The leaks have began and that just about all the time is a good indicator about an impending shift in U.S. international coverage. On this case it issues Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey. The USA has been engaged in a decade lengthy army journey in Syria. It began out in 2014 as an ostensible mission by particular ops forces to search out, repair and end ISIS (that’s army communicate for killing the “terrorists”), however it developed into an rebel assist operation to help the Kurds of their battles in opposition to Syria and Turkey. Oh yeah. Nearly forgot. The U.S. army personnel main mission was to guard the Conoco oil facility on Kurdish territory. It’s all in regards to the oil. Appears to be like like there’s a change on the horizon.
One of many U.S. army contractors employed as a social media influencer, OSINTdefender, posted the next in the present day:
This coincided with a International Coverage piece by Charles Lister, who’s frantically waving the the persevering with risk of ISIS (they’re like zombies, can’t eradicate them) in a determined plea to remain in place in Syria. He notes that the Hamas Oct 7 assault in Israel has modified the Center East calculus:
it mustn’t come as a shock that the Biden administration is reconsidering its army priorities within the area.
It needs to be trigger for important concern, nevertheless, that this might contain a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria. Whereas no definitive choice has been made to go away, 4 sources inside the Protection and State departments mentioned the White Home is now not invested in sustaining a mission that it perceives as pointless. Lively inner discussions at the moment are underway to find out how and when a withdrawal could happen.
However the catastrophic impact {that a} withdrawal would have on U.S. and allied affect over the unresolved and acutely risky disaster in Syria, it could even be a present to the Islamic State. Whereas considerably weakened, the group is in actual fact primed for a resurgence in Syria, if given the area to take action.
That is complete bullshit. ISIS shouldn’t be primed to do something. ISIS is an excuse for conserving U.S. forces in a spot the place they will watch over the oil, which most likely goes to Israel.
Waving the Islamic State boogeyman in entrance of the American viewers relies on the ignorance of the American public. Islamic State people need to overthrow Bashir Assad. So will we. Islamic State fanatics hate Iran and Iran want to destroy them. So I assume that makes us allies of the Islamic State extremists in terms of hating Iran. Who the hell are we pretending to battle? That’s the drawback behind permitting the U.S. army presence in Syria to proceed. We’re illegally occupying Syrian territory.
U.S. and Israeli assaults on Hezbollah and IRGC targets over the previous month have sparked a relentless barrage of drones, rockets and ballistic missiles on the U.S. outposts in Syria and northern Iraq. The Commander of CENTCOM and the Joint Chiefs of Workers now notice this isn’t a sustainable mission. At a minimal the 900 U.S. troopers manning these Middel East variations of Fort Apache, are targets ready for a missile strike. If the USA decides to launch a direct assault on Iran, which implies inside Iran, then the survivability of those bases/outposts are in query.
I don’t low cost the chance that the choice to shut down these bases may very well be in anticipation of an eventual U.S. army strike on Iran. However I believe it’s a real effort to cut back the profile when these troopers should not finishing up a vital, important mission. And there’s something else driving the choice.
Workers officers in U.S. Central Command and U.S. Indopacom Command are watching an enormous political battle unfold pitting CENTCOM’s Air Power element, CENTAF, in opposition to INDOPACOM’s Air Power counterpart, PACAF.
The phrase of the day is “Nice Energy Competitors.” It’s the new hotness, the highest difficulty, and it’s all China, China, China. The 4 star generals within the respective theater instructions are duking it out over realigning forces. INDOPACOM needs as many air property as potential on the desk to be ready to battle China. CENTCOM is insisting it completely wants the plane and re-fuelers to be able to cease the Houthis from shuttering Israel’s ports. Phrase is that INDOPACOM has the higher hand.
It’s the extra Cow Bell technique. When you assume that wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Yemen, with a possible blow up on the Iran entrance, are ample to maintain the Protection institution completely happy, you’re lifeless ass flawed. We want extra Cow Bell.
I additionally assume it’s time for Nation Joe and the Fish to replace the lyrics from Vietnam to China. It has been 55 years. Extra Cow Bell.
