
One Plan To Guide Them All: “…..The dissolution of Syria and Iraq... into ethnically or religiously unique areas… is Israel’s primary target… while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short-term target. Syria will fall apart in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure… Oded Yinon, A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties, voltairenet
Israeli military forces have moved to within 15 miles of the Syrian Capital of Damascus. The IDF has seized large tracts of land in southern Syria it intends to occupy and where it will eventually build checkpoints, military outposts and settlements. The “lightening” invasion has been accompanied by a massive bombing campaign that has obliterated numerous military bases, weapons depots and research labs eliminating any hope that Syria will regain the ability to defend itself or to reestablish its sovereign independence. For all practical purposes, Syria no longer exists; the persistent attacks of foreign enemies have left the country vanquished and splintered. The carve-up of the critically located nation-state has already begun.
At the same time the IDF is closing in on Damascus, US Forces along the Turkish border have started building a military base in the city of Kobani. The move is intended to provoke Turkey into a confrontation that will pit Washington’s Kurdish proxy militia against the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA). The situation is fraught with danger as it increases the likelihood that two NATO members will soon clash in northeastern Syria.
Here’s more from an article at the Daily Sabah:
The United States is reportedly building a military base to help its ally the YPG, the Syrian offshoot of the PKK terrorist group, in northern Syria where the terrorists have been cornered by the Türkiye-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) since the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime.
Local journalists said 13 trucks with U.S. flags and carrying concrete construction blocks arrived in the PKK/YPG’s stronghold Ain al-Arab, also known as Kobani, early on Thursday morning. The U.S. military has emptied a base in neighboring Iraq and the concrete blocks and other materials are being shipped to Ain al-Arab for a Syrian base, according to local sources. Earlier this week, the U.S. military transferred dozens of Bradley armored vehicles to the region and supplied air defense systems and other armored vehicles to the YPG….
The PKK is proscribed as a terrorist group by the European Union, the U.S. and Türkiye. It is responsible for more than 40,000 deaths in Türkiye, including women and children. It maintains strongholds in northern Iraq and Syria to create a self-styled “Kurdish state.”
The U.S. has dispatched troops along with military equipment and weapons to Syria’s northeast during the Syrian civil war to help the PKK/YPG under the pretext of the fight against Daesh. Ankara says the YPG/PKK is on par with Daesh and should have no presence in the new Syria. US said to set up military base in Syria as SNA corners PKK/YPG, Daily Sabah
The excerpt above helps to show just how tense the situation in Syria is at the present time. While Washington applauded Turkey’s support for the jihadists who just toppled Assad and seized power in Damascus, the Biden administration is deliberately provoking President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a critical matter of national security. (Turkish leaders regard US support for the Kurds (YPG) as a threat to their security.) This duplicitous behavior is not uncommon for the US which operates on the theory that allies are only allies for as long as they serve Washington’s overall interests.
The US will continue to support the Kurds (aka—The Syrian Democratic Forces or SDF) in order to preserve access to Syrian oil in the East, and to further reinforce its support for Israeli policy in the region. Israel’s affection for the Kurds is purely pragmatic as this excerpt from an article at CNN explains:
…there is one regional power that has thrown its weight behind the Kurds’ drive for independence: Israel….Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement ahead of the referendum saying Israel “supports the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state of its own.”… “Israel would welcome another state in the region that shares its concerns about the rising power of Iran, including the threat of Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq,” says Frantzman. “Reports have also indicated that oil from Kurdistan is purchased by Israel.” CNN
So, aside from getting cheap oil from Kurdish-controlled area in east Syria, Israel also sees the Kurds as a natural ally in their fight against Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria, all of whom oppose an independent Kurdish state. Here’s more background from an article at Al-Monitor:
The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria has signed an agreement with an American oil company... One of the sources said the agreement to market oil in territory controlled by the US-backed entity and to develop and modernize existing fields was inked last week “with the knowledge and encouragement of the White House.”…..
Oil is the autonomous administration’s principal source of income.... The Kurdish-led entity controls most of Syria’s oil wealth, which is concentrated in and around the Rmelain fields close to the Turkish and Iraqi borders and in the Al-Omar fields further south.
Ankara is every bit as sensitive about the oil as it’s seen as the vehicle for cementing the Syrian Kurds’ self-rule project. Turkey has since 2016 been launching military operations against the SDF to disrupt its perceived attempts to establish a contiguous zone of control from the Iraqi border all the way to Afrin to the west of the Euphrates river and beyond. Turkey claims the SDF and its affiliates are “terrorists” because of their links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the rebel group that has been fighting for Kurdish self rule inside Turkey since 1984 and is on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations.
Sources told Al-Monitor the agreement to market oil in territory controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces was signed “with the knowledge and encouragement of the White House.” Al-Monitor: US oil company signs deal with Syrian Kurd, justiceforkurds.org
Some readers may recall that President Donald Trump boasted many times how he “took the oil” in Syria. Here’s what he said:
I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil. They’re protecting the oil. I took over the oil… We have the oil. Right now, the U.S. has the oil.
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"I left troops [in Syria] to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil. They're protecting the oil. I took over the oil… We have the oil. Right now, the U.S. has the oil" pic.twitter.com/IYaep53GP5
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) March 31, 2023
Bottom line: Washington’s support for the Kurds (aka- the SDF) has allowed a US proxy to control both the oil-rich parts of Syria as well as Syria’s breadbasket where most of its wheat is harvested. This loss of revenue—along with onerous US economic sanctions—pushed the country into bankruptcy which greatly accelerated the collapse of the state and the removal of Assad. This was a big “win” for the US, Turkey, Qatar and other western allies, but mostly for Israel upon whose regional aspirations the overall strategy is based. Keep in mind, that everything that has taken place aligns closely with a strategic blueprint produced by a Zionist intellectual (Oded Yinon) more than four decades ago who concocted “an accurate and detailed plan….for the Middle East which is based on the division of the whole area into small states, and the dissolution of all the existing Arab states.” According to political analyst Khalil Nakhleh:
The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must
1) become an imperial regional power and
2) must affect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states.
Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state…. Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation…What they want and what they are planning for is not an Arab world, but a world of Arab fragments that is ready to succumb to Israeli hegemony…
Every Arab state…. is a real target sooner or later …
There is no indication that Arab strategists have internalized the Zionist plan in its full ramifications. Instead, they react with incredulity and shock whenever a new stage of it unfolds…. The sad fact is that as long as the Zionist strategy for the Middle East is not taken seriously Arab reaction to any future siege of other Arab capitals will be the same. Khalil Nakhleh, The Zionist Plan for the Middle East, powerbase.info
A rehash of these same ideas emerged more than a decade later under the title of “A Clean Break: A Strategy for Securing the Realm,” authored by neocon Richard Perle who outlined Israel’s strategic vision for remaking the Middle East. Here’s a clip:
Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq – an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right – as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.”
“Most important, it is understandable that Israel has an interest supporting diplomatically, militarily and operationally Turkey’s and Jordan’s actions against Syria, such as securing tribal alliances with Arab tribes that cross into Syrian territory and are hostile to the Syrian ruling elite.” US Caught Faking It in Syria – fulfilling the Yinon and Clean Break Plans, cnionline.org
The similarities between the two documents are obvious, as is the fact that this is the operational strategy that is shaping events in the Middle East. The role of vital resources, pipeline corridors and even regional security are all secondary to Israel’s ambitious plan for regional hegemony which is the primary impetus for the escalating conflagration. Having eliminated six of seven rivals in the last two decades, we should expect that a war with Iran is now unavoidable. Iran remains the last obstacle to the realization of the Zionist dream which is to become a world power via regional domination.
It’s worth noting, that even though Israel is within striking distance of Damascus, it does not intend to invade or occupy the city. As one astute analyst on Twitter put it:
Israel had a standing policy never to attempt capturing an Arab capital city. The repercussions of such an act far exceed the propaganda value. That’s why Israel never attempted to get to Damascus, or Cairo, during the 1973 war….
The only time Israel strayed from this policy was in 1982 when the IDF entered the suburbs of Beirut. That was a dumb move and ended badly for the war goals.
IMHO, the Israeli leadership will probably remain on the outskirts of the city and avoid the urban warfare that would ensue if they attempted to occupy Damascus itself. That way the IDF can continue its relentless airstrikes on targets within Damascus without engaging in endless door-to-door fighting that would send casualties soaring. In any event, there is currently no sign that the IDF plans to march on Damascus.
On Friday, Syria’s new leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, (aka—Ahmad al-Sharaa) “demanded that the United States tell Israel to pull its forces out of the border buffer zone and the Syrian side of Mount Hermon.”
According to an article in Israel Today:
Ahmed al-Sharaa, head of Syria’s Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group and the country’s de facto leader, has asked the United States to pressure Israel to withdraw from the Golan buffer zone and the peak of Mount Hermon….
Sources in Israel said that they did not receive any demand from Washington with regard to Syria, adding that the Jewish state will not compromise on its security, according to the report…
Israel’s “excuses have run out, and they have crossed the lines of engagement” for striking the Assad regime’s military infrastructure, as well as for deploying troops to several demilitarized zones in the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, The New York Times quoted al-Sharaa as saying. Israel Today
The excerpt above is the first indication that all-is-not-well between Tel Aviv and its jihadist assets in Damascus. The question is whether this rift will grow now that Assad has been toppled, and Israel no longer needs the assistance of Sunni extremists to advance its regional agenda.
Less than 24 hours after al-Jolani delivered his demands, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar issued the following comment:
“The world is talking about ‘an orderly change of government in Syria…. But it’s not like a new government that today controls all of Syria was democratically elected.
“This is a terrorist gang that was previously in Idlib and took over the capital Damascus and other areas. The world would very much like to see them as a new and stable government because the countries want to return the refugees on their territory to Syria. But that’s not the case.”….
We can only wonder if there is a link between al-Jolani’s assertive approach to Israel’s military offensive (and bombing) and the Israeli Foreign Minister’s sharp rebuke? The reason this interests us is because we don’t believe that a government comprised of Sunni militants will be the compliant puppets that both Israel and the US expect. We think there will be irreconcilable differences that will provoke a stronger response from Israel. That, in turn, will force Erdogan to abandon the pretense that HTS operates independently as he will need to fortify the jihadist positions in southern Syria with brigades from the Turkish Army. In short, where the IDF meets HTS militants represents the de facto border between Israel and Turkey. This will become more apparent as the various players reinforce their defensive positions and “dig in.” Check out this excerpt from an article at The Jerusalem Post:
The tumultuous relationship between Israel and Turkey is heading for more turbulence as recent developments in Syria pit the two countries against each other in what has the potential of developing into a direct armed confrontation….
Turkey has been at odds with Israel in the past, during previous confrontations it has had with Hamas. This time was different…. Turkey is looking to cement further its influence in Syria, which shares a border with Israel. For years, despite being officially at war, the border was one of Israel’s quietest. Now, as Turkey inches closer to Israel geographically, this quiet could be interrupted.
“There is a chance of a future military confrontation between Israel and Turkey,” Prof. Efrat Aviv, an expert on Turkey from Bar-Ilan’s Department of General History and Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, told The Media Line. “This is unprecedented, as are all events witnessed in the region recently.”…
Relations between Israel and Turkey have been sour for over a decade, although the two maintained diplomatic and trade relations throughout several crises. Now, Turkey is at Israel’s doorstep, and with a less than cordial relationship, tensions regarding Syria could lead to a deterioration….
The latest developments in Syria, which have essentially left the country up for grabs, have Turkey and Israel both putting boots on the ground, each in different areas.
“Turkey is very adamant about its interests in Syria, and Erdogan wants to cement his influence there, aiming for the new government there to be under his sponsorship,” said Aviv. “This includes massive investment, including in Kurdish areas, in order for the Syrian society to be pro-Turkish. Turkey wants to completely quash Kurdish independence aspirations.”…
“As long as Erdogan is in power, nothing good will happen in the relationship, and it will only get worse. Even if he is replaced by a regime less critical of Israel, it will take time for the criticism towards Israel to decline,” said Aviv. “Turkish society will take time to change its toxic public opinion towards Israel as anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist sentiment in Turkey is very strong.” Erdogan’s policies in Syria bring Turkey and Israel closer to confrontation, Jerusalem Post
Israel does not have the manpower or resources to engage Turkey in open battle, so the logical option would be to persuade Washington to do its dirty work for it by inciting hostilities in the north, thereby dragging the US into another forever war aimed at advancing the malign Zionist agenda. (Building a military base in Kobani achieves this objective. It is a clear provocation.)
It seems fitting that the three most war-mongering nations in the world today—Israel, Turkey and the US—would wind up on a battlefield at the center of the Middle East where their aggressive, competing agendas are destined to clash in one last bloody conflagration. Is there any way to stop this train wreck?
Israel, the US and Turkey– three hyenas snarling at each other over the corpse of Syria.
It’s my fantasy to see Jew filth and Turkish soldiers killing one another in the thousands. Even better would be for the Turkish army to drive out the terrorist forces of the ZOG from Syria.
“Is there any way to stop this train wreck?”
