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Mid-East Coup: As Russia Pounds Militant Targets, Iran Readies Ground Invasions While Saudis Panic
Back in June, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Qasem Soleimaini, visited a town north of Latakia on the frontlines of Syria’s protracted civil war. Following that visit, he promised that Tehran and Damascus were set to unveil a new strategy that would “surprise the world.”
Just a little over a month later, Soleimani - in violation of a UN travel ban - visited Russia and held meetings with The Kremlin. The Pentagon now says those meetings were “very important” in accelerating the timetable for Russia’s involvement in Syria. The General allegedly made another visit to Moscow in September.
The timeline here is no coincidence. Iran has long provided covert and overt support to the Assad regime via financial transfers, logistical support from the Quds, and via the involvement of Hezbollah in the Assad government’s fight to regain control of the country.
As we’ve documented extensively over the past several weeks, what appears to have happened here is that Iran, unable to simply invade Syria in support of Assad (because doing so would obviously be a disaster in terms of preserving the optics around the P5+1 nuclear deal), turned to Moscow which has in the past used Russia’s Security Council veto to block the referral of the war in Syria to the Hague and which is a known ally of both Tehran and Damascus.
While it’s unclear exactly what the pitch was to Putin, Russia clearly saw an opportunity to advance The Kremlin’s geopolitical agenda at a key time in history. Moscow is keen to put on a brave face amid the most contentious standoff with the West since the Cold War (as a result of the conflict in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea) and amid the related effort to preserve Gazprom’s market share in Europe.
In short, Putin looks to have viewed this as the ultimate geopolitical win-win. That is, Russia gets to i) expand its influence in the Middle East in defiance of Washington and its allies, a move that also helps to protect Russian energy interests and preserves the Mediterranean port at Tartus, and ii) support its allies in Tehran and Damascus thus preserving the counterbalance to the US-Saudi-Qatar alliance.
Meanwhile, Iran gets to enjoy the support of the Russian military juggernaut on the way to protecting the delicate regional nexus that is the source of Tehran’s Mid-East influence. It is absolutely critical for Iran to keep Assad in power, as the loss of Syria to the West would effectively cut the supply line between Iran and Hezbollah.
The same dynamic is playing out in Iraq. That is, Iran is fighting ISIS via various Shiite militias just as it’s fighting the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen via the Shia Houthis. It is thus extremely significant that Baghdad has agreed to share intelligence with Syria and Russia, as that effectively means the Iran-backed Shiite militias battling for control of Iraq will enjoy the support of the Russian military.
What should be obvious here is that this is a coordinated plan.
The Kremlin has effectively agreed to bring the might of the Russian air force to bear on Assad’s opponents in Syria and on Sunni militants in Iraq in support of Iranian ground troops and because the US and its allies have failed so miserably in terms of fielding anti-Assad rebels who don't turn out to be extremists, Putin gets to pitch the whole thing as a "war on terror." It would be difficult to design a more elegant power play.
If you think that’s far-fetched, consider the following just out from Reuters:
Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria in the last 10 days and will soon join government forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies in a major ground offensive backed by Russian air strikes, two Lebanese sources told Reuters.
"The (Russian) air strikes will in the near future be accompanied by ground advances by the Syrian army and its allies," said one of the sources familiar with political and military developments in the conflict.
"It is possible that the coming land operations will be focused in the Idlib and Hama countryside," the source added.
The two sources said the operation would be aimed at recapturing territory lost by President Bashar al-Assad's government to rebels.
It points to an emerging military alliance between Russia and Assad's other main allies - Iran and Hezbollah - focused on recapturing areas of northwestern Syria that were seized by insurgents in rapid advances earlier this year.
"The vanguard of Iranian ground forces began arriving in Syria: soldiers and officers specifically to participate in this battle. They are not advisors ... we mean hundreds with equipment and weapons. They will be followed by more," the second source said. Iraqis would also take part in the operation, the source said.
And then consider this, also just out (via Reuters):
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it would consider any request from the Iraqi government to conduct air strikes against Islamic State inside Iraq, but said it had not yet received such an appeal, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
It cited the foreign ministry as saying it would evaluate the "political and military" logic of such a move if a request was forthcoming.
Finally, to drive the point home and further confirm the veracity of the thesis outlined above, here’s Saudi Arabia panicking at the prospect that Russia’s presence is set to completely disrupt the Mid-East BOP (via Reuters, yet again):
Saudi Arabia, a leading foe of President Bashar al-Assad, demanded his ally Russia end its raids on Syria, saying the strikes had caused civilian casualties while failing to target the hardline Islamic State militants Moscow says it opposes.
