by Tom Mysiewicz
“Iraq is breaking up before our eyes and it would appear that the creation of an independent Kurdish state is a foregone conclusion.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to John Kerry in Paris, 26 June 2014
“The goal is to proclaim a ‘Kurdistan’ straddling the border between Iraq and Syria, and then expel the Syrian populations who live there, followed by the transfer of 10 million Turkish Kurds to this new state.”[1]
Thierry Meyssan, 2015
Unfolding now is a multidimensional chess game comprising centuries-old animosities, petrodollars, pipelines, a neo-Ottoman sultanate, plans for balkanizing the Mid East into manageable ethnic states, Israeli energy plans and oligarchs, Neoconservatives, the U.S. military-industrial complex, Daesh-ISIS, NATO, the EU, Kurdistan, Ukraine and a gaggle of nation states. I first addressed this hard-to-fathom situation in my 2014 piece “War With ISIS: Multiplexing a New World Order.”[2]
In my earlier piece I saw the creation of “Kurdistan” from energy-rich areas of a partitioned Iraq and Syria as central to the plan. (This plan had existed in Neoconservative circles and within groups like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) well prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion. And I wrote about it, often.)[3]
Understand that I’m sympathetic to the Kurds. If both Syria and Iraq adopted a Federal system giving autonomy to their Kurdish regions—and provisions were made to equitably divide the energy resources (or their revenue streams via a neutral body)–it would avoid national disintegration and millions of new refugees. And it would avoid the inevitable destabilization of surrounding countries. However, based on the Egyptian experience with supplying natural gas to Israeli companies—and getting it back at higher prices—it would be wise for all of the parties to avoid selling energy resources disproportionately or exclusively to Israel simply on a pragmatic level.
This is not a religious issue. The nonagenarian Zionist pioneer Uri Avnery, recently noted that he and “King Bibi” (actually Benjamin Mileikowsky) are both atheists but that “Bibi” courts extremist religious elements for political reasons. A recent Avnery op-ed gives us a clue that the current energy struggle involving Turkey is of an entirely secular nature:
“All of Israel has been consumed for months with the debate about the “natural gas plan” – the way of dividing the profits from the natural gas reservoirs discovered in the sea near the shores of Israel. Netanyahu supports with all his might the “plan” that pours the riches into the pockets of a handful of tycoons connected somehow with Sheldon Adelson, his protector (and, some say, his owner).”[4]
First and foremost, massive amounts of money and, basically, political and military control of the world is at stake. In the process of attaining these goals, various entities (including the U.S., Zionist oligarchs, Saudi monarchs and neo-Ottoman Turks) are employing religious fanaticism—as asymmetric weapons in the struggle—of which ISIS-ISIL-Daesh are the most obvious manifestations.
In fact, it now appears ISIS was largely funded by illicit sales of stolen oil transported by Turkish entities. Which oil was, in turn, mostly sold to Israel at deep discounts from the price it would have otherwise paid for Russian oil, presumably reducing its demand for that product. According to Globes Online, Israel Business News of 30 November 2015:
In August, the “Financial Times” reported that Israel obtained 75% of its oil supplies from Iraqi Kurdistan. More than a third of such exports go through the port of Ceyhan, which the FT describe as a “potential gateway for ISIS-smuggled crude…“Israel has in one way or another become the main marketer of ISIS oil. Without them, most ISIS-produced oil would have remained going between Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Even the three countries would not receive the oil if they did not have a buyer in Israel,” an industry official told the newspaper “al-Araby al-Jadeed.”[5]
The above was hardly a surprise to me, but I didn’t anticipate in 2014 how the overall situation might be tied in directly to events in the Ukraine. Or that Erdogan would be capable of directly attacking Russia as well as mounting a “soft invasion” of Europe (with the connivance of NATO and EU leaders seeking, in part, alternative energy sources) in pursuit of a neo-Ottoman “caliphate.”
But, clearly, ISIS was and is the vehicle for the policy goals of the various players—some of whom really are indeed trying to form a “new world order.” And, it appears, the biggest beneficiary of this situation may be Israel, which has profited from the crisis all along and has given artillery support to Daesh on the Golan, bombed Damascus, and even cared for Daesh wounded in its hospitals. “King Bibi” can sit on the sidelines, taking virtually no risks, and professing neutrality while things fall into place as planned. (My guess is that Erdogan sees the “handwriting on the wall” and is already taking some of his marching orders from Tel Aviv and not from Washington.)
PORTENTS OF A “SEA CHANGE”
A sudden uptick in the pace of the Iraq-Syria-Kurdistan situation, not surprisingly, coincides with the elimination, by Russia, of the ISIS portion of Israel’s oil supply. The U.S. reaction to the destruction of this ISIS “pipeline on wheels,” predictably, relates to the likelihood that it is treaty bound to see that Israel continues to receive the previous amount of oil at the below-market ISIS price or replace it out of its own stocks. (And not simply because McCain and Neocon elements in the U.S. Government probably helped create ISIS.)
According to a Sept. 1st, 1975 MoU (memorandum of understanding) between the U.S. and Israel during the Sadat-Begin Camp David peace process (kept secret but later leaked to the New York Times and other media):
(b) If the oil Israel needs to meet all of its normal requirements for domestic consumption is unavailable for purchase in circumstances where quantitative restrictions through embargo or otherwise also prevent the United States from procuring oil to meet its normal requirements, the United States Government will promptly make oil available for purchase by Israel in accordance with the International Energy Agency conservation and allocation formula as applied by the United States Government, in order to meet Israel’s essential requirements. If Israel is unable to secure the necessary means to transport such oil to Israel, the United States Government will make every effort to help Israel secure the necessary means of transport[6]
As I anticipated the above situation in my 2014 article, I assumed there would be an attempt to rush the creation of Kurdistan and reopen the Mosul-Haifa pipeline. Another reason for this assumption: Netanyahu’s 2003 post-Iraq-invasion comment that soon “…you will see Iraqi oil flowing to Haifa. It is just a matter of time until the pipeline is reconstituted, and Iraqi oil will flow to the Mediterranean.”
(In actual fact, that pipeline must be wholly rebuilt but it reportedly can be done easily at a cost of $400,000 per kilometer. An Israeli feasibility study was done in 2004, reportedly at the request of the U.S. Pentagon.)
Another “tell” of a coming change with regard to partition of Iraq and Syria can be found in growing pro-Kurdistan screeds from various U.S. and Israeli mainstream media and the Neocon-centered NGOs.
We suddenly learn that the majority of Jews around the world are closely related to the Kurdish people — more closely than they are to the Semitic-speaking Arabs or any other population that was tested.[7]
Or, we are on the receiving end of this 2014 “gem” from Dr. Lawrence A. Franklin, Colonel in the USAF Reserve and Military Attaché to Israel:
“Most Kurds are Sunni Muslim and one can hear the five-times-a-day Muslim call to prayer, but it is muted and ignored by most…Zako, once the center of Kurdistan’s Jewish population, still invites back descendants of those who long ago left for Zion…
For all of the above reasons, Kurdistan reminds one of Israel. Like Israel, Kurdistan is not dominated by the Arab, nor by Islam. Like Israel, Kurdistan is more democratic than any of its neighbors. Like Israel, Kurdistan is surrounded by enemies that wish it did not exist. Like Israel, Kurdistan looks West. And like Israel, Kurdistan has maintained an internal equilibrium though all the world betrays it.”[8]
Other mainstream media take a more direct approach (in case the audience missed the point of the above “soft sell”):
Kerry discussed the Iraqi crisis with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Paris on Thursday.
Iraq is breaking up before our eyes and it would appear that the creation of an independent Kurdish state is a foregone conclusion,” Lieberman’s spokesman quoted him as telling Kerry.
