In 2014, I said, The impact of the U.S. going into Syria will undoubtedly create an economic burden on the American taxpayer. The additional cost of war will increase the debt, raise the oil price, and put Americans in greater danger around the world. That is not to count the number of lives lost, families destroyed, and some children made orphans by our actions. How can we justify a war against a nation that has done nothing to us? How can we bomb a country that has not declared war on us? The conflict is between Syria and the Muslim Brotherhood, not Syria and the United States. If we remove Assad from power, just as we did Saddam Hussein, who will replace him? The Muslim Brotherhood has tried for years to remove Assad and has failed; will the United Stated be the bully arm of the Brotherhood to do what they could not do?
The United States had a limited engagement in the war in Syria during the last two years of Trump's administration. I was not happy when President Trump moved troops into Syria. Last year in September, troops were sent into Syria to discourage Russians from crossing into the eastern area where U.S., coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces operate, say officials. The United States government is in Syria uninvited. The Russian military is there at the request of the Syrian government. To give you a short history, here is how we got involved in Syria.
Shortly after the civil war broke out in 2011, the U.S. initially supplied the Free Syrian Army rebels with non-lethal aid (e.g., food rations and pickup trucks). Soon, it quickly began providing training, money, and intelligence to selected Syrian rebel commanders. At least two U.S. programs attempted to assist the Syrian rebels, including a 2014 Pentagon program that planned to train and equip 15,000 rebels to fight ISIL, which was canceled in 2015 after spending $500 million and producing only a few dozen fighters. A simultaneous $1 billion covert program called Timber Sycamore ran by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was more successful, but was decimated by Russian bombing and canceled in mid-2017 by the Trump administration. The Obama administration began surveillance missions on Islamic State positions in Syria in September 2014. On September 22, 2014, the U.S., Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began to attack ISIL forces inside Syria, as well as the Khorasan group in the Idlib Governorate west of Aleppo, and the al-Nusra Front around Raqqa, as part of the international military intervention against ISIL. By late 2015, coalition planes dropped or launched an average of 67 bombs or missiles a day. By August 2017, CJTF-OIR had flown 168,000 sorties in Syria and Iraq (mostly against ISIL).
The U.S. missile strike on Shayrat Airbase on April 7, 2017, was the first time the U.S. deliberately attacked Syrian government forces. This marked the start of a series of direct military actions by U.S. forces against the Syrian government and its allies during May–June 2017 and February 2018. In mid-January 2018, the Trump administration indicated its intention to maintain an open-ended military presence in Syria to counter Iran's influence and oust Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. In early September 2018, the U.S. began implementing a new strategy that sought to indefinitely extend its military effort, launching a major diplomatic push to achieve American objectives in Syria. However, on December 19, President Trump unilaterally ordered the withdrawal of the 2,000–2,500 American ground troops in Syria, which was initially set to take place in 90 days and completed in 2019. With increasing concerns over a potential power vacuum, the U.S. announced on February 22, 2019, that instead of a total withdrawal, a contingency force of around 400 American troops would remain garrisoned in Syria indefinitely and that their departure would be gradual and conditions-based, marking a return to a policy of open-ended American military presence in the country.
It is essential to the globalist to bring about a regime change in Syria and Iran to control both the oil and money. Syria and Iran are the two major countries standing in their way. Trump kept troops in Syria to protect the oil fields. The Trump administration pulled American troops away from Syria's northern border to secure the oil. The United States is now responsible for the fate of the oil. "We've secured the oil and, therefore, a small number of U.S. troops will remain in the area where they have the oil," Trump said during a press conference. "And we're going to be protecting it, and we'll be deciding what we're going to do with it in the future." An unspecified number of American troops and equipment are being sent to defend oil fields in eastern Syria held by Kurdish forces. They were vital U.S. allies in the fight against ISIS. Still, the American withdrawal opened the door for Turkey, which views the main Kurdish militia in Syria as a threat, to launch an offensive against the group. Some feel Trump abandoned the Kurds and left them without the support to defend against Turkey.
What I have found strange is the U.S. government bullied its way into a sovereign state with duly elected leaders to support the very people we are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. We take over oil fields that do not belong to us and threaten to go to war with Russia, who the Syrian government invited to help protect their country. You might disagree with me, but I am sure if a nation came to America and took over the oil fields and tried to overthrow the duly elected government, we would be going to war. We should never have gone into Syria, and Trump should have pulled out all troops and brought them home.
Just as things looked like they might settle down in the Middle East, one day after Biden was inaugurated, a massive U.S. military convoy rolled into Syria. A large U.S. military convoy entered northeastern Syria. President Trump had tried very hard to disengage from the war in Syria, but Biden has made it crystal clear that the U.S. will be heavily involved in that conflict moving forward. A few weeks later, Joe Biden conducted his first airstrike against Iranian-backed forces inside Syria. The U.S. has carried out an airstrike targeting Iran-backed militias in Syria in the Biden administration's first military action. Of course, it was inevitable that Iranian-backed forces would respond, and they retaliated by launching rockets at a military base in Iraq where U.S. forces are stationed. The new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that there would be a U.S. military response "at a time and place of our own choosing"…
More U.S. airstrikes may come sooner rather than later. It is being reported that the U.S. has just sent six B-52 bombers to Diego Garcia. The U.S. Air Force is sending six B-52 Stratofortress bombers to Diego Garcia. This military hub acts as a strategic location for operations in both the Middle East and the Pacific. The bomber will be "available for operations against Iran if ordered."
