The US Military coalition attack on Syrian forces in Deir ez-Zor Syria, Sept 17th, 2016 was a cowardly act of mass murder, which was “Approved” by a rabid, out of control war mongering American government.
Message to John Kerry and the US Government, “Get the F**K out of SYRIA and the Middle EAST!! And while your at it, Get the F**K out of the other 160 nations you occupy!
The US military attack on the Syrian army in Deir ez-Zor was intentional, deliberate and a war crime! This American attack was in support of the Daish (ISIS) terrorists on the ground. Terrorists I might add that deal in oil with Turkey!
A word of advice to Russia; “Do NOT enter into ANYMORE Truce agreements with State Terrorists such as the USA or anyone that funds, trains or arms the terrorists, unless all the terrorists are dead. Beware also that deception creeps in the guise of so called friends called Turkey and Israel, both of whom have invaded and attacked the Syrian people and are part of the US war on Syria.
As for US apologists and so-called US diplomats, the US Government should shut its mouth when it comes to words like peace, honour and respect. The US has NO respect for anyone! It has no honour and it certainly is NOT Peaceful! The American Government and Military ARE the Terrorists! Period!! Paragraph!!
Every Free-thinking person in the world, sees right through the American Bullshit and propaganda, just as we see the blatant war crimes the US has committed every year since they began their war of terror after the staged events on 911. We KNOW 911 was an inside job, AND the reason why it was staged…to keep the US petro-dollar as the global reserve currency…and they do it by whatever means they deem necessary, including forced regime change, economic coups, military coups, armed uprisings, colour revolutions and covert war. Nothing the US does is honourable, truthful or for the betterment of human beings. US Imperialism is a malignant cancer on the rest of the world.
The war on terror should be reworded to, “The US War’s of Terror”. How many millions of people have the Americans killed, wounded, or displaced in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Nigeria and Syria? When will US lust for world domination end?! When the F**K will the US Military leave the 160 nations they occupy?!
It’s time to eradicate every single US backed terrorist that was unleashed on Syria and to hell with any truce the Americans think should be imposed in this covert war they created…there should be NO TRUCE with TERRORISTS or bargains made with State terrorists like the USA…and that goes double for the belligerent US vassal states of Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Great Britain and France. NO TRUCE with TERRORIST ARMS SUPPLIERS, TRAINERS, and BACKERS.
The USA and its bloodthirsty weapons peddling partners are the real enemy and terrorists in this world. Everyone online now knows who funds, trains, arms, and gives the terrorists air support especially after the US and its belligerent partners attacked and killed 62 Syrian soldiers in Deir ez-Zor on September 17th, 2016. It was a blatant crime, mass murder, and violation of International law, which MUST carry severe consequences. Those responsible MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE! I want names! I want justice! And I want the US Military and its covert operations personnel to get out of Syria and the Middle East all together! The American Government and Military are the Worlds worst nightmare!
The only people that should be dying in Syria are the terrorists! And the only legitimate coalition against terrorism in Syria is Russia, Iran, and the Syrian Army. All nations that have joined the Illegal US War of Terror are themselves aiding the mass genocide of the Syrian people and WILL be held accountable when all is said and done! I kid you not!
The USA, UK, France, Germany, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel must be made to understand that any violation of Syrian land, water or airspace by their military operations will be met with a military response! Period!! Shoot their god damned planes out of the Sky and blow their bastard tanks and terrorists to pieces! Enough is enough!! Get the F**K out of Syria, America!
Am I angry? You’re F**ken right I’m angry. I’m F**ken fed up with the US Government and their Military / Economic Wars of Terror! It’s time for the evil US Imperial Empire to die! ~ Signed ~ A Pissed Off Canadian!
“US should be ashamed of Deir ez-Zor strike, it's really disgraceful” - Assad's adviser
The United States is a Terrorist Nation and is pushing for all out war in Syria. Please Russia, No more Truce agreements with the American Terrorist State…Please eradicate the terrorists first, and then talk…
A significant rift appears to have opened up between NATO member Turkey and the United States over the July 15th 2016 failed coup on the Erdogan government. The coup has not only sent shock waves throughout Turkey but indeed throughout the global geopolitical arena leaving many to wonder who staged it and what comes next. Was it Fethullah Gulen, the US government, both Gulen and the US government, someone else or was it Erdogan himself?
One of the glaring suspects of who could possibly have staged the Turkish coup is the American Government. If the American’s were involved, then the question is, “Has Erdogan outlived his usefulness to the US governments foreign policy”…or is there something else going on here?
Regardless of who staged the coup, its failure has given Erdogan the one thing he has been seeking since he first came to office, and that’s “Absolute Power”, which he is now using to purge all opposition against him inside the country. At the moment, that makes Erdogan the sole beneficiary of the coup…staged or failed coup, a dictator has risen.
Erdogan’s Purge in Turkey
Erdogan's political purge of those opposing him is not new and has been ongoing since before the coup was even staged. Anyone or any group that opposed Erdogan before the coup was quickly arrested on a myriad of trumped up charges…However, after the failed coup in Turkey, Erdogan quickly seized the opportunity to purge all his political rivals, especially those connected to his arch enemy Fethullah Gulen, citing that they staged the coup against him.
US / Turkey relationship
Has the US / Turkey relationship changed? That all depends on actions taken by the Turkish government going forward, but at the moment, nothing has really changed except finger pointing and word jousts between Turkish officials and the US government…most of which centers around Erdogan’s political rival Fethullah Gulen and the Turkish governments demand for his extradition from the US due to alleged involvement in the coup.
Of course, words are not something to go by, especially when those words come from Erdogan who has a proven track record of lying, deceit and switching sides to benefit his own cause…as for the US government, I can’t remember a time that they told the truth or were honest about anything, so I don’t expect any real information to come from their words…action however is another story.
One thing remains clear, that the US military still occupies Turkey and has a number of nuclear weapons stationed there…pointed at Russia.
