Communiqué # 2 Climbing to the extremes.

Climbing to the extremes.

The destruction on February 10 of an Israeli F-16 - a 4th generation American aircraft - by a S-200 missile of the Syrian anti-aircraft defence made in the USSR in the 1960s, and the destruction on March 3 of a Saudi M1A2 Abrams in northern Yemen by Houthis rebels, have a double meaning. On the one hand a new degree in the rise to the extremes in the conflict opposing the axis Washington-Jeddah-Tel-Aviv to the powers of the new evil empire, on the other hand the latter’s ever more obvious superiority in terms of military technology. 

These events coincide with a new crisis in the odyssey of the F-35, with Vice Admiral Mat Winter, director of the F-35 Joint Program Office, complaining of the aircraft’s technical flaws and still too-high price; considerations that could delay the delivery of the next 160 aircraft to the USAF. In fact, the F-35 has already been downgraded due to delays in its production. Meanwhile China, Iran, and Russia are each producing, or are about to produce, a new generation of stealth aircraft. China announced the commissioning of the fourth-generation J-20, a stealth fighter capable of competing with the F-22 and F-35, and in Iran, Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan announced the successful tests of the Qaher stealth fighter and of the Kowsar-88. Russia, for its part, successfully tested at Hmeimim airbase near Latakia in Syria, two Su-57s, a fifth-generation fighter with sophisticated electronics. Meanwhile as an American SM-3 Block IIA missile test on the 31st of January ended in another failure, Russia is continuing to strengthen its anti-satellite system, notably thanks to its Noodal missile, thus taking control of the space battlefield, while the Sarmat tests are satisfactory. Sarmat is a new type of ICBM with no range limitation, able to cross the South and North poles to hit targets worldwide. Already, the Kinzhal and Avangard missiles can fly at speeds ten and twenty times that of sound respectively. The former has a range of 2,000 km, the latter can strike at intercontinental distances. Russia also has underwater drones reaching very great depths, faster than any underwater or surface vessel. As for the Merkava, it has changed from the pride of Israel into its nightmare. The sight of the three battle tanks burned by Hezbollah in July 2006 was enough to induce 'Merkava syndrome' amongst the IDF, to the point that in November 2016, 80 Israeli soldiers preferred prison over service in this armoured vehicle.

This asserts every day the reality of the technical advance in armaments of the Russia-Iran-China bloc over Washington and its allies. This is an explosive global situation, with the United States now in the situation in which Japan was placed in December 1941, forced into the war by the evidence that time was working for its defeat.

Our recent comments on the internationalization of the Catalan crisis are verified: the Corsican question is put back on the agenda while Patagonia becomes a centre of strategic activity. The relationship between the two regions is not obvious, but it becomes so when one finds there the presence of George Soros and agents of the Mossad, of some 9000 soldiers of IDF disguised as peaceful tourists and lovers of nature. Local people refer to them as mochileros, 'backpackers', with growing hostility based on evidence that it is an invading army, soon occupying areas that the Argentine and Chilean governments sold to a foreign power. One of the leaders of the London Jewish community, billionaire Joe Lewis, is one of those acquirers of territories, building a gigantic landing strip much more for strategic rather than private use. Popular resistance is organizing along with a wave of anti-Zionist resentment.

This implantation of the Western bloc in the region, for the moment essentially Israeli, corresponds moreover to the US geostrategy in Latin America. Recall that this geostrategy, in general terms, consists in destabilizing the opposite side of the American coast while operating an indirect movement, from east to west for Europe, from south to north for Latin America. Following this logic, it is a question of destabilizing Colombia and Venezuela, of maintaining the tension between them, while creating in the south of the continent, in Patagonia, a centre of destabilization going northwards, notably towards these two countries. It is in this context that we must consider the Venezuelan crisis and the two attacks that struck, half an hour apart, Colombia, in the city of Barranquilla, the first killing seven policemen, the second being the successful attack of a money carrier by the Popular Front of Liberation. They bring us back to the attack that marked the meeting of Presidents Santos and Chavez, resulting in only a few minor injuries as a 'warning'. Nevertheless, we are clearly seeing a destabilizing device in Latin America designed according to the typical strategy of the two axes described above.

It is the same strategy that explains the US military reinforcement in Afghanistan as well as the recrudescence of terrorism in this country, the latter justifying the former. It is in this sense that, just as NATO aircraft had transported the Taliban from Central Asia to Libya in 2011 and then to Syria, they are bringing them back today, at least those who survived the Russian strikes, from the last bastions of ISIS/Daesh or even American bases in Syria, to the cradle of their organization. Just a few days ago, Russian intelligence spotted unidentified helicopters delivering weapons to Daesh in northern Afghanistan.