In remarks at the United Nations in New York, a senior Saudi diplomat suggested both Russia and Assad's other main ally Iran could not claim to fight Islamic State "terrorism" at the same time as supporting the "terrorism" of the Syrian authorities.
Saudi ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi expressed "profound concern regarding the military operations which
Russian forces have carried out in Homs and Hama today, places where ISIS forces are not present. These attacks led to a number of innocent victims. We demand it stop immediately and not recur."
"As for those countries that have claimed recently to join in the fight against ISIS terrorism, they can’t do that at the same time as they support the terrorism of the Syrian regime and its terrorist foreign allies like Hezbollah and the Quds Force and other terrorist sectarian groups," he added in comments broadcast by Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television.
ISIS is a common acronym for Islamic State, also known as ISIL. Lebanon's Hezbollah Shi'ite militia openly fights on behalf of Assad's government, and the Quds Force, part of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, is also widely believed to be aiding Damascus.
It would be difficult to overstate the significance of what appears to be going on here. This is nothing short of a Middle Eastern coup, as Iran looks to displace Saudi Arabia as the regional power broker and as Russia looks to supplant the US as the superpower puppet master.
Do not expect Saudi Arabia and Israel to remain on the sidelines here.
If Russia ends up bolstering Iran's position in Syria (by expanding Hezbollah's influence and capabilities) and if the Russian air force effectively takes control of Iraq thus allowing Iran to exert a greater influence over the government in Baghdad, the fragile balance of power that has existed in the region will be turned on its head and in the event this plays out, one should not expect Washington, Riyadh, Jerusalem, and London to simply go gentle into that good night.
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"Dass Raciss"
Didn't know there was an entrance exam. You know that some of the smartest people are salt of the earth folks who haven't studied shit and can barely speak thier own language but already "get it" better than most people in the world.
If this comment is /s - then I apologize. I will let er' ride (good one - got me). If not, pphhhhhtttttt.. (couldn't think of anything else... I generally like your direction and mindset... so, hey... carry on).
HA! +10, khnum, your post most certainly reminds me of some people in the news...
;-D
More like the Springer spaniel I once had.
Kept on running headfirst into walls, never really learnt.
Well, there goes the neighborhood......This isn't funny, shit could really go south in a hurry. I don't believe anyone on CNBC can spin this as bullish.
Oh, give them a chance, I'm sure they won't disappoint.
Probably not a good time for me to be going working in the region!
I hope Putin at least pops one of their testicles, and keeps a firm grip on the second.
The question in a short amount of time will be this: Who will defect and start blaming the US/Isrealis/Saudis in the media for the entire world to see.
Which media?
It's a fait acompli. Saudi Arabia, the US, and Israel will just have to live with the sea change.
Long oil services distribution in Iran.
2015.75
It's all coming together, and falling apart.
Want some pi?
Armstrong has to be pissing himself here. Bombs drop right on 9/30. Man.
Does that mean oil is heading up soon ?
TPTB are caught between a rock and a hard place with the oil price. They want it to go up, but the global economy is so fragile that 70 or 80 dollar oil will cause immense harm. The price of oil will pop if war breaks out, but that will of course hit the EMs hardest and thus, the cascade begins. Most scenarios are now pointing to a cascading event and I fervently pray it happens on Lord Obama's watch. Of course if the "empty skirt" Clinton gets the next immaculation, that would be OK too...
;-D
The Saud whine like little girls. When will NuttyYahoo start his little girl whining?
Is it a coincindence that the banks dropped oil prices ahead of this? It looks like a clear-cut betrayal of the Saud. Russia does not seem to be affected.
He is actually at the UN right now, making big talk about how great Isael is, and how scary Iran is. Nobody cares. He and his kind are the existential threat and they don't even know it, nor would they care.
Too much for Scoob to read. Time for a doggie nap. Too much milk of amnesia today. Sleepy.
whatever.
What is up with my ZH bro's? I needed a doggie nap and I get all the down votes? Go easy on Scoob today he was at the vet getting his anal sacks drained this morning.
It is a much bigger play than just the Middle East. Russia drafting 150,000 into the army? They will be used in the Baltic States and Ukraine, maybe also the stans region, not Syria. China will at the appropriate time take over Taiwain and the South China Sea. The western dominance of the world is at stake. USA domestic oil is decimated, no help from keystone. China is liquidating its dollar holdings. China and Russia are building a joint pipeline. Game over.
