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Syria – A U.S. Attack Would Be Futile – But Serve A Purpose
by M. K. Bhadrakumar
The United Nations Security Council turned down a compromise resolution on Syria, proposed by Sweden and seconded by Russia seeking investigation on the alleged chemical attack in Douma. Five countries supported the resolution with two permanent members – United States and Britain – opposing it. Earlier, a resolution on the same lines which was supported by Russia and China was also opposed by the US and Britain.
This is a significant political and diplomatic victory for Russia insofar as only two other countries joined the US and Britain to oppose the Swedish resolution. Six countries abstained.
The big question is whether this development portends an impending US attack on Syria, bypassing the UN. The UN has refused to confirm there has been any attack at all. Russia and Syrian government insist there has been no attack and have approached the Organization for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for an international investigation. The good thing is that the OPCW is deputing two teams of experts to go to Douma later this week. Russia has offered to give them full security protection.
So Trump has a major decision to make. Logically, punishment follows a crime that has been committed and it seems no crime has been committed. This appears to be a false flag operation – that is, a fabrication with a view to trigger a sequence of events. That was how the US invaded Iraq in 2003 and it is an established fact today that Saddam Hussein did not have any program to develop weapons of mass destruction, as then US Secretary of State Colin Power had misled the UN Security Council. (Powell later admitted that he was misled by his own administration.)
One difference in the present case is that Trump has been on record that he wants the American military presence in Syria to end. That stance and the present threat to launch an attack on Syria are contradictory. Because, a US attack on Syria will have serious repercussions, including possibly a showdown with Russia, which would mean a US drawdown in Syria may not be possible in a conceivable future.
Perhaps, Trump is indulging in doublespeak and the backdrop could be the criticality that has arisen over Robert Mueller’s investigation into his collusion with Russia, which has now dramatically expanded in scope. The FBI raid on the office of Trump’s attorney in the White House is a very serious development. Trump is just inches away from being implicated in the charges against him leveled by porn star Stormy Daniels. The CNN says, “There could be dark and unprecedented times ahead.” A US attack on Syria can distract attention from the stormy controversy that may arise if at this point Trump axes Mueller and derails the investigation against him. There are precedents when beleaguered American presidents resorted to diversionary tactic. Bill Clinton fired cruise missiles at Kandahar when the scandal over Monica Lewinsky peaked and he was facing the prospect of impeachment.
A US That brings us back to the alleged chemical attack in Douma last weekend. Who would have staged a false flag operation? The finger of suspicion points toward Israel’s role. Israel is desperately keen that the US should have a permanent military presence in Syria. To that end, Israel is fueling tensions that will take matters to a point that a US withdrawal from Syria somehow gets stalled. This is also the impression conveyed by DebkaFile, the Israeli website with links to the intelligence, which specializes in disinformation tactic.
The coincidental Israeli attack on a Syrian air base on Sunday had all the hallmarks of a deliberate act of provocation. Four Iranian military advisors were killed in the Israeli raid. Israel must be hoping against hope that the Iranians will retaliate, leading to a flare-up where the US would get pitted against Iran at some point. Such subterfuges are typical of Israel’s strategy. The point is, Israelis lacks the capacity on its own to tackle the challenge of the expanding Iranian influence in next-door Syria.
Trump has reportedly cancelled a planned trip to Latin America. The New York Times has reported that Trump is weighing “more robust” military strikes against Syria. No doubt, tensions are rising. To my mind, however, Trump may not order an attack on Syria. Maybe it’s wishful thinking — frankly, I am a man of peace and am terrified of war — but I’ll explain why there is reason to believe still that sanity will ultimately prevail in Washington.
First, a US attack on the Syrian regime at this stage of the 7-year old war doesn’t make sense insofar as it cannot stop President Bashar Al-Assad on his tracks from attaining total victory. Bashar’s victory is a fait accompli. Period. On the other hand, in order for the Syrian regime to be degraded to a point — like in Libya for example — and deposed from power, there has to be a massive western military intervention, including deployment of ground forces in tens of thousands. That seems improbable, given the level of disenchantment in Europe regarding Trump. So, the US has to go alone — at best with the (British) poodle. In such an enterprise, what does US hope to gain? Again, the chaos that follows will be beyond imagination. Indeed, the risk of escalation is exceedingly high and that is not in the interests of Trump’s ‘America First’. By the way, hey, what about the “trade war” with China? What about the meet with Kim Jong Un? What about Afghanistan? What about Yemen? Above all, will another Middle Eastern war go down well in the US opinion? Will the US Congress support an attack on Syria when American interests are not directly facing threat?
Finally, the US cannot afford to overlook the explicit – and repeated – Russian warnings at various levels that an American attack on Syria will have grave consequences. Trump would know Vladimir Putin is “smart” and means business when he says something to the effect that Russia will ensure that what happened in Libya does not repeat. (TASS) However, the Syrian conflict is approaching yet another new flashpoint. Make no mistake, Israel will have to pay a price for the killing of the Iranian 4 military advisors. The powerful Iranian statesman, Ali Akbar Velayati has has explicitly stated as much. Indeed, Israel is going to be in real fix if Trump now decides not to attack Syria.
