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Confused About The War In Syria? Here Are Your Western Media-Sponsored Conflict Diagrams
We’d like to think we do an admirable job of helping to shed light not only on who’s fighting who and why in Syria, but also of helping those interested get to the bottom of the ulterior motives that are ultimately driving the conflict.
At its most basic level, Syria’s civil war is about power politics and energy. The Western media will tell you that this is all the result of Bashar al-Assad resisting a “popular uprising.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but that’s fairly close to being an outright lie. As a leaked diplomatic cable from 2006 shows, the US has sought to destabilize the regime in Damascus by fomenting sectarian discord for the better part of a decade, a familiar strategy for the West when it comes to replacing governments Washington deems to be recalcitrant. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey have assisted in the effort.
Because it’s in Tehran’s pocket, Damascus is a perpetual thorn in the side of the Saudis and removing Assad would not only pave the way for potential energy partnerships, but would also deal a serious blow to Iran’s sphere of influence in the Mid-East and cut off Tehran’s supply line to Hezbollah.
Of course the Kurds are also involved in the fight against the Sunni extremists angling for Assad’s ouster which complicates matters significantly given the tension between Ankara and the PKK. That dynamic is itself complicated by the fact that it isn’t entirely clear what Erdogan’s stance on ISIS actually is.
As one Pentagon official put it a few months back, “it’s a friggin’ mess.”
That it is, and one that is largely of Washington’s own making because, as we’ve noted in the past, even if Bashar al-Assad isn’t the most benevolent leader in the history of statecraft (and he certainly is not), virtually anything would be better than what’s going on in Syria today.
Now that Russia is on the ground (or perhaps “in the air” is the better way to put it), the stakes have been raised and because the conflict is quickly becoming the biggest story in the world, we thought it an opportune time to present the following graphics from The New York Times which illustrate the various alliances and relationships among all of the parties involved.
And because we wouldn't leave you without a bit of humor, here's the American media describing the US as ISIS' "main adversary" while Russia (the country whose jets are killing ISIS fighters every day) is relegated to "secondary" status:
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ISIS was founded and funded by the Nobel Prize Winner.
6700 airstrikes by USA made not a dent in ISIS while under 500 by Russia degraded ISIS.
Perhaps, the Nobel Prize Winner was dropping white Nike shoes and care packages over ISIS
Poll shows 81 percent of Syrians believe US created ISIShttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/09/18/isis-s18.html
Not WINNER but WEINER!
Nigger, please. Name one even minor atrocity that Bashar Assad is confirmed to have carried out during the time he has ruled Syria.
Stop with the nonsense already. He's more benevolent than that douchebag Francois Hollande, who just bombed Syria without any legal or even sane reason. Bashar Assad has never bombed another country.
I am Chumbawamba.
Yeah love it... obama the critical thinker...
...thinking about who gets to fuck him in his faggot ass.
This is from the same NY Times that fewer people read, even fewer subscribe, and nobody outside of the liberal shithole of NYC no one gives a shit about what they say, right?
Pravda in 1985 had more standing than that rag does now from the shithole liberal illuminati.
My sister in the midwest subscribes to the nyt, she burned all her brain cells out in the 60's doing acid, got a government job, failed at that (how the fuck do you do that) and now sits on her front porch drooling and when she is not doing that she is pontificating on the merits of progressivism. Most progs are born with a brain defect, she earned hers.
To quote a late friend of mine:
'Crack don't smoke itself.'
Yes, somehow the arrow was omitted pointing directly from obummer to the peace prize trophy.
i think maybe it must've detoured 'round back and up his ass - only to find reggie already there.
Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, said today that President Obama “really ought to consider” returning his Nobel Peace Prize Medal immediately, including the “really nice” case it came in.
Jagland, flanked by the other four members of the Committee, said they’d never before asked for the return of a Peace Prize, “even from a damnable war-criminal like Kissinger,”....
The White House had no comment. It later announced an aggressive new covert CIA initiative to identify and apprehend Al Qaeda operatives in Scandinavia.
http://www.thefinaledition.com/article/nobel-committee-asks-obama-nicely...
You're half right. Created by Bush, funded by Obama.
For his part, US Deputy Under Secretary of State Anthony Blinken insisted that Washington and its allies are pursuing a “winning strategy,” and that it would succeed “if we remain united, determined and focused.”
