Re: Syria, will USA attack?
What do you think? Are we doomed for more war or will peace prevail?
Gen. Wesley Clark Says Pentagon Had Plan in 2001 to Attack Seven Countries in Five Years
I was never good with crayons, and I'm not exactly a cartographer.
Anyway, Empires must continually expand, and once they cease to expand --- for any reason --- they stagnate and die. That has been the fate of every Empire that ever existed. The US is not exempt from Economic Laws.
The US becomes an Empire at the Spanish-American War...instigated by the US. The US then embarks on its dream of controlling the entire Pacific Rim, including eastern Siberia --- one happy family under the US Flag. The US instigates numerous coups in island countries -- like when the US illegally over-threw the Kingdom of Hawaii, and also colonizes China. The US colonization of China was brutal, and even more so due the doctrine of extra-territoriality.
When Japan also starts thinking of engaging economically in the Pacific Rim, that poses a problem for the US. The US solution is an oil embargo against Japan, and Japan's answer is an attack on the US fleet at Pearl Harbor -- and no, Hawaii was not yet a US State at that time --- so yes, you might want to consider that when delineating charts on the matter (big hint).
The US puts an oil embargo on Japan -- Japan attacks US; Jimmy Carter gives us the Carter Doctrine: any country threatening the US with an oil embargo gives the US the right to pre-emptively attack; and any threat to the Persian Gulf gives the US the right to attack....pre-emptively.
Might wanna mull that over.....smells like, "
Do as I say; not as I do."
WW II ends, things are going good for the US. US colonial expansion moves into Korea, and other parts of Southeast Asia.
Again, 1968-1969 the US does an about face. I'm sure some will say, "
Tet Offensive" but this was purely economics and had nothing to do with anything else.
The same bureaucrats and policy-makers who brought you Wall-to-Wall War also brought you the Great Society, except there was no way to pay for the Great Society. Worse than that, the US and Great Britain using the Bank of International Settlements, conspired to collapse the economies of the Soviet Union, and all Eastern European countries by barring their currencies from being traded on the global market.
In addition to their attempt to destroy the East Bloc economically, the US and Britain wanted to punish the Soviets for refusing to go along with the Bretton Woods Agreement.
It wasn't working.
The idea was that the Soviets and other East Bloc countries would have to export/sell goods on the global market in US$, then use those US$ to buy/import goods on the global market, since none of the banks in the West, and the Bank of International Settlements refused to accept East Bloc currencies in trade.
Imagine if tomorrow the world said, "
We no longer accept US$ in trade" that would crash the US economy.
Well, there you go.
Back to 1968-1969....European countries no longer have faith in the US economically, and start demanding payment in gold. Gold is flying out of the US faster than the US can buy it. What to do?
Shift strategy. The US abandons Southeast Asia and its plans to control the Pacific Rim, and then takes a series of actions that are seemingly random, but in reality, they were planned events.
Taiwan is never going to regain control of mainland China. The US sacrifices Taiwan in order to establish a working relationship with China. The US turns its back on Taiwan, refuses to acknowledge Taiwanese passports and kicks Taiwan off of the Security Council and out of the UN to be replaced by China. Nixon goes to China to secure guarantees for diplomatic and political reasons. Nixon takes the US off of the gold standard. Then you have the fake oil embargo by OPEC.
Instead of using gold to back the US$, the US starts using oil, hence the term Petro-Dollar.
The oil embargo was concocted to make Americans believe that the US was justified in its actions in the Middle East, which included continual involvement in the economic, social and political affairs of those countries.
Because it is an Economic Law that the value of anything is related to the Supply & Demand of the item in question, global demand for oil --- traded solely in US$ --- will guarantee that the US$ remains greatly in demand, and therefore of great value, more valuable than all other currencies globally (excepting the British Pound).
