It all starts with a Wahhabi-Zionist lovefest.
The
Saudi Foreign Ministry was forced to go on a non-denial denial
overdrive about a visit to Israel on July 22 by a delegation led
by retired Gen. Anwar Eshki.
Eshki
happens to be close to Saudi intel superstar and onetime close Osama
bin Laden pal Prince Turki bin Faisal, who recently met in the open
with former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) generals Yaakov Amidror and Amos
Yadlin.
While in Israel, Eshki met
with Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold, and Maj. Gen. Yoav
Mordechai, the top IDF honcho in the West Bank.
There’s
absolutely no way the House of Saud would not have given a green light
for such a visit – and such high-level meetings. By the way, the
Interior Ministry in Saudi Arabia bans all travel to Israel – as well
as Iran and Iraq.
So what’s the big
deal? The Israelis spun it as the Saudis – fronting for the Arab
League — offering a normalization of ties with the Arab world
without Israel abdicating from anything on the Palestinian front. The
only thing Tel Aviv would have to do, much later, is to adopt the 2002,
Saudi-proposed Arab peace initiative.
That’s
nonsense. For starters, the ultra right-wing Zionists in power in Tel
Aviv will never accept reverting to the pre-1967 borders and recognizing
the state of Palestine. What was “discussed” was a non-deal, even
as Tel Aviv gloats, “important Arab states are willing to openly
embrace us even though we have not given up one inch of the West Bank
and even as we continue to control Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
If
the Arab League would ever embark in such a blatant non-deal, forever
throwing the Palestinians under myriad bulldozers, chances are
oligarchies/petromonarchies all across the spectrum should start booking
that one-way ticket to London.
That Moscow-Tehran-Ankara alliance
So what did they actually talk about? Predictably, the imminent prospect of the
Full Spectrum Dominatrix finally taking over the White House.
Both
Bibi Netanyahu in Tel Aviv and de facto House of Saud ruler and Prince
of War Mohammad bin Salman in Riyadh have been reduced, under the Obama
administration, to the status of proverbial, euphemistic “estranged
allies”. Between them, they are de facto allies – even as they cannot
admit it to the Arab street. Both are dead sure, under the
Queen of War, there will be – what else – war. The question is against whom.
Informed speculation points towards the Saudi/Israeli common enemy,
Iran.
That’s complicated. The joint Saudi/Israeli strategy across the Middle
East is indeed in tatters. Tehran has not been trapped in a quagmire
neither in Syria nor in Iraq. ISIS/ISIL/Daesh and assorted “moderate
rebels” – covertly supported by the Saudi/Israeli axis — are on the run,
even if they insist they are not “
al-Qaeda” anymore. Prince of War bin Salman is entrapped himself in an unwinnable war on Yemen.
And
then there’s the spectacular post-coup pivot by Sultan Erdogan
in Turkey – for all practical purposes abandoning those elaborate
no-fly-zone dreams of annexing a post-Assad Syria to his neo-Ottoman set
up.
The
House of Saud is livid as Turkish diplomats have started to spread this
blockbuster news: Erdogan has proposed to Iran’s Rouhani an
all-embracing alliance with President Putin to finally solve the Middle
East riddle.
Whatever
erratic Erdogan’s agenda may be, a possible ice-breaking new deal
between Moscow and Ankara will be discussed de facto in the upcoming
Putin-Erdogan face-to-face meeting. All geopolitical signs at this stage
point – albeit tentatively – towards a revived Russia/Iran/Turkey
alliance, even as a horrified House of Saud is going no holds barred
to gain Moscow’s trust by offering “
untold wealth” and privileged access to the GCC market.
As
confirmed by a top Western intel source, “the Saudis are definitely
keeping all contacts open with the Kremlin. The Saudi King is
in Tangiers now and has met Russian envoys there. They mean what they
say. But Putin will not abandon Assad. There has to be a compromise.
Both need it.”
