{"id":283243,"date":"2024-12-23T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=283243"},"modified":"2024-12-21T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T07:03:28","slug":"death-of-a-nation-black-flags-massacres-land-grabs-as-vultures-feed-on-the-carcass-of-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/12\/death-of-a-nation-black-flags-massacres-land-grabs-as-vultures-feed-on-the-carcass-of-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Nation: Black Flags, Massacres, Land Grabs as Vultures Feed on the Carcass of Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ABC News<\/p><\/div>\n

Will the collective West rise to defend the remaining Syrian Christians when the Black Flags come to purge them?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

11 Dec 2024 –<\/em> The standard modus operandi of the Hegemon is always Divide and Rule. Cornered by the inexorable rise of the multi-nodal<\/em> (italics mine) reality, they saw an opening for an imperial reboot, betting everything on establishing the \u201cGreater Middle East\u201d outlined still during the Cheney era.<\/p>\n

The iron axis of Straussian neocons, Zio-cons and Old Testament psychos in Tel Aviv is no-holds-barred obsessed on destroying the Axis of Resistance, using their transnational network of bloody killers to extend chaos and sectarian civil war all across West Asia. Throughout this ideal scenario they dream of mortally hitting the head of the snake: Iran.<\/p>\n

Sultan Erdogan, playing the role of useful patsy, has proclaimed:<\/p>\n

A \u201cbright period\u201d for Syria has begun.<\/p>\n

Indeed. A bright period for Black Flag head-choppers and Tel Aviv bombers and land grabbers \u2013 feeding on the carcass of Syria.<\/p>\n

The Old Testament psycho-pathological killers, via over 350 strikes, have totally destroyed all the military infrastructure of the former Syrian Arab Army (SAA); weapons factories, munitions, bases, fighter jets, including the Mezze air base in Damascus, Russian anti-ship systems, ships themselves (in Lattakia, close to the Russian naval base) and air defense positions.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell: this is the NATO\/Israel combo demilitarizing the former Syria \u2013 with not as much as a peep from anybody in the Arab world and the lands of Islam, starting with the Black Flag killers that have taken Damascus.<\/p>\n

Couple that with trademark land invasion\/grabbing, and Tel Aviv officially declaring a definitive annexation of the Golan \u2013 which legally belongs to Syria and whose restitution has been demanded by the UN after the 1967 war.<\/p>\n

The Old Testament psycho blitzkrieg<\/strong><\/p>\n

In parallel, Turkish aviation bombed the former Russian-Syrian base in Qamishli, in the extreme northeast. The pretext: prevent that weapons would be grabbed by U.S.-backed Kurds and assorted Arab tribes. For the Russians this may not have been a big deal \u2013 as there was enough time to evacuate precious assets from the East of the Euphrates.<\/p>\n

Russia has given asylum to formidable, and crucially uncorruptible, Suheil al-Hassan \u2013 a serious candidate to top military tactician and strategist in the world today. Russians bet on him as early as in 2015 \u2013 and provided for his personal security. Nobody in Syria enjoyed Russian bodyguards \u2013 not even Assad. He was the only commander who won de facto battles during the 10 days of the Fall of Syria.<\/p>\n

Amidst a torrent of doom and gloom, what\u2019s taking place, fast as lightning, is NATO\/Israel feeding on the carcass and dividing a dead nation with a gaggle of useful idiots and puppets \u2013 from fake woke Salafi-jihadis to Americanized Kurds. Obviously a collective IQ lower than any room temperature prevent this mob from realizing they are fighting for the same Suzerain.<\/p>\n

Tel Aviv goons have advanced their blitzkrieg across the Damascus countryside and may be as close as 15 km to the south of the capital; a classic lebensraum gambit, part of their colonial project, coupled with obtaining maximum leverage on the Lebanese flank.<\/p>\n

This is absolutely crucial, and extremely worrying for the Axis of Resistance: now all of southern Lebanon is exposed to a massive attack by the Israeli occupation \u2013 as the fertile plains between Chtoura in the Beqaa valley and Aanjar not only hold precious natural resources but provide a direct drive to Beirut.<\/p>\n

