The Bigger Effects OF Trump's Major Move Pulling Out

you guys are completely missing the fact that this is a power play, quite possibly no doubt via sleaze as per his Orangeness' usual wont, but in that also a power play by one of the world's greatest historical powers now able to make a move on the ancient chessboard of the Middle East.

Erdogan has ambitions of restoring the glory of the sultanate. including its role as the leading state in the "Abode of Peace", which is what Dar-el-Salaam means.... This is not Putin's idea nor intention at all, though convenient to him...

And you're also missing that Syrian Kurdistan belongs with Iraqi Kurdistan and Iranian Kurdistan in the united Kurdistan the Kurds were promised by the Treaty of Sevres in 1922, in reward for their aid against the Central Powers in World War I, as likewise was the Sharif (meaning the heir to Mohammed, the Hashemite line of which  now has Jordan only) promised a united Kingdom of Arabia with its capital at Damascus.  

Nope, and nix to all that. What was gotten was no Kurdistan, rather its partition into Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi and Iranian sectors, the respective Syrian and British mandates, with Britain spinning off a Kingdom of Iraq to give to the Sharif as booby prize.  That's the Lawrence of Arabia story, by the way... and hmmm the Black Falcon with.. Dr Bashir from ST-DS9.

Like most Americans, and like anyone who's not deeply read in history and geopolitics, you make the mistake of seeing all this from your own country's viewpoint and without an understanding of that chessboard I mentioned and its very - very - long and complex history and geopolitic.  

And an understanding of who the p;layers are  - Turkey, the Kurds, the Iranians (Persians), Arabia (not just Saudi), Egypt.

Even Russia's just a bystander.... but the Kurds will fight and fight and fight like they have for centuries.  

They are not to be underestimated. Saladin, who drove the Crusaders from the Holy Land, was  a Kurd.

Who will help; them I'm waiting to see....

all this ties into the Gilets-Jaunes movement, who want no more French troop;s or aircraft in Syria due to the terrorism it's cost them, and th wave of refugees - as have al,so the wars in the Sahel and Congo where young Frenchmen die for who?  Macron?  A mining company?'

there's a further factor to tie into all this... France's military presence and governmental relations via la francophonie in Africa has wound up; being useful to Chinese interests and development and growing geopolitical footprint there. 

So with word being that all the materiele the CRS is using on the peaceful and not-easy-to-provoke crowds of the GJ, the violence of which gets hyped too much rather than what the Yellow Jackets are actually saying and wanting (including by TYT and Democracy Now and even the Guardian)..... it's all sup;plied by China... and that hints at where those fine young Frenchmen and women we see in riot gear attacking their own people were trained and by whom....and whose interests are at stake with Macron's head on the line - where they've dragged the guillotine  out a few times in fact.  

But the upshot of the French situation geopolitically is that the Gilets-Jaunes, i.e. today's Sans Culottes,  want France to withdraw from Syria, so it's not just the US that's leaving Syria.

This YT link may have subtitles by the time you read this, right now it's only in French.  From Paris, yesterday, Dec 21.  I can follow the French so if you can or have someone who can, have a listen.

All this plays into everywhere else....France is a nuclear power and is on the Security Council and a French 'retreat' geopolitically from its former empire - upsetting China's plans in the MidEast and especially in Africa once Macron's booted (and he will be, short of a bloody civil war like we have in Syria where 'they' tried to get Assad out).

I'm 63, I don't get freaked out by any of this anymore, it's fascinating to watch it all unfold and know about the past enough to see the many places event can go - yes, like Muad'dib in Dune - and  to know that like it says on the cover of the Hitrchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "Don't Panic!".

Panic is counterproductive... ignorance of the past or the principles of geopolitics when speculating on MidEast politics, and only from the perspective of the US/American mindset - ....it's dangerous.

For you.  And hysterics over the money, power, oil and guns of today's nightmare that is international politics won't help you see things clearly.

Penguin or Pelican has a seris of atlasses of ancient, mediaeval and modern history in landscape format with synopses of the map and its era on the left and the ever-changing map on the right.  

Grab some of McEvedy's atlases, start with the mediaeval one maybe - ? though they're not long heavy reading and good for browsing -  for reading around your studio or wherever you are when you're processing and uploading. Also a great channel called Kings and Generals where you'll learn about lots about the MidEst/Central Asia and the West.

Which brings me to what I sat down to say in brief but wrote all of the above instead.d

Look up the Battle of Carrhae.... I think it was Valerian - Valentian? - who was the Roman Emperor who was captured and imprisoned in Ctesiphon for decades.

A reminder that the West doesn't have a history of winning when it tries to meddle in the MIddle East. Something France and Britain should have heeded also.

Wouldn't it have been all so much simpler if the Kurds were given Kurdistan and the Sharif was given his Kingdom of Arabia? And he was very much a moderate, educated at Cambridge or Oxford too, not a salafist or wahhabist.

What Trump has done is irreversible given what Erdogan is about to try to do and what will come of it.... but  what is happening in the streets of Paris is irreversible too... and, short of a bloodbath, unstoppable.

So France will be leaving Syria soon... short of a Security Council joint operation against the French people.

peace, bounty/goodness and truth is what I heard one guy say in French today, and you hear "liberty, equality, fraternity" from everyone.....

Vive la France. 

Once again, the French launch a new era of change and ideas in Europe...And the Age of Austerity in all its lavish and ironic gilt, has come to its showdown with the masses.

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