Over the past several weeks, this “winning strategy” has seen ISIS capture Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, as well as the historic city of Palmyra in Syria. In the past few days, ISIS forces have advanced into Aleppo province in Syria, overrunning rival Islamist militias and Syrian government troops as well. This offensive has proceeded without any interference from US and allied warplanes supposedly waging an air war against ISIS.
“Focused” is scarcely a word that any objective observer would use to describe US policy in the region. While claiming to be committed to a war against ISIS, Washington and its regional allies have time and again proven themselves to be its principal sources of strength.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/03/pers-j03.html
ISIS: The jihadist movement stamped “Made in America”The fact remains, however, that the US, the major European powers, and their regional allies all previously lent financial, military and political support to ISIS and similar groups, which have “Made in the USA” stamped all over them. They have, until now, played a significant part in Washington’s efforts to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, as part of a broader effort to gain control of the region’s vast energy resources and transit routes.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
Biden’s admission: US allies armed ISISSpeaking to students at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy Forum Thursday, US Vice President Joseph Biden committed what the US media characterizes as a “gaffe.” In other words, he told an embarrassing truth about US government policy, one that is usually obfuscated in the remarks of government officials and the commentaries of media pundits.
Asked about US policy in Syria, Biden touched on the dirty secret of the current US-led war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. ISIS (or ISIL as the Obama administration terms it) is essentially the creation of the United States and its allies who fomented civil war in Syria against the government of President Bashar al-Assad
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/06/pers-o06.html
Dare I say that most of us highly doubt what you are saying is correct. Do you really believe Obama was behind it? The CIA has been doing what the CIA wants to do no matter who is president. That is why, no matter who is president we are bombing third world countries where there are things like drugs and oil to be had.
Obama takes orders and, seemingly, drags his feet and at least seems to minimize exposing US soldiers to the dangers as if he really isn't into all of this crap. I do believe it will take a false flag to corner him into an actual confrontation with Russia. I'll be very surprised if anything significant comes of the Spratleys too.
What reassures you? The firm control of the White House of the federal bureaucracy? The very careful and honest execution of the law and Constitution by bureaucracy and military? Their incredible success rate in all of their operations, never having been surprized by anything significant? The fact that alll of our enemies have acted just as we expected, as predicted by our so-professional intelligence agencies?
Thanks Tyler.
I like to post " who are the good guys?"
This helps.
I'm still confused.
Is the enemy of my friend my enemy? Is the enemy of my enemy my friend, but still my enemy, sometimes?
Is ISIS bad, or because they fight Assad, good. Until they are done, then bad. Like Mujahadin? Allies against Soviets, then they turned on us?
Good for weapons sales.
Some would say, kill them all, and let God sort it out. But that may include us.
so we are currently at war with... wait for it...
ourselves?
The Pogo Doctrine. "We have met the enemy and it is us."
The Middle Class, more specifically...
Ahhhhh. Yes. A thousand questions...but first the Tranya!
That Tranya is some goooood shit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozkwN8s32II
Hmmmmm.
I would say that The Nobelian allies US to the Arabs, don't the Arabs don' give a "you know what" about the US and would discard US as soon as convenient.
Same thing for Obama and the Turks.
They left out Israel as a supporter of ISIS and others. Big surprise. Not.
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Israel acknowledges it is helping Syrian rebel fighters
Yes and the graphic shows the Kurds having USSA and Turkey as allies?
NYT known as "The Comic of Record". Humourous as going from top to bottom grows more detached from reality. Continue for one or two panels more and yetis, flying teapots, flying saucers then debut.
All the New York Times does is publish lies and propaganda for war.
Yeah, the very New York Times that published all the lies of Judith Miller that led to the million plus deaths in Iraq. Yes, the very same New York Times that clears its stories with the Pentagon. Yes, the very same New York Times that refused to publish the Guardian story that Obama signed an agreement with Israel in March 2009 handing over all the NSA data collected on Americans without any legal restrictions. The credibility of the New York Times and its propagandists is less than zero to put it gently.
On Monday, the Times public editor Margaret Sullivan was compelled to respond to a barrage of emails from readers demanding to know why the newspaper had failed to write one line about the secret NSA documents released by Snowden showing that the agency was funneling raw data, including the telephone calls, emails and other online communications of American citizens, to Israeli intelligence.
“Friends of mine who never before believed that newspapers suppressed the truth are shocked by the evidence before them,” wrote one reader.
Sullivan reports a discussion on the matter with managing editor Dean Baquet, who told her that the story wasn’t “significant or surprising” and that the paper had more important things to do, such as “cover the turmoil in Syria.”