What's interesting is the possibility that China and Russia have a latter-day Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, agreeing to partition the Middle East and south Asia.
Africa will get absolutely raped under Chinese dominion.
Africa has been getting raped by Zionist banksters for ever.. in fact the last country was Libya that was DEBT FREE!! now they are slaves.#1 there is a Rothschild bank there now.. case close!
Guess what, fuckhead. China does business, no weapons in Africa. USA arms Africans than steals their resources.
I worked all over Africa for a couple of years.
You don't know shit from shinola Crawl back into your trailer and go brush your TOOTH.
You never answered my question from a few weeks ago. From the pictures you posted of yourself, you appear to be in your mid-50's...correct? It is entirely possible that one or more of your grandfathers were Deutsche soldaten. Is this why you incessantly bring up the word "NAZI" at the top of your shrill little voice? Is this in fact, self-loathing?
The single dumbest thing the Chinese could do right now would be to invade Taiwan or the Spratly Islands. Despite all of the rhetoric about the Chinese being distrusted, it generally isn't true among the general populace of their neighbors who are mixed or even lukewarm still towards China.
You can bet if the Chinese did invade Taiwan that countries that are on the fence right now about China including Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia which have various level of mixed reactions with the US would institutely want to come under the US military umbrella & form close partnerships.
Victoria (f*ck the EU) Nuland and her cronies overthrowing the legitimate Ukie government and stealing the country's gold is like China overthrowing Canada and stealing their gold. One might think the US would assist the Canadians who were under despotic rule from the new Chinese-Canadian capital of Vancouver.
I got down arrows for saying this yesterday, but it still is just as relevant. If Obama's agenda is indeed to take the US and other western countries down for some sort of past colonial infractions, then why wouldn't he work in collusion with Russia, China and Iran to whittle away of the strengths that remain?
First, the puppet d.b.a. "Obummer" has no agenda, because like all puppets, he is but a vessel for power to aggregate within and flow through. Anything more and you end up like JFK (or Reagan).
As for taking down the West, the best way to do that is to let it disintegrate in it's own incoherence as the East provides the alternative of rationality.
Honestly, divide and conquer is the only trick these people have. But hey, given it works so well, why try anything more difficult and prone to failure.
The answer is that the NWO Judeo-Bosheviks want Russia and China subservient and under their control, but the US middle class (which TPTB have long identified as their real threat, and have targeted from the beginning with their PC shit and Hollywood family values) completely destroyed.
They are well on their way to achieving their goal. While the US nuclear weapons are safely in the hands of tribe member Weinstein, they can keep Russia and China at bay and create the new America where they remain in power and everyone else is a debt slave, and equal, and not using up as many resources which they wish for themselves - true Communism!
Think about it for a minute. The Confederate flag, symbol of rebellion and the honor of southern gentlemen, is cast aside. General Robert E Lee, one of the most noble Americans who ever lived, is cast aside.
The Hollywood family values now foisted on America? Miley Cyrus... and today's modern day hero (which TPTB hope every white man emulates)? a white man who cut off his own balls... truly the final symbolic emasculation of the American middle class male.
This is Obamas legacy....Bush won the wars...Obama lost them and the middle east....a weak leader is just that..and you opponant knows it....do you think Obama ever resd The Art of War....???????? Not
What wars did Bush win?
I'm not even sure he read "My Pet Goat".
He won the war against Engrish.
pods
American.He never spoke English.
leave it to winston :]
stategery..........
If a former president or VP goes to jail, do they still get Secret Service protection?
Yes, but not in the shower. For privacy, of course.
BHO would be unlikely to veto this policy.
The only thing Obama has ever read is called The Buggery Act of 1533. Reggie had to help him with the big words.
Bush won the wars? Funny - I don't remember him fighting in any of them. I must have missed that day.
Nobody wins a war. They just survive them.
Banksters win in war$$$. They start them to make lots of $$$$.
Murdering innocent people is a big busines$
Bush and Cheney should have been prosecuted for war crimes and the only reason they aren't is because of the status and power of the US. If they were a neighbor to Iraq who have invaded or were head of an African state and caused the kind of civilian casualities, you can bet their would have been at least a moderate level of calls to bring them in front of the International Tribunal Court in Hague.
The key word in most all of these reports is "terrorist". It certainly appears there is a lot of the pot calling the kettle black going on. The terrorists in the USofA are those who love to use the term and are destroying and terrorizing its founding principles.
