Posted on 10/04/2015 9:33:30 AM PDT by amorphous
While the US has certainly made some epic strategic blunders in Syria that raise serious questions about just how “intelligent” US intelligence actually is, there’s little doubt that if one were to look behind all of the media parroting, the Pentagon and Langley understand all too well what’s going on in the Middle East.
That is, the significance of the Russia-Iran “nexus” in Syria isn’t lost on anyone in the US military and you can bet there have been quite a few high level discussions over the past 72 hours about the best way to counter Moscow and Tehran’s powerplay before it spills over into Iraq and ends up degrading Washington’s influence in Baghdad.
As we put it on Friday, “if Russia ends up bolstering Iran's position in Syria (by expanding Hezbollah's influence and capabilities) and if the Russian air force effectively takes control of Iraq thus allowing Iran to exert a greater influence over the government in Baghdad, the fragile balance of power that has existed in the region will be turned on its head and in the event this plays out, one should not expect Washington, Riyadh, Jerusalem, and London to simply go gentle into that good night.”
Sure enough, some experts now predict Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey will move to counter Russia militarily if Moscow continues to rack up gains for Assad.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
The Saudis better worry about securing Yemen before they begin taking on the Russians.
Our first move is to get the C-I-C to resign and replace him with someone competent.
SAUDI boys going to go fight and die in numbers, huh..?
This I gotta see...!! Oh, puh-leeeeze...
They mean theyll pay for some poor people to do it FOR THEM.
The Turks, Saudis, and Obama’s State Department lost the war when their proxies started slaughtering Christians. I don’t know how they turn this around.
The Saudi’s can’t organize the Haaj..much less mount combat operations.
Get your popcorn ready.
No matter the situation around the world, US politicians will probably offer to cut the Defense budget.
“...Sure enough, some experts now predict Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey will move to counter Russia militarily if Moscow continues to rack up gains for Assad. ...”
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Bull crap!!! Saudi Arabia and Qatar were already providing financial assistance for the anti-Assad forces and Turkey has, for some time, expanded that to include the actual bombing of the only effective (i.e., Kurdish) forces fighting ISIS.
This is an interesting blog post but like all opinions it is subject to other opinions.If you actually think that Turkey and the Saudis are going to take on the Russians ,you’re nuts. Indian press is reporting that Russia is moving 150,000 troops into Syria to annihilate the Sunni bastards. My theory is we are begging to join in with the Russians to save face. But if these insignificant players attack Russians in Syria they just ceased independent existence. What the Saudis like to do is to pay for Wahhabi ,like family member Osama bin Laden, to attack infidels with passenger jets ( WTC style) . They are total chikin $h1ts. The Russians would smack them down so hard their turbins would fall off.
“US intelligence” is an oxymoron.
The saudis are hot air
“Our first move is to get the C-I-C to resign and replace him with someone competent.”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
He’s actually *quite* competent. At NOT upholding the Constitution. At NOT acting in the best interests of our country. At calling good evil, and evil good.
He’s very good at those things, yes.
Can we get a team list?
Team Syria:
Syria
Russia
Iran
Team Saudi:
Saudi Arabia
U.S.
Qatar
Isis?
Turkey
Where does Taliban and Egypt fall?
......if one begins with the proposition that in today’s world a muslim, is a muslim is a muslim then the Saudi Muslims killing Syrian Muslims and the Russians killing ISIS Muslims and the ISIS Muslims killing everybody and enslaving little girls to sex just because they can, then it’s hard to see a downside to the Russian’s bombing the hell out of anything that moves on the ground! If it’s moving over there, chances are high it’s a muslim as Christians are just about extinct in the region.
I say just everybody send more bombers! 24/7, rain or shine, night or day !!
And, it’s laughable that Saudi young muslims are going to effectively attack any force anywhere, their wives yes, 100 story office buildings full of innocent people yes, there enemies that fight back, no! Saudi’s make the French look like Medal of Honor winners!
I hate to say it because I despise him so much but Obama is right to keep our boys out of this fight! I don’t think he gives a damn about an American soldier but whatever his confused reasoning is I support it to the extent our boys are not over their getting slaughtered for the scummy “muslims”.
Russians are killing Muzzies? What’s the down side?
What’s not mentioned in any of these MSM offerings is that both the U.S. and Russia have entered into a religious war between the Sunni sect and the Shiite sect of the Islamic religion that has been ongoing now since the 7th Century AD.
Russia’s obvious motive for taking part in this Muslim religious war on the side of Syria’s Shiite President Assad and Shiite Iran is clearly to establish Russian influence and control in the Middle East. The United States’ just as obvious motive for taking sides with the Syrian Sunni rebels who are attempting to remove Syria’s Shiite President from power and install a Sunni leader can only be attributed to Sunni Saudi Arabia’s influence within our government through campaign contributions and bribes.
The fact that the Saudi sponsored Sunni Syrian rebels are almost indistinguishable from the Sunni ISIS/ISIL Jihadists who are also actively striving to remove Syria’s Shiite President and install Sunni leadership seems to be apparent to the Russians but unrecognizable to the U.S.
As the Muslim population of the Middle East is approximately 80% Sunni, 15% Shiite, and 10% other, Shiite Iran and Syria are badly outnumbered and need Russian “Janissaries” to do most if not all of their fighting for them. Sunni Saudi Arabian young men are to busy abusing their women and loving their livestock to work this war into their busy schedule, so they need American “Janissaries” to do their fighting for them. However, Sunni Saudis will occasionally take a break in their unholy activities long enough to fly airplanes into American office buildings in order to gain forgiveness from Allah for their sins.
Your guess is as good as mine as to why these facts aren’t being openly discussed by our government spokesmen and our Main Stream Media.
We should unilaterally cut off all military agreements with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and all of those enemies disguised as friends. Nothing good will ever come of it. Let them all slug it out amongst themselves.
The House of Saud is a testes free zone. Soft, decadent, enervated and manipulative. We should quit being their flunky, patsy and target.
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