{"id":356503,"date":"2018-04-13T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T03:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=356503"},"modified":"2018-04-13T04:00:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T03:00:35","slug":"likely-path-nuclear-annihilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/likely-path-nuclear-annihilation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Likely Path to Nuclear Annihilation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Zuesse<\/div>\n
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U.S. President Donald Trump asserted on the morning of April 12th, \u201cNever said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at all!\u201d<\/a> This statement from him is interpreted here as constituting a public promise from him to start the overt phase of America\u2019s invasion of sovereign Syrian territory, no longer just continue the prior phase, which has relied instead upon America\u2019s proxy forces, which originally were the ones that were led by (U.S.-Saudi-Qatari-UAE supplied and armed) Al Qaeda in Syria<\/a>, but increasingly now are Syria\u2019s Kurds, which have taken control over a third of Syrian territory, in Syria\u2019s northeast. This area includes the oil-producing region, from Deir Ezzor northward, and the conquest would cripple Syria\u2019s economic future, so that U.S-Saudi control of the entire country would be only a matter of time.<\/div>\n
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On April 4th, Emily Burchfield, a program assistant at the Atlantic Council \u2014 NATO\u2019s leading PR agency \u2014 headlined the following, in order to explain the U.S. military\u2019s (i.e., NATO\u2019s) objectives in Syria (and the whole headline-bloc is quoted here, because it succinctly states the article itself):<\/div>\n
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Analysis: Washington Still Has Work to Do in Former ISIS Territories<\/i><\/a><\/div>\n
Before the U.S. pulls out of Syria, Washington needs to address a governance gap left in some former ISIS territories. Otherwise, marginalized Arab communities will likely ally with the Syrian government or extremist forces, writes Emily Burchfield of the Atlantic Council.<\/i><\/div>\n
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The U.S. military, in other words, cannot accept that \u201cmarginalized Arab communities\u201d will \u201cally with the Syrian government.\u201d Analogous within the United States itself would be if some foreign power refused to accept that \u201cmarginalized White communities\u201d will \u201cally with the U.S. government.\u201d In other words: this is clearly a military demand (a demand that came to be expressed here by a paid employee of NATO\u2019s top PR agency, the Atlantic Council) to break up the country.<\/div>\n
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Whereas the prior U.S. President, Barack Obama, had tried everything short of all-out direct military invasion \u2014 as contrasted to indirect invasion by U.S. proxy armies of jihadist mercenaries \u2014 in order to conquer or at least to break up Syria, the current U.S. President, Trump, is resorting now to the direct military invasion route: he\u2019s taking the path that Obama had declined to take.<\/div>\n
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Syria\u2019s allies are Iran and Russia. These allies have enabled Syria to survive this long, and they all would be capitulating to the U.S. if they accepted the U.S. military invasion of Syria. For them to do that, would be for them to display, to the entire world, that the United States is their master. The U.S. Empire would, in effect, be official, no longer merely aspirational.<\/div>\n
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In the case of Russia, since it is the other nuclear super-power, this would be not just a surrender to the other nuclear super-power, but also Russia\u2019s doing that without even waging a conventional-forces war against the U.S. Empire. That is extremely unlikely.<\/div>\n
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Consequently, Russia is probably now (on April 12th) coordinating with Iran, and with its allies, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, a conventional-forces war against the invaders.<\/div>\n
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If that conventional-forces war inflicts more damage to U.S.-and-allied forces than they inflict against Syria, that would, in military terms, constitute a \u201cmilitary defeat\u201d for the U.S.<\/div>\n
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This would leave the U.S. only two options:<\/div>\n
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Either accept that Russia is another nuclear super-power (which the U.S. Deep State has refused to accept<\/a>), and end the previously subterranian war to conquer it that was started by George Herbert Walker Bush on the night of 24 February 1990<\/a>, or else blitz-attack Russia itself in order to eliminate enough of Russia\u2019s retaliatory weapons so as to \u2018win\u2019 the nuclear war \u2014 i.e., inflict even more destruction upon Russia than Russia would still possess and control the surviving weaponry to inflict against America in response.<\/div>\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><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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