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2020-03-13 Home Front: WoT

Syria is winding up towards the end. What will be the next war?

[VoltaireNet] Events in the "Broader Middle East" since 2001 have followed a relentless logic. The current question is whether the time has come for a new war in Turkey or Saudi Arabia. The answer depends in particular on the resumption of hostilities in Libya. It is in this context that the Additional Protocol negotiated by Presidents Erdoğan and Putin to resolve the Idleb crisis must be interpreted.

President George W. Bush decided to radically transform the Pentagon’s missions, as Colonel Ralph Peters explained in the Army magazine Parameters on September 13, 2001. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appointed Admiral Arthur Cebrowski to train future officers. Cebrowski spent three years touring military universities so that today all general officers have taken his courses. His thoughts were popularized for the general public by his deputy, Thomas Barnett.

The areas affected by the US war will be given over to "chaos". This concept is to be understood in the sense of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, i.e. as the absence of political structures capable of protecting citizens from their own violence ("Man is a wolf to man"). And not in the biblical sense of making a clean slate before the creation of a new order.

This war is an adaptation of the US Armed Forces to the era of globalization, to the transition from productive capitalism to financial capitalism. "War is a Racket," as Smedley Butler, America’s most decorated general, used to say before World War II. From now on, friends and enemies will no longer count; war will allow for the simple management of natural resources.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-03-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 Smedley Butler again? Lulz

Posted by Frank G 2020-03-13 06:32|| 2020-03-13 06:32|| Front Page Top

#2 VoltaireNet again? Try harder Herb.

Posted by Shineper Grumble1521 2020-03-13 06:48|| 2020-03-13 06:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank G-d Hillary isn’t President

Posted by Alistaire Tingle9882 2020-03-13 07:04|| 2020-03-13 07:04|| Front Page Top

#4 The following comment shows how bass-ackwards most of the quoted articles logic is:
"... His thoughts were popularized for the general public by his deputy, Thomas Barnett.

The areas affected by the US war will be given over to "chaos". This concept is to be understood in the sense of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, i.e. as the absence of political structures capable of protecting citizens from their own violence ("Man is a wolf to man"). And not in the biblical sense of making a clean slate before the creation of a new order."

2004 presentation by Thomas Barnett which is the opposite of the previous quote: the world has civilized places and chaotic places and he proposes that "if we want to fix it we should reorganize the US military accordingly". Barnett may be a "Neocon's neocon" dreaming that we can fix the world, but a nefarious plotter.... *snicker*
[The Pentagon's New Map]: Presentation & Call-In | C-SPAN.org

Posted by magpie 2020-03-13 09:21|| 2020-03-13 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Next war is China’s turn to takeover Afghanistan. It is what a true superpower does

Posted by Airandee 2020-03-13 17:17|| 2020-03-13 17:17|| Front Page Top

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