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Russia Takes Over The Mid-East: Moscow Gets Green Light For Strikes In Iraq, Sets Up Alliance With Jordan
Once it became clear that Moscow and Tehran had jointly planned the incursion in Syria with Russia promising full air support and Iran pledging ground troops from Hezbollah, its various Shiite militias, and the IRGC, we immediately suggested that Iraq was next on the agenda after the Assad regime is restored.
For those unfamiliar with the situation on the ground, we encourage you to read “Who Really Controls Iraq? Inside Iran's Powerful Proxy Armies,” in which we outline the extent to which Tehran effectively controls both the Iraqi military and the politicians in Baghdad.
The US allows this because i) there’s really not much Washington can do about it, and ii) even if there was, it would mean first trying to root out Iranian influence on the political process and second attempting to separate the Shiite militias from the Iraqi regulars, which would only serve to weaken the country’s ability to resist Sunni extremists like ISIS. The other important thing to understand about Iran’s proxy armies in Iraq is that they are the very same militias fighting alongside the Russians in Syria (we mean “very same” in the most literal sense possible as they were called over the border by Quds commander Qassem Soleimani himself). This means they are Washington’s allies in Iraq but as soon as they cross the border into Syria, they become the targets of US-supported and supplied rebels battling at Aleppo. Obviously, that makes absolutely no sense and is emblematic of just how schizophrenic Washington’s Mid-East strategy has become. It’s also worth noting that these are the same Shiite militias who, with Tehran’s blessing, attacked US troops in Iraq after George Bush destroyed the US-Iran post-9/11 alliance by putting the country in his infamous “Axis Of Evil" (see here for more).
Here's a picture that should give you an idea about why Iran's proxy armies have proven particularly effective at bullying the ISIS bully, so to speak:
Meanwhile, flying missions over Iraq is the logical next step for The Kremlin in Russia’s bid to supplant the US as Mid-East superpower puppet master. One would be hard pressed to come up with a more humiliating scenario for Washington than for the US to be effectively kicked out of the country it “liberated” over a decade ago by Vladimir Putin on the excuse that try as they may (or may “not”, depending on how prone you are to conspiracy theories), the Americans are apparently not very good at fighting terror.
Just like in Syria, Russian airstrikes would be supported by Iran-backed fighters on the ground, and thanks to the IRGC’s grip over Iraqi politics, Moscow would find Baghdad very receptive to Russia’s presence in the country.
The US knows all of this of course and in an effort to get out ahead of the situation, Washington sent Gen. Joseph Dunford (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) to Iraq this week to issue what can only be described as a petulant, childish ultimatum to PM Haider al-Abadi. “It’s either us, or the Russians,” Abadi was told, although not specifically in those terms. Here’s what Dunford actually said:
"I said it would make it very difficult for us to be able to provide the kind of support you need if the Russians were here conducting operations as well. We can't conduct operations if the Russians were operating in Iraq right now."
(Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi)
Although the PM purportedly pledged not to request Russian assistance, anyone who’s followed the story knows Dunford’s trip was far too little, far too late.
ISIS has been running amok in Iraq for more than a year and the US appears powerless to stop them. As we noted, there are several theories as to why Washington is so intent on keeping Moscow out. The common sense theory that requires no conspiratorial ruminations says that the US is desperate to avoid ceding Baghdad to Russia and the Pentagon knows that with Iran already effectively in control of the army and the government, Russia would find a very receptive military and political environment. For those inclined to think that in addition to any initial support (i.e. funding and training prior to the official formation of ISIS), the US is still supporting Islamic State, well then the worry for Washington is that Russia simply wipes them out.
Whatever the case, Iraq has apparently had just about enough of it and indeed, one of the reasons Dunford made the trip was that last week, Abadi said he would “welcome Russian airstrikes.” Throw in the brand new intelligence sharing center in Baghdad jointly staffed by Russia, Iran, and Syria and it’s pretty clear that despite what Abadi might have told Dunford to reassure the Pentagon, the "red" coats (if you will) are indeed coming.
Sure enough, according to Turkey’s state run Anadolu Agency, Russia has now received permission from Iraq to target ISIS convoys coming from Syria. Here’s more:
The Iraqi government authorized Russia to target Daesh convoys coming from Syria, a senior Iraqi official said.
The authorization for Russia to target Daesh inside Iraq comes amid security coordination between Iraq, Russia, Iran and Syria.
Hakem al-Zamli, chief of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee, told Anadolu Agency on Friday that the measure contributed to weakening Daesh by cutting off its supply routes.
That will be just the beginning. We assume the whole “convoys from Syria” language is an effort on Baghdad’s part to make it sound like this isn’t a green light for Russia to take over the skies above Iraq but one certainly wonders how Washington intends to respond given that Abadi just told Dunford Iraq wouldn’t allow this to happen.
And that’s not all.
Russia has now created yet another intelligence sharing cell in the Mid-East, this time in Jordan as Moscow and Amman are set to work together to rout ISIS. Here’s RT:
Russia and Jordan agreed to create a coordination center in Amman, which will be used by the two countries to share information on the counter-terrorism operations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
Russia is already in touch with Iran, Iraq and Syria through a Baghdad-based center used for the same purpose.
Lavrov said Jordan would play a positive part in finding a political solution to the Syrian conflict through negotiations between Damascus and opposition forces, an outcome that Russia itself is pursuing.
“Under an agreement between His Majesty King Abdullah II and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, the militaries of the two countries have agreed to coordinate their actions, including military aircraft missions over the Syrian territory,”Lavrov said. His Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh said the center would serve as an efficient communication tool for the militaries of the two nations.
As you might recall, Jordan's King Abdullah wasn't exactly pleased after ISIS released a video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive. Here's the visual message he sent to the group after the video surfaced:
Once again, it's important to understand that this is all made possible by the fact that the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey decided to use extremist groups as their weapon of choice to destabilize Assad. That gives Moscow all the political and PR cover it needs to not only make a pure power play in Syria, but to establish closer diplomatic and political ties in Iraq and now Jordan. Thanks to the fact that the Western media has held up ISIS as the devil incarnate, The Kremlin has a foolproof cover story for what is quite clearly becoming a sweeping attempt to establish Russian influence across the region.
