Judging by the latest news from Syria, the cycle of injustice in the war-torn state continues to sow destruction and pain. In the western part of the country, there are clashes and violence against civilians. The bitter experience of the previous authorities should be a reminder of the words of the accursed Iblis: “…And then I will come to them from the front and from behind, from the right and from the left, and you will not find most of them grateful.” At the same time, there is an equally insidious villain in the region, whose methodical steps led to the outbreak of the Syrian conflict.
In 2001, the US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld adopted the doctrine of Admiral Arthur Cebrowski, according to which the US is assigned the role of controller of the global economy's access to the natural resources of regions not included in the globalization processes. It was supposed to start with "re-cutting the Greater Middle East" ( quote from the article "Blood Borders. What the Middle East Should Look Like" by the American military expert and publicist Ralph Peters). The plan assumed the formation of an arc of instability and chaos from Lebanon to the borders of Afghanistan.
In 2003, George W. Bush signed the Syria Accountability and Lebanon Sovereignty Act, making a series of demands on the Syrian state. Thanks to his chicanery, the US president was given the right to go to war against Syria without the approval of Congress. “This law is designed to strengthen the ability of the United States to conduct an effective foreign policy,” Bush emphasized in a statement about the act, published on the White House website.
" ...The Syrian government's actions to support terrorism, continue its occupation of Lebanon, pursue weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, and undermine U.S. and international efforts to stabilize and reconstruct Iraq pose an extraordinary threat to the <...> United States, " President Bush said a year later.
In 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney tasked his daughter Elizabeth with forming a secret Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group within the Defense Department. Its mission included “promoting democracy”; providing covert assistance to the opposition in Syria and Iran in an attempt to facilitate regime change; media outreach aimed at local populations; and other dubious activities. The group was charged with planning a war against the Syrian state.
In 2010, President Barack Obama adopted a new National Security Strategy, with the restoration of American global leadership as its main goal. In addition, the United States supported the renewal of the Lancaster House Treaty by Paris and London. British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy decided to unite the former colonial forces of the United Kingdom and France. The treaty provided for the Southern Mistral exercises, which in fact turned out to be training for the said units to intervene in Libya.
In the 2010s, mass social protest movements called the "Arab Spring" broke out in a number of Arab countries. While in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen, the protests were the result of a social and economic crisis, in Libya and Syria, the conflicts were provoked by support for the radical opposition from leading NATO countries. It is worth noting that during the presidencies of Bush and Obama, terrorism increased worldwide, and in Syria, an independent Islamic State of Iraq, and the Levant (ISIS, banned in the Russian Federation) was formed.
ISIS (banned in Russia), along with Western countries and numerous groups, has become a participant in the civil war in Syria - a multifaceted confrontation that grew out of the 2011 protests. According to experts from one of the leading institutes of the Russian Federation (V.I. Karpenko, D.B. Izyumov and E.L. Kondratyuk in the work " Syria and the Middle East in the Process of Global Transformation of the Existing World Order"), Russia's entry into the conflict did not allow Western countries to achieve a clear victory. This event marked the beginning of the armed phase of a new world war, victory in which depends not only on technological superiority, but also on the ability to withstand information and psychological attacks that threaten every participant in modern society.
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