A day earlier, Israeli President Shimon Peres had a similar message for U.S. President Barack Obama…Peres said he had told Obama he did not see unifying Iraq as possible without “massive” foreign military intervention and that this underscored Kurdish separation from the Shi’ite Muslim majority and Sunni Arab minority…
He added that neighbouring Turkey appeared to accept the Kurds’ status as it was helping them pump out oil for sale…
Israel last Friday took its first delivery of the disputed crude from Iraqi Kurdistan’s new pipeline. The United States disapproves of such go-it-alone Kurdish exports.[9]
And, then we are told by the Israeli press that, like an only child who desperately wants a little brother or sister, Israel desperately wants and needs Kurdistan:
“Kurds are deeply sympathetic to Israel and an independent Kurdistan will be beneficial to Israel,” argued Kurdish journalist Ayub Nuri in July. “It will create a balance of power. Right now, Israel is one country against many. But with an independent Kurdish state, first of all Israel will have a genuine friend in the region for the first time, and second, Kurdistan will be like a buffer zone in the face of the Turkey, Iran and Iraq…With few friends in the region, the Kurds will likely look to Israel to help them gain security and closer relations with the United States. As Arab governments in the Middle East totter and fall, and Islamists look to exploit the chaos, the alliance is one that both countries may find beneficial to pursue.”[10]
What readers are not being told is that the recent Israeli energy squabble involving natural gas[11] may be just the tip of a looming energy “iceberg.” The submerged part of the energy “berg” may be the confiscation of the Syrian Golan, with its historically large oil discovery, Syrian and Gazan offshore gas fields, and the focus of this article, the creation of “Kurdistan” out of the oil- and gas-rich portions of the wreckage of Iraq and Syria. Ancillary to this would be the aforementioned reopening of the Mosul-Haifa pipeline closed in 1948 due to Arab sabotage. Because of this demonstrated vulnerability (despite the best efforts of British Col. Wingate and the Irgun) a reopening would require the cooperation of any future ISIS/ISIL “Sunnistan,” a future Kurdistan and a large military presence in Iraq by Turkey, the U.S., Gulf States and NATO in the vicinity of the pipeline, the first steps of which have been taken.
Also not considered is the fact that Russia has long been one of Israel’s oil suppliers but that need has been cut back by the large quantities of oil (illegally) sold to Israel by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and ISIS oil transited through Turkey—at fire-sale prices. That’s got to make Ivan do some thinking.
Then there’s the little-considered possibility that Erdogan sees his oil revenues evaporating if the Mosul line is built and Jordan gets all the oil-transit revenues, in which case his recent invasion may be an attempt to deal himself in by invading and threatening the plan. Such a pipeline would permanently eliminate the need for the “pipeline on wheels” to the Israelis—but it might be adapted to allow continued ISIS oil sales as a sort of kickback. It’s my belief that, if this is the case, Turkey’s role will quickly change to that of a defender.
Apparently mulling over the above complexities, Russia belatedly criticized on December 8th the latest move by Turkey as “a very serious factor of tensions.” Did Russia also consider another aspect of this potential development; namely, destabilization of Iran and Lebanon via massive numbers of Iraqi Shia refugees following a partition of Iraq and its subsequent disintegration? How would Iraq survive on 10% of its oil revenues? And Iran is Russia’s Caspian neighbor.
Iraq itself is becoming increasingly restive about the prospect of its imminent breakup at the hands of Turkey and its NATO cohorts (for the benefit of Israel)–and even some Sunnis must have second thoughts about allowing the neo-Ottoman Erdogan to serve as de facto sultan over a restored Kurdistan and a Sunnistan. In this regard, the Iraqi parliament’s Security and Defense Committee is re-assessing their nation’s security agreement with the United States, and again asked Turkish forces to depart. According to one of the Committee members “The [Iraqi] government and the parliament need to review its security agreement with the US, because Washington is not serious about its implementation. We will demand its cancellation.”[12]
ERDOGAN: METHOD TO HIS MADNESS?
I’ve long maintained that partition of Iraq (as an economic and political benefit to Israel) was the major reason for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.[13] Many were skeptical of my view as they imagined NATO member Turkey would be immovably opposed to such an outcome as would Iran.
Turkey, after this time, deceptively dumped its toolbox of tricks down the proverbial steps– apparently secretly agreeing with Israel to accept a Kurdistan while attacking the PKK and giving ISIS logistical and other covert support (fighters and weapons seemingly passed largely unhindered across its borders) and spouting anti-ISIS rhetoric while, simultaneously, Turkish nationals were buying ISIS stolen oil. (The massive oil trade with ISIS can now be borne out by chemical oil-test data and information released by the Russian Federation.)
Confusing as it seems, Erdogan (like his Israeli partner Netanyahu) is not crazy and is pursuing asymmetric warfare with vigor, I believe. He and his family likely were profiting from ISIS oil trading while he was (in deference to his Israeli partners) allowing the Kurdish Peshmerga (PKK) to cross the border into Syria in 2014 to fight ISIS in Kobani while the U.S. simultaneously attacked its own partial creation, ISIS, and dropped large quantities of arms to the Kurds.[14]
What then accounts for the ambush of Russia’s plane over Syria and Erdogan’s subsequent bellicose behavior? As Erdogan plans to be a major player with the EU, NATO and Israel, it could be a way to wean the Turkish business sector away from its previously increasing trade with Russia—which supplies an estimated 40% of Turkish gas needs. (By increasing business sanctions, Russia may well be playing Erdogan’s game. In any case, Russia’s energy leverage over both Turkey (and Ukraine) will be greatly diminished should Iraq be partitioned and Kurdistan commence Turkish gas deliveries in 2017):
Derbas Resul, the minister of reconstruction and development of the Kurdish Regional Government, announced a 50-year oil-and-gas agreement has been reached with Turkey…Iraq can supply Turkey with 20-30 billion cubic meters of natural gas, experts say. Iraqi gas is expected to be 50% cheaper than the Iranian gas…As for the Israeli natural gas…(construction of) a natural gas pipeline from Israel to Turkey…may start in the second half of 2015. It is believed that a 25-year gas agreement between Turkey and Israel will improve the relations between two countries.”
Ata Altun of the Eastern Mediterranean University said:”Israel has understood that it will be more economic to ship the natural gas it discovered in the eastern Mediterranean via pipelines over Turkey.” Altun said Israel wants to sell 6 billion cubic meters of the 16 billion cubic meters of natural gas it plans to produce from its Leviathan field to Palestine and Jordan, and the remaining 9 billion cubic meters to Turkey and Europe.
Recently there were reports of a major Turkish company negotiating in Tel Aviv to carry the Israeli gas to Turkey. (See: http://www.ntv.com.tr/dunya/israilin-dogalgazi-turkiyeye-geliyor,8948H3im3kew81yiSxB52w.)
In sum, Turkey’s bridge status in natural gas should firm up in the coming three to four years, when Iraqi and Azerbaijani natural gas will be flowing to Europe via Turkey.[15]
Turkey is currently heavily dependent on Russian natural gas transited through Ukraine. But perhaps not for long. Russian gas to Ukraine is certain to be cut off in the event Ukraine attacks Novorussia—a possibility as Ukraine is being primed to renege on its sovereign debt to Russia and is moving heavy arms back to the engagement lines. The apparent suspension of the “Turkstream” gas pipeline talks by Russia[16] may have been just the excuse Erdogan was seeking to break ties with Russia, in fact.
While Ankara is awaiting the large flow of Kurdistan natural gas and new Ukrainian and EU markets for that and Israeli gas (hence Merkel’s restart of Turkish EU membership) the Baghdad central government, with the help of Russia, could militarily put a stop to these probably-illegal sales by the KRG. From Erdogan’s standpoint, this is unacceptable in light of Turkish-Israeli plans—so his current military stance in Iraq is also “not nice” but is by no means crazy.
In addition to his energy ambitions, Erdogan is seemingly motivated by neo-Ottoman desires to restore the pre-Sykes-Picot Ottoman Sultanate and “multiplexing” a new world order through the vehicle of ISIS, a use my original article anticipated. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has echoed Erdogan’s call for Turkish regional hegemony and a “new order,” seeing a Turkish caliphate being a “litmus test for globalization”:
“When people can pass from a free Palestine through Istanbul to London. That’s our vision. Not building walls around Turkey, but opening up to share with our neighbors. In Cairo we are the Middle East, in Europe we are Europeans. We must shape history with all the nations around us”[17]
Davutoglu’s vision, in fact, begins with the very human wave invasion sweeping Europe and originating in Turkey. This “soft invasion” through its “multiculturalism” is intended to transform the EU. His view is an expansion of the argument of Turkish thinker Abdurrahman Dilipak that Turkey was the legitimate heir of the Ottoman Caliphate.[18]
Could Erdogan be hoping that Russian setbacks in Ukraine and Crimea, a disastrous outcome in the Mid East, and continuing isolation economically will leave a weakened Russia with Putin deposed? Available “plums” could then fall into Turkey’s lap: these could well include Crimea and areas with Turkic peoples in what is today the Russian Federation. But he needs to buy some time if this is his intention.
