{"id":208453,"date":"2015-12-13T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=208453"},"modified":"2015-12-14T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T22:34:21","slug":"u-s-may-be-salvaging-victory-for-jihadists-how-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/u-s-may-be-salvaging-victory-for-jihadists-how-why\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. May Be Salvaging Victory for Jihadists: How & Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

According to Britain\u2019s\u00a0Telegraph<\/i><\/span><\/a>, in a recent report, the U.S. Tow antitank missiles that U.S. President Barack Obama sent in October to the Islamic Sunni fighters in Syria to use against the forces of the non-sectarian Shiite ruler there, Bashar al-Assad<\/span><\/a>, have been so effective against Russia\u2019s forces that Assad had invited in, that Russia \u2013 defending (upon Syria\u2019s legal request) President Assad\u2019s forces, and attacking the jihadists imported into Syria by the Saudis and the rest of the West \u2013 is now being forced to send into the battle Russia\u2019s costly T-90 tanks, which are less vulnerable to America\u2019s missiles. “The deployment of the T-90s appears to reflect\u00a0Moscow\u2019s frustration at this failure [‘getting sucked into a costly and possibly lengthy fight\u2019], as well as\u00a0concern over the damage inflicted by the\u00a0rebels\u2019 anti-tank missiles, themselves supplied\u00a0by the regime\u2019s arch-rivals in the Gulf states\u00a0[specifically Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Kuwait] and Turkey.\u201d All of those invading nations (other than the United States) are controlled by Sunni aristocrats, supporters and enforcers of Sharia Law<\/span><\/a>, who (backed up by the U.S.) intend to take over and control the existing non<\/i>-secular<\/span><\/a> government of Syria, which is run by Bashar al-Assad, and impose Sharia Law. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Telegraph<\/i>, as a propaganda-medium for the British aristocracy, which aristocracy is allied like a \u201clap-dog” with the U.S. aristocracy, doesn\u2019t so much as even mention the U.S. nor its Tow missiles that were sent into Syria through Turkey, precisely in order to protect their terrorists against the Russian-Syrian forces. Those U.S.-made missiles were purchased and now owned by \u201cthe Gulf states\u201d \u2013 specifically, by the royal families of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Kuwait \u2013 all of which fund the terrorists (for examples, see this<\/span><\/a> and this<\/span><\/a>). However, the Telegraph<\/i> <\/span>article does prominently make note that, “Deployment of T-90 tanks is [the] latest sign\u00a0that [the] Kremlin is being forced to escalate its\u00a0intervention from an air to a ground war.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The cost of a Tow antitank missile is only $180,000<\/span><\/a>. The cost of a T-90 tank is $4.5M<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0which is 25 times as much. This is therefore a battlefield strategy designed to bleed Russia\u2019s economy to death. That\u2019s how Obama intends now to conquer Russia, on the battlefields of Syria \u2013 to use Syria against Russia, in the same way that \u2018we\u2019 had used Afghanistan against the Soviet Union<\/span><\/a>. And the man speaking there, Zbigniew Brzezinski, is a longtime personal friend and advisor of Obama<\/span><\/a>. The identical strategy is being repeated, but this time without the ideological gloss of a conflict between communism and capitalism. It\u2019s just raw conquest the U.S. aristocracy want, and are determined to get. The jihadist Sunni aristocracies work hand-in-glove with America\u2019s \u2013 and, incidentally, buy their U.S. weapons, such as here<\/span><\/a> and here<\/span><\/a>. Add in America\u2019s NATO alliance<\/span><\/a>, and it\u2019s an awesome combination they\u2019re using against Russia. The strategy and weapons come mainly from America; the money comes mainly from the Saud family. But none of this is even mentioned in the Telegraph\u2019s<\/i> <\/span>piece.<\/span><\/p>\n

This propaganda-article in the Telegraph<\/i> <\/span>then goes on subtly to blame Syria\u2019s anti-jihadist President, Assad, for the jihadists who are trying to overthrow him: “Experts say the Russian intervention is prolonging a conflict that\u00a0has already claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million Syrians, causing\u00a0millions to flee abroad as world world powers pile in to join an escalating civil war.\u201d In other words, according to the Telegraph:<\/i> <\/span>if only Russia hadn\u2019t, on 30 September 2015, joined the battle against the jihadists who have been sent by the U.S. and the Sunni aristocrats, into Syria, then the EU wouldn\u2019t be flooded with refugees from Syria, which refugees had actually already been flooding in long before Russia even started its bombing on September 30th.<\/span><\/p>\n