Absolutely not. But then, ask yourself, why would you want to stop it? The Zionist enemy is hellbent on destroying themselves. This is a very good thing.
i can’t see how this will work out well for them, anymore than iraq and afghanistan did. it seems like the israeli press has a better understanding of this, than our braindead media not that they are paid to think.
the kurds are being given the same useless, leftover, outdated junk equipment, they give to their ukranazi proxies. this way they can charge top dollar, rather than having to pay to dispose of it here.
can’t see how these death trap bradleys, will do them any good against turkish drones. the russian forces, are now using motorcycles and scooters, to quickly transport troops, without having all their eggs, in one easily targeted basket. warfare has changed and drones now rule the sky and the battlefield.
it took a while for resistance forces to organize in iraq and it is inevitable, they will form in syria as well, especially given the different factions of hts, that will become disenchanted with the cozy relationship their leadership has shown towards israel and its continued incursions into arab lands.
iran and hezbollah are not dead and are rebuilding behind the scenes and will eventually make their presence known again. i think this is why the israeli press is beginning to express doubt over the massive overreach, by their megalomaniacal leaders, as israel’s reputation is damaged irreparably in the eyes of the world.
in 2001, the u.s. slated 7 countries for destruction in 5 years and still haven’t succeeded in their dark plans, the israelis have now opened 7 fronts, with no signs of victory on any of them, how long will they be able to keep it up (especially now that nutty’s had a prostatectomy)?
https://www.rt.com/news/610471-israel-2025-victory-middle-east/
“Arab strategists” is an oxymoron if ever there was one.
Israel & Turkey will not go to war. A deal has most likely been done already over how the former SAR is to be carved up. That might explain why Turkish troops didn’t march into Aleppo as the IDF was (further) colonizing western Syria. Erdogan is desperate for the city to be returned to his New Ottoman Empire, since he considers it was stolen from the old one.
HTS will become a PITA for all concerned if they continue to insist on territorial integrity. Diminished Syria will continue to exist nominally as a buffer state and probably be Lebanonized. Now that the Anglo-Zionists have broken the Shia Crescent, Iran itself is the next target. Erdogan will be pacified in some way or another so as not to spoil the party.
This was the best and most prophetic article I’ve ever read on conflict in the Middle East.
Israel has walked into a trap designed by Iran and the Axis of Resistance. A trap that would have been obvious to any sane and rational entity. The genocidal entity is high on their own supply and cannot understand that they are marching toward their own doom the deeper they entrench themselves in Syria.
I don’t know if this gambit was ever part of Soleimani’s grand strategy, but it might as well have been, especially after Russia refused to take Idlib and compromised with Turkey. It was certainly clear to him and other Resistance leaders that Assad was not going to ever become a full member of the Axis, nor was he ever going to allow Iran to attack Israel from Syrian territory.
Most Western observers are unable to see or understand this, but Syria was a lost cause the moment Hafez Assad passed away and Bashar was selected to replace him. He never wanted the job, nor did he have any proper political education or military background. He was easily manipulated by Western forces and never heeded Iranian advice, such as when he agreed to withdraw Syrian forces from Lebanon, giving Israel and the anti-Hezbollah forces in Lebanon a gift early on.
Iran always knew Assad was a weak link, but gave him many chances and opportunities to turn against the West and join the Resistance. He refused many times to allow the IRGC to train and equip Alawite and Christian militias that would be totally loyal to the Resistance, as was done in Iraq with the PMU. He never listened when Soleimani and other Iranian leaders told him that he needed to learn from the mistakes of past leaders like Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was distant from his own subjects and allowed his government to become fully autocratic and beholden to Zionist machinations.
The irony in all this is that Iran was always his greatest ally and yet he sought to keep Iran at a distance, preferring to listen to Russia and the Persian Gulf regimes. Even at the very end, with the barbarians literally at the gates, Iran still offered to help save the Syrian Arab Republic from total destruction, but in a rare moment of lucidity he told them that there was no point, as his own military had abandoned him. He realized all too late that his perfidy against Iran with Saudi Arabia and the GCC had been a catastrophic mistake, that in his betrayal of Iran, he himself had been betrayed and sold out by the Arabs.
Iran always has contingencies and where possible, it prefers to allow its enemies to destroy themselves rather than involve itself directly in direct conflict. People are easily fooled by what turn uot of be pyrrhic victories, which is the only kind of victory the United States and Israel are capable of achieving. These two terrorist entities are so blinded by their genocidal bloodlust and hegemonic delusions of grandeur that they walked right into a quagmire exactly as Iran had expected them to.
And amazingly, rather than realize their mistake, they are digging themselves in even further. They are really that stupid. Iran needs them to think they are winning, which is precisely why Hezbollah agreed to the ceasefire, to give Israel the opportunity to step into the quagmire, and why Iran has delayed responding to Israel. We are only just beginning to witness the grand strategy of the Axis of Resistance unfolding, but the godless Zionists are completely blind to what is obvious to any keen observer.
Israel is destroying itself and it is inevitable that American imperialism and terrorism in West Asia will come to an end. They have always been their own worst enemies.
The real story is how Putin stocked Syria with air defense and then refused to authorize it’s usage. Even after Israel hid behind and AWACS killing 17. Just how Ukraine needs US technical experts to use ATACMS the same is true of the S300s in Syria. Putin has shown time and again he will not raise a finger to Jews for fear of being called a Nazi. His brother, grandmother, and 3 uncles died in WWII and he still hasn’t gotten over it to engage with reality. It is Zionist who have complete control of the US government and he cries about Anglos, as if bombing Syria hundreds of times a year has any benefit for Europe which was the main repository for the resulting refugees.
Whitney actually wrote an entire article about Syria without mentioning Russia or Putin.
No mention that Putin was being paid in contracts to provide security.
No need to talk about that. Much better to blame the US than face that uncomfortable reality.
Have a look at all these shiny Russian military vehicles that are headed for Ukraine
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Not a scratch on them.
Whitney doesn’t want to face the most likely scenario which is that Putin knew of the plot and allowed it to happen.
He most likely betrayed Assad as an excuse to move his remaining armored vehicles in Syria to Ukraine.
He is clearly running out of armored vehicles unless someone wants to argue it is a 5d chess move to use e-scooters and passenger vehicles in combat.
As the zombies say…Russia’s not there.
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The main story is that Turkey now borders Jewlandland. Lol. It’s delicious.
What is delicious? Did you not read the article? Israel took another “buffer zone” on the basis of protecting Golan even though Golan ironically was taken on the basis of being a temporary buffer zone. So now two buffer zones…….right.
Israel is going to build a whole new set of Golan Heights condominiums thanks to Putin. A whole new set of developments and of course Putin will blame the US if he is around for the groundbreaking of Zion 6 Flags or whatever they have planned.
Whitney’s carve-up picture is missing Putin drinking tea in the background with his flat sociopathic look of disdain.
That’s what your dwarf hero always does over Israel.
He sips tea and at most will mumble about the US being to blame as if it is beyond his control. Tsk tsk, what a shame. The US is the problem. Tsk tsk
Then back to oil and diamond contracts with Israel.
The Grand Dwarfy of Moscow will continue to disappoint his followers at Unz. It’s not going to get better.
Israeli soldiers never get killed by the thousands in Middle East wars; that’s what we have U.S. soldiers for.
Erdogan gets to make the call. His Greater Türkiye plan requires taking the large and populated Kurdish area. Terrain would be largely favourable for a Turkish offensive.
Despite the outgoing Veggie-In-Chief’s antics, U.S. troop strength in Syria is still less than 2,000. Trump has no interest in going head to head with Turkish forces, and openly states that America will have little or no direct involvement in Syria under his 2nd term.
Can Turkish HTS take some or all of the Kurdish area? Almost certainly. Erdogan can provide air & other technical support while the Kurds have little or none.
The long-term issue is much like the one that GW faced in Iraq. Kurdish guerilla warfare and other types of insurgency operations will target Erdogan’s colonial occupation. How long did the USSR have troops in Afghanistan? It will be a similar issue for Turkish troops.
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As long as Palestinian Jews stay away from Damascus, the southern border will likely remain cold. Mount Hermon is extremely defensible. The towns now under Jewish protection are largely Druze. Regardless of what Erdogan’s says, Druze and Jews on a tiny amount of land is not a priority. And, it would be exceedingly difficult for him to do anything along a narrow and thus predictable front.
PEACE 😇
Conflict extending into the suburbs of a Turk dominated Damascus, will get many many Jews killed. If the US refuses to deploy there to keep them apart that is. Or just refuses to deploy more troops into Syria at least.
It’s quite hilarious to see you perceive Russia in Syria through your distorted lenses.
Damascus looks like a black hole.
It would make more sense for USreal just to support a Kurdish rebellion in eastern Turkey. That’d royally piss off Erdogan.
That’s not how it’s going to work. Iran could support the Kurds as of now. But not direct them at the Turks. I do not think the Yids thought through their hostility to Assad.
U.S soldiers should stop acting low IQ dipshits. You’d swear that the military was low IQ blacks but instead it’s mostly ignorant whites who go and get killed in massive numbers. The stupid fucks never learn anything. No matter how bad things get, they are always eager to fight another rich man’s war. Then mention regrets about 30+ or so years later.
Sadly, the author—like many Western pundits—is slowly turning into Netanyahu’s speechwriter. The U.S. has occupied Iraq since 2003 with all its military might, supported by an array of terrorist gangs (ISIS, al-Qaeda, the Kurds, among others) and the most powerful armies, including Israel, France, the UK, etc. Iraq is still a unified country on the rise again. Indeed, every Iraqi citizen is aware that al-Qaeda, ISIS, and HIT are U.S.-Israeli terrorist agents. Like in Iraq, the Syrian resistance is on the rise. Here is Dr. Tim Anderson, who knows Syria better than any Western-Zionist pundit/journalist: Armed Syrian Arab Resistance issues its first statement https://counter-hegemonic-studies.site/syrian-mq/
In Türkiye, the biggest and most important NATO member after the U.S., President Erdoğan made it clear that Türkiye will intervene militarily at the ‘slightest risk’ of Syria splintering. “We cannot accept under any pretext that Syria will be divided, and if we notice the slightest risk, we will take the necessary measures,” said Erdoğan. Further, the US “theory that allies are only allies for as long as they serve Washington’s overall interests” does not apply to Türkiy. There have been many examples when Türkiye ignored U.S. demands, including the imposition of sanctions against Russia and Iran. It is important to note that after 15 months of war against unarmed Palestinian civilians, the Jews have achieved nothing, zilch. Yes, they are in Syria, but for how long? They are actually creating another resistance front that will fight the Jews, just like Hezbollah and HAMAS.
All this talk about the U.S. supported Kurds is just misdirection. It should be described as the Jew controlled Kurds using U.S. military as their proxies. I remember at least 10 or 15 years ago it was the Israelis who were in Kurdish territories training and arming the Kurds. If the U.S. military is in any area that borders Greater Israel, then they are acting as proxies for their Jew masters. And Erdogan is “all hat no cattle”, he is as compromised as Egypt and Jordan.
I recently watched Larry Wilkerson claim that he had an epiphany: It’s not the Israelis (a euphemism for Organized Jewry) that are responsible for all the chaos and crimes in the Middle East, it is all American policy and we are using Israel as a proxy or attack dog for our benefit. He said Mearsheimer, Walt and Jeffrey Sachs are wrong (Sachs recently said that Israel has controlled the U.S. foreign policy for the last 30 years), it is not the Israeli lobby it is American imperialism. I’m not sure if Wilkerson was bribed or attended a private personal MK Ultra session with Dr. Gottlieb but he is totally delusional.
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One top US official in a slip of tongue (said something Un-PC) said that Ukrainians picked up the use of advanced US technology far faster than other peoples (Third Worlders) the US gave those weapons to.
Turkeys’ interference in Syria will bite them back hard. The truth is if you interfere in the affairs of a foreign country there is a good chance that things will backfire somewhere down the line. Like how things back fired for the Pakistanis after years of interference in Afghanistan, there are open hostilities in between Pakistan and Afghanistan today and a bankrupt Pakistan risks sucked into the Afghan quagmire. While Afghanistan-India (Islamic fundamantalist Taliban- Hindu fundamentalist Modi India) relations are very good to the detriment of Pakistan. Pakistan ISI created the Taliban but now the Taliban wants to Talibanise Pakistan itself, a Frankenstein Monster attacking the creator.
The same thing happened to India w.r.t Bangladesh, after years of interference, India now faces a hostile, increasing Islamic fundamentalist Bangladesh at its borders. While Bangladesh Pakistan relations are improving to the detriment of India. Interference in foreign nations always leads to a risk of backlash somewhere down the line. And this is true not only for the USA and the West, it is true for Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iran and also Turkey. Turkey risks a serious blowback from Syria.
Also Erdogand the idiot does not realise that Empires are not worth it any more. Empires were already becoming expensive losses with the Industrial Revolution and modernisation and they were a net drag on European nations and Japan during the colonial period. Hell even Russia had to eventually pay for the upkeep of the Soviet system/ Empire and the American people have to spend a fortune for the stupid American pseudo-Empire today.
There is enough for everyone to gnaw on.
To the victors go the spoils.
The article beautifully shows that the Bilderberg group by means of their proxy forces the US, UK, France, Israel and NATO plan on waging long-term chaos not only in Syria but also Iran, Caucasus, Central Asian Stans, Taiwan … in the future.
All the while Russia is kept distracted with Ukraine scenario. The Russian kleptocracy – in direct opposition to the nationalists represented by the Russian Duma – is apparently totally ignorant of these recent globalist moves. According to Russian elites, they had achieved their goals in Syria so they’re no longer needed there!!
Similarly the kleptocracy in Iran does not want any direct involvement against the globalists lest it might undermine their current prestigious position vis a vis the diminishing exchange rate of Iran’s national currency Rial versus the $$.
We’ll soon find out when Iran-Russia do actually finalize their comprehensive strategic agreement. If they’re still reluctant to engage NATO then we know for sure both Russia and Iranian kleptocracy want play along with the Bilderberg. On the other hand, if the agreement conveys direct Russian involvement in West Asia -through Iran – by means of supplying all needed hardware including nukes and delivery system, then we can say the nationalists in both countries have got the upper hand. In that case, display of major military response against US, UK, Israel…targets such as sinking a US aircraft carrier group or attacking vital infrastructure in the occupied Palestinian territory…etc. in the region and beyond should become necessary.