With this possibility in mind, it’s worth remembering that Turkey could soon reverse roles and replace Russia as Ukraine’s (and Europe’s) natural gas supplier. Advanced offensive weapons have reportedly been supplied to Ukraine by Turkey. And Erdogan and the Turkish leaders apparently “looked the other way” (as with ISIS) while Turkey’s illegal “Grey Wolves”–Bozkurtkar Turk ulkuculeri—left to participate with Ukrainian nationalists in the blockade of Crimea. (The “Wolves”: are supposed enemies of Erdogan and the ruling party, but in 2014 he made conciliatory gestures toward a related political group.) One Russian source comments:
“It is known that our pilot, catapulted from the downed su-24, was shot by the son of the leader of the “Party of the nationalist revival” and the Commander “the Grey wolves”, Alparslan çelik. As was stated in an interview to Aleksey Zhuravko, now, in the Kherson region, there are about 700 fighters of “Bozkurtkar”. There are documented cases of attacks on local residents. In Kherson region the wolves are going to create some kind of “Tatar Republic”…
Turkey is making great efforts, creating elites in Turkic regions of Russia. Ankara relies on a very powerful system, built by followers of Nursi — the so-called “nurdzhular”…So Turkey has someone to rely on in Russia. The power of Turkish intelligence is comparable to that of Israel. It is headed by a professional soldier and political activist who doesn’t speak about the methods of his work. The name of the head of intelligence is Hakan Fidan, who is close to Erdogan.[19]
As Erdogan has already “crossed the Rubicon” with Russia—Turkey’s pressing economic needs and commitment to the NATO attempt to wall off Russia will not likely be altered by mere soothing words, although many are now trying. I wish them luck. For instance, while Erdogan moved some troops out of the illegal outpost in Iraq he will not state they have returned to Turkey but that they have only moved “North” claiming they were invited into the country in 2014 by Iraq.[20]
Erdogan is clearly keeping options open for additional incursions should things not go the way he likes. As Anthony Shadid, writing in 2011 put it:
“Oil is still king in Iraq, and as much as anything else, underlines Turkey’s interests here. The pipeline from Kirkuk, Iraq, to Ceyhan, Turkey, already carries roughly 25 percent of Iraq’s oil exports…
The Turks have (also) signed on to the ambitious $11 billion Nabucco gas pipeline project, which may bypass Russia and bring Iraqi gas to Europe.”[21]
U.S. CONGRESS FOLLOWS ISRAELI LEAD
The recent change in the U.S. stance towards Kurdistan—especially as the U.S. Congress is concerned—is made evident by remembering the October 2007 U.S. reaction to Erdogan’s threats to invade Iraq:
“Turkey is moving fire power and troops closer to Iraq as a border war threatens to become an invasion the United States desperately does not want to happen…
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the leader of Iraq’s Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, on Sunday to press the U.S. case for restraint from Turkey and Iraqi action against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
“We do not believe unilateral cross-border operations are the best way to address this issue,” he said, describing Rice’s call to Erdogan…”In our view, there are better ways to deal with this issue,” he said, stressing that United States regards the PKK as a terrorist organization.”[22]
An almost sure way to determine the actual position of Israel in any matter involving the Mid East is to study the sentiment of the U.S. Congress, most of whose members hold their seats by sufferance of wealthy Zionist supporters. And Congress did not disappoint! It will deal with these PKK former “terrorists” as it has dealt with ISIS. On Dec. 9th, 2015 the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a bipartisan bill by unanimous voice vote authorizing the U.S. to directly arm and train the Kurdish Peshmerga (PKK) in both Syria and Iraq and to treat them as a separate country with passage of the $600-billion Defense Authorization Bill. (The U.S. Senate, had already voted 54:45 in June to arm the Kurds directly as a “separate country.”) President Obama’s office has issued a claim that he will veto the legislation, arousing the fury of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ.)
To add insult to injury to President Obama’s foreign policy of maintaining Iraq’s integrity, according to AP, Turkey’s Erdogan is vague about withdrawing troops from Camp Bashiqua and has left at least a skeleton force behind that can quickly be reinforced by two armored brigades just across the Turkish border. Further, as of this writing, the U.S. has scheduled a trilateral meeting, gathering officials from Turkey, the United States and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq on Dec. 21st—without the Iraqi central government in attendance.[23]
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[Endnotes Follow]
- Thierry Meyssan, “The unavowable project for a pseudo-Kurdistan,” Voltaire Network, 7 December 2015, link: http://www.voltairenet.org/article189562.html↑
- Tom Mysiewicz, “War With ISIS: Multiplexing a New World Order,” Vineyard Saker, 17 September 2014, link: http://www.vineyardsaker.co.nz/2014/09/17/war-with-isis-multiplexing-a-new-world-order-by-tom-mysiewicz/ ↑
- Tom Mysiewicz, “Iraq Partition—The Real Strategy Is About to Succeed,” Future-Fastforward, 16 June 2014, link: http://futurefastforward.com/feature-articles/9739-iraq-partition-the-real-strategy-is-about-to-succeed-by-tom-mysiewicz-16614.html ↑
- Uri Avnery in privately circulated piece “King Bibi,” 12 December 2015 ↑
- “Israel Buys Most Oil Smuggled from ISIS Territory—Report,” Globes Online, Israel Business News, 30 November 2015, link: http://www.globes.co.il/en/article.aspx?did=1001084873 ↑
- Kevin Alan Brook,”The Genetic Bonds Between Kurds and Jews”, Barzan (Kurdish News), 4 May 2006, link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1626606/posts ↑
- Dr. Lawrence A. Franklin, “Kurdistan: More Like Israel, Less Like Iraq”, Gatestone Institute, 25 December 2014, link: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4975/kurdistan-israel ↑
- Dan Williams, “Israel tells U.S. Kurdish independence is ‘foregone conclusion’,” Reuters, 26 January 2014, link: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-crisis-israel-kurds-idUSKBN0F11I520140626#KobzryUWBTuwTVOB.97 ↑
- Lazar Berman, “Is a free Kurdistan, and a new Israeli ally, upon us?” Times of Israel, 10 August 2013, link: http://www.timesofisrael.com/is-a-free-kurdistan-and-a-new-israeli-ally-upon-us/ ↑
- Op cit. Uri Avnery in privately circulated piece “King Bibi,” 12 December 2015 ↑
- Jonathan Krause, “The U.S. Is About to be Kicked out of Iraq and Replaced with Russia”, Daily Sheeple, 9 December 2015, link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/u-s-military-is-about-to-be-kicked-out-of-iraq-and-replaced-with-russia_122015 ↑
- Tom Mysiewicz, “Mission Accomplished,” Bush’s claims that the “mission” had been accomplished in Iraq may be true, the author asserts. But that mission may, in fact, have been the future partition of that hapless country. MediaMonitors, 9 May 2004, link: http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/6646↑
- Ben Mathis-Lilley, “Turkey Will Reverse Course, Will Let Kurds Cross Border to Fight ISIS?”, Slate.com, 20 October 2014, link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/10/20/turkey_kurds_isis_new_policy_announced.html ↑
- Mehmet Cetingulec, “In Natural Gas, All Pipelines Go through Turkey”, Al Monitor, 10 December 2014, link: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/12/turkey-russia-natural-gas-blue-stream-tanap.html ↑
- Eric Walberg, “Islamic Resistance to Imperialism””, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA, 2015, p. 261. ↑
- Ibid. ↑
- “Erdogan sends ‘Grey Wolves’ to Crimea—a History Lesson”, Anna News, 9 December 2015, link: http://fortruss.blogspot.com.br/2015/12/erdogan-sends-grey-wolves-to-crimea.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+FortRuss+(Fort+Russ and http://anna-news.info/node/48838 ↑
- Anthony Shadid, “Resurgent Turkey Flexes its Muscles Around Iraq”, New York Times, 4 January 2011, link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/world/middleeast/05turkey.html?_r=2&pagewanted=print ↑
- “U.S. Urges Turkey Not to Invade Iraq”, CBS News, 22 October 2007, link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-urges-turkey-not-to-invade-iraq/ ↑
Funny how all these war crimes and acts of terrorism have an Israeli or Jewish Zionist connection:
Gun Used in Paris Attacks Came Through Notorious Florida Dealer
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/us/20151217/1031870792/paris-kalashnikov-from-florida.html
“The M92 assault carbine, a “shortened Kalashnikov,” was sold to Century International Arms, a family-owned arms dealer in Delray Beach, Florida, according to Milojko Brzakovic, the head of the Zastava factory, as told to the Associated Press.
