NEO: A Scorching Hot Cold War

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Egyptian six vehicle column gets ambushed in the Sinai with IED where undamaged vehicles run away
Egyptian six-vehicle column gets ambushed in the Sinai with IEDs, where undamaged vehicles run away

“Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.”

– Noam Chomsky

Robert McNamara came clean in his Fog of War documentary

[ Note: I chose this title and the subject matter to get onto the table that it might be time to take a new look at our using the term “New Cold War”, because it is anything but that. Even Robert McNamara said, in one of his last reflective interviews, that the Cold War was definitely hot.

I think we need to start referring to the one we are in as a hot war, which, given the current use of proxy terrorist “regime change” forces in traditional military formation, should quality for the title.



But we have more than one public relations enemy within our ranks. Our military, the vast majority of our veterans organizations, law enforcement, political entities , think tanks and even the UN will not call a spade, a spade.

So the question begs what do people do when they see a virtual governmental and civic institution stand down on facing the hot wars being carried out right in front of them with major-power involvement? We see them swallowing the fake news that these are common grassroots insurgencies or endless religious disputes and we should just let them kill each other and stay out of it.

My response to this thinking is we are not “out of it”. We have been in it with both feet for some time. We have this incredible situation in Syria, where we have the US-backed SDF Kurds attacking major Arab territories with major economic resources.

They are doing this under the guise of an anti-terrorism campaign, when it is obvious that the SDF wants to add both the territory and resources to their future state, with the American military acting as their muscle – the fixer. A top SDF Kurdish commander said just last week that “he hopes” the US military stays for decades.

Nazi generals were hanged at Nuremberg under the legal banner of “waging an aggressive war”, which is exactly what we have our own country doing on multiple fronts, such as the violent Ukrainian coup, Syria, Iraq, possibly North Korea and maybe even in Kurdistan now.

Almost no one in Congress has stood up to attack this insanity, nor has our corporate media or any of the top ten think tanks, or even one of the major US religious denominations.

My use of the term “stand down” was a polite one. Much harsher terms could be used, and fairly so. I fear we have lost our way when we ignore the growing threat that is gaining strength like a hurricane, while  diversions like the “fake Confederate threat”, or the total hoax of “systemic” racial discrimination against blacks is lapped up like dogs eating their own you know what…my being polite again.

How can the current adult generation teach their children to survive in this climate when they have put on such a poor effort themselves? The kids and grandkids are doomed in my book. They won’t even know what hit them. And I have to ask, will they end up as refugees themselves some day – oh yes, that JD ]

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A smile today might be followed by tears tomorrow

The Cold War blows hot and cold (original title)

by Jim W. Dean,  VT Editor  … with New Eastern Outlook,  Moscow

Old Intel hands are seeing a pattern emerging where, when one conflict is winding down, a new one is cranking up. It is almost like the thugs working on the last one have a guaranteed work contract with the Deep State to always have an available war to keep them employed.

Peshmerga Kurds smile after voting – oblivious to the potential storm ahead

Preliminary moves began prior to the Kurdish referendum voting with Iran closing its borders with Kurdistan and, at Baghdad’s request, ended all air traffic to Erbil, while Iranian guns roared along the border with military drills simulating combat with large terrorist formations, a message being sent out in open code.

Barzani responded with mixed messages to different media, one offering to be open to negotiation, and then telling a press conference that the “partnership is over”.

The good news was that he had signaled being open to negotiation after the referendum, which had been my bet, that he thought going into new talks with a strong public vote count for independence would strengthen his negotiating position.

As I had expected, he is using his 90% yes vote for independence as some kind of magic wand that the people have waved, and it does not matter what anyone else thinks now. With only Israel supporting him diplomatically, he has led his people into a closet.

The odds of military action beginning seem unlikely, with the Peshmerga reaching a coordination agreement with Baghdad on what each side will do in clearing ISIS from Hawija, where the battle is rolling along well. Neither side wants to see a civil war. All eyes will now be on how tough the sanctions are, while we all hope both sides don’t stumble into war.

Erdogan has threatened to cut off oil exports via its pipeline and to block food imports. Iran has ended air travel, and Baghdad has demanded Kurdistan turn over its border posts and airports, which I do not see a snowball’s chance in hell of Barzani doing. Both sides will be tested now.

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Big power intrigue continues in Syria

Submarine-launched missiles are only used in war time, not on guerrilla units. They are using them in a WAR

The Russian military command finally released long-awaited satellite photos, confirming what so many analysts have been reporting for a long time. The US is working with two ISIS factions, one that it fights and kills, and one that continues to serve as a US proxy force.

