ERDOGAN, PUTIN AND ROUHANI MEET ONCE AGAIN, BUT
WHO’S MISSING?
The Three Stooges or the Three Musketeers, you
pick. Two huge egos and one Puppet. Three nations meeting to decide the fate of
another nation and all three act like they have the same goals, but they can’t even put together one paragraph for a press release
that doesn’t sound ridiculous. As silly as Egodan’s statements sounded, it was the
Tsar that made me stop and tilt my head like a Dog! “ Syria’s government has
the right to retake all of it’s territories”. Wait….what?....... I have a question…….
If the three of you believe that statement, and I don’t think you do, then why
was the leader of the nation you are trying to save not invited to the meeting?
As soon as that statement sank in, I read the next one from the Puppet about
the US being in Syria illegally. Really? Can the Puppet produce a copy of the invitation
letter sent to the Sultan? At what point in time did Assad say, “come on in Turkey
and slice out a hunk of land for yourself”?
Everybody wants something:
Everybody
wants something out of the Syrian Civil War, and few, if any want the same
thing. The Tsar wants to have a dominant footprint in the region of the world
that produces the one item he worries about. Fuel. The Tsrar wants to disrupt
NATO to the best of Russia’s ability and that explains the “bromance” with the
Sultan. The Sultan wants the Kurds kept in check, but the Sultan also wants the
West / EU / to see he doesn’t need them to be on the world stage, thus his side
of the “bromance” with the Tsar. The Iranians? Well, the Iranians, want to keep
the Arabs killing each other as long as possible and somehow wake up to the delusion
the Mullahs rule over all of Islam. Now, that’s a problem because the Sultan
has that same dream. The Tsar? He could care less about Islam as long as it doesn’t
interfere with his vision of a Russian Empire. So there you have it. Just like
I said at the beginning of the Arab Spring, you have three Empires all striving
to take the lead in the region. The Russian, the Ottoman and the Persian Empires.
Why does the US stay?
The
Donald is like an old tune from the 80s….
“ Should I stay or should I go”, by the Clash…..clash…how appropriate.
As of the 7th of September 2018, it sounds like the US intends on
staying, at least until The Donald tells someone they are leaving again. Training
the Kurds and “others” makes sense if you are going to stick by them long
enough for them to make an impact, but then again, what impact is DC wanting
any of them to make? Yes, the so called training sites are great for infiltration
ops into Iran, whoops…..did I say that? Never mind, but then again, the US
doesn’t need that. They can just fly over and take all the information needed.
So what is the US’s mission in Northern Syria….really? A lot of us think it’s
just a great stick in the eye of the Tsar. Does the US need to be there? Not
really? Does it upset the Russians and the Iranians and the Syrians? Well, it upsets
the Iranians that’s for sure. As for the Russians, probably not. As for Assad
and his so-called government? Who cares….he wasn’t even invited to the meeting.
So, when the US hears, “you need to leave”…..the answer really comes down to, “
Make me”.
What is old is new again:
When
you get right down to it, the beginning of the conflict / Civil War / in Syria
has its roots in the Arab Spring. A rebellion against unjust living conditions
both economically and socially. The Mullahs saw it as a Western plot to toss
out authoritarian governments in the Middle East, after all, the US President
was nearly a card carrying Socialist and he was in love with the Muslim Brotherhood.
So, in the eyes of Tehran, The Arab Spring had to be stopped at all cost. They
had beat back those cries for justice in 2009, but here it came again and this
time it had the US’s backing. Well, like any virus, something I called the Arab
Spring for several years, it got out of control. The next thing you know, the
puppet government in Syria was shooting their own people in the streets and the
military was facing desertions on a daily basses. Just when the Mullahs thought
they had an effective backfire in Syria, one that would keep the Arab Spring
from Iran, the Russians show up with a completely different set of goals. If
the West was going to push Moscow in Eastern Europe and go back on their word,
then Russia would inject itself in the Middle East. Not only that, but they would
begin to entice the unstable Sultan away from the EU and perhaps even NATO. In
the eyes of the Mullah’s the Russians showed up and like any Mob loan, the
interest rates for saving Assad’s rule were more costly than the actual loan.
Trump
comes to power in the US, and the left goes nuts. Not only does the US start to
come apart at the seams, but the DC outlook to the whole Middle East changes
and changes radically. The next thing Tehran knows, the people are back in the streets
of Tehran marching for change and justice. Everything they tried to head off by
letting Syria burndown has now come back to their front door. Somehow this
Businessman wins in the US and the next thing Tehran knows, the whole game
changes. Not only are they no longer going to make money off the West, but now,
the guy in the White House decides to cut Tehran off at the bank account. Yep,
things went from great to Shi- in no time. Yet, here they stand, the three Empires,
all dreaming of a region they believe they will soon rule. I realize there is a
lot of room on that stage they took their picture on today, but the best picture
would be the one that shows each of them holding a dagger behind the other’s
back. Idlib. The Turkish answer is a Turkish
trained “Security Force”. Let’s see how that one goes over when the cameras are
gone. If you live in Idlib, stay in your bomb shelter. That photograph won’t
save your life.