The Century International Arms company, owned and run by the Sucher family for over 50 years, first made headlines in the fall of 2011. WikiLeaks releases from that time suggest that an Israeli gun merchant named Ori Zoller was the middlemen in an illegal sale to the Century International Arms of WW-2-era M1 rifles originally donated by the US to Guatemala.
The company also delivered “booby traps,” “unconventional warfare devices and techniques-incendiaries,” “sniper training and employment,” and “improvised munitions handbooks,” to Belgium, among other weapon shipments, according to WikiLeaks.”
The owners of Bataclan theater were jewish and they sold the property in September 2015…..
“For 40 years, Bataclan had Jewish owners, Pascal and Joel Laloux, who sold the theatre to new owners in September 2015”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataclan_(theatre)
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/92438-151114-was-the-bataclan-targeted-for-jewish-ownership-and-support-for-israel
@Funny how all these war crimes and acts of terrorism have an Israeli or Jewish Zionist connection:
Funny how nobody has seen the elephant in the room.
Very detailed and informative with a lot to digest. Very much appreciated.
I have to highlight one of the sources.
The Genetic Bonds Between Kurds and Jews
Conclusions
Research has just begun into the ancient ties between Kurds and Jews. It would be interesting to see if the various Jewish groups have as strong a family tie to Kurds in the maternal lineages as they do in the paternal lineages. Preliminary studies indicate that Jewish populations in eastern Europe and Yemen have maternal origins that contain much more non-Israelite ancestry than their paternal origins. Despite this admixture with other groups, the Jewish Judean people ultimately began their existence in an area within or nearby Kurdistan, prior to migrating southwest to Israel.
Hence the need to rewrite history and destroy Syrian heritage?
I’m very wary of this stuff. Have you ever seen a Polish or Russian Jew beside an Iraqi Kurd? These aren’t the same people. African Cohens are better off staying home. The whole ‘science’ of genetics is gobbledygook, misappropriated by spooks with PHD’s, assigning letters and numbers to non existant meanings.
That doesn’t say that Eastern European Jews are Kurds. In fact the interesting part is that it says Eastern European “maternal DNA is less Hebrew”. Meaning as I’ve read before,a lot of European Jews are descended from converts not actual Hebrews from Palestine. And in the Jewish faith I believe,unlike some others,the mother’s ancestry determines whether you are considered Jewish or not. As to the Kurdish part. History in the Bible does point to the Hebrews coming at first from what’s now modern Iraq. So its not impossible that they could have come from what’s now Kurdish areas. But the Hebrews were a Semitic people. And the Kurds are considered to be an Iranic (Indo-European) people. So unless what some scholars believe is true,that most or at least many Kurds,are just assimilated local Semitic people no different except with language than other Iraqis, then that wouldn’t be possible.
In regard to maternal lineage determining jew-ness, I’m pretty sure that tradition started in Roman times, and wasn’t operative in the time of the Law and the prophets. Regarding the study, I am sure that they used the loosest possible definition: Ashkenazim (Khazars) plus Sephardim plus who knows what. If you are going to delineate chosen-ness by genetics– or as some would say by the flesh— ya gotta give yourself some leeway.
@C I Eh
The article referenced by the author regarding a genetic link between Kurds (the one you quoted from) is sheer propaganda, just as the author of this article sarcastically alluded to.
I have often seen nation states and empires twist history, linguistics and science to suit their temporary geopolitical aims. Genetics is not gobbledygook and each year is gets refined further and further. Even the science in the propaganda piece that pathetically tries to link Kurds to Jews contradicts the lie that that piece was trying to flog. The authors are counting on the ignorance of genetics by the general public to slip thru their lies. What the science (in their own article) was really saying is that some Jews are descended from non-jewish men who were the ancestors of Armenians (Hurrian-Mittani), Medians, and other Indo-Iranians. It’s sooo pathetic that they tried to twist that into saying the Kurds maybe more closely related to Jews than other peoples: it’s an outright lie based on the very information provided in the article.
The Kurds are genetically, culturally and linguistically much closer to Iranians and Northern Indians than they ever will be to Israelis. I am Indian, I readily understand a lot spoken Kurdish even though I’ve never studied the language, because it’s part of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. Farsi speakers have an even easier time communicating in Kurdish. The even dress in almost exactly the same manner as the villagers of Northern Indian and Eastern Iran.
The attempt to draw parallels and affinity between to people’s based on their present geopolitical needs is an old game practiced by various European empires (look at the snow job done on Western Ukraine, where those idiots think they have more in common (racially & culturally) with France & Germany than Russia). Tomorrow if an alliance with Papua New Guinea became critical to Israel’s security and economy, I’m sure we would see equally ridiculous articles from these same idiotic propagandists that Israeli Jews are more closely related to Israeli Papuans than all other humans because New Guinean DNA has the same variant of 4% Neanderthal admixture as found in Levantine Jews. Oh brother! Rolling-my-eyes at how weak their propaganda gets with each generation.
Typo correction:
I’m sure we would see equally ridiculous articles from these same idiotic propagandists that Israeli Jews are more closely related to
IsraeliPapua New Guinean tribes than all other humans because New Guinean DNA has the same variant of 4% Neanderthal admixture as found in Levantine Jews.I thought it was because the majority of Jews are descended from converts from around the Black Sea region who then “invaded” Europe. Just over 60 years ago, when a certain notorious European went xenophobic on them they then went to Palestine which they claim to be their ancestral home.
Language is not genetics, anybody can learn another language and adopt another culture.
Your statement on an individual level is true, on a societal or tribal level it becomes less true.
WRT the Kurds:
The y chromosome Haplogroup of Kurds proves their link to India and Iran, as well their language can be dated (it corresponds to an outflow from northwestern India & Eastern Iran approx prior to 1500 B.C.), the pre-islamic religion of the oldest of the Kurdish group, the Yazidis, has identical rituals to the Hindus of India (even the architecture of their temples) as well as later zoroastrian elements. The historical record and the genetic evidence confirms the linguistic evidence.
Have a nice day.
At one time I was better known as a writer in the field of genetics. Clearly the reference to Kurds’s “Jewish genetics” was, at best, skeptical. And the material is used by the AZ/Neocons to bolster their enterprise. These population studies–and matrilinear mitochondrial DNA is the closest thing to useful–are based on test modalities that assume a chimpanzee mutation rate of 5-million years and the math of the brilliant (but paranoid schizophrenic) mathematician Nash. If this rate is incorrect or, worse still, there is no real evolution, the results are highly questionable. (The fossil evidence does not support classical evolution but, rather, sudden bursts of speciation. The Russian biologist Lysenko correctly reasoned that the doctrine as taught was mathematically impossible, and so sought to develop alternative explanations for the “origin of the species.”)
Saudi Anti-Daesh Coalition Sparks Widespread Confusion, Even Among Members
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151217/1031867775/saudi-coalition-confusion.html
Role of Saudi-led ‘military alliance’ put to question as some members reject participation
https://www.rt.com/news/326161-saudi-military-coalition-questioned/
Seems to be a communication problem…no? Apparently somebody in the zionazi/nazi hierarchy forgot to write all the necessary memos to the untermenschen.
@Vot Tak
Re:
Apparently somebody in the zionazi/nazi hierarchy forgot to write all the necessary memos to the untermenschen.
ROFL! ^2
I’m still laughing at that line.
BTW did you or any other reader catch what Putin said about the Erdogan Mafia? Something about them liking to lick the butt of the US; I didn’t quite get the translation because the news networks have tried to “clean-up” Putin’s words in translation. RT used the translation “bootlicking”.
