Syria: The Rest of the Story

The official Western narrative against Syria goes something like this:

"The Syrian government has abused basic human rights, maintains deep ties with rogue regimes like Iran and North Korea, and just recently launched a chemical weapons strike on hundreds of its own people. In addition to killing its own people, the Assad regime is serving to destabilize an already unstable Middle East. Assad must go…"

Now for the rest of the story…

Syria is none of our business in the context of the above statement.  Neither side is a "good guy" and for our president to even THINK of going in there borders on utter insanity.  He and is loose lipped cronies who demanded swift action to the gassing of a group of people need to save face and not look like the buffoons they really are. The spouted off in a knee jerk way to news…"We must DO something!" they clamored. The sad fact is that an overthrow of Syrian President Assad has long been in the works.  This is a deadly and dangerous performance -- all the chess pieces began to move when the U.S. backed each of the Middle East uprisings… To date, rulers have been forced from power in Tunisia, Egypt (twice), Libya, and Yemen; civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests have broken out in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan; and minor protests have occurred in Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti and Western Sahara.

The real aim of the US, it is being said, is to remove all the independent governments in the Middle East, to destroy the popular movements in order to secure the domination of this key strategic and oil rich region. Pretty sinister and frighteningly believable.

This is about natural resources and energy my friends…this time it is not oil but liquefied natural gas or LNG. The US has plenty of it and we don't need it -- and if we are smart we will keep it that way. Europe however is thirsty.  This has NOTHING to do with any children who were or were not gassed.

Have you not wondered why Russia is so concerned? Russia has the world’s largest reserves of natural gas. Which country has the second largest reserves? Iran.

Iran, however, is isolated with no current ability to export its vast energy supplies to Europe. Russia has its eye on the potential profits of bringing Iranian oil and gas online for Europe. For this reason, (among myriad others) it has sought to solidify its relations with Iran. Of course, the most direct route for moving Iran’s energy supplies to Europe is right through the heart of Iraq and into Syria. So, it appears that Russia’s alliance with Syria has less to do with Syria and much more to do with the Iranian gas that may soon flow into Syria. As we already said, Europe is thirsty.

Assad wants to cut a deal with Russia and will not work with the U.S. or Israel.  So of course we want him out. Russia has stepped up its diplomatic and trade activities in the Middle East and North Africa in a bid to enhance its geopolitical clout and gain access to, and at least partial control over, the region's oil and gas reserves. Among the former global superpower's tactics: linking arms deals and debt-forgiveness to energy deals. The strategy has been most apparent in former client states of the ­Soviet Union including Libya, Iraq and Syria, although by no means limited to such countries. Moreover, Moscow has not shied away from courting the authoritarian regimes of countries such as Iran, Syria and Libya that are or have been shunned by the US and other western governments. So Russia is shopping for partners and picking all the ones we are not friendly with.  Reagan would be outraged.

Sadly, when it comes to the US (and of course Israel), it does have a very hidden agenda: one that involves lying to its people about what any future intervention is all about, and the fabrication of narrative about chemical weapons and a bloody regime hell bent on massacring every man, woman and child from the "brave resistance." What they all fail to mention is that all such "rebels" are merely paid for mercenaries of the Qatari emir, whose sole interest is to accrue even more wealth even if it means the deaths of thousands of Syrians in the process.

A bigger read through of the events in Syria reveals an even more complicated web: one that has Qatar facing off against Syria, with both using Syria as a pawn in a great natural resource chess game, and with Israel and the US both on the side of the petrodollars, while Russia and to a lesser extent China, form the counterbalancing axis and refuse to permit a wholesale overthrow of the local government which would unlock even more geopolitical leverage for the gulf states.

Up until today, we would have thought that when push comes to shove, Russia would relent. However, with the arrival of a whole lot of submarines in Cyprus, the games just got very serious. After all the vital interests of Gazprom, the largest extractor of natural gas and one of the largest companies in the world and perhaps the most important "company" in the world - are suddenly at stake.

I see two take aways here.  One is that the Syrian outrage is a big lie.  I am not saying that Obama is the FIRST president to lie to us about this but he is the CURRENT president and there are a lot of very powerful and very dangerous characters at play now.  This has got to stop.  The second is that we MUST recognize and EMBRACE that we may have the largest oil reserves on the planet. It is estimated that this area dubbed the Green River formation, contains a massive three trillion barrels of oil, half of which is currently recoverable. To give you an idea for how significant that number actually is, three trillion is approximately equivalent to the rest of the world’s proven reserves combined.

We can and must rely on ourselves…if we do, we can stay out of this nasty and never ending turmoil.