I occasionally look at a crazy (and\nunreadable) site called whatdoesitmean.com. These guys write in long, run-on sentences\nthat are almost impossible to decipher. The site is a mess. On Jan 7 they\npublished an article that was inspiring, although it is most likely a\nconspiracy theory. Well, it\u2019s a positive conspiracy theory about peace in the\nMiddle East, and Trump vs. the military-industrial-complex, which I talked\nabout in my last post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m simply going to quote verbatim from parts\nof the article and rewrite it in intelligible form. Here goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On December 6, 2019, AP reports that\nan elite Saudi Arabian military officer training at a\nUS base in Florida to open fire and kill 3 American military officers<\/a>.\n\u201cAn aviation student from Saudi Arabia opened fire in a classroom at the Naval\nAir Station Pensacola on Friday morning, killing three people in an attack the\nSaudi government quickly condemned and that U.S. officials were investigating\nfor possible links to terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n On December 10, the New York Times<\/em> reports that \u201cThe\nPentagon has suspended operational training for all Saudi military students in\nthe United States, indefinitely halting flight instruction, firing range\ntraining and all other operations outside the classroom in the wake of a\nshooting last week at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida by a member of the\nSaudi Royal Air Force.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n On December 11, 2019, BBC News reported that \u201cthe UN has reportedly so far been unable to confirm Iran was involved in drone and cruise missile attacks on two key Saudi oil facilities in September. Saudi Arabia said Iran was behind the attacks, which temporarily knocked out half of the kingdom’s crude production. But a leaked report by the UN’s secretary general says investigators could not corroborate that the drones and missiles were of Iranian origin.<\/a>\u201d The UN report was issued on December 10th. Okay, so Iran was not behind this attack. The US has troops and missiles in Saudi Arabia to defend against such an attack. In September, this missile system mysteriously failed, even though it was an advanced U.S. system. How could such a sophisticated missile system fail precisely when it was needed? The result was a big (although temporary) blow to Saudi oil production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On December 27, 2019, Trump order[s]\nthe assassination of Iranian\nGeneral Qasem Soleimani<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n At Soleimani\u2019s funeral\nin Tehran, on January 6, 2020, \u201cIran\u2019s\nsemi-official news agency ISNA reported chants of \u201cDeath to infidels,\u201d \u201cDeath\nto seditionists\u201d and \u201cDeath to al-Saud\u201d \u2014 a reference to the Saudi ruling\nfamily<\/a>.\u201d This demonstration was choreographed by the regime. If people are\nshouting \u201cDeath to Saud,\u201d it has the sanction of the regime in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On January 7, the\nFarsi News Agency reported \u201cA number of\nfamily members of the Saudi princes have fled to the European states for the\nfear of Iran’s retaliation for the US assassination of IRGC Qods Force\nCommander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, Arab media reports said.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you follow the news you remember \u201cnews\npeople\u201d speculating about an escalation of tensions in the Middle East that\ncould lead to World War III \u2013 something so absurd that it was almost funny. The\nnews media EXISTS to spread fear and hatred, and is a tool of the warmongers\nand the MIC. No surprise, actually, but this speculation was all over the\nplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n US-Iran war\nfears devolved into a \u201cfarce spectacle,\u201d according to this article, \u201cof Chairman of the Iranian parliament\u2019s National\nSecurity and Foreign Policy Commission Mojtaba Zonnouri threatening to strike 6,236 US targets, which is the\nnumber of verses in the Koran<\/a>. \nThis was quickly followed by Trump ordering 52 fully armed stealth fighter jets to do an \u201cElephant\nWalk<\/em>\u201d at their Hill Air Force Base in Utah, which is the number of American\nhostages Iran held in 1979<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n OK, enough! This is comical, and can\u2019t be taken seriously by anyone. Except maybe warmongers in the MIC and in the press, who seem to delight in scaring the shit out of people. If Iran has the capacity to hit over six thousand U.S. targets, they could take over the world. Obviously they don’t. It’s just theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conspiracy theory here is that Trump wants to get the US out of endless wars, but he is\nbeing opposed by those who profit from war. So, he has to practice a diplomacy\nthat shakes up the system and tries to expose the stupidity of spending\ntrillions on killing people halfway around the world. (Of course, those who\nhate Trump will simply say that he\u2019s a tool of the MIC and a warmonger himself,\nbut I don\u2019t believe this. Trump is no peacenik but he is a businessman who\nlikes deals, and making money. And the warmongers (on both sides) are simply in\nthe way.