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The Syrian Proxy War: A World War III-esque Summary
Even before any major world powers were willing to go public (so to speak) with their involvement in Syria’s five-year, bloody civil war, it was difficult to keep track of the myriad rebel factions, militant groups, and jihadists battling the Assad regime for control of the country.
In a testament to just how confusing (not to mention terrifying) the situation had become by the time Iran began to mull asking the Russians for help, in April, 18,000 civilians ended up trapped in the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus where al-Nusra, ISIS, Hamas, the FSA, and the Assad regime were all fighting each other simultaneously in what UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon called “the worst circle of hell.”
At that juncture, the conflict was still largely a true proxy war. That is, sure there were probably some US Spec Ops running around with the Kurds and perhaps with the FSA and there were almost undoubtedly a handful of Iranian commanders shuttling back and forth between Damascus and Tehran while coordinating with Hezbollah, but the war didn't look anything like it does now in terms of overt military action by multiple world powers.
After Quds commander Qassem Soleimaini visited the frontlines in Latakia in June, the general vowed to "surprise the world," with Iran's next move. Weeks later Soleimaini was in Moscow plotting a Russian intervention with The Kremlin. By the end of September, Russia had built an air base at Latakia and on September 30, a three star general strolled into the US Embassy in Baghdad and informed the Americans that Russian airstrikes in Syria "begin in 1 hour."
The rest, as they say is history and as we reported earlier today, things just got more complicated as it now appears both Britain and Germany are set to enter the fray. All of this is made immeasurably more difficult to grasp when you consider that it's nearly impossible to sort through which rebel groups are Saudi, Qatari, and Turkish proxies.
Now that the tense standoff between Ankara and Moscow looks set to usher in a new phase in the conflict characterized by world powers engaging one another directly, we though it an opportune time to take inventory of who is who and what is what in Syria which just might be remembered as the theatre for the start of a third world war.
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And here, for those who missed it, is The New York Times' attempt to explain who's fighting who:
Here are the stories that document the key events of the past six months:
- Moscow Approves Military Action In Syria, Video Captures First Russian Air Strikes
- The French Campaign Begins: Hollande Launches "Massive Bombardment" Of ISIS Capital
- "The Redcoats Are Coming!" Britain Moves Closer To Launching Anti-ISIS Airstrikes In Syria
- Obama Set To Announce US Boots On The Ground In Syria, Russia Threatens Deployment "Unacceptable"
- "Proxy" War No More: Qatar Threatens Military Intervention In Syria Alongside "Saudi, Turkish Brothers"
- Turkish F-16s Shoot Down Russian Su-24 Warplane Near Syria Border
- Einsteinian Insanity: US, Saudi Arabia Pledge To Provide More Guns, Ammo To Syrian Proxy Armies
- Iran Sends "Thousands" Of Troops To Syria For Russian-Backed Assault On Key City
Finally, in case anyone is still confused, here is the really simple recap:
- Russian fighter jets (now armed with air-to-air missiles) over Syria
- Russian missile cruisers off the Syrian coast protecting Russian assets on the ground and occasionally enforcing a no fly zone over the Mediterranean
- US, French fighter jets over Syria and Iraq
- The US Aircraft Carrier USS Harry Truman is set to arrive by the Syrian coast in a few weeks
- The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is parked off the Syrian coast
- UK fighter jets deployed over Syria within days
- German jets deployed over Syria within days
- German frigate to protect the French aircraft carrier
- German troops to be deployed
- US "special" troops officially deployed to Iraq, unofficially operating in Syria
- Russian "special" troops unofficially on the ground in Syria
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You've got to be kidding me...really???
Can i place a bet? On Russia?
Am curious why, over the last 15 years, Syrian citizens never left the country as much as they are now, at a time when the US is "helping"?
Banker war straight up.
It's basically;
Assad + Russia + Iran in the West <><> ISIS + Saudi + Qatar + Turkey in the Center <><> KRG + US on the East
Outside powers have created so many proxies (who have all been robbing each other) that now we just have a vipers nest of angry bastards who are armed to the teeth and looking for revenge against humanity.
Meh ~ That's just a foto of Black Friday at Wal Mart in Syria
Since the yankees just landed in Iraq, again, start polishing your helmets boys.