House of Saud has every reason to panic since when following the successful airstrikes the Russian and Iranian special forces start their operations the terrists will have nowehere to run to but towards the Saudis, LMAO.
The problem is that the Sauds are the terrists.
I have a relative through my wife's family who is ex-special forces and now I guess he is working as some kind of contractor (not really sure what he does), but he had to go through a lot of security background checking before he was offered his assignment. He will be moving his family to Saudi Arabia sometime in the next few months, which my wife knows thanks to Facebook (honestly, I do not keep close tabs on my wife's family and I have met this guy a total of 3 times over 20 years or so at family reunions). What is interesting is that this move has been in the works for some time.
I bet zionist sociopaths around the world are celebrating, if not staging, this alleged Iranian involvement against western interests in Syria.
You've been zioconned. Again.
Maybe another Iranian general will step into the bulls eye?
Jordan will go in with Russia to unite them... wait till Yemen is included...
awesome... FU CIA
How could the US win by getting rid of the Assad govt? What happens then? ISIS takes control of Syria and then can threaten Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel. Another black hole just like Libya. What a great victory.
Last I knew, Syria did not have a Central Bank. As soon as Assad is deposed, there will be a Central Bank. All of the countries we invade do not have a Central Bank. As soon as we put in America's puppets, that country loses it's gold and has a Central Bank. All this war enriches the Central Bankers, Military Industrial Complex and the lesser known depopulation (by any and all means necessary) faction is happy.
Destroyed states are so much easier to plunder.
The only thing O read was the art of bending over...
Suprised Kerry didn't bring James Taylor to sing background music at the press conf. yesterday.
Talk talk talk ... that's al lhe does. where's Teddy Roosevelt when we need him?
http://albainternazionale.blogspot.it/2015/09/cosa-si-muove-riyad.html
Last time I looked at a map, Syria didn't have a common border with Iran. So how could anyone in power in Iran visit a border town? Or Iran consider invading Syria? We need a bit of geography here.
Right now it seems all they can do is fly some troops in and use equipment supplied by Russia. Which means limited capacity regarding tanks and heavy weapons. To move through Iraq with columns of forces would require intense and constant Russian air cover. Russia does not have that amount of air forces in Syria and has not been granted permission to fly missions over Iraq. The article says the fighting is in north west Syria. In other words close to the western part of Syria that is mostly controlled by Syria's forces and where Russia has it's assets. Russia air attacks also have seemed to be along the outskirts of the controlled western portion of Syria and at an isolated area held by rebels within that controlled area.
Any heavy concentrations of troops will be vulnerable to air and missisle strikes and Russia has not provided the S-300/S-2500 defense system that is needed by Iran and Syria. Having Hezbollah, Iran and Syrian troops together is a very inviting target for a satelite guided missile or three.
Hezbollah seems to be venturing far from it's base of operations on this and may be splitting it's forces. Perhaps Israel will hit their base areas at this time.
All this appears to be happening to strengthen the hold on western Syria where Syria already has better control and where Russia has it's bases. This may be turned to Russia benefit if Syria falls as Russia would break that section off for itself. Maybe even allow Assad to control it as their puppet and as cover for the taking of the area. However, that would allow for a pipeline and would not provide a land bridge to Iran. Waiting to see if Russia hits targets in eastern Syria or in the south in support of Hezbollah.
When does China get involved?? After AmerIsrael makes a move on russia?
Why isn't oil exploding right now? Oh, that's right..... because us wants to punish russia.
With the building financial implosion, they couldn't have timed it more effectively.
All confederate flags should be replaced with the rainbow gay alliance flag. After that is done then we should have the red and blue replaced with rainbow colors in the american flag. America is a feminist, progressive/marxist shadow of it's former self. We will get our gay asses whipped and handed back to us in this conflict. When one looks at the figureheads in charge of our bureuacracy/corptocracy it shows pure effeminate lunacy and weakness that for the world's former #1 superpower is pathetic. This country has been completely hijacked by flower power hippie love child faggots.
So much hate and insecurity... Why?
To these people, it's the Amerikkkan way.
I guess they have no faith in the effeminate
imagine that
it is time for us to remember, this is how it ends:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWz9XVvls
Why... Because alpha males will dominate this world not effeminate psuedo-inellectual marxists like yourself. We are losing. we have been losing because we have replaced men in charge with gay men and idiot men who spend more time promoting gay flags and attacking our own nation's history then worrying about the "men" in other parts of the world who are ready to play ball and make their moves.