Therefore, the ultimate goal of the BRICS must be that of kicking the US-led western axis’ ass completely out of the global hydrocarbon business for good. Only then the world can claim to have a new order, not before that.
Many are forgetting that Türkiye is a NATO country and makes heavy use of US F-16’s. It depends highly on the US for maintenance and support for those weapons. It will do what US asks them to do.
The Middle East never had nation-states. European imperialists, after WWI, drew lines in the sand and gave them names. That order is unraveling now, and part of it is reverting to the Sultanate.
I think Iraq should unify with Syria. Both countries are weak being divided.
Gosh, you are seriously transparent.
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Yes, realpolitik is ugly. Yes, Putin made a deal, and Iran was involved, to let Erdogan administer the region.
You had hardliners in Iran and the Axis that didn’t want this, but thems the breaks.
Turkey’s drone abilities were too strong for Russia to try and defend the SAA, that Whitney above mentions was underpaid and starved by the U.S.-occupation and backing of the Kurds.
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IMO, Whitney is largely correct in his summation above: Israel will have buyer’s remorse, but in the meantime, the Kurds are about to pay the piper.
Meanwhile, Russia is not as big a loser as everyone is making out, nor is Iran.
On the contrary, the writing was on the wall here, and Assad no doubt conceded last, but conceded he did in the face of realpolitik.
Someone isn’t use AI correctly lol these art images are terrible.
From Notsofast
Israeli false flag destruction of the Twin Towers was intended to, and did, set all of this in motion. The blow back both from the Global South regarding the Gaza genocide, and from the fractured countries of Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq will sink Israel eventually. When Europe and the U.S. become woke to the reality of Jewish malevolent control, Israel will look like Saigon in 1975. Jews are always too clever by half. Never knowing when to stop is a recipe for suicide.
No speculation (so far) on the ramifications of a war between Turkey – which wants desperately to remake the Ottoman Empire – and israel – which desperately wants to create an Greater israel.
U.S. support for israel has been ironclad regardless of the latter’s total disregard for international law and basic humanity.
Turkey is a member of the U.S. led NATO alliance. It has the second largest armed forces in the alliance, and occupies a crucial geographical location vis-a-vis Russia. Not to mention control of the Dardanelles, regulating marine movement in and out of the Black Sea.
Given it’s loyalties to israel, it looks – so far – like the U.S. is going to, at a minimum, ‘ruffle’ some Turkish feathers with it’s continued support of it’s Kurdish proxies. This is unacceptable from the Turkish standpoint.
HTS is, at this point, an unknown quantity insofar as who it will ‘side’ with in erstwhile Syria. I don’t think there is too much love to lose between israel and HTS, who are already showing signs of unease with israel’s occupation in the south. Yet it is my feeling that HTS will be courted by all sides for geographical considerations.
All that is known for sure is that the absolute losers in this fustercluck is the pretty much stateless population of the former Syria.
AGREE, It is easier to blame former Syrian President al-Assad if your head is buried in the sand. Recently, al-Assad said, “I never considered stepping down.” Nothing could have happened without the involvement of Russia. Russia’s role was far more important than all the others. For more than a decade in Syria, Russia turned Syria into a defenseless nation on behalf of Israel. It is utterly stupid to blame Bashar al-Assad. It was Putin who forced al-Assad to step down despite Iran, Iraq, and Hezbollah’s readiness to assist Syria against the terrorist onslaught. They were surprised by al-Assad’s immediate and unannounced departure. From the outset, Russia was collaborating with Syria’s enemies. For years, Russia coordinated with Turkey, the U.S., and the Jews. The Jews have been bombing Syria non-stop for 10 years, and Russia has been busy calling on Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah to “exercise restraint.” U.S. and Turkish forces were illegally occupying Syria while Russia claimed to defend Syria. We all know Russia is not a reliable and trustworthy partner. Russia is a master of backstabbing. Russia has a despicable history of backstabbing for the sake of its illusion of being part of the “civilized West,” as if Russia is uncivilized.
I totally agree with your statement that Bashar Al Assad was not the man for the job. Judging by hindsight, I can confidently say that had Hafez Al Assad chosen a secular Sunni as his replacement, the damage to Syria would have been less.
Bashar was like a man with three wives who tried to satisfy all of them but ended up losing the trust of all three. He was playing a balancing act among Russia, Iran and the UAE. Right from the 2011 proposal of Qatar to build a gas pipeline through Syria , so that Qatari gas could undercut European dependence on Russian gas and reach Turkey and beyond, Bashar had three mutually exclusive choices:
-Accept the Qatari proposal and kiss the axis of resistance good bye while insist as a precondition that Syria goes back to the 1967 border in exchange of signing a peace deal with Israel.
-Refuse to allow the pipeline to pass through Syria and take the full side of Russia in return for a mutual defense treaty, economic support, and full modernization of the Syrian forces.
-Make the Qatari gas deal subject to Iranian approval in return of allowing the Iranians to use Syrian land for their future gas pipeline that links the Iranians directly to the Mediterranean while letting go of the UAE’s support to get Syria to rejoin the Arab League.
All of these strategies could have had their pitfalls but were less risky than the indecision that plagued the Syrian foreign policy that failed to concretize a solid alliance with either Iran or Russia. In fact the Russian interference in 2015, when the Syrian regime was on the brink of defeat, happened under the prodding of Suleimani, for Russia at the time did not feel any obligation for or interest in giving a true helping hand to Bashar as he had acted during the first decade of his mandate totally independently, refraining from any consultation with Russia over foreign deals that involved economic or geopolitical matters, such as granting access to American companies to the petrol fields in East of Syria. Bashar overestimated his margin of maneuver and alienated the Russians, something that his more wily father would have never done.
Now Syria will enter a period of unrest that will turn Israeli and Turkish encroachment of Syrian land into a poisoned chalice but which would wreak havoc on the future of the deeply battered Syrian people.
The Syrian scenario is one more chapter towards the ultimate conflagration that will pit the Empire against the Russo-Chinese forces. The Empire might have won a much needed propaganda victory after its long series of humiliations from Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan. The moving sands of the Middle East quagmire might cut the party short.
Erdogan’s number one priority is the extermination of the Kurds in Turkey and Syria. Israel will stand back and let him do it, because they have enough problems already.
My hope is that Trump evacuates all American soldiers (and their equipment) from the part of Syria that we occupy. Trump doesn’t need another foreign war and the US doesn’t need another foreign enemy, because we have enough of those already.
“i can’t see how this will work out well for them, anymore than iraq and afghanistan did. “=
Let’s hope it takes less than 20 yrs as it did in Afghanistan
Wilkerson also started blathering on about “climate change”. The sad joke is that this is the same bullshit he spews to his PHD students, who must also all be Talmudically mind controlled useful Zionist idiots.
Neither Trump nor Erdogan have deep belief in NATO. Remember, Erdogan bought the S-400 system from Russia. F-16’s are designed to be easy to maintain. Many countries use the platform, so there are plenty of spares floating about.
Bottom line, U.S. leverage over Türkiye is limited. Erdogan cannot be compelled to act against what he sees as his interests. And, he dreams of a restored Ottoman Empire.
The smart move in Syria would be formal partition. Alas, it looks like Erdogan will try to occupy the Kurdish area. That will lead to insurgency and guerilla warfare issues for many years to come.
PEACE 😇
Here is a good Macgregor interview:
Video Link
Macgregor goes into how Netanyahu really needs to get the war going against Iran.
To me, the situation is similar to the pre-war period of the late 1930’s.
Stalin had gone “Bonepartist” and Jewish Power was desperate to reign him in. It was after Trotsky’s defeat by Stalin that the Talmudists decided to help bring about Hitler in order to get a war started to expel Stalin.
Now the Talmudists and their boy-moschiach named Bibi need to get the war with Iran started. This is what Macgregor is saying in his own kosher fashion.
The Talmudists have realized that neither the Arab Sheiks or the US are stupid enough to get into a ground war with Iran, just as they knew that US/UK/France were not going to attack Stalin to restore the Trotskyites to power.
Instead, they need a strong local power to do the dirty work, and the only one who can do the heavy lifting is Turkey.
So now the Kurds are in the same position as Poland was in 1939 after Czechoslovakia was carved up (Syria being roughly equivalent to Czechoslovakia). Iran and Turkey will sign some kind of non-aggression pact.
So then we can expect the US/UK/Nato/Sheiks to guarantee the Kurds protection like France and UK guaranteed Poland in 1939. Then we will see Iran and Turkey invade Kurdistan to divide it up the same way Germany and the USSR invaded Poland.
Then, just like in 1939, we can expect US/UK/Nato/Sheiks to declare war on Iran while allying themselves with Turkey, and to start a Turkish “lend lease” until the Jews can finally drag everyone into the war against Iran the same way the dragged everyone into the war against Germany.
Of course the Jews will comfortably remain on the side lines, and after everything is over and Iran is facing thier own Morgentau plan, the Jews will start kvetching and squealing about 6 million gassed and cremated Iranian Jews.
Of course Nuremberg 2.0 will follow, but it will be at the new seat of the “Noahide United Nations”, right down the street from the third temple to Solomon.
Someone commenting on another article made the hilarious point that Congress (as a stalking horse for AIPAC) should be recognized as a Jewish organization in America. Nancy Pelosi, no doubt speaking for all but Thomas Massie, said the US Capitol could burn to the ground for all she cared and Congress would still put Israel first. What the hell is the colonel talking about?
It wont ! The giggle is that if the purpose of all this is to control oil (or whatever) it would be less expensive to just buy the thing.
I mean, trillions of dollars spent fighting, is trillions of barrels bought on the open market.
The problem with being a bully and initially getting away with it, is that the bully cannot stop. Unfortunately, there comes a time when the next “victim” decides it is better to die than submit. The US, and with Da Don, (actor, performer, blowhard and macho man) on the loose is doomed to get beaten up and doomed to back down.
When one is born with a silver spoon up their arse and went to $100,000/ year “elite” schools to study some idiotic subject, the result is idiots steering the good ship DC Lollipop
Thats what we have in the Beltway and why we stumble from one ass whupping to another.
Our next adventure in the ME is going to bring the pajeets, moslems and other miscellaneous crazies in the US…..out of the woodwork and from under their rocks.
The chaos we casually and nonchalantly let loose overseas is bit by bit coming home to roost. Americans will get a taste of what it is like for those unlucky to be the recipient of our bombs.
I dont think many Americans will be mentally able to deal with the fallout. With just 3K killed in the 911 drama many needed trauma counselling. How will it be when the toll rocks millions ?
Your US soldiers are assiduously guarding Syrian oil fields so that Blackrock et al can contnue to steal Syrian oil as they have done fo the past 13 years
Turkey trying to compete with the U.S. and Israel over Syrian spoils is folly. Erdogan should know better. His being allowed in the game with rules made by the other two might look appealing early on but could end his career prematurely. Syrian land parcels will in time only belong to Israel.
So you’re telling us you know what the “Russian kleptocracy” and the “Iranian kleptocracy” think and you set up a litmus test for Russia: give Iran nuclear weapons or it means you are in cahoots with NATO!
You must have written this in a hurry whikle distracted by other stuff.
“Israel also sees the Kurds as a natural ally in their fight against Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria, all of whom oppose an independent Kurdish state. This duplicitous behavior is not uncommon for the US which operates on the theory that allies are only allies for as long as they serve Washington’s overall interests. What they want and what they are planning for is not an Arab world, but a world of Arab fragments that is ready to succumb to Israeli hegemony…
Every Arab state…. is a real target sooner or later”
Arab leaders react with incredulity and shock whenever a new stage of Israeli expansionism unfolds. This was apparent at the 2008 Arab League summit in Damascus, Muammar Gaddafi, the then-leader of Libya, issued a stark warning to his fellow Arab leaders, including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, about the potential political downfall they could face. Gaddafi’s comments, which were largely dismissed or laughed off at the time. During the summit, Gaddafi expressed concerns about the future of the Arab world, predicting that many of the leaders present could soon face challenges to their rule. His remarks were reportedly met with laughter, particularly from Assad, who did not take the warning seriously. However, recent events have caused many to reflect on Gaddafi’s words with a sense of irony.
He warned that many Arab leaders hated one another far more than they hated the western leaders. He said the US came to Iraq, toppled then hung its leader, he warned that they themselves would face the same fate. Prophetic words.
https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/gaddafis-2008-warning-to-arab-leaders-revisited-amidst-political-instability-1845333
This nascent Kurdish state will not survive, Turkey would be fools to allow it, at the end of the day the Kurds will be thrown under the bus [as always] Turkey with the largest army in NATO and its strategic position is far more important to US Hegemony than the disparate Kurdish populations in Syria, Iraq, Iran and the largest Kurdish group in Turkey itself.
Turkey will be forced to seek allies .It has to turn to Iran. Turkey and Iran are not enemies but arent also friends. Pakistan and Turkey enjoy burgeoning friendships. These 3 can create a formidable resistance to Israel.
But Pakistan has to unload its baggages that it carries in relation to UAE and US. Saudi will not go against Turkey Pakistan Iran.
Egypt will hedge bet .
Greece might join Israel.
Russia wont because of threats that could be created by southern countries and caucasus . Russia also cant afford to lose the access of trade through Iran and sthrough Afghanistan -Pakistan- India .
EU will join Israel but China woll help Pakistan Iran Turkey.
Turkey could come up with some modus operandi with Israel where Eretz Israel is kept on hold and Syria will be left as it is —4 parts .
US has to survive as a cohesive nation for Israel to survive and fight.
US’s future is not bright .
Musk and Bannon are symptoms of some deep fissures .
This is the dumbest thing, I have ever read. If the Talmudists wanted Hitler to remove Stalin, the Anglo-Americans would have stopped all hostilities with Germany after Barbarossa, so that the Axis could even more troops in the West to the Eastern front.
