By: Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer Blog
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/
Source: Global Research
http://www.globalresearch.ca/turkey-attempts-to-trigger-a-nato-led-war-against-syria/
After over a year of
harboring foreign terrorists and supporting their
operations near and across the Turkish-Syrian border, NATO-member Turkey has
claimed it has retaliated with military force against “targets” inside Syria
for an alleged attack on Turkish territory that it has blamed on the Syrian
government.
Despite
heavily armed listed-terrorist organizations operating in large numbers on both
sides of the Turkish border with Turkey’s explicit approval and logistical
support, the government in Ankara appears to have excluded the possibility that
these terrorist forces, not the Syrian military, were responsible for the
attack which consisted of mortar rounds the armed militants are known to widely use.
Image: Terrorists operating in Syria pose next to a large
mortar. Mortars of all sizes are a favorite of terrorists operating in and
around Syria in NATO’s proxy bid to effect violent regime change. The mortars
fired into Turkish territory could just as likely have come from terrorists
Turkey itself is funding, arming, and harboring on behalf of long-planned NATO
machinations. Unlike the Syrian government, the terrorists, Turkey, and by
consequence, NATO, all have an actual motivation for launching the initial
attack that has caused Turkey to retaliate and predictably call on NATO to
intervene.
It was
unknown whether the mortar shells were fired by Syrian government forces or
rebels fighting to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The
Turkish response seemed to assume that the Syrian government was responsible.
Turkey’s
immediate, unwarranted act of military aggression, along with knee-jerk
condemnations from the US bear all the hallmarks of an orchestrated event – or
at the very least an attempt to opportunistically seize upon an isolated
incident to disingenuously advance the West’s collective geopolitical agenda.
Syria
clearly has no interest in threatening the security of Turkey, nor any reason
to attack Turkish territory which would surely give NATO the excuse it has been
looking for to directly intervene on behalf of its faltering terrorist proxies.
Turkey Has Longed for a Pretext to Start War with
Syria
It was
previously reported that Turkey was intended by NATO, and more specifically,
Wall Street and London, to lead efforts in carving out “safe havens” in Syria’s
north, and to do so either under a false “humanitarian” or false “security”
pretext.
“An
alternative is for diplomatic efforts to focus first on how to end the violence
and how to gain humanitarian access, as is being done under Annan’s leadership.
This may lead to the creation of safe-havens and humanitarian corridors, which
would have to be backed by limited military power. This would, of course, fall
short of U.S. goals for Syria and could preserve Asad in power. From that
starting point, however, it is possible that a broad coalition with the
appropriate international mandate could add further coercive action to its
efforts.” -page 4, Assessing Options for Regime Change,
Brookings Institution
Image: The
Brookings Institution, Middle East Memo #21 “Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf),”
makes no secret that the humanitarian “responsibility to protect” is but a
pretext for long-planned regime change.
Brookings
continues by describing how Turkey’s aligning of vast amounts of weapons and
troops along its border in coordination with Israeli efforts in the south of
Syria, could help effect violent regime change in Syria:
In
addition, Israel’s intelligence services have a strong knowledge of Syria, as
well as assets within the Syrian regime that could be used to subvert the
regime’s power base and press for Asad’s removal. Israel could posture forces
on or near the Golan Heights and, in so doing, might divert regime forces from
suppressing the opposition. This posture may conjure fears in the Asad regime
of a multi-front war, particularly if Turkey is willing to do the same on its
border and if the Syrian opposition is being fed a steady diet of arms and
training. Such a mobilization could perhaps persuade Syria’s military
leadership to oust Asad in order to preserve itself. Advocates argue this
additional pressure could tip the balance against Asad inside Syria, if other
forces were aligned properly. -page 6, Assessing Options for Regime Change,
Brookings Institution.
Turkish
leaders have clearly spent much time fabricating various excuses to meet
Washington’s demands in this regard by fabricating or taking advantage of
violence Turkey itself is fostering along its own border with Syria.
The report
would also mention Turkey’s role in helping undermine, subvert, and carve out
the ancient northern city of Aleppo:
Because
creating a unified national opposition is a long-term project that will
probably never fully succeed, the contact group, while not abandoning this
effort, may seek more realistic goals. For example, it might concentrate
maximum effort on breaking Asad’s hold on, say, the elite of Aleppo, which is
the commercial capital and which is also the city where Turkey has the greatest
leverage. If Aleppo were to fall to the opposition, the demoralizing effect on
the regime would be considerable.
The
military options include everything from perpetuating violence to, in Brookings’ own words, “bleed
it, keeping a regional adversary weak, while avoiding the costs of direct
intervention,” to Libyan-style “no-fly zones,” to a full military invasion. It
is clear, upon reading the Brookings memo, that the conspiracy has indeed begun
to unfold since its writing – with various military options being prepared and
various co-conspirators positioning themselves to execute them.
The
Brookings Institution’s “safe havens” and “humanitarian corridors” are meant to
be established by NATO-member Turkey, who has been threatening to partially invade
Syria for months in order to accomplish this. And while Turkey
claims this is based on “humanitarian concerns,” examining Turkey’s abysmal human rights record
in addition to its own ongoing genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people
both within and beyond its borders, it is clear they are simply fulfilling the
agenda established by their Western patrons on Wall Street and in the city of
London.
….
This latest
exchange between Turkey and Syria is not the first. Turkey has fabricated
stories before involving Syrian troops “firing across” the Turkish-Syrian
border. The New York Times published these bold
accusations before admitting further down that “it was unclear what
kind of weapons caused the injuries on Sunday around six miles inside Turkish
territory,” and that “there were conflicting accounts about the incident.” As
are all the accusations used by NATO, the UN, and individual member states to
justify meddling in Syria’s affairs, these tales involve hear-say from the rebels themselves.
It is clear
that Turkey, NATO, and the UN are continuously attempting to set a pretext for
the establishment of “safe havens” and “humanitarian corridors” intended to
circumvent the UN Security Council which has seen attempts to green-light
military intervention vetoed multiple times by Russia and China.
That the UN
has failed utterly to condemn the combined provocations and meddling in Syria’s
affairs illustrates the absolute failure of supranational, let alone, global
governance.
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