Everybody knows about Stalin’s egregious and ultimately deadly August  23,1939 Nazi-Soviet pact in which  Hitler and Stalin agreed to attack jointly and co-occupy Europe.  Hitler’s invasion of Poland was the casus belli for Britain and France to declare war on Hitler and Nazi Germany.  (Interestingly, Churchill didn’t also declare war on the Soviet Union for also invading Poland.)

However, the most important aspect of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet deal was not the agreed upon co-invasion of Poland.  The most important, and calamitous, aspect of the catastrophic deal was that Russia sold oil and other vital and necessary natural materials to Hitler that fueled Hitler’s war efforts against Great Britain, and ultimately against the Soviet Union itself.  In fact, without the Soviet oil Stalin sent Hitler after 1939,  up to Operation Barbarossa, Hitler wouldn’t have had the necessary oil to effectively attack the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.  Hitler’s attack murdered 4 million Soviet soldiers and took 3 million Soviet prisoners of war, all of it fueled on Stalin’s oil shipments to Hitler.

Stalin, and his Foreign Minister Molotov, were perhaps the greatest fools in history.  That is, the world’s greatest fools until President Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.  Stalin gave Hitler two gifts: Poland and oil.  Today, Putin is giving Iran two gifts: Syria and uranium that can make 10 gun-type nuclear bombs.

Now in defense of Stalin, Stalin was really only cutting a short-term deal with Hitler after Chamberlain had preceded him with the naive 1938 Munich “Peace” agreement in which Chamberlain handed Hitler the ill-fated Czechoslovakia.  So, Stalin thought he was buying time and saying, “Attack the other guys first.”  However, it’s one thing for Stalin to delay an attack by Hitler by deflecting him to go somewhere else.  It’s quite another to also send Hitler the very raw materials Hitler’s army will be using to annihilate Stalin’s own country.  So, delaying a war is legitimate; arming your enemy with key minerals and fuel so his Panzers can come perilously close to occupying Moscow is the definition of folly.

Today, just as in 1939, Putin and Iran have agreed to co-attack Syria.  Just like in 1939, Putin thinks Iran will agree to divide Syria.  But that “division” will last until Iran controls its partition.  Then, Iran will take Putin’s part of Syria. By pulverizing the Syrian Sunnis, Putin is stupidly giving Syria, the epicenter of the Arab world, to Iran.  With control of Syria, Iran will metastasize the rest of the Arab Middle East in short order.  Once Iran becomes the puppet-master of the remaining Arab capitals, it won’t be long before Iran comes a-knocking on Russia’s door.  By then, thanks to Obama, Iran will be armed with dozens of nuclear bombs.  So, Iran will not only control over 50% of the world’s oil supply, but will also be replete with nuclear capability.

Putin isn’t fueling Iran with oil, he’s fueling Iran with uranium for its nuclear stockpile.  Putin doesn’t have a Stalin-type defense of buying time to prevent an immediate attack.  Putin is arming Iran with a game-changing nuclear arsenal that actually enables Iran to geo-strategically challenge Russia.  Putin’s only defense is “Obama made me do it.”   The fact that Obama played Putin for a fool and connived him into helping Iran take over the Middle East only makes Putin look even more like a blunderer.

This brings us to the present day where Putin is sending Iran 130 tons of uranium raw ore.  David Albright of the Institute of Science and International Security said the shipment could be enriched to enough weapons-grade uranium for more than 10 simple gun-type nuclear bombs, “depending on the efficiency of the enrichment process and the design of the nuclear weapon.”

The key point here is that Iran just announced that it has uranium centrifuge-capable gas in IR-8 centrifuges that it claims are 20 times faster at enriching uranium than their older centrifuges, which they “got rid of” under the Obama-Iran nuclear deal. The Obama-Iran Nuclear deal didn’t stop or slow Iran’s nuclear program, it allowed Iran to greatly modernize and update its nuclear enrichment program.  Before the Obama deal, Iran had first generation Model-T centrifuges that, we were told, would take a year to produce enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb.  After the Obama deal, Iran has replaced their old centrifuges with the latest Maserati centrifuges that can produce enough bomb-grade uranium twenty times faster or in month or so.  And, Obama gave Iran 150 Billion dollars to destabilize the Middle East with its terror proxies.  No wonder President Trump says it is the worse deal in the world “ever.” It is.