Russia / Turkey Relations
Have Russia / Turkey relations changed? Well, since the Turkish government shot down the Russian aircraft over Syria last year, Russian Turkish relations had turned very sour, however, recently, relations between the two countries have improved after Erdogan’s almost apology for shooting down the Russian jet. But again, we are talking about words…words with a small token of action by Turkey to give up the people who shot down the Russian plane and killed the Russian pilot; People I might add, that Erdogan now claims were associated with Fethullah Gulen and his alleged coup…
What we need to see, that proves Turkey is indeed a friend of Russia, is real action, not just mere words…Action such as informing the US & NATO to pack up their nuclear weapons and leave the country; action by Turkey to close its border with Syria to stop all Turkish involvement in the terrorist assault on the Syrian people. Only this type of action by Turkey will convince me that Erdogan is a true friend of Russia.
Gulen the Convenient Excuse
It seems that Fethullah Gulen is Erdogan’s get out of jail free card at the moment because anything that Erdogan has done illegally can now be blamed on the alleged Gulen putch.
This leads me to believe that we are going to see and hear Erdogan blame all the past terrorist associations of his government in Syria on Gulen including the illegal oil trade Erdogan’s family were directly involved with. Everything will now be conveniently blamed on Gulen, weather true or not…this is why I believe Erdogan referred to Gulen in a speech as, “Gulen and his “terrorists” being a “virus”.
Geopolitical Facts on the Ground
The glaring facts on the ground are that the US and its coalition, which includes Turkey, are facing defeat in their war on Syria; an ongoing defeat, which has dragged Turkey deeper into total chaos and ruin despite their NATO status. Defeat in Syria spells enormous trouble for Turkish President Erdogan if he remains in league with US terrorism in Syria.
Yet, the crafty and astonishingly resilient Erdogan seems to have cast off his isolation with Russia by playing the one card he had left in the geopolitical game, an apology to Russia for shooting down their military aircraft over Syria, thus patching up Russia / Turkey relations…a gesture that also benefits the Russians in the wider game of geopolitics and economic stability of the region if "words" can be believed.
As for the Americans, defeat in Syria is a crushing blow that threatens their global economic empire by virtue of losing control of the oil transit routes from Eurasia & the Middle East to energy dependent Europe, a lifeline that props up the American dollar so long as their puppet regimes sell their energy in US dollars. The Independent energy producers such as Russia and Iran have no interest in selling their energy in US dollars because in reality, the US government has imposed a continuous economic war on them…so why should they sell in US dollars?
Considering that Middle East Oil has powered the US economy for the last seven decades, and allowed the US to become a global economic empire, I’d say that the potential loss of energy transit routes through Syria and Turkey play a truly significant roll in the American empire’s decline.
All the Americans have left in this geopolitical game are aggressive war and covert operation cards…cards that include staged uprisings, regime changes, terrorist infiltration, and World War III…the US empire is on the verge of economic collapse by their own hand and are truly desperate to hang on as the worlds only superpower. That makes them very dangerous. Therefore a loss in Syria by the US and its allies will not go unchallenged, as the US government will do anything to find its way back to controlling the region.
It is very feasible that a coup on Turkey’s leader Erdogan was launched by the US and their Turkish connection in order to replace him with someone more obedient to US dictates. If this is the case, then Erdogan has simply become an unreliable problem for the US and outlived his usefulness, much the same way Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did in the 1990’s…
Is Turkey distancing itself from the US?
Although Turkey has been a US / NATO player and terrorist supporter in Syria, that may no longer be the case as we see Turkey begin to back away from regime change in Syria while the US & EU ramp up their diplomatic sparring against their ally and NATO partner…however, action speaks louder than words, so again we are all waiting to see what becomes of this trend.
However, there are some interesting developments happening in Turkey at the moment, as the US military at the Incirlik airbase, has become the focus of growing unrest in the country to toss the Americans out due to the role it is alleged to have had in the Turkish coup.
“Know your place!” Erdogan on US official’s reaction to failed coup aftermath – (2016 July 29)
The fact is, that no matter what the US wants, the Erdogan Government in Turkey has the upper hand in deciding the future of those bases which I’m sure will not be removed overnight. They will however, become a source of irritation and hostile backlash by an increasingly “anti-US” Turkish population, should the Americans refuse to leave if told to.
Turkey’s NATO status must certainly hinge on following US Military dictates to the letter regarding US foreign policy, a US foreign policy that no longer benefits the Erdogan regime due to the American’s close association to the Kurds in Syria.
The American Plan “B” in Syria
Erdogan knows only too well how the Americans work with covert operations against regimes they want removed from power. Erdogan's first hand experience over the last five years with the US terrorist operation against the Syrian government should have taught him something…so Erdogan could be on fragile ground with a US backed regime change coup...And now that the US is working closely with the Kurds, Erdogan had not only been isolated from Russia (before the apology), but if true, he became a redundant part of the long term US plan…The US arming the Kurds may have given Erdogan a dose of reality with visions of regime change dancing in his head. Therefore, once Erdogan puts his internal house in its new order, we should expect a shift in Turkey’s actions regarding his position in Syria…that is, if Erdogan has indeed seen the errors of his way…or if indeed the Americans were involved with the coup.
I don’t expect Erdogan will leave NATO as it serves him as a geopolitical safety tool against Russia…Neither will the US throw Turkey out of NATO due to the geopolitical and strategic importance to them...Although the US is very good at arming terrorists to overthrow governments as we have seen throughout the world.
Erdogan Takes Control
The Coup has given Erdogan the means to purge all of his opponents, as well as ridding himself of foreign interference by placing theTurkish Military under government control. No small feat, but a necessary one if Turkey is to become politically independent from foreign interests or to seize total control of the country…this now seems to be the case.