Hear hear, I add there’s not any national government that has earned respect much less any empire. There’s the rub, they all rule by force and violence. All government, empire or banana republic, is the control mechanism used by the elites. Continue to play according to the their rules or color outside the lines, choose sheep or wolf.
Anon[360] • Disclaimer says…
“The US, and with Da Don, (actor, performer, blowhard and macho man) on the loose is doomed to get beaten up and doomed to back down.” I agree, remember when he sent three aircraft carrier battle groups to intimidate the “dear leader” [North Korea] it did not work, next thing he is playing footsie under the table with ‘little Kim’ Trump, a prize bullshitter
You’d better put down that Manischewitz bottle because it’s not over till the fat lady sings and that is not porcine Nudelman, and when she does she won’t sing in Yiddish. Buy a plot of land in Birobidzhan while it’s still cheap.
“Syrian land parcels will in time only belong to Israel.”
It will be a bit of a legal nightnare when “israel” no longer exists
Events in the ME continue to strengthen the likelihood that the Brics, joined by Turkey (the 2016 US coup against Erdogan is one motivator), are not looking for war, but in typical fassion using containment and steategic positioning to frustrate an opponents movement and/or make him sacrifice tangible resources as a price for his gains.
First, lets go to the 30k foot view. Trump recently announced his goal is full spectrum Energy Dominance (FSED). This means all sources of production and sealanes. Why? China has rare metals (RM) which she rarely shares with Russia alone. Some of these RM are critical to protecting the nose cone of hypersonic missiles from the heat generated at those speeds. The US has very few RM to reindustrialize. So if the US managed to dominate all energy supplies to energy poor China, Trump can force a trade, energy for RMs used in batteries for one. Now you know why Musk spent 250 million for Trump’s campaign and why Blackrock (Rothchilds) muscled in and bought 5% of Tesla. These are the main vectors.
Towards this FSED, control of Russia’s energy has been an abject failure. Also, Russia can always release any pressure on China’s energy supply. However, as we have seen, the Empire always doubles down, so onto Iran who provides 20% of China’s Energy requirements. Towards destroying Iran’s oil facilities, using the little zionist proxy is the most cost effective means available to the debt burdened Empire. Last attempt failed. Having an air corridor over Syria and Iraq reduces the logistical load for another such operation against Iran’s energy complex.
So what do the Brics do? Their goal is to reduce the chaos in the ME by subduing and isolating the little zionist entity.
The immediate step was to deny the zionist entity the corridor to attack Iran or at least deny unfettered access, after all HTS can aquire S400 that can light up zionist aircraft. Turkey’s AF is no slouch. It is worthy of note and in all practicality, the moron satan yahoo has traded a border with broken Syria for a border with tough as nails Turkey.
Towards subduing the zionist entity, or to transform it from being the dominant military deterent into an isolated Empire outpost, Arab armies need to become unified under one Muslim command. I say Muslim, because, at this time, there is no Arab puppet who has his people behind him and hasn’t intrusted his stolen billions ito Western banks. So who is the ready to step up Muslim leader with a Muslim popularity, political savoir faire and ambition? No other than Erdogan. What would be the first Arab army to be added to the Muslim/Turkish command. The Egyptian army, after a purge and refitting for purpose.
Let’s go to a bird’s eye view and ask, would replacing Western puppets in the following countries deny the Empire control and stop Trump’s plan for FSED? The countries are starting from the East, Turkey, Egypt (that’s why Egypt is the next bead in the necklace), Libya (the eastern part is already under Erdogan’s control), then Algeria (it backed Niger by stopping Exxon’s pipeline from Niger to Algeria’s terminals into Europe.
So the logical next move is the subjugation of Egypt by the Empire or freeing it as a Muslim nation, member of the Brics. If this is the case, then are there any vectors pointing in this direction. Here are some very important vectors.
Last week three major vectors happened. The first was an Egyptian State Media barrage and personal attack on Erdogan as a war criminal and a terrorist who needs to be arrested. Furthermore, Erdogan was accused of preparing the Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow alSisi and attack Egypt from Libya with the Turkish supported fighters in Eastern Libya.
Another Empire sponsored vector was the meeting held by the Gulf states with Ex president Mubarak’s son Gamal. Was that a job interview? The third, needs a little backstory. Egypt is slated by the empire for bulkanization into four little states of which Sinai is one. Last week, a new Egyptian party has been formed to unify all the Sinai Arab tribes into one political entity with a big celebration showing all their 20mm guns on the beds of newly painted pickups with a new emblem of the party not the Egyptian flag. The head of this organizatiin is a notorious drug dealer named alErgany. AlErgany is a known zionist entity asset and a human trafficker. He was the one alllowed by alSisi to form a company with alSisi’s son to charge fleeing Ghazans $5-10 thousand per head, to allow exist from Ghaza.
In my humble opinion, all fuckery by the Empire must be directed towards Egypt. Egypt is ket to either side. In any case, alSisi will give up the Sinai and Egyptians will not be surprised if he does. AlSisi is considered by all Egyptians as a whore of the zionist entiry who grew up in Cairo’s Jewish quarter to a Jewish mother. The Sinai is necessary to the Empire for two reasons. One, to reward the zionist entity by evicting all Palestinians into it. Two, to control one bank of the Suez and rest full control of the waterway from the Brics.
Many things seem to paint a coherent story at this moment.
Sorry for any typos, the wood stove is destracting power has been out for 30 hours
Easy-peazy, could be done in 1 day. If russia & china made their currencies 100% convertible to specie, there’d be a stampede to ruble/yuan & the $ would go it’s intrinsic value 0. Effectively removing the only power the us/west still have.
The gold flow has been asian for 75 years & russian for 25 yrs so it’s just a matter of time before the $ crashes anyway. But no governments want to give away the economic hold they have with fiat currency so the brics will patiently wait for the inevitable. To protect oneself I recommend following the example of the asians, buy gold/silver as the best way to save & hedge against fiat (inevitably leads to inflation).
If only sooner than later.
Significant Israeli triumphs are a boon to the Aryan race’s chances of survival purely by virtue of destabilising the Yalta world order. It has been the American-Russian policy of sanctifying the permanence of state borders, of anathemising aggressive wars, of common cuckoldry and the ban on genocide. If it is Israel that would change the status quo, so be it.
Sofa Legion Strategist’s idea is that Türkiye might become America’s next target, which could be curious to see. Kind of premature, but maybe could be contrived to get a messiah in 2025 CE?
Now what about Iran? If the Israelis would put on a Kurdish rebellion and American intervention… Be my guest? If Iran loses to such a preposterous coalition, it deserves to bite the dust – and some livelier group such as a Shia ISIS might get hold on power instead. HTS already seems better than Assad, with their blurring of Europen female diplomats in the pictures.
As regards the grand Israeli strategy – “divide & conquer” has been the mainstay of politics for millennia, it only makes sense. Still, I would contend that Israel would better exterminate the Arab populations physically – and even at this stage, who’s to say that the Saudis won’t get coopted by radicals? Or what if Türkiye enacts a Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas-esque coup in Egypt? Egypt is the main and most immediate enemy of Israel, only held down by the Western puppets in Cairo, remove them, all hell breaks loose.
All in all, it’s a quagmire, but a rather safe quagmire, as it stands. I even drew a schizo map – and Israel is indeed not that threatened, as long as her enemies remain squabbling. And chances are, the Turks will go north or east, against Russia or Iran, rather than south.
https://postimg.cc/gallery/1Z0PDr8
No I wasn’t in a hurry. Savvy business minded people within a Kleptocracy all over the world have similar agendas, namely stick with the existing rules/agendas which in this case is the rules based order and the hegemony of US dollar.
NATO must play a very active role in the Middle East as a centre for global trading routes as well as a major supplier of energy. So this is basic stuff. If BRICS seeks to establish its own new order meaning replacing the rules based order, they must take control of global energy trades. Without it there won’t be any relevant, functional substitution for the rules based order. America maintains its dominance by pushing all countries to trade in dollars which in turn supports a massive $40 trillion deficit. That’s why they have more than 800 military bases plus Israel.
As explained by the author, NATO plans on waging long term chaos throughout this strategic region so it would become easier to control its sources of energy just like happened in Syria, where despite 11-year long internal conflict, Americans managed to steal Syrian oil without a hitch and continue to do so right now. See this is the main plan. Soon or later both Russia, Iran and for sure later Chinese, need decide whether they want to defend their sovereignty or give it up by watching NATO expand from Syria to Iraq, Iran, Caucasus, Central Asia all the way to China.
Before you folks all race up to the first fake Jew you see and start licking his boots
I suggest you step back and look at the Syrian situation in a more realistic way
First thing to keep in mind is that everything that’s happened in Lebanon and Syria is unplanned and the result of the surprise game-changing slave revolt of 10/7
The Israelis never wanted to nor could they occupy large swaths of Syria or Lebanon
Just look at the trouble the squatters are having in just occupying Palestine
And now they’re going to take on Lebanon and Syria???
No, that’s not going to work, not even in the short term.
The only way the fake Jews can rule in the ME or anywhere else for that matter is by deception
The idea of fake Jews administering Syria and Lebanon is beyond absurd
Regarding a “conflict” between Turkey’s Erdogan and the Israeli squatters
That’s not going to happen because Erdogan is controlled opposition (just like Assad, the Mullahs and the Hezbollah elite) owned and directed by the fake Jews who run the US.
This should be obvious to any thinking person.
Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden and his hebroid string-pullers have always been too clever by half. Since the “Jewish Century” (the rise of the Petrodollar into Global Reserve fiat/Golden Calf Ponzi) the hebroids have been too clever by half, believing themselves to be invincible based on Ponzi loot illusions.
Judeofascist “Israel’s” mass murderous modus operandi from Zionism through Neoconservatism through Bolshevism has made too many enemies in the “Jewish Century” to survive. The inevitable clash with Islam is coming, followed by the inevitable clash with the civilized world.
The terrorists will be brought low.
Very excellent comment. You say it could be done in 1 day and I think the stampede on dollar may begin the moment Iran is officially recognized as a nuclear weapons state. Of course it doesn’t mean they use them in a war or against anyone. No. It means Uncle Sam immediately faces the wall followed by a major market crash leading to a new world order according to BRICS rules.
The Jewish Forward’s lament about the US having been too weak to get the Israeli hostages out and hope that Trump will deliver the goods: bomb Iran!
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“Most American Jews do not believe President-elect Donald Trump will effectively address rising antisemitism or manage the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a new survey.
By the time Trump returns to power, the hostages will have spent nearly 500 days in captivity. The U.S. has been too weak in seeking a hostage deal, argues David Christopher Kaufman, who believes Trump can employ several strategies to change that narrative — and reality.
As Blinken himself said in The Times, “for all of the understandable criticism of the way Israel has conducted itself in Gaza, you hear virtually nothing from anyone since Oct. 7 about Hamas.”
Trump could quickly embolden that chorus. He could do so by removing the constraints the Biden-Harris administration has tried to place on Israel when it comes to tactics and weapons of war; or by throwing down the gauntlet and declaring that Iran, Hamas’ chief benefactor, is directly responsible for the hostages’ fate — and that their weapons (both conventional and nuclear) are legitimate targets for Israeli reprisal.
Iran, of course, would put up a good fight — but one severely weakened by Israel’s autumn bombing campaigns, which debilitated Iranian proxies in Lebanon and Syria, in addition to striking its own soil.
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So Trump is expected to deliver on “bomb Iran”….
But the jews want it all–sans Arabs.
How else were they going to get rid of Stalin? England and France were going to do it? Not only were they broke, they had no army left to speak of. How were they going to drag the US into their new war?
In fact, England was also balking at fulfilling the promises (many secret) from the Balfour declaration.
We can also see how the Hebrews have used embargo and starvation against Iraq, Syria and Iran. The motivation was the same during the “depression” they brought on in order to get Roosevelt installed in the US and Hitler installed in Germany.
The sudden collapse of France in May 1940 almost surely was not part of the plan, but even if it was it doesn’t matter. Only Hitler could have stood up to Stalin, and only Turkey will be able to take out the Mullahs, who like Stalin are sitting on oil resources that the Rothschild cousinhood think belongs to them.
Cue: Another one bites the dust!
Fuck Trump.
We could have just as easily disassembled Jordan because Jordan never existed, but Oh, Yes, we need a safe banking haven in the region. Seems like the lines the US drew are now outdated and we need to draw new ones so this time we’ll disassembly ALL THE PIECES first.
The only time in history I recognize when the ‘front men’ were all manipulated from behind the scenes was the Minoan control of the Med using the Goddess represents thru the women who had no actual power and the ships of the Phoenicians who carried out trade, those sneaky devils selling drugs and setting up vineyards on the Grecian coast coopting the existing population. Just a few ‘priests’ who ran the mob. Homeland so safe she no need for fortifications. How clever. OOPs!! Earthquake!!!
You’d better put down that Manischewitz bottle because it’s not over till the fat lady sings and that is not porcine Nudelman, and when she does she won’t sing in Yiddish. Buy a plot of land in Birobidzhan while it’s still cheap.
Once again you are unable to disseminate opinion from support.
I’m for honest analysis of the situation. I don’t support Israel and their opportunistic land grab that I don’t believe for one second is needed for security. If you disagree then show my most pro-Israel statement. I asked you to do that before and you just turned emotional.
This is an open forum but posters like yourself would clearly prefer conformity and censorship.
You want everyone to mindlessly high five Whitney even though he clearly provides a Putin Pass in all of his articles. Putin can do whatever he wants and Whitney/Anglin/Pepe/Crooke will not criticize him. It’s the order of the day at Unz.
Whitney again didn’t even mention Putin.