Somebody should be fired for allowing you to break free of your straps and type that on a computer.
lolololol !!!!!
Not quite. Neocons are destroying us externally. The liberal nut jobs are destroying us internally. Dual passport scum are pulling the strings. And bankers are getting rich greasing the skids to make it all happen.
yes and isaeli first israel satanists
The British satanists had a more compelling story. Aleister Crowley especially.
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-anti-russian-lying-machine-in-...
China, Jordan and others will back Putin... people in Ukraine will kick out Nuland's bitches.... Germany and France will then flock to Russia..
US empire crumbles.... awesome
Yep. Been thinking for some time that it will be Israel and America against the world.
Old foes will become bitter frenemies. For a time. Then, when the coast is clear, they'll turn on each other and take care of unfinished business.
The End.
The old school yard, push the fat kid (his pawn) into the skinny geek (your pawn) and watch em fight it out - after everyone is sent to the nurse or principal work out power sharing arrangment with opposition. Rinse, Repeat!
How about Israel and Saudi are turned to glass and the U.S. fuck off home with their little piss-ant tail between their legs never to be heard from again for at least a hundred years?
That right there would a be a start to world peace, now what to do about those fat, fucking clowns running the Ukraine, and U.S.' little bitch the U.K.
Yes because a world run by Russia and China would be so nice. You fucking idiot.
Fucking idiot is YOU, living in a decaying decrepit shithole of debt slaves.
mixingusa, eu, russia, iran, iraq, syria, now china and throw in saudi, jordan and the jewish state..revelations may not be far off..let's all sing along:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWz9XVvls
should be legal to shoot anyone with turban
Or a Yamaka or perhaps anybody with a hat.
Maybe we could just narrow it down to ingorant fools such as yourself.
yarmulke
In japanese its yamaha....so there!
RIPS
turban is sikh. what do sikhs have to do with any of this?
Sikh are pretty cool imho
Wow. I thought the Iranians were playing cards close to their chest regarding the nuclear inspection deal, I didn't expect they would double down once it was over. Whatever covert side deals from the Iranians to cut off support to Assad in exchange for a lite inspection farce are now off the table.
Once again, our government shows incredible ineptitude in foreign policy. They backed themselves into a corner publicly over the Iran deal and they can't admit how hard they got fucked now without losing tremendous face.
I detest our fedgov but this level of stupidity from them surprises even me.
Hope that was /s.
Only Obozo and Kerry thought those side deals would hold after sanctions were lifted.
Not like they can go public on those secret deals and look like even bigger fools than they
already do.
Just totally outclassed and out played.
I'm just waiting for Iran's full membership of the SCO to be announced at this point.
That would be mate.
There is only one Quran. There is only one Islam. There is no such thing as "moderate" Islam or "extremist" Islam.
There is only Islam, no matter what robes or names it wears. Its goal is and always has been world domination by any means. Its goal is a Caliphate to rule over all.
Wherever it resides, it is a state-within-a-state. Mohammad decreed in his war uniform on the steps of the Kaaba:
"A Muslim is the brother of another Muslim and all the Muslims are brothers of one another and constitute one hand as against the non-Muslims. The blood of every one of them is equal to that of others and even the smallest among them can make a promise on behalf of others.” —Muhammad
Wake up.
Fuck off. This anti-muslim scare/warmongering is fed by zionist lies. Who alone stands to profit from Western hate of muslims? Who profits when Europe succumbs to islamophobia? Whose covert and overt manipulations send millions of muslims to Europe in order to bring this about?
I'll give you a hint. It's that shining beacon of freedom and democracy in the M-E where exactly zero refugees have found asylum.
Or just watch where muslims are thrown out en masse after the first deportation of muslims from Europe.
yes, all this hate mongering against a peace loving people like Islam
Europe, are you ready for some peace coming your way?
Islam is not a people. No religion is peace loving - they all turn people into murderous mass-psychotics. Still I'd rather have a million muslims slitting throats than a single zionist with a nuke.
Interesting how a religion can claim that the entire world's population
must follow or die. Fuck that from any direction.
Guess you prefer non-evangelical religions that keep you alive while sucking you dry?