So which way will Turkey go? The logical answer is quite simple…”Follow the Money”. The Eurasian deal is a much safer way for Erdogan to go since the Syrian peoples victory over western terrorism has left Erdogan Isolated with an unreliable American partner who is in full operation of their Plan “B” with their arming of the Kurds for the goal of creating an independent Kurdish state along the Turkish border. Something of a nightmare for Erdogan as American aid (weapons) could spill into Kurdish hands in Turkey as well…
Added to Erdogan’s dilemma is that EU membership is no longer on the table, while US dictatorial occupation is ripping Turkey apart by plunging it into debt & turmoil...this should make for an easy decision on Erdogan’s part to push away from the US, one would think.
So, a temporary, humbling, hat in hand apology to Russia and Erdogan’s no longer isolated by the Americans…and no matter what the Americans might promise now, Erdogan has a better future with Russia since everything Turkey requires can be found on the New Silk Road.
The Turkish Flip Flop
In the end, there is an economic partnership waiting for Turkey with Russia and China that spans the entire region, including a piece of the energy action with pipelines through Turkey to Europe…a Europe I might add that will not be in a position to say nyet to Russian & Iranian Gas and Oil, simply because, they desperately need it.
By no means is Erdogan a trustworthy character. He’s more like an unstable Mob Boss that will switch sides if it benefits his business interests…What Erdogan and Turkey need to remember is that Independence is a great idea, but if you force your views on other Independent nations such as Syria, Libya, Yemen, Russia etc., you will never again know peace…Turkey has a long way to go to make amends, so here’s my advice to Erdogan: get rid of US and NATO from your country, get out of Syria, seal your border and make peace with the Kurds…and one more thing, don’t double cross your friends a second time…trust is earned, but once trust is broken, one will find himself on shaky foundations…
The American rhetoric on Syria never seems to change, in fact it sounds more like a broken record, as they once again demand that, “Syrian President Bashar al Assad must GO”.
Of course the US government would have us all believe that America is the prime defender of freedom and democracy, but in fact, the complete opposite is true as democratically elected governments throughout the World have been toppled by the US over the last seven decades in more ways than one…Why? Because an independent nation didn’t go along with US dictates…a few examples come to mind, Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, Chile 1973, Ukraine 2014, and there are many more examples…but the question begs asking, “Who gave them that right?” and how many millions will have to die in the name of US Imperialism?
How many times do we have to say it!? “Syria is for the Syrian people to decide!” The future of Syria is not to be decided by a gang of belligerent outsiders like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel, France, Britain or the USA!
Truce in Syria?
The truce in Syria is a farce. The Americans only agreed to the truce because their terrorist forces were getting their butts kicked and they needed time to regroup and rearm. Period!
HEY USA, STOP SUPPLYING THE TERRORISTS WITH WEAPONS!
The Geopolitical Chess Pieces are Being Polished and Put in Place
Get ready for the next faze of this US war of insanity because Turkey’s Erdogan has now consolidated power into a full fledged dictatorship and could launch a military invasion into Syria at anytime without having to ask for the Turkish governments approval. The elimination of the Turkish Prime Ministers position and the repeal of immunity for opposition members in the Turkish parliament has given Erdogan a free hand to do as he pleases without interruption. However, I’m sure he’ll wait for the US to give the green light before doing so.
The US controls Turkey and President Erdogan by virtue of their US / NATO Military Bases on Turkish soil. If the US did not agree with what Erdogan was doing, they would have forced the issue ”by insisting” he stop, as they did with Europe when it came to doing business with Russia… and so I wonder why I have not heard the Americans insist that “Erdogan must go”?
I guess the US government are not very good ambassadors of moral character or good will now are they. The way I see it, the US is molding their Turkish chess piece for the Geopolitical chessboard in Syria.
AND what about the EU? They just gave Erdogan whatever he asked for…and of course it won’t end there, as we have seen as the EU caved into Erdogan’s demand of free visa’s for all Turkish citizens! So, what happens when Erdogan spends all that money on weapons to keep his personal genocide of the Kurds going and needs more money? Why hasn’t the US said anything? Why hasn’t the US “Insisted” Erdogan stop…
Why? Because the US is using Turkey to keep Europe in line with the US military objectives in Syria that’s why…and that objective also comes with a message to the EU not to become economic trade partners with Russia…or else.
Do you think Erdogan the Insane knows that he’s disposable like Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was? Hell, if the US decides Erdogan is no longer useful to them, they already have Davutoglu ready to step in as their next puppet in Turkey
Now that Erdogan has control of Turkey, it’s just a matter of time before he launches an invasion into Syria, citing Kurdish terrorists as the reason. Of course that opens up the gates of hell and brings NATO, Saudi Arabia and the EU with him.
We already know that the terrorists unleashed on Syria are supplied with US weapons funnelled through Turkey…and we know that the recent attacks in Aleppo were launched by these US backed terrorists…the same terrorists that the Kurds and Syrian army are at war with…and as usual the Western mainstream media echo’s their governments position and falsely blame the Syrian and Russian governments for the terrorists shelling of Syrian civilians in Aleppo. When will they get it through their heads that hundreds of millions of people all over the world have had enough and are determined to expose western lies?
The Syria White Helmets Exposed as US UK Agents Embedded with Al Nusra and ISIS
The US is putting all its Geopolitical pieces in place to launch their inevitable Plan “B” for Syria. John Kerry even gives a deadline of August 2016 when this plan will be launched if Bashar al Assad does not obey their dictates…the plan is already in play.
Kerry warns Assad of "repercussions" if truce fails
The US deployment of troops in Syria is a breach of international law, and what comes with these US military personnel is a bigger crime. John McCain hinted at it not long ago saying that they would supply the terrorists with the means to shoot the Russian and Syrian aircraft out of the sky…by doing this they are equipping terrorists with anti-aircraft weapons and who knows what else…
US Senator John McCain says he'd give terrorists means to shoot down Russian planes
There is no free Syrian Army John McCain, there are only US backed terrorist BOOTS ON THE GROUND and war criminals that enable them!
The Real Friends of the Syrian People are Under Attack
All of the countries and organizations that are helping the Syrian people get rid of their Western backed terrorist problem have been attacked in a variety of ways.
