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February 6th, 2016 
Awake Goy
Seriously, Saudi troops going into Syria to fight Daesh? The Saudis, Turks and American CIA have weaponized Daesh. Furthermore, the Saudi army is elsewhere getting pummeled by insurgents in Yemen. The notion that the Saudis or their Persian Gulf allies are readying to send ground forces into Syria is laughable.
by Finian Cunningham
The next days could see an explosive escalation in the Syrian conflict if Pentagon chief Ashton Carter agrees to a Saudi plan to commit ground troops.
Carter is due to meet NATO counterparts in Brussels this coming week, along with other officials from the US-led military coalition of nations that is supposedly fighting the Daesh terror group (also known as ISIL) in Syria.
Days ago Carter welcomed an announcement by a Saudi military spokesman that the Persian Gulf kingdom was prepared to send troops into Syria. The Saudi officer said that “if”the US-led coalition agreed to the move, then it would proceed with the intervention. Carter then deferred to consult with coalition partners during imminent meetings in Brussels.
A report in the Britain’s Guardian newspaper quoted Saudi sources as saying that “thousands of special forces could be deployed, probably in coordination with Turkey.”
Given other reliable reports that Turkish military forces have been building up along the northern Syrian border in recent weeks, there is an ominous sign that the latest Saudi move is part of a wider plan for concerted direct foreign intervention in the Syrian conflict.
Only two weeks ago, Carter was in Paris meeting Western defense ministers, when he made strident calls for “Arab nations to boost ISIS fight”, according to the Financial Times, using a different acronym for the terror group. Carter also called for more US boots on the ground in Syria and indeed appeared to brag that hundreds of American Special Forces are already in situ.
At the same time, US Vice President Joe Biden, while on a visit to Turkey, gave warning that Washington was ready to send ground troops if the Geneva talks on Syria fell through. Those talks appeared to have now floundered.
This all suggests that the pieces of a military jig-saw are coming together with the picture looming of a US-led full-scale military in Syria.
Over the weekend, US Secretary of State John Kerry was reported by Reuters as saying that tense talks were underway with Russia about the implementation of a ceasefire in Syria. Kerry said: “The modalities of a ceasefire itself are also being discussed…But if it’s just talks for the sake of talks in order to continue the bombing, nobody is going to accept that, and we will know that in the course of the next days.”
During the on-off Geneva talks, Kerry was pushing Russia to halt to its aerial bombing campaign. That campaign has enabled the Syrian Arab Army to make dramatic territorial gains against Daesh and other illegally armed groups. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov flatly ruled out any cessation of military operations “until all terrorist groups are destroyed”in Syria.
In order to make sense of developments, we have to ignore the false premises and pretensions of Washington and its allies with regard to their involvement in Syria. They are in the illegal business of regime change, either by covert military means utilizing a plethora of mercenary proxies, dominated by terrorist brigades, including Daesh and Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham. The latter two were actually part of the US-backed “opposition”during the Geneva talks farrago this past week, which constitutes the second means of achieving regime change in Syria by political wrangling.
Since the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad and its foreign allies, Russia and Iran, have categorically stated that the political future of Syria is the sovereign prerogative of the Syrian people –that is, the Western-backed demands for regime change as a precondition of talks is a non-starter –the Geneva mechanism has come unstuck, from the viewpoint of Washington and its allies.
The ceasefire talks that Kerry referred to are obviously a last-ditch effort by Washington to force the Russians to call off their military campaign to annihilate Western-backed terrorist proxies. Russia would be foolish to accede to this because the cessation would only be used as a relief to re-organize badly battered mercenary positions.
This is the correct context to understand what the Saudi troop invasion plan is really all about. The Western mainstream media relays that the Saudi move is “to fight”Daesh and Washington is portrayed as “welcoming”more regional allies to “defeat”the terrorists.
That’s just propaganda spin to conceal the vile truth that Washington and the regime-change axis forces are mightily peeved that Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and the Syrian Arab Army are wiping out their covert terror assets on the ground. And that the alternative political tack for regime change is going nowhere.
The announced Saudi intervention, along with Turkish military build-up and Washington’s open approval, is a gambit aimed at putting pressure on Moscow to call off its very effective anti-terror operations.
Seriously, Saudi troops going into Syria to fight Daesh? The Saudis, Turks and American CIA have weaponized Daesh. Furthermore, the Saudi army is elsewhere getting pummeled by insurgents in Yemen –the Arab region’s poorest country. The Yemenis are killing hundreds of Saudi troops and their mercenaries. The notion that the Saudis or their Persian Gulf allies are readying to send ground forces into Syria is laughable.
Any such Saudi intervention would be simply cannon fodder. But this is where the Saudi gambit takes on its more sinister, real meaning. A Saudi and possibly Turkish invasion into Syria will fulfill its real purpose –which is to give Washington a license to openly go to war in Syria for its prize of regime change.
But the consequence will then be an international war involving Russia.
Are Washington and its regional despotic client regimes crazy enough to do this? Yes.
Source Article from http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2016/02/saudi-gambit-for-all-out-us-war-in-syria/
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