“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.’” (Psalm 91:1-2) (ESV)
In the past week or so, Washington and Moscow have come nose to nose over Syria. They’ve bombed each other’s troops, threatened to break off talks, rattled nuclear sabers – and Russia is even conducting a nation-wide civil defense drill to protect its populace from nuclear war. What’s being threatened here is a full-fledged confrontation with Russia which could bring about nothing less than WORLD WAR III. I am not exaggerating. But what is bringing this on? This is like a replay of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 – played out with most of the world unawares. [i]
Deep Background
I guess we’ve got to start by understanding the background. It’s been reported widely in the alternative and foreign press, alluded to by one presidential candidate – and commented on here on several occasions. The starting point is this. The United States under President Obama – (and it so happens Secretary Clinton) – was complicit in the incubation of ISIS by providing arms that ended up in the hands of Islamic radicals. The administration funneled weapons to the Syrian terror armies through Libya. That’s what brought us Benghazi with its murder of American diplomats, the arrest and firing of general officers who, against orders, wanted to intervene to save American lives – and the scandal and lying and cover-up that attended the last presidential go-round – and is still influencing this one. In fact, it begins even farther back than that, America’s involvement in fomenting the Arab Spring by supporting certain radical elements in Egypt. That brought down Egypt, took down Libya and generally spread chaos throughout the region. But it didn’t sink President Assad of Syria. And the White House really, really wanted bring down the Syrian leader. It fact it got to the point where President Obama was readying a coalition to go into Syria to get the job done – until he was forced to stand down by the Russians and the Chinese who were threatening nuclear war. Now the reason the US was so interested in was it was that without implicitly stating it, it was adhering to something called the Pentagon’s New Map strategy.
Writing in Global Research, Tony Cartolucci draws the connection for us. “Not only were the protests in Syria planned, funded, and directed by the US State Department, years before the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ began, but so were the alleged protests that ‘triggered’ events in Syria – namely similarly engineered protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and the violent US-led subversion carried out in Libya.”[ii] The real question is: Why?
Competing Globalist Visions
Back in 2003, a member of the Naval War College and Senior Strategic Reasearcher, Thomas PM Barnett, wrote an article for Esquire explaining what later became a book, entitled The Pentagon’s New Map. All of American policy can best be understood as advancing a drive toward globalization. He divided the world into two camps; a Functioning Core and a Non-Integrating Gap. The Functioning Core consists of those countries heading in the right direction (for New World Order folks) – moving toward a Global System. The Non-Integrating Gap are those nations that are resisting becoming part of the system. Here’s a quote from his Esquire article written just before the Iraq War. “Our next war in the Gulf will mark a historical tipping point–the moment when Washington takes real ownership of strategic security in the age of globalization.”[iii] In his work, Barnett went on to predict where American forces would be operating in the future. Here’s the litmus test. If you’re not connecting to the emerging world system, you are likely to get a visit from the world’s global police force; The United States Armed Forces. In his book, Barnett explained the process. “Any time American troops show up — be it combat, a battle group pulling up off the coast as a ‘reminder’, or a peacekeeping mission — it tends to be in a place that is relatively disconnected from the world, where globalization hasn’t taken root because of a repressive regime, abject poverty, or the lack of a robust legal system. It’s these places that incubate global terrorism. Draw a line around these military engagements and you’ve got what I call the Non-Functioning Gap.” Elsewhere he made it even plainer. “A country’s potential to warrant a U.S. military response is inversely related to its globalization connectivity.”[iv] David Bay of Cutting Edge Ministries has covered this subject well in the past. Here he’s talking about the End Game of the seemingly incessant round of wars that America is fighting in the region. “America has invaded Afghanistan and Iraq because they were deemed key countries in the ‘Non-Integrating Gap’ region…. America will not withdraw from the ‘Gap’ until all its countries have been destabilized and/or overthrown so that individual countries can both ‘connect into the Functioning Core’ and surrender their national sovereignty so that each country can meld into the regional government into which it geographically is located.”[v] Here’s Barnett’s confirmation in his own words. America is “never leaving the Gap and we are never bringing our boys home. There is no exiting the Gap, only shrinking the Gap, and if there is no exiting the Gap, we’d better stop kidding ourselves about ‘exit strategies’. No exit means no exit strategy.”[vi] So, this is no longer about American interests. In fact, it never was. We are pawns of the Globalist Plan. [vii]