The US / NATO military forces have quadrupled their deployment in Eastern Europe; War games are continually conducted throughout the regions surrounding Russia, and the US backed Ukrainian Nazi’s are now building up for an invasion of the Donbass region, which I believe is to force Russia into protecting the Russian speaking citizens of the region while keeping the Russian military busy…of course the mainstream media will then say “see, here’s our proof that Russia has invaded Ukraine.” And even if Russia does not intervene in Donbass, they will still be blamed as if they were the aggressors.
US economic sanctions continue to be enforced on Russia and will soon be extended by the EU after the US government “insists” the EU continue them when sanctions come up for review in June 2016….You can be sure that Russia will be blamed for any and all crimes committed by the Ukraine government…including the failure of the Minsk II agreement.
Brace yourselves for what is to come because the US will not stop their insane drive to remove Bashar Al Assad and will not be satisfied until all or part of Syria is in their economic and geopolitical control…they have summoned the demons of hell to prove it…
The future of the world hangs in the balance and if the 2016 US Presidential election is any indication, the World had better stand up now or we will find ourselves in a raging fire that is out of control…
Is the US getting Ready to Unleash a New Military Offensive in Syria? They already are…
*NOTE: The content below is presented here for reasons of gaining an insightful look into the eyes and mind of the establishments champion Zbigniew Brzezinski;
Brzezinski's lays out his advice regarding geopolitical and economic conquest in the 21st Century.
There are some very interesting admissions by Zbigniew Brzezinski in the video and text below that also clarifies the western establishments position while shedding light on the way they perceive the ongoing geopolitical conflicts throughout the world.
Reflections on Global History in the 20th Century: Towards a New Vision for the 21st Century 2 – (Dec 14, 2015)
As its era of global dominance ends, the United States needs to take the lead in realigning the global power architecture.
Five basic verities regarding the emerging redistribution of global political power and the violent political awakening in the Middle East are signaling the coming of a new global realignment.
The first of these verities is that the United States is still the world’s politically, economically, and militarily most powerful entity but, given complex geopolitical shifts in regional balances, it is no longer the globally imperial power. But neither is any other major power.
The second verity is that Russia is experiencing the latest convulsive phase of its imperial devolution. A painful process, Russia is not fatally precluded – if it acts wisely – from becoming eventually a leading European nation-state. However, currently it is pointlessly alienating some of its former subjects in the Islamic southwest of its once extensive empire, as well as Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia, not to mention the Baltic States.
The third verity is that China is rising steadily, if more slowly as of late, as America’s eventual coequal and likely rival; but for the time being it is careful not to pose an outright challenge to America. Militarily, it seems to be seeking a breakthrough in a new generation of weapons while patiently enhancing its still very limited naval power.
The fourth verity is that Europe is not now and is not likely to become a global power. But it can play a constructive role in taking the lead in regard to transnational threats to global wellbeing and even human survival. Additionally, Europe is politically and culturally aligned with and supportive of core U.S. interests in the Middle East, and European steadfastness within NATO is essential to an eventually constructive resolution of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
The fifth verity is that the currently violent political awakening among post-colonial Muslims is, in part, a belated reaction to their occasionally brutal suppression mostly by European powers. It fuses a delayed but deeply felt sense of injustice with a religious motivation that is unifying large numbers of Muslims against the outside world; but at the same time, because of historic sectarian schisms within Islam that have nothing to do with the West, the recent welling up of historical grievances is also divisive within Islam.
Taken together as a unified framework, these five verities tell us that the United States must take the lead in realigning the global power architecture in such a way that the violence erupting within and occasionally projected beyond the Muslim world—and in the future possibly from other parts of what used to be called the Third World—can be contained without destroying the global order. We can sketch this new architecture by elaborating briefly each of the five foregoing verities.
First, America can only be effective in dealing with the current Middle Eastern violence if it forges a coalition that involves, in varying degrees, also Russia and China. To enable such a coalition to take shape, Russia must first be discouraged from its reliance on the unilateral use of force against its own neighbors—notably Ukraine, Georgia, the Baltic States—and China should be disabused of the idea that selfish passivity in the face of the rising regional crisis in the Middle East will prove to be politically and economically rewarding to its ambitions in the global arena. These shortsighted policy impulses need to be channeled into a more farsighted vision.
Second, Russia is becoming for the first time in its history a truly national state, a development that is as momentous as it is generally overlooked. The Czarist Empire, with its multinational but largely politically passive population, came to an end with World War I and the Bolshevik creation of an allegedly voluntary union of national republics (the USSR), with power resting effectively in Russian hands, took its place. The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 led to the sudden emergence of a predominantly Russian state as its successor, and to the transformation of the former Soviet Union’s non-Russian “republics” into formally independent states. These states are now consolidating their independence, and both the West and China—in different areas and different ways—are exploiting that new reality to Russia’s disadvantage. In the meantime, Russia’s own future depends on its ability to become a major and influential nation-state that is part of a unifying Europe. Not to do so could have dramatically negative consequences for Russia’s ability to withstand growing territorial-demographic pressure from China, which is increasingly inclined as its power grows to recall the “unequal” treaties Moscow imposed on Beijing in times past.
Third, China’s dramatic economic success requires enduring patience and the country’s awareness that political haste will make for social waste. The best political prospect for China in the near future is to become America’s principal partner in containing global chaos of the sort that is spreading outward (including to the northeast) from the Middle East. If it is not contained, it will contaminate Russia’s southern and eastern territories as well as the western portions of China. Closer relations between China and the new republics in Central Asia, the post-British Muslim states in Southwest Asia (notably Pakistan) and especially with Iran (given its strategic assets and economic significance), are the natural targets of Chinese regional geopolitical outreach. But they should also be targets of global Sino-American accommodation.
