Posted on 11/26/2022 5:36:24 AM PST by MtnClimber
This video analyzes some of the current conflicts in the middle east today, especially Syria and Iran attacking the Kurds in Iraq. Many people may be surprised because much of this is not being covered by the news media. The video is 43 minutes and I think it is worth the time to watch.
For those interested, the link to the youtube channel for all of these geopolitical analysis videos is below.
Youtube channel for George W McMillan III (GWM3) Analysis w/ Matt Bracken
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(Oh, BTW, I just posted this on a few “Turkey bombing Kurds near Americans” threads.)
How is it possible that our NATO ally, Turkey, is firing rockets and conducting air strikes “danger close” to American forces in eastern Syria? And at the same time, Iran is attacking Kurdish separatists in the NW of that country? What the HELL is going on?
We are only being told 1/4 truths, and mostly lies, about why we still have military forces (and a ton of CIA etc) in eastern Syria. The three maps below will go a long way toward understanding the real situation, which is preventing Iran from establishing a land corridor to the Mediterranean.
Russia has long-established navy bases in Syria. Blocked in by geography in the Black Sea, these forward bases on the Med are extremely critical and strategic. This is why Russia has never backed down from its support of the Assad regime.
And this is why America intentionally destabilized Syria, leading to the bloody ongoing civil war, tens of thousands dead, millions of refugees fleeing to Europe, and millions of Syrian civilians currently starving under Western-imposed economic sanctions, etc. Even hospitals cannot get electricity more than a few hours a day, because even generator parts are blockaded. All this mayhem and misery was triggered and sponsored by America in another “color revolution” under Obama/Biden/Hillary.
(Notably, the oil fields in eastern Syria are still pumping away, under American military protection, but the output is directed away from western Syria, where people are starving in the dark, and into Iraq, under our control.)
This “color revolution” leading to the ongoing civil war was done in spite of the fact that the Syrian govt was and is a secular coalition of Alawites, Christians, Shias and Sunnis, quite moderate by Middle East standards.
And our current “allies” in eastern Syria, now rebranded yet again from the old Free Syrian Army to the SDF or Syrian Democratic Forces, are just the same old Al Queda and ISIS terrorists, (plus Kurdish PKK and other various “freedom fighters” considered terrorists by Turkey), but now with big fat CIA paychecks.
War and politics make strange bedfellows. Into this strange cocktail, overlay and blend the Kurdish ethnic groups and their own sub-groups consisting of many ideological and religious mixtures.
But above all, from the American point of view, preventing a Shia “land bridge” from the Med to Iran is the primary mission. Our neocons could give a shit less about the people who live in Syria, east or west, any more than they care about the bloody ongoing civil wars and humanitarian catastrophes in Yemen or Ethiopia. It’s all about blocking Iran’s “Shia Crescent” land bridge.
What makes all of this skullduggery bubble to the top is the volatile “triple mix” covering the nearly lawless region:
1. National borders and identities.
2. Kurdish identity against all the existing nation states the Kurds must exist within.
3. The vicious Sunni-Shia ongoing struggle.
Eastern Syria and Northern Iraq are largely “ungoverned territory,” up for grabs by whoever can fight for it, and hold it. Some of our “allies” are Kurdish terrorists, like the ones who detonated a bomb on a busy shopping street in Istanbul 2 weeks ago. Turkey takes a very dim view of this, even if American troops get in the way of their air strikes.
We are in Eastern Syria to control and direct its oil output, and to prevent the Iranians from connecting to the Med, even if our presence is seriously pissing off the Turks, who want a free hand to go after their enemies. That is the bottom line. That is what is REALLY going on.
The Shia Crescent & War with the Kurds w/ Matt Bracken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuFKYjhy7Pc&t=517s&ab_channel=GWM3Analysisw%2FMattBracken
——What the HELL is going on?——
That’s a very good question. In light of the fact that Turkey is on the brink of economic failure a military venture seems ill advised.
Erdogan has bankrupt the country and refuses to accept the salvation offered by his rich Arab neighbors. An election is coming and maybe the press approval offered by a military venture will help.
I suspect the election will be a total fraud and Erdogan will become a dictator in fact.
Not to worry, O'Biden will put them on the welfare and send them 20 or 30 billion of our dollars first thing in the morning... (spit)
Pro-Russian, anti-American FR personality speaks out - believe at own risk.
Travis McGee :" We are only being told 1/4 truths, and mostly lies, about why we still have military forces (and a ton of CIA etc) in eastern Syria.
