Marko Marjanović — The First Shots of America's New War for Eastern Syria Have Already Been Fired

When US shot down the Syrian Su-22 jet Sunday this may have been intended as a warning to Syria that US intends to take eastern Syria for itself -- and that a Syrian push into eastern Syria will be violently opposed....

As the ISIS threat diminishes quickly, will Russia and Iran stand by and let the US continue to push forward its invasion of east Syria in order to partition the country and establish a military foothold? Tense times.

Russia Insider

The First Shots of America's New War for Eastern Syria Have Already Been Fired

Marko Marjanović

RAND Corporation's plan for dicing up Syria

The think tank of the Pentagon wants to divide Syria according to the model of Bosnia. The result would be ethnic cleansing and new, massive flood of immigrants.

The RAND Corporation, a leading US think tank close to the Pentagon, has published a report proposing a "Bosnian model" to resolve the Syrian conflict.... 

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RAND Corporation's plan for dicing up Syria

Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, translated by Tom Winter

Christopher Black — NATO Attack On Russian Air Forces: Reasons and Consequences

Another view putting the US and NATO at the center, which I think is entirely credible.  Black, an international criminal lawyer, connects the dots.

Pertinent quote by neocon John Bolton, too. Bolton sets forth the necon agenda, the planning of which goes back to the 1990's. Black comments:

So there we have it, the plan by Washington and its dependencies to continue their aggression against Syria and Iraq in order to create a new state serving its interests and wrecking the strategic interests of Russia and Iran. This is a statement of intent to carry out a war of aggression against sovereign states, members of the United Nations, in complete defiance of and contempt for the United Nations Charter, and all international law and humanity. It matters not to them how many innocents are slaughtered in the process. They know no morality, have no conscience.

This incident looks to be another iteration of that plan to destroy the Shi'ite crescent in order to make Israel the dominant country in the Middle East and to put the Sunni oil oligarchs in the pocket of the West.

And that is just one of the moves in the Great Game of geopolitics and geostrategy that has been laid out and which I have been posting on for some time. The ultimate goal is to partition Iran, Russia and China in order to cement permanent US global dominance, the neoconservative goal set forth in the Wolfowitz Doctrine. This is no secret but declared US policy. Because American exceptionalism.

NEO
NATO Attack On Russian Air Forces: Reasons and Consequences

Christopher Black, international criminal lawyer based in Toronto

ZH also connects the dots leading to Obama.

Zero Hedge
Russia Releases Video Of S-400 SAM Deployment In Syria, As Putin Issues Warning To Obama

Tyler Durden