Fourth, tolerable stability will not return to the Middle East as long as local armed military formations can calculate that they can be simultaneously the beneficiaries of a territorial realignment while selectively abetting extreme violence. Their ability to act in a savage manner can only be contained by increasingly effective—but also selective—pressure derived from a base of U.S.-Russian-Chinese cooperation that, in turn, enhances the prospects for the responsible use of force by the region’s more established states (namely, Iran, Turkey, Israel, and Egypt). The latter should also be the recipients of more selective European support. Under normal circumstances, Saudi Arabia would be a significant player on that list, but the current inclination of the Saudi government still to foster Wahhabi fanaticism, even while engaged in ambitious domestic modernization efforts, raises grave doubts regarding Saudi Arabia’s ability to play a regionally significant constructive role.
Fifth, special attention should be focused on the non-Western world’s newly politically aroused masses. Long-repressed political memories are fueling in large part the sudden and very explosive awakening energized by Islamic extremists in the Middle East, but what is happening in the Middle East today may be just the beginning of a wider phenomenon to come out of Africa, Asia, and even among the pre-colonial peoples of the Western Hemisphere in the years ahead.
Periodic massacres of their not-so-distant ancestors by colonists and associated wealth-seekers largely from western Europe (countries that today are, still tentatively at least, most open to multiethnic cohabitation) resulted within the past two or so centuries in the slaughter of colonized peoples on a scale comparable to Nazi World War II crimes: literally involving hundreds of thousands and even millions of victims. Political self-assertion enhanced by delayed outrage and grief is a powerful force that is now surfacing, thirsting for revenge, not just in the Muslim Middle East but also very likely beyond.
Much of the data cannot be precisely established, but taken collectively, they are shocking. Let just a few examples suffice. In the 16th century, due largely to disease brought by Spanish explorers, the population of the native Aztec Empire in present-day Mexico declined from 25 million to approximately one million. Similarly, in North America, an estimated 90 percent of the native population died within the first five years of contact with European settlers, due primarily to diseases. In the 19th century, various wars and forced resettlements killed an additional 100,000. In India from 1857-1867, the British are suspected of killing up to one million civilians in reprisals stemming from the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The British East India Company’s use of Indian agriculture to grow opium then essentially forced on China resulted in the premature deaths of millions, not including the directly inflicted Chinese casualties of the First and Second Opium Wars. In the Congo, which was the personal holding of Belgian King Leopold II, 10-15 million people were killed between 1890 and 1910. In Vietnam, recent estimates suggest that between one and three million civilians were killed from 1955 to 1975.
As to the Muslim world, in Russia’s Caucasus, from 1864 and 1867, 90 percent of the local Circassian population was forcibly relocated and between 300,000 and 1.5 million either starved to death or were killed. Between 1916 and 1918, tens of thousands of Muslims were killed when 300,000 Turkic Muslims were forced by Russian authorities through the mountains of Central Asia and into China. In Indonesia, between 1835 and 1840, the Dutch occupiers killed an estimated 300,000 civilians. In Algeria, following a 15-year civil war from 1830-1845, French brutality, famine, and disease killed 1.5 million Algerians, nearly half the population. In neighbouring Libya, the Italians forced Cyrenaicans into concentration camps, where an estimated 80,000 to 500,000 died between 1927 and 1934.
More recently, in Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989 the Soviet Union is estimated to have killed around one million civilians; two decades later, the United States has killed 26,000 civilians during its 15-year war in Afghanistan. In Iraq, 165,000 civilians have been killed by the United States and its allies in the past 13 years. (The disparity between the reported number of deaths inflicted by European colonizers compared with the United States and its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan may be due in part to the technological advances that have led to the ability to use force more precisely, and in part as well to a shift in the world’s normative climate.) Just as shocking as the scale of these atrocities is how quickly the West forgot about them.
In today’s postcolonial world, a new historical narrative is emerging. A profound resentment against the West and its colonial legacy in Muslim countries and beyond is being used to justify their sense of deprivation and denial of self-dignity. A stark example of the experience and attitudes of colonial peoples is well summarized by the Senegalese poet David Diop in:
“Vultures”
In those days,
When civilization kicked us in the face
The vultures built in the shadow of their talons
The blood stained monument of tutelage…
The growing evocation of these memories, in the Muslim world and increasingly beyond, shows how the past still influences the present, but it certainly does not justify the violent behaviors that are transpiring in the Middle East today.
Given all this, a long and painful road toward an initially limited regional accommodation is the only viable option for the United States, Russia, China, and the pertinent Middle Eastern entities. For the United States, that will require patient persistence in forging cooperative relationships with some new partners (particularly Russia and China) as well as joint efforts with more established and historically rooted Muslim states (Turkey, Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia if it can detach its foreign policy from Wahhabi extremism) in shaping a wider framework of regional stability. Our European allies, previously dominant in the region, can still be helpful in that regard.
A comprehensive U.S. pullout from the Muslim world favored by domestic isolationists, could give rise to new wars (for example, Israel vs. Iran, Saudi Arabia vs. Iran, a major Egyptian intervention in Libya) and would generate an even deeper crisis of confidence in America’s globally stabilizing role. In different but dramatically unpredictable ways, Russia and China could be the geopolitical beneficiaries of such a development even as global order itself becomes the more immediate geopolitical casualty. Last but not least, in such circumstances a divided and fearful Europe would see its current member states searching for patrons and competing with one another in alternative but separate arrangements among the more powerful trio.
A constructive U.S. policy must be patiently guided by a long-range vision. It must seek outcomes that promote the gradual realization in Russia (probably post-Putin) that its only place as an influential world power is ultimately within Europe. China’s increasing role in the Middle East should reflect the reciprocal American and Chinese realization that a growing U.S.-PRC partnership in coping with the Middle Eastern crisis is an historically significant test of their ability to shape and enhance together wider global stability.
The alternative to a constructive vision, and especially the quest for a one-sided militarily and ideologically imposed outcome, can only result in prolonged and self-destructive futility. For America, that could entail enduring conflict, fatigue, and conceivably even a demoralizing withdrawal to its pre-20th century isolationism. For Russia, it could mean major defeat, increasing the likelihood of subordination in some fashion to Chinese predominance. For China, it could portend war not only with the United States but also, perhaps separately, with either Japan or India or with both. And, in any case, a prolonged phase of sustained ethnic, quasi-religious wars pursued through the Middle East with self-righteous fanaticism would generate escalating bloodshed within and outside the region, and growing cruelty everywhere.