The US is operating as the military slave of the Global Banking Interests. They have a vision of the New World Order and they propose to enforce it using that same American military. Russia too, has stakes in the game – and their own competing world vision. Moscow’s presence in Syria is partly driven by their desire to maintain a presence in the Middle East and a base in the Mediterranean with which to project power. Another major factor is their plan to bring down the current monetary system which favors the United States and its Banking Power handlers. The dollar has served as the world’s reserve currency since 1944 – and has been backed by oil alone since 1973. It was then that the Saudi’s set up a deal to have all the nations they ‘influenced’ sell their petroleum crude only for American currency. That is what fuels the American lifestyle. In recent years that American dominance has been challenged. Dave Hodges of The Common Sense Show writes: “Growing weary of paying higher prices for oil in order to prop up the Petrodollar, Russia, under Putin, led a bold charge away from the world reserve status of the dollar. Iran and Syria began to sell its oil for gold. India, Brazil, South Africa and most of all, China joined the revolution against the dollar and the BRICS were formed.” The significance of this challenge cannot be underestimated. For decades, “all of the world’s nations used the dollar as the world’s reserve currency except for IRAN and SYRIA. So long as the world used the dollar as a prerequisite to purchase oil, the nations of the world would always prove to be subservient to the United States and its ‘Petrodollar.’ ….It provides the only backing for the dollar. Without the dollar being on World Reserve currency status, the dollar would hyper-inflate and crash in a very short amount of time. The lives of average Americans would be over as they have known it.”[viii] So the conflict is real and the consequences significant.
The Emerging Conflict
OK, that’s deep background. Now let’s look at events in the last couple of weeks. So right now, the United States says it is involved in the Syrian conflict to take down ISIS. It is also there to lend support to the ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels trying to topple President Assad and his government forces. The problem is: There doesn’t really seem to be any ‘moderate’ Syrian opposition. Yes, there are groups that have taken American arms and training – but then almost immediately pledge allegiance to ISIS or at the very least all with them in the war against Damascus. That a commander from the radical-Islamic-jihadist Jabhat al-Nusra group affirmed to the German press that the US is directly supporting the rebels, even with tanks and other heavy weaponry, coming through Libya and Turkey. Further, he asserted that ISIS units are guided by Western intelligence officers and that are officers and technical experts operating right inside the embattled city of Aleppo.[ix]
So let’s start with the current fun! On September 28th, State Department Spokesman John Kirby, issued a statement that many understand as a thinly veiled threat to the Russians. [If it was not meant that way then the folks at Foggy Bottom need to take a few more lessons in diplomacy.] Now look at the following statement through the filter of understanding that everyone knows that the US is supporting radical-Muslim rebels in Syria; especially the Russians, who are supporting Assad. Here’s what Kirby said. “Extremist groups will continue to exploit the vacuums that are there in Syria to expand their operations, which could include attacks against Russian interests, perhaps even Russian cities. Russia will continue to send troops home in body bags, and will continue to lose resources, perhaps even aircraft.”[x] Sounds like a threat to me. And that’s exactly how the Russians took it.
That followed by days a cease-fire that broke down after reputed violations on both sides. Reports assert that the US sponsored rebels violated it 300 times. During the fragile truce, Syrian shells landed on Israeli territory, the Israelis launched bombing runs on Syrian military positions, the Syrians alleged they had shot down an Israeli plane and the IDF denied it.[xi] Next came a very disturbing development. As reported by True Activist: “US-coalition forces bombed a Syrian government airbase, resulting in the death of at least 62 Syrian army troops and over 100 injured. The bombing ‘paved the way’ for ISIS militants to advance in the area, which has been highly contested in recent months. Immediately after the airstrikes, ISIS militants advanced an offensive, suggesting that they had known that the bombing would be taking place.” The US maintains that the attack was an accident.[xii] However, the timing of the ISIS forces make that claim a little more than suspect.
Well, all of that did not sit very well with Moscow. Recall that the rebels themselves claimed that American and Western advisors were present in Aleppo helping them out. Now Russia, has been assisting in an ongoing assault against Aleppo being conducted by Assad’s troops. So they decided not to be so discriminating in choosing their targets…..or perhaps they were very discriminating indeed. Activist Post reports: “As part of an ongoing offensive against militant-held sectors of Aleppo, Russian warships hit a military operations center near the city, killing 30 Israeli, US, Saudi, and British officers who were allegedly offering support and intelligence to ISIS militants in Syria.”[xiii] The Russians knew who they were targeting.
