By Thierry Meyssan
Since 2001 - and this is one of the main
reasons for the 9/11 attacks - the United States has
secretly adopted the strategy outlined by Donald
Rumsfeld and Admiral Arthur Cebrowski. This strategy
was mentioned in the Army Review by Colonel Ralf
Peters two days after the attacks [1] and confirmed
five years later by the publication of the staff map
of the new Middle East [2]. It was detailed by
Admiral Cebrowski’s assistant, Thomas Barnett, in a
popular book The Pentagon’s New Map [3].
It is about adapting the missions of the US armies
to a new form of capitalism giving primacy to
Finance over Economics. The world must be divided in
two. On the one hand, stable states integrated into
globalization (which includes Russia and China); on
the other, a vast area of exploitation of raw
materials. This is why the state structures of the
countries in this zone must be considerably
weakened, ideally by destroying them and preventing
their resurgence by all means. This "constructive
chaos", as Condoleeza Rice put it, should not be
confused with the homonymous rabbinic concept, even
though the supporters of the theopolitics have done
everything in their power to do so. It is not a
question of destroying a bad order in order to
rebuild a better one, but of destroying all forms of
human organization in order to prevent any form of
resistance and to allow transnationals to exploit
this area without political constraints. It is
therefore a colonial project in the Anglo-Saxon
sense of the term (not to be confused with a
colonization of settlement).
According to this map,
taken from a Powerpoint by Thomas P. M.
Barnett at a conference at the Pentagon in
2003, all state structures in the dewy zone
must be destroyed.
In beginning to implement this strategy,
President George Bush Jr. spoke of a "war without
end. Indeed, it is no longer a question of winning
wars and defeating opponents, but of making them
last as long as possible, "a century" he said. In
fact, this strategy has been applied in the "Broader
Middle East" - an area stretching from Pakistan to
Morocco and covering the entire CentCom theatre of
operations and the northern part of the AfriCom
theatre of operations. In the past, the IMs
guaranteed US access to oil from the Persian Gulf
(Carter doctrine). Today, they are present in an
area four times larger and aim to overturn any form
of order.
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The state structures of Afghanistan since
2001, Iraq since 2003, Libya since 2011,
Syria since 2012 and Yemen since 2015 are no
longer capable of defending their citizens.
Contrary to official discourse, there has
never been any question of overthrowing
governments, but rather of destroying states
and preventing their reconstitution. For
example, the situation of the people of
Afghanistan did not improve with the fall of
the Taliban 19 years ago, but is getting
worse and worse by the day. The only
counter-example could be that of Syria,
which, in accordance with its historical
tradition, has kept its state despite the
war, absorbed the blows, and although ruined
today, has weathered the storm.
It should be noted in passing that the Pentagon
has always considered Israel as a European state and
not as a Middle Eastern state. It is therefore not
affected by this vast upheaval.
In 2001, the enthusiastic Colonel Ralf Peters
assured that ethnic cleansing "it works! "(sic), but
that the laws of war forbade the USA to carry it out
itself. Hence the transformation of Al-Qaeda and the
creation of Daesh, which did for the Pentagon what
it wanted but could not undertake publicly.
To understand the Rumsfeld/Cebrowski strategy, it
should be distinguished from the "Arab Spring"
operation, imagined by the British on the model of
the "Great Arab Revolt". The idea was to put the
Muslim Brotherhood in power, just as Lawrence of
Arabia had put the Brotherhood of the Wahhabites in
power in 1915.
The official, albeit not publicly
assumed, objective of the U.S.
General Staff: to blow up the
borders of the Middle East, to
destroy both enemy and friendly
states, to practice ethnic
cleansing.
Westerners in general have no vision of the
broader Middle East as a geographical region. They
know only certain countries and perceive them as
isolated from each other. In this way, they convince
themselves that the tragic events that these peoples
are enduring are all due to special reasons, in some
cases civil war, in others the overthrow of a
bloodthirsty dictator. For each country, they have a
well-written history of the reason for the tragedy,
but they never have one to explain that the war
lasts beyond that, and they certainly do not want to
be asked about it. Each time, they denounce the
"carelessness of the Americans" who could not end
the war, forgetting that they rebuilt Germany and
Japan after the Second World War. They refuse to
acknowledge that for two decades the United States
has been implementing a pre-stated plan at the cost
of millions of lives. They therefore never see
themselves as responsible for these massacres.
The United States itself denies that it is
pursuing this strategy with regard to its citizens.
For example, the inspector general investigating the
situation in Afghanistan wrote a report lamenting
the countless missed opportunities for the Pentagon
to bring peace when precisely the Pentagon did not
want peace.
The Russian
intervention
In order to pulverize all the states of the
broader Middle East, the Pentagon organized an
absurd regional civil war in the manner it had
invented the pointless war between Iraq and Iran
(1980-88). Eventually President Saddam Hussein and
Ayatollah Khomeini realized that they were killing
each other for nothing and made peace against the
West.
This time it was the opposition between Sunnis
and Shiites. On one side, Saudi Arabia and its
allies, and on the other, Iran and its allies. It
does not matter whether Wahhabi Saudi Arabia and
Khomeini Iran fought together under NATO command
during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-95), or
whether many troops of the "Axis of Resistance" are
not Shiite (100% of the Palestinians of Islamic
Jihad, 70% of the Lebanese, 90% of the Syrians, 35%
of the Iraqis and 5% of the Iranians).
No one knows why these two camps are fighting
each other, but they are asked to bleed each other.
One
third of the populations of the Shia
Axis of Resistance are not Shia.
