Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar al-Assad from power. CIA director David Petraeus first proposed a covert program of arming and training rebels in the summer of 2012. Initially, President Obama rejected the proposal, but later agreed, partially due to lobbying by foreign leaders, including from King Abdullah II of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is the same “peace” President who expanded the anti-Shia crusade in both Syria and Yemen.
The conversation neglects one component to this puzzle: the long term Saudi Wahabbist Sunni objective (Wahhabism originated in the 18th century and is based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a Hanbali cleric) has always been to maul and destroy the Shia Crescent in the Middle East. It is no mean coincidence that the areas in the Shia Crescent are Lebanon, Syria, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan, Yemen, and western Afghanistan. You will find that all of those countries are in civil conflict or significantly rubbled with the exception of Bahrain and Azerbaijan. I suspect that Azerbaijan is being spared because of the convenient distraction they provide against Russia in the continuing conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. I suspect Bahrain will come into the cross-hairs of the axis once the remainder of the Shia Crescent is destroyed to the satisfaction of the American/Israeli foreign policy apparatus.
Until the American intelligence community and warfare state is brought to heel, the chaos avalanches of constant war will continue to decimate the globe. Again, the classification regime in the US is protecting a war-making capacity in the US that has been wreaking havoc on the globe since 1945.
The Israeli lobby is no doubt complicit in all of this loosely allied with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Keystone Kops root cause of all of this nonsense in the Middle East.
The US and the West have created these massive jihadist entropic ecosystems that over time will weaponize the disorder into strikes abroad in concert with internally in the countries themselves (or by extension, breathing oxygen on the regional conflict complex embers that idled for decades or centuries).
Israel and the US have no idea what they are stoking the flames for in future conflicts. A hint came in the ISIS crisis in Iraq in 2013 when the IS insurgency had escalated into a full-scale war as the group launched its 12-month campaign ‘Soldiers’ Harvest’ .
I frankly don’t think anyone in power in the US or Israel extrapolates the second and third order effects of fomenting civil war and domestic color revolutions in the Middle East.
Newton’s Third Law is a stone cold motherfucker and will emerge in a rage that will leave the world agog. Fragile systems will be shattered and so will nations.
I recommend this splendid interview, Sachs crafts a great explanatory framework that fills the gaps of what you won’t learn from the Coprophile Media.
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