You don't know what might expect you there.
http://goo.gl/7tHnDu
I've still never read any good reason for trying to remove Assad from the U.S. and her allies.
Why remove Assad in the first place? If rebel groups exist, and indeed felt the need to take up arms against what they perceived as an illegitimate election, then let them. The targeting of violent rebel groups is an internal matter of the nation-state with those conditions. Sorry to get all "Star Trek" on here, but the prime directive applies here, there's no reason for the U.S. to be involved in Syria, and the U.S. public told Obama as much when they polled nearly unanimously that they did not want war with Syria just after the retarded "Red Line" speech.
BTW, to those who say that Assad "Gassed" his own people, there's actually just as ample evidence that it was likely someone else in the middle east who provided the weapons, and deployed them.
Get with the program, private, we want to remove Assad because he's against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. Like Saddam. Like Gaddafi. You think the US actually WANTS to stop Islamic terror? Sheesh.
And the (multi) million dollar question... Where is Israel?...
thx again ziohedge!
If you ask that question they will give you 6 million reasons why Israel had to be left out of it.
pods
People get tired of the same old bullshit so all the more reason why they should be constantly included... zh!
Israel is sitting back and watching the show. They don't need to do anything with the US doing all the work. It's always Saturday in Israel.
Israel has admitted to having troops in Syria.
France: Frigate to protect carrier.
Sorry, the sunburn will pass straight through the frigate and still have the umpf to sink the carrier. One shot, two kills as your Zionist masters like to say.
They call in the plays from the bench and get cheap oil for all their hard work.
Imagine how really, really fucked up it would be if Hitlery were still Sec of State?
Imagine how really, really fucked up it would be if Hitlery becomes the next President...
Standard Disclaimer: I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
TD has shown has Isreal is gettin paid. Overlooked how Isreal is looking to censor youtube and other online video sites regarding their plunder of whats left of palestine.
But they ride saudia arabia ass so its not all bad.
It was over 2 months ago on 30 Sept that I had proclaimed that Putin had made a masterstroke by intervening in Syria.....USA/NATO had the option to support Russia/Assad/Syrians/humanity/whole world ......or .....be against all of them and support ISIS....
Guess what side did the US chose to support ever since?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-30/propaganda-war-begins-russias-s...
Pretty much every country in the world could do worse than to adopt the Prime Directive. But if you asked any member of the Obama administration, I'm guessing their response would be "he gassed his own people" or something similar...the same types of things the Bushies said. Yet they've never proved to my satisfaction that it wasn't the "rebels" that deployed the gas....
It's doctor Assad - he's got a PHd
he is a medical doctor of opthamology, an eye doctor. that is an md degree.
Here is your good reason. Christ, people keep looking at the tree rather than the forest. Ya know, besides today, there was a yesterday, a last week, a last month, a last year, a September 11, 2001, a Pentagons New Map, a PNAC, and etc.
There is a TIMELINE here, a purpose, if you are willing and bright enough, to see it:
http://tinyurl.com/p6dcxhs
And you know, there are STILL people out there who believe that US/NATO/Globalists are pissed at Russia for annexing Crimea because of dumbocracy... rather that Russia annexed Crimea to keep its Black Sea Fleet... which US/NATO/Globalists tried to eliminate... because?
Sigh. Gee golly! And why do they want Assad out?
This is FATE of those being in the non-integrated GAP who REFUSE to be assimilated into the integrated CORE. Figure that out.
And some of them can be directed back to Dagestan/Chechnya just like a good old CIA spook would do.....
"a vipers nest of angry bastards who are armed to the teeth and looking for revenge against humanity."
It strikes me that that description of the middle east is not only a true one, but one that could have been applied at any time since the mid-80s or so when I started following politics/international news. Many, many times after reading a particularly nasty story out of there, I've sat back and wondered how they keep going like they do, but they do keep going. There is no other similar cauldron of hatred and insanity anywhere else in the world...possibly excepting sub-saharan Africa. It's kind of hard to tell about that place because it doesn't really get reported on much, but MAN do they like to kill each other there too.
I would also love to see some digging into "who" paid and organised the masses to move towards the EU. $2000 per head to get to Germany?
Sounds like a Soros play to me.
#RefujihadiLivesMatter
Might I suggest going long on Halliburton stock?
