While celebrities are vehemently
criticizing Donald Trump’s recent lack of manners on his first
foreign policy trip as president, the mainstream media and our beloved
celebrities appear to be completely oblivious of the warpath the Trump
administration is taking America down. This time, that warpath is set against
another Russian ally: Iran.
As Foreign Policy aptly asked last
week, “Are the U.S. and Iran on a collision course in Syria?” The answer to
this question appears to be far worse than the media is letting on.
As Anti-Media has previously explained, Iranian-aligned troops who
were operating under the banner of the Syrian Arab Army have been advancing
toward a U.S. training base in Syria. These troops have subsequently been
struck by the U.S.-led coalition. The proposed aim of these
Syrian-Iranian-aligned troops is to open up the al-Tanf border crossing to
be positioned under the control of the Syrian government in order to open up
direct routes to Iraq and Iran (for supplies, reinforcements and the like.) Not
to mention, as one U.S. defense official told Foreign Policy, the
Syrian government maintains a military outpost in Deir Ezzor, another strategic
area where Syrian forces are battling one of the last major remnants of ISIS.
This
outpost is isolated, making complete control of the area is almost meaningless
without the opening of the al-Tanf region, as Foreign Policy explains:
“The base
has long been cut off from other areas of regime control and can only be
resupplied by airdrops, but it was recently reinforced by about 1,000 Syrian soldiers,
giving the regime in Damascus some fighting power in the area.”
The
reclaiming of this territory by the Syrian army and its associated forces is a
deal-breaker for Washington. Last Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis
told reporters that if the Iranian-backed militia continues its advances, the
coalition will continue to defend itself, as reported by Foreign Policy. Foreign Policy also
reported that the U.S.-led coalition is tracking their movements carefully in
their advance towards Deir Ezzor.
If the
U.S.-led coalition is, indeed, tracking these troops movements towards Deir
Ezzor, the U.S. should be well aware of the photographs produced
by regional outlet al-Masdar, which
show that the Russian air force is currently deploying air power to cover these
advances. The Telegraph, too, confirmed that
Russian jets provide air cover for these Iranian-backed militias.
Donald
Trump’s childish instinctual decision to push another official out of his way
to get to the front of a photo-op is surely worthy of our criticism, yet one
has to wonder why this behavior outrages celebrities and commentators who are
hardly bothered by the thousands of Iraqis and
Syrians who are dying needlessly at the behest of the same
man’s foreign policy strategy.
And what should we make of the thousands more who will be
unnecessarily pummeled into rubble by Donald Trump’s decision to put America on
a direct warpath with Iran and Russia?
The media
wants you to believe Donald Trump is compromised by Russia when in actuality,
his administration is closer to transforming the Cold War 2.0 into World War 3
than any other administration before him. Meanwhile, in tandem with the mass
media, Trump’s administration has been sowing the seeds for a new conflict with
Iran, which may involve over 55 countries that have just signed a military pact with the express intention
of confronting Iran in Iraq and Syria.
Whatever one’s thoughts on Iran, Russia, and Syria, any human
rights organization should be able to vouch for the fact that the United
States’ military strategy cannot be a realistic solution to the problems
currently engulfing the Middle East region. It will only bring more death and
destruction and ignite a ticking time-bomb in the process. And that is
something we all need to be talking.