The Biden administration is also sending approximately 10,000 more U.S. troops to the Middle East. Once the amphibious assault ship Bataan, which moves toward the Middle East, arrives, the U.S. will have added roughly 10,000 personnel to the area.
The U.S. government is not the only player in the region. Russia has been busy making moves in the area as well. Russia conducted an airstrike on an oil-loading facility in Syria used by opposition forces backed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the Biden administration. A suspected missile strike on an oil-loading facility used by Turkey-backed opposition forces in northern Syria sparked a massive blaze across a large area where oil tankers usually are parked, aerial and satellite images show.
Syrian opposition groups and at least one war monitor blamed Russia for the strike near the towns of Jarablus and al-Bab, near the border with Turkey. In a report, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain, said Russian warships in the Mediterranean had fired three missiles that struck primitive oil refineries and tanker trucks in the region. Meanwhile, Israel continues to hit strategically important targets inside Syria regularly. The following comes from a news report that was published in late February.
Meanwhile, the real reason the U.S. is there is to protect Israel's interests, which are acting as a background player. Syrian air defenses have been activated in Damascus and its southern suburbs to repel an Israeli missile attack. Most of the Israeli missiles were shot down before reaching their targets near Damascus.
Damascus is widely believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, with evidence of habitation dating back several thousand years.
Today, Damascus is the seat of the central government and all of the government ministries of Syria.
Isaiah 17 opens with the words "the burden of Damascus," indicating that Damascus is the subject of a troublesome prophecy. As Isaiah mentions, other places in Syria will also face destruction, "the remnant of Syria."
In the last days, the Bible tells us that a horrible series of events will take place in Israel and Syria's lands. One of these events is the disappearance of Damascus as one of the premier cities in the world. The oldest continuously inhabited city on the planet, Damascus has witnessed at least five thousand years of human history. Some historians believe the city dates back to the seventh-millennium bc.
Very shortly, Damascus will once again play a significant role in human events. The prophet Isaiah provides us with God's commentary on a future conflict between Damascus and Israel. In so doing, He reveals specific prophecies that have been partially fulfilled in the past. However, the ultimate fulfillment of Isaiah 17 remains in the future.
Damascus's current existence, which will one day cease to be a city, as well as the historical absence of the coalition of nations prophesied to attack Israel and be destroyed by God, is proof that Isaiah 17 prophesies events yet future.
"This message came to me concerning Damascus: 'Look, Damascus will disappear! It will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer will be deserted. Sheep will graze in the streets and lie down unafraid. There will be no one to chase them away. The fortified cities of Israel will also be destroyed, and the power of Damascus will end. The few left in Aram will share the fate of Israel's departed glory,' says the Lord Almighty" (Isaiah 17:1-3, NLT).
These opening verses paint a bleak picture. The city of Damascus will become a heap of ruins, utterly destroyed. Few, if any, buildings will be left standing. The once-great city will be devoid of human life and will become home to all manner of wildlife in the absence of humans to chase them away. According to these verses, the cities of Aroer, located on the northern bank of the Arnon River just east of the Dead Sea, will also be deserted. However, the passage doesn't say they will be destroyed in the same manner as Damascus, just that they will be rejected. It may be that people flee these cities out of fear, or it could be from nuclear fallout.
Also, many of the fortified cities in northern Israel will be destroyed. The few who remain in Aram, thirty-eight miles south-southeast of Damascus, will share these northern Israeli cities' fate.
"'In that day, the glory of Israel will be very dim, for poverty will stalk the land. Israel will be abandoned like the grain fields in the valley of Rephaim after the harvest. Only a few of its people will be left, like the stray olives left on the tree after the harvest. Only two or three remain in the highest branches, four or five out on the tips of the limbs. Yes, Israel will be stripped bare of people,' says the Lord, the God of Israel" (Isaiah 17:4-6, NLT).
The breadth and scope of destruction are clearly illustrated as God describes the Israeli landscape as stripped bare of people. Only a small fraction of people either choose to stay in the land or survive a massive holocaust, leaving only a few inhabitants who struggle in poverty.
"Then, at last, the people will think of their Creator and have respect for the Holy One of Israel. They will no longer ask their idols for help or worship what their own hands have made. They will never again bow down to their Asherah poles or burn incense on the altars they built" (Isaiah 17:7-8, NLT).
Knowing that this will happen, we must ask: Why does it happen? The answer is found in the verses that follow:
"Their largest cities will be as deserted as overgrown thickets. They will become like the cities the Amorites abandoned when the Israelites came here so long ago. Why? Because you have turned from the God who can save you--the Rock who can hide you. You may plant the finest imported grapevines, and they may grow so well that they blossom on the very morning you plant them, but you will never pick any grapes from them. Your only harvest will be a load of grief and incurable pain" (Isaiah 17:9-11, NLT).
