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To the casual observer, which includes most of
humanity, what is going on the Mid-East and North Africa, specifically Egypt
and Syria at this time, seems random and chaotic, but in reality this is not
the case at all - events are unfolding according to a Grand Plan.
 
Before anyone writes in to advise me that the above map
is old, and does not show South Sudan, I am aware of this but could not
quickly find a better map. I would point out that my geographical knowledge
is actually better than a past President of the United States, Jimmy Carter,
who when told during his presidency in the 70's that a conflict had broken
out between Chad, a north African state, and one of its neighbours,
responded "Chad! - where the hell's that??"
The instigators of the Grand Plan are the "Axis
Powers" - Great Britain, Israel, and the US, which for brevity we will
hereafter refer to simply as "The Axis". Note here that this term
is not used in any judgmental way - it refers to an alignment and union with
common objectives. Within the Axis, Israel is the dominant and controlling
force - as Ariel Sharon sagely observed in the Knesset years ago -
"Don't worry - we control America". Israel's interests and
objectives are paramount, which means, in effect, that the US military is a
tool for it to use as it wishes. It also helps to explain why such a huge
slice of the US GDP is channeled into the defense industry. Within the Axis,
Great Britain serves as the "sidekick"; its main function is to
give a veneer of credibility to successive military operations, as it looks a
lot better if the force attacking say Libya can be described as a "coalition",
rather than just the US on its own.
There are 2 main planks to the Axis' Grand Plan - one
is to neuter any potential enemies of Israel, which includes all Arab states
that are not client states of the Axis, like the bought off Saudi regime, and
the other is to maintain the petro-dollar system, which enables the US to
maintain economic and military dominance of the planet by swapping
intrinsically worthless paper - dollars and Treasuries - for goods and
services. In addition, the progressive colonial style rolling conquest of the
Mid-East will enable the Axis to exploit the region's rich oil reserves on
its own terms.
An interesting point to note is that, within the Axis
countries themselves, ordinary citizens, whose limited thought processes are
largely controlled by the media, have no idea that this Grand Plan exists.
Those Arab leaders who tried to uncouple from the
petrodollar system and go it alone by selling their oil in, say, Euros paid a
heavy price and are not around anymore. Saddam Hussein of Iraq planned to do
it and instead ended up swinging from a rope. Colonel Gaddafi of Libya tried
it too and came to a grisly end. When the Axis decides it wants to bring down
a state that is either belligerent towards Israel or is threatening to go off
the petrodollar, it foments revolution in the country concerned by supporting
dissident factions and sending in mercenaries etc,
with the aim of creating a civil war and toppling the government, and if that
doesn't work it invents a story like the infamous "weapons of mass
destruction" story about Iraq and manufactures "false flag"
incidents and then flat out invades, using that as an excuse. The "Big
Daddy" of false flag incidents was staged on home soil in New York on
September 11th 2001 and at the Pentagon itself, which provided the excuse to
invade Afghanistan and Iraq. To many Americans this event was more
significant than the 2nd World War, when the reality is that just a handful
of big buildings were destroyed or damaged.
We can see a combination of these two tactics at work
right now in Syria, the country has been largely destroyed by an Axis
fomented civil war, and now we are seeing the end game with the false flag
event of the gas attack providing the excuse to "finish the job"
with cruise missiles etc, which will largely be
used to wreck the countries' infrastructure by destroying bridges and power
stations etc, and whatever military capability it
has left. This will leave it as a failed state which will no longer be any
threat to Israel and can be completely controlled by the Axis. The "Arab
Spring", a term contrived by the Axis propaganda machine, implies that
there is almost a horticultural freshness to the process of neutering and
balkanizing various Arab states in accordance with the Grand Plan.
After Syria, there is just one large ripe fruit waiting
to fall into the Axis basket, and that is Iran. Once Iran falls, the Axis
will have achieved complete suzerainty over the entire region, something that
it has been working tirelessly for many decades to achieve.
A big, big problem for the Axis is that because the US
has abused the paper for goods and services trade to such an extraordinary
degree in recent years, by continually raising the debt ceiling and QE
pumping etc, foreigners have become sick and tired
of accumulating destined to be worthless dollars and Treasuries and have
started to dump the latter by the boatload, and while you may be able to
force foreigners to stick with the petrodollar system at the point of a gun,
you can't force them to buy (or not to sell) Treasuries by this means. This
threatens to drive an unprecedented interest rate spike that will implode the
debt-wracked US economy. What this means is that the Axis military machine,
which is in effect paid for by the rest of the world, could eventually grind
to a halt for lack of funding, hence the sense of urgency with respect to
finishing the job in Syria and then Iran. Right now the funding shortfall is
being pushed onto the American lower and middle class who are being
impoverished by a combination of stagnant incomes and strong inflation, which
is understated by government statistics.
While the Axis are getting very close to achieving
their dream of complete dominance of the Mid-East, which will be ruled over
as a sort of fiefdom, there is one big danger that right now is very acute.
There are other power blocs in the world who are strongly opposed to Axis
plans, principally Russia and China, and who happen to have nuclear weapons.
Russia views Syria as an ally and has said that an Axis invasion or attack
will be seen as "crossing the red line". So it seems that Barack
Obama is set to call Russia's bluff over this. We had better hope that Russia
backs down and yields to the will of the Axis, because if it doesn't we could
be moving in the direction of a World War. If you think that people couldn't
be that stupid, just look what happened leading into World War 1 and World
War 2. Technology may have made enormous strides since then, but human nature
remains essentially the same - with politicians (many, but not all) still
driven by ego, greed and the lust for power that has caused the deaths of
millions in the past, and could easily do in the future. Looking on the
bright side, with about 8 billion people in the world (and only about 3,000
tigers), we could certainly do with a cull. If the
strikes are called off at the last minute, which looks unlikely, the pressure
to degrade Syria will continue, before more attention is directed at Iran.
Great economic cycles and war cycles are related. The
breeding ground for Nazism was economic depression and extreme privation in
Germany in the time preceding Hitler's rise to power. The 2nd World War
followed on after The Great Depression etc. Someone recently produced a
long-term war cycle chart (I think it was Weiss Research) showing a major war
cycle peak in 2019.
We take a brief look at the potential impact on the
markets of a strike on Syria in a version of this article
posted on www.clivemaund.com
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