{"id":235593,"date":"2016-04-02T16:26:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=235593"},"modified":"2016-04-02T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T16:26:38","slug":"russia-now-salvaged-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/russia-now-salvaged-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Russia Now Salvaged Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The United States cooked up the idea of using fundamentalist-Sunni, Saudi-led-and-inspired mujahideen, or \u201cTaliban,\u201d as cheap fanatics to fight against the Soviet Union in 1979 in Afghanistan<\/span><\/a>; and, then, after thus draining and ending the USSR by 1991, the royal Sauds and their friends U.S. Presidents \u2014 starting with the Bushes but including Clinton(s) and Obama<\/span><\/a> \u2014 have continued it as a bad habit<\/span><\/a>, which got out of control and has now ultimately forced millions of Syrians (and Libyans etc.) to leave their jihadist-infested homelands to seek safety in Europe<\/span><\/a>. This influx is too many refugees, too fast for Europe (or anywhere) to absorb, and so has created a crisis that threatens the continued existence of the EU. Has Russia now effectively come to the rescue and saved the EU, and perhaps placed the U.S.-Saudi fundamentalist-Sunni genie back into its bloody destructive bottle? Perhaps so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s enemies, the United States and its Sunni fundamentalist allies (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Turkey)<\/a><\/span> almost succeeded in replacing Syria\u2019s non-sectarian and secular Ba\u2019athist government, by a Saudi-inspired fundamentalist-Sunni one<\/span><\/a>; and, in the process, those enemies of Europe produced millions of Syrian and other refugees into Europe and elsewhere. In this ongoing crisis, Europe\u2019s leaders, such as Angela Merkel (who as an East German has hated and feared Russians ever since childhood), are still allied with Europe\u2019s enemies (those Sunni-fundamentalist-ruled nations, which compete against Russia in the oil-and-gas markets), but Russia\u2019s intervention in the Syrian conflict has finally turned the tide against the jihadists, so that Europeans can, at long last, reasonably begin to hope again that this hell has reached its bottom, and that Europe\u2019s future is heading back towards progress, instead of towards ever-increasing conflict and recession and soaring debt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until Russia, on 30 September 2015, entered the Syrian war to conquer the jihadists who were being paid by the fundamentalist Sunni governments and leaders of Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/a>, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Turkey \u2014 being paid to overthrow and replace the secular Ba\u2019athist government of the nominally Shiite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad \u2014 until that Russian bombing-campaign began, ISIS and the other foreign jihadist groups were in the ascendancy in Syria. These foreign fighters, who came into Syria through U.S.-&-Saudi-allied fundamentalist-led Turkey (the Sauds\u2019 agent in NATO), are the people who drove those millions of Syrians into exile abroad, into the EU and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