Finally, don't forget that with each move Russia makes towards replacing the US as Mid-East superpower puppet master, Iran gets that much closer to supplanting Saudi Arabia as regional power broker. The Kremlin's alliance with Jordan plays right into that dynamic as the Moscow-Tehran nexus is literally encircling Riyadh, Doha, and the UAE...
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not obvious to everyone imo but nicely illuminated by your comment.
There are no "traditional Sunnis descended from Prophet Mohammed." The very meaning of Shia comes from "shi'at-Ali" -- the party of Ali, the great successor of the Prophet whom all Muslim mystics revere as their master. All the descendants of the Prophet are descendants of Ali, through the Prophet's only child, Fatima Zehra, the wife of Ali. So all the descendants of the Prophet -- except for an oddity here and there -- are, nominally at least, Shia. It's in the family. The Jordanian rulers, playthings of the British, were selected for the role because their Hashemite descent gave them a degree of respectability. The Hashemites are those descended, not from the Prophet, but from the tribe that he was a member of. No descendant of the Prophet would call himself a Hashemite, just as no prince would bother calling himself a knight. We have seen the Hashemite rulers of today's Jordan flirting with ISIS heart-eaters. It's an old story. There were some very nasty Hashemites back in the days of Islam's nascency, including the woman, the wife of the leader of the tribe, who ate the heart of the Prophet's beloved uncle, one of the first converts to Islam.
The revolution led by Khomeini was not conceived as Shia ascendency but as Islamic renaissance. That is why democratic Muslim Iran poses such a threat to the Anglo-Zionist empire. The Shia-Sunni divide, where there was little more than distinction, is very much an imperialist construction, sowing hatred where there was mutual respect and peace -- in Iraq, for example, before the Neocon conquest the intermarriage rate was extremely high. Khomeini's message was that any Shia worshipper should not hesitate to pray behind a Sunni imam. That is the promise of the liberated middle-east. Before long there will no longer be a crypto-satanic family of Baghdadi-Jewish descent ruling over Hejaz, pushing the satanic pseudo-Muslim teachings of Donmeh (crypto-Jewish Sabbatean) Abdul Wahhab, and running (and ruining) the holy places of Islam.
And, God willing, in the United States, a few hundred Neocon traitors will be hanging from a giant crane atop the finally-well-named Freedom Tower. Inshallah.
Agreed. Few people in the west have any understanding HOW IMPORTANT RELIGION IS in the Middle East. Most people fail to understand that Islam is not just the religion, but is intertwined with the political process as well. They are, for all practical purposes, the one and the same and the Western populations fail to grasp that.
I have to say that the Middle East is really shaping up for a MAJOR WAR. Not just the usual ... Israel versus Arab confrontation. But instead true international war with a wide variety of nations aligned on both sides.
It's not difficult ... to smell the first gunpowder, smoke and thunder.
It occurs to me after looking at the map that Isreal is effectively cordoned off as well. Nice job. I am sure Putin told Isreal that they would not be attacked, but they had better not attack anyone (especially Iran) else. I wonder if he steps in to mediate things between Isreal and Palestine?
I am also thinking that some of the younger members of the House of Saud are going to dropkick the top few echelons in the family in the near future. Oil prices will rise and make the Russians happy. If not, then I think some unwelcome vistors will be showing up...
The southwestern flank of the Eurasian Union is going to be made more secure and stable.
Throughout the readings of the ‘Sleeping Prophet’ Edgar Cayce we again encounter amazing references to Russia’s special place in the cosmic plan.
Cayce said:
“In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the communistic, or Bolshevik, no; but freedom, freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallized, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.”
(Edgar Cayce, 1944, No. 3976-29)
… for changes are coming, this may be sure — an evolution, or revolution in the ideas of religious thought. The basis of it for the world will eventually come out of Russia; not communism, no! But rather that which is the basis of the same, as the Christ taught — His kind of communism! (Edgar Cayce, c. 1930, No. 452-6)On Russia’s religious development will come the greater hope of the world. Then that one or group that is the closer in its relationship [with Russia] may fare the better in gradual changes and final settlement of conditions as to the rule of the world. (Edgar Cayce, c.1932)[In Russia] a new understanding has come and will come to a troubled people… (Edgar Cayce, c.1938)
Obama vowed to wage an unrelenting war on ISIL/ISIS. He said it would be a long haul, but terrorists would never hide from the USA.
Fast forward to a full year of ISIL advances on the ground backed by a flood of US supplied TOW Anti Tank Guided Missiles, in use by Al-Qaeda and ISIL both.
So Russia steps in to the fight. Obama demands they stop their sir strikes, stop arming Assad, and go home.
Wanna see what Russia at war looks like? Want to see how they answer ISIL chopping heads off, eating organs etc. Watch the FULL video below of the Syrian Arab Army employ their new Russian supplied TOS-1 thermobaric weapon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SrKZd5tpNo
That's the best part about solving a problem that you've created. The severity of the problem will conveniently wax and wane to suit your needs.
Need to scare the sheeple and keep foreign vassals loyal? Step #1 Create a pet bogeyman. Step #2: Defeat the pet bogeyman. Repeat as often as needed to maintain hegemony.
Russia jumping in at Step #2 to reap the plaudits (and weapon sales!), is probably what Mordor hates the most about all this.
googled thermobaric. that is some scary shit. made for urban warfare, imo.
the russian infantry apparently now carries rpg with the strike force of six inch fragmentation artillery shells. nice.
The RPO-A and upgraded RPO-M are infantry-portable RPGs designed to fire thermobaric rockets. The RPO-M, for instance, has a thermobaric warhead with a TNT equivalence of 5.5 kilograms (12 lb) and destructive capabilities similar to a 152 mm (6 in) high explosive fragmentation artillery shell.(wiki)
Yes, the game has changed. Russian arms are something the USA has not seen for decades. Most weapons the USA has faced are 1960-70's Soviet Union infantry wepaons. It is 2015, and much has changed!
