As of today, the entire western world is apparently shaking with the 'horrors' of chemical attacks by Syria's Assad on its own people. But, as is often said, this western madness over the manufactured attack has a certain method. Most importantly, the attack reflects the way the US war machine is orchestrating the 'horrors of war' to keep the US war-economy afloat and the region dipped in conflict.
Therefore, just when the US president Donald Trump had started to talk about withdrawing the US military from Syria, the news of a chemical attack struck his 'good intentions', forcing him to promise a strong military response to Assad. This, however, isn't that simple enough, considering that such a withdrawal was never actually going to happen even if Trump was himself serious about it. The president and his generals differ on what victory means.
As such, while Trump wanted to withdraw, the Pentagon was preparing, as reports in the Western media said, to actually send dozens of additional troops to Syria, but was caught off-guarded by the Trump announcement, and has now orchestrated the chemical attack to take the initiative away from him and revamp the crisis. And, the Pentagon, explicitly representing the US deep state's agenda, has succeeded in doing that.
How could the 'deep state' reconcile that easily to Trump's positive overtures to ending the war in Syria and even inviting Russia's Vladimir Putin to the White House? Such a meeting could have possibly revived the possibility of joint US-Russia peace initiative in Syria, and could have further made Donald Trump a party to the Russia-Iran-Turkey led peace process. But such a step could have also rendered further continuity of war meaningless and left Pentagon's plans of increasing US military presence counter-productive. Therefore, to make its plans productive and to prolong the war, the White Helmets, the latest manifestation of propaganda war through 'humanitarian services', were brought to service once again.
As such, while Trump seems to have sensed that by re-allying with Russia, the US position could be revamped in Syria; his generals seem to think that such a strategy could bring a defeat of the US objectives. The generals, as many of them have indicated many times, think 'true victory' lies in militarily staying in the game. Therefore, for them, Trump's willingness to opt withdrawal could never bring the US a clear victory.
In fact, this is how the US military's war-fighting doctrine defines victory. The document concludes that actual winning is not an absolute victory, but "more of a continuum", a prolongation of fighting and an endless war waged both directly and indirectly.
In this context, this is exactly what the US war machine has once again done in Syria. Just when the US president was hinting at the possibility of reaching a negotiated end of the crisis, the news of chemical attack war broken and a new continuum was added, leading even the President to warn of military action and grave consequences.
But the US 'deep state' is not worried just because Trump is willing to talk to the Russians; their true source of worry is the way Russia-Iran-Turkey triangle has been successful, despite western hopes of divergences, in consolidating its position in Syria by synching their interests on a number of aspects of the war.
Consider this: the recently concluded Astana summit made it explicitly clear that none of the parties to the summit was either interested in territorially dividing Syria among themselves or allow the US and its allies do the same. The statement said, alluding to the US, that "all attempts to create new realities on the ground under the pretext of combatting terrorism" were to be opposed and stand rejected by the coalition. This opposition also means that the triangle equally opposes a US military presence, whether open-ended or close-ended, in Syria.
Now, with Trump potentially seeking a withdrawal and expressing his willingness to let others do the rest of the job, for the 'deep state', this is like surrendering Syria to the Russians and their allies and accepting defeat at their hands-something that can never be acceptable to the US generals and war mongers, who, as indicated earlier, are heavily inclined to prolongation of the wars the US is involved in.
The potential dramatic impact of the (fake) news of chemical attacks has been that the US president has now moved away from inviting Putin to the White House to an inch closer to directly confronting Russia. Nothing else could have been more satisfying for the 'deep state' than seeing their success in considerably slowing down, if not all together killing, the prospects of US-Russia co-operation in Syria to end the war.
Salman Rafi Sheikh, research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan's foreign and domestic affairs, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook".
Reader Comments
I would put it as alien thinking that inevitably results in destructive outcomes.
What is alien thinking?
It is thinking that stems from the idea that you are what you are not (Not in your right mind).
The irrational basis is then logically extended while reacting to misperceptions as if they are real.
This is when the theory, concept, model or image of self (in relation to world) is given priority over the relational truth - (I didn't say rational truth), that all hell 'breaks loose from heaven' in the same way that trauma fragments, dissociates and fixates in defensive personality structure against the re-living of hated and feared experience (that is usually NOT in waking awareness and not within the frame of control that is effectively reaction rather than conscious. The irony is that such defences then replicate or re-enact its unhealed conflicts by the very attempt to deny them.
Because something false, other or alien to true has been learned over millennia - it is lived from as if self evidently true. But it is insane and therefore demands defence against sanity. The narrative identity believes and suffers its belief as real.
This reversal of consciousness is by deceit - not in truth.
As I see it we (who choose life) are obliged to address this insanity in our own mind; in our own thinking and allegiance.
You can probably not understand me, but a false self interest runs automatically as 'self interest'
Why the situation is unfolding as it is will likely have NO basis in any mainstream narrative - which is more of a 'medication' of diversion.
If you recognize you do not understand (what is happening) then you have a genuine basis from which to be curious. No one learns what they are not in desire to know. Insane conflicted nightmares are a catalyst for questioning the foundations of our thought - but fear is not a true basis for real learning. Joy is. Can you live this day well regardless the evils of the day thereof?
Oh and there are many who believe that an alien ET 'force' owns, controls or pharms our world. Symbolically this can be read in terms of our Consciousness - and symbolic manifestation can be perceived. I ask, what is the purpose you are holding - because what you meet AND how your interpret that meeting is truly determined for you, by what you bring to it.
You could say that you live in a world of aliens (others) and focus there and perceive all that is different and 'wrong' about them (according to your fantasy rules as to how they 'should' be. And this is what is being enacted; fantasy given power. Truth given to lies. Investments 'too big to fail' desperate and insane systems that profit on war, debt, sickness, manipulative disinformation.
" Its the deconstruction of life as we thought we knew it Jim" (Star Trek misquote)