What’s the opposite of a gift that keeps on giving? A mistake that keeps metastasizing.
Which pretty much sums up the US role in the Middle East. Beginning with the CIA’s 1953 overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected president and continuing through the multiple regime changes and invasions of recent years, various American governments have behaved like they both understood that region and had the power to mold it into a docile client that pumped oil, suppressed dissent and otherwise caused no trouble.
Instead, each intervention turned up the heat on an already-boiling pot of corruption, sectarian rivalry and geopolitical anger that has finally erupted into regional civil war. The whole world, at long last, understands that the situation is beyond both US understanding and control.
And that’s the good news.
The really scary part of the story is that Russia has jumped — decisively — into this vacuum and is building a coalition to take over the Middle East. In partnership with Iran and China it’s propping up Syria’s dictator and bombing both ISIS and US-trained rebels back beyond the stone age. The next step will presumably be to bring Saudi Arabia into line and thus dominate the region’s oil reserves. Israel, in this scenario, has no good options.
Unless, of course, the US pushes back, which will mean escalating from Russian and US proxies shooting at each other to actual Russian and US soldiers going at it, with China and Iran helping the former and Saudi Arabia the latter. This is a nightmare scenario on every level, and it’s closer than most people seem to think. Here’s a sampling of headlines from just the past couple of days:
Syria conflict: Nato warns Russia on air strikes
Syria conflict: Turkish jets intercept Russian plane
Syrian insurgents vow to attack Russian forces as Moscow hints at ground role
U.S. sees Russia readying ground campaign in Syria
Syria’s ‘moderates’ have disappeared… and there are no good guys
Russia’s airstrikes in Syria are playing well at home
A tale of two strategies: Russia destroys ISIS command, US hits Afghan hospital
Obama up against growing support for a no-fly zone in Syria
Just as there was a chance in the 1990s to get developed-world entitlement programs under control and we blew it, there was once a chance to let the Islamic world work out its differences, have its Reformation, and emerge as a more-or-less stable, comprehensible power. But we blew that monumentally as well.
Now the US is financially and politically exhausted, with neither the money nor the will to expend trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives to impose “peace” in a place where the word can’t even be defined. Yet, as the last headline says, support for a Syrian “no-fly zone” is growing — in air space that includes Russian jets.
In some ways today’s situation is reminiscent of the late 1930s, when the last thing anyone outside of Germany wanted was another big war, but that’s exactly what they got.
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I see a scenario where Iran completes development of its nuclear program and begins exporting its nuclear materials to its surrogates and dirty bombs are set of in Europe, Israel and America. Nuclear proliferation begins in the ME and we see some small exchanges.
While Europe and America become paralyzed within their own borders handling their dirty bombs and exchange between Israel and ME begins, this should lead to a total collapse of the world financial system.
Then the fun begins.
2016 has tremendous potential.
If you look at the pieces of the puzzle and arrange them together, a few possible scenarios fall out. One scenario is: Putin sees his chance to end the dollar that has been controlling Russia (and the rest of the world) since Bretton Woods by killing the petrodollar.
The US ruling class have been slowly, patiently and methodically inching us down the path to global socialism since the creation of the fed. To achieve global socialism the dollar has to go.
Their goals are co·in·ci·den·tal.
This might appear to be good for us because most, if not all, of us of us reading this web site also want the fed and their dollar to go. BUT… After the end of the dollar, we will be left with a choice. I fear the ruling class knows how to trick the masses of people (the bewildered herd) that they themselves dumped down in public schools into voting for global socialism. Global Slavery.
Other than that, it is a beautiful morning here on the CA central coast!
This coming war is being manipulated into being. Georgia Stones, they only want 500 million world population. That means 7.5 billion have to go. They (we) will go. Jesus will come back.
The Elite, the Agenda and why we aren’t invited to dinner parties..