In other words, the NSA-Israel story was news that didn’t “fit” the Times overarching propaganda line in favor of a war in Syria that is intimately bound up with Israeli interests.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/18/nyts-s18.html
The diagram has shows "concern" between Turkey and the Kurds, which is an understatement. Graphic is total BS right from the start as it says the conflict is a "civil war" at the top.
Cui bono, if Assad is removed? Who wants Assad and Hezbollah and Iran destroyed? Cui bono from ISIS? Who funds and supplies ISIS?
Who will die for Obama's glory? Who trusts Obama? Who will die for Wahhabism? Everything your government or its media says is a lie; everything they expect you to emote is a fraud.
whatta clusterfuck...
Saudi Arabia circling the drain.
Russia/Iran/Iraq/Syria will control ME and skullfuck Bibi and wipe their asses with Obozo.
In the bottom top half of that picture the "white chimp" with the jutting ears on the right hand side?...
Yeah that motherfucker!...
Can we get Russia to send a couple of Su-34s over the White House and Capitol in Washington D.C. to bomb the f-ing shit out of both those building(s) while the human excrement is in both of them along with that five sided "piece of shit" that house the useless bottom feeding "uniforms" that turned against their own and the rest of the Free World on September 11, 2001?...
Because of course we know our drugged out fucking whore of a military are too busy collecting a paycheck and don't have the balls to fuck with anyone that can shame them in a real fight.
I pray every night that both active service and ex-military vets are continuing their employment in places like Latakia and Aleppo.
To Russia, Iran and the Syrian Army. Kill as many of these motherfuckers as you can!
We sure as fuck don't want to pay for them anymore. And we're too cowardly to put a stop to it with the "Rule of Law" we don't care about anymore anyway!!!
I'm sure Israel isn't involved at all.
So...can you FanDuel this game?
It has never been about religion or instituting democracy by deposing authoritarian regimes. Its always been about greed. Oh, how are the masses still able to be manipulated in the afe of the open internet? This baffles me
Aren't there supposed to be tokens for the IRS and the taxpayers in this, or do the smart rich people have it covered?
/sarc
Nothing the BIG BOMB won't settle.
by the way, who has the BIGGEST BOMB?
again, for the second time in as many days an article from zh israel is given a pass in the blame game
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey have assisted in the effort.AND ISRAEL.
israel is in this neck deep and, in fact, may have provided the strategic plan for the entire operation called clean break or the project for the new american century.
Civil war????? It's a proxy war
I missed where ZH stood
This is really stupid. Make Assad King of all Syria and be done with it.
I'm thinking one of Saddam Hussein's last thoughts was, " you bunch of fucking idiots".
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Are you shitting me?
THe Kurds were left to swing in the breeze and slaughtered after Poppy encouraged them to rebel around the time of Desert Storm.
If the Kurds call the U.S. an ally they really are fucked.
interesting.
But I don't see any arrows pointing toward or away from global warming.
I was told by John Kerry that it was the worst problem ever and we're all going to die.
The source of ALL the terrorism is SATAN AMERICA the looter , the pirate captain and its allies euroPeons et al , they are funding , arming and supporting all terrorists of the world . They are now barbarians .
WEST MUST BE DESTROYED
Why isn't Israel shown anywhere on these diagrams?
Israel is the cause of this mess in the first place, because they don't like Assad.
Once again the cabal has duped the US taxpayer into funding one of its dirty wars.
There are absolutely no strategic interests of the US being served by this conflict, yet to look at this diagram you would think this is all about US vs. Russia – and it’s not.
The root problem is simple...Muslims.
Imagine there's no muslims....
Maybe you should tell that to all the Muslims either fleeing or suffering under ISIS right now.
The Saudi's are muslims and they do America's bidding so they are left alone....even after killing 3000 Amercians on 9-11.
The problem isn't so much muslims, they would be killing each other anyway. The problem is the external meddling to enritch Rothchild based banking interests.
Now, I'm no lover of Islam per say, but I don't think dirty old men should be marrying 6 year old girls and deflowering them at the age of 9....which the profit, excrement be upon him, did. But hey....as long as they don't try that with my dughters, all the power to them. Also not a big fan of sex with one's livestock, but again, to each their own.
But muslims killing muslims sounds much like Western Europe over say....the last 1500 years or so, no? Same religion, murdering each other? Seems we're all human after all.
So my vote is just get the West the fuck out of there.
Squid
Nice!! That looks like a more complicated plots than DALLAS soap's!!
BUT!! Less complicated than KARDHASIANS ASS shows..