Those Russian bases were not there for parades. Putin had a security contract with Assad. Did you want to deny that? I provided videos of a shiny Russian column that clearly had not been in battle. Putin not only broke that contract but didn’t even put up a fight.
That is the reality that you and others simply can’t face. Maybe you shouldn’t take part in political discussions if reality seems too harsh for you.
Comment 55 was in response to ariadna comment #43.
This will be a war that Israel and Turkey and the ZUS creation HTS aka ISIS aka Al-CIADA deserve and the desired outcome will be the destruction of both Turkey and Isra-hell , both Netanyahu and Erdogan are demons from hell, hopefully , they will destroy each other.
https://youtube.com/shorts/FATfZytAWXs
Very good example straight from the horses mouth what kind of sick, global imperialist fucks american and british have always been.
An american and a british have always had a view that they are so great, they are the development etc. And because of them and only because of them, there was ever “civilization”.
After british robbing at least 75 trillions, 75 trillions and murdering hundreds of thousands and millions, they state that its indian should be paying reparations to them and that they should be grateful for taking resources of India. This is the typical attitude that american and british have always had. They should be thankful and pay for being colonialized, after 75 trillions.
Dec 12, 2024 Syria suffers the most well-funded insurgency in history
The Grayzone’s Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal examine the factors behind regime change in Syria, focusing on a foreign-funded mega-insurgency that swallowed an entire generation.
April 17, 2018 Syrian Regime Change: A 70-Year Project
You may assume that the idea of kicking out Syrian dictator Assad is a recent idea stemming from his brutal crackdowns on protestors starting in March 2011. But the truth is that it is a 70-year old project …The CIA backed a right-wing coup in Syria in 1949. A CIA officer involved in the coup has written several books about it.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/syrian-regime-change-a-70-year-project/5636433

A shared pseudo border between Turkey and Israel is a very good place for a fight to break out. Syria perhaps was just the Poland of the 1930s. Just waiting for Stalin and Hitler to carve up.
He is just repeating the Chomskyist position: US runs Israel, and not vice-versa.
You say: “Once again you are unable to disseminate opinion from support.” I think you meant to say “distinguish” and not “disseminate”. You’re welcome.
Historically, the all-time winners of managing from afar are the Minoan priesthood. They set a lady goddess atop all with the women as representatives who had no actual power, hired the Phoenicians as traveling drug dealers, and co-opted the Grecian shores for wineries. They micro managed this so well they had no need of a warrior class or fortified cities. Oops! An earthquake arrived!
People here at UNZ -specially the Hasbara- have started mentioning these new players: Syria, Turkey and soon it will be Egypt (shit might hit the fan soon up there) but …they never mentioned those countries before…
are things gonna get worse for the slaughterers?
I Notice how now their words are calm, absent of the arrogant attitude they had a few days ago.
Notice how (same as the number of Jews in the US) Gazans are only 0.1 percent of the Muslim world.
Are they thinking about the consequences to the genocide they are commiting?
Will shit hit the fan so that I can have some fun?
Ask the CIA boys who got me locked on their GPS 😂 as we speak I’m in a bus approaching El Putumayo and Amazonas with some tourists.
I’m seriously thinking about staying here just in case Israel remembers the six million Germany killed and hit the Samson option button on Berlin. (That’s why the Germans are playing dumb at the slaughter in Gaza 😌) shh shh my clients are German.
It all looks like WW2 again:
So it’s time to apologize to this beautiful man..
TIO ADOLFO 😍
A shared pseudo border between Turkey and Israel is a very good place for a fight to break out.
Won’t happen.
Both Turkey and Israel would rather carve up Syria than fight it out.
Israel still has a remaining card to play which is the incoming US president and his Zio-Avengers cabinet.
Who would stop Trump if he proposes a “peace settlement” that carves up Syria and hands New Golan Condominiums to Israel?
It was Trump that signed recognition of Golan Heights and with absolutely nothing in return. That was in complete violation of the UN agreement.
He did that without a vote from Congress and with a big fat smile on his face. What did America get in return? Not a damn thing from our Israel First president. Did Trump even get free lodging during that trip? I would laugh my ass off if they charged him.
Trump could lead the division of Syria and the UN would only sigh in frustration. That is the reality.
If anything Turkey and Israel are going to be besties over their Syrian buffet.
The Turks view themselves as above the Arabs surrounding Israel. This is because they once ruled over them. Muslim unity doesn’t mean a damn thing to them. It’s very similar to the Japanese viewing themselves as above their neighbors and more like a European country.
Gosh am I a prophet!!!
Read the fine print:
To prepare for a potential confrontation with Turkey, the committee recommended the following measures:
Advanced weaponry: Acquiring additional F-15 fighter jets, refueling aircraft, drones, and satellites to strengthen Israel’s long-range strike capabilities.
Air defense systems: Enhancing multi-layered air defense capabilities, including the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow systems, and the newly operational Iron Beam laser-based defense system.
Border security: Constructing a fortified security barrier along the Jordan Valley, which would mark a significant shift in Israel’s defensive strategy despite potential diplomatic ramifications with Jordan.
Translation: Israel will have to spend more on the military and take more land due to this super scary Turkey proxy threat. So scary. Muslims in Toyota 4x4s. ORDER MORE F35S STAT!!!
It’s an excuse for pre-existing goals.
Both Putin and Netanyahu are going on a land grab before Trump comes into office. They want to be in the best possible position in case they have to compromise. Trump is exactly the type of president that could be snookered into a deal where “they get half” even though Golan was supposed to be temporary from a 1974 agreement.
If anyone knows better it’s Wilkerson. The fact that he’s spouting such grade A USDA bovine excrement about the US using Israel as it’s proxy in the region makes me wonder if Mossad doesn’t have a nice little Epstein Lolita island style tape on him.
At least Türkiye hasn’t intentionally murdered a couple hundred thousand defenseless, innocent, women and children like “israelis” (with US bombs, money, and military deterrence protection) have been doing for the past 15 months.
Of the three hyenas, there’s certainly no reason to pray for, let alone work or pay or fight for, the triumph of the US and the “israeli” child-murderers.
“You say: “Once again you are unable to disseminate opinion from support.” I think you meant to say “distinguish” and not “disseminate”. You’re welcome.”
“John Johnson:” English, oy, she is more difficult when, you learn it in a yeshiva but who cares, dissiminate, shmeminate.”
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Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
If You Want Peace, Prepare for War
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from the book “Epitoma Rei Militaris”
by the Roman general Vegetius
Looking weak might encourage Erdogan. Signalling strength is a better position to dissuade any thoughts of a Turkish offense. Taking over Mount Hermon makes an already tough military proposition much more difficult. Letting Israel and Iran continue to face off is a win-win in Erdogan’s eyes. There is no pressing reason to interrupt that situation.
Erdogan likely sees the Kurdish autonomous area as 1st priority for his new Ottoman Syria project. Occupying that land is much more practical as a military venture. Trying to administrate the non-assimilable population will likely leave him with guerilla and insurgency problems. I somehow suspect Erdogan, like GW Bush, is not thinking that far ahead.
PEACE 😇
Syria is only the first in a number of carve-ups both friends and foe alike.
Denmark and Greenland why? Because the empire has no friends or foes, the empire only sees opportunity to exploit, like a swarm of locusts they descend on a territory and strip it bare.
The world has to unite against this beast, if you look closely I’m sure you will find 666 hidden in many U.S movies and symbols of power.
The U.S is evil and the U.S citizen is impotent so the resistance will have to come externally otherwise sooner or later your nation will be consumed, and once everything is gone then you get to sit and watch your family starve and they you, but the U.S evil elite won’t.
You either fight or lose, and that fight starts by pushing American bases out, they are the bridge heads, the unsinkable enemy carrier on your soil.
Yes, this is the primary problem with Israel’s disposition.
Take Gaza, for example. I’ve been following quite a few Gazan feeds on social media. One of them recently stated that he had never shared the views of Hamas or its party members before all that has happened, but now regrets that he had not done so.
Even the Jerusalem Post concedes that Israel’s strategy has only *increased* the ranks of al-Qassam fighters:
Hamas forces are making a substantial comeback in the Gaza Strip
New estimates gauge that Hamas’s forces are up to between 12,000-23,000.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-835754
Israel proceeds with a cognitively dissonant sense of entitlement, imagining that it can do so indefinitely until all the ‘unwashed heathen’ recognize en masse that resistance is futile.
That’s never going to happen, of course.
What’s more, it doesn’t take a lot of Israelis to flee the country in order to collapse it:
And the latest news is that current uncertainty about ongoing conflict will not allow a return to ‘normalcy’ in Israel any time soon.
So, yes… any talk of Israeli ‘victory’ is decidedly premature.
Only Zionist imbeciles would ‘lol’ at such an observation. 🕶️
At least not recently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
I couldn’t quite understand your post or maps, but if Turkey moved on Russia, I have no doubt that Russia would olbilterate Turkey with nukes. That’s a given. Turkey would be a nuclear wasteland if it tried to go to war with Russia. It can try to play whatever games elsewhere but moving on Russia would be the end of Turkey. Complete and total annihilation in an instant. Not that anyone else would care about that either.
good point about assad’s balancing act. it was quite amazing he was able to keep the plates spinning for that long but in the end he was unable to take any decisive actions, which is fatal in his profession.
the odd thing is, that the russians and iranians, who were two of these competing forces, managed to work together, eventually developing a relationship of trust in one another. this to me is the true lasting benefit, of their long struggle against the zioneocon empire in syria. they are both the stronger for it and will sign a lasting defense treaty next month, bringing them together with china and korea who signed defense treaties with russia as well. yes, brics is way more, than an alternative g-20.
turkiye is the wild card, erdogan is saying they may go into syria to keep it from being broken up. he implied that they may just pull a smo of their own. turkiye joining brics would be huge and he has to play nice with fellow members to get in, let’s hope they head that direction.
“Someone commenting on another article made the hilarious point that Congress (as a stalking horse for AIPAC) should be recognized as a Jewish organization in America. “
Nothing hilarious about it. It makes sense. Pat Buchannan said it many years ago: Congress is Occupied territory. It should be renamed The Little Knesset
Perhaps Israel and Turkey are “snarling” over the Syrian corpse but it’s extremely doubtful that the US is interested for if it wanted it, Israel would step aside and Turkey would be flushed down the toilet.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-836362
My assumption is that Erdogan will rapidly become the next Saddam.
Great! That is the point of why the Empire wants to keep the pressure on in the region. The more pressure the more division until the military forces (mainly Jihadis) organize their duchies. Israel will probably now be able to create Greater Israel since the Arab states are too corrupt and weak to do anything but go along with Israel in whatever it wants to do. The Empire is happy with all that and Turkey and Iran will remain viable states who will impose some limits on Israel’s growth. I don’t see a war coming. Everybody involved has nothing to gain by general war at this time. I think the Syria carve-up solves a lot of problems for everyone and a balance of power will be achieved. Turkey will never invade Kurdistan–the Kurds have at last gotten the semblance of a state.
This also means the zionist controlled ZUS will enter the war on the side of Isra-hell if it appears that Turkey is winning and as usual the ZUS will supply Israel with all the equipment, planes, bombs, etc. in any event, the world is headed for a nuclear war over Iran, zionist Trump has received his orders from Netanyahu and so it will be hell on earth.
Hopefully Turkey and Israel will destroy each other.
Discriminate might be another native English word.
The issue is that the two states have a mutual border now. Turkish troops and proxy forces facing Israelis and their proxy forces in “Syria”. The friction is inevitable. The Jews certainly want Erdogan gone AND still in NATO so I don’t see Erdogan lasting long now. The Americans will be organizing a military coup and so will the Jews. Recip is in a hell of a frying pan now. And he can’t even blame Putin for it. Given all his rhetoric the Yids will want to be rid of him so he will have to act or perish.
Are you two Hasbara- Trolls?
Anyway, both of your comments are somewhat acceptable in common sense.
And I am noticing less gloating at kids deaths in Gaza on your part.
It was that idiot Memejo-Ho who always did it.
Would you please tell the Master Hasbara- Captain Troll at Sdrerot headquarters about him?
And please don’t come back with “we are looking into the matter” as you always do.
We need action against him and his likes.
You won already! Stop the killing!
2000 Jew deaths against 50.000 Palestinians deaths.
The only thing that kinda make people all over the world feel somewhat good is that amazingly Hamas is still fighting!!
That’s a crazy fact!.
They turned out to be stronger than Hizbollah.
But..
Yemenis the same, they need to stop.
Sad, very sad for the children freezing to death!
Iran and Hezbollah are no doubt planning their next move. They have taken some grievous losses, especially the elimination of the Hezbollah leadership, and the loss of Syrian supply lines. But, from that, new tactics and conflict points will emerge. Hezbollah is at least free from the taxing duty of sending troops to defend the inept Syrian government.
Hasan Erel in ‘Iran Trap for Turkey’ writes:
Down with Russia.
China, which signed a $425 billion strategic cooperation agreement with Iran, is also nowhere to be found. It is also concerned about its own Taiwan problem!
Iran’s biggest trump card is that it is in a position to close the Strait of Hormuz in the event of a war. A significant portion of the world’s oil passes through here and if the strait is closed, prices will skyrocket, there will be a global crisis and the West will be devastated. Even when Yemen closed the Red Sea, things got really messy. Although the US, Israel and England bomb every other day, the Che Guevaras in slippers do not back down and continue to hit Tel Aviv.
Now, in addition to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, there are plans to put Egypt, which has been badly affected by this situation, forward. From what we hear, Sisi, who sold out Palestine and Syria, is now taking care of Yemen.
Death to GENOCIDAL Biden, Trump, Netanyahu, Erdogan.
There should be a FRONT, but Russia like India is a zionist petty servant that NO ONE CAN TRUST.
Iran is the last of the seven countries listed by Wesley Clark. The 8th country that Clark did not list is Turkey.
