{"id":26218,"date":"2020-08-26T17:19:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=26218"},"modified":"2020-08-26T17:19:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:19:18","slug":"why-is-the-russian-military-having-to-chase-an-american-convoy-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=26218","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Russian military having to chase an American convoy in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>US Troops Injured After Russian Chopper &amp; Vehicles Gave Chase To American Convoy In Syria<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic video which emerged Tuesday shows the latest &#8220;close call&#8221; between US, Russia, and Syrian national forces who are jostling for control of northeast Syria, after a prior incident resulted in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/rare-exchange-fire-between-us-syrian-armies-results-casualties\">rare\u00a0exchange of fire<\/a>\u00a0at a Syrian Army checkpoint, killing two Syrian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is reporting<strong>\u00a0multiple US troops injured<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/26\/politics\/us-service-members-injured-russia-syria\/index.html\">what are being described<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0&#8220;concussion-like injuries&#8221; as a result of collisions with Russian armored vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The footage is being widely reported as\u00a0<strong>showing Russian Army\u00a0vehicles and even a\u00a0chopper giving chase to an American armored\u00a0convoy<\/strong>\u00a0in northeastern Syria.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1298565424922144768&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fhunger-games-syria-surreal-video-shows-russian-chopper-giving-chase-us-convoy&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1298565424922144768\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>And further videos, one apparently taken from one of the Russian vehicles, confirm\u00a0that Russian military forces were involved.<\/p>\n<p>The close-up view reveals just how close the two rival parties were during the standoff, further suggesting they were a single gun shot away from a direct battle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1298648356223365120&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fhunger-games-syria-surreal-video-shows-russian-chopper-giving-chase-us-convoy&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1298648356223365120\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=true&amp;id=1298571921957826560&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fhunger-games-syria-surreal-video-shows-russian-chopper-giving-chase-us-convoy&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1298571921957826560\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the account of Beirut-based\u00a0<em>al-Masdar News<\/em>, which is known for having reporters on the ground and sources\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.almasdarnews.com\/article\/watch-russian-army-chases-us-military-in-northeast-syria\/\">within the Syrian Army<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Russian army was filmed on Tuesday, chasing U.S. military vehicles traveling through the Al-Hasakah countryside in northeastern Syria.<\/p>\n<p>According to field reports from northeastern Syria,\u00a0<strong>Russian army vehicles, along with one of their choppers, was seen chasing U.S. military vehicles near the border-city of Al-Malikiyah in the eastern part of Al-Hasakah<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At least two videos of the incident were released on Wednesday, both showing the Russian army attempting to intercept the U.S. military vehicles in the Al-Hasakah countryside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This latest incident underscores that though the Syria conflict has long been out of international headlines and media coverage, the potential for superpowers entering direct conflict there remains high as ever.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-3\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-3&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1298564797060055040&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fhunger-games-syria-surreal-video-shows-russian-chopper-giving-chase-us-convoy&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1298564797060055040\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Currently US forces still occupy a large chunk of northeast territory in support of Syrian Kurdish militias as part of Trump&#8217;s controversial &#8220;secure the oil&#8221; policy. Indeed Damascus has repeatedly accused Washington of straight up theft, which the US administration has not even really attempted to deny.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/hunger-games-syria-surreal-video-shows-russian-chopper-giving-chase-us-convoy\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/hunger-games-syria-surreal-video-shows-russian-chopper-giving-chase-us-convoy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Troops Injured After Russian Chopper &amp; Vehicles Gave Chase To American Convoy In Syria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}