eate est en cours\u00a0\u00bb pour chercher une r\u00e9ponse aux questions pos\u00e9es (qui concernent effectivement la livraison d’armes US qui se retrouvent dans des groupes divers, dont un certain nombre terroristes, lesquels ouvrent le feu sur des forces alli\u00e9es des US, ou tout simplement US, ce qui revient \u00e0 observer que les livraisons d’armes US par le gouvernement US finissent par servir \u00e0 donner des instruments servant \u00e0 tuer des soldats US, ce qui n(‘est pas bien et n’est pas le but recherch\u00e9). Elle, madame Trudeau, d\u00e9ploie donc devant nous une certaine cat\u00e9gorie de vide, l’une des plus riches, le vide par l’abondance du d\u00e9ni, le vide par l’empilement bureaucratique, le vide par la quantit\u00e9 de choses n\u00e9gatives, impuissantes et inf\u00e9condes, accomplissant ainsi parfaitement les consignes et autres \u00ab\u00a0feuilles de route\u00a0\u00bb du Syst\u00e8me<\/strong>. Certes, il y en aura pour consid\u00e9rer que c’est cela, la puissance, et plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment la puissance de l’Empire ; certes, puisqu’il s’agit de l’Empire du Vide…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ce texte tr\u00e8s long et tr\u00e8s r\u00e9p\u00e9titif, et n\u00e9anmoins tr\u00e8s instructif, qui peut d’ailleurs \u00eatre entendu sous la forme sonore et visuelle de la vid\u00e9o<\/a> du briefing du 27 juillet, constitue un document int\u00e9ressant sur le fonctionnement de l’Empire du Vide.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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D\u00e9partement d’État : \u00ab\u00a0Yeah, We Can’t<\/em>…\u00a0\u00bb<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION : Hi. There was a joint Al Jazeera\/New York Times report – rather, I should say New York Times\/Al Jazeera report – alleging that some members of the Jordanian intelligence structure may have taken weapons intended for rebels fighting against the Assad regime and sold those weapons on the black market. What is this building’s reaction? What conversations has it had with the Jordanian Government? We all know that weapons turn up on the black market all the time, but given the complexity of the situation in Syria, it does raise some alarm bells.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: Okay, so thanks for the question. We have no comment on that report. There is an ongoing investigation. The United States remains committed to Jordan’s security and stability, and we’re proud to stand side by side with Jordan in the global counter-ISIL coalition. But on that particular report, there’s an ongoing investigation. I just can’t speak to it, Ros.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: The CIA does not comment either on its covert transfers of weapons, and yet, it is a U.S. Government policy. Who else should we ask about this?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: As I said, I have no comment on that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: More of a policy – these weapons potentially ending up in the hands of extremists – is it a consequence that the U.S. is willing to accept in order to prop up rebel forces in Syria?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: As it’s an ongoing investigation, I just don’t have a comment on that report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: It’s a policy. It’s not the only red flag out there. For example, last September, the Pentagon acknowledged that the Syrian rebels that it trained gave at least a quarter of their weapons cache to al-Nusrah. How many red flags do there have to be for the U.S. to stop arming rebels?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: So we’re going to leave it where I left it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Matt, you had a question?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Yeah, I – who’s doing the investigation?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: It’s actually an interagency investigation, but the State Department is contributing to it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: So what are the other agencies involved?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: Yeah, I can’t speak to all the different agencies, but it’s multiple U.S. agencies. We’re contributing information.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Well…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: But she does raise a good point, that…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Wait, hold on, hold on.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Sure.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Just one thing. Just, I mean, the White House was just asked about this in their briefing, right?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: I believe they were.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Yeah. You know what they did?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: They refused to comment on it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: No, no. They referred the questions to the State Department and to the FBI.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: Yeah. So… and on this I’m saying there’s an ongoing investigation…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: But you won’t even say who’s doing the investigation?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: It’s my understanding it’s interagency. It’s multiple government…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: So which ones?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: I don’t have a rundown of who exactly. If I have anything more, we’ll come back to you on that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: I’m going to hold my breath.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: Hold on one second.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: How long should I hold it?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: Probably not until the end of the briefing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: I wanted to ask you… there were also allegations that these weapons were actually used to kill Americans, American trainers and so on, in Jordan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: Yeah.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Can you comment on that?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: I…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: You’re not aware?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: As it’s ongoing, I really can’t, Said. I’m sorry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Okay, Ros.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: She was raising… she was touching on a really good point.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: Yeah.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Is there any reason why the U.S. Government should be in the business of providing weapons to anyone who is not a part of a nation-state’s military? Because it seems every time that some rebel group gets its hands on U.S.-provided weapons, they end up in the wrong hands, they end up being sold for whatever on the black market. Is this something that U.S. foreign policy and military policy really should even be considering?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: I know you’d like a comment on it, Ros. I just can’t at this point. If we have more that I can offer it, we certainly will.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

QUESTION: But just in general terms, is this just…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

MS TRUDEAU: Yeah, I can’t Ros. I’m sorry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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