{"id":181191,"date":"2016-09-07T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/07\/syria-just-got-worse\/"},"modified":"2016-09-07T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:20:00","slug":"syria-just-got-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/07\/syria-just-got-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Just Got Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkey is now looking to seize territory in Syria and call it a buffer zone<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As Turkey marches forward in its invasion of Syrian territory, the true purpose for the initial invasion is becoming more and more clear. While some commentators maintain<\/a> that Turkey\u2019s recent military adventure is actually coordinated with the Russians and the Syrians, the fruit of Turkey\u2019s labor tells a different story.<\/span>

<\/span>For instance, on Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan announced his intention and desire for the creation of a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d in Northern Syria that spans over the territory recently seized by Turkish forces and, interestingly enough, also spans the same dimensions of a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d called for by numerous military industrial complex firms, \u201cstrategy\u201d organizations, and \u201cthink tanks\u201d angling for the destruction of the Syrian government.<\/span>

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<\/span>The Turkish invasion<\/a> is predicated on the basis of \u201cfighting ISIS,\u201d a wholly unbelievable goal since Turkey itself has been supporting, training, and facilitating ISIS since day one. Not only that, but Turkey is arriving in Syria with terrorists in tow since, as the BBC reported<\/a>, \u201cBetween nine and 12 tanks crossed the frontier, followed by pick-up trucks believed to be carrying hundreds of fighters from Turkish-backed factions of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA).\u201d If Turkey was interested in stopping terrorism, why would they lead the charges for more terrorists to enter Syria? Indeed, if stopping terrorism was truly Turkey\u2019s goal, it is capable of sealing the border from its own side without any need for invasion so why the war the party? <\/span>

<\/span>Turkey\u2019 interests<\/a> do not lie in stopping terrorism. Far from it. Turkey\u2019s foreign policy and military decision to invade Syria are based along three lines; its desire for more territory (which it believes was stolen from it long ago), its willingness to continue working with NATO in its attempt to destroy the secular government of Syria, and its concern over the Kurdish expansion.<\/span>

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<\/span>Regardless of the fact that the Anglo-American empire may very well be risking a direct military confrontation with another nuclear power, the NATO forces are intent on moving forward in their attempt to destroy Syria and its government. The major victories by the Syrian military that have taken place in recent weeks as well as the inability of the West\u2019s terrorists to roll back SAA gains have obviously convinced NATO that more drastic measures are needed and that proxies are simply not enough to defeat a committed military supported by its people. Thus, we now see the plan so heavily promoted by Western think tanks and military industrial complex firms being implemented.<\/span>

<\/span>Clearly, the Turkish agenda<\/a> is not focused on combating ISIS. If it was, the Turks would have long ago sealed their borders with Syria as well as ceased their training and facilitation of terrorist groups flowing into Syria from Turkish territory.<\/span>

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<\/span>Obviously, a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d and\/or a \u201cno-fly zone,\u201d of course, is tantamount to war and an open military assault against the sovereign secular government of Syria because the implementation of such a zone would require airstrikes against Assad\u2019s air defense systems. With the establishment of this \u201cbuffer zone,\u201d a new staging ground will be opened that allows terrorists such as ISIS and others the ability to conduct attacks even deeper inside Syria.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, Erdogan wants to reconstitute a new Ottoman empire, and it looks like NATO is in for the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkey is now looking to seize territory in Syria and call it a buffer zone: As Turkey marches forward in its invasion of Syrian territory, the true purpose for the initial invasion is becoming more and more clear. While some commentators maintain that Turkey\u2019s recent military adventure is actually coordinated with the Russians and the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[841,939,766,768,840],"class_list":["post-181191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-war","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-evil","tag-fail","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}