© Washington PostProtests and preparations as Western powers stand on the brink of attacking Syria
The war on Syria started five years ago in Daraa on the 17th of March 2011. The following article first published in May 2011 examines the inception of the jihadist terrorist insurgency. It recounts the events of March 17-18, 2011 in Daraa, a small border town with Jordan.
Media reports have finally acknowledged that the so-called "protest movement" in Syria was instigated by Washington. This was known and documented from the very inception of the Syrian crisis in March 2011. It was not a protest movement, it was an armed insurgency integrated by US-Israeli and allied supported "jihadist" death squads.
From Day One, the Islamist "freedom fighters" were supported, trained and equipped by NATO and Turkey's High Command. According to Israeli intelligence sources (Debka, August14, 2011):
NATO headquarters in Brussels and the Turkish high command are meanwhile drawing up plans for their first military step in Syria, which is to arm the rebels with weapons for combating the tanks and helicopters spearheading the Assad regime's crackdown on dissent. ... NATO strategists are thinking more in terms of pouring large quantities of anti-tank and anti-air rockets, mortars and heavy machine guns into the protest centers for beating back the government armored forces. (DEBKAfile, NATO to give rebels anti-tank weapons, August 14, 2011)
This initiative, which was also supported by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, involved a process of
organized recruitment of thousands of jihadist "freedom fighters", reminiscent of the enlistment of Mujahideen to wage the CIA's jihad (holy war) in the heyday of the Soviet-Afghan war:
Also discussed in Brussels and Ankara, our sources report, is a campaign to enlist thousands of Muslim volunteers in Middle East countries and the Muslim world to fight alongside the Syrian rebels. The Turkish army would house these volunteers, train them and secure their passage into Syria. (Ibid, emphasis added)
These mercenaries were subsequently integrated into US and allied sponsored terrorist organizations including Al Nusrah and ISIS.
Comment: From day one, apparently, Putin has had the Powers That Be periodically 'breaking out in sweats'!
Again we see that the 'Cold War' was entirely of the West's making. The US needed the Cold War to cement its post-WW2 position as 'world government'.
Russia, or the USSR, were not allowed to join NATO because its influence would interfere with NATO's true purpose: to establish and maintain Western, specifically Anglo-American, global hegemony.
Note that the Warsaw Pact was only formed AFTER the USSR was refused, thus completely undermining the revisionist NATO history which justifies its original existence as necessary to counter a Soviet (really, a Russian) military threat to Europe.
Once NATO (Washington and London) refused Russian entry into NATO, the Russians realized NATO's true purpose, and after having only just survived the most titanic war in all history, Russia thus had no choice but to establish a counter-alliance.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...