It might help Dick Cheney's former employer the most....
/s
Never mid betting on Russia.* Assad needs to get his head out of his donkey**, and make the Kurds his BFFs. He may even offer them some land, in exchange for a permanent alliance against Turkey and ISIS jihadists.
He and the Russians desperately need their help, to change the Game, by taking Turkey out of the Syrian game, with a domestic war for Independence. Else Assad and Syria are screwed.
* researchfix: "Can i place a bet? On Russia?"
** modern word for Ass.
He-who-must-not-be-named!
Dec. exercises.
WTF - Austere 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUoJM1paLA4
We are heading for WW3 and nothing or no one will stop it from happening......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
let's get it on, it's like two amped-up high school football teams waiting for kickoff...
cue mossad, stage right...
>>>..let's get it on
HEY! That's my line!!!!!!!!!
"Come on 'Dillos! Let's get it on!"
actually, it's big John's line
Mossad has had a permanent presence on-stage since the beginning.
They are the producers.
Just like in Hollywood.
pods
Confusing?
Don't worry... it's simple... ALL WARS ARE BANKER WARS and the bankers will not stop until they achieve a global government under their United Nations. WW3 and IMF-SDR's here we come...
In history there is rarely anything new to basic human stupidity, but I think that they might have figured out a whole level of stupid.....
Ya. But where is Israel on the list?
They're on whichever side WINS
Who do you think wrote the article... and the rest of the unauthored articles on ziohedge?
The banks were excluded from the chart because Israel would be dominating the infographics.
That photo is Pulitzer-worthy, though it doesn't say exactly where or when that was. Sweden last week?
Germany next week
JC Penny in Flint, Michigan, around noon last Friday.
pods
No, ElPaso TX.
The thing is that most people think that this will not escalate into ww3... You fools, you think that the rebels will drop their arms once ISIS is destroyed? That the western support will stop? LOL.
I fully expect ww3 in 2016... once western backed rebels/NATO vs Russia/Syria/Iran kicks off...
If NATO backs off, Syrian rebels will be pissed and will go back to Europe to take their revenge... so either you get ww3 or you get a shitload of terrorist attacks in Europe
Will that be the time that my puts/shorts start working?
Under no circumstances will your puts and shorts start working. If they ever start working that would quickly expose the weakness under the mountains of unfunded liabilities that are insidiously everywhere and avalanches that might be unstoppable could come cascading down.
Aren't we overdue for another short covering rally on bad news?
This should be bullish. Buy stawks
More YAWN.
The 21st Century edition of the Great Game is enjoined. Deal. With. It.
nice to see something other than stock market charts
hopefully a new ZH trend
can we get some more articles on the coming stock market collapse/depression/armageddon?
Oh, you didn't get the memo? The USD will be destroyed, and the stock market will go to 20,000. But with just enough volatility and pullbacks that the little guy sells for a loss. And stackers and preppers will have their stacks and preparations confiscated, for the good of the country, of course. Those evil hoarders.
So, what you are saying is that my shorts/puts are not going to work!
Bugger!
The US stock market will not collapse per se, it will be destroyed along with the rest of the country in a single hour in the outpouring of God's wrath (US = Babylon).
Damascus is the largest of the ancient cities which claim to be the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Isaiah 17 predicts that Damascus will no longer be a city and will become a heap of ruins.
So the prophecy of Damascus is being fulfilled right before our eyes, as will the destruction of Babylon. We are in the end times.
where is Satan-yahoo in the chart diagram? oh, I see it's NY Times - masters of dis-information, Sulzberger style
He is getting his cock sucked by our current president. Before you laugh too hard, Israeli leaders have been getting sucked off by every single president for the past 34 years.
Walmart to open three supercenters in Aleppo. pentalingual applicates needed.
Obama the Nobel Peace Prize winner...committing genocide on behalf of foreign interests.
All in bed together...this is the most disgusting bunch of scum leadership ever in the history of this planet.
Mos Eisley without the spaceships.
Describing this as a civil war is palpable nonsense.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/12/us-caught-faking-it-in-syria/
This is a proxy war on Syria by the us/israel and the saudis, turks, and others.
It is not about democracy.
It us not about human rights.
