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World War 3 Could Start This Month: 350,000 Soldiers In Saudi Arabia Stand Ready To Invade Syria
By
Michael Snyder
14
February, 2016
350,000
soldiers, 20,000 tanks, 2,450 warplanes and 460 military helicopters
are massing in northern Saudi Arabia for a military exercise that is
being called “Northern Thunder”. According to the
official announcement,
forces are being contributed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, Sudan, Kuwait, Morocco, Pakistan,
Tunisia, Oman, Qatar, Malaysia and several other nations. This
exercise will reportedly last for
18 days,
and during that time the airspace over northern Saudi Arabia will be
closed to air traffic. This will be the largest military
exercise in the history of the region, and it comes amid rumors that
Saudi Arabia and Turkey are preparing for a massive ground invasion
of Syria.
If
you were going to gather forces for an invasion, this is precisely
how you would do it. Governments never come out and publicly
admit that forces are moving into position for an invasion ahead of
time, so “military exercises” are a common excuse that gets used
for this sort of thing.
If
these exercises are actually being used as an excuse to mass forces
near the northern Saudi border, then we should expect an invasion to
begin within the next couple of weeks. If it happens, we should
expect to see the Saudi coalition storm through western Iraq and into
Syria from the south, and it is likely that Turkey will come in from
the north.
The
goal would be to take out the Assad regime before Russia, Iran and
Hezbollah could react. For the past couple of years, Saudi
Arabia, Turkey and their allieshave
been funding the Sunni insurgency in Syria,
and they were counting on those insurgents to be able to take down
the Assad regime by themselves.
You
see, the truth is that ISIS was never supposed to lose in Syria.
Saudi Arabia and her allies have been funneling massive amounts of
money to ISIS, andhundreds
of millions of dollars of ISIS oil has
been shipped into Turkey where it is sold to the rest of the world.
The
major Sunni nations wanted ISIS and the other Sunni insurgent groups
to take down Assad. In the aftermath, Saudi Arabia and her
allies intended to transform Syria into a full-blown Sunni nation.
But
then Russia, Iran and Hezbollah stepped forward to assist the Assad
regime. Russian air support completely turned the tide of the
war, and now the Sunni insurgents are on the brink of losing.
Aleppo
was once the largest city in Syria, and Sunni insurgents have
controlled it since 2012. But now relentless Russian airstrikes
have made it possible for Syrian, Iranian and Hezbollah ground forces
to surround the city, and it is about to fall back into the hands of
the Syrian government.
If
this happens, the war will essentially be over.
Saudi
Arabia, Turkey and their allies have invested massive amounts of
time, money and effort into overthrowing Assad, and they aren’t
about to walk away now.
If
the war was to end right at this moment, a weakened Assad regime
would remain in power, and Iran and Hezbollah would be the dominant
powers in the country for years to come. And once Assad died,
it would be inevitable that Iran and Hezbollah would attempt to
transform Syria into a full-blown Shiite nation. This is
something that Saudi Arabia and Turkey want to avoid at all costs.
So
they are actually considering what was once absolutely unthinkable –
a massive ground invasion of Syria.
But
if Saudi Arabia, Turkey and their allies go in, they run the risk of
a full-blown war with Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. Just consider
some of the comments that we have seen in
recent days…
Reacting to a potential troop deployment, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said Saturday, “Let no one think they can attack Syria or violate its sovereignty because I assure you any aggressor will return to their country in a wooden coffin.”
Pavel Krasheninnikov, a deputy of Russia’s State Duma, has warned Saudi Arabia that any military ground operation in Syria without Damascus’ consent would amount to a declaration of war, Press TV reported.
We
could literally be looking at the spark that sets off World War 3.
I can’t believe that Saudi Arabia and Turkey are actually
considering this.
And
if it does happen, you can rest assured that Barack Obama gave them
the green light to go in.
Unfortunately,
it sounds like the decision may have already been made. Just
consider what Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is
saying…
“If we have such a strategy, then Turkey and Saudi Arabia may launch a ground operation,” he added, fueling concerns that a foreign troop invasion may soon further complicate the already turbulent situation in the war-torn country.
Earlier, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE voiced their readiness to contribute troops for a ground operation in Syria on the condition that the US would lead the intervention. Damascus and its key regional ally, Iran, warned that such a foreign force would face strong resistance.
