BtH: Trump's Hit and Run in Syria - Playing the Deep State Game

[Ennio]

Trump's Hit and Run in Syria - Playing the Deep State Game

"Assad can stay." "Syrians must determine their future." St. Petersburg bombed. Chemical attack in Syria. "Assad must go." "We must determine Syrians' future." Oh, what a difference a day makes. In a repeat of 2013, a trumped up jihadi production special of chemical weapons blamed on Assad has pushed Trump to respond in a way that even Obama didn't. According to CNN, he finally "became president" this week when he ordered the U.S. military to launch 29 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airbase. War hawks on the left and right rejoiced. America's allies rejoiced. Israel wept tears of joy. And yet...

Over half the missiles missed their targets (for reasons no one knows at this time). The base was practically empty. The damage was insignificant. Russia closed down the deconfliction phone lines and is now beefing up air defense in Syria. In other words, the event seems to have been more spectacle than substance. The Trump administration is reserving the right to do it again, but will they really risk putting Russia's missile defenses to the test? Or has Trump's attack had the paradoxical effect of making a future attack even less likely?

Today on Behind the Headlines we'll go behind the Trump-lines get to the bottom of the latest episode of Trump Being Trump. Prepare to laugh, cry, be horrified, and disturbingly entertained. It's never a dull day in Trumpland.

https://radio.sott.net/

 

[NormaRegula]

Prepare to laugh, cry, be horrified, and disturbingly entertained. It's never a dull day in Trumpland.

Quite a tag line. Missed the live show. Will give a listen soon.

 

[Aeneas]

Great show guys. You covered many areas and angles to what is a complex situation with much undoubtedly going on behind the scenes.

 

[Thebull]

Hi Guys, does anyone know if this covers Turkey's role as I'm pretty confused what angle they are coming from now. I thought they had steppped back but they seem to be pushing the regime change agenda again. Also you'd think they have had a hand in the chemical weapons supply so what will Russia do as again it seemed their relationship was improving. I have seen various posts stating that Erdogan playing the game to protect Turkey from attacks. It's pretty complex and very had to gauge any help would be appreciated.

 

[Altair]

Hi Guys, does anyone know if this covers Turkey's role as I'm pretty confused what angle they are coming from now. I thought they had steppped back but they seem to be pushing the regime change agenda again. Also you'd think they have had a hand in the chemical weapons supply so what will Russia do as again it seemed their relationship was improving. I have seen various posts stating that Erdogan playing the game to protect Turkey from attacks. It's pretty complex and very had to gauge any help would be appreciated.

It's indeed complex and confusing but from what we know there is a deep state in Turkey as well which goes back to the time of Gladio B stay-behind operations. After the recent failed coup in Turkey Erdogan started to drain this "swamp" though it's not really clear whether he succeeded. You may want to listen to this Sott radio show: Behind the Headlines: Erdogan, the Su-24 shoot-down, CIA-NATO in Turkey, and containing Russia to get the idea.

 

[Ennio]

Hi Guys, does anyone know if this covers Turkey's role as I'm pretty confused what angle they are coming from now. I thought they had steppped back but they seem to be pushing the regime change agenda again. Also you'd think they have had a hand in the chemical weapons supply so what will Russia do as again it seemed their relationship was improving. I have seen various posts stating that Erdogan playing the game to protect Turkey from attacks. It's pretty complex and very had to gauge any help would be appreciated.

Yes, Turkey seems to be vacillating from one position to the next, back and forth on her Syria policy. One day Turkey seems to want to work with Iran and Russia AND Syria - and the next day they're lauding Trump for the missile strike. Where does Turkey stand already?! The way I've come to think of it is that Turkey - and Erdogan in particular - thinks he's smarter than everyone else and is basically playing all sides to see who best to align himself with and how he can accrue the most power/land/influence to himself. That's just how it seems to me anyway. If Turkey's role seems mercurial, I think that its in large part due to the country's shifting "policies" being a reflection of Erdogan himself (caused by a myriad of different influences on him). Which brings us back to this:

Q: (L) Okay, so the next important question on my mind is the attempted coup in Turkey. Is this Erdogan fellow a psychopath?

A: No

Q: (L) Is he personality disordered?

A: No

Q: (L) Is he kind of crazy?

A: Yes

Q: [laughter] (L) There is a difference!

(Pierre) He's just nuts!

(L) Is he kind of crazy because he's been driven crazy in the ways most of us have been driven crazy: subconscious programs, wishful thinking, and you become an instrument of higher density forces?

A: Yes

Q: (L) And that can make you crazy, especially when you've got all kinds of people around you feeding you with paranoia, grandiose dreams, luring you with power and riches or whatever...

A: Yes

Q: (Joe) Is he being worked on by other Earthly forces? Beaming and stuff?

A: Yes

 

[Hesper]

Hi Guys, does anyone know if this covers Turkey's role as I'm pretty confused what angle they are coming from now. I thought they had steppped back but they seem to be pushing the regime change agenda again. Also you'd think they have had a hand in the chemical weapons supply so what will Russia do as again it seemed their relationship was improving. I have seen various posts stating that Erdogan playing the game to protect Turkey from attacks. It's pretty complex and very had to gauge any help would be appreciated.

The show doesn't cover the details of Turkish politics, though Sibel Edmonds & Co do cover their current affairs in a recent video on Newsbud.

As Ennio pointed out, Erdogan seems to be playing his own game, trying to make his own rules. He'll probably play ball with Assad as long as it means the Kurds can't amass a state on his border. He'll probably play nice with Russia since he knows that the US has put a target on his back, and since, in Syria, Washington and Ankara's foreign policies are at loggerheads. Assuming those situations haven't changed significantly, and there could always be 'deals' going on in the background, I wouldn't take his statements too seriously. As soon as he starts making moves, then I'd sit up and take notice. Just my two cents.

 

[Thebull]

Thanks for all the responses that has helped. I'll watch the shows suggested and will keep in mind what the C's said. You couldn't write this stuff Trump, Erdogan and the rest of the war monger's. It really is insane I suppose always refer back to psychopath or political porneology.

 

[Joe]

Thanks for all the responses that has helped. I'll watch the shows suggested and will keep in mind what the C's said. You couldn't write this stuff Trump, Erdogan and the rest of the war monger's. It really is insane I suppose always refer back to psychopath or political porneology.

As others have said, Erdogan is in a difficult position, beset on all sides by people who want to use him and Turkey as a pawn and then cast them aside, this is especially true of the US/NATO. Consider that there are large numbers of Kurds in 3 countries on Turkey's Eastern and Southern borders (Iran, Iraq and Syria) who have a 100 year-long demand for chunks of Turkey to create their homeland. The reason for Erdogan's flip flopping between Russia/Iran/Syria and the 'West' is due to these concerns and the fact that the US has been actively arming and supporting the Kurds in northern Syria in the hope of creating a Kurdish state across Northern Iraq and Syria as a block to Iranian transport of gas to Europe and instead, to develop the Qatari part of the Pars gas field in the Persian gulf and use that new state to transport the gas.

So not only are the Turks dead set against a Kurdistan in the north of Syria and Iraq (because it would threaten Turkish territorial integrity) but the Turks seem to be toying with the idea of incorporating a chunk of N. Syria into Turkey to create a 'fact on the ground' against any possible Kurdistan there and also to control the route by which Iranian gas would flow to Europe.

To complicate matters, there are vast gas fields off the coast of Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Syria and Israel in the Med. Which fields will be developed where do Maritime boundaries begin and end, especially in terms of Cyprus, half of which is claimed by Turkey? All of this is what, in essence, all those involved are wrangling over.