When gold is used as a currency standard, the price of gold is regulated internationally. In 1833 the price of gold was $18.93/ounce. In 1913 the price of gold was still $18.93/ounce. At the time the US left the gold standard in 1973 the price of gold was $58.42/ounce. That has nothing to do with the US Federal Reserve and everything to do with the fact that there were many, many, many emerging nations and markets, especially after nearly all colonies gained independence in 1960. Those countries are now demanding gold for their economies, which increases the price....but the US doesn't benefit. Even at $25/barrel for oil...being half the price of an ounce of gold, the US profits,
because of the volume of oil sold on the global market...millions of barrels every day.
That accelerated the destruction of the economies in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe faster.
However, this is a double-edged sword, because the US is not exempt nor immune to the same effects.
To prevent the US from suffering the same fate as the Soviet Union, the US must control the global supply of oil, as well as the global supply of valued resources (metal ores and non-metallic minerals).
Understand the issue clearly....the US does not need to own global oil and other resources, but the US does need to control the end-point of sale....
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because that is the only way to ensure or guarantee that those resources will be sold on the global market in US$.
The US already knows that Siberia (the eastern part of Russia) is full of oil and natural gas, since it is nearly identical geologically to Alaska...and the US is building TAPS (Trans-Alaskan Pipeline System) in 1969.
From geologic studies in the 1970s and 1980s, everyone already knows that Central Asia and Siberia are full of not just oil and natural gas, but also coal, and many ores and minerals that are now considered to be "strategic" since the technological world requires those minerals to run.
Once the Soviet Union collapses, the US immediately goes to work. Bush gets the US into Iraq, while Clinton initiates numerous illegal wars in Central Asia to illegally over-throw the governments of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan (the latter two aren't on the map). I did not write the war plans for that; my involvement was reviewing feasibility studies and topographical surveys to set up US military bases for ground troops. I knew where the US air bases were going, since we were working with our counter-parts in the US Air Force.
In spite of Clinton's heroic efforts (albeit illegal), it was too premature, and all of the puppet-dictators installed by the Clinton Regime ultimately get over-thrown or lose power, and the US gets kicked out of every one of those 5 counties, except one, where an air base is still operating, but not under US military control.
The reason the US failed was due to the fact that the US could not push its hegemony on those Central Asian countries.
Yugoslavia. Clinton's illegal war there was designed to weaken Russia's ally, block any potential future Russian allies, and deny Russia the use of any airbases in the region or naval facilities on the Adriatic Sea. The indepdences of Kosovo was for the purpose of running an oil and natural gas pipeline through the region of Kosovo....if Kosovo remains a Serbian province, then the Serbs control the end-point, and the sale of the oil and natural gas would be in Euros, Rubles or Dinars, and not in US$.
US expansion into Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine was also intended to deny Russia any potential future allies, airbases or naval facilities. While the US has lost control of Ukraine, it is most unfortunate that the US still controls Romania and Bulgaria, barring Russia from using those ports.
So....Russia has only 3 places to port ships or base combat aircraft, and those are Tunisia, Libya and Syria.
Tunisia and Libya are gone.
The only place left in the Mediterranean where Russia might be able to port naval vessels and base combat aircraft is Syria...
...and Syria will shortly be under US control.
That means Russia is totally shut-out --- there is no place in the Mediterranean where Russia will be able to port ships or base combat aircraft, except in the Black Sea Region, and the US can easily block the Dardanelles Strait to keep Russia ships out of the Mediterranean.
The US also expanded NATO right up to Belarus and Ukraine, which are the only things keeping the US out of Russia.
The other key for Syria is that Israel requires Syria to be pacified
before the US attacks Iran.
That will deprive Iran of an ally, and prevent Iran from engaging in any hostilities against Israel, making things go smoother.
The end-game here is for the US to control the Blue-Grey area on the map...Siberia.
The US will attempt to gain control by funneling money into "pro-democracy" groups and "women's rights" groups which are fronts for insurgent groups. Once the insurgency is underway, the US will then create the conditions that will allow it to establish a "No-Fly Zone."
In order for the US and Britain to effectively operate a No-Fly Zone under the false guise of protecting "rebels" from phony Russian atrocities, the US will need to control Poland, Romania and Bulgaria....which it does already....and then the US will need to control those five Central Asia countries.