The fact is that there has never been a truly “dominant” global power until the emergence of America on the world scene. Imperial Great Britain came close to becoming one, but World War I and later World War II not only bankrupted it but also prompted the emergence of rival regional powers. The decisive new global reality was the appearance on the world scene of America as simultaneously the richest and militarily the most powerful player. During the latter part of the 20th century no other power even came close.
That era is now ending. While no state is likely in the near future to match America’s economic-financial superiority, new weapons systems could suddenly endow some countries with the means to commit suicide in a joint tit-for-tat embrace with the United States, or even to prevail. Without going into speculative detail, the sudden acquisition by some state of the capacity to render the America militarily broadly inferior would spell the end of America’s global role. The result would most probably be global chaos. And that is why it behooves the United States to fashion a policy in which at least one of the two potentially threatening states becomes a partner in the quest for regional and then wider global stability, and thus in containing the least predictable but potentially the most likely rival to overreach. Currently, the more likely to overreach is Russia, but in the longer run it could be China.
Since the next twenty years may well be the last phase of the more traditional and familiar political alignments with which we have grown comfortable, the response needs to be shaped now. During the rest of this century, humanity will also have to be increasingly preoccupied with survival as such on account of a confluence of environmental challenges. Those challenges can only be addressed responsibly and effectively in a setting of increased international accommodation. And that accommodation has to be based on a strategic vision that recognizes the urgent need for a new geopolitical framework.
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*The author acknowledges the helpful contribution of his research assistant Paul Wasserman, and the scholarship on the subject of colonial brutality by Adam Hochschild, Richard Pierce, William Polk, and the Watson Institute at Brown University, among others.
Zbigniew Brzezinski is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and was the National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977-81. He is the author, most recently, of Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power.
It’s been said many times that Saudi Arabia has 25% of the Worlds known oil reserves and that's a huge amount, because global economics depends heavily on oil energy to foster growth…but what happens when after 60 years of extraction the oil in Saudi Arabia goes into terminal decline? The answer is economic collapse…
The above headline should have raised the attention and anxiety levels of many people around the world...but this very significant statement seems to have passed by without much notice...but it should be a huge wake up call.
“OIL” is the sole natural resource that Saudi Arabia possesses, so their plan to sell off all their oil assets tells me that they have now passed a critical point in their oil production and have entered a serious phase of “Terminal Decline”…You can be sure that the oil left in the ground is not worth 2 Trillion dollars so I would caution and say “Buyer Beware!” but also caution that if Saudi Arabia has indeed gone past their peak, then the world is in for a very bumpy ride as indeed the Saudi’s have already dragged us through their insane extremist mindset in Syria, Yemen, Libya, and many other places across Asia, Africa and the Middle East to hide this fact…
The panic within the house of Saud is there for all to see and became evident in a 2013 open letter by Prince Alwaleed, the nephew of deceased king, Abdullah, where he revealed that “92% of the Saudi government budget relies on oil revenues”. He also expressed that "Revenue diversification is a must, and that it necessitates a clear vision that should be implemented immediately," He also called on Saudi authorities to prepare plans to generate nuclear energy and renewable energy to "reduce local consumption of oil as soon as possible". These startling concerns point to the Saudi’s being in an advanced state of “Terminal Decline” and that the action required by the Saudi regime was extremely urgent.
For a country that claims to be swimming in oil, the alarm here is quite clear, that there just isn’t going to be enough oil for the country to sustain its future needs. The timing of the announcement is also interesting as their total financial support of the ISIL terrorist army had not yet come into being, nor had they declared war on Yemen at that point...and oil was trading well over $100.00 per barrel.
Today, the oil revenue of Saudi Arabia does not even cover the Saudi government budget so we must look at all the reasons for why that is.
Saudi Arabia ramps up austerity to avoid budget deficit
Much has been said about Saudi Arabia keeping their oil output high to drive global prices lower to keep shale oil competition out of the market…that would be true if the Saudi’s were in a strong financial position to launch such an economic war…but they clearly were not in good financial shape and they knew it…And since the Saudi’s needed money it would have been better for them to reduce their production and drive the market prices higher rather than keeping the price low through a higher production…It makes no logical sense that they would lower the price of oil when they knew it would cause them economic disaster…this is one area that panic could have influenced their actions…but they knew that losing this economic gamble would drive them to financial ruin…now they are in a position that they need to sell off all their oil assets…and they are indeed in a panic.
Also of special note, within Prince Alwaleed’s open letter is that he calls for the acquisition of nuclear energy as an alternative to oil…this statement should give everyone pause considering the sociopathic and sadistic actions this regime has employed against the people of the region through their outright sponsoring of terrorism and twisted belief in supremest ideology.
Another big give away that I believe furthers the argument of Saudi Arabia’s Terminal oil Decline was that in November 2013, the Saudi’s announced that they were going to deport hundreds of thousands of foreign workers who mostly worked in the oil industry, and its supporting community. They cited that it was to create jobs for their own people and yet the deportations were brutal and massive in scope. As most managerial people know, training unskilled workers to do the jobs that skilled and experienced workers held before them is a very costly and time consuming process…especially when a large segment of the skilled foreign worker pool is replaced…results don't happen overnight so things just don’t add up unless the thought of peak oil comes into the picture…
Saudi Arabia to deport thousands of Egyptian workers - (2013)
When a nation deports people on a massive scale such as this, they are preparing for an economic calamity and or an immanent war. This was a very drastic and paranoid move by the Saudi government in 2013…and as we look back, the war on Yemen and their own economic collapse had not happened yet.
Corruption in the House
Going back to an article from 2003 titled “The Fall of theHouse of Saud” written by ex CIA officer “Robert Baer” in “The Atlantic”, the number of family members in the house of Saud, was between 10,000 to 12,000 and rising. He reports that they were emptying the royal treasury by their increasing demand for royal stipends while also boldly engaging in criminal activity.