SDF forces and their US military advisers have been able to move through ISIS lines with impunity to go into blocking positions to have a strategic advantage in being able to take control of eastern Deir Ezzor, all the way to the Iraqi border.

They have the SAA boxed into Deir-Ezzor, with only the south open to move on Daesh through tough fighting territory, while the SDF can just move along the SAA eastern flank and roll up all the oil wells.

The goal seems to be two-fold, to capture as many Syrian economic resources as possible to use them as bargaining cards for the Syrian Kurds’ bid for their own independence. The US fully supports this because, as an independent nation, the Syrian Kurds can invite their American military big brother to enjoy having permanent military bases in their new country.

The US moved into the Kurdish area quickly to counter the Russia entry into the Syria War. When Moscow got tired of being manipulate via phony use ceasefires it began a nonstop offensive that threatened an end to ISIA. The US then began a major investment of equipment and more troops to build the Kurds into a force that could replace ISIS and that is where we find ourselves today in Deir-Ezzor, doing exactly that.

Russia is not taking the targeted death of its Deir-Ezzor General lightly. A heavy bridge is now across the Euphrates; Tupelov bombers have launched Kaliber missile attacks in both Idlib and Deir-Ezzor; plus the Russians have announced the Deir-Ezzor airport is to become a major Russian base, which means Russian Marines and a multi-layered missile defense will be coming with it.

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Kim Kong and Trump the Terror battle it out

Kim acts like a big kid – like someone else we know

Someone in Hollywood must be writing a comedy show pilot for this Korean fiasco. Trump plays the worst card in his marked deck at the UN. He had the perfect opportunity to do an about-face and act like a real statesman.

This would have had him announcing that he would agree to the Russian-China plan to stop all US-South Korea joint military maneuvers, in return for Kim ending his nuclear weapons testing, and entering into talks with no other preconditions.

The world would have saluted him, and if Kim Kong had told him “hell no”, Trump could go back to playing Mr. Tough Guy, which he loves to do. But instead, he said he was ready to totally destroy North Korea. Now instead of Kim having his public 100% behind him, they are now at 200%.

Trump had just poured more gas on the fire, although to cover his behind, he said he was open to negotiations. But Kim Kong, with his hair on fire, sent his foreign minister out, after US bombers have made another show of force with another flyby off North Korea’s coast, to give Trump the bad news.

FM Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho tells us that, due to Trump’s statement about totally destroying North Korea, the US mainland would be an “inevitable” target for NK’s rockets. Notice he said plural. That is to make the US defense people have to sweat handling multiple incomings.

Why? Well, that’s because the tests done for our ABMs are structured to be successful. They work best with an incoming missile following its true path from launch, and only in its descent stage.

What Kim is doing here is taking advantage of Trump’s aggressiveness to justify his need for a nuclear deterrent. US experts this week decimated the Pentagon’s ability to deal with a nuclear missile attack, stating that we have nothing that goes high enough to hit them during their mid-range height. Rumors of kinetic energy weapons in space that would fire down on ICBMs remain rumors.

These experts also said that a preemptive strike could not stop Kim from launching a damaging retaliation, including a possible nuclear one which does not need to hit the US, just the 40,000 troops based in Korea. And if the capital city of a US ally got nuked after a US first strike, the South Korean government would all be hanged from telephone poles by the survivors.

If Trump had agreed to talks a month or two ago, we would not have a North Korea more emboldened as it is now. So with this hindsight, was Trump’s tough guy stance a good move? Are the people on the Korean peninsula region more safe or less safe?

The World confronts Trump on JCPOA threat

Iranian general Soleimani remembers when US-backed Iraqi missiles rained down on Iranian cities, when they had none to retaliate with

Iran seems to be beating back Trump’s threat of de-certifying Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA. President Rouhani has lined up all other partners in agreement that Iran is in full compliance and that it remains an enhancement to international security. Rouhani has boxed Trump in even further by claiming that, if he breaks the agreement, Iran will not.

As to his threats of banking sanctions, EU countries are preempting him by coming out of the closet with their own formal banking arrangements to fund their national company projects with Iran. There are billions of dollars in trade on the line, as Iran is one of the biggest markets in the world now. The EU is standing with Iran.

For Trump to threaten to block these countries from the international banking system, when many are NATO allies, it would enshrine him as the clown of clowns. He would be famous forever, but for all the wrong reasons. We shall hope the grownups at the White House prevent him from doing what would surely be a grievous, self-inflicted wound on American international prestige.

Jim W. Dean, managing editor for VT, producer/host of Heritage TV Atlanta, specially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

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