People who think Russia and China and the USA are enemies probably think Republicans and Democrats are enemies. Step back and it seems fairly obvious that someone behind the scene is moving these pieces around on the global chess board and the political puppets are merely implementing the new policies.
Obama looks like a Marketing Prez. Putin acts more like a COO. Abe is CFO, apparently, a frightening thought. Not sure what the Chinese and Saudi top dogs are all about...real players, maybe. All just conjecture, but the way the USA pulled out and the Russians moved in looked too well coordinated to be anything other than that...coordinated.
Over the years I've read different pieces that suggest the NWO is a coordinate strategy and it makes me wonder. However one thing for sure is that there is no honor among thieves. They have before and they will again turn on each other and that is where it will get interesting Act II. Who are the actors and what role are they playing? Are they in agreement with the strategy or are they playing along for some other purpose? Watch your back.
imo obama, et.al. chose to not contest the russian moves in several fond hopes:
that if they didn't call additional attention to it, the public would go back to teevee sports, the presidential race (not trump or sanders though), and how criticizing the police emboldens criminals (nyt headline).
that given time in the hornet's nest that is the middle east, something would go wrong with putin's hot hand and then the neocons might have a second chance.
the syrian winter. no, not that.
ridiculous - the ink wasn't even dry in WWII Europe when Truman hit Japan with two Nuclear bombs for the expressed purpose of backing down Russia and Stalin - wasnt necessary Japan had no energy resources -
Stalin said go ahead - these people know the USA is a criminal cabal - there is no trust - none!
Hopefully President Putin doesn't put too much on his plate. The ussa is setting up fresh arms deliveries to the terrorists as we ponder.
It's going to be tough going for the Russian Federation to clean up the mess the ussa has made of the ME over the last 25 years. The whole damn place is a complete disaster with Arabs killing each other and Israel killing as many Palestinians as they can.
It's astonishing the Arabs, like the Ukrainians, can't seem to understand the ussa modus operandi that is,,, start a bunch of crap then back off and watch the fun. Sort of like the bar fight scenes in movies where the perp that starts the brawl exits once everyone is fighting.
I admire Putin for his steadfast defense of his country in the face of covert terrorism from the west. I fear the ME might be a quagmire although surely he better understands it than I do.
As for the neocunts, everyone of you should die for the destruction you've sewn
As many as we can?
In the 67 years since Israel's declaration of independence a grand total of 25.000 people have been killed in both sides, added up. This 25.000 number includes about a thousand israelies during the second intifiada and several thousand troops during all the "serious" wars with Egypt and Syria.
Thats but a ripple in the mortality statistics in both sides. 25.000 killed, both sides, spread over 67 years. The soviet union took as many casualties on a daily basis during WW2, and they pulled through.
The palestinian (jordanian) population in the west bank was 300.000 in 1967, it approaches 3 million now.
Some genocide.
Go live in Gaza and see if you would accept such living conditions for yourself and your loved ones.
your count is light. you don't even know how many your guys in tel aviv killed in lebanon last time around. or the first time. your people in d.c. have killed many, many more. in afghanistan, in iraq, in libya, in syria and, for that matter, in ukraine.
if you don't admit that victoria nuland is working first for israel you are a fool or a liar.
it's in the millions and especially considering that not many in the concentration camps were horribly wounded physically and lived, they pretty much died or survived, it is on par with the holocaust, like it or not.
and don't forget, the third reich lasted twelve years. this shit goes on and on and on.
That's what the Greek Myths teach.
Jason of the Argonauts, sowed the teeth of the slain Dragon in a field and then great fearless warriors started to sprout out of the earth.
He then threw a stone amongst them and a fight ensued. The result was that they KILLED EACH OTHER without Jason having to do too much.
Lesson over.
Those Greek Bastards will have to be eliminated, in order to re-arrange the Myths.
That bloody Greek language is too dangarous and will have to dissapear.
Oh look those Greeks are Lazy.............
Remember what someone said - there are dcades when nothing happens and then there are days when decades happen.
These, dear friends, are those days.
exactly right! remarkable changes in front of our eyes.
BTW, that quote comes from Stalin or Lenin, I think.
Lenin apparently, although it is "weeks" not "days":
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/342783-there-are-decades-where-nothing-h...
dup :(
Why waste valuable resources dividing and conquering in a medieval world, when religion can do the trick without unsheathing a sword? All but[t] for,... only the might being in the hands of the dual-mine'd pen'heads[?], is all one needs as a metaphoric representation of a classical 'Damocles Dilemma' victory? Why tell your right hand what your doing when the left will do it for you in a asymmetric 'syncreticism'!
"Sunni - Shia Split the Mideast new great divide" http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/09/06/sunnishia_split_the_mideasts_new_great_divide.html
"List of GCC countries, Gulf countries' *Great Data Site-- Note: It is the 'NGOs' belonging to the UAE & Qatar that fund the jihadist throughout the *muslim-sunni world... with Saudi Arabia at the helm. The geographic landscape is telling...[Qatar and Bahrain have gargantuan R&R military base outpost for USSA military brass] while most jihadist are recruited throughout the worlds muslim-sunni communities and trained in Jordan, and Pakistan etel!
http://www.dubaifaqs.com/list-of-gcc-countries.php
"Sunnis and Shia in the Middle`East" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-25434060
Lastly, a read-between-the-lines of myopic misinformation atavistic machiavellian protean...[?] "Obams Regime's Support of Al Qaeda and ISIS" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39005.htm
Your first link is broken, this one works:
"Sunni - Shia Split the Mideast new great divide"
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/09/06/sunnishia_split_the_mideast...
Russia takes over the Middle East.... LMFAO!!!!
Good, let them have it. They can waste their blood and treasure on that backwards shithole. Let me know how that works out for you comrades.
What?! As if america was using their own blood and treasure? All borrowed. Borrowed money, borrowed blood, and we'ev even managed to put it all on borrowed time. Only thing that america and its people have spent is credibility. Im astounded at the brazen disregard of reality. Hope it works out for you, fascist.
borrowed money i get but how is it all borrowed blood? and it is not just credibliity that has been lost. it's also honor.
