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FTAC – Iraq – Obama – 21st Century Neo-Feudalism
The coalition may need “buy-in”. Obama may be misguided or misled or in cahoots with what I guess I’ll call the “Newest Global Nobility” — very wealthy people who cooperate with one another in various...
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Link – Iraq – Assessment – and Comment on Motivation
The West insists on maintaining the illusion that the government in Baghdad is something other than a Shia sectarian-dominated entity in the process of entering a de facto military alliance with the...
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Syria –“Assad vs The Terrorists”– How ISIS Defends Assad
In childhood, the kid with the chessboard chooses his opponent. Why not in adulthood? And what if you could not only control you opponent but make the same another rival’s opponent . . . how cool...
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FTAC – Russia in Syria – Afghanistan? Nope.
Syria seems a much more confused battlespace with a Soviet / Post-Soviet backbone supporting feudal absolute power. Russia has returned to support of a Christian church — so it can’t be about “godless...
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FTAC – A Comment on Obama, The Islamic Small Wars, and the Syrian Tragedy
Let’s try this model . . . . We, including Muslims, have before us the archaic manifestation of a legacy in religion owned by about 1.6 billion souls. Some, and for reasons ranging from how they were...
View ArticleFTAC – The Decentralizing of ISIS
Something to know about ISIL: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/12/09/syria-assad-isil-background/ ISIL — the “Islamists” — have been long “played” by Moscow and Tehran as a goad to the west and a...
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