Who has benefited most from Obama’s presidency? The uber rich have never been richer, the middle-class is shrinking and the poor are many. I’m not saying this is just Obama …we can put Bush and Clinton and many other our establishment leaders in this camp. Whether its right wing or left wing, this bird is flying the same direction. Just look at the current priorities of our so called “representative” government today…TPP and Syria. How are either of these things going to improve you or your neighbors lot in life? TPP will certainly help multinationals improve their profits by making it easier to relocate operations with little penalty to lower cost jurisdictions…. As for Syria…What interest do you or the average American feel we have for that country? But when you look at it from a perspective of a western multinational this is a fertile market for eventual expansion. Whether its Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Ukraine or many other previously non-western sphere markets, the same template is followed every time. Where our leaders and compliant media create straw-men, finance the countries opposition and try to bring about regime change often through force of arms supplied by our government. After which these opposition groups, if they attain victory, are beholden to us, and the barriers are removed for multinational expansion. And on and on it goes….
So in the end, your priorities and the $20 donation you make to the Democrat or Republican party cannot compete with a million dollar donation by a Mark Zuckerberg and his priorities. And when your “representative” has his next dinner party expect Mark to be at the table and not you….
TRVTH. In fact, this is all every ‘murican needs to know about our current system.
Trump has pulled the band aid off of this festering sore. America has become and oligarchy in which the politicians are whores for the elites so out of touch with reality.
One can only hope for a true revolution.
Technically, the .01 of 1% who run Washington D.C. comprise PLUTOCRACY, rather than an oligarchy. In the latter form of government, there is a visible cohort of oligarchs; in a plutocracy, any hidden player with serious wealth, rules.
Restoration of rule of law — and eventually true popular sovereignty — will require a series of tactically shrewd actions by a small remnant of the American people (law enforcement is not a majoritarian function), viz:
Stage 1- Finish ratifying the original First Amendment, the first of the 12 articles in our Bill of Rights and the only one not yet ratified. Only 11 states so far have ratified the Amendment addressing the ONLY issue on which George Washington spoke at the Constitutional Convention: apportioned representation in the US House of Representatives with no more than 50,000 people in a given district. This stage is our “America’s House(tm)” campaign, beginning in 34 state legislatures this coming January.
Stage 2- With the original First Amendment ratified — it will be the 28th Amendment when ratified by 27 more state legislatures — we will have about 6,400 congressional districts (no, that is not too many; the same 320 million of us are represented by 7,383 state legislators) so this is where cultural and fiscal conservatives — America’s producers — can recruit and elect citizen statesmen in the new, totally local districts from coast to coast. This stage is our “AmericaAgain! Good Guys(tm)” campaign.
Stage 3- The key piece is our Bring Congress Home Act, which will of course not pass unless we are successful in Stage 2 and we elect a majority of serious-minded citizen statesmen, to pass it. It will stipulate:
Congress will be distributed in their district offices, NOT based in D.C.; limited to two terms; half the present salary for congressmen (who will represent 1/15th as many people after the 28th Amendment is ratified); zero benefits; only one office per politician; max. staff of two for a congressman and four for a senator; Congress now will operate via telepresence, which is now practical, off-the-shelf tech even for mobile phones and tablets.
The 21st century has come to every area of life with mobile-friendly tech delivering every conceivable product and service….except self-government! Now, that changes.
Citizens and government staffers appearing to testify before committees will now simply show up at their nearest congressman’s office, rather than having to fly to and from D.C. to appear before the high lords of D.C. organized crime.
Congress will be far more representative, and more secure. What will we do with the palatial Capitol Hill complex with its gilded dining rooms and chandeliers and 40-foot ceilings, and its $250 million annual operating costs? Mothball it. Sell it. Raze it, and sell the real estate.
To learn more, read my new book ‘FEAR The People’; available for over $30 at Amazon but also for free in PDF format (all links live). Just go to our website, click on ‘blog’, and look for the free download.
Think America is done for? Yes, Great Depression II is going to be hard on millions, as was the first Great Depression. But this time, we turn the tables on the plutocrats, for good.
http://www.AmericaAgain.net
Interesting, I shall read this book and see where you are coming from.
