14.03.2019 Author: Gordon Duff
https://journal-neo.org/2019/03/14/a-deadly-spring-for-syria-and-the-world/
https://journal-neo.org/2019/03/14/a-deadly-spring-for-syria-and-the-world/
Region: USA in the World
Trump has just asked Congress for $150bn for military
operations in the Middle East at a time when the US is, supposedly, shutting
down its efforts there and has very few troops stationed and nearly none at all
in combat. This is more money than the US spent when it had up to 20,000 men in
combat. Why?
With America officially talking peace in Syria,
something quite different is going on. Reports are coming in out of Iraq and
from Russian operatives inside Syria. You see, the Idlib peace process is being
interfered with; al Qaeda is receiving massive funding and arms and has
virtually wiped out any Turkish allied forces. America is trying to turn Idlib
into its own bastion.
Idlib sits on major oil and gas discoveries, call this
a curious coincidence, discovered only months before a fake civil war descended
on Syria, one that targeted oil rich regions and Syria’s industrial heartland.
Then there is this, confirmed by Damascus, America has restaffed their command
center in Amman, Jordan, one shared with Israel and Saudi Arabia, a command
center not just for “the allies” but, were one to be honest, for ISIS and al
Qaeda as well.
About the MOC, from The National, a
2013 story:
“A secret operations command centre in Jordan,
staffed by western and Arab military officials, has given vital support to
rebels fighting on Syria’s southern front, providing them with weapons and
tactical advice on attacking regime targets.
Rebel fighters and opposition members say the command
centre, based in an intelligence headquarters building in Amman, channels
vehicles, sniper rifles, mortars, heavy machine guns, small arms and ammunition
to Free Syrian Army units – although it has stopped short of giving them much
coveted anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles.
Officials in Amman denied the command centre exists.
“We dismiss these allegations. Jordan is not a host or part of any cooperation
against Syria. Jordan’s interest is to see a stable and secure Syria, one that
is able to keep its problems inside its borders,” said Mohammad Al Momani,
minister of media affairs.
‘We will not do anything that will feed violence in
Syria,’ he said.
But Syrian opposition figures familiar with rebel
operations in Deraa, about 75 kilometres north of Amman, said Jordan hosted the
command centre and had tasked senior Jordanian intelligence officials to work
with western and Arab states in helping rebels to plan missions and get
munitions and fighters across the border.”
Backed by credible reports from
Russia, Syrian, Kurdish and Iraqi sources, we know that the US is readying a
force of up to 2500 ISIS cadres, including top commanders, that Iraqi sources
say are being trained at three American bases without the knowledge of the
Iraqi government.
At the same time, in Southern Syria at Deraa, Syrian
intelligence sources tell us that demonstrations have begun, as embedded terror
cells have begun showing up publicly, carrying arms many of them kept after
signing reconciliation agreements. The Damascus government sees these
demonstrations as a prelude for military intervention in Syria to coincide with
any Syrian attempt to move on Idlib.
Deraa is the front where Israeli military have been
most active, entering Syria through Jordan, according to our sources there, and
escorting ISIS recruits to both Syria and Iraq that have come from as far away
as the Philippines, Australia and Malaysia, making use of Tel Aviv’s new
airport.
Reports, by ISIS recruits inside Australia, of being
routed through Israel, have been “cleansed” from the media.
The Wider Story
America is preparing for war in Venezuela and Iran;
and credible reports, as mentioned above, show that the US is re-organizing and
re-equipping ISIS units from bases inside Iraq to redeploy against Syria.
Despite any agreements, despite any conclaves or public handshaking, Congress
and the American people are being told this is being done to stop Russia from
taking over the world and “threatening democracy.”
The insanity of this is unquestioned as though it were
a religion, and, in fact, it is a religion; it is the basis for
“neo-conservativism,” and the infection that runs rampant in Washington DC at
the behest of John Bolton inside the White House and Sean Hannity, media
spokesman for America’s “Taliban.”
“Russia haters” in Washington have been hiding, biding
their time for years. They now feel this is “their moment in history.”
Though Russia is a Christian democracy and China is
America’s largest trading partner and the biggest investor in American debt, an
imaginary secret alliance backed by nothing but conjecture has brought us back
to 1972 or 1938 or 1914, a fake world created to justify America’s program of
global dominance.
The great communist alliance of the Cold War now looms
over the world, if one is to believe the Western press, poisoning enemies,
gassing civilians, with communists hiding behind every tree and bush.
The Military Imbalance
Let’s take a look at the forces arrayed in the Middle
East, for instance. Russia, at last count, has around 20 planes at their Syrian
base, supporting counter-terrorism operations there.
The United States has, in the region, around 800
combat aircraft. This includes Diego Garcia, al Udeid in Qatar, a massive base,
six bases inside Iraq, two inside Turkey, one inside Israel, three inside
Jordan, five in Kuwait, 3 in the UAE, one in Bahrain and a tiny base in Oman.
We can add to that two major air bases in Afghanistan and 65 smaller
facilities. Recent agreements with the Taliban will diminish this capability
over, according to reports, five years.
Then again, the US is still operating facilities
inside Syria, for the time being at least.