The US did control the five Central Asian countries, but not any more, and there's no point in illegally over-throwing those governments, unless the US can force its hegemony on the puppet-dictators it installs.
So...
that means the US must control Iran.
Once the US controls Iran, then the US will have easy quick access to those Central Asian countries from the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean via air corridors, highways and rail lines.
The US has to do that anyway.
You should already know that when Clinton was running his illegal wars in Central Asia, several oil companies, namely Unocal, Chevron, Amoco and British Petroleum formed an holding company to purchase the rights to resources in those countries.
They own 75% of all the rights to all the resources there (Total France and Russian Gazprom and a German company own the remaining 25%).
In the interim, Chevron bought Unocal, and British Petroleum bought out Amoco, so now it's just Chevron and British Petroleum holding the rights.
Because Chevron and British Petroleum own the rights, they get paid royalties on the sale of oil, natural gas, coal, tellurium, cadmium, titanium, platinum and numerous other metals and non-metallic minerals.
Understand that Chevron and BP do not care if those resources are sold in Euros, Rubles, Yuan, Rupees, Gold or US$....
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but the US government does care. And the sale of those resources in anything other than US$ will ultimately result in a
permanent down-turn in the standard of living and life-style for Americans.
In other words, the only way Americans can have 3-5 cars per family, and 4,400 square foot houses and iPods, and androids and laptops and notebooks and kindle fires and plasma TVs is if the US goes out and murders the people of other countries in cold-blood.
As I've mentioned before, you see that pretty line heading skyward until about 1994 before dropping?
That was the introduction of the Russian Ruble on a regional basis. The US and Britain can no longer bar the Ruble from being traded globally.
See.....Russia no longer has to kow-tow to America.
The bid slide in 1997.....that was the start of global trading of the Rubble.
Russia no longer sells oil in US$. If you want to buy Russian oil or anything else, then you had best convert your currency to Euros or Rubles.
And that decreases demand for the US$ globally, causing the US$ to lose value, and increasing the cost of those things Americans import.
Look what happens when the Euro comes out...and then you have the Clinton Recession. Russia, India, China and Brazil also start rapidly developing countries, and the US continues to tumble, because those developing countries are not using US$ exclusively. They're using Euros and Rubles and Yuan.
Right now, Iran is causing lots of problems for the US, because Iran no longer sells oil exclusively in US$....Iran sells oil in basket currencies.
And that brings us back to Chevron and BP and Central Asia.
Central Asia has an estimated 5 to 7 times more oil and natural gas then the entire Middle East and North Africa combined.
And Siberia has twice as much as all of Central Asia.
How do you get those resources out of Central Asia?
You can build oil and natural gas pipelines, plus highways and rail roads through Russia, but then Russia would sell the resources in every currency except US$.
You can build oil and natural gas pipelines, plus highways and rail roads through Iran, but then Iran would sell the resources in every currency except US$.
You can build oil and natural gas pipelines, plus highways and rail roads
through Afghanistan, but then you'd have to
exert total control over Afghanistan, or insurgents would cause repeated interruptions.
As we speak, there are oil pipelines being built from Central Asia to the Black Sea....BP and Chevron are happy.....because those pipelines will be transporting 5 Million barrels per day....but Americans will not be happy, because all 5 Million barrels will be sold in Rubles or Euros, and not in US$.
The US cannot win in Afghanistan, and it doesn't matter if the US could, because the US will not be able to control Pakistan.
So...invading Iran is the only US option.
After all, an iPhone is worth the lives of at least 5 Iranians, right? Or 7 Iranians if they are children.
Anyway, there won't be any action in Iran until the situation in Syria is stabilized with the US in control.
That's a hint, for when you're looking at charts, and you should be looking at Ingress Charts and not Transits (unless you enjoy wasting time). Don't waste your time on the Sibley Chart either. The US really does have Sagittarius-rising, but the Sibley Chart is not the correct chart, so the Planets are all out of position.
Though language flows and eventually topics morph, here on a forum there is an expectation to stay on the topic itself. Lets bring it back to the original topic of will the US attack Syria.