This is an excerpt from Walid Shoebat’s article a week ago on why Russia is building up its forces in Syria:
So let’s examine fact from fiction as we see the daily news headlines: Benjamin Netanyahu is concerned about Russia’s substantial flow of armaments to the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that he is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week. The buildup is causing many Christians to fear: is Russia becoming a threat to Israel? After all, the military build-up of what appears to be Russia’s forward military base on the Syrian coast is viewed as a threat against Israel from the increased flow of advanced weapons into the Syrian arena and the transfer of lethal weaponry to Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. Is ‘Gog’ marching on his way as many claim?
Russia is a superpower, and when it comes to superpowers, always remember lesson number one: the competition for power between the U.S. and Russia causes unrest and power vacuums from which tyrants find opportunity.
For example, these days, Russia is reacting to what the U.S. and NATO are doing in Russia’s sphere of influence, primarily in the Ukraine and the Middle East. In other words, while the U.S. accuses Russia of meddling in the Ukraine and Syria, can anyone deny that the U.S. and NATO’s meddling in other places like Iraq, Syria, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt?
Fact is, it was America’s support for the Arab Spring that made the U.S. become the primary culprit to the mess we have. But before the mess, so many Americans supported the initiative ousting what they were told by the media as “tyrants” and “dictators”. The blind and the lame realize their foolishness only after the fact as they see the ISIS cannibals, the blood and the gore.
Lesson learned is that politicians are not only snakes, but snake-oil salesmen.
In everything we read in the headlines, the wise can spot the sales-pitch. For example, when it comes to Syria, the typical motto we are continually fed in the U.S. media is this: “Washington and its allies are bombarding ISIS positions inside Syria [hip-hip-hurray] and supporting ‘moderate’ rebel forces there [hip-hip-hurray]”.
The ignorant thinks that the U.S. government is naive exclaiming: there are no “moderate rebel forces” in Syria!
Fact is, it is these comments that are naive. The U.S. government knows that the Free Syrian Army and Ahrar-Al-Sham fighters are no “moderates,” this is only for public consumption. The wise knows that the U.S. will arm anyone, great and small, rich and poor, any small tyrant who opposes Assad, so long this small tyranny is not an obvious cannibal like ISIS, so long they can take away from Russia’s sphere of influence. This is it. The sooner one realizes this the better they can decipher fact from fiction.
Now that you understand lesson number one, lets get to lesson number two. Never forget, that when it comes to the Sunni world of the Middle East, always remember: no matter how one slices and dices any situation, what we have here are two factions: the first are nationalists like the Arab Baath, the main allies of Russia and the Islamists, the main enemies of Russia.
The first (nationalists) were the likes of Saddam Hussein, Al-Sisi and Assad whom the U.S. removed, or wants to remove. The second (Islamists) is what the U.S. wants to install. They do not do this because of their love to Islam, but because of their hatred towards Russia.
If one examines all the policies, wars, and strife, everything fits into these two principles. Many are the naive who think it is Obama, the closet Muslim. While there is some truth to this, that Obama loves Islam, but the fact is, the entire U.S. government, from democrat to republican, they supported the Mujahideen against Russia during Ronald Reagan’s era, and McCain also vehemently supported the Islamists during the Syrian fiasco. It is a fact of history: the U.S. doesn’t care if Islamists take over so long they deplete Russia’s sphere of influence.
And just to give a recent example, Carly Fiorina, just last night, at the applause of many naive had this to say:
Fact is, general Suleimani, who leads Iran’s Al-Quds forces in Iraq (whom Fiorina is complaining about), was caused and created by the U.S. involvement in Iraq where the vacuum was created for Iran to move in. Donald Trump, who wants to rebuild and heal relations with Russia warned about this. Now that this little tyrant (Suleimani) arose, and is working with Putin, Fiorina is sounding the drumbeats of war with Russia so when she becomes president, she can send American farm-boys to die on the front lines in Syria, Iraq and possibly the Ukraine, all for the sake of politicians, American blood is to be spilt on the altar of maintaining superpower status. This is indeed an insane Jezebel who has been exposed being in bed with Muslims and all who clapped for her are the naive who enjoy watching a woman-empowerment sermon. In fact, you find this type of rhetoric being taught in many Evangelical churches.
If Fiorina is truly Christian, why not support God’s bottom line? God created nationalism the moment He crushed Babel and confused the tongues to make us “different nations, tribes and tongues”.
As the ball bounces, Orthodox Russia supports the nationalists in the Middle East, while Protestant U.S. supports the Islamists.
One can argue that Russia supports Iran. Indeed. But Russia does this only because Iran is a menace to the U.S. Secondly, the U.S. is now supporting Iran too. This is done in order to thwart ISIS, the very menace they created in the first place. ISIS is not Russia’s bastard child, but America’s.
Putin doesn’t support the nationalists because he loves Arab nationalism, but because this was the old setup that was allied with Russia in the past.
But because all the accidents are caused by superpowers, the wise Christian needs to think wisely and not foolishly. Understanding the mind of God is key to the Kingdom. When it comes to God, He wanted the world under nationalistic denominations, and when it comes to the Church, Christ wanted the Church under only one denomination. Yet Protestant U.S. is reversing this, where its system creates thousands of Christian denominations, while it aids in unifying the Arab, Turkish, Persian … to one denomination under a Caliphate rule.
This is a chiseled truth, and no matter how many times God says it in the Bible, both theologically and prophetically, the naive object, while they slice and dice Scriptures and read it as if it came out of a paper shredder.
So now, lets take a look at whom many say is “the Gog of Russia” and what he is doing in Syria.
Russia interfered in Syria for the simple reason that when it comes to the U.S., Russia knows that the U.S. wants to abruptly end Assad (or anyone allied with Russia as they did in Libya). Russia planted its military because it wants to ensure Assad remains in power so that when Assad is gone, Russia wants to ensure it goes to someone like Farouk al-Shara, who will assume the role of Syria’s prime minister during the changeover period. By this, Russia keeps Syria in its sphere of influence.
Understanding all this, now you know why Russian presence on the battlefield in Syria is not there to fight against rebel forces or ISIS, they leave ISIS alone as a headache for the U.S., the Arabs and to Iran.
All what Russia is trying to do is to negotiate a power-sharing agreement to replace the government of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
Read the entire article here.