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M.K. Bhadrakumar served as a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service for over 29 years, with postings including India’s ambassador to Uzbekistan (1995-1998) and to Turkey (1998-2001).
This column was first published at Indian Punchline, Mr. Bhadrakumar's personal blog. It is republish here with his permission.
By now 18 months in office, agent orange will have reached the same SOP as everyone else who has political power does when
they are dealing with circumstances where A) they lack much experience of dealing with the issue, and B) there are to quote that other donald who
isn’t a duck. “There are many ‘known unknowns'”.
That is you must defer to the ‘experts’ not because you necessarily believe their assessment to be correct, but because they are
the types whose job it is to make such assessments. So that if things do go tits up, king manderin cannot be blamed.
He was acting upon “the best advice available at the time” & if things work out then the trumpet can trumpet his genius strategy.
If they don’t work out that’s tough, but the bossfella did his/her part.
This has long been held to be the only way an elected leader can survive a war. Everything is a gamble, so unless you
really know what you are doing/have great outside the loop intelligence, following the advice of the military bosses is
really the only option they can see. They are weak, vain, self-obsessed and incapable of understanding how Jo/Joe Shitkicker feels about stuff.
A couple of examples.
The first worked out OK for humans but bad for the warmongers. When GH Bush snared Iraq into Gulf War 1, the plan had always been to use Iraq’s reclamation of their traditional lands from the anglo amerikan puppets as an excuse to grab all of Iraq – Kuwait’s oil was running out, which was why the emir had been siphoning off Iraqi oil in the first place. So the amerikan led band of greedies, crooks & charlatans chased the retreating Iraqis back – bombing shooting and poisoning em with depleted uranium absolutely mercilessly. But for whatever reason (who knows? honour, honesty, maybe even humanity or mebbe someone paid him off we will never discover the truth) Norman Schwarzkopf wasn’t down with such ruthless murder.
He publicly declared the military objectives had all been met and continuing on wasn’t just pointless it was inhumanity approaching a war crime. GH Arsefeatures must have been ropeable, but he knew going against Norm’s advice was just too fraught. If anything, absolutely anything went wrong with what was a pretty damned risky plan, as Iraq hadn’t been put under siege for long at all before the attack, there were big numbers of Iran/Iraq war veterans – troops who hadn’t been deployed in Kuwait waiting in Iraq. Bush would take the fall as he had gone against ‘expert’ advice. No redemption thatcher style for him, so he declared victory and began the siege which junior tried to finish.
The second example? This is a link to part 17 of a 26 part documentary on the 1914 to 1918 half of the 20th century eurowar.
It is made by the bbc, but I hasten to add during an all too brief moment in the 1960’s when the BBC had been forced to resile from spewing spurious tales – propaganda, and calling it fact.
If you haven’t seen this series I strongly suggest you get a copy and watch it. This is the people who fought, chiefly the shitkickers
in the trenches on all sides doing the talking. In addition there is input from the pols’ & military bosses via daily journals & diaries.
Episode 17 is about Ypres which was a piece of Belgian western front which protruded east across the line the Austro/German troops occupied, aka a salient.
The Brits held the western side, Germany the other.
By 1917 everyone was well sick of the war and the politicians had begun to distrust the judgement and sometimes the
motives of the military. The Battle of the Somme which cost more than a million brit casualties had been fought in the
summer of 1916, nothing had been gained. More than a million young men had died for nothing – absolutely fucking nothing.
Now that the summer of 1917 was approaching the army wanted another ‘offensive’. Ypres was the battlespace they had selected. Once a beautiful town even more striking architechturally than Bruges, Ypres was levelled by the arseholesi – few if any of whome were Belgique.
So all the brit military bosses (army & navy – the airforce hadn’t taken off yet [pun alert]) were meeting with all the political leaders in the cabinet room.
Lloyd George, the consummate brit pol of the early 20th century, was Prime Minister and he was extremely skeptical of any big plan, as logic dictated that when both sides were as dug in & evenly matched as the allies & axis were, the chances of either side achieving anything beyond the deaths of another million or two humans were slim as New York model.
Watch the doco – Lloyd explains how Haig and his gang had bundles of colourful maps with arrows pointing every which way, plus a fine art in talking absolute bullshit.
When Lloyd George detects that some of the more gullible pols are lapping up Haig’s nonsense, so he interjects with his doubts – that any further “send em over the top” strategies can achieve anything other than the death of millions more humans.
The meeting adjourns for lunch. When they all come back the Sea Lord, Admiral Jellicoe, the man now believed to be responsible for the brit navy’s worst maritime disaster ever, the 1916 battle of jutland where 5000 brit sailors were killed in the space of a few hours and Admiral Beatty who was Jellicoe’s 2IC was heard to say offhandly “I say, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today”. Thousands of men die and the elitist prick believes it’s time to be droll. Check out pix of Beatty he always wore his naval cap ‘rakishly’ forever playing the jaunty gentleman sailor.
