TheAltWorld Russia and Iran Lack Strategic Vision
Where there is no vision the people are lost.
The latest report is that Israel has carried out 480 air strikes on territory of the former Syria and Israeli troops are moving deeper into the country. Netanyahu claims credit for Syria’s overthrow which he said is “a historic day in the history of the Middle East.” It certainly opens up the Middle East to Greater Israel.
Israel said that Syria’s fall has isolated and weakened Iran’s position and now is the time for Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.
https://www.rt.com/news/609279-israel-iran-strikes-report/
The NATO secretary-general has instructed NATO members to cut spending on social services and divert the money to military spending. Security matters more than social welfare , said the secretary-general, and Europe must prepare to defend itself from aggressive Russia. Of course, it is Russia that is failing to defend herself and her allies from the aggressive West.
The Russian foreign ministry again declared Ukrainian membership in NATO to be unacceptable, but Russia has given no indication of what it can do to block it.
President-elect Trump has criticized the Biden regime for the major escalation of firing missiles into Russia. But the policy of softening up Russia for negotiations is likely to continue under Trump. Now that the Russian, Iranian, and Chinese governments have demonstrated that they are unable to act even in their own interests, it will be difficult for Trump to slow the momentum toward wider war.
Russia is negotiating with HTS, the latest name for the terrorsits used by the US and Israel to overthrow Syria, for the protection of the Russian military bases in Syria. Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, said the Russian forces will play an important role in the fight against terrorism. Apparently, Bogdanov doesn’t realize that it is the terrorist regime from whom he is asking protection for Russians. It seems that HTS is both the “Syrian democratic opposition” and “the terrorists.”In liberating Syria they were the democratic opposition. Now that they have Syria they are terrorists, Israel’s war with which covers Israel’s annexation of Syria into Greater Israel.
Peter Ford, the former British ambassador to Syria, said that the West intends a “master-client relationship” with those who “yesterday were al-Qaeda and ISIS,” but today are the Syrian democratic opposition. “For Western powers, the optics of doing business with gangs and warlords designated as terrorist groups presents a problem. This can be got round, however, by pretending to have a ‘transition.’”
I have been wondering where tiny Israel would find the manpower to occupy Syria, Lebanon, and Greater Israel. It looks like they are going to use the Arabs themselves, the Shia to occupy the Sunni or vice versa.
Things change fast. It was only 5 days ago that Russian foreign minister Larvrov was warning of the HTS terrorists and declared Russia will oppose attempts by the militants to alter the situation on the ground in Syria. Clearly, the Russian foreign ministry had no idea that Syria was disintegrating while Lavrov was speaking. Now Syria is in the hands of the HTS terrorists/democratic opposition. The Astana agreement that Russia supported repeated the utter folly of the Minsk Agreement and destroyed Syria. Disdaining force, Russia called for “restraint.” Russia and Iran restrained, but not their enemies, or is it their “partners”?
“We are absolutely convinced of the inadmissibility of using terrorists like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to achieve geopolitical goals, as is happening now with the organization of this offensive from the Idlib de-escalation zone,” Lavrov explained during a session at the Doha Forum ( source: Sputnik). Perhaps Lavrov has forgot that the Idlib de-escalation zone is a produce of Russia’s Astana agreement.
Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, reports that Syria’s disappearance was orchestrated in the Zionist commend rooms of the United States and the Israeli Zionist regime. He did not explain why Iran stood aside and accepted the destruction of its ally and buffer and route to the resupply of Hezbollah, the only force preventing Israel’s occupation of Lebanon.
Were Syria’s allies, Iran and Russia, unaware of the plot? Why did Khamenei join Putin in sitting on their butts while Washington and Israel overthrew their ally and handed them a dramatic strategic defeat. Now all they can do is to complain. But they never blame themselves.
My conclusion has been that neither Russia nor Iran has an intelligence service. Iran relies on God, and the Russian government relies on a 19th century gentleman’s diplomacy that exists today only in the heads of Putin and Lavrov. To such people it is important not to give offense, so they are incapable of acting. Strategic vision is far beyond their capability. This makes them sitting ducks. However, John Helmer reports that Russian intelligence was fully aware of what was afoot, and Putin prevented the Russian military from defending Syria.
https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-john-374
John Helmer reporting from Moscow supports my conclusion that Putin’s unwillingness to use force has discredited Russia as the leader of an alternative world to the Western-dominated one:
Having opposed but obeyed Putin’s orders forbidding them to fire on Israeli aircraft attacking Syria, or on Turkish ground operations in and around Idlib, Moscow sources believe the General Staff have now told Putin much more than the refrain, he’s heard many times before, “We told you so”. This time the General Staff assessment of the invasion of Syria, refusal of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to fight, and the replacement of the Assad regime in Damascus is that grave damage has been done to the protective alliances which Russia has been promoting in Africa, the Americas, China, and North Korea.