Then the US broke off diplomatic cooperation with Russia over the Syrian issue and are reviewing their options including, as the Washington Post reports, “U.S. military action, increased arms shipments to Syrian rebel forces or additional sanctions.”[xiv] If one takes into account the US / NWO vision for the Middle East: The situation in Syria is dire indeed. Russia is dominating the government held areas with their newly minted naval base in Tartus that gives them a permanent presence in the Mediterranean. Iranian influence is reportedly on the rise in the rest of the country. Now according to mainstream press reports, Washington is considering unpublicized, covert airstrikes against Syrian government forces – including possibly bombing air force facilities. Voices in the Pentagon are advocating for increased “kinetic actions against the regime.” Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called for an enforced no-fly zone. Thankfully, right now General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is preaching a different gospel. When asked before Congress about the option of controlling the Syrian air space, Dunford replied: “Right now, Senator, for us to control all of the airspace in Syria would require us to go to war against Syria and Russia. That is a pretty fundamental decision that certainly I’m not going to make.”[xv]
If General Dunford seems to be applying the breaks – others are not wont to do so. While Dunford’s colleagues are considering US airstrikes against the Syrian Army, Russia has already acted by deploying S-300 and S-400 air defense missile systems to defend both the naval base at Tartus as well as Russian and Syrian units in the field. As the Associated Press put it: “The Russian
military on Thursday strongly warned the United States against striking the Syrian army, noting that its air defense weapons in Syria stand ready to fend off any attack.”[xvi] The Russian spokesman let it be known that this umbrella of protection would extend to all areas not directly controlled by the rebels. “Any missile or air strikes on the territory controlled by the Syrian government will create a clear threat to Russian servicemen.” He further went on to clarify that the Russian missile crews will not have time to assess flight paths – so they intend to shoot down just about anything that moves.[xvii] The underlying message: Air strikes against Syria will lead to war with Russia.
And amidst all the nuclear threats and not-so-subtle insinuations of a war coming, Moscow is preparing its population for the onslaught. It has just completed a massive civil defense drill that involved tens of millions of people. They’ve prepared bunkers for the entire population of Moscow. That’s nearly 12 million people. The four-day training completed this week, brought together “more than 40 million people, more than 200 thousand professionals rescue units, about 50 thousand units. The full force of the Russian Emergencies Ministry are utilized, including military units EMERCOM rescue, emergency rescue units, rescue units of paramilitary units and the State Inspectorate for Small Boats, a division of the State Fire Service of EMERCOM of Russia, aircraft.” According to a government official, the training concentrated on “evacuation, issuance of personal protective equipment,” sanitation and deployment points.[xviii] While Russia is readying its population to survive a nuclear war almost no steps have been taken here in America. A nuclear target map of the United States shows what ANP describes as “‘Dead Zones’ All Across America.” That could explain the prediction of the CIA-connected firm Deagel. “Such a war could certainly account for Deagel.com’s prediction that there will only be 61 million Americans living here in 2025, down from the 321 million living here in 2015.”[xix]
More Than Just Syria….More Than Just The Russians
The craziness does not end there. Ever since the Ukraine affair a few years back, the US and NATO have been building up forces on Russia’s border. The Common Sense Show reports: “Two years ago, Putin, through back-channels threatened to cut off natural gas and oil to both Eastern and Western Europe if the CIA did not abandon its operations in Ukraine. NATO promptly engaged in a series of offensive drill maneuvers near Russian interests. in defiance [of] Putin’s threats.” Another major concern to Moscow was the installation of missile shields in Eastern Europe along Russia’s border. In addition, just this last August, Washington moved about 50 tactical nuclear weapons into Romania.[xx] Now Vladimir Putin is upping the ante by demanding that the United States “remove its defense infrastructure from Eastern Europe and from the territory of new NATO members in the Balkans and the Baltics (Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland) as well as its troops stationed there in recent years.” He would also like to see compensation paid for the damage that sanctions have done.[xxi] To drive home their demand, Russian planes began to probe the airspace of America’s allies in the region. The following is a headline based on a report from the Associated Press. “Estonia says airspace violated by Russian jet; incident comes just hours after Finland said 2 similar planes passed over its territory.”[xxii]