The three maps below will go a long way toward understanding the real situation,
which is preventing Iran from establishing a land corridor to the Mediterranean."
"Russia has long-established navy bases in Syria. Blocked in by geography in the Black Sea, these forward bases on the Med are extremely critical and strategic.
This is why Russia has never backed down from its support of the Assad regime.
And this is why America intentionally destabilized Syria, leading to the bloody ongoing civil war, tens of thousands dead, millions of refugees fleeing to Europe,
and millions of Syrian civilians currently starving under Western-imposed economic sanctions, etc.
Even hospitals cannot get electricity more than a few hours a day, because even generator parts are blockaded.
All this mayhem and misery was triggered and sponsored by America in another “color revolution” under Obama/Biden/Hillary.."
" And our current “allies” in eastern Syria, now rebranded yet again from the old Free Syrian Army to the SDF or Syrian Democratic Forces, are just the same old Al Queda and ISIS terrorists, (plus Kurdish PKK and other various “freedom fighters” considered terrorists by Turkey), but now with big fat CIA paychecks."
"War and politics make strange bedfellows.
Into this strange cocktail, overlay and blend the Kurdish ethnic groups and their own sub-groups consisting of many ideological and religious mixtures."
Bert: ".. In light of the fact that Turkey is on the brink of economic failure a military venture seems ill advised..
An election is coming and maybe the press approval offered by a military venture will help.. I suspect the election will be a total fraud and Erdogan will become a dictator in fact."
[Another macro-geo-political column today. When you look at it in these terms, the ongoing civil war in Syria, also teed off by America, is directly related to the war in Ukraine, that began with the U.S. sponsored Maidan Coup in 2014.]
It Was Never About Ukraine:
The war in Ukraine has always been about larger US goals. It has always been about the American ambition to maintain a unipolar world in which they were the sole polar power at the center and top of the world...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/it-was-never-about-ukraine
The two fellows in the video manage to condense a 15 minute talk into a three quarters of an hour video.
Pepe Escobar: Electric Wars
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-electric-wars
Spare a thought to the Polish farmer snapping pics of a missile wreckage – later indicated to belong to a Ukrainian S-300. So a Polish farmer, his footfalls echoing in our collective memory, may have saved the world from WWIII – unleashed via a tawdry plot concocted by Anglo-American “intelligence”.
Such tawdriness was compounded by a ridiculous cover-up: the Ukrainians were firing on Russian missiles from a direction that they could not possibly be coming from. That is: Poland. And then the U.S. Secretary of Defense, weapons peddler Lloyd “Raytheon” Austin, sentenced Russia was to blame anyway, because his Kiev vassals were shooting at Russian missiles that should not have been in the air (and they were not).
Call it the Pentagon elevating bald lying into a rather shabby art.
The Anglo-American purpose of this racket was to generate a “world crisis” against Russia. It’s been exposed – this time. That does not mean the usual suspects won’t try it again. Soon.
The main reason is panic. Collective West intel sees how Moscow is finally mobilizing their army – ready to hit the ground next month – while knocking out Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure as a form of Chinese torture.
[rest at link]
The Ismailia sect, the Assassins, used a chain of mountain fortress stretching from central Iran (Alamut) through Iraq to Syria (Maysara) to control the territory until destroyed by the Mongols in middle of 13th cent.
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Thanks for the links.
We may not always agree, but I do appreciate your perspectives.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Very interesting international North South Transport maps.
If you have time you might watch these videos I’ve made recently with a guy who is 2X smarter than me, but not as internet centered. George reached out to me to make these videos, understanding our strengths and weaknesses.
I was aware of him (George McMillan) from last spring during the start of the Ukraine war, when I heard him on some podcasts and saw him on videos. Anyway, it’s my voice on these videos. The long ones are more or less full recordings, think conversations, the short ones were cut and edited by somebody else.
These 2 at least are worth listening to. Love to get your feedback.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P32HudR5V54&t=01s&ab_channel=GWM3Analysisw%2FMattBracken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuFKYjhy7Pc&t=01s&ab_channel=GWM3Analysisw%2FMattBracken
And Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, FRiend.
[Always trying to play the long game, the perennial black-pilled optimist, c’est moi.]
I would seriously appreciate getting your top ten list of video creators in the geo-political space.
Posting links with no explanation will be more than enough.
Would seriously appreciate it. Or even your top 3 or 4.
Semper Improvement.
{{Matt Bracken}}
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