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Engineered Refugee Crisis to Justify “Safe Havens” in Syria
Tony Cartlucci (LD)
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While the Western media attempts to portray the sudden influx of refugees suddenly appearing out of no where at Europe’s gates, the reality is that for years they have been gathering in expansive, well-funded refugee camps in Turkey.
Image: Turkey has eagerly invited 2 million refugees into their country to stay at camps funded by upward to 6 billion USD, not out of altruism, but to use refugees together with the US, NATO, and the EU, as a geopolitical weapon.
In fact, Turkey has brought in over 2 million refugees with a suspiciously eager “open door” policy and has spent upward to 6 billion USD on building and maintaining these immense camps. They have done so as part of a long-standing strategy to justify creating “safe havens” in northern Syria – essentially NATO invading and occupying Syrian territory, protecting their terrorist proxies within Syria’s borders so that they can strike deeper toward Damascus and finally topple the government of President Bashar Al Assad.
US plans to carve out a “safe haven” or “buffer zone” in northern Syria stretch back as far as 2012 – before a real crisis even existed. In their “Middle East Memo #21,” “Assessing Options for Regime Change,” it was stated specifically (emphasis added):
An alternative is for diplomatic efforts to focus first on how to end the violence and how to gain humanitarian access, as is being done under Annan’s leadership. This may lead to the creation of safe-havens and humanitarian corridors, which would have to be backed by limited military power. This would, of course, fall short of U.S. goals for Syria and could preserve Asad in power. From that starting point, however, it is possible that a broad coalition with the appropriate international mandate could add further coercive action to its efforts.
Brookings would elaborate upon this criminal conspiracy in their more recent report titled, “Deconstructing Syria: Towards a regionalized strategy for a confederal country.” It states (emphasis added):
The idea would be to help moderate elements establish reliable safe zones within Syria once they were able. American, as well as Saudi and Turkish and British and Jordanian and other Arab forces would act in support, not only from the air but eventually on the ground via the presence of special forces as well. The approach would benefit from Syria’s open desert terrain which could allow creation of buffer zones that could be monitored for possible signs of enemy attack through a combination of technologies, patrols, and other methods that outside special forces could help Syrian local fighters set up.
Were Assad foolish enough to challenge these zones, even if he somehow forced the withdrawal of the outside special forces, he would be likely to lose his air power in ensuing retaliatory strikes by outside forces, depriving his military of one of its few advantages over ISIL. Thus, he would be unlikely to do this.
Unfortunately for US policymakers, little justification or public support underpins any of these plans to intervene more directly in Syria in pursuit of what is obviously regime change dressed up as anything but.
Bring in the Refugees
However, in hopes of solving this lack of public support, the West appears to have taken a huge number of refugees created by its years of war upon the Middle East and North Africa, and suddenly releasing them in a deluge upon Europe. The Western media itself implicates Turkey as the source of these refugees, and reports like that from the International New York Times’ Greek Kathimerini paper, in an article titled, “Refugee flow linked to Turkish policy shift,” claims (emphasis added):
A sharp increase in the influx of migrants and refugees, mostly from Syria, into Greece is due in part to a shift in Turkey’s geopolitical tactics, according to diplomatic sources.
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Two items of interest ....
Russia Says It May Send Troops Into Combat In Syria As A Worried Netanyahu Heads To Moscow
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-18/russia-says-it-may-send-troop
s-combat-syria-worried-netanyahu-heads-moscow
Putin says there are 2500 Russian personnel in Syria, but he would send more, if Assad asks. Netanyahu is going to whine at Putin about Hezbollah. Likely, he won't get much of a sympathetic hearing about the dangers of supporting terrorists, since Israel provided medical assistance to ISIS (now "IS") fighters who fled over the border. At the same time, the USA deal with Iran just passed its last Republican challenge. It's now the law of the land. Netanyahu must be feeling a little cold and friendless about now...
Russia is also sending (more) advanced weapons systems to Assad, such as a (short-range) SA-22 anti-aircraft system. Since IS doesn't have planes, an anti-aircraft system can only be aimed at Israel, the USA, or other western powers who are threatening to fly aircraft over Syria. I think as long as the USA bombs targets that Russia is comfortable with (i.e IS bases) then all will be well. But should the USA start targeting Assad-friendly forces, the planes may get their asses shot off. Russia has no intention of allowing another Libya. They're going to save us from ourselves.
And then ...
"U.S. Begins Military Talks With Russia on Syria"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/world/europe/us-to-begin-military-ta
lks-with-russia-on-syria.html
Russia has been calling for direct military communication since it was cut off (BY THE USA) a few months ago. Now, after months of "Assad must go" rhetoric, Kerry is seeking a "political solution". The reality is that with a crisis refugee situation swamping Europe - which is calling for an end to the war and a solution to IS, and with Russia willing to risk (maybe even eager to risk) "unfortunate incidents" with the USA in Syria, and the fact that the USA is widely seen as tolerating IS to do it's dirty work in getting rid of Assad (gee, why would anyone think THAT?), the military/political situation for the USA may have changed.
I sure hope so. It's time we stopped working with/ on behalf of takfiri (wahhabi) terrorists by destroying nations in the Middle East.
