The Hermitage at dusk – Saint Petersburg
“Deep
within every one of us lies a natural understanding of good and evil.
That is why one man can tell the truth convincingly…but it takes the
entire apparatus of the state to peddle a lie, and propagate that lie to
new generations.”…Gandhi
… by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor and New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
- First Published August 30th, 2013 -
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While
the world watches to see when and how the ‘punishment attack’ will be
launched on Syria, I read reports all day trying to see if anyone would
lay out what really has been going on. They did not.The US and its allies, to their eternal shame, have already used WMD on the Syrian people, but initially in a non traditional form. They changed their game plan for future regime changes to avoid using their own troops and as little cash as possible. How?
They went rogue. They went over to terrorism. They went over to al-Qaeda, that’s how. Using the Gulf State proxies has fooled no one here.
They dusted off Ziggy Brzezinski’s old destabilization plan for starting Muslim holy wars against the Russians in the Caucasus. The strategy was to keep them tied up in the tried and true, ‘death by a thousand cuts’ insurgent wars.
Ziggy has no regrets over the 150,000 dead in the Chechen war. His justification was “Would you have rather seen them marching into Europe?” There was a little problem with that. They never could have marched into Europe as both ‘assured mutual destruction’ and tactical nuclear weapons served as an effective bear trap.
We move on now to how earlier in Afghanistan where Saudi money and CIA logistics cranked up the first major ‘use the locals for cannon fodder’ war in that region. And yes, the Madrasa schools to indoctrinate children to be an endless supply of holy warriors…yes…we and the Saudis did that.
As happens over and over, when later a Frankenstein after effect monster is found walking around, all those previously found to have conceived him deny being the father. So we have the continuing carnage of Muslim extremism being inflicted upon us which someone paid with taxpayer money was a smart idea.
Roll forward to several years ago where Syria was chosen as a replacement vehicle for an attack on Iran and to put the Russians ‘in their place’. Due to tight budgets, like internet writers often do by borrowing someone else’s material, a new policy guru wanting to look smart dusted off the old Ziggy Holy War plan and proposed going back to the well for a proven strategy.The Persian Gulf States would pay most of the freight, and the cannon fodder this time would be the endless supply of disaffected Arab youth and religious extremists.
Their officer corps, in a twisted irony, would be veterans of the Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechen wars, plus the leftovers from the Arab Springs.
This was going to be regime change on the cheap, a cookie cutter strategy that could be used over and over. This was the first WMD unleashed on Syria.
But there were a few problems with the plan. First, the world public is now well aware how uncaring government regimes can be for not accepting any responsibility for the disasters they create because they have immunity.
So citizens know that makes them very dangerous as cold graves do not await them for terrible failure, but cozy think tank positions and highly paid lobbying jobs with their true employers.
Plan A was to collapse the Syrian Army through defections, and the government itself through a long series of assassinations that Western media forgot to tell us about. But something happened on the way to the forum, the government and army did not collapse, and the people…they got mad. Plan A backfired.The public looks at a long drawn out fight as a misjudgment by their leaders going into it. Modern military brass almost always advise not to go in where a decisive victory can not be attained reasonably quickly.
Politicians are prone to multiply their mistakes here, like Bush did in brow beating his brass into more rosy projections of fewer occupation troops needed to secure Iraq. General Eric Shinseki said 400,000 and was forced to resign.
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[This is the first article I am reposting as part of VT's strategic affiliation plans for the future. Although our readership outside the US has not been huge, it has been targeted. Besides being closely followed by civilian and military Intelligence in a many countries, we are also read by some of the top academic institutions. New Eastern Outlook is sponsored by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of sciences, its root going back to the Saint Petersburg's Asian museum in 1819.
It's current writing staff and huge stable of scholars come not only from the Institute, but from another famous institution, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the diplomatic school for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. It is the oldest and most renowned school in Russia for preparing professionals in internationals relations and diplomacy. Many of its current students are from families of political, economic and intellectual elites in Russia.
This opportunity did not fall out of the sky. It was the result of many years of hard work, not only noticed and supported by our mass audience readers, but by a diverse array of decision makers who have followed our unique approach of dealing with domestic and world affairs. There has been some spirit bonding going on, and we are now going to build upon that to expand our talent base world wide.
This is the just the beginning, with much more to come. We thank all of our readers and staff who have contributed to our 'great experiment'. And I would like to thank our numero uno editor, Gordon Duff, without whom VT would not be what it is today... Jim W. Dean]
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