Mercenaries kill for the highest bidder. They also kill inocent people. Children even. Blood spilled without honor or principle is blood that gets repaid. With interest.
Hopefully the refugees from Washington's wars will be able to return to their homes. The idea was obviously to create an Arab diaspora to benefit Israel who would move into the power vacuum, as well as to provide fodder for these Western "governments" to terrorize thier own population Operation Gladio style. The poor people trying to scrape by in the foreign countries of Europe would be blamed and live miserable lives as scapegoats, and the native populations of Europe would live in constant fear and accept more jackboot.
Seems like Russia taking over from the failed US Oligarchy isn't such a bad thing.
Breathtaking history unfolding. Soak it in. You'll be glad you did 40 years from now.
Another Lenin quote:
... It has been Russia’s lot to see most clearly, and experience most keenly and painfully the sharpest of sharp turning-points in history ...
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/11.htm
First Published (in Russian): Izvestia VTsIK No. 46, March 12, 1918
yes. i intend to tell little children when i'm 107.
seriously though your point is well taken.
It could happen.
We're gonna be giving-in to 'some folks'!
"we got a shellacking."
remember when he could play nine-dimensional chess?
or is that string theory?
The U.S. and Saudi running out of cash and now will screw all their terrorists because everything has been leaked out.Maybe that was the plan all along?Suck all these guys into one area and then throw them to the wolves?Who knows?Where do you go once your done fighting and everyone is waiting to get you?Maybe you'll go back to Saudi Arabia and theyll be waiting to kill you.
Governments can't run out of cash.
they can pretend to, can't they?
but it takes more of it
till debt made to print it buries
They go back to Tel Aviv.
When Nettyyahou visits Putin, when Crown Prince Salman visits Putin, when the King of Jordan nods at Putin, you know that GWB's Crusade and its fall out of "massive military supremacy" is over in the Golden Oil patch, and probably in its extension in MENA all the way to Nigeria. As all those surrogates are changing boats in midstream.
Eat your heart out Rumsfeld and Wolfo.
A story that began with Project Manhattan and which led to the Cold War and the reign of the TWO Dulles' on the foreign policy of the US--aggressive "Rollback" mantra, the birth of the US Deep State after the more prudent "containment" of Kennan and previous administration; leading to Nam and all the rest; and then under RR to the NWO based on the WS asset pump asset inflation; looks like coming to an end.
Dear Henry must be sighing in melancholia to see his Trilateral and Dollar hegemony go down the shute; slowly then suddenly ( as Hemingway would say)
But then, every dog has his day (Even Hemingway shot himself when his version of the Maccho game was up!)
You won't see any of the US neo-cons doing what the Samourais did when they lost their battle ...Honour is a notion that is outdated in the good ole USA !
and now for the symbolism, Jeb Bush ran out of money and voters.
cosmic laugh...lol
King Abdullah had better start planning his escape from Jordan. Jordan will experience a Sunni led coup d'état, all funded by our "friends" in Riyadh and Doha. The Sunni tribes in Jordan are not going to support the King on this move...period. Looks like KSA and UAE won't have to go through Iraq's Anbar province to get to Syria.
This is going to be the start of WW3.
Do you really think Russia and Iran will allow that?
Just sit back and watch. Step right up for the greatest show in all of human history is about to begin....or what's left of human history.
i will be surprised if either ksa or uae appears in syria in anything but negotiable form.
Look around you white america: those that don't know the significance of these past 16 days
cannot catch up. I'll wager the majority of persons of color know and should never cast their
eyes down in suffering again. The two faced careless, greedy, selfish members of u s a social
fabrick who never raised a word in protest as every station in government became subverted.
Now is the time to directly challenge government at all levels and to demand house cleaning.
This transformation and the positive consequences thereof is absolutely necessary to over-
shaddow militarists, and the filthy banking element that are currently conjoined.
duplicate post.
Must you bring race into this? The issues raised here are NOT racial. They are about Control.
Your points all fail when you use the words "people of color." Those people do not exist in humanity. Those words exist within the context of over sensitive racial minds.
maybe so maybe not.
i'll bet the ashkenazi (what an ironic spelling) feel just a little racist toward the palestinians trying to stab them now.
give them a couple pokes for rachel corrie while you're at it i say.
Dude, lay off the pipe.
Now it the time to stop giving them all their shit for free.
Oh, and eliminate fire and EMT services in the hood, since you use them for target practice.
why is now the time? why not last year or next year?
why not eliminate police services as well?
just asking.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/21/breaking-story-israeli-general-c...
“There is a strong cooperation between MOSSAD and ISIS top military commanders...Israeli advisors helping the Organization on laying out strategic and military plans, and guiding them in the battlefield”
The terrorist organization also has military consultants from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Saudi Arabia has so far provided ISIS with 30,000 vehicles, while Jordan rendered 4500 vehicles. Qatar and United Arab Emirates delivered funds for covering ISIS overall expenditure.
The planes belonging to the aforesaid countries are still landing in the Mosel airport, carrying military aid and fighters, especially via the Jordanian borders.
This ought to be picked up and broadcast by MSM.
But it won't be.
This is only humiliating to the American neo cons....a rational American administration would welcome Russia perhaps helping restore a sane and cooperative regime in the USA. America could be one of the most loved nations instead of the most reviled if the American people could retake control of the nation and reform its structure with special attention being paid to wealth and power reformation. Perhaps Russia could help the US domestically with her continued call for dialogue....eventually this is bound to bear fruit or either the west is irredeemably a lost cause to be eased with help into its own decay as peacefully as possible.
This is only humiliating to the American neo cons....a rational American administration would welcome Russia perhaps helping restore a sane and cooperative regime in the USA. America could be one of the most loved nations instead of the most reviled if the American people could retake control of the nation and reform its structure with special attention being paid to wealth and power reformation. Perhaps Russia could help the US domestically with her continued call for dialogue....eventually this is bound to bear fruit or either the west is irredeemably a lost cause to be eased with help into its own decay as peacefully as possible.
