WHAT'S GOING ON IN SYRIA? WHO IS WHO, AND WHAT IS WHAT?

Syria's civil war explained from the beginning

By AlJazeera Source AlJazzera

TALKING FROM THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, when you find yourself a citizen of the country on the brink of an armed conflict, or even worst in the full scale Civil War, the personal impression is that the whole World is looking at your situation, and your troubles are in the focus of every person on Earth.   However, the truth is that almost no one really cares! People have their own lives, struggles, concerns, pleasures, everyday routines. Your misfortune, war, killings, airplanes, bombs, atrocities, fire, blood, injustice, aggression, are just motion pictures on the TV screen. Something that a distant person, far away is watching over the spoon during breakfast, bringing a short and a fast passing excitement before work. To be cynic, bringing, maybe, a touch of good feeling that all the real troubles are somewhere else. Faraway. And all personal troubles and frustrations fade away comparing to "what is going on over there". But, "over there" is my life, my country, "my" war, my wounds, my starvation, my death... I remember very well watching Beirut, Sabra and Shatila, Saigon, Pol Pot, even Ceausescu fall in neighboring Romania, I watched from the comfortable safety of the former Yugoslavia. From my present experience, I should know better.  That is not all. You are sure that imaginary someone, at list, could separate injustice from justice. Who's guilty. Who's less guilty. Who's innocent. To understand. To comprehend. Nuts! People are walking "daily news", tend to simplify complicated situations. Good guys vs. bad guys. That's it. The less people know, the more aggressive they are in advocating their point of ignorant and  outside formed view. Believe you me, it is much easier to be bombed than to listen some western idiotic guy talking with the conviction of connoisseur things he has no idea about. Talking Christiane Amanpour's CNN News as his personal opinion.  So, who is who in Syria? What is what? I am not pledging that the following text is "truth and nothing but the truth", but it could shed some light on the history, confronted sides and the current situation in Syrian war.

MIGRANT CRISIS IS GETTING A NEW DIMENSION

Walls Work!

Now Continent Faces
a New Invasion by Sea

by CHARLIE MOORE

Walls work! Year-on pictures show how Europe's new Iron Curtain stemmed the tide of migrants through the Balkans - now continent faces a new invasion by sea

- This time last year hundreds of thousands of migrants were heading to northern Europe through the Balkan route 
- But since February this year many countries along the route have closed or tightened their borders stopping flow 
- Recent jaw-dropping photos of sites that only months ago were packed with refugees show how tide has stopped 
- Instead people smuggling gangs have switched to more dangerous routes across the Mediterranean to Italy, Spain

GEOPOLITICS: EURASIAN BLOC IN TURKEY

Erdoğan and the Kemalists
 Against Gülen and the US

On July 15th, at around 23:00, the press reported a military coup d'etat in Turkey. In Ankara, shots rang out, and there were military planes and helicopters over the city. Within minutes, Turkish Prime Minister Yıldırım announced an attempt at a military coup. The main airports of the country were closed and many flights are delayed or canceled. Around midnight, martial law was imposed in the country. Events unfolded rapidly. The world's media, under the control of globalist elites, began to cover events as if the rebels had almost succeeded. Media actively disseminated the rumors that President Erdogan had reportedly fled the country.

In fact, the president was ready to fight to the last minute and urged the Turkish people to take to the streets to defend democracy: "I look forward to all our people on the streets, in the squares. I do not believe that those who attempted the coup have achieved their goal, and they will suffer the most severe punishment,” the Turkish President said. Hundreds of thousands of Turkish citizens came out onto the street. At about two o'clock in the morning, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said that the instigators of the coup were arrested. The head of Turkish intelligence Them Yilmaz confirmed this news. At about four o'clock in the morning, Erdogan addressed the nation and directly pointed out the instigators of the coup.

HYBRID WARS 4. IN THE GREATER HEARTLAND (II)

(Please read Part I prior to this article)

“The Eurasian Balkans”

As promising of a potential that the Greater Heartland has in fulfilling what seems to be the world’s inevitable multipolar destiny, it runs the risk of being held back by the adroit manipulation of its “Eurasian Balkan” socio-political vulnerabilities. To bring the reader up to speed real quick, this is the idea first espoused by Zbigniew Brzezinski that the mass of territory spanning from North Africa to Central Asia is riskily threatened by large-scale fragmentation along identity-based lines (ethnic, religious, historical, etc.), mirroring on a much larger scale the demographic “irregularities” that intensified the fratricidal Balkan Wars of the early 1990s.

HYBRID WARS 4. IN THE GREATER HEARTLAND (I)

(Please read Parts I, II, and III prior to this article)

The Crossroads Of The Multipolar World

Halford Mackinder

Redefining The Heartland:

The “Greater Heartland” acquires its premier strategic and economic importance due to being the supercontinental fulcrum of multipolar integration. As was mentioned at the end of Part III, there’s a direct overlap between Russia’s Eurasian Union and China’s New Silk Road, and the countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan presently fall under both connective umbrellas. To those attuned with geopolitical theory, these three states noticeably correlate with the broad territory that early 20^th-century British strategist Halford Mackinder termed the “Heartland”, which he defined as the geopolitical pivot of Eurasia. More contemporary strategists narrowed the region down to the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia, but the author feels that this is presently insufficient to accommodate for the changing dynamics of the evolving world order, and thus proposes a modification of the concept to include Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as well. This redefined version of Mackinder’s original thesis moves the center of geopolitical gravity in a more southwards direction (by contrast, Mackinder’s broad contours included all of Siberia and most of the Russian Far East) in order to reflect more relevant areas of geopolitical competition between the unipolar and multipolar worlds in the context of the New Cold War.

HYBRID WARS 3. PREDICTING NEXT HYBRID WARS

(Please read Part I and Part II prior to this article)

Theoretical Review

Identifying The Targets:

The first two parts of the series introduced new concepts to the Hybrid War theory and successfully tested them on the Syrian and Ukrainian cases. This proved that a certain methodology does in fact exist for explaining and analyzing Hybrid Wars, and excitingly, this rubric can proactively be applied in attempting to predict the places where this form of post-modern warfare could be directed next. To refer to Part I, one must first recall the Law of Hybrid Warfare:

“The grand objective behind every Hybrid War is to disrupt multipolar transnational connective projects through externally provoked identity conflicts (ethnic, religious, regional, political, etc.) within a targeted transit state.”

HYBRID WARS 2. TESTING THE THEORY – SYRIA & UKRAINE

(Please read ‘Hybrid Wars 1. The Law Of Hybrid Warfare‘ prior to this article)

The author’s book, “Hybrid Wars: The Indirect Adaptive Approach To Regime Change” (available for free PDF download here), thoroughly makes the case that Syria and Ukraine are the US’ first victims of Hybrid War, but the scope of the article is to express how the abovementioned innovations not included in the original publication have been importantly at play all along. The purpose is to prove that the newly discovered facets can seamlessly be interwoven into the overall theory and used to enhance one’s comprehension of it as a result, thus positioning studied observers to more accurately project the future battlegrounds in which Hybrid Wars are most likely to be fought.

This part of the research thus follows the theoretical model that was just set out before it, in that it elaborates on the geostrategic-economic determinants that were behind the Wars on Syria and Ukraine, before touching on the socio-political structural vulnerabilities that the US attempted to exploit to various degrees of success. The last part incorporates the idea of social and structural preconditioning and briefly discusses how it was present in each case.