Hi mirror,
From what I read and heard (translation during Putins’ annual press conference) Putin said that if the Turks felt the urge to lick a certain body part of the Americans……
Vot tak,
Apparently all it takes is a phone call from bin Salman – and your country is in..
http://www.islamtimes.org/en/doc/news/505865/
This what happens when an education system is placed under the control of Jewish zionists:
New Jersey Teacher Says She Was Fired for Being Muslim
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/us/20151217/1031870287/racial-harassment-us-muslim-teacher-fired.html
“If you teach US history and you are a Muslim, be ready for ethnic attacks in class.
In the lawsuit Hashem claimed that the video of Malala Yusufzai, the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize and an activist who continues to advocate for girls’ and women’s education even after the Taliban shot her in the head, was shown “at the suggestion of” another teacher, who showed the video earlier in the day to another group of students.
Hashem’s supervisor in the Social Studies Department, Robert Zywicki, told her that following complaints from parents “she [Hashem] could not teach current events in the same manner as her non-Arab, non-Palestinian and non-Muslim colleagues.”
The other teacher, according to the lawsuit, was “a non-Arab, non-Muslim, non-Palestinian, Caucasian female.”
In September 2014, a student accused Hashem’s brother of terrorism on Facebook and labeled the teacher as anti-Semitic because she was allegedly trying to “instill anti-Semitic views in students and warned that plaintiff may hurt students who did not agree with her.”
The following day, according to the court documents, Hashem was confronted by her colleagues “who accused her of not sticking to the curriculum, questioned her about her teaching and how it related to the common core, accused her of discriminating against Jewish students, and also questioned her about her place of birth, her family, and her personal life.”
“Defendant Cooley told plaintiff (Hashem) that she should not mention Islam or the Middle East in her class. Defendant Cooley further stated that plaintiff should not bring her culture, life experience or background into the classroom,” according to the complaint.
Some days after, according to the court documents, “Defendant Steffner told plaintiff that she caused trouble because she was Palestinian since the day she started working at the high school, making reference to the Malala Yusufzai video,” the complaint states. “When plaintiff countered that Lindsay Wagner [the other history teacher] used the same video and it was not a problem, defendant Steffner slammed her hand on the table and said, ‘You are not Lindsay.’ Unlike plaintiff, Lindsay Wagner is not Arab, not Palestinian and not Muslim.”
According to Hashem, a rabbi and several parents then complained to teachers and the Board of Education and demanded her dismissal, “solely because of her heritage and religion.”
Hashem is requesting the replacement of lost wages as well as punitive damages for employment discrimination, disparate treatment, retaliation, conspiracy, constitutional violations, discriminatory firing and defamation.”
what a story…did you see this interview vt…I personally don’t like Alex Jones bigmouth, but his guest is very interesting – its really worth watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_TA9eWKGqA
Darrell Hamamoto is fantastic. All his interviews are stellar. Yesterday I enjoyed this podcast:
Jan Irvin, Joe Atwill & Darrell Hamamoto – Unspun 07: The African American Family, Feminism & the CIA
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/CCN_007_Hamamoto_Family-Feminism-CIA
Such disgusting racism – but what else would we expect from the ‘land of the free’?
I really hope she takes these so-called ‘educators’ to the cleaners.
Roll on BDS.
Eish, we live in interesting times. So the plan is for Syria and Iraq to lose oil bearing territory to the Kurds. Thanks to Russia, the Syrian’s now won’t let that happen without a major external invasion, and Saddam would never have allowed that to happen, he liked dumping chemically weapons on the Kurds. So thats why Saddam was taken out for apparently no reason back in the day, these NATO-Zionists-Turks really plan long term.
Modern day Iraq really needs to put more effort into wiping out ISIS. Iraq must make sure they only lose territory through a major external invasion, then Iran will come and assist and Russia will supply the anti aircraft missiles and the necessary tanks and artillery.
Only when Nato and the US put tons of troops on the ground will Russia do the same, and the US and Nato will have a hard time persuading their citizens to fight in an unnecessary war in a far away place, unless the Zionists give the Islamists nukes which they will use of course. Pakistan won’t get involved with all of India breathing down their necks. Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, etc, don’t matter.
Russia can take it easy and ignore all Turkish provocations. The Syrians, Iraqis and Iranians can deal with those who want to usurp their territory. All Russia needs to do is manufacture the required tanks and artillery, and who is the most resource rich country in the world. The modernized T90’s are good enough. The Donbas region can make all the hardware themselves. If things happen in the Middle East and there is no time to wait things out then Russia must secure the Donbas region to take advantage of its manufacturing capability.
Lavrov definitely did not like the explosive barbie doll Kerry bought him. He gave a potato and this was all he got back in return.
https://twitter.com/Andreyp_p/status/677369497842388992
When you make hijra to #Raqqa #Syria & stop by the Playboy store to be prepared for the festivities when u arrive.
https://twitter.com/Hamosh84/status/677259495282745344
Russian Air Defense coverage..
Russia needed to errect in Novaya Zemlya & Tchukotka area (near to Alaska) surveillance stations to cover all dirrctions.
https://twitter.com/StormBringer15/status/677096909639667713
Our martyrs from Aleppo – Sunnis, Christians, and Shi’i all fought and died bravely for their city. Rest in peace.
https://twitter.com/leithfadel/status/676983995142418437
Cruise missile that crashed yesterday at Nenoksa test range was improved version of P-800 Oniks v lenta
http://defendingrussia.ru/a/ekskljuzivnyje_foto_padenija_rakety_v_nenokse-4682/
Major #ISIL attacks in several fronts repelled by #Peshmerga. At least 70 terrorists killed and 3 VBIEDs destroyed.
320 militants, 34 items of terrorists’ military hardware (2 tanks,1IFV,15 #SUV with large-caliber machine guns) were destroyed
EU unable to help create #NoFlyZone on Turkish-Syrian border
Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman says not possible to meet #Russian demands for compensation over downed #jet
Turkey’s rhetoric after #Su24 downing closed all doors for constructive dialogue- #Zakharova
French Chief of Staff reports 12 airstrikes against 22 #ISIS targets in Iraq last week
https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/677397300596068352
This infographic by Louis Martin-Vézian shows the drastic reduction of the Soviet/Russian naval forces, with regard of the quantity of the available naval equipment, since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Soviet & Russian Navy: Submarine force comparison. Surface combatants here: http://www.offiziere.ch/?p=25280 @offiziere
http://www.offiziere.ch/?p=25280
The Development of Russian Naval Capabilities after the Cold War
Financial spending for the Red Army had previously accounted for at least 15% of GDP, but between 1992 and 1997 expenditure fell to no more than 5%, despite the 50% drop in GDP during the same period. Spending was further reduced to 2.9% in 1998 during the “Ruble crisis“, increasing only from 1999. The financial resources available to the Russian armed forces until 1999 barely sufficed for operating costs. Important new acquisitions were not possible, as can be seen in the development of the armed forces during the consolidation period which lasted until after 1999, when out-dated, surplus Soviet systems were scrapped
The potential of the RFN and its suppliers of defence technology deteriorated not only in terms of quantity but also of quality. At present, only about a quarter of the fleet has ocean-going capacity, and the abandonment of armaments projects as well as a shortage of new vessels since the turn of the millennium have reduced the RFN to a navy of rank III (Sean MacCormac, “The New Russian Naval Doctrine“, CIMSEC, September 3, 2015). The RFN is capable, although with considerable effort, of projecting power at a global level. However, a major operation would only be possible within a limited arena and for a limited period (Seidler, p. 61). The problems the RFN has in maintaining its Mediterranean task force, which consists of between 10 and 12 vessels, indicate that a sustained operation would have less success (Paul Pryce, “Russia’s Rusting Task Force“, CIMSEC, September 16, 2013).
