It’s happening on many fronts. The world is rushing toward war. Terrorist entities and nuclear powers are converging on flash points that could set the whole world ablaze….or simmer longer, building the tension in anticipation of a future conflagration. We’ll look at a few areas in which things are heating up.
SYRIA – This is really crazy! DANGEROUSLY CRAZY!! To start with the Pentagon is complaining that the Russians are targeting ‘our guys’ over in Syria. One US official told FOX News: “‘Putin is deliberately targeting our forces. Our guys are fighting for their lives.’ Moscow is ‘deliberately targeting’ U.S.-backed forces in Syria as part of a military campaign that has killed up to 150 CIA-trained rebels….The claims state that Russia’s apparent mission to destroy ISIS is really a facade, and that their real mission is to kill American assets.”[i]
Soooo, with that in mind, the Obama administration announced that it was going to be sending ground troops to Syria. Reuters reported: “The United States is considering sending a small number of special operations forces to Syria and attack helicopters to Iraq.”[ii] And American Defense Secretary Ashton Carter promised “direct action on the ground” against ISIS. But several independent sources have fleshed out the details and there seems to be a little more than meets the eye in the details. Both the All News Network and Veterans Truth Radio are putting the number of ground troops at 3,000. Veterans Truth Radio wrote that “the United States is sending 3,000 ground troops into Syria to fight with the Free Syrian Army nobody can find!” They are “being setup to be killed and this will be blamed on the Russians to start another war!”[iii] ANN puts it like this: “Russia is currently carrying our / their air war against both the terrorist threat and enemies of Assad. That places American Troops dead in the target sights of Russia. We believe that we are being used as pawns and many will be sacrificed as a means to war with Russia. The defense contractors with whom we deal in contracts and purchases are gearing up for a war against Russian style equipment.”[iv] One high-ranking Russian official saw fit to warn Washington of the dangers of moving into Syria. He pointed out that America had not been asked to do so by the legal authority in Syria, President Assad’s government. Therefore: “Any operations – air based operations, ground based operations – in Syria by American forces will be illegal. They will get trapped, they will get involved in this ongoing conflict and the consequences will be absolutely unpredictable.” He described such a move as a “big mistake.”[v]
What’s really nuts about any Syrian adventure is that it is a continuation of a policy that has seen the US come in on the side of radical Islamists in the region. Obama’s White House contributed to the emergence of the Arab Spring, which saw Muslim Brotherhood – and affiliated-type groups seize power in Egypt and Libya to name a few. Now we seem determined to put boots on the ground in support of another group of Islamists trying to take down Assad – and risk confrontation with the Russians in the process.
THE CHINA SHOWDOWN – China is in the process of building islands; new sovereign territory in the chain known as the Spratlys. Beijing says these will not be military bases, however there is some physical evidence to the contrary. The US has buzzed the islands from the air – and threatened to sail through what the Chinese claim as territorial waters. The Chinese military has threatened a “head-on blow” should we do so.[vi] It’s a big to-do because the new islands sit directly across the shipping lanes that drive the Pacific trade of American allies such as the Philippines – and with the Trans-Pacific Partnership coming into play……well Washington’s credibility is on the line. So while the US claims “freedom of navigation and says, we “will fly, sail and operate wherever the international law allows, as we do around the world,” – the Chinese say that People’s Liberation Army will “stand up and use force’ if necessary should the US make a ‘mistake’ with the whole warship plan.”[vii] Well, in the event, Washington has undertaken the “whole warship plan” and conducted a sailing through the newly claimed Chinese waters. In reaction, the Chinese mouthpiece Global Times has warned that China should now “prepare for the worst” and said that Beijing “is not frightened to fight a war with the US in the region.”[viii]
FLASHPOINT ISRAEL – The recent wave of terror being conducted in Israel has complicated things and raised the temperature there to dangerous levels. Iranian fingerprints can be detected on several fronts – both in the Israel proper and just across the border in the Syrian conflict. The perpetrator of a shooting incident that took one life and injured ten more in a Beersheba bus station “is believed to have acted for a new Iranian-Hizballah backed terror movement called Al-Sabirin.”[ix] And across the Syrian border in Golan, Russian is introducing Hezbollah troops and threatening air strikes against the Syrian rebels there. DEBKA reports that Hezbollah “thinks it is a step away from changing the military balance on the Golan to Israel’s detriment and gaining its first Syrian jumping-off base against the Jewish state.” So Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government wasted no time in informing “Moscow and Washington that this would cross its red lines…Israeli officials made it very clear that Iranian and Hizballah forces would not be permitted to establish a presence opposite the Israeli Golan border and that any Russian air activity over southern Syria and areas close to its borders was unacceptable. The possibility of Israeli fighter jets being scrambled against Russian aerial intervention in the Quneitra battle was not ruled out..”[x] On the domestic side, the PM is “considering revoking the residency status of Arabs living in eastern Jerusalem.” The Israelis are also in the process of setting up barriers that will confine Palestinians to certain areas, effectively isolating them from the Jewish population.[xi] [This sets up conditions for the fulfillment of the words of Obadiah that prophesy the complete annihilation of the Palestinian people.] All of this comes amidst news of an ongoing American betrayal of its Israeli ally. A report in the Wall Street Journal and The Jewish Press claims the US was spying on Israel since 2012, keeping its nuclear negotiations with the Iranians secret and even sent carriers into the region to “to respond to any Israeli attack” against Iranian nuclear facilities.[xii]
[i] FOX News, October 14, 2015
[ii] U.S. weighs special forces in Syria, helicopters in Iraq, Reuters, October 28, 2015
[iii] US to Sacrifice 3000 Troops in Syria to Start WW3!, Veterans Truth Radio, October 28, 2015
[iv] All News Network, October 28, 2015
[v] US Ground Troops In Syria Is “Illegal, Big Mistake, Zero Hedge, October 28, 2015
[vi] It’s On: Obama Sends Destroyer To Chinese Islands, China Vows Military Response, Zero Hedge, October 26, 2015
[vii] With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: “What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?”, Zero Hedge,
October 17, 2015
[viii] Paul Joseph Watson, CHINA “NOT FRIGHTENED TO FIGHT A WAR” WITH US AFTER WARSHIP INCIDENT, Infowars,
October 27, 2015
[ix] New Iranian terror group activated Beersheba shooter, DEBKAfile Exclusive Report Oct 19, 2015
[x] Hizballah is creeping up on Israel’s Golan border, relying on Russian military cover, DEBKAfile, October 23, 2015
[xi] “PM Reportedly Considers Revoking Residency for Eastern Jerusalem Arabs, Breaking Israel News, October 27, 2015
[xii] Report: US Spied on Israel, Prepared to Destroy Israeli Bombers to Protect Iran, The Jewish Press, October 25, 2015
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