What is happening is actually very simple. A gang of powerful and super-rich entities decided to take over the world (as they have always been trying to). They organized the "color revolution" (what does the word 'color' mean there I have no idea), using social media to organized flash mobs, and overthrow their governments. In the ensuing chaos, the ISIS was created since the Somali pirates didn't show the enterprise to get beyond their piracy-4-ransom bijnej plan, and Somali piracy didn't make oil prices skyrocket. Note that except for Tunisia, the other color Revolutions have either led to total chaos, or been reversed entirely to military dictatorship (Egypt).
Note the big change in geo-economics. Shale/fracking threw all 'global warming' concerns to the winds (fracking generates so much methane into the atmosphere, which is 20 times as bad as CO2 per unit mass) but suddenly North America had more oil than it could use. Everyone was going into fracking. This changed everything.
1. Agreement between The Gang and KSA - KSA would produce all-out, driving prices low. Shale/fracking bijnejes, mostly on huge leverage, would go bust. Only KSA and The Gang had $$$$$$ to buy them out, so they started systematically cherry-picking the oil rights and companies that they wanted, the rest went bust.
2. In return, KSA was allowed a free run to spread Wahabi terrorism all over the MidEast, to take over all of the Ummah. Loot, rape, mutilate to their black hearts' content.
3. Turkey, NATO member, was needed to provide the logistics, and the F-16 cover. And if push came to shove, the military power.
4. The Shia, Kurds and Yazidis of Iraq and Syria were thrown to the wolves. It was open season on the Shia.
5. Agreement with Iran because a war between Iran and Israel would be inconvenient. In fact I think it was KSA pressure that drove the US-Iran agreement: If Israel was allowed to smash Iran's nuclear industry, then KSA would be next on the list to have their nukes removed. But if Iran was allowed to keep its nukes, then KSA also could keep theirs.
6. Once all this is done, oil prices will spike again. But this time, both the conventional and the shale/fracking resources will be under The Gang/KSA cartel and that is where the payoff will come.
7. The Russians are an inconvenience. The Cartel wants Ukraine, Poland and Moldavia as sources of mail-order brides and cheap industrial production. Diversify from Phillippines, Thailand and the Baltic.
8. Yemen is a Saudi misadventure. Decided to take over Aden to exert total control over the Persian Gulf, Red Sea etc.
So what is the counter? A Russian-Syrian success in saving Syrian national integrity (and oil resources) plus a Free Kurdistan protected by Russia-Iran-Syria in a mutual defense alliance, would be a serious burr up the musharrafs of the Gang. But this can at best be a heroic Last Stand etc. unless Putin breaks out seriously. This means that Turkey, KSA or both have to unravel, and have the Color Revolutions come to them, this time real revolutions, not Gang-paid ones.
Or China has to enter on the Russian side and see fit to say
to The Gang. Unfortunately I don't see the Chinese standing up for Truth, what is right, etc. They will go where the $$$$ are, and not be willing to become a true world power.
So pray that Putin has a burst of inspiration, mobilizes Russia, and smashes Turkey and KSA. Maybe use the Houthis to invade KSA and drive towards Jeddah. That will truly set the cat among the pigeons.
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