“We just have to accept that Iran and Russia have been comprehensively defeated in their non-fight, “a well-informed Moscow source says. “It is the worst defeat of Russia by the Turks in history. If Putin goes on now to make significant concessions in an Istanbul II negotiation with [President Donald] Trump, that will be the cherry on top of the Turkish halva. We are thinking this; no one is saying it. In the end, a defeat of Ukraine is all we care about. If Putin fails to deliver that, then he has a much bigger problem than the one he has just retreated from. Yes, this is a huge dishonour for us, but nothing is served by talking of it. Still, the situation can be redeemed in the Ukraine. This means the complete and comprehensive defeat of the enemy there.”
A non-Russian military source says the Russians he knows are “in denial. The Turks can now say we have them where we want them. This means the Israelis and the Americans can say the same. That means leverage above and beyond the Levant, in Africa, Asia and no less in Ukraine. What do the Russians have to offer their African or Asian friends now? Do they say — we’ll be there for you, of course, until the end – we mean your end. Of course, when the going gets tough, and potentially that means fighting the Americans or one of its proxy armies, the Russians now show they will blame their unwillingness to fight on their friends’ refusal to do what the Russians advise; their military incompetence; their corruption; or their racial inferiority compared to Russians.”
Amazing that Putin enables the neoconservatives’ discrediting of him. With the Washington/Israeli victory in Syria, less attention will be paid to anything Putin says.
In this very important statement, John Helmer describes Putin’s acceptance of the partition of Syria by Israel, Turkey, and Washington:
https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-john-374
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“Russia called for “restraint.” Russia and Iran restrained, but not their enemies, or is it their “partners”?”
You nailed it. Russia and Iran betrayed Syria and why?
THE SYRIAN DEBACLE AND THE 4D CHESS SYNDROME
Since the humiliating capitulation of Assad and Russia in Syria, a number of commentators and analysts have tried to explain or justify the Russian debacle .
Some now advance explanations very similar to those Trump supporters who believed that he was playing 4D chess back in 2020.
Let’s just look at the facts and actions of all the protagonists in this huge defeat:
Russia didn’t fight more than few days and on a very limited scale, went to Doha and negotiated something. Same for Iran.
The day after, Assad stepped-down and fled to Russia.
What was agreed will remain at the discretion of the participants and parties involved (which includes Iran and Russia and the US and Israel through their proxies (Turkey).
What we know is that Russia is negotiating to keep its naval base at Tartus and one single air base in Syria.
All the other Russian bases have been bombed or are being bombed by Israel. They are empty of course, but they are still being destroyed by israel or US/Turkey proxy forces.
This in itself is humiliating.
Assad never ever retaliated when Israel was illegally bombing Syria, killing foreign diplomats (Iranians and Palestinians) while they would have had the right to do so.
Russia, one of the Syria security guarantor never lifted a finger to stop the Israelis illegal aggressions.
Iran retaliated twice but made sure to warn Israelis before so as not to make too much casualties (this in itself is so ridiculous).
These are facts.
LEBANON
– In Lebanon, Hezbollah and the Lebanese government agreed to a ‘ceasefire’ manufactured by a former israeli soldier and “US” representative: Hochstein
– This ‘ceasefire’ was supposed to end Israelis attacks but didn’t as they keep targeting villages and people with bombs and drones.
– The ‘ceasefire’ however worked very well to castrate Hezbollah who, since its inception, has retaliated only once to Israelis constant violations and is very silent in the regional media and totally inactive militarily. (Has Hezbollah been dissolved? )
– Let’s add that Hezbollah started to engage in the war because of Israel genocide in Gaza and one of their original conditions to stop was the end of the genocide and withdrawal from Gaza. Which never happened.
Still the Resistance claims Hezbollah won against Israel.
They certainly did in Lebanon but not completely because, as usual, they didn’t dare to push their advantage and someone saved the private Netanyahu.
HOW DID HEZBOLLAH AND HAMAS WON THIS WAR?
– Netanyahu’s criminal regime despite US help in ethnic cleansing on a daily basis didn’t manage to end Hamas nor to invade Lebanon.
– They were losing so big that Netanyahu was convinced by his US backers to sign a “ceasefire”.
– The resistance and Hezbollah, fell into the trap set by the US to the Lebanese captured government and just signed when they were about to put israel on its knees.
This ceasefire signed on unilateral terms, those of the US/zionists, saw the transfer of the Hezbollah Lebanese southern border bases to the hopeless Lebanese army that will do nothing to defend the country in case of renewed invasion (which will happen sooner or later).
These are facts.
Do we hear about Hezbollah today? Nope.
SYRIA
As soon as Netanyahu was handed this godsend ‘ceasefire’ while he was losing the war, the zionist army had suddenly free hands to attack their new target: Syria.