That article in the Telegraph<\/i> \u00a0is thus a superb example of really professional propaganda, which skillfully exploits its readers\u2019 stupidity and cultural (here, basically pro-American) biases or prejudices: it reverses the blame onto the actual victim (the non<\/i>-sectarian leaders of Syria), and hides the actual guilty parties (which support the Telegraph<\/i>, and buy ads in it for their companies). Furthermore, the Telegraph<\/i> <\/span>article implies (without providing any evidence at all) that the victim of the U.S. alliance\u2019s invasion of Syria, the anti<\/i>-jihadist Syrian President and his forces, is instead the victimizer<\/i>, and the source of America\u2019s (illegal \u2013 which they ignore<\/i>) invasion there. (Of course, a reader has to be stupid to fall for any of that, but PR is always exploiting people\u2019s stupidity \u2013 that\u2019s what it does, and that\u2019s how it works, and how it\u2019s designed to work.)<\/span><\/p>\n

In a journalism class, I would thus cite this article in the Telegraph<\/i> \u00a0as an example of how sophisticated the propaganda operation by the West is against Russia and its allies. \u2018Journalism\u2019 students (especially ones who aim to work for financially well-endowed \u2018news\u2019 media) need to know how to do this, because it\u2019s what they\u2019ll be paid to do, once they get out into the world of \u2018journalism,\u2019 to \u2018earn\u2019 a living (actually, serve the aristocrats). Informally, this is called simply \u201cpleasing the clients.\u201d Military contractors are increasingly important clients, and they do especially well in such \u2018news\u2019 media \u2013 but they\u2019re not the only<\/i> <\/span>ones who do. For example, the corporations who want to control vital natural resources also do, and Russia is the world\u2019s most resource-rich nation<\/span><\/a>. (And, even the World Bank acknowledges<\/span><\/a> the \u201cnatural resource curse,\u201d though without mentioning it, and though ignoring that its basis is the threat and reality of invasions by foreign aristocracies \u2013 such as America\u2019s \u2013 something that\u2019s unmentionable by an institution which, like the World Bank, is indirectly financed largely by<\/i> such invasions.) <\/span><\/p>\n

The propaganda-function isn\u2019t merely in the press; it\u2019s also in academia, and throughout the aristocracy itself \u2013 which funds both the press, and academia. <\/span><\/p>\n

As is usually the case when reading \u2018news,\u2019 this article in the Telegraph<\/i> <\/span>is far more reliable, and informative, in what it reveals behind<\/i> <\/span>its lines, than on<\/i> <\/span>its lines. And what it reveals behind its lines is the way the world works. <\/span><\/p>\n

Putting it all together, in this manner: America\u2019s salvaging victory for the jihadists in Syria makes brilliant sense. But it\u2019s not what\u2019s on<\/i> <\/span>the lines that Western \u2018news\u2019 media report. It\u2019s only<\/i> behind<\/i> <\/span>the lines, where the real sense is found.<\/span><\/p>\n

On December 15th, representatives of all of the many jihadist groups that comprise the Western coalition to defeat Assad and Russia were to be meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where the Saud family was to select (with U.S. advice and consent) which of the terrorist groups are \u2018moderates\u2019 and will thus be supported by the West to take over Syria.<\/a><\/span> The meeting fell apart even before it started. The Sauds\u2019 demands, however, were clear: On December 10th, UPI headlined from Riyadh, \u201cSaudi Arabia: Assad Must Resign Or Be Forcibly Removed For Peace Success.\u201d<\/span><\/a> Such are the West\u2019s \u2018democratic\u2019<\/span><\/a> allies. They refuse to allow what Assad and Putin have been insisting upon: a Syrian Presidential election that will be internationally monitored, and not concluded unless and until the international monitors announce that the results were not produced by fraud. The reason that the West refuses a democratic determination of the matter is that even the polling that has been done in Syria by Western polling firms consistently shows that Assad would win any democratic election in Syria overwhelmingly<\/span><\/a>. And the reason why Assad would win is obvious: the U.S fostered this war at least from the moment that Barack Obama became America\u2019s President<\/span><\/a>, and most Syrians blame the U.S. and ISIS, not Assad<\/span><\/a>, for their misery<\/span><\/a>. And so, they loathe America<\/span><\/a>. They know that America leads this<\/span><\/a> invasion, from behind the scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was asked about Syria\u2019s war, in\u00a0an interview published Saturday December 12th in Munich\u2019s Evening Times<\/i>,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and she said:<\/span><\/p>\n