Fraud certainly took its toll on the Saudi government budget, but I have no doubt, that some of those criminal schemes were put to an end by King Abdullah while he was building and funding his terrorist army and training schools in other nations.
Indeed, the Saudi’s support and funding of fanaticism, terrorism, and war throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Eurasia has taken a severe toll on Saudi money reserves, so much so that they have actually had toborrow billions of dollars to meet this years budget.
The Saudi’s were the largest exporter of oil to the world, with 25% of known global oil reserves. They made a lot of money over the past 45 years and it looks increasingly clear that many of the Saud family members have squandered their entire fortune on maintaining a lavish criminal lifestyle while also shouldering the cost of their violent ideology while warring on neighbouring countries…all while the general population of Saudi Arabia lives in a state of brutal abject poverty…
Documentary - Saudi Arabia Uncovered
Saudi Arabia is now trying to ward off national bankruptcy by implementing austerity measures. According to the IMF, the Saudi’s would need the selling price of oil to be around $106.00 per barrel just to avoid a budget deficit. But in 2013 according to the IMF, Saudi Arabia needed $89.00 per Barrel to balance its budget and in 2012 it needed $78.00 per barrel to balance its budget.
The Saudi argument in 2013 for their budget deficit was that the shale oil Industry in the USA was responsible for their decline in oil sales, but today the shale oil industry is in complete decay. The amount of cash required for a barrel of oil, to balance the Saudi budget, has risen exponentially year on year. Where more than 90% of the budget is dependent on the sale of oil…
Here’s the thing, once an oil pocket recedes past a certain point, water has to be pumped in to maintain the outflow…however, as the oil is extracted, more water has to be pumped in to maintain pressure and therefore more water has to be separated from the oil which in turn increases the cost of extracting it. The costs rise exponentially until the oil well is no longer productive. Once the increased cost of oil extraction passes the actual market price per barrel then it is no longer profitable…if your budget requires $106.00 per barrel and the price of oil is below that, then losses are going to occur. Today’s oil prices are hovering between $30.00 and $40.00 per barrel…. UMMMM, Houston, they have a problem…
If the Saudi’s need money, then ideally, all they have to do is cut production to drive the oil price up, but instead they will sell their oil assets? It doesn’t add up, unless they have gone into terminal decline and need to sell off their oil assets to secure some sort of future…
The global economy is contracting and therefore oil is not in as big a demand as it would be with a growing economy, and that really is the global situation today, economic contraction worldwide…but it doesn’t answer the question as to why the Saudi’s would sell off their ONLY resource and their only future, because oil powers economic growth, not just for the present, but for the future as well…there are many things the Saudi's could do to save money...one would be to stop buying weapons from all the western countries, and cut some of those royal stipends that seem to find their way into offshore accounts...
Maybe the Saudi’s should not invest themselves in criminal wars! After all, funding global terrorism and waging war on other countries like Syria and Yemen does drain a treasury dry now doesn’t it...just ask the Americans…add to that the internal fraud, lavish lifestyles and the funded projects of its twisted Ideology all over the World…but I digress…
I believe that Saudi oil is in severe terminal decline, and since the US dollar is deeply connected with Saudi Arabia who controls OPEC, the American’s might be trying to distance themselves from the Saudi’s as we are witnessing with the list of people just thrown under the bus by the planned leak of the “Panama Papers”.
The leaked documents include the Saudi King along with some of his associates from Qatar, Jordan, and U.A.E. How wonderfully convenient if you are trying to distance yourself from a few used up dictators and their involvement of war crimes and crimes against humanity by having a leak…adding Petro (Petrol) Poroshenko means he is no longer useful as well…
Could they be preparing for an immanent stock market crash? After all, a sharp decline of 25% in global oil production will certainly have an effect on the global stock markets. Anyone who is in debt will want to be sure that they are liquid when it happens, but don’t stash your cash in Panama…because one might find themselves shaken down in the upcoming lawsuits that will help the US recover some of their 19 Trillion dollar deficit before they go down in flames…
Then again, maybe the US is desperate to find a way back into the Middle East and offered Putin a bribe or a blackmail threat when John Kerry showed Vladimir Putin what was in his briefcase…judging by all the smirks, the Russians already knew what John Kerry was up to…
If the Saudi’s are in terminal decline, and I believe they are, then the US Oligarch’s will do anything to retain their power and that means they need a way back into the Middle East but at the moment, they have no choice but to deal with Russia or continue in the same direction that the Saudi Regime is headed…bankruptcy…after all, oil is what powers an economy and the US must import a great deal of oil to power its military and keep their economy afloat…the energy future belongs to Russia… ----------------------------------
Why does the US continue to insist on regime change in Syria even though they have no right to do so? I mean, we were all brought up in the west to believe that the Democratic process, is the only way to change a government…a democratic process that the American’s claim to embrace and champion. So when the US and Saudi Arabia insist that the Syrian government must go, what they really show is dictatorship and what they really want is a puppet government that will bend to their economic dictates.
To understand why the US government insists on regime change in Syria, we have to step back and look at the entire picture to get to the heart of why the US is pushing for it, or in the event that they don’t get their way with regime change, why they will insist on Balkanizing Syria into two or three states…to do that we need to look at it from an economic perspective, which is really the heart of what drives the American Military policy and everything they are interested in…
The one important tool that powers an economy and drives economics is energy, to be more precise, oil and gas.