And while Israel was on the verge of collapse, Netanyahu on the verge of being ousted ( fraud trial and war failures ) they were both suddenly saved by a miraculous “victory” in Syria.
The country that had resisted since 1948 against US and zionist assaults fell in just 13 days!
What a marvel!
What a wonder!
A biblical miracle for sure…
Or so they want us to believe.
WHO BETRAYED SYRIA, THE RESISTANCE AND SAVED THE ASS OF THE PRIVATE NETANYAHU?
Assad may have betrayed Syria and his father’s legacy by capitulating without a fight.
But Assad wasn’t really the deterrant force in Syria. Who was?
Russia and Iran.
Russia betrayed Assad and Syria, a country they had a hard time to defend and save from 2011 on.
Iran’s role is not clear, but Russia didn’t do anything real to stop the US/Turkey/Israel proxies. They committed two pitiful jets while they could have hammered the terror groups.
Russia let itself be backstabbed by its fake ally Turkey.
Russia is now ‘negotiating’ with the terrorist groups who took over Syria. Since when Putin negotiates with terrorist?
These are facts.
What Russia lost in Syria is huge. They haven’t only betrayed Syria, they have let the Resistance so much down that the next target to fall might be one of their key allies, Iran, then Lebanon.
They also sealed the fate of Palestine where the genocide continues unabated.
They have lost their reputation as fearsome fighters as they didn’t fight more than a week. The Russia army has been humiliated by politicians in Moscow.
They have lost dozens of military bases all over Syria.
It is very possible that they are going to lose their last two bases in Syria. It will depend on the mood of Washington, Tel Aviv and their Turkish/takfiri proxies.
They have lost the trust of the global south.
They have lost the trust of millions worldwide who expected an alternative to the western/zionist empire of lies and crimes.
They have lost the trust of Africa. Russia is playing big in Africa, it has created a network of friendly countries and clients in the last decades. How will these countries see Russia as a reliable partner when it let down one of its main allies in the Middle East?
The possible reaction would be to go back under the protection of US/western former colonial powers.
Saudi Arabia who cancelled the security agreement with the USA, what will they do after Russia’s defeat in Syria? They will sign again with the US as they can’t count on Iran or Russia.
Etc…
Now, why on earth would Putin have done such a stupid, short sighted and absurd thing as capitulating in Syria?
Who profits from it?
The first and foremost to profit from this debacle are Netanyahu who can send a big Christmas gift to his pal Putin for having saved his sorry ass and of course the genocidal zionist regime of israel that is now invading, colonizing Syria and destroying without any complaint what’s left of Russian bases.
Which other country let zionists destroyed their bases, ships or kill their people while pretending they are an ‘ally’?
The US of course.
In the US case, everybody knows that the US congress, house and government are all under almost complete influence from the zionists.
Many have hinted for years that Putin was also under heavy zionist influence. It was somehow difficult to admit and to prove but the Syrian gift to Israel by the Russians definitely nails the question.
And now it all makes sense:
• Why has Russia never fought any israeli jets that bombed Syria illegally,
• why Russia had never provided Assad with the defense systems they provide to others,
• why are Russian media never uttering the word genocide when covering the actual genocide in Gaza.
• Why has Putin served the same bullshit excuses about ‘israel right to defend itself’ when it obviously doesn’t defend itself but attacks and genocides its neighbours.
• And why is the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine so slow and costly in term of human lives while achieving none of the alleged goals set by Putin ?
• The main thing Putin and his counterpart Zelinksy have achieved in 3 years is DEPOPULATION of the youth of their respective countries (and emptying Ukraine).
Putin might just be, like Trump, Starmer, Macron, Scholz, a zionist asset.
And a globalist puppet.
So, we will hear and read again for a while about Putin playing 4D chess like Trump was playing 4D in 2020…
It’s Christmas but Santa Claus doesn’t exist.
Netanyahu can give Putin a big fat kiss for having saved Israel from an unprecedented defeat and having saved his criminal ass.
We are on our own and Palestinians, Lebanese, and all their victims too.
DAVINA
This article describes how Russian leaders since Lenin have all been Jewish, including Stalin, Eltsin and Putin.
https://fitzinfo.net/2021/04/22/jewish-dominance-from-the-ussr-to-todays-russian-federation/amp/
While the article provides sources and links to prove its many points, it fails to prove that Putin or Eltsin were/are Jews.
Most of the links regarding Putin are either broken, have disappeared, are in Russian (with no translation of course) or impossible to load.
Therefore the assumption that Putin is another Jew is flimsy at best, however it is true for many other high ranking Russians like Lavrov and Andropov.
Putin might not be a Jew BUT since when zionist shills need to be Jews to serve “israel’ before their own country?
Just look at Biden, Bush, Trump, Starmer, Macron and lame duck Scholz, none of them are Jews but all serve israel before their own countries.