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originally posted by: Vovin
a reply to: MrSpad
I do not agree. The ISIL offensive was not surprising. In fact I've personally been writing about this kind of thing happening for years. How could it be surprising when the west was deliberately setting the conditions by deposing of secular regimes, bombing everybody to incite violence, and directly supporting these radical groups? The west was doing it on such a large scale that the result could only be a large scale reactionary movement.
This is exactly what they wanted. You think 10,000 air sorties over Libya was to liberate Libya? It was to turn Libya into a base of operations for Islamists, providing Libyan state weaponry and facilities to the insurgency.
As for organization? ISIL most definitely is organized and controlled by regional players. It's also supported by the USA.
originally posted by: MrSpad
originally posted by: Vovin
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Vovin
Or, you can look it another way: the NWO Globalists want how many regions? And I think one of them was supposed to be a Middle Eastern Muslim region. This map is very close to the Club of Rome's region 7.
The three regions that must be controlled to assert global hegemony are, according to Brzezinski: Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia.
Losing the Middle East to ISIL opens up the ability to invade and occupy all territory claimed by ISIL. That is the point.
Except ISIL is at its peak. All it is going to do now is try and hold on to what it can as it is slowy forced to retreat,
originally posted by: BobAthome
a reply to: Sunwolf
"They are at a standstill
would be a very wrong assumption,,
Fortress America: The US Embassy in Iraq,,
so anyone with a bit of military/geopolitical/ATS background,,
its obvious ISIS is massing,,, to take the only real obstacle in there way,,
The US Embassy in Iraq,, after all,,cant have American soil, on thier new Caliphate,,,
would not pass muster.
so,,,
an extra/extra 300
aint gonna do it,,,This isn't a movie Mr President,,
and your not Xerces,,
originally posted by: MrSpad
originally posted by: Vovin
a reply to: MrSpad
I do not agree. The ISIL offensive was not surprising. In fact I've personally been writing about this kind of thing happening for years. How could it be surprising when the west was deliberately setting the conditions by deposing of secular regimes, bombing everybody to incite violence, and directly supporting these radical groups? The west was doing it on such a large scale that the result could only be a large scale reactionary movement.
This is exactly what they wanted. You think 10,000 air sorties over Libya was to liberate Libya? It was to turn Libya into a base of operations for Islamists, providing Libyan state weaponry and facilities to the insurgency.
As for organization? ISIL most definitely is organized and controlled by regional players. It's also supported by the USA.
I am talking about reality and you talking about a variety of off the wall theories all mashed together. ISIS current make up has more to with the Iraqi goverments exclusion of Sunnis than it does anything else. That is what has given ISIS (at least for the short term) the manpower and trained leadership it needed to make a coventional move. Granted the second they were stopped short of Baghdad it was over. Trying to tie Libya into this is silly and shows a complete lack of understanding of the region. ISIS is a one off. It has no outside support and that is why is in a couple of years nobody will even remember who they were. Your theory would then be the US toppled Libya, Syria, and Egypt and for some reason that created ISIS (who have been around for over decade) to take over part of Iraq and then get beaten back all as some sort of plan that you will have to make up later.
originally posted by: MrSpad
originally posted by: BobAthome
a reply to: Sunwolf
"They are at a standstill
would be a very wrong assumption,,
Fortress America: The US Embassy in Iraq,,
so anyone with a bit of military/geopolitical/ATS background,,
its obvious ISIS is massing,,, to take the only real obstacle in there way,,
The US Embassy in Iraq,, after all,,cant have American soil, on thier new Caliphate,,,
would not pass muster.
so,,,
an extra/extra 300
aint gonna do it,,,This isn't a movie Mr President,,
and your not Xerces,,
Anyone with a military background knows you do not give up the initiative to larger force that is getting a surge reinforcements, volunteer shia miltias, missles, drones, Russian aircraft, US advisors, Iranian special forces etc. While at the same time to your north the Kurds are getting mobilized. You do not do give that initiative to the emeny unless you have lost it. Iraqi forces are no longer spead out to deal with terrotist attacks they are now concentrated. ISIS now will have to fight a defensive war.
originally posted by: khnum
a reply to: Vovin
Another thing he does not take into calculation is the effect of declaring a caliphate,if he has done it in the proper manner then the Sunni's must make a choice to support him or not,it is a very high risk move he's made but if he's done it correctly then he cant be denounced without the denouncers revealing their own apostacy theres more than strategy and tactics in this play he may well pick up whole areas without a shot due to Islamic eschatology...theres more to this than Jay Carney talking points.