© AP PhotoCol. T.E. Lawrence, shown Oct. 3, 1928, the mystery man of the desert, who is known as the "uncrowned king of Arabia," is reported on a secret mission in Afghanistan. He's supposed to be negotiating a treaty between Great Britain and the Amir Amanullah.
I received a revelation at a strategy session the other day at our offices in Germany. Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, and Syria are still at war with the Axis powers of World War II! That's right, refugees from the region are now streaming into enemy territory by the hundreds of thousands. Someone, maybe Vladimir Putin, has to broker a peace treaty, and soon.
Not many reading this will know there are many nations at war still with Japan and Germany, as well as other Axis powers, technically that is. When the Allied nations of Britain, France, the US, and USSR assumed supreme authority over the German state in 1945, there was scant documentation of the exactitude of Axis powers' surrenders and dispositions. For Germany in particular, it has been argued that the defeat at the hands of Allied nations was in fact a
debellation, or obliteration by warring of a sovereign state. However, the nation's identity is intact I assure you, even if it is by nature a vassal of Britain and the United States still. It is in this "technicality" we may find an apt solution to the chaos in the Middle East now, and in particular for Syria. Please allow me to explain.
Imperialism ReduxThe killing fields we witness today in Syria and other parts of the Middle East are in reality part of an ongoing struggle for secular, tribal, and national independence. Since before World War I, the region has been at war with itself, and with what can be termed "westernization" of core Islamic beliefs. Without extending this piece into an historical study,
it's fair to say what we are witnessing is a "reenactment" of conflict akin to that during both world wars. World powers are leveraging the same ideologies, groups, and peoples that colonial powers have for generations. Cementing this fact is fairly easy, as luck would have it. All we have to do is outline past allegiances with those we see today, in order to galvanize the idea history is repeating.
Comment: What a joke! Maybe Russia has not been planning on running Nord Stream 2 through Poland because their Warsaw counterparts continually stir anti-Russian sentiments and claim so disparagingly that they wish to remain 'free' of Russian influence? It appears Poland's ignoble, self-entitled leaders haven't given much thought to how their situation is reflective of the forces they have aligned with.