In any case, in 2014, the Pentagon was preparing
to recognise two new states in accordance with its
map of objectives: "Free Kurdistan" (fusion of the
Syrian Rojava and the Kurdish Governorate of Iraq to
which part of Iran and all of eastern Turkey were to
be added at a later date) and "Sunnistan" (composed
of the Sunni part of Iraq and eastern Syria). By
destroying four states, the Pentagon paved the way
for a chain reaction that would in turn destroy the
entire region.
Russia then intervened militarily and enforced
the borders of the Second World War. It goes without
saying that these are arbitrary, stemming from the
Sykes-Picot-Sazonov agreements of 1915, and
sometimes difficult to bear, but changing them by
blood is even less acceptable.
The Pentagon’s communication has always pretended
to ignore what was at stake. Both because it does
not publicly assume the Rumsfeld/Cebrowski strategy
and because it equates the Crimea’s accession to the
Russian Federation with a coup de force.
The moult of
supporters of the Rumsfeld/Cebrowski strategy
After two years of fierce fighting against
President Trump, the general officers of the
Pentagon, almost all of whom were personally trained
by Admiral Cebrowski, submitted to him under
conditions. They agreed not to
1 - create a terrorist state (Sunnistan or
Caliphate);
2 - change borders by force;
3 - maintaining US troops on the battlefields of the
Broader Middle East and Africa.
In exchange, they ordered their loyal prosecutor
Robert Mueller, whom they had already used against
Panama (1987-89), Libya (1988-92) and in the 9/11
attacks (2001), to bury his investigation into
Russiagate.
Then everything unfurled as smoothly as a player
piano roll.
On 27 October 2019, President Trump ordered the
execution of Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the main
military figure in the Sunni camp. Two months later,
on January 3, 2020, he ordered the execution of
Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, the main military
figure of the Axis of Resistance.
Having thus shown that he remained the master of
the game by eliminating the most symbolic
personalities of both sides, claiming it, and
without incurring any significant retaliation,
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed the final
scheme on January 19 in Cairo. He plans to pursue
the Rumsfeld/Cebrowski strategy no longer with the
US armies, but with those of NATO, including Israel
and the Arab countries.
On the 1st of February, Turkey made its break
with Russia official by assassinating four FSB
officers in Idleb. Then President Erdogan went to
Ukraine to chant the motto of the Banderists (the
Ukrainian legionnaires of the Third Reich against
the Soviets) with the Ukrainian National Guard and
receive the head of the International Islamist
Brigade (the anti-Russian Tatars), Mustafa Djemilev
(known as "Mustafa Kırımoğlu").
On February 12 and 13, the Defence Ministers of
the Atlantic Alliance noted the inevitable
withdrawal of US forces and the forthcoming
dissolution of the International Coalition
Against Daesh. While stressing that they were
not deploying fighting troops, they agreed to
send their soldiers to train those of the Arab
armies, i.e. to supervise the fighting on the
ground.
NATO trainers will be deployed
primarily to Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq.
For example:
Libya
will be encircled in the west and east. The two
rival governments of Fayez el-Sarraj -supported
by Turkey, Qatar and already 5,000 jihadists
from Syria via Tunisia- and Marshal Khalifa
-supported by Egypt and the Emirates- will be
able to kill each other forever. Germany, happy
to regain the international role it has been
deprived of since the Second World War, will
play the gadfly by talking about peace to cover
the moans of the dying.
Syria
will be surrounded on all sides. Israel is
already a de facto member of the Atlantic
Alliance and bombs whoever it wants whenever it
wants. Jordan is already NATO’s "best global
partner". King Abdullah II came to Brussels on
January 14th for lengthy talks with the
Secretary General of the Alliance, Jens
Stoltenberg, and attended a meeting of the
Atlantic Council. Israel and Jordan already have
permanent offices at Alliance Headquarters. Iraq
will also receive NATO trainers, although its
parliament has just voted to withdraw foreign
troops. Turkey is already a member of the
Alliance and controls northern Lebanon through
the Jamaa Islamiya . Together, they will be able
to enforce the US ’Caesar’ law forbidding any
company from anywhere to help in the
reconstruction of this country.
Thus, the pillaging of the wider Middle East,
which began in 2001, will continue. The martyred
populations of this region, whose only fault is
to have been divided, will continue to suffer
and die en masse. The United States will keep
its soldiers at home, warm and innocent, while
the Europeans will have to take responsibility
for the crimes of the US generals.
According to President Trump, the Alliance
could change its name to NATO-Middle East
(NATO-MO/NATO-ME). Its anti-Russian function
would take a back seat to its strategy of
destroying the non-globalized zone.
The question arises as to how Russia and
China will react to this redistribution of the
cards. China needs access to raw materials from
the Middle East in order to develop. It should
therefore oppose this Western takeover even
though its military preparation is still
incomplete. On the contrary, Russia and its huge
territory are self-sufficient. Moscow has no
material reason to fight. The Russians may even
be relieved by NATO’s new orientation. It is
likely, however, that, for spiritual reasons,
they will not let Syria down and may support
other peoples in the wider Middle East.
Thierry Meyssan Political consultant,
President-founder of the Réseau Voltaire
(Voltaire Network). Latest work in English –
Before Our Very Eyes, Fake Wars and Big Lies:
From 9/11 to Donald Trump, Progressive Press,
2019.
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Notes
[1] “Stability, America’s
Ennemy”, Ralph Peters, Parameters, Winter
2001-02, pp. 5-20. Reproduit in Beyond Terror :
Strategy in a Changing World, Stackpole Books.
[2] “Blood borders - How a better Middle East
would look”, Colonel Ralph Peters, Armed Forces
Journal, June 2006.
[3] The Pentagon’s New Map, Thomas P.M. Barnett,
Putnam Publishing Group, 2004.
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