Scorpions turn on each other <\/strong><\/p>\n

In parallel, Black Flags have taken over Damascus. There are massacres all across the spectrum \u2013 including religious leaders and scientists but mostly former Army officials, former members of Syrian counter-espionage, even civilians accused of being former military.<\/p>\n

His Eminence, Sheikh Tawfiq al-Bouti, son of the famous sheikh Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, a former imam of the venerable Umayyad mosque, was assassinated in his Damascus madrassa.<\/p>\n

Scorpions are predictably turning on each other; rival terror gangs to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) demand that Jolani\u2019s goons liberate their members imprisoned in Greater Idlibistan, and now threaten to attack HTS.<\/p>\n

In Manbij, Turk-backed terrorists openly kill Americano-Kurds in hospitals. Syria\u2019s north and northeast are mired in total anarchy.<\/p>\n

Tribes that refuse to accept the Americano-Kurds and their communist-secular state project, and also refuse to join the Turk-backed Salafi-jihadi terror network, now are branded as \u201cISIS\u201d, and are duly bombed by U.S. fighter jets. Some may indeed still be ISIS: they were, before the fall of 2017, and there are still crypto-ISIS remnants roaming the desert.<\/p>\n

The Russian army has positioned their ships as far as 8 km away from the Tartus naval base. That does not provide total security \u2013 because they still can be reached by drones and artillery as well as small boats.<\/p>\n

For the aviation in Hmeimim, that\u2019s even more complicated. Moscow has already sent a clear message: if the base is touched, blowback will be devastating. HTS, for its part, has been mostly focused on occupying Lattakia.<\/p>\n

The future of the Russian bases remains a mystery: that will depend on a thorny, direct negotiation between Putin and Erdogan.<\/p>\n

Jolani, the de facto new Caliph of al-Sham, will not become Leader at this initial stage, because he does scare most Syrians to death, irrespective of his mega-scripted \u201croad to Damascus\u201d woke conversion.<\/p>\n

He will be self-appointed \u201cmilitary chief\u201d. A designated puppet \u2013 Mohammed al-Bashir \u2013 will be conducting the \u201ctransition\u201d up to March 2025. It\u2019s virtually certain al-Bashir will be abhorred by virtually all factions. That will pave the way for repentant head-chopper Jolani to stage a coup and grab unlimited power.<\/p>\n

It was in Syria, in Antioch, one of the most formidable cities of the Roman Empire, that the disciples of Jesus were denominated \u201cChristians\u201d, from the Greek christianos<\/em>. Antioch has been reduced to the small town of Antakya, as part of Turkiye. Sultan Erdogan dreams of Aleppo as also part of Turkiye.<\/p>\n

Greek was the language of this corner of the Roman Empire: Latin was only used by the occupiers \u2013 military and management.<\/p>\n

The church led by the patriarch of Antioch developed all across Syria all the way to the Euphrates.<\/p>\n

Will the collective West rise to defend the remaining Syrian Christians when the Black Flags come to purge them \u2013 as they will? Of course not. The collective West keeps gloating on the end of the \u201cdictator\u201d as Black Flags and Old Testament vultures stage their Vampire\u2019s Ball over the corpse of a nation.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil, is a correspondent and editor-at-large at <\/em>Asia Times and<\/em> columnist for<\/em> Consortium News and<\/em> Strategic Culture in Moscow. Since the mid-1980s he\u2019s lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Singapore, and Bangkok. He has extensively covered Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia to China, Iran, Iraq and the wider Middle East. He is the author of <\/em>Globalistan<\/a> (2007),<\/em> Red Zone Blues<\/a> (2007), <\/em>Obama Does Globalistan<\/a> (2009), <\/em>Empire of Chaos<\/a> (2014) and <\/em>2030<\/a> (2015), all by Nimble Books. Pepe was contributing editor to <\/em>The Empire and The Crescent and<\/em> Tutto in Vendita in Italy and is also associated with the Paris-based European Academy of Geopolitics. When not on the road he lives between Paris and Bangkok. <\/em><\/p>\n

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