Like Iraq and Libya Before, Syria Enters The Darkness, A Blow to the Stomach of the Axis of Resistance

Damascus – July, 1981

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As I write these short lines Israel is moving into S. Syria to extend it territorial grab in that country, the Turkish military is moving in along with its scumbag ISIS-like proxies in the northwest and the US controls Syria to the east of the Euphrates River.

With the speed of light the project to partition the country as Iraq and Libya were invaded and partition previously continues at a furious pace. Zionism’s political wet dream to replace its current borders with “its map in the drawer” is coming to fruition.

No doubt the collapse of the Syrian government is a serious blow to the integrity of Lebanon, the Palestinian Resistance and more generally to the Axis of Resistance. Over the course of just two weeks, the balance of forces has shifted in a way that will have long term consequences and one that will set back the movement against settler colonialism and neo-colonialism for sometime into the future.

“Them thars the facts”.

There is much regional suffering in the offing throughout the region as a monkey wrench has been thrown into the global movement for multipolarity, the BRICS process, etc – a well aimed, timed blow, one that revealed for those wondering which side of the fence Turkey is on these days, that Erdogan – Netanyahu’s soulmate that he is – was nothing less than Washington’s ace in the hole, faking to the left as he moved dramatically to the right. We’ll (Kazerooni and I) will tease out the consequences of the new situation in the weeks to come even though some of the broad strokes of the US/Turkish/ISIS coalition are already apparent.

For now, I will toast to the good people of Syria, what they have so long endured from Washington, Tel Aviv and Ankara, what they are currently enduring and with an even darker sense of what lies ahead.

So now, many Damascenes are greeting ISIS and Co as “liberators” and dancing in the streets because Assad is gone from Syria. Such outbursts will be used by the media to “justify” the overthrow of the Assad government. Perhaps. I have a hunch that their celebrations will be short lived and what is in store for Syria is Turkey’s version of what Israel is doing in Gaza, what the US did to Iraq, what NATO (essentially with Washington “back seat driving” did to Libya.

Being liberated by “the new ISIS”? Very curious

There is something unreal or at least not understandable about how the Syrian Army – that stood strong against ISIS and like groups – under even more dire conditions in 2012-3 – simply collapsed and refused to fight. I have no idea if some deal was cooked behind the scenes – none – but so much of what has transpired these past two weeks in Syria simply doesn’t add up from where I’m sitting.

When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 East Germans celebrated in large numbers – I remember because I was there, not when the wall came down but a few weeks later. A few years later East Germans were no longer celebrating anymore, to the contrary.

Did some Iraqis greet the 2003 US led invasion of their country that overthrew Saddam Hussein with flowers? Perhaps. That was before the Bush Administration turned Iraq into social rubble it has not been able to rebuild.

NATO’s 2011 “liberation” of Libya and the tortured slaughter of Khadaffi was celebrated as well but that celebration was short-lived as the country was turned into a living hell.

Tunisians celebrated the National Endowment for Democracy’s organized overthrow of Ben Ali’s Tunisian government. Celebrations were short-lived as the Tunisian version of the Muslim Brotherhood took over the country – in close alliance with Turkey – and the country went to hell where it still is.