It is about US and Israel remaking the middle east.
In blood and fire.
For private central bankers, to further threaten/weaken Russia, and most of all - for Ersatz Israel.
http://m.journal-neo.org/2015/10/26/genies-and-genocide-syria-israel-rus...
I've mentioned this angle for a while. What is the benefit of naming an invasion a civil war? Well, there are many. And hence, invasions are termed civil wars (for the benefit of the invaders).
If you search cluster fuck on wikipedia you will find more info on this war as well as smiling face of obomber.
Recently I was remembering my youth - when at the end of the day the family would gather around the dinner table and the TV would be on in the background. Walter Cronkite would be on TV talking about the Vietnam War. It seemed like every night he had a report on the Viet Cong vs. American casualties - with numbers - to really convey what progress if any was being made (now those number were probably made up, I don't know). I miss Walter Cronkite.
Yepper. Walter Cronkite made up a lotta shit.
Cronkite finally concluded that Vietnam was a pathetic joke on his news program. I believe after Tet.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/turkeys-blockade-of-russian-naval-vessels-access-to-the-mediterranean-russias-black-sea-fleet-completely-cut-off/5492688
Turkey controls marine traffic. Oh boy oh boy oh boy. Now what? Got a crazy regime in charge of WW3 detonation.
Hmmmm. Well, given that the Bosporus IS sovereign Turkish territory much like the Mississippi River is sovereign US territory, there is not much Uncle Vladdy can
do about it. If true, another piece in the puzzle falls into place. Of course, the source is about as reliable as Pravda or Debka. Remaining pieces to be played include arming
Ukraine w/ lethal aid and fomenting terrorism in Dagestan/Chechnya.
"Come on 'Dillos! Let's get it on!"
Whats sovereign territory and why is it libya, afghanistan, iraq, yemen, ukraine, Syria, etc dont seem to have it?
Not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse, but aha - looking at your name I know you are.
Turkey closing the Bosphorus Strait to any country is an ACT OF WAR pure and simple.
They are not allowed to do that unless they are IN A WAR.
Vlad has every right to attack Turkey given Turkey has declared War on Russia - if that is what they've done.
I think it's misguided to characterise Cameron as "Not thrilled with Assad but even less thrilled with ISIS".
He may not be thrilled with ISIS but I suspect that Cameron has been covertly involved in the attempted overthrow of Assad from early on (special forces working with the US to recruit and train rebel terrorists). His stated objective now of bombing ISIS and hunting down its leaders may prove to be false, because he will do nothing to reduce the possibility of Assad being removed. Like the US, it means he may want to check ISIS and weaken it but not to eliminate it.
And he will do nothing to eliminate any other terrorist group, despite his statement today on TV that he wants to help bring the civil war in Syria to an end, whilst forgetting that he was instrumental in starting it.
Such hypocrisy.
Exactly true. The UK government's arguement for war on the radio, in the papers, on tv always closes with a comment on the need for transition from "butcher Assad", "Assad who murders and tortures his own people", "Assad's bloody reign of terror" (all literal quotes).
I've looked for evidence for Assad's war crimes but as soon as you seek the detail of the allegations they just peter out. Claimed footage of barrel bombs turns out to show nothing of significance. The still-much-quoted Syrian Observatory on Human Rights turned out to be a single UK blogger in a suburban street rather than a Syrian organisation. And even some Western intelligence agencies are admitting the Chemical Weapons attack was not the work of the Syrian military. Where is the evidence against Assad? It's a scarce as Saddam's WMDs.
Too right.
I'm sure that Assad is no angel but nor are most governments. GW Bush presided over the torture and murder of countless people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo.
On the Assads, I believe he is far less savage than his father who was seemingly paranoid. There used to be talk about a black painted concrete building off the road from the Damascus airport to downtown which housed the Secret Police HQ. The stories about what used to go on there are no one's business.
But none of that explains why the West want him out of office: it's all about the gas pipelines and his refusal to allow the Qatar pipeline across Syria. He prefers the Iranian one. Doubtless his refusal to join the Western banking system and take on debt is another reason.
