So, a question comes to mind. Where did Syria get Chemical weapons?
Highest probability answer: From Iraq when Saddam Hussein was trying to hide them. CBS actually did a report on this way back when. It was the only play the story got, and it was then buried. I remember watching it, but can’t find it on the internet. 6 years ago, Fox News ran a similar report.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7LGeYr1hiQ Watch This!
Of course, the Chemical Weapons came from the U.S.
So one wonders why the U.S. is okay with a brokered deal for Russia to get the Chemical weapons?
Highest probability answer: Because if the U.N. inspectors take possession, the world will know that the Bush administration was correct all along and the current administration and all the liberals will look like fools. And, we have completely incompetent leadership.
Russia will use the intel as a trump card in any future political negotiations.
But being in the financial industry, I and my team have to sort through the BS to get to the truth, because none of this really makes any sense.
So we begin to dig and here is what we found:
This entire Syrian crisis has absolutely nothing to do with Syria, Syrian regime change, peace in the middle-east, children being gassed, WMD, Arab Spring or anything of the sort.
This is all about Russia and the threat it continues to pose. The U.S. engaged in several high level covert operations to destabilize the USSR back in the 80’s. It was a final “Hammer” blow to dismember the communist giant and end the cold war. (It’s another story and it’s deep)
What followed was a bolstering of the satellite states and an attempt to dislodge Russia from its despotic allies and further isolate it. As part of this overall plan, the U.S. engaged in covert operations to gain influence over the
Russian energy complex, at least to a degree. These new Russian energy oligarchs accumulated massive amounts of wealth and were moving Russia fast toward a more open political system. Old powers like Putin became aware of this op and without due process simply confiscated the entire private Russian energy complex, nationalized it, and threw the oligarchs in the Gulag.
Russia’s biggest source of income now is their energy revenues. We knew that this newfound income would bring them back to life if we couldn’t control it. And so it has. Russia is now Europe’s largest supplier of fossil fuel. This dependency could threaten Europe in times of conflict and give Russia leverage at the political bargaining table. So, western powers laid down a plan to build a pipeline through Iran, Iraq, & Syria.
Enter, Russia. As Russia is but a mere shadow of its former USSR self, it still has a couple of pawns on the board. Namely, Syria and Iran. These are close allies. Syria’s power flows from Russia. Russia understands that this pipeline means less dependency for Europe on Russian oil, so Russia is doing everything it can to block the pipeline. Assad does what Russia tells him to do.
As for the West, our objective is twofold. One, to take the Syrian pawn off the table for Russia through whatever disruptive means necessary. We don’t care how we get it done, or whose side we’re on, we just want to get it done. After that, it’s probably Iran. It’s the end of a long chess game and the plan was to wrap it up with those two final pieces coming off the board, before we checkmate Russia. The second is that we want that pipeline so Europe is not so beholden to Russian energy and to weaken Russia on the revenue side a bit.
So, none of this has anything to do directly with Syria. It’s all about dealing with the threat of Russia and the energy she would use to rebuild her influence.
Having said that, we have an amateur in the WH surrounded by bafoons. Let’s just hope we don’t end up in WWIII.