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The Syria Carve-Up Creates a de-Facto Israel-Turkey Border Ensuring a Broader ME War Mike Whitney One Plan To Guide Them All:  “….. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq. .. into ethnically or religiously unique areas…  is Israel’s primary target … while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short-term target. Syria will fall apart in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure… Oded Yinon,  A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties,  voltairenet Israeli military forces have moved to within 15 miles of the Syrian Capital of Damascus.  The IDF has seized large tracts of land in southern Syria it intends to occupy and where it will eventually build checkpoints, military outposts and settlements. The “lightening” invasion has been accompanied by a massive bombing campaign that has obliterated numerous military bases, weapons depots and research labs eliminating any hope that Syria will regain the ability to defend itsel...

  Washington Deploys Proxies to Xinjiang to Scuttle China's Giant Infrastructure Project Mike Whitney A Uyghur separatist group that helped to topple the government of Bashar al Assad has  declared its intention to return to Xinjiang  in order  to conduct military operations  against the  People’s Republic of China .  The announcement suggests that Washington and its allies are preparing to open another front in a war that has already plunged large parts of eastern Europe and the Middle East into chaos.  The announcement was mostly ignored by the western media, but analysts believe we may have entered a new phase in America’s struggle to preserve its waning hegemony, a phase in which the probability of a direct clash between the United States and China has increased dramatically. Also, if we assume that Washington’s sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline was designed to prevent the economic integration of Russia with the European Union, then we must ...