“The weakening of [Daesh] as a conventional force in its core territory will encourage its leadership to call for more terrorist operations in the West and across the Middle East,” the Texas-based think tank noted in its annual forecast.
via ‘Shadow CIA’ Warns: Daesh Will Opt For Radical Measures to Offset Losses.
the United States and its allies have been deliberately proliferating radical Islam for decades, only to later spend trillions fighting the enemy they created, thus generating huge war profits for Wall Street moguls.
via Lifting the Veil.
YeaH..Let’s call it Full Spectrum Dominance
Nobody needs to read Zbigniew “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski’s 1997 opus to know US foreign policy revolves around one single overarching theme: prevent – by all means necessary – the emergence of a power, or powers, capable of constraining Washington’s unilateral swagger, not only in Eurasia but across the world.
The Pentagon carries the same message embedded in newspeak: the Full Spectrum Dominance doctrine.
I think, first of all, diplomacy is always good. It is a very good sign that John Kerry actually went to Moscow, made the effort to go out there and had these high-level meetings. I think it is something very positive. However, I don’t want to get ahead of ourselves here because policy doesn’t change on a dime. But what is the reason for this apparent shift, I think the facts on the grounds have changed in places like – particularly – Syria.
Russian President Vladimir Putin invited British experts to examine the black box from the Su-24 bomber downed by Turkey last month, the Kremlin’s official website reported Wednesday.
The Russian President made the offer during a phone conversation with British Prime Minister David Cameron when he called to offer Putin his condolences after the incident, which resulted in the death of the plane’s pilot.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu showed the black box to Putin at a meeting on Tuesday. The president requested that it remain closed until foreign experts arrive to participate in an investigation into the downing.
Als wij onze kranten open slaan dan zou je kunnen gaan denken dat alleen ongecoördineerde aanvallen van de illegale coalitie nut hebben in Syrië. Voor mensen die de strijd om Syrië al een tijdje volgen is het gesneden koek dat luchtaanvallen alleen nut hebben als je ze opvolgt of begeleidt met grondtroepen. Nu, de enige partij die grondtroepen aanwezig heeft is het Syrische leger. Niet geheel ontoevallig coördineert het Syrische leger die aanvallen met de Russen. Dit samen met de inlichtingen vanuit Rusland, Syrië en Iran maakt waarom de Islamitische Staat nu wel problemen heeft en zich zelf uit Syrië aan het terugtrekken is om in een andere door NATO kapot geschoten land een nieuw bolwerk op te zetten. Dat land heet Libië en de stad Sirte. Het is daarom niet onbelangrijk om te vermelden dat dit mede mogelijk gemaakt is door ons geweldige verdedigingssysteem met de naam NATO.
Everything was going swimmingly until Putin stepped in.
While many in the West who have grown jaundiced at the obvious usurpation of our governments by outside interests ascribe almost saint-like motivations to Putin, I do not. He is a superb strategist. Exactly what he is strategizing for is not clear yet.
What is clear is that his move into Syria threw a spanner in the works of a status quo the US was quite happy with: growing terrorism and mayhem in Syria and spreading nicely to Europe.
Assad himself said a few days ago to the BBC (courtesy of Czech Television) that ISIS was growing smaller after Russian bombing intervention whereas moves by other countries served only to strengthen ISIS and increase their recruitment.
He added: “The facts are telling.”
So what do the facts tell?
They tell us that Russia is the only country involved to date which has the removal of ISIS as an actual goal.
Russia is also the only country with a legitimate mandate under international law.
In addition, ISIS was most eloquently outed by author and journalist Gearóid Ó Colmáin on Russia Today as a US creation.
In this scenario, the reason for further western efforts in the region is looking increasingly like an attempt to prevent Russia from routing its assets or achieving the informational coup that would follow.
So what we have now in effect is Turkey “violating” the borders of Iraq (remember those famous “17 seconds”?) Baghdad is actually part of the “4+1” coalition (Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, plus Hezbollah). Turkey knows it. The “incursion” is yet one more — serious — provocation. If Russia — and Iran — decide that’s one too many, Erdogan’s oil racket protecting tanks better get ready to meet their maker.
HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE: We in the United States cannot lead the world alone any longer, if we ever could. Long before Paris, globalization and other developments have occurred that ended the mono-polar, US-dominated world. That world is over. A multi-polar world has emerged before our eyes, not just in Russia but in five or six capitals around the world. Washington’s stubborn refusal to embrace this new reality has become part of the problem and not part of the solution. This is where we are today …. even after Paris.
via Russia Expert Stephen Cohen Nails Terrorism, Syria, Ukraine and Russia.
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