Tony Cartalucci
March 19, 2014
The
United States has officially told the Syrian government to immediately
suspend its diplomatic and consular missions in the country, and ordered
its diplomats to leave the country if they are not US citizens.
“We have determined it
is unacceptable for individuals appointed by that regime to conduct
diplomatic or consular operations in the United States,” US special envoy for Syria, Daniel Rubinstein, said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
The
move is suspected by many to be in retaliation for the permanent
reversal of fortunes for US-backed militants operating inside of Syria,
and perhaps the prelude to an act of Western aggression in response to
other geopolitical loses elsewhere, including Crimea.
West Arrives at a Dangerous Turning Point
It was a turbulent week for Western hegemons. First the teetering regime they thrust into power in Kiev, Ukraine was exposed globally as led by armed Neo-Nazis.
Next, the people of Crimea fled en masse via a referendum that
overwhelming chose for the strategic peninsula to join with Russia
rather than be left subjected to the Western-backed fascists occupying
Kiev.
The West’s response was impotent
sanctions quickly brushed off by both the Russians and Ukrainians they
targeted, with military posturing by both NATO and their new regime in
Kiev also appearing feckless and altogether desperate.
And finally, in Syria, a complete
reversal of fortunes for the Western-orchestrated bloodbath, now in its
third year, culminated in Syrian forces retaking the pivotal city of
Yabroud, northwest of Damascus and very near the Lebanese-Syrian border.
The
retaking of Yabroud seemed perhaps a greater symbolic victory than a
strategic one – and strategically, it was a very important victory. It
is yet another step in stemming the flow of foreign militants, weapons,
and cash into Syria, effectively isolating militants within the country
to be sweep away by the Syrian Arab Army. Symbolically, it represents
the irreversible momentum gained by the Syrian government and its
security forces in retaking the country and restoring order within and
along its borders.
In light of this reversal, one that has
been ongoing since the beginning of 2013, Saudi Arabia has now
apparently abandoned or at the least reduced its extraterritorial
involvement in Syria, meaning Western attempts to geopolitically and
economically reorder Syria while stripping neighboring Iran and Lebanon
of an important ally have been all but effectively ended.
For the West, who has enjoyed global
hegemony for so long, the slipping away of its power and prestige – all
based on the illusion of its strength – leaves the world facing a
dangerously desperate entity willing to do anything to reestablish that
illusion. The sitting heads of state across the West, including, and
perhaps most symbolically, US President Barack Obama, endlessly creating
“red lines” the world boldly walks across exemplifies just how
diminished that illusion is.
An example must be made, and with the expulsion of Syrian diplomats from the US, that example may be Syria.
Striking Syria Will Be the Ultimate Act of Weakness