NWO is making a bet that nukes will not be used that the threat of major conflict with russia china usa iran saudi, israel is very very small..well russia has told usa to get out of syria airspace. does that sound like cooperation. capt of the uss bedford ".did the russian just fire??? " aye sir fire one.. capt :what no wait...
mixing usa, israel and russian war planes in a small area like syria is very very serious..we should all pray the mistakes are small.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWz9XVvls
You must be talking about Christianity. Last I checked, Islam has the idea of "People of the Book" to refer to other revealed religions, and the Qur'an says "There is no compulsion in religion" (2:256), neither of which is present in Christianity. Compare Jews and Christians living peacefully and prospering in the Muslim world for 1400 years with the Crusades and the Inquisition. The Crusaders killed everyone in the name of Christ -- Jews, Muslims and other Christians. The Inquisition expelled all Jews from Spain and forcibily converted all the Muslims, after 800 years of Islamic rule when Jews and Christians were living together with Muslims. When Christians conquer, they eliminate other religions (anybody see Mayan temples in use in Latin America?). When Muslims win, other religions continue to exist and thrive.
those damn islamic missionaries have to be stopped. they need to be turned into christians.
a Saudi coup is next up... then Saudi to suck up to Russia... hahaha ultimate
The only way the Saudis can effectively suck up to Russia would be to dump the dollar. Anything else just won't do.
yes that's what I am impling.... Saudi oil to be priced in yuan or gold
The Saudi's were never our true allies. For proof see the "28 pages" of the 9/11 commission report.
It was always an arrangement of convenience. They do our bidding, buy our petro dollars, sell us cheap oil, and we arm them and make them filthy rich.
But lately the Saudi's have been dumping the dollar. They will no doubt ally themselves with anyone who can keep their regime and lavish lifestyle going.
That is until the Middle East is turned to glass. And the rest of the world along with it by the way things are ratcheting up.
The truth is that most people just want to live their lives. They want to watch their children play and grow up. They want to build a home. They want to earn a fair wage for the labor. They do not wish to fight wars. We have a military industrial multi national corporate conglomerate who is so hellbent on war and exploitation that they will sacrifice anything to get it... including the future of our children (national debt), and even the future of humanity itself (WWIII). It's been more than 60 years since nukes were last used. We had plenty of time to figure out how to get along without them and we squandered it. Now it seems that humanity will pay the ultimate price. Corporate fascism at it's best.
This species is not so intelligent after all it seems.
Would have been easier to wipe their plate clean than
starting the wars we started.
I think the only ones who will save the Saudis now is China. The House of Saud will probably have to sign over their dying oil fields.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKQrp86vWg
From Homs region today, looks like those long ISIS convoys are not going to be a good idea anymore.
that video was from Russian "Center-2015" exercises outside of Syria.
http://www.russiadefence.net/t4532p60-russian-military-involvement-and-a...
Obama announces a new ally in the fight against extremist...North Korean.
All of this also creates a de facto permanent assimilation of Iranian interests into the Iraq Shia government on all levels.
The US has lost Iraq.
Sure its a sinkhole of money, which they will gratefully accept, but after 10 years is Iraq at peace?
And with things like the Mosul bug-out still unexplained who can trust anyone.
Just as the US buys-off the Egyptian military per the Israeli agreement, so too comes Persia to win the undying technical and religious support of Shia across a fractured Iraq.
Even the Kurds have their hands out and they are the most trustworthy assets for the US/UK/Israel combine.
Maybe it takes 10 years (or one) but the bigger question is can the Wahabists in the house of Saud keep it together, or will they also fracture under the disorganized support from the US.
How many innocent Iraqis were murdered by these wars?
2 million? 3 million?
Putin's trying to rescue his pet dictator - the absolute last person in the ME who gives a shit about what Russia wants.
Well, Vlado had better work fast. With the price of oil in the tank, they can''t afford to maintain their supply lines down there for very long.
Um, I think the Russians have plenty of their own oil.
And they have an energy agreement with China.
Yes doofus, that was my point. Since endemic corruption and general backwardness have rendered the Russian economy uncompetitive, the Russians rely on oil for income. That is how they finance their "wish we were Soviets" military adventures.
Since that commodity is now selling at a low price, the Russians have to rely on their intrinsic producity to generat e wealth. This means that they are really poor, and can't afford to dabble long in Syria.
Since endemic corruption and general backwardness have rendered the Obola economy uncompetitive.
Fixed it for you. Go watch your Trayvon thugs playing college and pro-ball. America is a joke with 60 million on EBT/EIC/Foodstamps and endless other freebies.
All these assholes screaming for more war like idiots.
Like a moron you think printing endless FIAT paper creates wealth. idiot.