Its fair to say factually and historically, the reason for the problems in the middle east come from the jews and from Jimmy Carter. It was a pre-arranged peace deal that needed money to sell to their home constituency…or that’s the way the govts sold it to Carter. All Carter had to do was make it look insurmountable and be the hero that got the deal. 40 years later Israel and the jewish neocons have the US involved in every overgrown toe nail in the middle east. The Israeli’s get a free US bully for their evil belligerent hegemony, the jewish financiers get rich off the war debt and the US devolves into the Weimar. Sound Familiar boys and girls. I would expect in the next few years a new Hitler
anti-christ
You are completely wrong,…You believed what your Fuhrer told you & look where it ended for Germany & Nazi’s like you!
You can’t fix stupid. You can’t fix minds that know no sense of reality. Well, it is a reality, but it’s a reality that’s diametrically opposed to rational thought.
This is all the US’s fault as Russia has resisted the ongoing provocations in Ukraine and Syria, up to the point at which it had to decide whether it would become subservient to Washington or keep its independence. China too recognizes the importance of standing up to bully boy Uncle Sam. Fortunately despite the way they are portrayed in the western media both Xi and Putin appear to be more interested in a respectful peaceful solution to these geopolitical problems than open conflict. It is the USA and NATO that threaten the world with militaristic options. Russia is the only country legally in Syria having been invited in by Assad while America encourages terrorism while pretending to fight it.
Exactly.
I will tell you my understanding of the issues & they are not pleasant!
I believe that we will need a terrible financial & political correction before we can start to rebuild.Short of that if the present financial & political establishments maintain control of society they will drain the rest of humanity dry,there is no reasonable way to stop them.The pendulum has swung too far & can not be pushed back to the center while these people are in charge,they are too greedy & corrupt.They will never willingly give up their power to the people!
As far as the middle east is concerned,..the Moslem nations are on the way to complete social & economic collapse.They cannot survive without outside help,we see the beginnings of this crisis even now with the hordes of people pouring out of the Islamic lands headed into Europe.Before they finally go down they will drag Europe with them!
we won’t be rebuilding.
The Middle East has been a disaster since the pyramids were under construction.
Rubbish. There isn’t a country on earth that hasn’t been invaded at some time in its history by some other country/faction that sholudn’t be there. Take a look at Europe if you need any better evidence. To single out the Middle East, just because it’s the most modern focus of conflict, is just a cop out and says more about your own ignorance of history.
IMHO there is a problem on earth related not to geographic or cultural slants but rather Greed and/or indifference. You greedy Americans, for example, just don’t know when to stop. Whether it’s the insatiable appetite of your fake-food eating land whales that graze in Walmart or Wendy’s, or the corporatist monsters that put profit before ALL/ANY other considerations.
Most humans, believe it or not, are reasonably happy with their lot and don’t much want for anything else other than comfort, happiness & a satisfied belly. They have no wish to murder their fellow man for increased shareholder gains. Unfortunately there’s a few individuals that always seem to rise to the top that buck the trend and are more than happy to cause mass slaughter. It’s an illness that for some strange reason humans still appear to worship as success.
Whether in Ancient Rome, Egypt, Sumaria, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa or modern day United States of America. Psychopaths often end up ruining everone else’s day.
Which is why we should be providing each country with tactical nukes so we can settle this cancer forever.
What we are witnessing is end stage socialism. Vampire beneficiaries have sucked workers dry. Central blood banks have been providing supply for years to make up for shortfalls., But now CB supply tanks are exhausted. Now comes the desperate battle for blood. The question everyone is afraid to ask is what happens to the 100 millions of counts when supply’s are not forthcoming? 80 million U.S. Jobs reside in big government, health care, pharmacy, social services, education, insurance, finance and law. There are approximately 140 million U.S. jobs total.
it all goes south with the Russian army.
