By Dany Smith

“A TECHNOLOGICALLY DYNAMIC THEATER”

Why have Washington and its regional allies failed to overthrow the Syrian government? The importance of developing optimal defenses against sophisticated attacks

By Dany Smith

Remains of a TomaHawk downed intact

The so-called “civil war in Syria” has been going on for ten uninterrupted years of aggression and plots originating in the West. Much blood of innocent civilians has flowed from the first moments of that lie disguised as popular demonstrations behind which hid cells of murderers and agitators (many of them transferred from Libya) recruited by the Saudi, Qatari and Turkish intelligence services that at the at the same time they responded (and still do) to directives from the CIA and British MI-6.

Trying to create the same conditions of insecurity and mistrust that they had installed in Iraq and Libya, these dark actors tried to make their actions swift and effective with an expectation of no more than a few months of survival of the Bashar Al Assad government. If it fell into that term, the puppets who had taken power (and who would respond to Washington), would have started a campaign of damage control and media cover-up to cover up all the dirty operations carried out by their pseudo-Islamist henchmen of gangs like “Jabbat Al Nusrah ”,“Al Qaeda” and “Daesh”. With that result, the Western media headlines would have boasted of the “arrival of democracy” and the like.

But the plans did not materialize as expected and worse, Russia's intervention on the ground ended up destroying their expectations of an instant victory. Even more; Erdogan's attempt to scare Putin into retracting his intervention (with the downing of the SU-24) was not only unsuccessful but also counterproductive. This in turn neutralized the operations of the mercenary gangs and this was capitalized on by the Syrian Arab Army to further push these elements that were sneaking through the porous borders of Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and the Israeli-controlled “Golan Heights”.

At the same time, but on another level, these same Western conspirators, certainly powerless due to the resounding failures that their proxies (among them Kurdish) suffered due to the actions of a reorganized Syrian army with the lethal support of the Russian aerospace force, began to engineer dirty new tactics in order to try to discourage the Russians. First they tried to blame Al Assad for chemical attacks and show him to the world as a war criminal; this did not work and Russia sustained its support. Before long, attacks on Russian officials in Damascus tried to intimidate Putin, but to no avail. It was thus that we saw how mysterious Drones armed with hardware items launched attacks by throwing grenades on the Jmeimin base and even on the port of Tartus. Added to this, the cunning Israeli attacks that claimed, among other lives, the lives of several Russian soldiers and officers in an attack on September 23, 2018, filled the patience of the Russian government. Although Tel Aviv immediately rushed to the Kremlin to apologize, Vladimir Putin -clearly fed up with these tricks- was pragmatic and clear enough for Netanyahu to measure his forays.

Mysterious Drone

From here we witnessed a superlative upgrade of Syrian air defenses that were out of date with old material dating from the Soviet era. The technical readjustments of Russian engineers and their coordination with their advanced electronic warfare systems made the Syrian skies a bad place for intruders and opportunists who support terrorist gangs. From that moment on, strange things began to happen and difficulties in western devices (such as GPS cut-off among other failures) began to be reported with more continuity. Even in the air attack of last February 26 against the Iraqi popular militias Al-Hashd Al-Sha'abi in Syrian territory, electronic difficulties would have occurred in the missiles launched as if they had been illuminated by some kind of invisible ray that destabilized them. Does the Arab resistance have reverse technology acquired from the TomaHawk captured after the unsuccessful US attacks?

In this sense, a specialized publication in “The National Interest” ensures that Russia managed to get hold of exponents of these missiles that did not explode and after developing all the electronic countermeasures to cancel them, they shared them with their partners and regional allies. If this is true, the Western failure is twofold, since to the strictly military is added an impotence and political inefficiency to deploy its imperialist geopolitics.

In this way, armed gangs trained by “Western elements” (in places like “Al Tanf” and “Al Sham”) without air cover were easy and lethal targets of Russian planes and helicopters, which ended impunity with the one they counted on.

Donald Trump attempted a trick by saying that he was withdrawing his special forces troops who were illegally prowling northeast Syria while naval and air force planes launched targeted attacks against positions of Syrian government forces and against their Iranian, Iraqi and Lebanese allies. Likewise, they were not as effective as they would have liked and the risks of an escalation with the Russians led to more precautions. It was thus that Donald Trump opted for the remote attacks with cruise missiles “TomaHawk”" that -according to his expectations and his advisers- would terrorize the Syrians and give a clear message to the Russians.

In April 2017, using highly questionable and unproven excuses, he ordered the attack with 59 missiles against the Syrian complex of “Al Shayrat”; the result was a total failure. What had happened to most of those vectors that did not hit the mark? The silence of the Pentagon was the answer.

In April 2018 Trump orders another attack against Syria in which it will be supported by the French and the British. They had previously warned the Russians to avoid an incident, but this did not mean that they turned off their electronic defense systems. The objectives sought are not achieved here either, being clear another tactical and political failure for Washington.

After these attacks, certain intelligence reports were learned that referred to the capture by the Syrians of several of these TomaHawk that remained intact on the ground to be delivered to the Russians who immediately sent them to Moscow where they were carefully studied and deciphered their weaknesses. It is clear that the Syrian skies were very well protected by some radioelectronic shield system that simply disables the electronics of any device not authorized to darken the air.

Although the Pentagon and intelligence deny that this has been possible, reality has shown and continues to prove to be the answer to those facts and today it can be seen as the US missiles and even the "Delilah" (CCD\IIR with GPS\INS) of their Israeli allies, are successfully diverted and overridden by a mysterious invisible force that their experts have not been able to decipher. Is it the new capabilities of the REB System "Krasujah-4" or is it an improved system unknown to the Americans?

In addition to this, there are reported failures in the electronic systems of airplanes and helicopters that endanger the lives of their pilots when they try to enter the Syrian skies. In conclusion, it can be assured that Russia is a (long) step in electronic warfare technology ahead of the Americans and their partners, something to be commended by President Joe Biden and his advisers before ordering another adventure against Syrian sovereignty.