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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran is trying to provoke a Russia-US hot war in Syria
2017-04-14
An interesting take on the events
When you boil Syria down to its principal players, there are only three: Russia, the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. With Assad’s chemical attack, people have been misdirected from the reality by blaming the powerless Assad. But Assad doesn’t mvoe without direct Iranian permission. So, the real question is why did Iran launch a chemical weapons attack?

The answer is simple: Iran desperately needs Russia and the United States to get into a hot war in Syria so as to enable Iran to pick up the shattered pieces. In contrast, the United States and Russia desperately need each other to defeat Iran’s waxing neo-Safavidic Empire from stretching from Iran to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Not sure I'm going with this - if there's a hot war between Russia and USA in Syria,
there will be no pieces to pick up
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#3  Two Christian nations fighting it out, possibly one to the death and the "survivor" with extreme casualties.

Cui bono?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2017-04-14 16:52  

#2   I think this is entirely plausible

More like possible, as in "anything is possible".
Posted by: Pappy   2017-04-14 15:57  

#1  I think this is entirely plausible. Iran's desire to control topography from Tehran to Med is well-known. Also well-known: Arab hostility to that happening. USA and Russia have at least equal reason to defeat Salafi Jihad and Iranian Jihad. Russia even more than USA, perhaps, considering Europe is now Salafi, mirroring Salafi threat to Russia's east.

So this man's analysis, which I read through, makes sense to me. It also calls to my mind the Three Brothers Doctrine I have mentioned in these precincts once or twice before: http://theological-geography.net/?s=three+brothers
Posted by: TopRev   2017-04-14 14:26  

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