Turkey is working hard to find a way to start a war with Iran, but I don’t think he dares to do that. Erdogan has been exposed as a zionist ass licker all over the world. He has no respect anywhere except with the whore and the hooker at the Black house.
The Genocidal America is run by a corrupt gang of thieves and terrorists who bring whores and hookers to the fore as ‘leaders’. US must be bombed beyond recognition. They have killed millions and millions of Muslims and other group in order to keep their stolen property. They have erected a FAKE entity, Israel, on the stolen land of Palestine, where is supported by weapons and $$$$$ by the WEST, committing genocide in order to steal the resources from the CIVILIZED people because America with her short existence on stolen land never had a civilization and never WILL. These thieves are bunch of assassins, terrorists, mass murderers and liars, like the zionist mafia tribe, who deserve to be dead. These rapists and thieves who want to rule the world don’t hesitate to kill every one including their own citizens. The NINE ELEVEN TERROR designed by US/Israel, was one of their terrors to start the war, 7 countries in 5 years including the genocide in Gaza. Trump like Netanyahu is a savage thief and assassin but he is a COWARD hiding behind the weapons where made by others, mainly foreigners’ brains, and stolen money from other countries including Muslims assets and with the cooperating of the faggot Arab head of states. These Arabs must be wiped out from the power, all options should be on the table.
It is the responsibility of the CIVILIZED nations like China, Iran, Yemen, Syria, to destroy the scum of humanity now. Where is fucking China? We don’t trust Russia. Russia is selling partners for concessions. Russia is too weak and always has been an ally of the zionist Mafia tribe and is one of the column of Israel erection, without Russians’ vote, Israel would had not been erected. The existence of FAKE Israel on stolen land of Palestine is due to the support of the three genocidal countries, US-UK-Russia.
Yes I already responded to that.
It’s a lousy excuse for Israel under Netanyahu to buy more arms and establish a “security zone” aka take more land. About as justifiable as Israel needing to attack Gaza hospitals for self-defense.
There was actually already a demilitarized between Golan and Syria.
Erdogan will play from behind the scenes.
He will want influence over Syria but won’t start a war over Israel taking the southern tip.
For all we know both Netanyahu and Erdogan could have colluded.
Anyway, both of your comments are somewhat acceptable in common sense.
And I am noticing less gloating at kids deaths in Gaza on your part.
Oh ok let’s see a single comment from my history where I celebrated the death of kids anywhere.
Let’s see it Sarita.
Prove that you aren’t projecting from your imagination because you have a hard time with dissenting views.
I already asked a poster here to show my most pro-Israel statement from last year and she didn’t provide ANYTHING. Not one statement.
I’ve said many times that I’ve supported every UN vote on Israel which is considered “anti-semitism” at Fox news.
But you and other see support for Ukraine or nuanced thought as pro-Israel.
Go ahead Sarita, make Wokechoke happy and show how I am pro-Israel.
Let’s see the comment. Or anything involving kids. Show us your strong grip on reality. Go ahead.
I already pointed out in this thread that the original Golan “buffer zone” was supposed to be temporary and their current actions violate the UN agreement of 1974. Did you miss that you dope? Does that sound pro-Israel to you? My God you echo chamber posters are pathetic.
Turkey has the Kurds and ‘Kurdistan’ the PKK the YPP to worry about. if the Kurds in Iraq and Iran decide to join their brethren, If Iran and Iraq help their Kurds to help their cousins.
I am a Christian. I speak out against Taqiyya Trolls.
I do not know why you are comparing me to MSNBC Johnson, the voice of Rachel Maddow. We are nothing alike.
I concur. Also, End the Kidnapping!
Iranian Hamas should release all hostages and lay down arms. They have no chance of winning, yet they continue to kill their coreligionists. Expending civilians as human shield is a war crime. No amount of Taqiyya Trolling can cover up Islam’s 100% responsibility for the current conflict.
Genocidal jihadists started this fight by targeting civilian Palestinian Jews on 07-OCT. The justified Hostage Rescue SMO will continue until the kidnap victims are recovered and justice is served the the genocidal 07-OCT attackers.
PEACE 😇
Have you ever been to Britain, theres no sign of 75 trillion ever being spent there. the cities were built by the British people for their own use, the stately houses were built from profits from sheep and trade. Britain was exporting manufactured goods, tools and engineering skills to the world.
The British might have juggled tax revenues to allow trade to flourish, as all big govts do, they did build India’s modern infrastructure from scratch.
Let the train wreck and events unfold as they must.
Losing all the time.
Motto for arabs
To be fair many big houses were the result of sugar trading and sugar plantation owning. But most of the fundamental stuff was the wool trade. Sheep eating humans so to speak, as utopia pointed out.
It’s a fat land historically.
Meanwhile in our Western hemisphere…
New incoming PM in Canada and the Canadians Jews believe he will be good…, no,. not for Canada, no but…
What the election of Pierre Poilievre would mean for Canadian Jews and Israel
The Conservative politician poised to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister of Canada took a hitchhiking trip through Israel in his youth, has referred to Canadian Jews as “the true Indigenous people,” condemned campus protests against the Gaza war as antisemitic and is staunchly pro-Israel.
“The Jewish people are the only people I know of who, in the same language, worship the same faith on the same land in the same country as they did 3,000 years ago,” Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, said at an Orthodox Montreal-area synagogue last March.
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Elsewhere on this site, in a new essay, Ilana Mercer talks with great disapproval of the “Israeli mind.”
The Canadian Jews seem to have something of an “Israeli mind” too. I wonder what they have in common.
‘So Trump is expected to deliver on “bomb Iran”…’ — ariadna
If only ‘Senator’ Johnny McStain could be here, to see his lifelong dream come true. 🙁
‘Once again you are unable to disseminate opinion from support.’ — John’s Johnson, replying to ariadna
The word you wanted was ‘discriminate.’
But I understand the challenges of English as a second language, when your native tongue is Hebrew.
Can’t Unit 8200 afford a decent, context-sensitive AI editor for its hasbara brigade, to avoid these risible malapropisms?
As Ronald Reagan used to say, I paid for your microphone. 🙁
Wilkerson is wrong again about the role of Taliban. Taliban is US proxy to destabilize Iran. Taliban is willing to work with China but NOT Iran. Taliban is letting US terrorists enter Iran to kill Iranians. Turkey and Taliban right now are doing that. Death to USA, to genocidal Biden, Trump, Netanyahu, and Erdogan.
Trump like Netanyahu is a COWARD who has no brain hiding behind weapons. This time his weapons
are going to be used against him, the zionist Mafia asshole.
The reason why the Iranians are reluctant to back the Kurds against Turkey is because part of ‘Kurdistan’ sliced through Iran. But that wouldn’t stop Trump … or Israel (same difference).
‘I am a Christian … PEACE 😇’ — A123
We all get it: Hebrew ‘Shalom’ translates to ‘peace.’
Fuck your fake, child-murdering peace, hasbara troll.
You’re calling me hasbara troll and yet haven’t shown ONE pro-Israel statement. You, ariadna and Sarita all failed the same test. Everyone can see that. Great job.
Did you ever consider the possibility that you’re simply not connected to reality?
Maybe go watch Fox and yell at the TV. You’re not mentally capable of handling an open forum. You clearly find dissenting views to be threatening and your tribal brain rot is more than evident in your complete failure to back your own assertion with a single example.
won’t raise a finger to Jews because….he is one???
Hey don’t forget us turks and azeris in those oil contracts like the ones we gave your for Nagorno Karabagh…. all we want in return is to finish up the Armenian Genocide 2.0……it’s in our donmeh blood
you mean in Western Armenia… yes,that’s right it is legally the territory of the Republic of Armenia under the Wilson Arbitral Award of 1920 https://www.armeniangenocidereparations.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Arbitral-Award-Of-The-Presidnet-Of-The-United-States-Of-America-Woodrow-Wilson.pdf
@Kal Zakath
Who is the loser GENOCIDAL and thief who are residing on a Stolen land? Your ‘Israel Project’ a FAKE entity is coming to END idiot. The genocidal US-UK created Israel in Palestine to bring instability, chaos, and wars to kill the indigenous population to steal their resources because these coward and thieves have NO CIVILIZATION of their own. America with 300 years of genocide, terrorism, invasions, coup and rape cannot buy CIVILIZATION for a terrorist nation. Go and wipe off your dirty ass. when your president is a Zionist Mafia married to a hooker to form a company and now is taken over the state with their gang you call ‘businessmen’, to protect a genocidal coward like Netanyahu, you don’t expect anything but DESTRUCTION of America. You are closer to your END more than any other time dummy.
No, this is the beginning of the end of your existence because the world cannot support your GENOCIDE. You will be destroyed. The entire world is against you the scum of humanity. You are so gullible that you are not able to see what is coming. You are NOT CIVILIZED and NEVER will be.
Your enemy are more advanced than you are. What you have is the propaganda media to brain wash the innocent people. This weapon will be taken away from you soon, then you have to go into hiding. How long your tribe can fight on the ground coward? Half an hour, or one hour? How long your terrorists ISIS can kill? Your economy is BROKEN yet you continue your parasitic existence by printing GREEN. How long that will last? How long can you keep your fucking currency as the international currency to feed yourself, the coward terrorists? You have come to the end and printing your green cannot save you. You should buy a hole today, because tomorrow you cannot afford it and have to go into toilet hole for your resting place. Who is the loser idiot?
In fhe jungle of American politics, against stiff competition, he distinguished himself as one of the most repugnant crawlers
What are you even talking about? I do not control oil contracts.
I support Syria for Syrians.
I had that position before Assad fled to Russia and was in fact called a Jew for suggesting that Syrians be allowed to pick their own leaders.
White nationalists seem to think that democracy should only exist for them. Brown people are expected to put up with dictators if it somehow bothers Israel.
Amusingly I was accused of being brainwashed by the MSM for believing humans rights organizations on claims of widespread torture by Assad. Well his torture chambers are now on video and many victims were rescued. Some are permanently disfigured/disabled. I guess it isn’t actually logical to assume the complete opposite of a claim by the MSM. It’s actually possible that the truth exists before it is reported and we need to think critically about what is being presented by any media source.
I have said many times that I would like the US out of the Middle East. By all means write your local Republican or Democrat and ask the same. But that is of course unlikely with our next president. Unfortunate but that is where we are at the moment. Maybe someday we will get an actual America First movement going and not the fake one led by a NYC Democrat billionaire.
I support Syria for Syrians.
shut up GENOCIDAL ASSASSIN and thief.
My assumption is that Erdogan will rapidly become the next Saddam.
Saddam was deposed from the outside. Erdogan may get the Gaddafi treatment and be deposed by his own people. Many people in Turkey struggle to afford rent. Austerity measures intended to reduce inflation have crippled the economy. Erdogan’s party fared poorly in the last election. All is not well in Turkey. A CIA-fomented is a possibility.
Nothing hilarious about it.
It’s a little bit funny, no? If the US Congress was forced to register as a foreign agent by the FARA Act that Congress itself passed? People talk about AIPAC or Hunter Biden being forced to register as foreign agents, but there’s a certain level of irony when saying the same thing about the American government.
What about NATO’s Article 5 on mutual self-defense? Do you feel it’s maybe a tiny bit funny to think of Israel attacking Turkey, thus triggering Article 5, so America is automatically at war with Israel?
“Maybe someday we will get an actual America First movement going and not the fake one led by a NYC Democrat billionaire.”
So the problem is that Trump is a “Democrat billionaire,” Troll?! Is that why bis MAGA is MIGA?
You should really tuck your tzit-tzit in before you comment in public.
Even a blind, deaf and dumb mouse in the basement of your synagoge would laugh reading this. Disabled it may be but it ls a Jewish mouse who has been around the eruv a few times and knows the score..
You know it too, but you LIE, and –here’s the word you need to learn so you don’t confuse it again with “discriminate”: you dissimulate.
and LIAR
Partition so you jew-boys can get your piece towards a greater Israelie, until the next time when you can eat a little more, and more and more. You kikes suck!
In addition to the closure of Hormuz, Iran has a few other even more powerful trump cards. First we need understand that the US-led axis in order to maintain their current global trajectory pursuit only a limited, contained strategy of waging wars as like controlled-demolition where only a certain goal can be achieved without causing too much mess. In the case of Iran, besides the Hormuz closure which can kickstart a temporary western market crash, the entire energy infrastructure of the region may also be completely destroyed thus a permanent global crisis. Next, Iran is already a nuclear weapons state or one with the capability to build nuclear weapons quickly. No matter how much the west tries to bomb the known sites inside the country, at the end of the day Iran will get the bomb. That should make the overall situation much more complex. Finally, due to Iran’s geography which is surrounded by numerous different groups of people with ancient roots, its unsettling would be a very serious nightmare and a very dangerous undertaking on a global scale. It would lead to so many mini wars near Iranian territory followed by even bigger wars among long term adversaries like Pakistan,India, Central Asian Stans… Turkiye, Greece , Israel …and finally the rest of the world.
Wilkerson also repeatedly kowtows to Colin “I have a vial of Anthrax” Powell who he seems to believe was some kind of genius.
DEI Colin Powell is also famous for his quip “You break it, you own it.” Since then the US has pretty much shattered the entire planet on behalf of the Jews, and now Eretz Israel believes that they have the god given right to impose Noahide laws on the entire world.
Mealy-mouthed mulatto are the words to describe Powell that comes to mind.
https://www.mfa.gov.tr/the-armenian-allegation-of-genocide-the-issue-and-the-facts.en.mfa
Given Armenians actively serving with or aiding the enemy, in uniform and as “irregulars”, the Armenian commission of numerous atrocities against Turkish people and families, and the Armenian agitation for splitting up polities where they were not a majority or near it … the Turks had good reasons to distrust and resent the Armenians, and not feel safe individually or as a society with so many Armenians in their midst working against them, killing them, and trying to break up their nation. To expel them en masse.