The US defeat in Syria, though less spectacular, is of greater significance than Vietnam's in that it marks the definitive fall of the United States from its status as the world's leading military power. Let us remember that the debacle of the Red Army in Afghanistan also led to the economic and political collapse of the USSR and the erosion of the Warsaw Pact. Let us bet that the same cemetery will soon host Washington’s hegemonic projects. Economics experts predict the collapse of the dollar for 2018. Thus, the United States finds itself simultaneously in the situation of Japan in 1941 and of the USSR in 1989.

Turkey's departure from NATO could be a signal for other members of this 'alliance' to slam the door in their turn. A sign of this could be the purchase by Ankara of Russian S-400 missiles and the arrival in Turkey of Russian servicemen; news of great concern to the Pentagon. Washington's announcement to arm the Kurds in Syria is reminiscent of the same promise of support given to the Kurds in Iraq in 1990. The former’s effect was the destabilization of Turkey by the PKK, the latter’s the abandonment of the Kurds of Iraq to the repression by Saddam Hussein, left in power for another twelve years. Today, Turkey is caught between the PKK and the Gülen organization, both depending on Mossad and the CIA. Turkey, Iran and Pakistan are increasing trade with Qatar, a victim of the Saudi blockade. The Saudi claims on the principality are reminiscent of Iraq’s on Kuwait. We will see if there will be a new Mrs Glaspie to suggest to the Wahabi monarchy to seize Qatar. For now, Tariq Ramadan seems to be paying for the conflict. We will not say more ... for now ...

On November 9, 2017, France-Irak Actualité published an article by Skander Salhi in Maghreb Intelligence: The United States wants to turn Algeria into a "Pakistan" of North Africa. The comparison between Pakistan and Algeria is relevant: both Muslim countries are since their independence victims of sectarian and separatist attempts of destabilization, of blackmail by Washington in its strategy of the pyromaniac firefighter which consists in introducing and feeding terrorist groups in a country, in order to justify interference there for the sake of anti-terrorism. France-Irak Actualité just published a new article in the same direction, by Khaled Bel in ObservAlgérie, echoing the Washington Post that the US Army would be present in Algeria in the context of operations against the terrorist bands, active throughout the Saharan region.

According to the Turkish news agency Anadolu, an intensification of messages between Washington and Algiers took place between September 2017 and February 2018, simultaneously with the increase of terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria (where a new abduction of school girls, in number of 110, recalls that of 276 school girls in Chibok in April 2014), in Mali and in Algeria itself.

According to Anadolu, Washington would blame Algiers of laxism in its commitment against Daesh/AQIM; criticism that in fact recalls that, as cynical as slanderous, addressed by Mr. Trump to the Pakistani government; criticisms or accusations tempered by General Thomas Waldhauser, commander of AFRICOM, describing Algeria as a competent and highly capable partner in the fight against terrorism, revealing that the Algerian People's National Army (ANP) and Africom were consulting regularly.

We recognize here the perfect illustration of the strategy of the pyromaniac fireman and burglar who sets fire to the castle, introduces himself as a firefighter to steal family jewels or to take possession of the place, or the strategy of conquest by absoption, put into practice by Caesar in Gaul, consisting of presenting himself as a protector against a foreign threat in order, in fact, to seize the country allegedly threatened. Attempts to destabilize Algeria have been succeeding since her independence. For example, a Mossad spying network was destroyed in Ghardaia in January 2016, its leader, a Liberian national born in Lebanon, being sentenced to death in February 2018. In 2015, the city of Ghardaia was the scene of bloody inter-ethnic clashes; especially because of Berber separatists, manipulated by Christian missionaries.

Algeria has just acquired more Shtora equiped T-90s, bringing to nearly 400 the number of these tanks in the ANP, two Kilo636-type submarines and various Russian armaments, the relations between Algeria and Iran, China, Russia, being most cordial. None of these three powers would remain indifferent to an aggression against Algeria, against its people who, in the course of history, have demonstrated their love of freedom and their ability to defend their own.

France's support for an aggression against Algeria would provoke a protest from the nine million Muslims living in this country, especially those of Algerian origin. Some make no secret that this protest could be violent. Thus closes the vicious circle, Yankee strategists not losing sight that delendae sunt the three powers of the Atlantic front of Europe.