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sylvain\nLaForest writing in Oriental\nReview<\/em>, says this about Trump (I posted this article on my Facebook page): <\/p>\n\n\n\n Early in his mandate, Trump naively tried the direct approach, by surrounding himself with establishment rebels like Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon, then by annoying each and everyone of his foreign allies, shredding their free-trade treaties, imposing taxes on imports and insulting them in their face in the G7 meetings of 2017 and 2018. The reaction was strong and everyone doubled-down on the Russiagate absurdity, as it looked like the only option to stop the man on his path of globalism destruction. Predictably, the direct approach went nowhere; Flynn and Bannon had to go, and Trump was entangled in a handful of inquiries that made him realize that he wouldn\u2019t get anything accomplished with transparency. He had to find a way to annihilate the most dangerous people on the planet, but at the same time, stay in power and alive. He had to smarten up.<\/p> That\u2019s when his genius exploded on the world. He completely changed his strategy and approach, and started taking absurd decisions and tweeting outrageous declarations. As threatening and dangerous as some of these first looked, Trump didn\u2019t use them for their first degree meaning, but was aiming at the genuine second degree effects that his moves would have. And he didn\u2019t care about what people thought of him as he did, for only results count in the end. He would even play buffoon over Twitter, look naive, lunatic or downright idiotic, perhaps in the hope to impregnate the belief that he didn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, and that he couldn\u2019t be that dangerous. He\u2019s willfully being politically incorrect to show the ugly face that the United States are hiding behind their mask.\u201d <\/p>https:\/\/orientalreview.org\/2019\/11\/15\/about-trump\/<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n OK, this is a bit much I think. But it fits with the title\nof this post, that things are not always what they seem. Trump seems like a\nmoron and a warmonger. But maybe he\u2019s not! Maybe there\u2019s a plan behind the\nmadness. I hope there is and I\u2019ll grasp onto any straw I can find! Why wouldn\u2019t\nyou take a positive attitude? The law of attraction tells us that what you\nexpect you get more of. Having a defeatist attitude just puts that on the\ntimeline of future events. Hate is hate, even if it\u2019s hate of Trump. It\u2019s\nharmful. So I don\u2019t do it! I look for positive explanations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, according to this article, \u201cPresident Trump stripped\naway the mask from the ugly face of America\u2019s endless wars by his\nsecretly ordering released to The\nWashington Post <\/em>what are now infamously known as The Afghanistan Papers<\/a>.\u201d The Post<\/em> declares in a blaring\nheadline: \u201cThose Who Ran The Afghanistan War Lied\u2026They Must Be\nHeld To Account<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nine days later the warmongers and\nthe MIC retaliated, voting to impeach Trump on December 19. Here is where it\ngets fantastical. According to this too-flattering article, Trump embarks on an historic quest to make peace with\nthe entire Muslim world<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, we know that\nthere is a Swiss backchannel between Iran and the US. This is how Trump\ncommunicates with the mullahs in Iran. This back channel was instrumental in\ncalming tensions after the killing of Soleimani and the Iranian attacks on US\nbases in Iraq \u2013 no Americans were killed in these attacks because the Iranians\ntold the US beforehand so we could get our troops out of there. https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/id-see-them-call-me-how-trump-used-encrypted-swiss-fax-machine-defuse-iran-crisis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The theory is that Trump is making a deal with the Iranians \u2013 dealing is what he\u2019s good at \u2013 and wants to let Iran deal with the terrorist state of Saudi Arabia, instead of us. Saudi Arabia isn\u2019t popular in the Arab world, even among Sunni Muslims. A recent Gallup poll shows that just 4% of Americans have a \u201cvery favorable<\/em>\u201d view of Saudi Arabia<\/a>\u2014numbers that are worse than Venezuela or Cuba<\/a>. Of course this idea flies in the face of the Pertrodollar agreement back in the 1970s with the Saudis, but the world\u2019s financial system, and the Petrodollar system<\/a>, can\u2019t keep going much longer. More and more countries in the world are abandoning the dollar to pay for oil. Maybe Trump sees his chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this a far-fetched\ntheory? Probably. But it\u2019s a hopeful one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some have suggested that General Soleimani was lured into an ambush by US\nSecretary of State Michael Pompeo, who invited him to Iraq to talk peace about\nSyria, and then killed him<\/a>\u2014and that General Soleimani was killed while on a mission to\nmake peace with Saudi Arabia<\/a>. The article says (perhaps naively) that\n\u201cboth Trump and Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader agreed\nthat General Soleimani would\nbe sacrificed\u2014a sacrifice intended to achieve two goals\u2014the FIRST being a cessation of any\nwar between the US and Iran occurring\u2014and the SECOND being the removal of\nall US military forces\nfrom Iraq.