“…Israel, in this scenario, has no good options…”
Oh, sure it does: it can become a friendly neighbor, free the Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza, and quit — with the U.S. — attempting to foment WWIII.
Muslims are not, in recent history, some bloodthirsty group, always at each others’ throats. The region was of no import until ’47, when the U.S./U.N./U.K. unilaterally displaced Palestinians and created Israel.
There is no need to disestablish Israel, to return to the pre-’47 state of affairs. But, there is a need to establish a Palestinian state, which Jordan was to be.
Anyway, my sense is that the cause of all hate and discontent in the Middle East can be traced back to U.S. meddling, whether it takes the form of propping up the terrible Saudis (you call Assad a dictator; at least he was elected, unlike the House of Saud), encouraging Saddam to invade Iran, providing financial and military support to the Israelis, who then feel free to blacken the eyes of Egyptians, unseating Qaddafi, etc.
I feel very comfortable that the Middle East will be a reasonably peaceable place once the U.S. and its puppeteer, Israel, withdraw to within their borders after the financial crash.
You are deceived by the devil. God promised that land to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. If and when Israel is forced by America and the world to give up more land, God will whack America with most likely a devastating earthquake, just like He did with Hurricane Katrina when Israel was forced to give up Gaza, and is now drenching South Carolina because of a meeting last week at the United Nations to discuss taking away land from Israel. “For when they shall say Peace, Safety.. then comes sudden destruction” (1 Thessalonians 5:3). It will be devastating for America when it happens….
God giving land to one group of Arabs over another seems awful fishy to me. Kind of like those Nigerian scam letter, but scammed the whole world.
Classic.
This gods chosen ppl thing – how’s it worked out for the jews?
Russia played this ME card wondefully….like John said, once financial and political exhaustion set it, they made there move…..supreme tactical intelligence….and to boot – they did in 3 weeks what the US has failed to do in a yr.
The Russians are being suckered into the Middle East just as they were drawn into Afghanistan. This time its not just to bankrupt them but to destroy them, along with secular Israel and the USA.
One anti-christ, coming up.
You should work for the Pentagram
You know something George,
This sort of theological ‘God’s Chosen People’ phrase is never mentioned,one way or another,by Jews.It is usually used by Jew haters who use it like a club to beat on the Jews! The Jewish people are not Interested in this ‘Chosen People’ business,.it’s only an obsession with people like you.
Nice try……suggest you revisit the bible to find reference…..you won’t have to look to far.
Hey, what did you think of BIBIs U.N. speech?
Don’t be cute with me Georgie,
I know who you are,…or rather what you are!
How many Jews going to work in the morning are pondering the meaning of ‘Chosen People’.You can jump on the Catholic Church which calls itself the Universal Church (The only true Church),…is this an elitist statement of superiority over the other Christian churches?
How many Catholics put great stock in this title?
Are these Catholic people working a secret plot against the rest of the world? Of course not,it’s only the Jews plotting against humanity by way of some statements from the Bible made over 2000 years ago!
Georgie,you have your Jewish thingy driving you to distraction!
Georgie,what you are doing is a form of mental masturbation,…you just don’t like Jews but don’t want to say so in so many words!
Your Jew leaders like Bibi and Ariel Sharon and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg would be very disappointed in your attitude…..tsk tsk
Ariel Sharon is now on the other side looking down at you in disbelief.
Thank God for those statements from the Bible made over 2000 years ago, proving to be more true by day by day. Thank God for those Jews who adhere to those statements and know the truth.
America will be destroyed in the same way and for the same reasons. Reject God now He rejects you and you will perish in flames! (wait for the signs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfdFoQg13U
Everything seems fishy to those who have no knowledge of what really goes on in the world. You really need to brush up and then speak
America is in the Bible? Damn! Who would have known.
actually they are, “Mystery Bablyon.” Its hard when you’re uneducated.
Most everyone in Israel will die. A small remnant of Israelis (no secular humanists among them) will survive by making it to Moab and Edom. Read Ezekiel 38 and 39 for what’s about to happen….right now. God “says to Gog-Magog, I will put hooks in your jaws and bring you to your (millions of) deaths upon the hills of Israel.”