The Borei-class is in part Soviet technology because the relevant planning phase began during the Cold War [2]. After successful implementation, this will reduce the strategic submarine fleet from the Cold War levels of 55 units (covering six classes) and 832 nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM; five different types) to 8-10 Borei-class submarines with altogether 128-160 nuclear-capable ICBMs of a single type armed with one nuclear warhead each. The strategic maritime component of Russia will thereby be quantitatively modest compared to that of the USA which, from 2018 and taking into account the New START agreement, will have 12 Ohio-class submarines, each with 20 Trident D-5 ICBMs, each of which theoretically capable of carrying up to 14 nuclear warheads [3]. Regarding the quantity of the carrier systems, Russia is still superior to those of the UK (four Vanguard-class submarines, each with 16 Trident D-5 ICBMs, capable of carrying three nuclear warheads each) and France (four Le Triomphant-class submarines, each with 16 ICBMs equipped with six nuclear warheads per missile; UK Government,
After the Cold War, the quantitative and qualitative potential of the RFN declined considerably. It is presently in the same league as the UK and the France Navy and could at the most carry out one major operation for a closely defined period in a specific location. This capability gap in global power projection will continue to exist in the long-term. In addition, the amphibious capabilities of the RFN are virtually non-existent, and here no long-term closing of the gap can be detected. The RFN is currently capable of policing the 200-mile economic zone and the coastal waters of the Russian regional space. At the strategic level, maritime component of the Russian nuclear triad with its Burei-class submarines and the Bulava ICBMs is capable of ensuring a presence, even after 2020. The number of simultaneously usable nuclear warheads, low in comparison to that of the USA, UK and France, is not the most significant factor. Despite the existing capability gaps and the efforts to continue to maintain the nuclear triad, the present analysis of the RFN capabilities does not reveal the kind of unilateral shift in focus towards the strategic component which can be detected in Russia’s land and air forces.
http://www.offiziere.ch/?p=25276
Putin Q and A LIVE now.
https://www.rt.com/on-air/putin-annual-media-marathon/
Ironically, the US and EU attempts to cripple the Russian economy via stopping potential natural gas sales will cause the most economic and social suffering to Turkey and Ukraine, as they both have low natural gas storage capacities and are subject to shortages during the winter months. El Nino models indicate that the polar vortex will be forced into Europe and Central Asia this winter adding dramatically to the suffering in these areas starting in January.
Ukraine is no longer buying natural gas from Russia due to non-payment as well as the announced defaulting on three billion in Euro bonds and currently facing a cutoff of coal deliveries from Russia. A cold spell will result in Ukraine stealing gas from the 19 BCM underground storage meant primarily for Eastern Europe and Turkey via the Transbalkan pipeline that supplies 27% of Turkey’s supply. The remaining natural gas supply comes from Russia-Bluestream (30%), Iran (20%), Azerbajan (10%), Algeria and Nigeria (10%, as LNG), Qatar (2% as LNG), and internal production (1%). Of this total Russia supplies about 30 BCM/year.
Iran has recently rejected Turkey’s request for an increase in natural gas supplies to make up for this potential Russian gas loss. Furthermore, occasional disruptions of Iranian natural gas flow occur in winter due to harsh winter conditions in Iran and high gas consumption rates in the northern parts of the country. Meanwhile, Iran is building gas pipelines to Iraq and Oman to supply their natural gas needs.
The planned Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline Project (TANAP) from Azerbajan through Turkey will not be completed before 2018 and would only initially supply 6 BCM of natural gas to Turkey. The current Azerbaijan pipeline cannot supply additional gas, especially in winter.
Turkey, in panic mode, has just signed a contract with Qatar to supply natural gas, however due to a lack of terminal offloading/storage (total maximum annual capacity of 14 BCM) in Turkey it would be impossible to put most of the gas into Turkey’s gas network.
While Iraqi Kurdistan is building a natural gas pipeline to Turkey it will not be ready this year, even if the Kurdish PKK no longer attack Kurdish gas and oil pipelines in Turkey.
Given that Turkey has in the past consumed up to 7 BCM of natural gas per month in Winter the potential loss of 14 BCM from the Transbalkan pipeline will cripple the economy in Winter and cause social unrest that can only be blamed on Turkey and Ukraine and by extension the US and EU states. On top of this, Turkey has declared that it will reduce imports of Russian liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for vehicles by 25% in 2016. Turkey expects to make this up with LPG imported from the US!
With the EU renewing sanctions on Russia over the failure of Ukraine to honor the MINSK-2 accords, additional Russian gas disruptions are possible resulting in discontent of the EU people with their governments.
The 500-mile Front Against Isis
Jihadis cannot shock and terrify as they did at the time of the fall of Mosul
Patrick Cockburn • ecember 11, 2015
Isis blew up one of the last remaining bridges across the Euphrates at Ramadi this week as 300 of its fighters tried to hold on to the centre of the city, which has come under attack from Iraqi government forces supported by US air strikes. Here Isis is on the retreat, but in Syria it has recaptured the village of Mahein, south-east of Homs, from the Syrian army, which had seized it a few days earlier and had been expected to use the village to launch an attack to retake the city of Palmyra.
The recapture of a world famous city such as Palmyra, where Isis has publicly executed Syrian soldiers and blown up the ancient temples, would have been an important victory for President Bashar al-Assad. Failure to do so is a further sign that the Syrian army’s multiple offensives against Isis and the Syrian armed opposition, which is backed by Russian air power, have so far failed to win any big successes that would tip the likely outcome of the war in Assad’s favour.
It is a vast battlefield stretching 500 miles across Iraq and Syria from the outskirts of Baghdad to the mountains overlooking the Mediterranean. Every day there are skirmishes, bombings and battles, of which some are well publicised, but others are fought out in the semi-desert of eastern Syria and get scarcely a mention in the local or international media.
Probably, one of the most important military setbacks for Isis in recent weeks was the loss of al-Houl, a town captured by the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) on 13 November. This attack threatens the road linking Isis’s Syrian capital at Raqqa to Mosul and Isis’s oilfields in eastern Syria.
This does not mean that Assad is going to win. No doubt support from Russian fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and missiles has helped the morale and military capacity of the Syrian army. But it has not transformed the battlefield because al-Nusra and the others were always going to fight hard and the Syrian army remains short of combat troops. If the opposition advance has been stemmed or in places reversed, the Syrian army has yet to regain Idlib city, Jisr al-Shughur or Palmyra. It is a long way from winning a decisive victory, such as the capture of the eastern opposition-held half of Aleppo.
The same is true, in Iraq, even if the Iraqi army and Shia militias succeed in regaining Ramadi. Isis is averse to defending easily identifiable fixed positions where it is an easy target for the US-led air campaign. It recalls that it lost 2,200 fighters failing to capture the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani in a four-and-a-half-month siege that ended in January.Isis would probably defend Mosul, Fallujah and Raqqa to the last, but it might give up other places as not worth the heavy casualties it would suffer trying to cling on to them. Its best strategy is to use its strength as a mobile guerrilla force, seeking out its enemies’ weak points and launching multiple attacks that catch the other side by surprise.
Isis is being squeezed by growing military pressure from its many adversaries, but these remain disunited and hostile to each other so, for the moment, the overall stalemate continues.
http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/the-500-mile-front-against-isis/
@Mmirww
ISIL is taking a severe beating, is on the run and in a high level of disarray. Meanwhile the Syrian Army is calmly and systematically taking strategic location after strategic location while Russia readies new airbases in Syria in a routine manner and their air campaign keeps ratcheting up and up.
Just imagine how much worse it will be for NATO’s proxies when Russia has tripled their airbases.
You see that’s the difference between coddled NATO military and battle hardened Easterners who will engage ISIL head on, building to building instead of like cowards flattening entire city blocks because their infantry can’t risk casualties. They also don’t have an artificial need to hurry because of public support issues but are driven by ground realities and a laid out military plan.
If ISIL was doing so well you wouldn’t be see ISIL’s sponsors like Britain, France, Turkey and the laughing stock known as Saudi Arabia panicking and rushing to cobble together a laughable coalition. The panic of their sponsors shows just how quickly ISIL is being liquidated and driven back.
The stalled offensive for Palmyra has been a big disappointment. I don’t think the SAA has enough troops there at present to take the city. I fear those maniacs occupying it will blow up the amphitheater in spite, the way the did the Temple of Baal. The obviously do not care about world opinion. They have done everything in there power to bring every global force against them.
Disappointments is some areas are counter balanced by successes in others. The City of Homs is now fully in government in control, Latakia province is gradually coming under full control and they aren’t far from the borders of Jordan.