The fact that Eurasia and the Middle East holds about 75% of the world’s known oil and gas is no secret. It is also no secret that every American adventure in these regions have been to wrest control of the oil and gas from Independent nations as we saw by the US coup of Mohammed Mosaddeq in Iran in 1953, and by the US Invasion of Iraq in 2003 when Saddam Hussain decided to sell his nations oil in Euro’s…
What we see when an independent nation refuses to go along with the dictates of the US and its European allies, such as Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, and Syria 2011, we see war crimes and the total obliteration of nations by militaristic means either directly as they did to Iraq with an invasion and occupation, covert means as they did to Syria by arming funding and training terrorist to remove the government, or by a combination of the both as they did to Libya…
Iran, Russia, and Syria are independent nations in the heart of the oil rich region, as are Saudi Arabia and the gulf state nations. However, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Bahrain are already under US control and influence, which is why these nations can get away with the atrocities they have been committing. Any friend of the US economic coalition is pardoned for war crimes and crimes against humanity…witness Israel, Turkey, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia…
The Two Main US Allies in the Destruction of Syria are Saudi Arabia and Turkey, why is that?
Well Saudi Arabia is attached to the hip with the US dollar, and are heavily invested in corporate America. If the US goes down, they go down with them…
Turkey hosts the main oil transit routes from the Caspian Sea basin that is controlled by Western Interests. In other words NATO and the US Military occupy Turkey therefore Erdogan follows whatever he is told by the US government.
Why is Syria Being Targeted?
Through its economic independence from the United States, Syria offers an independent transit route for Iran, Iraq and Russia to bring their oil and gas through to the Mediterranean and into Europe, bypassing US control.
We have to remember that Europe does not have the energy supply it requires to maintain its economic status and therefore has become increasingly dependent on the US to secure its oil and gas. The US in turn requires Europe to continue their economic partnership including buying everything in US dollars, the global reserve currency. Doing so allows the US to retain its economic hegemony around the world…but that hegemony is vulnerable when it comes to energy and who controls it…especially when it is not in US control.
The US government and its European partners are bankrupt and have watched their oil assets dwindle past peak. They no longer have control of their own destiny so they feel that they must plunder and control the oil and gas producing nations around the world to maintain their economic power.
The US failure in Syria is monumental in that the outcome will allow independent economic interests to provide Europe with the energy their economies need down the road. Europe will not need the US anymore…
The cost to the US will be its economic empire and their global reserve currency. Not that the US has any right to control something that does not belong to them, they do not have that right, but they act as if they do…like a bully.
The US Energy War with Russia
The US has threatened Russia in every venture it has tried when it comes to building energy supply lines as we have seen by the US / NATO military stand in Ukraine, Poland, Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia…and when it comes to building alternate energy supply routes from Russia through Eastern Europe in places like Bulgaria, the US puts the screws to the European Union and forces them to impose sanctions on Russia, citing Russian involvement in Ukraine…all of which are gross US fabrications…
The recent agreement for a direct gas pipeline between Germany and Russia through the Baltic Sea was met by a US economic attack on Germany and indeed further threats on Europe with the influx of Saudi and Turkish backed terrorists hidden amongst the legitimate victims of American Imperial wars…These active terrorist tools are now residing all over Europe just waiting for a phone call to do US / Saudi / Turkish bidding should the European’s continue to move towards an economic partnership with Russia…To the people of the EU, one should look no further than their own backyard and the security they have hired to guard it on the seas and in the air…including the 6 Billion extortionist man named Erdogan…
US Determined to Get Their Way
The US continues to call for regime change in Syria and if they cannot get that then Balkanizing Syria will become the Americans priority because having a government that they can control in Syria or having a balkanized state emerge from Syria under their influence, that lays between Iraq and the Mediterranean sea, would stop the Independent nations, of Iran, Iraq, and Russia from laying pipelines to Europe…the US will maintain its hegemony over the World if they control Syria…plain and simple.
Therefore, the US is NOT an honest broker when it reaches out to Russia as a so called willing partner to end the terrorism in Syria, terrorists that the US armed, trained and funded to overthrow the Syrian government. The American government will never change their position on Syria. The question is, how far will the Americans go to force the issue…a World War?
The repressive regime in Saudi Arabia has been Exposed for what it truly is, a barbaric totalitarian state that is brutal to it’s own people and all other people of the world. Here is humanity’s primary terrorist cancer cell…and your Western leaders approve of them…
Video Report Below:
Meet the new head of the United Nations panel on Human Rights: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Abby Martin takes us inside the brutal reality of this police-state monarchy, and tells the untold people's history of resistance to it. With a major, catastrophic war in Yemen and looming high-profile executions of activists, The Empire Files exposes true nature of the U.S.-Saudi love affair.
Inside Saudi Arabia: Butchery, Slavery & History of Revolt
With 261 billion barrels of crude oil lying beneath its soil, Saudi Arabia remains the lynchpin in the international oil grab presided over by the four horsemen; Shell, Chevron, British Petroleum, Exxon. As of 1990 Aramco (Arabian American Oil Company) produced over 8 million barrels of crude oil a day, ensuring the Saudi role as "swing producer". During the 1991 Gulf War Aramco underwent another expansion and now cranks out an unprecedented 10 million barrels a day. Aramco's primary construction contractor is Bechtel, a San Francisco-based private company that is the largest engineering firm in the world.
In 1981 the US and Saudi governments spearheaded an effort to create the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), consisting of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and UAE. All except Oman are members of OPEC. The elite families of the six GCC nations; Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and UAE are heavily invested in Western economies. High volume crude oil production keeps this investment capital flowing to Wall Street while allowing the GCC elites to live opulent lifestyles, in this way the volume of oil production is much more important than the price received for the oil for Western bankers and the GCC monarchs alike.
Saudi Arabia, the big oil & US foreign policy (1 of 2)
Western leaders support this repressive Saudi regime because it has a lot of oil yet it has toppled other oil producing nations and seized their assets for far, far less...so what is it about Saudi Arabia that allows our western governments to keep this repressive mobster regime in power? Maybe it is because they also do not value human life and are of mobster mentality. After all birds of a feather flock together, or in this case, common cancer will metastasize together.
If people all over the world were to rise up and call out their governments to stop supporting this inhuman regime I do believe we would see an end to it...because to continue supporting this regime is to allow terrorism, butchery, and rabid evil to have a free hand all over the world, including all the European states that are experiencing terrorist attacks right now...Rise up and DEMAND an IMMEDIATE cessation of relations with Saudi Arabia!