Israel “wins,” but not with any weapons, its army destroyed, most of its people dead. The USA has the same fate as Israel.
Hahaha funny fiction. Stay at home with that type of ferry tale.
sorry, fairy tale.
You make me confused with that kind of logic.
You are one simple S.O.B.
Either you have the strategic world view that could have have been written in Disney Land,or more likely your brain is rotting away from that Jew thingy crawling around in what you have left of a mind!
Either X or Y. Hmm…. reminds me of something that could be found in book of Logical Fallacies 101.
Want to google it for yourself, or are you too lazy to even do that?
your logical fallacies are about to go up in flames.
either you are a cretin or a moron.
thank you for playing along.
you are gross
In your case it’s not fallacies,…it’s phallus.
You know,…that thing you love to suck on!
you’re disgusting
You are just envious!
you’re living in a nuclear and brain free zone.
Long live Israel….forever and ever and may America continue it’s support
Churchill and Roosevelt both wanted war with Germany. Sort of like the US and Israel want anything but peace in the ME today. The parallels are amazing.
You are a hate filled fool spouting cliches & accepted wisdom’s you heard somewhere! The only thing consistent in your rant is your dislike of Jews!
What the U.S. government does at the behest of the financial elites who own Washington is one thing,..but what does Israel have to do with it!
Israel is a small nation in the middle of this madhouse trying to survive the maniacs on all sides.What makes you believe Israel is conspiring with the heavy hitters In Washington,London,& Moscow,….it is just a small nation trying to get out of the way!Israel has no motivation to or need to ferment warfare in the region,there is nothing in the region that they need! If Israel wanted to crush the Arabs & rule them they could have done so a long time ago. Overrunning the middle east & conquering the Arabs would be like overrunning a gigantic garbage dump,..who would want to!
Go educate yourself or perhaps you are just an Israeli apologist.
The US is being run by a bunch of rabid pro Israelis. The American Congress is owned by the Israeli lobby. Over 95% of the major media corporations are owned or run by 7 pro Israeli Jews. And the election of representatives and senators is controlled by more psychotic pro Israeli groups such as AIPAC. These are the people along with the CFR who are determining American foreign policy.
Its all part of the PNAC or the Project For A New American Century written up by the likes of Paul Wolfowitz the most rabid Zionist of them all. “We need a new Pearl Harbor.”
Well the inside job called 911 certainly gave them that didn’t it.
If anyone doesn’t understand or is not aware of all this then start educating yourself about what is driving this endless war and murder of innocent people on the other side of the world people who have nothing to do with us and have never done anything against us in their entire lives. The whole idea of Islamic terrorism is nothing but a propaganda tool being used both in Israel and now throughout western society to brainwash the population and to maintain a biased point of view against the Islamic states in the Middle East.
The rabid pro Israelis of AIPAC, the CFR and the pro Israelis who control the Congress have not had enough blood. Zionists hate everyone and trust no one. They are psychopaths in that they do not care even when over 200 thousand innocent Iraqi citizens are murdered to suit their idiotic cause. And now they want America to invade Iran. And for what ? So we can murder another 250 thousand innocent women and children for the benefit of the Orwellian state of Israel. There is a special place in hell awaiting them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37MFa7ZKQWo&list=PL9FD193ED1DDA4E6D&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC4WPe6YJAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHl1JnQoIWQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OswFRgoJqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDFqVdd80c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki9GAE1ZKRIA
I see problems with the oil down the road,any increase in oil will be blame to Russia?
Sure will. Saudi is about to get their Arab spring soon, one way or another. They are selling at a discount to Asia right now, whcih means the demand must be real low. One explosion in the oil field and we will have a new game.
The House of Saud will all be hanged (or nuked). Possibly the Russki’s will set up their own puppet Shi’a House to run Mecca, if it doesn’t get nuked, which it probably will.