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is interesting, because Press TV reports that<\/p>\n\n\n\n The the US-led military coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh terrorist group has reportedly relocated its headquarters in Iraq to Kuwait in the wake of recent assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and the second-in-command of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and public rage over the targeted killings. Iraq\u2019s Arabic-language al-Forat news agency reported that the alliance took the decision on Tuesday to move its command center from the Iraqi capital Baghdad to Kuwait City. The Qatar-based and Arabic-language al-Jazeera news network, citing a report published by German DPA news agency, later confirmed the account. The report came only a day after Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said his country and the United States should work together on implementing the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the country.\u201d<\/p> https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2020\/01\/07\/615578\/US-led-coalition-temporarily-relocates-headquarters-from-Iraq-to-Kuwait:-Report<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Interesting. A temporary relocation? Maybe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The article continues: \u201cThe Netherlands suspended all of its military operation in Iraq<\/a> and Germany pulled all of its military forces out of Iraq, too<\/a>. [This is] a Western military strategic retreat occurring while Iraq has restricted the movement of the international coalition\u2019s forces as part of preparing a mechanism of the foreign troop pullout from the country<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Could this explain the chaotic 24 hours that\n\u201csaw the US announcing in a letter that it was\npulling all of its troops out of Iraq<\/a>\u2014a letter quickly\nmodified by US Army General Mark\nMilley, the Commander of\nthe Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said this letter was a draft and that it\nshould not have been released<\/a>.\u201d Maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I talked about\nthis in my last post \u2013 that there is a struggle between Trump, who wants our\ntroops out of the Middle East, and the warmongers, who control troop\ndeployments, and who want war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to\nthis article, \u201cThis letter\u2019s premature\nrelease was ordered by Deep State warmonger Defense Department Deputy Eric Chewning, whom Trump immediately fired<\/a>\u2014thus\nmaking this warmonger yet another causality of Trump\u2019s chaos theory masterplan\nto end his nation\u2019s endless wars and bring a\nlasting peace to the Middle East.\nThe only actual battlefield death, so far, in the maelstrom of this\nchaos remains General Soleimani\u2014the\nsacrificed chess piece pawn who began the most critical game of war and peace\never seen since World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the article, Trump made a deal with the Iranians and the mourning about Soleimani is just theater. Crazy? You betcha. But it\u2019s a hopeful crazy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s hard to believe that the US\nwould simply abandon Saudi Arabia \u2013 we just sold them $100 billion worth of\nweapons. But these weapons sales may be the work of the warmongers, who just\nfattened their balance sheets. If it\u2019s Trump vs the warmongers, maybe the\npresident is ready to strangle the alliance between the Kingdom and the US in\nexchange for a chance at Middle East peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The inexplicable \u201cfailure\u201d of the US missile defense system in Saudi Arabia, the Swiss backchannel between the Iranians and the US, the Iranian notification to the US about their retaliatory missile strike, the surgical elimination of Soleimani with no other casualties, the reports of U.S. withdrawing from Iraq, Trump\u2019s deal-making propensity, the collapse of the Petrodollar system, the fleeing of Saudi princes to Europe \u2013 well, this could be good for both Iran and the US. Remember, the Saudis were involved in 9\/11. Just today, Attorney General Barr announced that the shootings by the Saudi airman of three U.S. military personnel at a U.S. naval base in Pensacola, Florida, is an \u201cact of terrorism.\u201d Can all this spell doom for the Kingdom, and a chance at peace in the Middle East? <\/p>\n\n\n\n People my age have been hoping for\nMiddle East peace for decades. Perhaps a wrecking ball like Trump is the guy to\nfinally get it going. If nothing happens…well, nothing has been happening for\n70 years. Before world peace can happen, Middle East peace must happen. Let\u2019s\nwatch events and see how things unfold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I occasionally look at a crazy (and unreadable) site called whatdoesitmean.com. These guys write in long, run-on sentences that are almost impossible to decipher. The site is a mess. On Jan 7 they published an article that was inspiring, although … Continue reading