the u.s. military announced that they had begun a <u+201c>major<u+201d> offensive in raqqa, syria, the de facto isis capital. 




via yournewswire 




the announcement on sunday would pave the way for hillary clinton to declare a no-fly zone in northeast syria should she be elected president.. and a no fly zone will require going to war with syria and russia.




approximately 30,000 fighters will participate in the u.s.-led operation. the group expected to carry out the bulk of the fighting is the kurdish people<u+2019>s protection units, or the ypg. the ypg is the military extension of the kurdistan workers party (pkk), a group that is on the u.s. terrorism list.




(it is not known if u.s. officials were asked about the duplicity of declaring the pkk a terrorist group while at the same time working with them in the region.)




the u.s. will first attempt to seal off raqqa before venturing into the city itself <u+2013> actions that government officials say will not be completed prior to barack obama leaving office. <u+201c>we always advertised that the isolation phase (of raqqa) is going to take months,<u+201d> joint chiefs of staff chairman joseph dunford was quoted as saying on sunday.




the announcement paves the way for hillary clinton to declare a no-fly zone in northeastern syria upon entering the oval office. a no-fly zone would <u+201c>require us to go to war against syria and russia,<u+201d> danford told the senate in september.




in discussing no-fly zones on friday, green party presidential candidate jill stein said, <u+201c>for us to declare a no-fly zone means get ready for war with russia.<u+201d> in a separate interview, stein said, <u+201c>this is a mushroom cloud waiting to happen.<u+201d>





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