*Sigh*. Member for 1 week 1 day. Anyone else see a pattern here?
What is the pattern exactly - you mean that all of the staff of the Russian Troll house have been members here for a long time already?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russia...
Or you mean the pattern that speaking out against Russia gets you censored and booted at ZH?
My, that is an odd pattern for a "neutral" and "independent" site to have.
This is a sure sign trololo mode on, asshat on the letter "m"...
JIDF much?
They pay real shekels to Zionist college assholes who come out and shill for Shitsrael, you don't have to do it for free, Tovah.
Fuck ZH seniority.
This is a master-plan by the Elites = Rothschild family/Banking Cartels the evil empire!! The author fails to recognize/hold back info.. Syria did not turn out as plan thx to Mr. Putin! I here John McCain here in the USSA saying we are going to start supplying the Syrian Rebels who were attacked by Russian air forces LOL.. Mr. McCain should have been killed when he was a Prisoner of war he would have done this country USA a favor.. We Supply both Syrian rebels and ISIS!!!! Israel created ISIS it stands for IsrealiSecretIntelligentService!! USSA politicians especially the war mongers got to have a brain.. Plan A did not work does Plan B even exists? WE THE PEOPLE CAN NOT ALLOW this countenance of WARS created by American Politicians and Israeli Politicians their whores covered in human shit.. Its time for Jewish people in Israel to protest your lobbyist for pushing the world into a WW3. Same as me and my American Sheep's need to veto and protest outside the W.H. lawn!! The only one that has a rational and any intelligence is Mr. Putin.. There is no 2nd option for the USSA I pray our government just comes to its senses and let Syria go!!!
The terrorists of your terrorists are terrorists other terrorists can rely upon. Terrorists who terrorize terrorists who are terrorizing terrorists your terrorists are terrorizing are moderate terrorists whose terrorizing cannot be seen in the same light as terrorists being terrorized by other radical terrorist. The color of the scarf is a sure indication of which side of terrorizing innocent civilians the terrorists are on.
You can be sure if a terrorist is wearing a warm pastel scarf, that the civilians are being killed in the name of freedom, democracy and not coincidently in the name of land confiscation and genocidal ethnic cleansing by Zionists.
You can be sure if a terrorist is wearing a blood red scarf, that the civilians are being killed in the name of freedom, democracy and not coincidently in the name of land confiscation and genocidal ethnic cleansing by Zionists.
This is not complicated.
The scarves are all reversible.
LOL!!!
Excellent and prescient!
holy shit I'm saving this for my son who's studying International Relations at Tufts... I bet if he memorizes this he can skip one semester.
Bless you, you waskally wabbit ;-)
"Do not expect Saudi Arabia and Israel to remain on the sidelines here. "
Hey asshole - they have never been on the sidelines - they have been intergral to providing materiel and logistical support to foreign mercenary Islamist mercenaries for their own selfish goals.
What was the fragile balance of power other than the US and Israel [and S.A. and the Turks] murdering tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, and generally destroying yet another muslim country for pipelines, the FRN and very much - for Greater Israel
PREVENTING the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline, and fucking up Syria comports with the Oded Yinon/PNAC line of plans and also helps guarantee Israel can send gas from its [and lebanon's and syria's and palestine's ] off shore gas to Europe.
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islam...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-mid...
Putin’s offer to shield & develop Israel’s gas fields predated Russia’s military buildup in Syria
http://www.debka.com/article/24885/Putin%E2%80%99s-offer-to-shield-devel...
The Qataris *may* have thought that flooding syria with foreign mercs and weapons would facilitate building a pipeline through - but would you? Or would you build around, or make a deal?
And what are the chances a heavily Jewish-and-zionist controlled US government would do so even though it would mean denigrating the value of developing Israel's Leviathan find?
http://www.ahavat-israel.com/eretz/future
https://vimeo.com/58223037
Do not expect Saudi Arabia and Israel to continue trying to appear that they are on the sidelines here.
Fixed it!
israel is eager to exploit the gas discovered off gaza. technically belonging to the palestinians.
More US propaganda!!!
Civilians (women and children included) have been dying by the hundreds of thousands in Syria for years while the US continued to support the proxy armies that contributed to the instability.
keep an eye on liveleak.com
If Saudis are jealous because Russia hasn't paid much attention to them, perhaps Russia should bomb some of their oilfields, solving two problems at once - low oil prices and leaving Saudis without oil revenues they use to finance ISIS with.