But what the Turks could have NO right to do is expel the Armenians in a way that caused innocent noncombatants — WOMEN AND CHILDREN in particular — to die from exhaustion, dehydration, or any other needlessly agonizing and avoidable death while being deported.
Assad’s former aide says deposed Syrian president was ‘tricked’ by Putin
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/assads-former-aide-says-former-syrian-president-was-tricked-putin
{{No matter how much the west tries to bomb the known sites inside the country, at the end of the day Iran will get the bomb.}}
You are right. That will push Iran to make the nuclear bomb very fast. In addition, Iran will leave NPT for good, and will kick all the US informants posing as 'inspectors' out of Iran not allowing them to come back.
Israel is the only country in the world that does not accept 'A middle east nuclear free zone'. Israel must be disarmed of her nuclear weapons first. when Israel is sitting on couple of hundred of nuclear weapons, then Iran has EVERY SINGLE RIGHT to be a nuclear weapon state to protect herself from a FAKE GENOCIDAL ENTITY where has been erected by the Evil UK/US empires to inject chaos and wars in the region to steal its resources. The EVIL Western powers, protecting their 'Israel project' by sending WMD and $$$$$, in addition to cover genocide up at the 'International organizations', to be proud of being complicit with their proxy's genocide in Gaza and elsewhere to have influence in the region. Otherwise Israel cannot exist an hour without western's support. The microscopic Israel cannot fight on the ground and will be destroyed in no time. The Lebanese Axis of resistance has shown this fact that IDF cannot fight on the ground in 2006 and 2024 and will show again when the opportunity arises. These COWARDS can only drop the US bombs over their victims from the sky.
“…The [US] operates on the theory that allies are only allies for as long as they serve Washington’s overall interests.” That’s true. It is of course also true of every great power. But one simple lesson we have not learned from history – and need to before it is too late – can be explained in a simple syllogism: everyone empire eventually faces the war it is trying to avoid; everyone wants to avoid WWIII; therefore, that is the fate that awaits. Minds need to focus if nuclear Armageddon is to be averted.
https://www.candlinandmynard.com/doomsday.html
“There is no indication that Arab strategists have internalized the Zionist plan in its full ramifications. Instead, they react with incredulity and shock”
So says Whitney the resident crow on one the branches of the Unz tree of life on which Unzian parrots have taken refuge from the real world where our Lord the Devil reigns supreme from his throne, in soon to be Greater Israel along with his chosen people, on the planet.
Does anyone believe that such creatures as “Arab strategists” even exist to internalize or externalize anything? Do you, Aria DNA?
I believe Arabs are merely beasts of burden on which we ride and at best their leaders are hollow human shells i remote controlled by our Lord’s angels, mere golems.
Does anyone believe Arabs have any agency? They are useless eaters, less useful than sheep, grazing on land that was granted by our Lord God to his chosen people, who deserve to be slaughtered, or at best driven out to lands belonging to the goyim.
And no one can stop us. Who can? No one here will name any golem or goyim that will stop us before we stop them.
Mazeltov!
Shalom Aleichem!
You are right about the corpse part.
Do Arabs deserve to be anything else?
Your great Aryan DNA Hitler himself commanded that nothing should remain of useless eaters but corpses. Why expect anything else from Semite DNA chosen by God Trumps and Netanyahus?
> “moving on Russia would be the end of Turkey. Complete and total annihilation in an instant.”
Russian territory has literally already been invaded, and not a peep from the Kremlin, so not sure why you’d think so. At this rate, one should ponder if paedophile Putin would even launch a response to an outright nuclear attack.
But of course I meant the Turan project (incidentally, depicted on my map, too). The Volga Tatars, the Caucasian Muslims, and the terrorists from Central Asia and Xinjiang. Only in a case of Russia’s weakness and collapse, granted, but a fair possibility.
But if America does pivot to Asia, I’d expect to see Ankara being pushed on a collision course with Iran. That would be splendid for Israel. Is Erdogan gonna show restraint? Or… maybe if he does maintain neutrality, Israel will start ruckus now against Turkey, using the Kurds and the Americans? This is why going south could be dangerous for Turkey – borders don’t just separate, they also enable contact.
Azerbaijan is evidently clamouring for war with Armenia (and Russia? Iran?). The Syunik corridor, the Sisian question… What a joke.
https://t.me/stranaua/182306
I believe that the Young Turks/CUP coup of the Sultan in the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and the subsequent Armenian Genocide was the handy work of Masons and Zionists. The Jew’s were rivals for power with the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. The Sultan wanted Armenians to be their bankers, not the Jews and the Sultan refused to sell them Palestine.
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For instance, here are the words of a Jew:
Yababa says:
I believe Arabs are merely beasts of burden on which we ride and at best their leaders are hollow human shells i remote controlled by our Lord’s angels, mere golems.
Does anyone believe Arabs have any agency? They are useless eaters, less useful than sheep, grazing on land that was granted by our Lord God to his chosen people, who deserve to be slaughtered, or at best driven out to lands belonging to the goyim.
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Have you ever, in your entire life, heard a Turk utter such criminal, genocidal words with such maniacal glee? We all know that Yababa’s words are not an aberration, but the main stream thought of many Jews. Doesn’t the wholesale slaughter of Armenians for no apparent reason, look much more like the work of Jews?
Why would Turkey continue to participate in the energy trade with Israel ?
The irony in all this is that in everything Assad did, he was actually trying to help provide a stable, consistent society for the Syrian people. From his perspective at that time, this meant rapprochement with the West (i.e. the United States), just as Putin had attempted to do for Russia throughout the 2000s. Putin recently acknowledged that this strategy had been a grave mistake, that the West was never willing to accept Russia (or any other country) as a partner and would only accept unconditional slavery.
And that is what rapprochement with the West entails, the willingness to become a total and unquestioning slave of the United States, just as Canada, Europe, Australia, South Korea, Japan, etc. have become. When you look at what has become of Canada since Stephen Harper first became prime minister, a hardline Zionist puppet who destroyed the last remnants of Canadian sovereignty and independence (and there wasn’t much to begin with), it is virtually unrecognizable from the Canada that existed under Jean Chretien only a few years before him. “The West” was always an illusion. It’s Washington or nothing.
But they severely miscalculated in forcing the removal of Assad. Everything that the Americans and Israelis do always backfires and ends up giving Iran the advantage, as had happened with Iraq and the same thing is happening again now in Syria. Amazingly, they just do not appear to be able to learn from their past catastrophes and seem hellbent on repeating them over and over again.
Israel even went so far as to hand Iran a gift with the total destruction of all Syrian military installations and infrastructure. As Pepe and others have noted, HTS had reportedly planned on handing much equipment over to the Ukrainians in exchange for the drones and other assistance from the Zelensky regime, but they were also planning on using all this to attack the PMU in Iraq as well as Iran directly. The American plan for HTS was to use Syria as a staging ground for massive attacks against Iran and Iranian allies in Iraq. That has now become impossible, thanks to Israel.
This is an even bigger goof than when Israel screwed the Americans over in prematurely activating Stuxnet, which had been intended to completely cripple and neutralize the Iranian nuclear program as part of a long-range sabotage strategy. In doing what they did, Israel helped to not only save Iranian nuclear sites from more serious damage, but provided the impetus for the IRGC to fully take over and protect security of all nuclear installations, thus making them virtually invulnerable to future sabotage, which the Western-oriented reformists had been preventing for years (effectively operating as a fifth column in the country.)
The more Israel tries to move against Iran, the more everything they do works to Iran’s advantage.
Agree.
Indeed the Turks are the wild card. But guessing from my personal experience with the Turks, the brinksmanship of Erdogan might put him eventually on a collision course with Russia. The imperial hubris among Turks is alive and kicking. Their longing to their past glory is unrelenting. That could be their undoing.
Have you ever, in your entire life, heard a Turk utter such criminal, genocidal words with such maniacal glee? We all know that Yababa’s words are not an aberration, but the main stream thought of many Jews. Doesn’t the wholesale slaughter of Armenians for no apparent reason, look much more like the work of Jews?
You do realize it was the Turks that marched around a million Armenians to die in the desert?
The Ottomans were known for extreme cruelty.
Really not an empire you should try to idealize. This would good be a place to start:
10 Dark Secrets Of The Ottoman Empire
https://listverse.com/2016/07/13/10-dark-secrets-of-the-ottoman-empire/
The fictional story of Dracula is based on a real person named Vlad the Impaler. To make up for smaller numbers he matched Ottoman cruelty and used their religion against them. An impaled Muslim would not enter the afterlife due to Muslim rules on burials.
Assad’s former aide says deposed Syrian president was ‘tricked’ by Putin
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/assads-former-aide-says-former-syrian-president-was-tricked-putin
Won’t be popular here as we have quite a few posters that still want to believe that Putin is playing 5d chess against everyone.
There was also a recent attempt on Assad’s life and our Putin defenders told us that it could be anyone.
Yep.
The dictator with the heart of gold would never do such things.
Sure he might abandon Assad but the assassination attempt must have been the CIA or something.
Assad supposedly transferred 135 billion to Russian banks which is a bigley mistake given that the dictator is short on cash.
The irony in all this is that in everything Assad did, he was actually trying to help provide a stable, consistent society for the Syrian people.
A true man of the people.
It’s just a shame that he had to torture teenagers that couldn’t see how he was helping them.
But they severely miscalculated in forcing the removal of Assad. Everything that the Americans and Israelis do always backfires and ends up giving Iran the advantage
Israel just took more land and Iran lost one of their few allies.
American contractors will be replacing Russian businessmen that were there as part of a security deal between Putin and Assad.
Yea…..take that (shakes fist)…….Putin’s 5d chess has tricked you all…..or something. Right.
Just like every American who bombed Iraqi citizens or massacred them in Fallujah under the command of Bush / Cheney, the Turkish foot soldiers were just doing the bidding of the Zionist masters.
“An impaled Muslim would not enter the afterlife due to Muslim rules on burials.”
What is your source for this bizarre claim?
This reminds me of the Obama administration claiming that they had to bury bin Laden at sea because of “Islamic burial rules.” They just made that up. The reality was that it had nothing to do with Islam, and everything to do with with what they were trying to cover up, i.e. prevent anyone from examining the body to determine when the actual time of death occurred.
Who are you kidding? Israel itself has referred to Damascus as being ruled over by a “terrorist gang” and that they want nothing to do with them. The HTS-led regime will never be accepted by anyone in Syria as being legitimate. The de facto leader of Syria is not even a Syrian, but a citizen of Saudi Arabia who intends on turning the remnants of the country under his control over to his Saudi puppetmasters.
If you think this HTS regime is going to last or result in a stable administration, you are absolutely insane. There will be no American contractors. Syria is being torn apart by Israel, Turkey, and the United States, and Iran is already training Alawite, Shia, and indigenous Christian militias.
This is just the very beginning of a very long shitshow. Trump is in for a hell of a ride. In fact, he may very well be the end of America as we know it.
But you keep fooling yourself that its the 1980s and Chuck Norris and Rambo and the Green Berets and Delta Force are coming in to save the day.
Listwise and Dracula? Seriously?
That’s all UNZ’s Genocide Cheerleader has for me?
Inflation can be beaten by doing what Putin had done with the military. Directly pay young men to fight and conquer. Pay them enough to buy their own war gear and sidestep the grafting officers and quarter masters.
Recip will fight his way out of this impasse.
I never said that HTS would be better.
I said that Assad was most likely torturing people and was called a Jew for it. I was also accused of being brainwashed by the MSM even though I sourced human rights organizations.
Well I was right.
I’m for letting Syrians elect Syrians.
Assad was never elected and tortured political dissidents.
I don’t have high expectations for the middle east but that doesn’t mean I need to make excuses for a mass murderer who kept torture chambers and used sarin gas against a civilian population.
If you think this HTS regime is going to last or result in a stable administration, you are absolutely insane. There will be no American contractors.
I’m not insane. HTS is currently in talks with the US to end sanctions.
It’s not an extremist group. Turkey was not trying to setup a new ISIL.
I don’t know the future of Syria but that is the current situation. HTS wants normalized relations with the US and EU and that would mean a flood of US contractors.
But you keep fooling yourself that its the 1980s and Chuck Norris and Rambo and the Green Berets and Delta Force are coming in to save the day.
LOL what are you talking about? Maybe try reading outside your echo chamber. The US has already eased some restrictions.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-eases-some-syria-sanctions-stops-far-short-big-exemptions
Yababa, I have warned you more than once before about being careless, but and paid no attention to me.
Even the dumbest trolls on this site, with no ability to think, SENSE that something is wrong and, like rats backing off from a treat laced with cyanide, sniff your comments with suspicion and never once give you an “Agree,” much less cuddle up to you and comment approvingly.
You really put your foot in it this time with this:
“the land that was granted by our Lord God to his chosen people, who deserve to be slaughtered, or at best driven out to lands belonging to the goyim.”
You think that comma will let you get away with it?
Better study A123, memejojo (or whatever), Foul Pudding and “John Johson” and try to imitate them.
. . . from Palestine and Syria (Palestine is historically part of Greater Syria).
Told ya!!!
(My comment #73)
OMG!
The Jews are crying about some stupid building when almost half the city is gone!
They will probably sue and get billions ..
😂
😩😒😟😭
No one likes me.
Even my darling meamjojo didn’t push the agree button even though I expanded on her short post.
And now my best friend of Aryan DNA ridicules me.
I will stop posting here and talk 👄 to my Lubavitcher Rebbe. I think treats laced with cyanide are great for goyim. We need more Arab corpses. The hyenas are hungry.You show no compassion for hyenas.
