I told you so. Putin hasn't been in Saudi Arabia for ten years.
October 14, 2019
By Ramadan Al Shermini
Dubai: Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) has landed in Saudi Arabia in a landmark regional tour which will also take him to the UAE.
Before he departed Moscow, the Russian president gave an interview with Arab media where he lauded ties with both Gulf countries.
The Russian leader has offered to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran amid sky-rocketing tensions over the past few months.
Putin condemned an attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco facilities last month and said that it would help Riyadh investigate who the culprits of the attack were.
While Saudi Arabia has blamed Iran, Russia has been reluctant to place blame....
Iran is reporting a missile attack (click here) on one of it's oil tankers. It is at the waterline, no different than the USS Cole. This is probably Daesh now that Trump re-entered them into the Middle East violence. Iran is not going to capitulate power to Putin, especially if there are oil tankers being attacked. Putin didn't stop this one, why would it stop any other.
It appears on the surface Putin is competing for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Assad decided living USA trained Kurdish fighters is a far better idea than killing them.
October 14, 2019
Syria’s troops (click here) have entered northeastern towns and villages, Syrian state media said on Monday, after Washington announced it was abruptly pulling out its forces, and its former Kurdish allies reached a deal with Damascus to help resist a Turkish attack.
Turkey-backed Syrian fighters say they have begun an offensive alongside Turkish troops to capture the Kurdish-held town of Manbij.
Mustafa Seijari, an official with the Turkey-backed fighters, tweeted: "The battle of Manbij has begun."
Turkey's private NTV television reported that Turkish special forces and commandos began advancing toward Manbij on Monday afternoon. CNN-Turk also mentioned the attack, reporting that the sound of clashes could be heard....
Let me be clear. I don't approve of war and in the year 2019, most major wars have been fought.
That said, Donald Trump put our troops in the line of fire with Turkey. No warning. No notification. No orders to evacuate. The troops were left to discover the danger and make decisions based in self-defense. That is not the way to run a USA military. If there was to be a TRANSFER of power with Turkey as peacekeepers in the region, it happens in orderly and measured methods.
This was a decision by Putin to remove the USA from the region and it happened as if it came from Moscow.
October 13, 2019
By Shawn Snow
Syrian Kurds gather around a U.S. armored vehicle during a demonstration against Turkish threats next to a U.S.-led international coalition base on the outskirts of Ras al-Ain town in Syria's Hasakeh province near the Turkish border on Oct. 6, 2019.
American troops (click here) and former U.S. officials believe a Turkish artillery strike on Friday that landed about 300 meters from a U.S. commando outpost near the Syrian city of Kobani was done deliberately.
No U.S. troops were injured in the strike, but U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said American commandos temporarily withdrew from their observation post on Mishtanur hill near Kobani and returned on Saturday.
A senior U.S. military official told Military Times on Friday that the incident was not an attack by Turkish forces, but some U.S. troops, former senior U.S. officials and artillery veterans say that the attack appears to be intentional.
CNN’s Barbara Starr reported, citing a U.S. official, that the U.S. has not come to a final determination on whether the Turkish artillery strike was deliberate....
The post WWII USA military can be first examed in the conflict at Bosnia-Herzogovina war. "The Peace" in the years after 1990 is very differently defined and most Americans couldn't even find Bosnia on a map. These major paradigm shifts are not in history books, but, they should be as a way of understanding the role of the USA in the world.
Americans might reject this idea. But, at least they can understand the USA military and it's mission to find "A Peace" among the many threats.
Preface
The incredibly complex drama of war and edgy peace that unfolded inBosnia (click here), or Bosnia-Herzegovina, during the 1990s gave birth to a fascinating
and instructive series of military operations that constitute the subject of
this study. The nature of circumstances and missions in Bosnia poses a
variety of challenges to the historian. First, given their recent occurrence, it
is remarkably difficult to frame these events in historical perspective. This
is in part because many outcomes and consequences reside somewhere
in the future. The SFOR mission itself only came to a close late in 2004
as this work was going to press. Equally significant is the fact that vast
quantities of relevant documents remain classified. As a result, the chapters
that follow necessarily form a preliminary attempt to capture the most
important dynamics of the history yet unfolding in this unfortunate country.
An additional hurdle is the chaos that attended the Bosnian Civil War
and the nonlinear character of modern post-conflict operations, whether
they emphasize peacemaking, peacekeeping or peace enforcement. In
contrast to the story of most wars, peace operations in Bosnia did not
unfold in a progression of events that yield a seamless narrative. Rather,
the course of history in Bosnia was, and remains, a fitful affair. As the
final chapter observes, success in peace operations is hard to measure and
self-deception is a constant hazard. One critical aspect of this condition
was the ceaseless rotation of U.S. and other units through Bosnia. In some
respects, the mission began again with the arrival of each new commander,
division, brigade, and battalion....
Donald Trump made his decision regarding northern Syria secretly because he knew the backlash he would get. He had to keep a campaign promise. He is truly "The Decider."
Now, we know his decision making, everything is one side or the other. National security often doesn't have that choice.
Now, the country knows for sure Trump is not a man that understands world affairs and the balance of power nor does he care to. He is a danger to the people of the USA. The rest of the world already knows he is dangerously stupid.
The ultmate in fear mongering is believed to be "The Turner Diaries.: They are most likely mandatory reading for the right wing. I am sure Trump has some knowledge of it by now. The Turner Diaries are believed to be the most anti-semetic book since Mein Kampf.
Author: William Pierce (as Andrew Macdonald), (click here) leader of the neo-Nazi National Alliance
Published: 1978
Publisher: Previously, the book was only available through the National Alliance's National Vanguard Press, but Barricade Books, a small independent publisher, began publishing it in 1996.
Premise: The diaries of Earl Turner, member of an underground white supremacist army, provide an inside account of an Aryan revolution that overturns the United States government in the near future.
Tone: Lurid, violent, apocalyptic, misogynistic, racist and anti-Semitic
Notable sequence: Turner's guerrilla unit detonates a homemade bomb at FBI headquarters, killing hundreds - a passage that came to be seen as foreshadowing, and as an inspiration to, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Influence: One of the most widely read and cited books on the far-right; it has explicitly influenced, among others, The Order, the Aryan Republican Army, The New Order, Timothy McVeigh.
Timeline:
1991 - Turner's diaries begin, 1993 - Turner's last entry, his successful suicide bombing of the Pentagon, 1999 - Aryan forces triumph, the New Era begins, 2099 - the narrator "publishes" Turner's diaries.
Putin condemned an attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco facilities last month and said that it would help Riyadh investigate who the culprits of the attack were.
