Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
March 7, 2020
While the majority of Americans have been focused on the spread of
COVID-19, they may have missed the fact that Turkey has all but declared
a war and invaded Syria. After having dispatched troops to the
terrorist haven of Idlib, Syria as the Syrian military engaged in a
massive push to liberate the region. Turkey has since come to the rescue
of the embattled terrorists, launching drone attacks, airstrikes, and
ground forces into Syrian territory.
Turkey established a number of "
observation points,"
that the Syrian military, during the process of liberation early on in
the Battle of Idlib, surrounded. The Syrian military did not disturb
these posts or harm any Turkish soldiers.
However, that all changed when the Syrian and Russian air forces began
bombing terrorist targets. Those airstrikes killed a number of Turkish
soldiers
who had been embedded with terrorist groups.
Turkey then played victim and Erdogan sent more Turkish soldiers and
engaged in airstrikes against the Syrian military. Later, another Syrian
airstrikes killed yet more Turkish soldiers who were also embedded with
terrorists, resulting in a forceful Turkish response of drone attacks
and airstrikes and the further progression of Turkish troops onto Syrian
soil.
Syria managed to
shoot down a number of Turkish drones but other airstrikes have since avoided hits from the Syrian air defenses.
Israel has also stepped up
its attacks on Syria, claiming to be targeting "Iranian" assets but
really attacking forces assisting Syria in the fight against terrorism.
In fact, Israel recently announced that it has a plan to
remove Iran from Syria in the next 12 months.
Thus, with Turkey attacking from the North and Israel attacking from the
Southwest and, of course, the American troop presence in the Northeast,
Syria is now facing a multi-front war."
The strategy being implemented by the Western establishment (here,
specifically Turkey and Israel) is identical to the one proposed by the
Brookings Institution in its document “
Middle East Memo #21: Saving Syria: Assessing Options For Regime Change,” where it says,
Turkey’s participation would be vital for success,
and Washington would have to encourage the Turks to play a more helpful
role than they have so far. While Ankara has lost all patience with
Damascus, it has taken few concrete steps that would increase the
pressure on Asad (and thereby antagonize Tehran). Turkish policy toward
the Syrian opposition has actually worked at cross-purposes with
American efforts to foster a broad, unified national organization. With
an eye to its own domestic Kurdish dilemmas, Ankara has frustrated
efforts to integrate the Syrian Kurds into a broader opposition
framework. In addition, it has overtly favored the Syrian Muslim
Brotherhood over all other opposition groups. Washington must impress
upon Turkey the need to be more accommodating of legitimate Kurdish
political and cultural demands in a post-Asad Syria, and to be less
insistent on the primacy of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Some voices in Washington and Jerusalem are exploring whether Israel
could contribute to coercing Syrian elites to remove Asad. The Israelis
have the region’s most formidable military, impressive intelligence
services, and keen interests in Syria. In addition, Israel’s
intelligence services have a strong knowledge of Syria, as well as
assets within the Syrian regime that could be used to subvert the
regime’s power base and press for Asad’s removal. Israel could posture
forces on or near the Golan Heights and, in so doing, might divert
regime forces from suppressing the opposition. This posture may conjure
fears in the Asad regime of a multi-front war, particularly if Turkey is
willing to do the same on its border and if the Syrian opposition is
being fed a steady diet of arms and training. Such a mobilization could
perhaps persuade Syria’s military leadership to oust Asad in order to
preserve itself. Advocates argue this additional pressure could tip the
balance against Asad inside Syria, if other forces were aligned
properly.
While Syria is not in conflict with Iraq today, after being destroyed by
the United States in 2003, Western Iraq now houses the
mysteriously-funded Islamic State on the border between Iraq and Syria.
That being said, this plan is not merely being discussed, it is being
implemented as one can clearly see by the fact that Israel routinely
launches airstrikes against the Syrian military, Turkey continues to
funnel ISIS and related terrorists into Syria through its own territory
and has now launched an invasion in the northern region of Idlib, and
ISIS and the Kurds continue to present itself as an Eastern front
militarily. As a result, the “multi-front” war envisioned and written
about by the CIA in 1983 and discussed by Brookings in 2012 has come to
fruition and is in full swing today.
Documents contained in the U.S. National Archives and drawn up by the
CIA reveal a plan to destroy the Syrian government going back decades.
One such document entitled, “
Bringing Real Muscle To Bear In Syria,” written by CIA officer Graham Fuller, is particularly illuminating.
The author presents a plan that sounds eerily similar to those being
discussed publicly by Western and specifically American
corporate-financier think tanks and private non-governmental
organizations like Brookings who unofficially craft American policy.
Fuller writes,
The US should consider sharply escalating the pressures against Assad
[Sr.] through covertly orchestrating simultaneous military threats
against Syria from three border states hostile to Syria: Iraq, Israel
and Turkey. Iraq, perceived to be increasingly desperate in the Gulf
war, would undertake limited military (air) operations against Syria
with the sole goal of opening the pipeline. Although opening war on a
second front against Syria poses considerable risk to Iraq, Syria would
also face a two-front war since it is already heavily engaged in the
Bekaa, on the Golan and in maintaining control over a hostile and
restive population inside Syria.
Israel would simultaneously raise tensions along Syria’s Lebanon front
without actually going to war. Turkey, angered by Syrian support to
Armenian terrorism, to Iraqi Kurds on Turkey’s Kurdish border areas and
to Turkish terrorists operating out of northern Syria, has often
considered launching unilateral military operations against terrorist
camps in northern Syria. Virtually all Arab states would have sympathy
for Iraq.
Faced with three belligerent fronts, Assad would probably be forced to
abandon his policy of closure of the pipeline. Such a concession would
relieve the economic pressure on Iraq, and perhaps force Iran to
reconsider bringing the war to an end. It would be a sharpening blow to
Syria’s prestige and could effect the equation of forces in Lebanon.
Thus, Fuller outlines that not only would Syria be forced to reopen the
pipeline of interest at the time, but that it would be a regional
shockwave effecting the makeup of forces in and around Lebanon,
weakening the prestige of the Syrian state and, presumably, the
psychological state of the Syrian President and the Syrian people, as
well as a message to Iran.
The document continues,
Such a threat must be primarily military in nature. At present there are
three relatively hostile elements around Syria’s borders: Israel, Iraq
and Turkey. Consideration must be given to orchestrating a credible
military threat against Syria in order to induce at least some moderate
change in its policies.
This paper proposes serious examination of the use of all three states –
acting independently – to exert the necessary threat. Use of any one
state in isolation cannot create such a credible threat.
The trail of documentation and the manner in which the overarching
agenda of world hegemony on the behalf of corporate-financier interests
have continued apace regardless of party and seamlessly through
Republican and Democrat administrations serves to prove that changing
parties and personalities do nothing to stop the onslaught of
imperialism, war, and destruction being waged across the world today and
in earnest ever since 2001. Indeed, such changes only seem to make
adjustments to the appearance and presentation of a much larger
Communo-Fascist system that is entrenching itself by the day.
Brandon Turbeville writes for Activist Post – article archive here – He is the author of seven books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria, The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President, and Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome.
Turbeville has published over 1500 articles on a wide variety of
subjects including health, economics, government corruption, civil
liberties and, most notably, geopolitics and the Syrian crisis. His most
recent release is a book of poetry, Dance, Amputee. Brandon Turbeville’s radio show Truth on The Tracks can be found at UCYTV. His website is BrandonTurbeville.com. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.
He is from Columbia, SC.
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