{"id":350219,"date":"2018-02-28T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/aggression-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:30:09","slug":"aggression-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/aggression-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggression &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><strong>If we accept to take a step back, we notice that the different conflicts which have bloodied the Greater Middle East for the last sixteen years, from Afghanistan to Libya, have not been a succession of civil wars, but the application of regional strategies. Thierry Meyssan reminds us of the objectives and the tactics of these wars since the \u00ab Arab Springs \u00bb and observes the preparation of those to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"lettrine\">At the end of 2010, a series of wars began, initially presented as popular uprisings. Successively, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen were swept under by the \u00ab Arab Spring \u00bb, a reprise of the \u00ab Great Arab Revolt \u00bb of 1915, initiated by Lawrence of Arabia \u2013 with the difference that this time they would not be relying on the support of the Wahhabites, but the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>All these events had been carefully planned by the United Kingdom from 2004, as revealed by the internal documents of the Foreign Office leaked by the British whistle-blower Derek Pasquill\u00a0[<a id=\"nh1\" class=\"spip_note\" title=\"When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries. The British State\u2019s flirtation\u00a0(...)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article199846.html#nb1\" rel=\"footnote\">1<\/a>]. With the exception of the bombing of Tripoli (Libya), in August 2011, they were born not only of the non-violent destabilisation techniques of Gene Sharp\u00a0[<a id=\"nh2\" class=\"spip_note\" title=\"Making Europe Unconquerable: The Potential of Civilian-based Deterrence and\u00a0(...)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article199846.html#nb2\" rel=\"footnote\">2<\/a>], but also of William S. Lind\u2019s \u00ab 4th Generation War \u00bb\u00a0[<a id=\"nh3\" class=\"spip_note\" title=\"\u201cThe Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation\u201d, William S. Lind,\u00a0(...)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article199846.html#nb3\" rel=\"footnote\">3<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Implemented by the US armies, the British project of the \u00ab Arab Spring \u00bb overlapped with that of the United States military \u2013 the destruction of societies and states at the regional level, as formulated by Admiral Arthur Cebrowski, popularised by Thomas Barnett\u00a0[<a id=\"nh4\" class=\"spip_note\" title=\"The Pentagon\u2019s New Map, Thomas P.M. Barnett, Putnam Publishing Group,\u00a0(...)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article199846.html#nb4\" rel=\"footnote\">4<\/a>], and illustrated by Ralph Peters\u00a0[<a id=\"nh5\" class=\"spip_note\" title=\"\u201cBlood borders - How a better Middle East would look\u201d, Colonel Ralph Peters,\u00a0(...)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article199846.html#nb5\" rel=\"footnote\">5<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The events seemed to calm down in the second quarter of 2012, so that on 31 June in Geneva, the United States and Russia agreed to a new distribution of the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>However, the United States did not honour their signature. A second war&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/thierry-meyssan\/aggression-disguised-as-civil-wars\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we accept to take a step back, we notice that the different conflicts which have bloodied the Greater Middle East for the last sixteen years, from Afghanistan to Libya, have not been a succession of civil wars, but the application of regional strategies. 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