Manpower shortage is a problem. Syria should co-operate more with the Iraqi Army. I don’t see much going on Iraq fighting wise these days, but reinforcements could really be used in Syria. Now there is a “Cease Fire’ in Yemen, I would conscript every Houthis that I could find, promising them unlimited Khat and whatever else they wanted. 10 Houthis fighters are worth 100 of any fighter on the battlefield in my opinion.
I agree with an earlier commentator. No way is Syria and Iraq going to give away all their oil wealth to the Kurds. The Iraqi Kurds (KRG) in particular are not trusted by either Sunni or Shia. I doubt short of a complete Turkish invasion, they will be able to succeed in their plans.
Portrait of a Backstabbing Pasha
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a long and ignoble history of betraying political associates, trading partners and military allies; of pledging friendship and then bombing his ‘friends’ and murdering citizens; of negotiating ‘in good faith’ and then killing rivals; of playing democrat then behaving like an ordinary demagogic dictator.
Erdogan appeals to the plebian and austere values of the Anatolian provincial petty bourgeoisie, while building the largest luxurious presidential palace in the world – fit for a 21st century Pasha. He repeatedly pronounces his fealty to the ‘Turkish Nation’, while he robs the Turkish treasury by repeatedly accepting bribes and pay-offs from building contractors who then double charge for publically-funded projects.
During the legislative election of 2015 ISIS terrorists and thugs from Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) attacked the offices, meetings and candidates of the opposition parties, especially of the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), to ensure that Erdogan secured a super-majority.
Erdogan’s transformation from ‘Muslim democrat’ to bloody authoritarian Islamist ruler with pretensions of becoming the dominant Middle Eastern Pasha has to be seen in light of his rise to power over the past 40 years.
His Islamist fanaticism was disguised. He changed the party name from Welfare to the modern sounding Justice and Development Party (AKP). Erdogan then launched a series of political maneuvers, in which he cleverly manipulated adversaries to gain power and then… stabbed each of them in the back.
In the beginning of his rule Erdogan’s concessions, tax incentives, government contracts to big capital were broadly distributed to most sectors, but especially to his crony capitalists within the construction and real estate sectors.
Turkey, under Erdogan’s absolute power, has seen a geometric increase in corruption and mindless ‘development projects’, leading to the degradation and usurpation of public spaces. His arbitrary and destructive policies have provoked sustained civil society protests, especially in the center of Istanbul – during the Gezi Park demonstrations, which began in May 2013.
2013, the year of the Gezi Park Movement, was a turning point – Erdogan and family members were implicated in a $100 million-dollar corruption scandal while liberal critics of the regime were purged.
Erdogan: Backstabbing Secular Syria and “Best Friend” Russia
From the beginning of his rule, Erdogan cultivated the ‘best of relations’ with Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He signed dozens of trade agreements with Damascus and Moscow. Putin was welcomed to Ankara and Erdogan to Moscow where they signed billion-dollar energy deals and mutual co-operative agreements.
Erdogan’s regime was ebullient, effusive, embracing Moscow and Damascus while systematically preparing the ground for more backstabbing!
The ISIS regime controlling the Syrian and Iraqi oil fields provides Turkey with a source of cheap fuel and lucrative profits for the regime. Recep’s son, Necmettin Bilal Erdogan owns and operates the BMZ Group which buys the contraband Syrian and Iraqi oil in Turkey and sells it overseas (especially to Israel) earning nearly a billion dollars a year for ‘the family’.
It is not surprise that the Erdogan family directly financed ISIS, which uses the cash from contraband oil, pillaged antiquities and ‘tribute’ taxes, to purchase heavy and light arms, military and transport vehicles and communications equipment in Turkey and elsewhere to support its terror campaign in Syria and Iraq. Well-informed Turkish observers believe that Erdogan’s intelligence officials are directly involved in recruiting ISIS terrorists to operate within Turkey and attack Erdogan’s internal opposition, especially the Kurdish electoral party HDP and the broad-based Turkish left and trade union movements. Observers claim Turkish intelligence operations had a direct role in the ‘ISIS’ bomb attacks in Suruç and Ankara this year, which killed and maimed hundreds of Erdogan opponents and civil society activists.
The Pasha Stabs the Bear and the Bear Bites Back – One Stab Too Many
Unlike the US, which had rarely bombed the strategic Erdogan-ISIS oil smuggling operations, the Russians destroyed over a thousand oil trucks and numerous ISIS oil depots and logistical centers in the first month of its air campaign. By reducing the flow of smuggled oil, Russia cut off the main source of massive profit for Bilal Erdogan’s BMZ Company as well as for Turkish arms dealers.
Up until Erdogan’s act of war against Russia, he had publically embraced Putin as an ally, friend and partner. The two leaders had cordial relations for over a decade. The Turkish military was fully informed about Russian military operations in Syria, including its flight paths. Then suddenly in November 2015 he risked a total rupture in relations and invited retaliation against Turkey from Russia by shooting down a Russian jet.
Russia immediately responded by upgrading its most advanced weapons systems to defend its operations and bases in Northern Syria and intensified its bombing of the ISIS – Turkish oil operations.
Erdogan’s road to absolutist power is strewn with indiscriminant purges, terror and deceit; violence against environmental and liberal protestors in Gezi Park and moderate Gülen Islamists; jail sentences and firing of journalists and publishers, military officials and judges; repression of workers and capitalists; terror bombing against activists and democrats; and war against Kurds and Syrians.
Erdogan’s paranoid and greed-driven vision of politics precludes any trust and stable relations. He thinks he is very clever with his combination of charm and broken promises, but he fools nobody. He reignites the war against the Kurds in Turkey and Syria but they retaliate!
He attacks Russia and provokes a very costly retaliation so far limited to the Turkish economy.
http://www.unz.com/jpetras/recep-tayyip-erdogan-portrait-of-a-backstabbing-pasha/
Woowza.. Putin really lays it on Turkey and erdo’s gangster ism.. He made another veiled threat…
Putin on S-400 Deployment in Syria: Let Turkish Aviation Fly Now
“They [Turkish authorities] thought that we would turn tail and run! No, Russia is not that country. We have increased our presence in Syria, have increased the number of combat aircraft deployed there. There was no Russian air defense system there –now there’s the S-400. If before, Turkey had constantly violated Syrian airspace, let them try it now.”
http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20151215/1031786484/russia-ready-war.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-turkey-nato-idUKKBN0TZ2KY20151216
NATO plans to send air defence support to Turkey partly to minimise the risk of Ankara shooting down another Russian warplane while assuaging its fears of a spillover from the conflict in Syria, senior alliance sources say.
The mission, expected to be approved by the Western defence alliance’s council on Friday, has been under preparation for 10 months, long before the incident with Russia, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said it is not linked.
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The package, set to be approved without debate, includes interceptor aircraft, Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) radar planes and a naval unit with command ships and frigates with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles.
It is a quite long article where you will find more of this kind of wonderful logic.
” It is a quite long article where you will find more of this kind of wonderful logic.”
Haha. That is the problem with double-speak. Every lie needs to covered with ten new lies. And so on to infinity. A sure way to live in misery and to waste ones life.
It is telling that while Turkey was acting against russian and syrian interests the Russian went rushing to Turkey to make New pope line deal with the same turkey in 2014.
It tells how useless is foreign ministry of russia and it’s minister lavrov.
Nobody could have predicated Erdogan’s schizophrenic behavior.
Well Putin offered them a new better deal with prices much lower and a gas hub if they stop supporting terrorism. After all thats how you make peace with your enemies.. Show them a better way to make more profit by getting along.. But this guy being a back stabbing pasha gangster thought he could fool everyone and get rich like he has been doing for decades. And in turkey itself he is a master at intimidation.. His word is law.. It just got to his head.. Now the entire world knows what a backstabber is.. I hope the word dont stick with turks as a whole but after this fiasco everyone will be very nervous to do any business with turkey. They have made enemies of everyone around them and now have a rep as a backstabbing gangster. It will a new government a long time to get things back to normal. At least for any of the nations near them to trust them again. I am sure Putin knew all this and hoped it would not come to this but now everyone knows and it is all out in the open. Just also goes to show you that the western MSM who also knew all this hid it all from the people. Like the piliant imperial press..