Anyway Jellicoe whose incompetence as the head of the British Grand Fleet resulted in badly designed ships adopting really dangerous explosive handling prcctices was so bad the brits had to make him out to be a hero & promoted him to First Sea Lord, pipes up at the Ypres meeting straight after lunch , with the claim that the attack must go ahead because if the Germans keep control of Zeebrugge which is a Belgian port just north of Ypres that was in German hands & was being used as a submarine base, England will face famine and mass starvation within a few months as the navy cannot protect their shipping supplies to england.
It was complete nonsense which Haig and Jellicoe likely dreamed up at lunch. We know it was a crock because Lloyd George was left with no alternative but to approve warmonger/mass murderer Haig’s plan. The battle went ahead, another million or so died in what the diggers termed the worst bloody stunt of the war. Long story short; the farmland around Ypres was like Dutch lowland, constructed below sea level. The artillery barrages had wrecked the drainage system and the entire battle space turned to mud blood, and corpses – fall into a shellhole which was easy on the slippery duckboards and you’re toast, the mixture of bacteria bubbling away in the Ypres Soup guaranteed that if you could swim with a full pack and gear, any cut or wound would become irretrievably infected. The medics played catch up footy behind gangrene, chopping bits off a bloke until there was nothing left.
These then are the roles:
The experts just make it up, the pols know this but unless they can prove the military bosses are lying, they have to go along with it.
We, us the people, we die, that is our role
ps watch the doco and see how documentaries can be made.
Posted by: Debsisdead | Apr 11 2018 12:47 utc | 56
This looks like an invasion of Syria. I am predicting April 19, Israel Independence Day, and also the day of praise when Christians comes to Israel to praise Israel Independence and it is the most important day of the Satanic Calendar, the day of Fire.
The Jew state(Deep State) has been planning this operation for a while. It was Mossad doing the chemical attack.(Trump had to have the Rosenstein Mueller dog collar to do it, Mueller, Sessions are both fanatic Jew crazy, all of his team are Jews lawyers, the Trump lawyer raid was a warning to play along for this event or be canned.)
Jordan over 4000 US troops and other mercenaries combined with Jordanian troops paid for by Saudi Arabia. Code name Eager Lion. April 18-26. New drone and helicopter base, added drones, helicopters and B1 bombers.
Israel 2500 troops on the ground, new US Army base, Israel Command, Iwo Jima helicopter carrier in port, USAF combat aircraft in Israel, amazing USAF general speech relinquished his command to Israel IDF air force general.
US Carrier battle group with 7 warships, French and UK troops and aircraft.
Mercenaries paid for by Saudi Arabia, out of UAE, where is Eric Prince?
It looks like an invasion to take the oil. Golan 3 billion barrels, off shore block 9 natural gas Lebanon waters.
Genie oil, Cheney, Lord Rothschild, etc. look at the list.
https://genieoilgas.com/about-us/strategic-advisory-board/
The Bilderberg meeting before Bush II invaded Iraq it was decided since the North Sea was running out of oil, the US military would take the oil for the Crowns of Europe and the Jews.
Russia has been boxed in a corner. It is interesting way before Crimea, Cheney, Nuland etc. representing the US and Mossad were trying to take over a country called Georgia for the strategic mountain pass into Russia. This was when Putin and his generals began to rearm.
Bush I, Clinton I, Bush II, and Obama I were in on it. The so called smart wars which Obama coined the phrase was Libya, Syria and Egypt.
Turkey will annex it’s part of Syria.
Trump is on a dog collar for the event which was well planned by the Jew deep state through the NDAA, National Defense Authorization Act, that’s how they feed the dogs of war, and direct the dogs of war.
Saudi Arabia is feeding the mercenary dogs and has proved my research they were one of the ancient snake tribes out of India after the last ice age. Saudi Arabia royals are Jews or whatever name.
These Bilderberg royals are all snake kings, etc. I have explained before.
There is going to be a massive kill off of people in the US. The population has grown and we’re not obeying the narrative of NYC main stream media.
Censoring the internet wasn’t enough and the arrival of Trump proved they do not have control.
I could explain more, but recall the Bush II speeches, he was the last Republican president and not to back out of one world government and all that. Recall during Iraq, he said Order out of Chaos, or Bush I Thousand points of light, and New World Order, well those are evil mason slogans. New World Order is on the dollar bill. The Masons work with the Jews, the one’s at the top of each mason pyramid must have reptile genetic code. ALL of these players have reptile genetic code.
I’ve explained it before, they came out of India at the end of the last ice age, there weren’t that many humans on Earth, tribes from the north came south because of the ice age. The cannibals have been feeding on them all the way north through time.
There were no Jews in the Bible, these are gypsies who have taken over the world. They don’t care if they die, they are the most sophisticated killing species in the history of man. We’re conditioned to serve them, just like the royal serf system.
We are not a free people and everyone should be able to see.
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