RE: Sources on the Syrian Civil War
Azor....a small secret on how I work and or analyze something....as a grey beard strategic debriefer and interrogator working in three languages when the terms never even existed in the Berlin Cold War days I became hooked so to speak on open source intelligence....as I had learned when talking to a normal joe six pack or a nuclear scientist or a student....the human mind and eyes sees things sometimes far better that all the satellites and NSA's in the world...and it is their own personal perceptions and biases that one has to learn how to filter out of the chatter...Originally Posted by Azor
AND especially learning one's own biases that helps a lot......I also learned that all the satellites and NSAs in the world cannot look through and or behind a locked door...that takes a human to unlock and enter.....
I read an article and mentally compare it to my intel experience..experience in guerrilla warfare not the theory side..what I have learned in numerous debates in a German university environment ....seen in videos and photos...then I accept or reject the article..........regardless of who writes it...and yes even some very conservative writers are worth listening to....
BUT if I notice the article comes nowhere close to my above filters especially on Iraq..Syria....Ukraine...and Islam I am turned off....and move on...
I was lucky in the mid 70s to have had a US card carrying Communist Party Boston University Professor who had a lot of active duty Army officers in his class....who bluntly stated during the first class...do not write what you think I want to hear and see because of my political leanings....write your own ideas and learn to defend then and I will grade you on your ability to defend your thinking.....was one of the best ever courses I have ever had and on par with anything the German FU was offering.....
He constantly tangled with the Army officers but they accepted his arguments and he theirs and they came out with solid grades much to their surprise....
I read what Weiss...Lister...Hassan...Orton and especially CrowBat write simply because they reflect the current ground reality backed by videos....FSA statements...photos which I feel gives a far better overview of what the heck is ongoing.... example CrowBat has probably one of the best order of battle breakout on the Syrian ground players that rivals anything the CIA has going right now....
What is never talked about inside DC and the Obama WH and coming Trump WH...Syria is simply a open rebellion by 73% of the civil society demanding rule of law....fair economic development....and good governance...and it started peacefully and that should be respected....
What bothers me a lot more is the lack of the understanding in many US MSM articles and writers on just how Crimea...eastern Ukraine..Syria is part and parcel of a very aggression Russian non linear war using an intensive form of information warfare coupled with an elegant use of cyber warfare...
Hate to say it...but it is a war...just with other means and it has three strategic geopolitical goals that have never changed..since actually 2006.
1. damage and discredit NATO
2. damage and discredit EU
3. disconnect the US completely from EU/NATO/ME
All designed to drive a new Russian formulated Yalta 2.0 allowing their political/military influence to expand from Portugal to the Russian Far East...
It really is that simple but many attempt to develop a complicated explanation when one is not necessary...
My concern has been that Obama was actually helping Putin in reaching these goals and that a Trump WH will cement them...as he backs the US away from NATO and the ME....
EXAMPLE....notice this did not gain any traction in the US MSM but it did on social media....this is dangerous especially when before the election everyone on Trump's campaign and Trump himself denied Russian "connections".....
Russian wants in exchange for "being friendly with Trump"....the US sanctions dropped...
AM News: Trump Advisor Arrives in Moscow; Plans to 'Meet With Influential Business People and Thought Leaders' http://www.interpretermag.com/russia...-8-2016/#15694 …
BTW...Carter Page was supposedly dropped as was Manafort from the Trump campaign for being to close to Russia and for is supposedly illegally working as a "paid foreign agent" that the BI was supposedly investigating but we have heard nothing about that..COUPLED with his Moscow visit just before the election supposedly talking to high Russian officials about the future Trump Russian FP.... .
EXAMPLE...with Crimea and eastern Ukraine invasions by Putin we have learned that a number of Republican Congressmen seem to have been receiving large campaign donations from proRussian lobbyist firms in the US...and suddenly they spout the latest and greatest Russian Today political statements...which sometimes first come via Sputnik International.......
Rohrbacher in a number of proRussian statements on Crimea and eastern Ukraine openly stated that the current Ukrainian government was led by a bunch of Nazi's.....he somehow thinks social media "forgot his statements from two years ago"....
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher compares Putin to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in contentious exchange
https://yhoo.it/2hkLmQO
A total lack of knowledge on the part of Rohrbacher as there is no comparison between Gorbachev and Putin with some Russian ultra nationalists actually claiming now that Gorbachev is a traitor for allowing the SU to collapse....
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