This is not an isolated move. Freedom Fighter Times summarized reports from the mainstream press as follows. “Putin is in the process of placing nuclear-capable bombers around the US border and is moving more to the Mediterranean Sea. Plus Russia is planning to reopen the Cold War era bases in both Cuba and Vietnam.”[xxiii] The Morning Ledger tells us the Kremlin “has deployed its biggest and most powerful nuclear bombers on Cold War-esque patrols on the border of the United States airspace.”[xxiv]
It Is Time For Repentance
The bottom line on all of this is really quite simple. The actions of both Russia and the United States in Syria and elsewhere has pushed the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. Any war involving nukes could – and is likely to – quickly go out of control. The consequences would be catastrophic. There is first of all the immediate destruction which would be on a scale never before seen. And the radioactive fallout would wreak havoc for generations to come. Many believe that a massive conflagration could result in the effective end of the human race. Nuclear war may indeed be part of the unfolding Tribulation, along with other prophesied plagues and disasters. Jesus addressed those very last days as recorded by Matthew. “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.” (Matthew 24:21-22)
However, the world – and this nation are ripe for judgment. We have abandoned God. We have set aside our heritage and embraced a world wherein Man has become god. It is a frightening thing. We have sacrificed over 50 billion to the new Baal – the god of Abortion. We have changed the roles of men and women laid down by our Creator. Romans 1:26-27 tells us: “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.” Nothing less than complete and full repentance is needed. “‘Now, therefore,” says the Lord, ‘Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.’ So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him.” (Joel 2:12-14)
[i] Image: Russian Navy operating in Mediterranean 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xUK06BdwQ
[ii]Tony Carolucci, Continuity of Military Agenda: Syria Catastrophe Engineered Under Bush, Executed Verbatim Under Obama,
Global Research, September 13, 2013
[iii] Thomas PM Barnett, The Pentagon’s New Map, Esquire Magazine, March 1, 2003
[iv] Thomas PM Barnett, The Pentagon’s New Map, Putmam, 2004, pgs 176 & 227
[v] David Bay, The World Is On Fire In The “Non-Integrating Gap”!, Cutting Edge Ministries, October 2009
[vi] Thomas PM Barnett, The Pentagon’s New Map, Putmam, 2004, pgs 178-179
[vii] Image: Pentagon’s New Map, Sasan Awny, http://www.sasanawny.com/, Viewed October 4, 2016
[viii] Dave Hodges, Russia & China Combining Forces in Syria, The Common Sense Show, October 6, 2016
[ix] “America Is On Our Side:” Al-Nusra Commander Tells German Press US Is Arming Jihadists, Zero Hedge, September 26, 2016
[x] Kurt Nimmo, State Department Threatens To Send Islamic Terrorists Into Russia, Activist Post, October 1, 2016
[xi] Israel Denies Claims That Syria Shot Down Warplane and Drone, New York Times, September 14, 2016
[xii] Syria Ceasefire Ends, True Activist, September 22, 2016
[xiii] Russia Kills 30 US, Israeli, British Officers Believed To Be Assisting ISIS, Activist Post, October 2, 2016
[xiv] U.S. threatens to suspend bilateral engagement with Russia over Syria, Washington Post, September 28, 2016
[xv] US Considering Air Strikes On Assad Regime After Top General Warns It Could Lead To War With Russia, Zero Hedge,
October 4, 2016
[xvi] RUSSIA STRONGLY WARNS US AGAINST STRIKING SYRIAN ARMY, AP, October 6, 2016
[xvii] Russia Warns US Any Strikes On Syrian Army Would Lead To War, Zero Hedge, October 6, 2016
[xviii] MOE will conduct training for civil defense with the participation of 40 million people, Gazetta (Russia), October 2, 2016,
(with the use of Google Translate)
[xix] Stefan Stanford, Nuclear Targets Map Shows ‘Dead Zones’ All Across America, ANP, October 5, 2016
[xx] Drastic Escalation: Russia Sends Bombers To US Coasts, Freedom Fighter Times, October 7, 2016
[xxi] Dave Hodges, Putin Issues War Ultimatum, The Common Sense Show, October 7, 2016
[xxii] Estonia says airspace violated by Russian jet; incident comes just hours after Finland said 2 similar planes passed over its territory,
Breaking News / AP, October 7, 2016
[xxiii] Drastic Escalation: Russia Sends Bombers To US Coasts, Freedom Fighter Times, October 7, 2016
[xxiv] Russia Preparing For War, The Morning Ledger, October 7, 2016
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