To this, we add the new Trump military budget for
2020. From CNN:
“President Donald Trump will ask for a Pentagon
budget of $718 billion for 2020, part of an overall $750 billion request for
defense, two US officials tell CNN.
The figure includes both the Pentagon budget as well
as the nuclear weapons elements of the Energy Department budget.
The Pentagon request represents an increase of 4.7%
over this year’s budget.
The officials told CNN that approximately $544 billion
is being requested for the “base” defense budget with an additional $9 billion
going to an “emergency” fund. The remaining $165 billion would go to ‘Overseas
Contingency Operations,’ an account that pays for military operations overseas
in places like Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. That’s a dramatic increase from the
2019 budget, which sought $69 billion for that operational account.
The Trump administration’s decision to make a large
OCO request, which was reported previously by several media outlets, was
criticized earlier by senior Democratic lawmakers.
‘The President’s budget will apparently rely on a
giant OCO gimmick to prop up defense spending. If true, this is nothing more
than a blatant attempt to make a mockery of the federal budget process, obscure
the true cost of military operations, and severely shortchange other investments
vital to our national and economic security,’ House Budget Committee Chairman
John Yarmuth and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith said in a
joint statement last month.
While the amount of money requested for that account
reached similar levels during the early years of the Obama Administration, at
that time the US had some 150,000 troops deployed to active combat missions in
Iraq and Afghanistan compared to 14,000 troops in Afghanistan and some 7,000 in
Iraq and Syria today where US forces now serve largely in advisory roles.”
All of it Fake
Inside the US, the big threat isn’t Russia but rather
from the South, an imaginary invasion of armed thugs, rapists and drug dealers
crossing into the US. Trump is right, border crossings from Mexico have doubled
during his tenure, but not from any effort to invade the US, but rather from a
“stand down” by officials who have manufactured a fake threat while using
brutal tactics on the endless thousands who are simply allowed to openly walk
into the US.
One of the most common themes of recent times is the
mobilization of refugees through manipulation of social media and to use this
process to destabilize nations, Turkey for instance, the entire EU and, of
course, the United States.
You see, the US has long been able to close the
Mexican or any other border using the 20,000 border agents and 380,000 armed
police in the border region, a force nearly equal to that used against Vietnam.
Speaking of Vietnam, it was there, 50 years ago, that
magnetic and seismic intrusion detectors along with ground radar were perfected
for use against the Viet Cong. Since that time, the US has developed satellite
and aerostat-based platform systems that stretch 200 miles into Mexico, powered
by algorithms that see every vehicle, every individual approaching the US, and
sees them days in advance.
I only know this because I helped develop this
equipment and deploy it, not just in the US but Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain,
Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and a dozen other nations. It works just fine, but I
digress.
We aren’t even mentioning Synthetic Aperture Satellite
systems that can even see tunnel complexes or “disturbed earth” where IED
(improvised explosive devices) are planted. There are no unseen refugees, most
of the planet is under “persistent surveillance” from multi-level surveillance
and detection systems under the command of interlocking operational
intelligence centers. Add to this that all communications are monitored as well
and the Trump administration’s blatant inability to provide evidence of almost
everything they assert on any subject becomes evidence in itself, evidence of
deception.
China
While Russia is being accused of election rigging and
espionage, we now learn that a Florida-based bordello/massage parlor owner name
Li Yang has been working closely with Trump, bringing in secret Chinese
“delegations” that stay at Mar a Lago and cut private deals with Trump, Kushner
and their wealthy supporters.
The end result has been, despite trade bans on China
and America’s military confrontations with that nation, America’s trade deficit
with China has increased wildly, by nearly 40%. Is this a failed policy or
engineered deception, hidden behind military aggression, a policy based on
corruption?
American heavy bombers and warships ply the Chinese
coastline as a supposed threat, while corrupt American officials are and have
been in bed with China all along.
Russia
Using Russia as an enemy by drawing on a fake history
of the post-WWII era, when extremist propaganda in the United States became as
rampant as it is today, is pure fabrication. Yes, Russia has advanced
technologies, certainly many superior to the US.
What Russia doesn’t have is military bases in 160
nations, 12 aircraft carriers and a trillion dollar per year military
industrial complex that runs roughshod over its government.
Thus, though Russia may build weapons capable of
equaling most American technology, the vastly inferior size of Russia’s
military economy makes the idea of parity in numbers of weapons pure insanity.
Yet, to this day, the Pentagon trains for scenarios of
thousands of Russian long-range bombers or fleets of modern tanks backed by air
armadas, driving NATO into the sea. A generation of American military officers
has become insulated from reality.
Conclusion
One might then ask, why maintain policies of
unsustainable military expenditure and confrontation that is predicated on
threats that simply cannot exist? There is little question that the United
States has developed a policy of surrogate/asymmetrical warfare against nearly
ever resource-rich nation on earth yet, America herself is over $21 trillion in
debt and quickly sinking into economic collapse.
We offer no answer here; only one question and that
one is simple, why are no relevant questions being asked?
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam
War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with
governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and
chairman of the board of Veterans Today,
especially for the online magazine “New Eastern
Outlook.”
https://journal-neo.org/2019/03/14/a-deadly-spring-for-syria-and-the-world/
https://journal-neo.org/2019/03/14/a-deadly-spring-for-syria-and-the-world/
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