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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Andrei Martyanov — A Rather Expected Response
American foreign policy realists and idealists both clueless about reality? Military analyst and former Soviet military officer Andrei Martyanov thinks so and gives reasons, the principal one being failure of academicians to understand the material systems involved in military science because they are not qualified to do so. So it is a matter of incompetent academics advising clueless politicians.
This is especially poignant now that the US is trying to disengage from Afghanistan and Syria without admitting defeat and also preserving a position of dominant influence. The choice is to go all in, which is not politically viable in the US and also risks wider war in the region and beyond, or else continuing the pretense of being in control of the situation while losing to locals that are apparently too "stupid" to understand who they are contending with (snark).
Moreover, defeat in Vietnam, following the French, is a stark reminder of imperial overreach. And Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires. And no one since Genghis Khan as successfully taken on the land of the Russ.
At least the foreign policy realists realize that a hot war with Russia would not be in the US national interest, let alone the US being in a position to meet its objectives militarily, including an exit plan.
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A Rather Expected Response
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“This is especially poignant now that the US is trying to disengage from Afghanistan and Syria without admitting defeat and also preserving a position of dominant influence.”
ReplyDeleteI see no disengagement. The USA is in Afghanistan to oversee the mass production of opiates. This project will continue indefinitely.
In Syria the regime change operation has sputtered, but the USA continues to proceed with its other goal, which is to break off the eastern third of Syria and make it into a separate nation called Rojava, [aka the “Democratic Federation of Northern Syria”]. This region has most of Syria’s oil, and its Kurds are fiercely loyal to Israel and the USA.
If you do a Google image search for the words “Israel” + “Kurd” you will see that all demonstrations in support of Syria’s Kurds feature Israeli flags.
The US goal is to create an Israel 2.0 between Syria and Iraq. This mission continues.
Opiates are synthetic now. Afghanistan is (like the rest of the region) about energy delivery (Tran Afghan Pipeline) and regional destabilization (largely for the benefit of Israel, which is not-to-secretly allied with Saudi Arabia to dominate Middle East resources.
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