Most Americans are only concerned with their rims, video games, beer, burgers, and baseball to give one fuck. The masses are too stoned.
The USSA govt is totally corrupt from the top to the bottom. All agencies all levels. State, county and local are totally corrupt as well. The EU is the same. They are all owned, blackmailed, threatened and allowed to steal with impunity.
1 Judy Miller and Michael Gordon publish their piece in the paper of record (NYT) about Sadam Hussein’s attempts to obtain parts for nuclear weapons in 2002 (later shown to be nonsense).
2. Colin Powell uses above “intelligence” in his UN speech, effectively creating a casus belli for Bush II invasion/occupation of Iraq.
3. Don Rumsfeld claims the Iraq war will cost circa $ 70 billion, paid for with Iraqi oil revenue. Reality check- the Iraq campaign will end up costing US taxpayers $4-6 trillion.
3. Immediately following the US invasion, US military disbands the Iraqi armed forces, many of whom later join ISIS/ISIL/Daesh.
The arrogance, dishonesty and outright incompetence of this campaign is breathtaking. Despite spending significant lives and treasure, the US failed to obtain any imperial rent (oil concessions, etc) from this war.
It should not be surprising that Putin, who has an excellent grasp of foreign affairs and intellectually far above most, if not all US policy makers, will exploit this situation. Further, ISIS can easily create major problems in Jordan, (where do they go once they are driven out of Syria?) something the King of Jordan, is no doubt well aware. Bottom line- the 2003 US invasion and occupation of Iraq may well go down as the biggest military and economic disaster in world history.
Good points.
However, once "ISIS" is driven out of Syria, they'll go home to Israel.
...and who can forget Con-da-LEEEEE-za Rice and her mushroom cloud aluminimum tubes of death.
Bahwaaaah... I get a blood pressure spike just thinking about that treasonous fuck Colin Powell.
Colin Powell was almost believable until that day.
I always wondered if he quietly left out of remorse and regret; I hope so because he seemed like a real nice guy. God only knows.
Colin was no one-hit wonder. He launched his career by being the Black guy who covered up Mai Lai.
Imho, the US cooperates to get rid of the dollar as a reserve currency. Followed up by some kind of sdr, with more influence from China and Russia. Getting rid of too much debt and implement a new world order in finance. This ME game is distraction, done on purpose. The US leaves as smooth as diarrhea.
Gold back trade note followed by Gold back currency - or full blown digital...anyone's guess, but if the Russians and Chinese maneuvers are indicative of the intermediate future, the former will come to fruition. But since we are dealing with psychopaths and the forces of darkness, then anything is possible.
Looking back, it would be hard to design operations to achieve more failure than the US has achieved....
Hmmmmm, you don't think?
Agreed.
They planned to fail until Assad was forced to leave.
Their strategy was-
Problem
Reaction
Massive MIC Solution.
Regardless of your stance on whether the EU should be receptive to the millions of asylum seekers fleeing the war-torn Mid-East, the simple fact is that if you remain in Syria, you are risking your life on a daily basis, caught in the crossfire between a bewildering array of state actors, rebel groups, and proxy armies, all with competing agendas.
And just when are Germans, Italians, French and the Eastern European wanna-bes going to demand that NATO be dissolved and the American MIC permanently removed from their landscape(s) after 70 years of "hovering"?...
Lay the blame at the feet of those most responsible for this crisis who were coerced, bribed and threatened if they didn't do with impunity what the American IC and military demanded them to do and not the innocent begging for refuge while your government(s) assisted in the looting operation of their sovereign Countries!
P.S.
If PIGIDA were ever to wage that kind of a campaign and align themselves with the "left" that is already anti-American the U.S. will be finished!
2017 peace prize goes to putin for liberating oslo copenhagen and hamburg. after the 2016 january slaughter of 10000 isis terrorists on the road between syria and baghgdad
There's a plan for the Saudi playboy princes - they need to either take stock of the new order or be very afraid of whats coming next. And guess what, the Americans are not coming over the hill you bastards
Sauidi Arabia creates and export Jihadi Islam.
Saudi Arabia needs badly a change in its view of Islam.
Wherever Islam is present in large numbers there's trouble. Period.
Go vist Granada in Spain and bask in the beauty of the Alhambra. It will be good for your heart and give you a more accurate view of Islam.
Agreed. Also, give a listen to Sheikh Imran Hosein. Very intriguing and intelligent views on what's going on and what's to come. Look it up on youtube.
I'm waiting for the day that Iraq denies the US access to airspace or even departure of US aircraft.
Where is the UN is calling for the US to stop violating certain air spaces?
I don't care what "base agreements" the US thinks it has with Iraq, when Iran wags the dog it is inevitable that the really expensive air-frames and avionics are just waiting to be seized by the Iraqi military. After all there is a cash bounty from Iran/Russia/China for access to all that technology.
If I was a US serviceman in Iraq I would have already had a buddy system setup in case you had to bug out of the AO and HQ.
Persian is playing a 2,500 year game of realpolitik.
Obomba is playing golf.
What an epic humiliation.
Maybe this gives pause to actually modify the human vocabulary.
What an Obama.
The word you are looking for is "obamination". In all fairness to the current Prez, he was selected for these reasons:
1. So that America appears to the masses to be a progressive liberal democracy
2. Someone had to wear the blame for the decline of the Empire.
3. No one will vote for a person of colour for the POTUS ever again
The only current candidate I would even vote for is Ben Carson because he is the only one with a life-long history of moral integrity. I could careless the color of any skin; the character of a person is what counts. Character is rare to find at the street level and an endangered specie at the State and National Political levels.
" because he [Carson] is the only one with a life-long history of moral integrity."
But how do you know that? They said the same about McCain, Jimmy Saville and Bill Cosby for example. Very hard to know whether a public figure is moral or not.
He has a fixed moral compass that does not change & of an unattainable standard and a conscience constrained by the Holy Spirit. If you don't understand that, then be afraid, for anyone who does not LOVE the Lord Jesus is damned.