Death to Unzian unzers except Freak’n’See and TimberMint who gave me thumbs 👍 up.
GOODBYE DNA.
Don’t go, I am not ridiculing you, I am only helping you be the best you can be.
I have tried to do the same for Foul Pudding but have had only negligible success– I have taught him to say “we,” and our country” when referring to Americans and America instead of “you” and “your country,” and that the correct spelling is “altar” not “alter,” but that”s all. Both admittedly important nevertheless for a “Catholic American.”
You, however, are much more intelligent than he. Pardon the left-handed compliment… who isn’t?
No, don’t go, please. Don’t give up on meamjojo, flatter him/her/it more maybe.
Turkey is unstable, though not currently in a headline-grabbing way, and it would not take too much intervention by outside actors to make it much more so.
Kind of depends what you think is “extremist”. Even before Erdoğan the supposedly “secular” Turkish authorities have used radical Islamists. Such ties are certainly an element of Turkey’s “deep state”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_Hezbollah
Iran Was ‘Defeated Very Badly’ in Syria, a Top General Admits
For weeks, Iranian officials have downplayed the fall of their ally in Syria. But an important general has offered a remarkably candid view of the blow to Iran, and its military’s prospects.
Farnaz Fassihi
By Farnaz Fassihi
Jan. 8, 2025
Iran’s top-ranking general in Syria has contradicted the official line taken by Iran’s leaders on the sudden downfall of their ally Bashar al-Assad, saying in a remarkably candid speech last week that Iran had suffered a major defeat but would still try to operate in the country.
An audio recording of the speech, given last week by Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati at a mosque in Tehran, surfaced publicly on Monday in Iranian media, and was a stark contrast to the remarks of Iran’s president, foreign minister and other top leaders. They have for weeks downplayed the magnitude of Iran’s strategic loss in Syria last month, when rebels swept Mr. al-Assad out of power, and said Iran would respect any political outcome decided by Syria’s people.
“I don’t consider losing Syria something to be proud of,” said General Esbati according to the audio recording of his speech, which Abdi Media, a Geneva-based news site focused on Iran, published on Monday. “We were defeated, and defeated very badly, we took a very big blow and it’s been very difficult.”
General Esbati revealed that Iran’s relations with Mr. al-Assad had been strained for months leading to his ouster, saying that the Syrian leader had denied multiple requests for Iranian-backed militias to open a front against Israel from Syria, in the aftermath of the Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, 2023.
Iran had presented Mr. al-Assad with comprehensive military plans on how it could use Iran’s military resources in Syria to attack Israel, he said.
The general also accused Russia, considered a top ally, of misleading Iran by telling it that Russian jets were bombing Syrian rebels when they were actually dropping bombs on open fields. He also said that in the past year, as Israel struck Iranian targets in Syria, Russia had “turned off radars,” in effect facilitating these attacks.
For over a decade, Iran backed Mr. al-Assad by sending commanders and troops to help it fight against opposition rebels and the Islamic State terrorist group.
Under Mr. al-Assad, Syria was Iran’s regional command center from which it supplied weapons and money to its network of regional militias, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and Palestinian militants in the West Bank. Iran also controlled airports, warehouses and operated missile and drone manufacturing bases in Syria.
The rebel coalition has now taken over much of Syria and is trying to form a government. General Esbati said in his speech that Iran would look for ways to recruit insurgents in whatever shape the new Syria takes.
“We can activate all the networks we have worked with over the years,” he said. “We can activate the social layers that our guys lived among for years; we can be active in social media and we can form resistance cells.”
He added, “Now we can operate there as we do in other international arenas, and we have already started.”
The general’s comments have stunned Iranians, for both their unfiltered content and the speaker’s stature. He is a top commander of Iran’s Armed Forces, the umbrella that includes the military and the Revolutionary Guards Corps, with a record of prominent roles including commander in chief of the Armed Forces’ cyber division.
In Syria, he supervised Iran’s military operations and coordinated closely with Syrian ministers and defense officials and with Russian generals — outranking even the commander in chief of the Quds Forces, Gen. Ismail Ghaani, who oversees the network of regional militias backed by Iran.
Mehdi Rahmati, a prominent analyst in Tehran and expert on Syria, said in a telephone interview that General Esbati’s speech was significant because it showed that some senior officials were parting from government propaganda and leveling with the public.
“Everyone is talking about the speech in meetings and wondering why he said these things, especially at a public forum,” Mr. Rahmati said. “He very clearly laid out what happened to Iran and where it stands now. In a way it can be a warning for domestic politics.”
General Esbati said the fall of the Assad regime was inevitable given the rampant corruption, political oppression and economic hardship that people faced, from lack of power to fuel to livable incomes. He said Mr. al-Assad had ignored the warnings to reform. Mr. Rahmati, the analyst, said that the comparison to Iran’s current situation was hard to miss.
Despite the general’s assertions about activating networks, it remains unclear what Iran can realistically do in Syria, given the public and political opposition it has faced in the country and the challenges of land and air access. Israel has warned that it would decimate any Iranian efforts it detects on the ground in Syria.
And while Iran has the experience of operating in Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003 — including sowing unrest — the geography and political landscape of Syria differ greatly, presenting more challenges.
An Iranian member of the Revolutionary Guards who spent years in Iraq as a military strategist alongside senior commanders said in a telephone interview that General Esbati’s comments about Iran recruiting insurgents might be more aspirational than practical at this stage. He said that while General Esbati had admitted a serious defeat, he had also sought to boost morale and pacify conservatives demanding that Iran act more forcefully.
The Guards official, who asked that his name not be used because he was discussing sensitive issues, said Iran’s policy had not yet been finalized but that a consensus had emerged in meetings he had attended where strategy was debated. He said Iran would benefit if Syria descended into chaos because Iran knew how to thrive and secure its interests in a turbulent landscape.
In Iran, the Revolutionary Guards have the authority to set regional policy and overrule the foreign ministry.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last word on key state matters, has said in at least two speeches since Mr. al-Assad’s fall that resistance was not dead in Syria, adding that Syria’s youth would reclaim their country from the ruling rebels, whom he called stooges of Israel and the United States. President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi have been more conciliatory, saying they favor stability in Syria and diplomatic ties with the new government.
The tensions surrounding these competing views on Syria preoccupied officials enough that they embarked on a campaign of damage control with the public last week. Senior military commanders and pundits close to the government gave speeches and held question-and-answer sessions with audiences in mosques and community centers in several cities.
General Esbati’s speech, on Dec. 31 at the Valiasr mosque in central Tehran, addressed rank and file of the military and constituents of the mosque, according to a public notice of the event, titled, “Answering questions about Syria’s collapse.”
The session started with General Esbati telling the crowd he left Syria on the last military plane to Tehran the night before Damascus fell to rebels. It ended with him answering questions from audience members. He offered his most sobering assessment on Iran’s military capability in fighting Israel and the United States.
Asked whether Iran would retaliate for Israel killing Hezbollah’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, he replied that Iran already did, referring to a missile barrage last fall. Asked whether Iran planned to carry out a third round of direct strikes on Israel, he said that “the situation” couldn’t realistically handle another attack on Israel right now.
Asked why Iran would not fire missiles at U.S. military bases in the region, he said that would invite bigger retaliatory attacks on Iran and its allies by the United States, adding that Iran’s regular missiles — not its advanced ones — could not penetrate advanced U.S. defense systems.
Despite those assessments, General Esbati said that he wanted to assure everyone not to worry: Iran and its allies, he said, still had the upper hand on the ground in the region.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/world/middleeast/iran-general-syria-defeat.html
This is from the same New York Times that falsely claimed Musk had a meeting with Iranian officials? Even the pathetic low IQ moron Keith Jones at the World Socialist Web Site fell for that one. When once competent sources like the WSWS start treating legacy media as “reliable sources,” you know things are worse than they actually appear.
They are literally just fabricating stories out of thin air again, creating make-believe “sources” like the incompetent Baltimore Sun reporter in “The Wire.” Though if I’m not mistaken, the Times has been caught red handed many times before in the last couple decades doing this. But I don’t think they are going to start apologize, let alone admitting that they are lying so shamelessly.
Post a few more articles about how Israel is winning and completely destroyed Iran’s missile production facilities and completely neutralized their nuclear program and how the Israeli economy is booming and all the ports are busy and Iran is on the brink of collapse.
With all this unstoppable winning, I’m surprised the United States hasn’t conquered the whole of West Asia by now. What’s taking so long?
Wikipedia articles are largely written by employees of federal agencies and various intelligence services. These kinds of articles are the worst offenders because they are ideological and propaganda backgrounds. Most of the sources used throughout that article, and especially in the section alleging Turkish military support, are suspect or outright unreliable. Most, if not all of these kinds of allegations are based on so-called “testimony” and anyone can make up a story.
With any group that Iran supports, you will find these kinds of allegations and worse, because they (Turkey, NATO, etc) are desperate to discredit Iranian proxies and create internal divisions and conflicts with other militant groups. They do a good at writing Wikipedia articles, but in the real world not so much.
Turkey is deathly afraid of Iran using the Kurds against them and only Iran has the ability to unite the various Kurdish factions (even those that have previously opposed Iran) together in a united front against the Turkish menace. I think the love affair between some of the Kurds and the United States and Israel is beginning to unravel. The Kurds always miscalculated in their relationship with the Zionists and they are getting severely burned.
https://thecradle.co/articles/hts-led-syrian-security-forces-step-up-sectarian-killings-report
Predictable enough developments.
Press TV, Iran’s English-language TV station, seems a bit wobbly on the issue of Syria, perhaps reflecting disagreements in Iran’s government. Some items seem to favour dealings with the new government, if it can be called that, while others mention the less salubrious side of the new dispensation, like a “moderate Sunni cleric” being found dead recently in the outskirts of Damascus days after being kidnapped, with signs of torture on his body.
I take your point about Wikipedia but I am a Turkish speaker and have followed developments in that country since the 1990s. This group was active in the 1990s and particularly targeted with assassination suspected PKK supporters, while seeking to recruit pious Kurdish youth, and its activities met with little interference from the Turkish state at the time. Its enemies sometimes referred to the group as Hizbullah-Kontra. The Turkish state suddenly moved against the group in 2000, sometimes finding the mummified bodies of its victims in safehouses. By 2000, however, PKK leader Öcalan was in custody and the Turkish state arguably no longer needed its embarrassing deep state pals.
This group has in any case never been an Iran proxy – it recruits among Sunnis, not Shia or the approximate equivalent in Turkey, Alevis.
It is hard to see Iran using Kurds against Turkey – it has its own restive Kurdish minority, and Iranian state forces have sometimes clashed with PJAK, an extension of the PKK active among Iranian Kurds.
https://original.antiwar.com/Peter_Ford/2025/01/12/how-the-west-destroyed-syria/
I like this article.
The Jerusalem Post:
I think this guy just accidentally took all the air out of the idea in ten seconds of yammering under the yamalka.
Think of the setting first:
1) Turkey and Israel have ALREADY been at proximity due to ongoing operations inside and above Syria for a DECADE or more
2) Israel only fights those who cannot fight back (Arabs)
3) The two countries are non-Arab players in an Arabic region, that is, two wolves among sheep
4) Their list of mutual aquaintences includes the Gulf States, organized Islamic terror in general, and the USA
5) Turkey has only recently NOT relied on Israel for equipment upgrades to F-16 fighters for example
6) The dispute between them is all hot air on Turkey’s side and no real action to protect the Palestinian Arabs
Now with all of the above, what REALLY has changed on the ground with the toppling of Assad? The zones of control on the map haven’t shifted all that much, Israel is closer to Damascus and Turkey was already overflying and fighting on that border with incursions against the Kurds. USA is still in there balls-deep. The Kurds are promised all things by all sides and still get shafted (nothing new going back at least to the 80s).
Was Assad really keeping anything but Damascus, and how was that little sliver preventing Israel and Turkey from meeting in the middle?
I don’t see the shift.
Largely true, especially point 6. Erdoğan is a hot-air specialist.
https://thearabweekly.com/free-syrian-army-officers-complain-being-excluded-new-hts-dominated-leadership
It hasn’t taken long for them to fall out.
They’re not the first. There’s us, for example. Then there’s King Abdullah of Jordan. He thought he was going to be able to work with the Zionists.
It’s possible even the British thought all that stuff about a National Home not being an independent nation (perish the thought) was honestly intended.
Yeah, but that’s Turkey’s side. Israel always has to have an enemy, so if her manly urges are otherwise blocked…
Thanks. It’s all all too in accord with my suspicions. However, I still see that sudden collapse — or rather, sudden success — as coming out of nowhere. It must have been more carefully prepared and orchestrated than we’re led to believe. All of a sudden the rebels in the hills win in five minutes? I’m skeptical.
Otherwise, this in particular is depressing:
Oh gee. Does that mean the country can be kept in a state of blood-soaked anarchy indefinitely? Would that be a bug or a feature?
Finally, one point that is overlooked is that Turks have been getting very tired of their Syrian refugee population. Syrians were a big presence when I was there — and that was ten years ago.
Erdogan is definitely a populist, and he’s definitely going to want to shove the Syrians back into Syria. So that’s going to happen, and it won’t improve matters as far as Syria is concerned. Cue media outrage at Turkish barbarities — depending on what suits Israel, of course.
I was in Istanbul in 2014 and I remember a Syrian woman selling plastic bottles of water, calling out moy!, which I understand is Syrian Arabic dialect for “water”.
Conflict between Turks/Turkish Kurds and Syrian refugees for low-wage jobs in the midst of economic crisis has been extensive, and Erdoğan seeking to drive them back en masse is a real possibility, even though Al Qaeda rump Syria shows every sign of being a sh^thole going forward.
Colonel Ralph Peters maps at Wikimedia Commons