It wasn't about Syria and it wasn't really about the release of chemical weapons this past summer. It was a war of money.
Most media pundits in the west have failed to pass along a version of the startling series of events this past summer…and what they may portend for Europe and America. Why should they? A major American defeat at the hands of the Russians is embarrassing and not at all glamorous.
Russia went toe to toe with two groups of allied nations and won a silent war without firing a shot. This event will eventually go down in history as a watershed incident in the direction of power and events in the Levant.
For several years Russia has been building natural gas pipelines to the west, selling their product to Europe and England. A year or so ago Russia raised the price. Europe wailed, but Russia kept the gas off until they caved. The Russian ruble, based upon the commodity of a natural resource did what Stalin never could - massively influence European economic and military foreign and domestic policy. Months later European banks counter-attacked by staging an artificial economic crisis in Cyprus (where millions of Rubles were parked in off-shore accounts) in an attempt to restrict the growth and power of the Russian financial system, but by then the tide had turned. The Ruble, not the cannon and bomb, has become Russia's greatest secret weapon.
Forward to summer 2013 when the FUKUS alliance (France, United Kingdom & USA)(1) massed its military might against Syria in response to an alleged chemical attack by Asaad government forces upon civilians (2). Mr. Putin used his economic muscle and threats to 'turn off the gas' to persuade France and Britain to take their military toys and go home. Mr. Kerry met with Putin and in a world wide media event decided to remove US naval forces as well.(3) In other words Russia won a silent war against the three most powerful nations of the west without firing a shot. Again, something Joe Stalin could never have accomplished.
The second allied group against Syria is Turkey and Israel. Politics makes strange bedfellows and these two were unwilling to go it alone without western assistance. Their aggressive tendencies cooled somewhat with the defeat of the FUKUS alliance.
The great silent war this summer wasn't about the Syrian civil war or even about the use of chemical weapons.
It was about the rise of the BRIC(4) nations' financial strength against the dollar. Western currency is based upon debt leverage and the dwindling petroleum resources of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is no longer based upon gold, silver, the production of natural resources, agriculture(5) or manufacturing. The west stands upon very thin ice, financially speaking. The reader is no doubt well aware of this.
What is not generally known is that another event this past summer reinforced the ascendency of commodity based currencies. China quietly signed an agreement with the European Central Bank to make its currency, the renminbi(6), more liquid. The Chinese, as well as the rest of the BRIC nations, are moving to make their financial leverage supreme. The only weapon in the American arsenal to counter these moves is pride and arrogance. Instead of increasing American productivity this past summer, the Obama administration has used the pretense of national health care to afflict tax payers with crippling debt.
We all know what the Bible says will happen after pride is adopted as an attitude.
Will we see US foreign and domestic policy affected by the rise of commodity currencies? Without a doubt. The future isn't an American one. The foundation for a different more powerful foreign influence in the Levant and around the globe was laid this past summer. And most of America has no idea what really happened. More gas came out of the White House, figuratively speaking, than was released against the Syrian population.
and that's just me, hollering from the choir loft...
(1) The acronym for the alliance was a common reference in the foreign press. It's obvious double meaning was a useful propaganda tool.
(2) The case was never proven. UN investigators discovered that the type of missile used to deliver the chemical weapons did not have sufficient range to have been fired from Syrian government positions. There was, however, a rebel enclave well within range and in the correct direction.
(3) US carrier forces were stationed in the Red Sea, well out of range of the deadly Russian Sunburn missile - a weapon system for which there is no known defense. Did the Pentagon know something of Russian military capacity that wasn't published to the American public? source: the Cicero Foundation, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
(4) BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India & China.
(5) Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer and inappropriate farming methods in the midwest threaten another dust bowl - an end to American agricultural production. source; wikipedia and PBS
(6) Renminbi - China wants to rename its traditional currency the Yuan as the Renminbi. The term means 'people's currency'.
