After Damascus, Tehran and Moscow are Next

What the Donbas and Syria might educate about Russia’s political management

Stefan H. Heuer
23-12-2024

Private observe:
After eight years, I’m as soon as once more writing an article coping with Syria and geopolitics. What makes a German of retirement age wish to take care of a distant nation? Nicely, international and safety coverage was a area of curiosity throughout my college research.

With NATO’s unlawful warfare of aggression on Yugoslavia and subsequently, with the West’s imperialist wars within the Orient, my consciousness, as soon as fastidiously indoctrinated by naivety and media consumption, gained the primary efficient cracks.

In 2011, NATO was simply bombing ‘democracy and liberty’ into Libya, I grew to become acquainted with a Syrian girl from Aleppo who, with persistence, was capable of lastly convey down the stays of my wall of NATO-fuelled ignorance. Since then, I’ve been engaged on the subject of Syria. In a number of articles, I’ve handled my nation’s soiled position towards Syria – as a lot as it’s potential utilizing public sources. In 2016 I felt vindicated by the article ‘Germany and the UN towards Syria’ by Thierry Meyyan, which reveals the actually sordid particulars of the German authorities’s collaboration with the warfare criminals from Washington. The query of ‘why’ stays. Nicely, maybe it’s the realisation of the true nature of the ‘German’ international coverage steered by the USA – and the determined indignation it has sparked to me.

After the autumn of Damascus

‘Is Putin able to strategic pondering?’ asks Paul Craig Roberts in his article of 19 December 2024.
I wish to take up this query and focus on it towards the backdrop of occasions in Syria and the Donbas.

After Putin’s withdrawal from the Syria mission and the following fall of this culturally numerous nation into the palms of the enemies of humanity, doubts about Putin’s strategic potential appear to be acceptable. In spite of everything, Putin has sacrificed Russia’s solely ally in Arabia – and certainly its most loyal ally. The victors in Syria are Russia’s enemies. The sign to the remaining allies and the neighborhood of countries united in BRICS might due to this fact be one thing like this: Take what you’ll be able to from Russia, however don’t belief the Kremlin an inch!

Is that this growth in Russia’s favour? Relating to the accelerating escalation of the worldwide state of affairs (and please don’t give me any extra nonsense about ‘saviour Trump’!), the present state of affairs appears to be unfavourable for Russia and its allies. The truth is, the brutal and profitable Israeli-Turkish charade has utterly reversed the state of affairs, and right now the losers are those that yesterday appeared to be marching on the street to victory. Erdogan and Netanyahu are the shining winners, Syria and Putin are the losers with their pants down.

In fact, I’m unable to evaluate whether or not the person within the Kremlin is definitely a Western agent who’s ‘dismembering Russia’ within the service of the American pirates, as one blogger wrote in early 2024. Doubts about Putin’s strategic skills, however above all about his dedication, have however been voiced in Russia for years. Generally this made the holder of this opinion taking a state-financed vacation, like Igor Girkin (4 years in jail).

Allow us to needless to say Putin allowed himself to be stalled for eight years when he sat idle, watching from the excessive battlements of the Kremlin because the Ukrainian military slaughtered Russians (!) within the Donbas, with out doing greater than protesting and begging his enemies to cease. It’s claimed that in 2014, when the western-orchestrated coup in Kiev constructed the foundations for the bloodbath in Odesa and the genocide in Donbas, the Russian military was not but on the identical combat-related technological degree as it’s right now. That is the argument: Russia nonetheless wanted time (this time was purchased with the blood of round 15,000 individuals within the Donbas who had been slaughtered by Ukraine). Nevertheless, the objection right here is that in 2014 the Ukrainian military was not on the degree that NATO considers acceptable for a warfare with Russia. In distinction to Russia, nevertheless, the Ukrainians used the time probability not solely to arm themselves however to proceed committing acts of genocide towards Russians. 

The individuals of Donbas, nevertheless, fought again. In spite of everything, in 2015, the German Chancellor Merkel persuaded Putin to comply with an association known as Minsk, allegedly to cease the bloodshed. The true aim, nevertheless, was to avoid wasting the Ukrainian military from a defeat within the Donbas. This Ukrainian military at the moment was already being ready for warfare towards Russia in Grafenwoehr in Bavaria. With out Minsk, the Donbas-militia of Igor Girkin (‘Strelkov’) would have brought on the Ukrainian military a decisive defeat. What a setback that may have been for the West’s plans! It was not NATO’s agent Merkel who stabbed Russia’s Donbas within the again and stole the victory received with blood from its militia – it was Putin.

In the beginning of the 2000s, there had already been a coup in Kiev, the so-called ‘Orange Revolution’ (Yuschenko / Timoshenko), had been staged as a way to pull Ukraine in direction of the West and set up it as a entrance towards Russia. In 2008, it was invited to use for membership in NATO. The identical factor occurred in Georgia beneath Saakashvili, who even attacked Russian troops within the Caucasus.

Had Putin forgotten Minsk? In 2022, Mrs Merkel brazenly admitted the tactic of stalling Putin with the Minsk agreements to present Ukraine time to arrange for warfare. Hollande and Cameron eagerly confirmed her assertion. Putin laments having been cheated by Merkel with the Minsk agreements. It takes two to cheat.

Within the third yr of the warfare, the Russian management has now resorted to trumpeting the victorious seize of depopulated small settlements within the Donbas whereas American missiles are falling on Russia, Ukrainians are slaughtering civilians in Russia and Kiev is sending explosive greetings all the way in which to Kazan.

