By Darius Shahtahmasebi at theantimedia.org
When the current Syrian conflict first erupted in 2011 — and then enflamed in 2012 — a small minority of the American public probably wondered why President Obama was not intervening to help the Syrian people as he had done in Libya (they were likely completely unaware the president had already been interfering heavily in Syria since the conflict began). However, some pundits speculated that Obama would eventually intervene directly, and that this intervention would be the beginning of the end of the American empire as we know it.
What started out as a seemingly hollow prediction has become as true a statement as any. First, American involvement began with funding, arming, and training violent rebels to try to overthrow the Syrian government. Then came attempts to misrepresent so-called “intelligence” to justify military intervention against Assad in 2013. And finally, like a dream come true, Washington was then able to capitalize on the growth of ISIS in Syria, a growth predicted by their own security establishment in 2012, which then became an excuse to start bombing Syrian territory in 2014. By interfering so forcibly in the affairs of Syria, the U.S. has forced a number of countries — notably Iran, China and Russia — to step up and strike back at U.S. efforts to destabilize the region.
Since the beginning of the conflict, Iran has been heavily involved due to the fact Syria is an important ally to the Islamic republic, bound by a mutual defense agreement. Much to the anger of the U.S., just this week, Iran allowed Russia to strike Syrian territory from its Hamadan air base. Iran is supplying ground troops, advisement, and high level training to Syrian pro-Assad forces. They are also providing a credit line, and Iranian involvement is growing in tandem with the two nuclear powers also working in defense of the Syrian regime.
Russia has a history of being involved in Syria, but following its direct military intervention last year, they have shown they can set up their own no fly zone within the country at any moment (note that the Russian intervention is arguably legitimate given that they have received authority from the Assad regime to do so). Despite this, they have continued to extend a hand to Washington to achieve their stated goals of defeating ISIS together.
China has sided with Russia and Syria for some time now, using its veto power at the U.N Security Council levelto block resolutions on Syria — after Russia and China were completely duped by the Security Council resolution on Libya in 2011. China has warned the U.S. against attacking Syria and Iran, and now, they have officially stated they are looking to join the fight on the side of the Syrian government, further complicating the issue from Washington’s standpoint.
Unless the U.S. wants to confront these players directly, it has no choice but to accept that they have lost a war they directly and indirectly started through covert CIA operations that began in 2011 (and as some would argue, well before that). This isn’t a loss in the Iraq or Vietnam sense — which are arguably victories in the eyes of the elite class. Rather, the Syrian war is an operation that has left them with less influence in the region than when the Syrian crisis began (cue picture of John Kerry dining with Bashar al-Assad in Damascus in 2009).
It will be back to the drawing board for Washington, whose only real move is to continue arming and funding fanatical jihadists or encourage Saudi Arabia and Turkey to deliver on their threat to send ground troops into Syria. This will only delay the inevitable, however, and eventually they will have to either admit they have completely lost influence in the Shia-Crescent region of the Middle East — which has, in turn, been snatched up by Russia and China — or directly confront these nuclear powers in an all-out war.
Or they can just wait until Hillary is elected president.
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and the americans will let as i can guess, games of the elite to have the world for them it is the same game… same rules, same technique, same tricks, same technology… if freedom fighters inform as many people as possible of the similarities of vatican games between countries forces they will all wake up + the elite is possible to stop with this ww3 bullshit… just spam servers of communities large ones with that kind of information to wake up… wake up by brute force is still a plan isn’t it… force to people to wake up by injecting information all over the internet… they are trying to have the world for them before any one discovers… where are all the intelligent people in the world to solve problems like this… if no one solves i will solve it my own way… injecting information all over the web overthrow the system by forcing people to read the truth… and main stream media and the whole internet is made for the freedom of speech not circulate like google and facebook, technologies that already existed since the dawn of the internet… email, search engine and chat and communities… why there is no other website system or web framework application that speaks the truth and freedom fighter speech that is currently on top of internet why they are wrongly advertised in a way… does it need secrets of intelligence… inject the whole internet with freedom fighters view and teach people what is and what is not, of course certain people might know they are on the same side but the message is blurred online… if people find out what the elite wants to have the world without no one to know because it was never theirs either so that’s why the New and One in world order… it’s a robbing people, they are robbing us all the ways to survive and being independent and all the intelligent people should read this… when people comprehend what they are doing main stream media stops injecting ideas of war and separation in people… they are on the same side… let’s test this… they are defending the countries you say, against who in what means in what way through what means… the same… and the elite is not against each others because then they would encounter each others and beat each other while it doesn’t happen and they meet once in a while which means they are not in war… if they are in war and no one is let’s mount a fighting ring to see what they are really fighting for… the conspiration has a thousand years or two to conquer the world through secrets of imperialism deepened in ways of deceit in the religions beliefs in the world… I believe this countries maps borders was already a conspiracy so the vatican would have power over states and regions with holded power… so they wouldn’t evolute and at a time they defined the borders of the countries so to not lose and only win… i can guess… why the vatican and illuminati are in the biggest countries because of those secrets of land ownership and borders definition… im sure of that… and the bigger the people, land and resources the more advantage over others… countries borders against the people… and they don’t read vatican books or ancient sacred secret books… use your remote viewing to read those books please… fuck them…
YOUR ALLIANCE IS JUST FINE. CAN YOU TAKE WITH YOU OBAMA AND HILLARY PLEASE???
This is another NWO destabilization attempt. Hillary is absolutely part of and controlled by the NWO (Bilderberg group). Then there is crazy Trump. WTF, where are the sane choices? The Green or the Libertarian Party seem to be the only ones that are opposers of the NWO game plan. And the NWO controlled MSM won’t give them any air time. No debate participation == less exposure == less votes. SUCKS