President
Putin is in a privileged spot. Even without accepting the Saudi offer –
which is just a promise, with no ironclad guarantees – Russia holds the
best cards, as in a quite problematic but ultimately feasible
Moscow-Tehran-Ankara alliance that is all about Eurasian integration
(and a future seat for Turkey, alongside Iran, in the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization, SCO.)
A
Saudi-Moscow alliance for its
part would inevitably lead a Queen of War administration towards – what
else — regime change in Riyadh disguised as R2P; “responsibility
to protect” the Saudi populace. One should expect Hillary crony Samantha
Power to vehemently defend it at the UN.
It’s all about The Three Harpies
Yet considering the Queen of War’s instincts, all signs do point towards Iran.
The manual/blueprint/road map for Hillary’s wars is arguably
here,
in this very dangerous intersection between US neocons and
neoliberalcons. The CNAS think tank is led by one-third (Michele
Flournoy) of what I have dubbed
The Three Harpies;
Hillary Clinton, Flournoy and – the most terrifying words in the
English language – Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, the possible
lethal trio in charge of foreign policy under a Clinton Three
administration.
This
is in fact PNAC (the Project for a New American Century) on steroids,
with echoes of the warlike 1992 US Defense Planning Guidance disguised
under the soothing rhetoric of benevolent hegemony and “rules-based
international order”. If the Trump campaign managed to restrain his
motormouth and/or motortweet instincts and focus on what this
warmongering opus means for the US and the world at large they would
strike a chord with millions of undecided US voters.
For
all her bluster, and that will be elevated to unheard-of hysterical
levels, the Full Spectrum Dominatrix won’t be foolish enough to launch a
war – which will inevitably be nuclear – against either Russia (Baltics
as a pretext) or China (South China Sea as a pretext), the Pentagon’s
top two “existential threats”.
In Syria, on the other hand, by January 2017
al-Qaeda/not al-Qaeda goons formerly known as “moderate rebels” will be mostly six feet under.
Erdogan
may be making NATO’s life in Turkey unbearable. As the Queen of War is
in AIPAC’s pocket, and considering the Clinton Foundation’s by now
legendary cozy ties with the House of Saud, the war target would have
to be the Saudi/Israeli preferred target, on top of it pro-Damascus and
in close touch with both Ankara and Moscow: Iran.
But
how to pull it off? One avenue, already being explored, is to bomb
by all means — and not figuratively — the Iran nuclear deal. A concerted
campaign in US mainstream media
is already burying the deal; and even Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei – as
reported in the US – is on the record saying Washington cannot be trusted;
‘‘They
tell us ‘Let’s talk about regional issues, too.’ But the experience
of the nuclear deal suggests this is deadly poison and in no way can the
Americans be trusted.’’
So
expect from Team Clinton the proverbial media barrage of dodgy spin,
baseless accusations and the occasional, perfectly positioned false flag
to lure Tehran intro a trap, like, for instance, in neoliberalcon
wishful thinking, Iran reviving its nuclear program. Of course this
won’t happen, but a Hellfire barrage of disinformation will be used
by the powerful anti-Iran lobby in the US Congress to sort of make it
happen, even as an illusion.
And
all this while Iran, among other development matters, is busy planning a
new transportation corridor from the Persian Gulf to the Black Sea,
connecting to Armenia, Georgia and Bulgaria, and positioning the nation
as a key trade hub connecting the Arab world in the south and west;
Central Asia in the north; and Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east, all
the way to Europe. Once again, Eurasian integration on the move.
Tehran
has myriad reasons to be on red alert if the Full Spectrum Dominatrix
gets her hands on the nuclear codes (how’s that not scarier
than Trump?) She will act as a surefire faithful servant of the
Saudi/Israeli alliance. The road map is ready. And neocons and
neoliberalcons alike can hardly contain their excitement at seeing
in action “a force that can flex across several different mission sets
and prevail.”
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