With Minsk serving NATO and Ukraine, Putin repeated it with the ‘Astana format’, the ineffective discuss Syria with Erdogan and Iran. Pardon, logically it ought to learn: AGAINST Syria, as a result of in Astana as in Minsk, the powers negotiated about individuals who weren’t even concerned. What do you name that: Colonialism, Sykes-Picot 2.0?

Had Minsk already fallen out of Putin’s view when it was working in the perfect pursuits of Kiev’s sponsors? Has Putin, after Merkel’s public humiliation, lastly pulled the ripcord on his appeasement in direction of NATO? Has he elevated measures to safe the Donbas and Syria – and thus Russia’s personal geostrategic pursuits, as an alternative? No, quite the opposite. There are nonetheless Ukrainian military models within the Donbas right now.

On Syria, Putin agreed with Erdogan, the boss of Al Qaeda HTS, to protect the CIA, MIT and Mossad jihadists in Idlib, a governorate in northwestern Syria that borders Turkey. Because of Putin’s agreements with Erdogan, Idlib grew to become a de facto extraterritorial terrorist stronghold in Syria. Right here, the gangs could possibly be rebuilt, armed and skilled, and the Turks diligently transported weapons and gear to Syria in small-scale border site visitors.

Right here in Idlib, beneath the eyes of the Russians, Turkey created a quasi-state infrastructure and allowed head-choppers to mime authorities. The Russians and Turks carried out joint controls on the road of contact, preserving the Syrian Arab Military away from their child, and guaranteeing that the fixed assaults by the Idlib-based Jihadists on Aleppo couldn’t be fought by the Syrian Arab Military.  Logistically, the Syrian Arab Military had apparently been able to include and get rid of this terror spawn proper as much as the top. However Putin / Erdogan didn’t need this, and Assad appears to have given in ultimately.  Till the top, courageous Syria fought with one hand tied on its again, and sometimes even with each, shackled by the Kremlin’s want for reconciliation with the masters of the Jihadists. A whole bunch of 1000’s of Syrians have paid the value with their lives since 2011. Additionally, Putin’s latest, completely shameless recriminations towards his former ally give me no cause to hope for a change within the Kremlin’s technique. Fruitful classes from the Syrian disaster authorised by Putin appear to be undesirable.

The worth for Putin’s deadly Syria technique is being paid by the survivors with occupation, a destroyed nation, a collapsed financial system, hyperinflation, impoverishment, starvation, terrorism towards spiritual minorities in addition to Syrians loyal to their nation, displacement and a gang of head-choppers within the service of the Western secret companies appearing as ‘authorities’. In case that’s what you wished, Mr. Putin, you had been profitable. Congratulations.

II And what subsequent?

The results of Putin’s technique is evident: Within the Ukraine warfare, the bear remains to be dancing on Russian soil, a ‘demilitarisation and denazification’ of Ukraine, official tips of the ‘Particular Navy Operation’ (SMO), have but not been achieved. Syria has fallen, with the worst penalties for the Syrian individuals, for Lebanon, for Palestine and Iran – and past that for the Central Asian area and the Caucasus. And maybe finally for the entire of humanity.

Below the eyes of the entire world, the Palestinian individuals, reliable holders of the land rights of the Holy Land, shall be worn out. These whom Zion cannot kill shall be expelled, however the place to? Lebanon will both be occupied and annexed by Israel or implode (after which be ‘pacified’ by Israeli and US bombs). In the long run, there shall be ‘Larger Israel’. If vital, the evil empire will transfer its military of Zio-Wahhabi scum to different theatres of disaster as a way to inflict additional defeats on Russia and preserve Russia in fixed stress – simply because the RAND memorandum of 2019 had described.

Did Mr Putin not learn about Netanyahu’s plans for ‘Larger Israel’ and the ‘Larger Turan Mission’ of the wanna-be Caliph Erdogan? Does Russia have neither an intelligence service nor dependable geostrategic analysts? Does Moscow not learn the Israeli and Turkish memoranda? What do these individuals truly do all day?

The intention of the Russian marketing campaign in Syria, which started in 2015, is claimed to have been the pre-emptive destruction of (Western-manufactured) terrorism in Syria itself. Not solely has Putin not achieved this aim, however the precise reverse: terrorists are in Damascus, Turkey, and the US and Israel have taken over Syria. That is undoubtedly a very powerful of all Turkish victories over the previous enemy.

In 2015, ‘IS’, the Pentagon jihad brigade, stood outdoors Damascus. With the assistance of the Russian Air Power, the Syrian military heroically fought again the satanic filth. As we speak, with ‘HTS’, the CIA puppets of Al-Qaeda are actually in Damascus. This consequence makes me surprise why Russia went to Syria within the first place, spent tens of millions of roubles and but achieved nothing. In view of Putin’s obvious indecision and his virtually touching endeavours to barter and obtain agreements with the mortal enemies of his individuals, the subsequent potential defeats already seem on the horizon. With Georgia, Kazakhstan and Armenia (already being a elementary defeat for Putin, too!), the scenes have already been set and the viewers, the Western warlords, are already lounging with popcorn within the entrance row. Iran is being remoted. And the bloodthirsty, war-mongering Zionist brigade of the approaching US administration will definitely wish to see nothing else aside from missile fireworks in Tehran.

The event clearly contradicts Russia’s elementary pursuits. If issues go on like this, Russia might find yourself standing bare in entrance of the wall and, as Paul Craig Roberts has repeatedly emphasised, has solely two choices left: Give up or nuclear warfare. Who (other than the psychopaths within the West) might need that? So the query shouldn’t be actually whether or not Putin can suppose strategically. Nicely, possibly he can. The query is: for whom?

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
historian, born in 1964, has labored as a lecturer in grownup training and, amongst others,
in Human sources growth for a US-American firm in Germany.

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