You asked and I gave you an answer based on my own personal experience with the Lord and a transformed life and discernment of Carson and his claim to be a Christian. Obama's claim to be a Christian is pure rhetoric (his only real transparency) because Jesus said you will know by the fruit and Carson has good fruit and Obama rotten fruit.
lucky l., i thought you made good points and i've liked carson for years before he ran for president.
but apparently you may be damned, as a pagan i'm guessing.
Speaking as an ex-pat, white, red-necked Christian etc, etc, I must say I voted for Alan Keyes against Buchanan and all the RINOs back in the day (1996?).
And I had better add that I supported Bush the lesser based on a very strong endorsment from no other than Billy Graham himself...
(who the fuck knows...)
Knowing what you know now about what our military leaders are actually fighting for (i.e. Bankers & Corporations); what do you tell young people who are thinking about joining the military? The Political Correctness has overcome any real debate and thus removed the reality that the US military is not protecting Americans from the enemy that is within, but supporting it. I hope they do, but seems like Obama & his predecessors have removed real leadership within the military from what little I understand. (i.e. removal of high ranking military minds and replaced by "yes-men")
...and replaced by 'yes men'.
Or 'yes women', or 'yes transgenders', or 'yes colored guys'. Anything but 'yes straight White men'.
oh i think their might be one or two left somewhere.
five out six of the joint chiefs of staff. and that sixth one is male and not black. sexual stuff is hard for me to tell in this picture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff
Russia and the coalition must destroy the Farcical Western axis of izraHELL. Bomb the fuck out of them and destroy everything the western axis of evil has tried to build, starting with izraHELL. The mother fucking terrorist invaders.
I personally wouldn't like to see Israel destroyed. The vast majority of Israelis just want to live their lives like the rest of us. If America withdrew its unqualified support, stopped fighting their wars and giving them billions of aid every year they'd have to settle back within defined borders and stop all this expansionist shit.
absolutely.
or give the palestinians citizenship.
one or the other.
though an extensive round of war crime trials in washington and tel aviv would be refreshing.
three judges: russian, icelandic and palestinian.
Turkey is next Syria - Iraq.
Turkey has a similar problem as the Saudi's; they play both sides of the fence; that never ends well. The Saudi's will pay first and Turkey may still have time to turn east. Time will tell us.
... the Moscow-Tehran nexus is literally encircling Riyadh, Doha, and the UAE...
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I have said a few times here in ZH what I belive is the "end-game", at least in the intermediate term... and so far I'm sticking with this guess.
That is, once the USSA is out or terminally marginalized, all these players will "make peace". They will be more concerned with their financial and commerical interests, which rather align. In other words, imagine Russia as part of OPEC (though perhaps not literally formulated in this manner). Get the point?
To be sure, historical gripes will remain... they've existed too long and strong to vanish easily, quickly or completely. However, everyone eventually gets tired of choas, wars and endless destructive meddling from powers far away, and this has dragged on more than "long enough" already.
Disclaimer: I'm very much NOT an expert in all those historical gripes. So I'm taking a rather high-level view of this situation. The USSA has been an extremely unreliable and overly pushy/aggressive "partner" (or "adversary") for many decades... and always ends up causing war, conflict and destruction. In contrast, Russia is being very collaborative (only acts with permission), and very constructive (eliminate terrorists so each nation can go about whatever business they intend). So, I do admit to being weak on depth, but from my "high level" view of this situation, I see peace breaking out once the USSA is gone... assuming the USSA is willing to leave when asked.
Rebuilding the Middle East as Russia's version of the Marshall Plan?
I doubt it would parallel the Marshall Plan closely. I'm thinking more like a slightly expanded OPEC, plus a few other twists.
In other words, if they can simply stop all these wars and chaos instigated by the USSA, all these oil producers can agree to modestly lower production levels to boost oil prices to $60~$70.
If you count gains from "stability" and "lower military expenses" and "modestly but not egregiously higher oil prices", most players in this region will be "doing okay". Which is a lot better than they've been doing recently! And since everyone who is even slightly awake can see the entire world starting to spiral into the black hole of world-wide economic collapse, simply "stability" and "barely okay economy" looks like a very attractive alternative.
I don't think Russia would need to invest much in the area... just provide whatever support is necessary to wind down the endless civil wars and conflicts caused by the USSA creating, arming, training, funding and aggrevating terrorist groups in the region.
one can only hope you're right.
i like the irony of the mentioned marshall plan as it was truman's creation of israel that made george marshall quit as his secretary of state (although spurious health reasons were cited).
In my opinion only; I think you underestimate two things: 1) mans pride & arrogance (particularly the psychopaths) pushes him toward war & other evils in general as history demonstrates repeatedly 2) the forces of darkness/evil that have prevailed in unprecedented manner across the world in ways never seen or imagined in just the past 40 years in ever increasing amplitude and frequency.
IOW - this gets much much worse; particularly for the poor and middle-classes. Remember that Agenda21 is the power-play and is global. Also, according to Scripture (what God has said); at some point in the future more than 50% of the world will die from war, famine and pestilence over a 7 year period.
Again, like you it is just my opinion, but viewed through the lens of Scripture. I generally agree with your comments now in in the past because they are thoughtful.
If "God" said that in scripture, then why didn't the black plague and assorted wars (including in the ME) count?
The plague wiped out VAST amounts of population.
So "God" said it would happen TWICE?
Please, and I'm saying this as a believer in our Creator, go forth and study the history of the how, why, when and where (not to mention for what purpose) the bible was put together. And don't just go to a Billy Graham theological school either.
Jesus said "Love God, Love your Neighbor." Don't judge, don't punish based on Moses' covenant, and that his death removed the covenant from our lives.
Why is it that the vast majority of modern Christians, whom CAN read the book (as compared to the 1600 years plus they were not allowed to), refuse to learn the truth about the things they base their beliefs on?
Insanity at its finest.
Love to you, even if you would wish to kill me.
I think when the US leaves it won't be because they were asked, it will have something to do with the Ameican people needing to go about the business of feeding themselves once their reserve currency credit card gets cut up.