The devastation that overshadows Israel will come about because Israel has "turned from the God who can save them." All the hard work performed before this event will be lost. Those who have been distracted by the things of this world will be disappointed, for they have forgotten God, and by putting faith in the things of this world, they will ultimately be disappointed. Their only harvest will be "a load of grief and incurable pain." This grief will be brought to a climax when, in the midst of their suffering, the nation of Israel faces an imminent invasion: "Look! The armies rush forward like waves thundering toward the shore. But though they roar like breakers on a beach, God will silence them. They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind or like dust whirling before a storm. In the evening, Israel waits in terror, but by dawn, its enemies are dead. This is the just reward of those who plunder and destroy the people of God" (Isaiah 17:12-14, NLT).
While Syria and Israel lie in ruin, the enemies of Israel will view her suffering as an opportunity to invade, their ultimate goal to destroy her forever. However, God has a different plan in mind, and He will destroy these invaders Himself. A more in-depth illustration of this attack is foreseen in Psalms 83:
By studying these ancient people and places' geographical history, we can uncover which nations they currently compose. According to Psalms 83, in the aftermath of the destruction of northern Israel and Damascus, Israel will be invaded by armies from Jordan, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza. All of these locations are heavily populated by the enemies of Israel today.
Syria is an ancient land with its capital, Damascus, being the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world (circa 4 000 years). Its Semitic people have been ruled by Akkadians, Arameans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Turks.
So, why is the U.S. government so determined to have a regime change in Syria?
Does Syria have weapons of mass destruction? Nope.
Does Syria have a program to build weapons of mass destruction? Nope
Does Syria have a nuclear program? Nope.
Does Syria have or plan to have nuclear weapons? Nope.
Does Syria pose any possible threat to the United States? Nope.
Does the United States need Syria as a place to build bases to control the Middle East? Nope
Does control of Syria give the Americans any strategic benefits whatsoever? Nope.
Was Syria involved with the September 11 attack? Nope
Is Syria connected to al Qaeda? Nope. The Syrian government is one of the biggest enemies of Islamist terrorist groups. Assad has a hatred for the Muslim Brotherhood, and they were banned from Syria.
Syria occupies a critical strategic position in the Middle East. It represents the last obstacle for a United States/Zionist takeover of the region and the imposition of puppet regimes in each state. The ultimate target appears to be Iran, with whom Syria signed a defense cooperation pact in May 2008. The "popular uprising," which started in March 2011, has been masterminded by Turkish, American (CIA), and Israeli intelligence agents. The so-called "peaceful demonstrators" are the pawns of agents provocateurs (Salafists, Jihadis) armed with heavy machine guns, mortars, anti-air rockets, and tank traps. The purpose of these demonstrations is to destabilize the country so that a fake humanitarian crisis is created, which demands military intervention by R2P.
(R2P) The Responsibility to Protect is a global political commitment that all member states of the United Nations endorsed at the 2005 World Summit to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. The principle of the Responsibility to Protect is based on the underlying premise that sovereignty entails a responsibility to protect against genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. The outcome is intended to be regime change.
President Bashar al-Assad is a popular leader and is supported by most of his people. In a presidential referendum held on July 10, 2010, he gained 97.3% of the votes cast. Perhaps on this occasion, Syria will prove to be a "bridge too far" for the imperialist powers and their backers the international bankers.
The American people need to open their eyes to what is happening in the Middle-East. Our government is rapidly pushing the world into a global conflict that will destroy every element of freedom. Our government is complicit in the murder of Christians in Iraq, Lybia, Afghanistan, and now Syria. When will it end?
Israel is particularly interested in keeping Iran from developing nuclear weapons. In an interview with Fox News, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz just stated that Israel is ready to attack Iran without any U.S. help. It should be noted that Israel has a stockpile ranging between 80 and 400 nuclear warheads, and the country is believed to possess the ability to deliver them in several methods. The Israeli military is updating plans to strike Iranian nuclear sites and is prepared to act independently, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told Fox News. Israel has identified numerous targets inside Iran that would hurt its ability to develop a nuclear bomb. "If the world stops them before, it's very much good. But if not, we must stand independently, and we must defend ourselves by ourselves," Gantz said in his first sit-down interview with an American outlet.
During a phone call last Thursday between Kamala Harris and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister made it exceedingly clear that his nation is ready to do whatever it takes to prevent the Iranians from developing their nukes. "The prime minister said they would continue to strengthen their intelligence and security cooperation and said during their conversation that as prime minister of Israel, he is committed to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons that are meant for our destruction."
Of course, the Iranians have no plans to back down, making a military conflict between Israel and Iran inevitable. There will be war in the Middle East, and the horror of that conflict will shock the entire planet. And once that war begins, it will significantly accelerate our economic problems and the ongoing political turmoil in this country.
Under the warmongers of the Democrat and Republican parties, our world is about to change dramatically.
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