But on March 25th, Ziad Fadel, one of the few reliably truthful (though purple-prosed) reporters on the Syrian conflict,\u00a0<\/span>reported at Syrian Perspective,<\/span>\u00a0the crucial news that:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Syrian Army has racked up another victory over the Turk-supported and Saudi-financed terrorist group called ISIS. In 2 places,\u00a0at the SyriaTel Tower atop a hill overlooking the \u201cNecropolis\u201d\u00a0(Jabal Al-Quboor) and the Citadel of Palmyra, \u2026\u00a0the Syrian army stormed high fortifications set up by the\u00a0terrorist rodents and destroyed them all killing every single vermin except those who absconded early to face certain death at the\u00a0hands of ISIS itself or our vaunted Desert Falcons. \u2026 The Syrian Army has also liberated the ‘Hotel District’ including the Semiramis and Didiman. As I write, the army is pushing deep\u00a0into the city aiming to establish control over the Fuel Station. Resistance has been sporadic, the rats mostly relying on booby-trapped vehicles and IEDs. Each rat has been assigned a platoon whose sole purpose is to expose him and kill him. According to\u00a0Monzer, there are only about 600 rodents left in the city [Palmyra], some of whom are known to be preparing for a pullout or a negotiated\u00a0surrender \u2013 an event which will not happen, by the way. They are in a true dilemma: if they surrender to our Falcons, they will die.\u00a0\u00a0If they escape to their litter-mates in Al-Raqqa or\u00a0Al-Sukhna, they will, also, die.\u00a0\u2026\u00a0We are only hours away from total liberation.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Palmyra is in the very heart of the vast Sunni-dominated part of Syria \u2014 the part that the U.S. and its fundamentalist-Sunni allies have been wanting especially to control so as to build, through that currently fundamentalist-Sunni-controlled area, oil and gas pipelines for Saudi Arabia and Qatar to transport their oil and gas into the EU. Here\u2019s a map showing how central Palmyra is in the Sunni or ISIS-held region of Syria:<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the current rate of progress by Assad (still backed by Russian bombers) the Syrian army will soon be able to attack the Syrian headquarters of ISIS, which is in Raqqa. When that happens, then Assad, Russia, and all of Europe will have won this long and terrible war, which has become such a curse to the EU, even if not so much as it has been a curse to the Syrian people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even Newsweek<\/i>, one of the U.S. Establishment\u2019s main news-magazines, headlined on March 24th,\u00a0\u201cWill There Be a Coup Against Erdogan in Turkey?\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and Michael Rubin reported there that, “The situation in Turkey is bad and getting worse. It\u2019s not just the deterioration in security amidst a wave of terrorism. Public debt might be stable, but\u00a0private debt\u00a0is out of\u00a0control, the\u00a0tourism sector is in free-fall\u00a0and the\u00a0decline in the currency\u00a0has impacted every citizen\u2019s buying power.\u201d Though the Turkish dictator the fundamentalist Sunni Tayyip Erdogan \u2014 who has arrested and replaced the management at the two Turkish news-media that had dared to report the truth about his having been supplying terrorists in Syria \u2014 may still have his friends in Washington, Riyadh, Doha, and Kuwait City, his position in Turkey itself is becoming increasingly perilous (and this is despite the $6B+ aid package that Obama and Merkel wrangled the EU to pay Turkey to \u2018assist\u2019 the EU to deal with the refugees that Turkey and its allies had helped to produce).<\/span><\/p>\n

Rubin reported,<\/span><\/p>\n

Turks \u2014 and the Turkish military \u2014 increasingly recognize that Erdogan is taking Turkey to the precipice. By first\u00a0bestowing legitimacy upon imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah \u00d6calan with renewed negotiations and then precipitating\u00a0renewed conflict, he has taken Turkey down a path in which there is no chance of victory and a high chance of\u00a0de facto\u00a0partition.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s beginning to appear that Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, and the Gulf Cooperation Council of all-fundamentalist-Sunni dictatorships, won\u2019t be able to protect Erdogan\u2019s hide, after all. Rubin continued:<\/span><\/p>\n

Coup leaders might moot European and American human rights and civil society criticism and that of journalists by\u00a0immediately freeing all detained journalists and academics and by returning seized newspapers and television stations to\u00a0their rightful owners.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s NATO membership is no deterrent to action: Neither Turkey nor Greece lost their NATO membership after\u00a0previous coups. Should a new leadership engage sincerely with Turkey\u2019s Kurds, Kurds might come onboard.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Neither European nor American public opinion would likely be sympathetic to the execution of Erdogan.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

There is hope for the EU yet. If Russia hadn\u2019t entered the war against the terrorists, would there be?<\/span><\/p>\n

America was helping the jihadists to overthrow Assad \u2014 to overthrow the only secular government in the Middle East. How constructive has that been for Europe?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \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 The United States cooked up the idea of using fundamentalist-Sunni, Saudi-led-and-inspired mujahideen, or \u201cTaliban,\u201d as cheap fanatics to fight against the Soviet Union in 1979 in Afghanistan; and, then, after thus draining and ending the USSR by 1991, the royal Sauds and their friends U.S. Presidents \u2014 starting with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":232525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[4483,115,30,96,535,522,543,524,754,92,523,76,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-235593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-assad","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-global-news","13":"tag-obama","14":"tag-putin","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-syria","17":"tag-terrorism","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-warfare","20":"tag-white-house","21":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235593","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=235593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}