Syrian security forces continue to detain people arbitrarily, regularly subjecting them to ill-treatment and torture, and often disappearing them using an extensive network of detention facilities throughout Syria. Many detainees were young men in their 20s or 30s; but children, women, and elderly people were also detained. In some instances, individuals reported that security forces detained their family members, including children, to pressure them to turn themselves in. On August 30, the Syrian Network for Human Rights, a local monitoring group, estimated that 85,000 people were currently being held by the government in conditions that amount to enforced disappearance.
Released detainees consistently report ill-treatment and torture in detention facilities and prison conditions that lead to many cases of deaths in custody. Four former detainees released from the Sednaya military prison in 2014 described deaths in custody and harsh prison conditions that closely match the allegations of mass deaths in custody by a military defector made in January, who photographed thousands of dead bodies in military hospitals in Damascus. At least 2,197 detainees died in custody in 2014, according to local activists.
(copy from human rights watch world report: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/syria )
The only time that Cameron gets a thrill is when he's rear-ending something going "Oink! Oink!" - while dreaming of Nutt&Yahoo behind him.
"Oink! Oink!"
That sounds like the bitch Home Secretary Theresa May ;-)
“‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you." Jeremiah 25:27
What an ideal situation for political game players : way to complex for anyone to understand, and so much less to explain, whatever you do or whatever the outcome.
When your goal is more chaos, a playing field like that is exactly what you need.
Our Israeli-neocons mean to dominate the world with military and economic force. In the year 2015, it is not clear to them and most of the world political people that they have lost. It should be clear to the rest of us that they can make things very bad, Hitler, Stalin and Mao bad. That must be so, if they do not win, an honest investigation of 9/11 will result in their heads put in nooses for a short drop.
They use exaclty the same mechanisms of seizing and wielding power as those tyrants, and they are succeeding : 9/11 was a false flag operation of theirs, and MSM has not allowed that known fact to have any political effect anywhere in the world.
So win or hang, is their incentive plan. Exciting times coming.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/the-next-false-flag/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/nsas-capabilities-have-nev...
So the race is against the consequences of their psyops causing craziness everywhere and the consequent draconian laws enabling their police states and gulags vs the rest of us rejecting the hate and distrust they need to make us accept those.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/germanys-jewish-problem/
Too make things really bad, we have to cooperate.
Any article that refers to the Syrian government as a "Regime" is immediately suspect imo. Same language has been used all over the msm for other countries just before every lie under the sun is printed about them as a pretext for war.
Of the stories that stand out about Assad's Syria, one is the alleged chemical weapons use on his own people - now debunked beyond doubt which was used as the pretext for the US invasion in 2013. The other is the alleged systematic torture of his people captured on a flash drive by "Caesar" and then used as, wait for it, a graphic exhibition of torture at the "National Holocaust Museum" in Washington, then at the UN in New York. That's right, the Jewish "Holocaust museum" and the same Washington government which imprisoned whistleblowers for showing images and videos of torture and murder done by the US forces, then promptly classified everything from public view. Ironic.
By the Pentagon's own admission, there are around 5 Syrians in the "Syrian Free Army". Assad missed a trick by not allying himself with the YPG before the Obama regime turned them with military toys. Pity, because they are pretty effective fighters against ISIS and would have worked well with Syria.
It's simple: The US State Dept, the CIA and its proxy fighters allied to Turkey/Saudi/Qatar have gone FULL RETARD. Everything else is the fallout from its batshit craziness whilst the Israelis reap the geopolitical benefits and ISIS oil quietly pulling the strings with Vicky Nuland.
As I say above and the links, I think the explanations are best from the pov of chaos being the goal to distract everything from 9/11, which is always on the edge of becoming a political problem for the administration. If one major person breaks their major doubts in just the right way, our Israeli-neocon crowd will be all hung. Simple motivations and they don't care about the results of anyuthing, just the cost of keeping the distractions alive.
ISIS bombs in Paris ? Great! for Israeli-neocon interests, not so good for the rest of us. Oil other benefits pay for political support, are not the primary motivation. Power is that motivation, and now fear as things are unraveling a bit faster than memories fade and things can be re-raveled.
Yes. It is all about keeping the oil flowing and with it the recyclying of the petrol dollar as well as the military hardwares outsourced to US. Israel is the epic center. Anything that disrupts these flows will lead to new configurations. For the Oligarchs, where Israel only matters, will blow hot and cold to exploit the divides btw the Shites (Iran) and Sunnis (Saudi) as well as curbing the old cold war mindsets of the US military establishments to escalate a Russia containment agenda. (Their funds are not meant for these ego trips).