How could King Abdullah not beg for Russian involvement in his Country?...
Jordan has probably more than 4 million refugees from neighboring Syria and Iraq which can't be too good for his Nation's economy and he only has the U.S.A. to thank for that!
Israel also hopes to expel the Palestinians from their West Bank ghettos into Jordan. Currently the plan seems to focus on finishing the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem. The Gazans - maybe into Egypt, or the sea?
wolfowitz told wesley clark in 2003 that the “US will attack 7 countries In 5 years”. The context was always the Middle East and the seven countries were “Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.”
“But one thing we did learn, we learned that we can use our military in the region — in the Middle East — and the Soviets won’t stop us.”
“We’ve got about five or ten years to clean up those old Soviet client regimes – Syria, Iran, Iraq, before the next great superpower comes on to challenge us.”
that was twelve years ago. perhaps the u.s. and israel have stayed too long at the fair.
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=23524
Wolfowitz still believes we produce our war machines, and that the rest of the world is just DYING to lend us money (we'll never be able to pay back) at 1%
We gave China our production, hell they make the most important pieces for our war toys. China has been making it very clear, at least since 2007, that there loyalty is not to us.
How could we hope to fight ANY war without computer chips, insulin or bandaids?
Most Americans are completely clueless as to how reliant we are on foreigners for our Just In Time supply chains.
FUBAR. If China decides to stop shipping to us (see Baltic dry and empty cargo container levels), we will quickly be dealing with anarchy here. Russia wouldn't have to fight us, they'll be able to march in with Cheetoes and the vast majority would stand and salute.
About damned time. We traded productivity for death, 100 very rich people, and safety.
We traded everything for the illusion of security and wealth. That play could only last so long before the wheels came off the bus.
For someone that longs for the days of personal accountability, real health, and peace, I say 'it's about time.'
Peace to you and yours
I thinks this is part of "flexibility". All this happening to give Russia and Iran control of the Middle East is way to coincidental.
Otherwise this is the biggest monkey fucking a football I've ever seen. And I mean that literally!!!
For the record I tried!
i heard yesterday from an eyewitness of a racoon fucking a turtle. make of that what you will.
Vladimir Putin: I salute you.
America: Redeem Yourself. Do the right thing. DEAL WITH the NeoCONS.
As an American, I concur.
A person can't redeem themselves because of their nature; like a leopard changing its spots...an impossibility. There is none who do good, no not even one. For all have turn aside and exchanged a the truth for a lie. Man is commanded repent and believe the gospel; do that and peace ensues...don't and there is hell to pay both figuratively and literally.
The real warfare is spiritual warfare and the devil has lost the war, but continues in battle to bring as many fools with him and many are going, have gone and will continue to go into the abyss. The moral of the story is don't be a fool, repent and believe the gospel, for it is the power of our Creator (GOD) unto salvation. To the Jew a stumbling block and the non-Jew it is foolishness.
Thumbs down if the above is foolishness to you.
Thumbs up if it is not.
The trouble with the Bible is that you can prove anything you want from it. Two people can - and do - derive totally different messages. Otherwise I'm with you.
Time to start calling them by what everybody (except sheeple) knows the are, zio-cons. Don't be shy, time to lay that antisemenetic shit to rest.
It's starting to happen, albeit very slowly.
It's starting to happen, albeit very slowly.
Yes it is . . . finally! And when the percentage of the population that is not afraid to discuss this issue in public, or is not concerned about being tagged with the "anti-Semitic" label, reaches about 10-15% or so, real change in the USA (and other affected "western" countries) will start to occur.
His name was Francis_Sawyer!!!
zio-cons is much nicer sounding than what I usually call them.
Lying, corrupted, fascist, control-freak, murderous rich coksukers.
This is what you get in a theater of military operations where it cost the American taxpayers $11,578.99 for Haliburton to deliver one pint of vanilla ice cream and our armed forces (the one we had not the one we wanted to have) consisted primarily of brave grandmothers and grandfathers in our National Guard who were being blown up daily by plastic explosives hooked up to Sears garage door openers.
Are you suggesting that Dick Chenye is not a true American patriot? Shame on you!
Dick Chewer is not an American patriot.
"Leading from behind" might work pretty well for O'Balma when he's in his knickers with his affectionate HollowWood producers/supporters, but it stinks in geopolitics...
In geopolitics, it's much more a case of O'Balma and the West 'leaking from behind'....
I'll just bet Pooty gets the Man of the Year award, and O'Balma gets a follow-up Nobel Piss Prize for rear-end leadership and valor...
No kidding, when you're the most inneffective superpower in the post-Soviet era, and Pooty's got Russia rising from the ashes of its 1991 collapse like the proverbial Phoenix, it shouldn't surprise anyone that the Middle East and beyond is scurrying to recognize Russia and take up meaningful geopolitical positions under its spreading wings.
Watch for more....
...and he's well aware who looted his country post 1991.
Putin's illegal war for oil. Cowboy Imperialism.
Putin's illegal war for oil. Cowboy Imperialism.
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA . . . .LMFAO!
See what effect psychotropic drugs can have on people?
Let alone that the Jordanian pilot burning was totally bogus and staged...
Does this mean that we can close our foreign military bases and give the taxpayers a break?
Tax payers are going extinct in the US, but who needs them when you have a printing press?
At the rate things are going the US is out to lose the petro in the petrodollar. If that causes the dollar to lose reserve status how is the US to maintain its bloated military? What is a good jew to do without reserve status funny munny and oil profits? The US and Israel might just have to stay home and mind their own business, not a bad thing for everyone, including their own people. I hope thing settle down after the ME, Russia, China become a superpower block and nobody goes gunning for Israel, just leave the troublemakers under house arrest inside the 1967 borders.
Obama is tough you see, he allows trannies on the front line and unqualified women to be in charge of things.
Russia will control the East. China will control the West.
The U.S.A. will control U.S.A. Curfew Laws and Prisons.
You forgot GMOs, vaccines that kill and HFCS.