I would love to see their plans backfire!
With more than 14 million (50%) of Kurds in Eastern Turkey, I suppose the last thing Turkey wants is the core of Kurdistan seceding from Turkey!
With about 6 million each in Iraq and Iran, and only 2 million in Syria, a ‘successful Kurdistan in Eastern Turkey may draw 50% or more out of these countries increasing its population to over 20 million.
This day in history when an Iraqi told Bush what a war criminal he is.
https://twitter.com/HistoricalPics/status/676530779208458240
#Australia Say #Russia Not To Blame, #Evidence Tampered With
https://twitter.com/NewsCoverUp/status/677282424565444608
Russia demands MH17 black box data release
From ITV – ‘Russia has launched a media attack on Western countries, demanding to know why international investigators have yet to publish the black box data from a Malaysian airliner that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July, a deputy defence minister said in an interview published on Saturday.
http://yournewswire.com/russia-demands-mh17-black-box-data-release/
Mysiewicz,
1. Nice factual detailed analysis of the Zionist/American/Imperialist goals in the Mid-East and elsewhere.
For once, the role of the Zionist Terrorist entity is not obfuscated by an ‘expert’ on the military, political, and economic confrontations, in Syria and Iraq.
Also, excellent commentaries follow by vot tak, mmiriw, and others.
The Zionist/American Terrorist enemies are clearly identified. The ISIS is clearly – Them.
2. The decisive Global importance of the Russian intervention in Syria becomes clearer than ever. Russia’s Air Corps, with Naval and Ground support, and its military supplies, have enabled them to forge a growing Anti-Fascist Alliance (there is no better descriptive name for their alliance), between Russia, Syria, Iran, Hezbollah-from Lebanon, and, increasingly, and step by step, Iraq.
The Russian led anti-fascist alliance has the potential to expand into a world-wide Anti Fascist Alliance. This eventuality depends, partially on the pressure the imperialists place on Russia, Europe, Latin America, and the Arab nations. An anti-fascist alliance may be understood as a necessary defense for the peoples of the world, who wish to avoid utter slavery and economic degradation. Russia and its leaders may (and have up to now), provide the central spark, the political and military (chemical) mix for the crystallization of such a world saving alliance.
The political anti-fascist alliance of the nations of the Fertile Crescent will permanently block the expansion of the Zionist Financial Oligarchs, their oil and gas pipelines, and their unanswered terror.
It is happening before our eyes.
3. This nascent political, economic, and military resistance to world Zionist Imperialist Fascism may represent a new World Paradigm for the forging of a higher political culture of Peace, Prosperity, National Integrity (sovereignty), Respect for the religions and cultures of all, a multi-polar world alignment, and the corresponding growth of (a great variety of), Democratic Republican (non dictatorial) forms of government.
For the Democratic Republics!
founded upon the principles of:
Equality and Reconciliation!
Speaking of Adelson, doesn’t the alleged source of his fortune, casinos, imply other things namely narcotics, money laundry, corruption, human trafficking….
This is a most informative article. The comments too.
Highly recommend the author’s previous article:
http://www.vineyardsaker.co.nz/2014/09/17/war-with-isis-multiplexing-a-new-world-order-by-tom-mysiewicz/
And camoron the jew actively pushes for Turkey to be admitted as a member of the EU…
Regarding the Israel-United States Memorandum of Understanding, it has no Treaty status, and thus the USA is under no obligation to insure the delivery of hydrocarbon resources to Israel.
A new UNSC Resolution aimed at those financing or supporting Daesh in any manner was passed under UN’s Article 7, which is why I believe Saudi formed its “coalition.” Here’s the resolution’s text, http://www.scribd.com/doc/293552696/Resolution-on-cutting-off-Daesh-financing
Given the amount of publicly available information as to Daesh’s supporters, lots of countries and individuals ought to be squirming–US, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari primarily. Israel’s buying of contraband oil ought to land it in very hot water, as should Turkey and the Barzani Kurdish Mafia whence it comes. Lots of arms shipments were announced publicly by Saudi, Ukraine, USA, and other states and their officials–McCain, Ash, Graham, Petraeus, and several Republican presidential candidates come to mind.
Interesting that Article 7 is now in play.
@Tap on December 17, 2015 · at 11:57 am UTC
It is telling that while Turkey was acting against Russian and Syrian interests the Russian went rushing to Turkey to make New pope line deal with the same turkey in 2014.
It tells how useless is foreign ministry of Russia and it’s minister Lavrov.
With the psychopaths what they want on us to force the “New World Order” you must to use the method “With crazy people only in by the nice way” and Mr. Lavrov is using this method because he knows very well what the rest of the world / us / want to achieve in the final moment of our very dangerous history what we are going through right now!
The plan will backfire. Kurds will be independent, http://kurdishquestion.com/index.php/kurdistan/north-kurdistan/kurdish-leader-bayik-we-are-neither-on-america-nor-russia-s-side/1263-kurdish-leader-bayik-we-are-neither-on-america-nor-russia-s-side.html
I agree with your conclusion for the Kurdish people of Syrian region of Rojava. Not sure about the Kurdish people in Iraq under their warlord/gangster leader. You may enjoy the following article on Rojava!
American Leftists Need to Pay More Attention to Rojava
By Michelle Goldberg
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/11/25/rojava_is_a_radical_experiment_in_democracy_in_northern_syria_american_leftists.html
Fantastic article!
The question I am left with is whether Putin understands all of these dynamics. You have to wonder if Putin with his close ties to Isreal will be able to stand up to Isreal.
It seem like the AZ empire is offering up Turkey so they can continue their divide and conquer ways. And it seems like Putin is letting himself get tangled up with Turkey.
I would like to think this is Putin being patient and playing chess, but I just don’t know.
@Anonymous 8:57
Oh please – of course the Russians know about the Israeli – Turkey ‘plan.’
http://en.trend.az/world/turkey/2471005.html
If the ‘secret’ meeting between head of Mossad and Turkish counterpart for the building of the pipeline is being published on the net, how could they not know?
But without a ‘Kurdistan’ incorporating Syria and under full Israeli/Turkish control (really Rothschild/Erdogan clan control) , those plans are not by any means guaranteed success.
The Iraqi Kurds are divided. with a new faction backed by Iran emerging, while the Syrian Kurds were excluded from the Riyadh meeting precisely because their autonomy project does not include the break up of Syria. Meanwhile the PKK have not fought long and hard for deals that benefit the Rothschild’s/Israelis: even if the leadership could be bought off, the regular forces would sabotage infrastructure, so frightening away investors.
Yeah. But does Putin see Isreal as the main threat above all others like he should?
I think Putin might see Isreal as one of many actors instead of the head of the snake I what I am saying.
Hi!
I read your commentary quite often.
I too have been following these incidents quite closely for the past 15 years.
I normally don’t have my database open for public viewing because it is only meant as a personal collection of commentary which I found interesting during past years. (I will leave the database available for your viewing during the next 12 hours.)
In order for the Americans to access Iraq from the North in 2003, they promised Turkey that the Kurds would not get independence.
Turks To Kurds : Hands Off Oil Town Of Kirkut
http://www.pair-annoyed.com:9090/CalmZZZ—–CalmZZZ/showthread.php?p=88530#post88530
But, the Kurds have always sought independence and America and Israel have been doing whatever it takes to assure this happens.
Kurds demand autonomy
October 03, 2004
http://www.pair-annoyed.com:9090/CalmZZZ—–CalmZZZ/showthread.php?t=6822
Keep Writing …..
Keep Smilin’ and don’t let your mouse byte yuh!
Calm
A twin article to the above that details the involvement of major oil cartels – especially Genel Energii (Hayward, Cheney, Rothschild) in the trafficking of stolen Iraqi and Syrian oil, as well as the British registration of offshore accounts to launder the profits:
http://thenewsdoctors.com/turkish-isil-oil-trade-the-roles-of-the-kurdistan-regional-government-britain-and-israel-part-iii/
Time international arrest warrants were issued for these criminals..
I am afraid i passed after I read the twinned comparison between Israel and the Kurds being so alike.
His praise of Israel fits no Israeli actuality at all. The Kurdish people are not like the Zionist Israelis at all.