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Russia has no intention of allowing another Libya. They're going to save us from ourselves.
Lol, yes, God forbid peaceful and stable Syria become another Libya...
It's not personal. It's just war.
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Russia has no intention of allowing another Libya. They're going to save us from ourselves.
Lol, yes, God forbid peaceful and stable Syria become another Libya...
It's not personal. It's just war.
Or another Ukraine.
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Another ZH article, pretty much says the same as my summary.
Clock Ticks On US Syria Strategy As Assad Pounds ISIS Targets, Russia Sends Fighter Jets
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-19/clock-ticks-us-syria-strategy
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From McClatchy, a more "credible" source ...
Quote:Thanks to the USA breaking off direct talks ...
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The United States and Russia agreed Friday to consider potential areas of military cooperation in civil war-wracked Syria as a powerful al Qaida-allied rebel group vowed to “defeat” the expanding Russian military force that’s being deployed in northwestern Syria.
The agreement to hold military-to-military talks in parallel with diplomatic consultations was reached in a telephone conversation between Defense Secretary Ash Carter and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoygu, the first time they’ve spoken since Carter took his post seven months ago, a Pentagon statement said.
Quote:Which is now extended indefinitely, seeing as Al Nusra/ ISIS/ AQIS and the other various terrorist organizations couldn't quite do the job for the USA!
The U.S. government, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama and spokespeople for the State Department, has been saying that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's "days are numbered" since 2011. As many journalists have pointed out in State Department briefings, it's become a very long number.
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“The secretary and the minister talked about areas where the United States and Russia’s perspectives overlap and areas of divergence,” the statement said, adding that further talks on possible coordination would be held.
The discussions herald a significant shift in great power involvement in the four-year-old Syrian conflict and are the result of the new influence attained by Russian President Vladimir Putin through the buildup of Russian aircraft, tanks, artillery and troops near the Syrian port city of Latakia.
The buildup is Moscow’s first major military operation outside of the former Soviet Union
Wait. Wha...? You mean not Ukraine??
Quote:The Russian Army decimated Chechen terrorists (which, according to some reports, were aided, trained, and abetted by Al Qaida, sent to Chechnya by Saudi Arabia with CIA blessings). The Russian army is feared by IS. The USA military? Not so much. According to the folks that I know, Russia could wipe out most of IS in a month, if it became an objective.
since the 1979-89 occupation of Afghanistan. As such, it represents a dangerous gamble for Putin because his intervention to bolster embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad offers a powerful incentive to Syrian rebel groups to collaborate in attacking the growing Russian military presence.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-securit
y/article35764446.html#storylink=cpy
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Polls Show Syrians Overwhelmingly Blame U.S. for ISIS
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82% agree “IS [Islamic State] is US and foreign made group.”
79% agree “Foreign fighters made war worse.”
70% agree “Oppose division of country.”
65% agree “Syrians can live together again.”
64% agree “Diplomatic solution possible.”
57% agree “Situation is worsening.”
51% agree “Political solution best answer.”
49% agree “Oppose US coalition air strikes.”
22% agree “IS is a positive influence.”
21% agree “Prefer life now than under Assad.”
http://off-guardian.org/2015/09/19/polls-show-syrians-overwhelmingly-b
lame-u-s-for-isis/
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82% blame USA for IS
55% blame other Arab states for IS
39% blame Iran for IS
42% blame the Syrian regime for IS
It seems like Syrians don't really know who created IS and are just pointing the finger of blame in all directions. In addition, 'if in doubt blame the Great Satan', seems to be the order of the day here. No doubt this idea is pushed heavily by Syrian state propaganda just as it is in Russian propaganda, which Signy reads.
It's not personal. It's just war.
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I don't suppose it would be too much to ask for links? Or are you jut pulling numbers out of your ass?
BTW, it is possible that more than one nation is responsible for IS. IF the USA hadn't invaded Iraq and disbanded the Sunni Army ... if Saudi Arabia hadn't built it's madrassas all over creation and fomented al Qaida (which is a well-known story) .... if Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the other gulf states hadn't raced pell-mell to arm jihadists throughout the ME in their burning desire to get rid of Iran's ally (Syria) ... and if the USA hadn't actively destroyed Libya and smiled benevolently over the intended destruction of Syria via destabilization by terrorists ... and funded and trained so-called "moderate opposition" in Jordan and Syria... then IS wouldn't have come about.
It's not like ONE nation or ONE event caused IS to come into being. There's shared responsibility here between the USA and its gulf state allies. It's perfectly realistic to point the finger in more than one direction, because there's more than one nation at fault.
Not that you would know anything about the real world!
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I don't suppose it would be too much to ask for links? Or are you jut pulling numbers out of your ass?
Follow the link in your own article.
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BTW, it is possible that more than one nation is responsible for IS.
Yes but Syrians' views are still all over the place - 82% blame the USA and 42% blame Assad - that means at least 24% blame both. This is contradictory, and betrays deep, widespread bewilderment and confusion.
Not surprising considering Syrians have no access to evidence, only propaganda. Ignorant and propagandised - polling them for their thoughts on the matter is like polling Republicans on climate change. Or RT viewers on the Ukraine crisis.
It's not personal. It's just war.
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