And
in addition to all of the forces massing in northern Saudi
Arabia, the
London Independent is
reporting that the Saudis have sent troops and aircraft to a military
base in Turkey…
Saudi Arabia is sending troops and fighter jets to Turkey’s Incirlik military base ahead of a possible ground invasion of Syria.
The Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, confirmed the deployment in a statement to the Yeni Şafak newspaper on Saturday, days before a temporary ceasefire is due to come into force.
There
are reports that Saudi officials are saying that the decision to send
in ground troops is “irreversible”,
and Reuters
is reporting that
the Syrian government claims that some Turkish troops have already
entered the country…
The Syrian government says Turkish forces were believed to be among 100 gunmen it said entered Syria on Saturday accompanied by 12 pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine guns, in an ongoing supply operation to insurgents fighting Damascus.
“The operation of supplying ammunition and weapons is continuing via the Bab al-Salama crossing to the Syrian area of Azaz,” the Syrian foreign ministry said in a letter to the U.N. Security Council published by state news agency SANA.
Of
course the Turkish government is not going to confirm that report,
but what we do know is that Turkey is shelling Kurdish forces on the
Syrian side of the border.
The funny thing is that these
Kurdish forces are actually being supported and supplied by the U.S.
government.
So
the Turks are not supposed to be doing this, but according
to Reuters they
have been doing it for two days in a row anyway…
The Turkish army shelled positions held by Kurdish-backed militia in northern Syria for a second day on Sunday, killing two fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
Turkey on Saturday demanded the powerful Syrian Kurdish YPG militia withdraw from areas that it had captured in the northern Aleppo region in recent days from insurgents in Syria, including the Menagh air base. The shelling has targeted those areas.
The
hostility between Turkey and the Kurds goes back a long, long way.
The Syrian Kurds are not threatening Turkey in any way right now, but
Turkey is using the instability in the region as an excuse to lob
artillery shells at a hated enemy. It is an act of naked
aggression that the Obama administration should be loudly denouncing.
In
addition, it is being reported that Syrian government forces have
also been getting shelled by the Turkish military…
Anatolia news agency reported that the Turkish military hit Syrian government forces on Saturday, adding that the shelling had been in response to fire inflicted on a Turkish military guard post in Turkey’s southern Hatay region.
Turkish artillery targeted Syrian forces again late on Saturday, according to a military source quoted by RIA Novosti. The attack targeted the town of Deir Jamal in the Aleppo Governorate.
Needless
to say, the Russians are quite alarmed by all of this.
In
fact, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is warning about what
could happen if
things spiral out of control…
In the wake of Saudi Arabia’s proposal to send in ground troops on Thursday, the Russian Prime Minister claimed the move could spark a new world war.
“A ground operation draws everyone taking part in it into a war,” he told the Handelsblatt newspaper.
“The Americans and our Arab partners must consider whether or not they want a permanent war.”
If
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and their allies launch an invasion and make a
mad dash to take out the Assad regime in Damascus, the Russians will
inevitably respond.
And
if tactical nuclear weapons are necessary to keep the invading forces
out of Damascus, the Russians will not be shy about using them.
I
don’t know if I have ever seen a scenario which was more likely to
initiate World War 3 than the one that we are watching unfold right
now.
So
what has the mainstream media been saying about all of this?
Incredibly,
they have been almost entirely silent. When he went looking for
news about these events, James
Bailey could
find almost nothing on either Fox News or CNN…
I just visited the home page for Foxnews.com and found not one single mention of the insane events now unfolding in the Middle East. I could not believe it, so I used my Find tool to search for Syria and Saudi Arabia. Not one mention!
Of course that could change at any moment, but nothing there when I checked. Their stories were all about the meaningless Presidential election, which has already been decided regardless of what we think about it, and other stories about entertainment, sports, Congressional political theater, etc.
So I went to CNN and found just about the same thing with one news story about the Syrian cease fire, but when I read it there was no mention of any of the big events that have developed this week. This is truly an amazing media blackout!
But
Fox News does have space to run headlines like these…
And
CNN apparently thinks that these news stories are more important than
the potential beginning of World War 3…
If
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and their allies are going to conduct an
invasion of Syria, the most likely time for this to happen will be by
the end of this month during these military exercises.
If
we can get to March 1st and no invasion has happened yet, perhaps we
can breathe a little sigh of relief.
But
if it does happen, and the Russians and the Iranians decide to shoot
back, it really could be the start of World War 3.
If
you have not been paying attention up until now, you need to start,
because this could literally change everything.
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