The International Alliance against the Islamic State does not include Assad and his troops.<\/i><\/span>\u00a0Let us not forget that <\/i><\/span>the majority of refugees who have come to us are fleeing Assad.<\/i><\/span>\u00a0He throws still more barrel bombs on his own<\/i> [jihadist] people<\/i> [so she implies let\u2019s protect them!]. He must not remain as the head of state there.\u00a0We still need to speak to all groups in Syria together, for\u00a0<\/i><\/span>a political solution to the conflict.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The obedient interviewer asked no follow-up questions of her lies. The Saudi-Qatari-UAE-Turkish-U.S. \u2018international alliance\u2019 she was referring to, fighting to replace Assad with an anti-Russian stooge, does not include Assad and his troops, who have been fighting against the Islamic State since 2011; but, clearly, it does include Merkel\u2019s German government, whose own population is now rebelling against the refugees from America\u2019s Middle Eastern invasions into Syria and Libya. Instead of Europeans blaming America, the European stooges such as Merkel are blaming Assad, for this war that the U.S. has been fomenting since 2009<\/span><\/a>. When she says most of the refugees are \u201cfleeing Assad\u201d instead of fleeing her own alliance (which is largely Islamist itself), she simply lies. And when she insists upon \u201ca political solution to the conflict,\u201d she is simply insisting that Assad must be forced out and be excluded from being a candidate in any \u2018democratic\u2019 election, because she knows he\u2019d win it.<\/span><\/p>\n

She also asserted: \u201cWe extend our military mission against the Islamic State now legitimized by international law by Iraq on Syria.\u201d<\/i> <\/span>However, that too is a lie: Germany is instead joining America\u2019s illegal invasion of both countries. Russia had been invited in; the U.S. and its allies are instead invading the sovereign territory both of Syria and of Iraq \u2013 but especially of Syria<\/span><\/a>, which never authorized America\u2019s invasion (see this<\/span><\/a> and this<\/span><\/a> and this<\/span><\/a> and this<\/span><\/a> and this<\/span><\/a> \u2013 it\u2019s all a U.S. invasion).<\/span><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t today\u2019s \u2018Western democracy<\/span><\/a>\u2019 a marvelous thing? It\u2019s such a modern form of dictatorship<\/span><\/a>. And, sometimes, even major international figures acknowledge that that\u2019s what it is<\/span><\/a>. But, of course, the press in a dictatorship (with few and tiny exceptions such as here) hides such realities. So, maybe pass this around to all your friends. Let them in on the secret, too. Maybe it\u2019s not the most that a reader of this can do, but it\u2019s the least \u2013 and shouldn\u2019t it be done? Or: how<\/i> <\/span>should one respond to this knowledge?<\/span><\/p>\n

After all: this could be the build-up to a nuclear war, between \u2018the West\u2019 and Russia<\/span><\/a>. Shouldn\u2019t people who live in the West (not only<\/i> <\/span>in Russia) know that?<\/span><\/p>\n

And it\u2019s all for what? For whose benefit?<\/span><\/a> Is that fair? Is that good? Is that even tolerable?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org According to Britain\u2019s\u00a0Telegraph, in a recent report, the U.S. Tow antitank missiles that U.S. President Barack Obama sent in October to the Islamic Sunni fighters in Syria to use against the forces of the non-sectarian Shiite ruler there, Bashar al-Assad, have been so effective against Russia\u2019s forces that Assad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":205511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[115,30,535,59,753,524,754,523,49,76,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-208453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-police-state","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-syria","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-usa-news","18":"tag-warfare","19":"tag-white-house","20":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}