Amerika, hell ya!
You go, Russia!
Arab Spring is the Catlyn of foreign policy, suitable for obama.
Good
Might be time for the CIA and the NSA to lose their "totaly classified and unaccountable Status, its not even in the constitution anyways, witch they seek to constantly undermind.
RUSSIAS GETTIN SET UP. NOW AMERICA(THE CIA) WILL BE DOIN EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO SLOWLY BLEED PUTIN AND THE BOYS. AND OUR GUYS(THE CIA) IS REALLY GOOD AT FUCKIN SHIT UP FOR OTHERS..A WAR OF ATTRISTION IS WHAT THIS WILL BECOME. THEY DONE IT TO US NOW WE WILL DO IT TO THEM.. PUSH PULL. ITS ALL THE SAME GAME OVER AND OVER. AND AS JANIS JOPLIN ONCE SAID"ITS ALL THE SAME FUCKIN DAY MAN"...right on...
I think you're mistaken because Russia can achieve the strategic objectives referred to in this article without any major commitment of troops and/or finance. Unlike with the US, Russia has in the Iranians and Hezbullah real committed fighters on the ground pursuing common objectives.
Taking over the ME is like winning a prize on 'Lets Make A Deal' ............and the prize is the boat anchor.
Splendid news. Maybe there is a God after all.
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
It is treason for a President or those following his orders to put the interests of a foreign power above the USA, and its peaceful foundation which intended to trade with all; do not get involved in foreign entanglements; reject the rule of the City of London.
Tisquantum died a Christian, aiding trade, instead of pursuing endless vengeance.
Putin is an Orthodox Christian. He knows that Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the Temple.
But you don't need to have such faith to know that the world is being ruined by an insane, international crime gang. They were called Bolsheviks, but now they have regrouped and rebranded themselves as globalists.
They are doing the same thing to the USA that they did to Christian Russia, Christian Germany, and China under two opium wars. Their aim is control, and make debt slaves of all, as their Talmud tells them that all non-jews are 'donkeys', 'cattle' to be used by the 'superior...separate species', them.
The irony? 95% of those who call themselves jew* in the world today are AshkeNAZI, Khazar; they have absolutely no DNA or cultural link to the Middle East. Today's Palestinians are the jews of the Bible, by DNA and culture.
The anti-semites are the war profiteer AshekeNAZI, Khazar, the Bolsheviks who continue to slaughter millions and abide by their love of money, with Mossad's motto: 'By deception, make war'.
You have been scammed. And every military man and politician who betrays their oath to the USA, the Constitution and Bill of Rights should be on trial for treason.
Let's start with you, Rothschilds,, Rockefellers, George Bush Snr, Kissinger, Brezinsky, Bill Gates and work down from there.
Pour encourager les autres...
The King of Jordan is on the right side of history IF he is sincere in protecting his country, and the rest of civilisation, against the new Bolsheviks whose ancestors slaughtered tens of millions of Russian Christians...and then fled to the USA to continue their chutzpah, death and cultural vandalism.
* See the proof provided by renown John Hopkins University, and an American 'jew' who dared to enquire, and speak the truth.
Meanwhile, flying missions over Iraq is the logical next step for The Kremlin in Russia’s bid to supplant the US as Mid-East superpower puppet master.
Why do western commentators insist on framing every discussion on what is going on in the middle east using past US policy as a benchmark for any other country's future actions there? I for one don't believe that Russia has any intention to become a "puppet master" as the author of this article states.
Guys like the author seem to have a real problem believing that any country can act towards another (smaller) country in any way other than being a belligerent hegemon - like the USA has for decades. When you combine this view with others stated in the article the neo-con leanings of this author become pretty clear.
Putin will be magnanimous, akin to regional allies who might, if we are lucky, remember Sulemani who legend tells us sprinkled the streets with rose water after the battle in Jerusalem.
There is not one single example of the AshkeNAZI ever showing gratitude, humility or magnanimity. They loved money and war.
Their own king was so disgusted with them that he considered which religion to choose in order to civilise them. He chose the Talmud which pitifully reflects their warlike mindset, and nihilism.
We have tolerated them for too long now. As Putin said to the U.N. and every decent citizen of the world should know:
'We can no longer tolerate this state of affairs in the world.'
I'm not saying that I would vote for Putin in my country, but I know his cause is just, and Iran is too. Secular nations in the Middle East protected Christians. More jews live in Iran than anywhere else in the Middle East. Discount the AshkeNAZI in Israel. They are not jewish by blood, DNA or cultural heritage.
The American 'jew' of Ashkenazi descent who originated the John Hopkins University proof had the courage to face his past, and find the truth, as a true academic, concerned with facts, not propaganda; Zionist propaganda.
Meanwhile Tony Blair concedes the sun rises in the east.
"Tony Blair says 'sorry for mistakes of Iraq war' and admits the conflict 'could have sparked ISIS threat'"
I knew Tony before he was thoroughly corrupt. His main employer is JP Morgan, war profiteer, routinely fined record amounts for criminal activity - the fines deducted from the bigger profits they made from crime, and threatening their pet politicians...like Tony, the accidental war criminal.
It was easy for the Rothschild led Mi6 which puts Israel first and the corrupt Rothschild led City of London to blackmail Tony after he was caught 'cottaging' in a London public toilet, ie soliciting sex from men. That incident is still on file.
Blair was an easy mark, Cameron more mendacious and married in.
The last I heard is that the HRH Tony Blair cottaging incident in Piccadilly disappeared from police records.
Hmmm, I had Blair pegged as a pedo
That would be Gordon Brown,the pedo. Easy to get them mixed up, I guess, as all Brit establishment look the same? Filth.
Under the jackboot of their Zionist rulers incuding major paedophile Greville Janner, boy buggerer, but his place as head of British jews got him off...
Take that last sentence anyway you like.
ISIS becomes GoodByeSis
ISIS: International Secret Intelligence Service, deploying batshit crazy maniacs to do their bidding for the world's oldest surviving crime syndicate: privately owned central banks.
Why on earth would ANYONE trust the US Gov???