Posted on 10/04/2015 8:34:02 AM PDT by EBH
The question on everyone's mind is: will the United States and its European and regional Sunni allies intervene to stop President Vladimir Putin from reversing the gains made by mainstream Syrian rebels after more than four years of war?
Few are holding their breath.
Many say, often with vehemence, that the current drama is the consequence of ongoing Western inaction and U.S. retreat at critical moments in an ever more uncontrollable conflict, whose regional dimensions are fast becoming global.
Nobody in the Middle East is counting on U.S. President Barack Obama. The gloomy prediction of most is that a war that has killed at least a quarter of a million people and displaced half the Syrian population is about to get much, much worse.
The conflict has taken a deadly trajectory throughout. It began as a popular uprising against Assad, part of the 'Arab Spring', then became a sectarian war with regional patrons such as Iran and Saudi Arabia backing their local proxies.
Military interventions by Russia and Iran have pushed the war to the brink of a full-blown international conflict.
Faisal Al Yafai, After the Russian "surge" into Syria, he said, "America and its allies now look like the only group without a plan"...
With the Kremlin's creation in Baghdad of a centre to share intelligence among Syria, Iraq, Iran and Russia, a Moscow-backed network now runs from Tehran, through Baghdad and Damascus, and via Hezbollah into Lebanon.
The new axis is taking shape as the United States has withdrawn ground troops from Iraq and is winding down its military presence in Afghanistan. While it continues to police Gulf waterways from a base in Bahrain and maintains an airforce presence in Qatar and Turkey, Washington appears determined to avoid deeper military entanglements in the Middle East.
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China isn’t quietly watching. They are in Syria already and will increase their committment... to the Russian/Iranian side.
The Russians are Infidels like us, and will have their own set of problems dealing with both the Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
But that might take years to develop.
In the meantime we are going to be forced out of that part of the world, like it or not.
So far as the oil goes, Canada and the US have a good supply of their own; but Russian influenced high prices and planned shortages from the mid East could be tougher on the Europeans, and oher countries, like Japan. -Tom
You missed one thing in your post, China’s need for oil.
Who is funding Russia? China. Where is China getting that money from...the United States good faith and credit.
The piece no one is really watching is China, more specifically China’s financials in relation to the World War taking shape in the Middle East.
Correct.
And I have said before...if we go to War with China as an enemy, we’re going to see our own “American Spring.”
Pieces on the table include but are not limited too:
Oil (prices)
World Currency (China has been pushing it)
Trade (imagine all those US factories in China getting shutdown...leads to shortages here for everything from soup to chicken to electronics)
And the Bonds...don’t forget who is holding those cards
Europe (trade, IMF, and look how Barack has screwed our allies)
Russia and China take the Middle East...the world becomes a very, very messy place.
They’re also in Africa.
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