LMAO. Obama, Kerry, and the merry band of Dems spent all summer pleading with the American public to trust Iran, etc., etc., etc.
Islam and the Divine Deception—An Empiricist Analysis of Imperialist Doctrine:
http://rutherfordreader.com/Divine%20Deceptio_ALNOPIX-X1A.pdf
oh fuck, I've been a baaaad muzlim, ...... since I don't believe any of this, I'm going to hell (help?).
Seriously, Pa? I'm struggling with 2 kids in college in two different cities and making my car payments while preparing for winter in Western NY and you've got me cornered trying to take over the world? I think you should apply for a job in Riyadh or Jeddah where they speak your language.
Well, it's interesting, isn't it. We (Obama) asked for it, and now we've got it. The Saudis are scared. Good. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. But what will they do, what should they do, what can they do? I mean, besides bend over and kiss their ass goodbye? Which they've been ready to do for about twenty years now, that is, the royals take their money and run.
If they want to stay any kind of nation maybe they get to grow up now and act it. First thing might be to clean up Yemen, but that's not going well. Actually, first thing might be to let their women drive, and second thing might be to open some churches and kosher delis in Riyadh.
Things will go as they must, I guess.
most of their money has already been stolen
what more proof do americans need that they are being led by a traitor
amazing what 'hope & change' can achieve in the midst of total IDIOCRAZY
Putin making Obama and his perfume generals look like the little mama's boys that they are.
Fuck you Obama, you simpleton.
Monetary and foreign policy exposed at the same time: incompetent; arrogant.
Hubris brings on the final act. Same as it ever was.
the empire expands and expands until it becomes deluted and weak, see pax romana..obuma gave Iran the deal they wanted because he and the empire are weak..global shifts of allies to neutral or pro russia china..we are seeing american weakness in syria no more talk of lines in the sand.
for many americans have come to the conclusion: running a empire is only good for the elite .01% the every man suffers in needless deaths of our sons & the loss of living standards and massive debt, in rotten little wars never faught to win, as economic gain for the few is the only reason (thank you Gen S Butler) for the wars.
I want a much smaller military (ron paul is right)..we have no business being a world policeman, when we all know the police are corrupt. "I can't breathe"..
FUCK weddings.
--Victoria Noodlestein
How many years we were told that the problem in the ME is the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Yeah right...
We'll finally get to see who has secret nukes. Nice.
King Salman, the al-qeada funder (as in one of the saud's who directly was involved) can't possibly like this.
just got this tweet from someone in syria
"Hezbollah units transferred to northern Syria - these are some of the fighters from Zabadani."
Love Hezbollah. real men who protect Lebanon from being stolen by the KIKE roaches.
i like them too.
Jackass anti-semite.
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How many times have we seen the price of oil skyrocket at the slightest hint of ANY conflict in the Middle East? and this fucking epic, by now oil should be about 100US$ pbl. more proof that the markets are rigged.
This is a huge crystallization of power blocks, not unlike the beginning of WW-I. Naturally it is mostly Shia against Sunni. But the game is MUCH bigger all of a sudden, especially with China hovering in the background.
The consolidation of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon creates an oil rich, contiguous power block, uniting northern middle east states backed by Russia and China. To the South you have the Saudis, the Emirates, Jordan, Egypt and ironically Israel backed by the US, UK and EU. Historically, not a particulaly unified group.
It is hard to believe that the US has been so categorically out-maneuvered. It shows why you don't want a weak president, there are always people out there waiting to take advange of weakness. EVERYONE hates the dollar reserve, except the US (and possibly the UK). Hence, the eagerness to undermine US interests at the slightest sign we won't (or can't) defend ourselves.
This is all about giving cover to Iran and Iraq(!) to begin selling oil in other currencies (Ruble and Yuan) and fatally undermining the petro-dollar, which is the lynch pin of American Foreign Policy and Economic hegemony. No one will morn petro dollar tyranny, except us, of coruse.
“the US and its allies have failed so miserably in terms of fielding anti-Assad rebels who don't turn out to be extremists”
Huh? Hey Tyler, do you think your readers are stupid?
All anti-Assad fighting forces, Islamic State, al Nusra and all other rebel groups, are Allahu akbar mujahideen. Arab Spring is a hoax of the NWO. This became patently obvious after the disasters in Lybia and Egypt, when the McCain-Obama propaganda machine tried to get Americans to fund more war in Syria with the intent to replace Assad with a Muslim fundamentalist regime in 2013.