Monday, October 06, 2014

The end of the world maybe nigh after all.

They will not stop until they instigate a full scale war with Russia. Suddenly documents have been discovered, apparently by Iraqi forces to give them some credibility, which show that the Islamic State want to seize Iran's nuclear weapons with help from Russia. It is completely laughable. Russia has built one nuclear power plant at Bushehr in Iran and talks are on for them to build 2 more which will earn a lot of money for Russia. Spent fuel from these plants, presumably plutonium, will help Iran acquire nuclear warheads pretty quickly giving them parity with Sunni Pakistan. Also Iran's army, with help from Shias in Iraq, the Hezbollah in Lebanon and Assad's Alawites in Syria, is more than a match for all the Arabs, unless the US and NATO join in. While the IS is defending its territory in Syria and Iraq the Houthis, a Shia sect in Yemen has seized the capital, Sanaa. Yemen is south of Saudi Arabia, the financier of most of the Sunni terrorism in the world today. So, what is Saudi going to do? It seized the Asir region from Yemen in the past and will not want a Shia force along its southern border when it shares a 1000 km border with the south of Iraq, which is also controlled by the Shias. Besides Russia has a naval base in Tartus, in the west of Syria which gives it a valuable presence along the Mediterranean Sea. There is absolutely no reason for Russia to have any truck with these religious maniacs. The IS is torturing its hostages exactly as the US did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile the US Congress has authorised Obama to deliver arms to ' moderate Syrian rebels '. Aren't they the same fellows who sold American hostage, Steven Sotloff to the IS, who chopped his head off? Are western countries trying conflate the war in Iraq with the civil war in Ukraine so as to pressure Russia? If so it is a dangerous game. The NATO has a new Secretary General called Jens Stoltenberg. On a visit to Poland he said, in response to Polish request for permanent NATO troops in erstwhile Soviet bloc countries," .....NATO has a strong army after all. We can deploy it wherever we want."  It is impossible to understand what their motive can be. The US lost in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq despite enormously superior arms and unchallenged air power. How do they think that they can take on the IS, Iran and Russia? Are they even more wild-eyed than the IS fellows? Meanwhile their best friends, the Pakistani Taliban has declared allegiance to the caliphate of the IS. These fellows could actually get their hands on nuclear weapons, with help from Islamists inside the Pakistan army. If the west really wants to be safe from nuclear attack they should take out Pakistan. Trouble is, all the leaders are bunch of jackals, leading the world into disaster.

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