Unscrambling the Syrian upheaval
Who's who and what's to come
Given the number of countries involved in the Middle East power struggle, and given how many of these countries are using mercenaries and front organizations to enforce their interests (often with the intent of creating misdirection), it’s no wonder that the analyses being proffered by a spectrum of pundits are all over the lot when it comes to who’s fighting whom and who’s got the upper hand.
Trying to diagram the allies and the enemies ends up looking like a child’s crayon scribbling:
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/ww3steria-best-syria-memesLet’s try to clear away the subterfuge by looking at the players and their objectives before and during the recent upheaval:
The government of Syria under Assad, which was backed by Russia and Iran via Russian air power and various armed Islamic fundamentalist troops (Hezb’Allah, et al.) on the ground to supplement the Syrian army. 70% of the population is Sunni Muslim, 13% Shia Muslims, and less than 10% Christians. Ethnically, 60% of the people are Arabs, 11% Alawites, 9% Levantines, and 9% Kurds.
The government of Lebanon, at one time a majority Christian nation that later operated under a power-sharing agreement where Lebanon's president must always be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim, and the speaker of parliament a Shiite. Muslims became a majority under an intentional policy (supported by Jordan and Syria) of pushing Muslim refugees into Lebanon.
The government of Israel which, like the US, UK, most of the EU, Saudi Arabia, etc., is controlled by the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel and its global for-profit corporate pyramid. Israel serves as an air strip for the cartel’s military operations. The citizens of Israel are among the most vaxxed in the world, which indicates their lowly status in the cartel’s eyes.
The government of Saudi Arabia, which generally aligns itself with the cartel while paying lip service to its Muslim population. Saudi Arabia is opposed to Iran’s objective of running a pipeline across Syria to a port on the Mediterranean and competing with Saudi oil.
The government of Iran, a totalitarian caliphate under the rule of an Islamic imam, that seeks to enforce its religious beliefs on the rest of the world via armed brigades (Hamas, Hezb’Allah, the Islamic Jihad, et al.). It’s revenues are oil-based, with China being its largest customer, followed by South Korea, India, Japan, and Turkey.
The government of Russia, which is the world’s third largest oil exporter after the US and Saudi Arabia, despite US sanctions based on the false charge that Russia initiated the war in Ukraine. The governments of the US and EU are continually trying to crack down on European purchases of Russian oil, causing a disruption in the growth of Russia’s economy, some of which has been restored via trade with China and others. Russia’s air force was largely responsible for Syria regaining some of its land stolen by the US and its proxies in the wake of 9-11, although the US retained control over key oil fields and prime agricultural land. The US, UK, French, and German war against Russia in Ukraine has diverted Russian military assets away from Syria.
The government of the US, whose goal of taking down Syria date back to 1947. The cartel's “reasoning” for this objective has not changed in the subsequent 77 years:
1983 CIA Document Reveals Plan To Destroy Syria, Foreshadows Current Crisis
Syria was a sovereign nation that controlled its own central bank and currency, possessed substantive oil deposits, and a fair share of gold bullion.
While the US successfully destroyed a series of nations (Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, etc.) that it had targeted prior its 9-11 false flag, its attacks on Syria were stalled by Russian air support for Syria’s defenses. The US then engaged Israel and created a set of mercenaries (the Syrian rebel army, ISIS and its variants [ISIL, Daesh, al Qaeda, etc.]) that focused on continuing the ground war against Syria, while the US pretended to be in the region “to fight ISIS.”
When the recent offensive of these cartel-sponsored armies was on the verge of deposing Assad, as they eventually did, President-elect Donald Trump said on December 7th that the U.S. should not be involved in the conflict in Syria. As absurd as his remarks were, their disingenuousness was not surprising, and short-lived at that:
Two days later, the US told the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that they had to withdraw from the northern border city of Manbij and head east across the Euphrates River, after handing the city over to predominantly Sunni Arab rebels of the Syrian National Army (SNA).
This edict stemmed from a truce brokered by the US in which the SDF agreed to pull out of the city in exchange for assurances that Turkey and its SNA allies would not attack the SDF east of the river. After some resistance on SDF’s part, the agreement was enforced.
As it stands today, the deal fulfills assurances — originally made by Obama administration officials in the early years of the illusory US-led campaign to destroy the Islamic State (ISIS), which it created — that the SDF would not advance west of the Euphrates River. They did anyway, contributing to souring ties between Turkey and the US over the latter’s support for what the Turkish government views as an arm of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an organization designated as terrorists by Ankara and its allies because it supports self-rule and socialism.
The SDF is the military arm of the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), which governs a significant portion of the country. On Thursday, the AANES announced its decision to raise the new Syrian flag adopted by the rebels. It is currently under attack by Turkish forces.
Turkey’s primary objective in the region is to supplant its indigenous Kurds with Arabs and return Kurdish refugees back to Syria, with a buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border. Before its fall, the Assad regime protested this side agreement, between Turkey and the US, as a breach of Syrian sovereignty, which is obviously a moot point now.
The Kurds, are not Arabs—they speak an Indo-European language related to English—and historically Kurdish lands are divided between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, where Kurds comprise 10 to 20 percent of the respective countries’ populations. All this is accompanied by a long history of enmity between these various governments and the Kurds, with Turkey—as the only remaining piece of the Ottoman Empire—having long suppressed Kurdish independence initiatives, despite promises in 1920 by the western powers after WWI of a Kurdish homeland. Instead, in 1923, Kurdish territory was split between Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria.
In addition to the Kurds who still live on traditional Kurdish lands, a large Kurdish diaspora is spread across Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Lebanon, Israel, Germany, France, the UK, Canada, and the US. The number of Kurds worldwide is estimated at over 30 million, making it one of the world’s largest ethnic groups without a state.
All of this is now complicated by the seemingly sudden new entity Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the rebel organization that led the charge into Damascus and is now dictating Syria’s political overhaul. As noted below, HTS is just another iteration of the front organizations organized by the West for the purpose of channeling and directing local opposition.
HTS is banned as a terrorist organization in the United States and elsewhere. It grew out of a branch of Al Qaeda. Its leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, said a decade ago that there would be no room for religious minorities in the Islamist Syria of which he dreamed about. He also suggested that he could bring terrorism to the West unless it withdrew from the Middle East’s wars.
More recently, however, Jolani, who now uses his real name, Ahmad al-Sharaa, has undergone something of a rebrand, trimming his beard, donning Westernized green fatigues and espousing tolerance for all of Syria’s myriad faiths. Nevertheless plenty of observers are reserving judgment until these words become actions. —https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-photo-syrias-interim-leader-184539334.html
And here’s the kicker: Biden Looking To Remove Al-Qaeda-Linked Group From Terror List, Remove $10M Bounty Off Leader In other words, after serving its purpose as a fake terrorist threat, HTS is now a legitimate mainstream player in the eyes of the US.
Much like the US-backed revolution overthrowing a secular government in Iran, the sectarian government of Syria is being replaced by Islamic fundamentalists who will leverage intolerance of other sects and religions, leaving Syria in a much worse place—like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya—its resources under the choke-hold of the financiers and their global for-profit corporate pyramid.
We expect the US, using its various mercenaries, to station troops and missiles along the Syrian border with Russia, as they have been doing in Europe and Scandinavia, while meeting some resistance in Ukraine.
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