Collateral damages to proxies are not the concerns. Turkey is now useful as part of NATO and has the platform to spread the virus to EC. Like all proxies, it will also be abandoned when mission is accomplished. Paradoxically, there will be no WW3 when nations become proxies dependent on fund flows. Sabre ratlings are side shows, just tolerated outlets for the confused preys.
The NeoCon Propaganda Machine Pushing “Regime Change” in Syria
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/06/the-neocon-propaganda-machine-pus...
NYT’s New Propaganda on Syria
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/04/nyts-new-propaganda-syria
We live in a world where the us just imposed new sanctions on syria for purportedly buying oil from isis, while israel buys far more of it, with no danger of sanctions (ever) as the us and israel support isis.
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-israel-buys-most-oil-smuggled-from-is...
Cute.
Two glaring omissions from that first Mugs Gallery:
1) ISISrael's NUTT&YAHOO
2) USSA ZIO-SCUMMM*
(SCUMMM* - Satanic Cabal Underwriting Mass-Murder & Mayhem:
Example: Rat-Face(Wolfowitz) and the KKK(Kagan Kriminal Kabal) )
Civilians, Stop signing up to go to war for these fucks.
Police, Refuse to enforce any law that requires conscription.
=No more ZIO war
Mission creep is a helluva drug.
http://sputniknews.com/us/20151201/1031076832/syria-vietnam-connection.html
You forgot the banking players.
Remember the aim is to keep you distracted.
any article on the mideast clusterfuck that does not include israel as part of the analysis is pure, refined bullshit.
dont worry about the germans, half of the total of german jets
are downed for repairs
The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend.
When does ISIS get invited to the White House? The Taliban got to see it.
DeathCon 111
add what tyler wrote above
what could go right?
The US-Russia Proxy War in Syria
December 1, 2015
Exclusive: The risk of Syria becoming a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia became real last week when Turkey and Syrian jihadists used U.S.-supplied weaponry to shoot down a Russian warplane and rescue helicopter, killing two Russians, a danger that ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern explores.
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/12/01/the-us-russia-proxy-war-in-syria/
We are heading for WW3 and nothing or no one will stop it from happening......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbz7SyyXbGM
hey vlad! you owe it to humanity to keep the nukes tweaked and let loose if need be. and.... if the fucking chinese don't immediately have your back save 'bout 1,000 for them.
man has got to do what he has to do vlad.
There is a mistake in the graphics. In the ANTI ASSAD section, you have the Free Syrian Army with wrong icon/symbol. It should be a green stripe with 3 red stars. The current color template is the current Syrian flag. Wondering who made this graphics? (AH)
Not one in 100,000 Americans know ANYTHING about ANY of this but that ridiculous red-arrow chart will EASILY serve it's purpose of keeping those 100,000 Americans permanently stupid.
Look at those poor people in that photograph.
THAT is the handiwork of the USSA/UK/ISISrael ROGUE REGIMES.
The NY Times takes the cake for exceptional. That picture in the article is incredible.
Russians are the chess masters
They have surrounded Europe from 2 sides
Russia must station very large war machinary in Syria
(once ISIS is controlled)
in preparation for a large scale war with west
because it is all a game of greed
west wants cheap oil
and for that west can do anything
even it will risk going to nuclear war
In that event a large establishment in Syria can be very beneficial to Russia
Then Russia can fight Europe as well as western backed Middle east nations
such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc with the help of Iran.
And America , you know what to do
Last time (few decades ago) a Russian FM went to America and said .....
The chess pieces are set, all important NATO countries are moving their assets. Even Germany is now involved. Following orders from NATO HQ. When is Germany going to break loose and allign itself with Russia? Ai, yes, forgot, not allowed according to the Heartland Theory. Will France come in a direct confrontation with Russia? Will an indicident between FR and Russia unleash WWIII?
For the Dutchies, I found a comprehensvie article on the coming World War III with a lot of references to articles of Zerohedge and video presentations: Analyse Derde Wereldoorlog. The article discusses all recent events and the parties involved and follows the money trial....