Why is this a danger to Russia? After all, that country has thousands of nuclear weapons. Iran will have 10 nukes and Russia has thousands, but the danger is in remembering that when Hitler had finished occupying Western Europe to the English Channel, he turned on his next-door neighbor the Soviet Union.  Here, the parallel danger is that once Iran succeeds in subduing Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab world, Iran will ultimately turn on Russia.  It won’t be 5 years from now, but 10-15 years from now.  And in those 10-15 years, does Putin think Iran is going to stop its nuclear program?  Of course not.  Those 10 nukes produced from Russia Uranium ore will only provide “protective nukes” under which Iran will become an untouchable nuclear weapons producer because it will have become a nuclear power with the first crop of 10 bombs. In 15 years, Iran will have hundreds of nukes.

And of course, Iran will likely not fire an easily traceable nuclear weapon at Mother Russia.  The more likely scenario is that Iran will smuggle a nuclear weapon to a Chechen Black widow terror cell and have the Chechens ignite a nuclear catastrophe in Moscow.  Any Iranian attack will likely be totally untraceable to Iran.

Let’s get real. The only way Russia can stop its insane policy of not only crowning Iran the King of Syria, but also crowning it the nuclear-armed hegemon of the Arab world and the world’s oil supply, is to insure Iran fails in Syria, and fails badly.  Otherwise, Stalin’s fueling of Operation Barbarossa will look like genius compared to Putin’s arming Iran with nukes.

Whether Putin uses Trump as a cover to betray Iran, or Putin has to make a direct deal with Saudi Arabia to bring Syria to a pro-Sunni conclusion, it doesn’t matter.  It only matters that Iran loses big in Syria.  Otherwise, Iran will ultimately train its nuclear terror sights on Putin’s Russian Motherland.

In 732 A.C.E., the Umayyad Islamic Terror Caliphate in occupied Spain, or what was then al-Andulus, invaded the Duchy of Aquitane or what is now south-western France, and ransacked the French city Bordeaux.  Seeing the grave threat of the ravaging Islamic forces to Christianity and his Frankish Kingdom, Charles Martel marshaled his forces, and defeated the radical Islamic general Abdul Rahman Al Gahafiqi in the battle of Tours-Poitiers (a little east of Normandy).

In 732, in the face of massive Islamic victories, Martel’s Christian victory gave hope to the Christians and they renamed him Charles “The Hammer” Martel.

Martel’s victory steeled the arc of Christian Europeans, and enabled them to defeat the rampaging radical Islamic terrorists of that day.

Today in 2017, US President Donald J. Trump sees the same existential threat of radical Islamic terror to the United States and the Free World.  And, we must all support him, and pray for his absolute success: Failure is not an option.

Just as Charles Martel did in 732, President Trump sees the waxing Islamic terror, and calls it like he sees it.  In President Trump’s inauguration speech he stated, “We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones, and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth.”  If you can’t name your enemy, you certainly can’t fight your enemy.  And, President Trump has named his enemy.

And in naming the Free world’s enemy, President Trump has named his allies, principally Israel.  In fact, one of the reasons President Obama would never name radical Islam as the enemy is because he knew that by naming Islam as an enemy he was naming Israel as an ally.  With President Trump, the world has gone from Obama’s Orwellian fake world, to Trump’s true world.

And just as Charles Martel had to fight a radical Islamic terror that had already occupied significant beachheads in Europe, so too must President Trump begin the fight where radical Islam has already intellectually and geographically occupied the European continent. These European “no-go” zones not only threaten the countries that have allowed them to form, but have eliminated the various countries’ ability to admit they are essentially “occupied.”  This harms their ability to effectively mobilize and destroy the waxing radical Islamic terror threat.

And just as Charles Martel had to completely reformulate his military, President Trump is rebuilding an American army that will be able to “eradicate” “radical Muslim extremism” off the “face of the earth.”  Such a military reorganization will require a complete re-think of our military force structure.  The threat is not a 20th century tank battle, but a 24/7, 365/365 day battle on all fronts: the Homeland, the Cyber-space, the Intellectual Battle Space.

And additionally, just as Charles Martel had to break up the Frankish establishment of Churches, President Trump is going to have to break up the American political elite establishment.  America’s establishment has been intellectually occupied by a politically correct mindset that has paralyzed its ability to effectively defend itself against “radical Islamic terror.”  As proof of their dystopic inverted worldview, instead of seeing President Trump as a modern-day Churchill defending the Free World against a neo-Nazi Fascist Radical Islamic terror wave, these crazies see Trump as a “Hitler.”  Instead of their writing articles for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, these fake news writers and pundits should be shown up for what they are.

And finally, just as Charles Martel found the right topographically advantaged battlefield on which to take on the radical Islamic terrorist cavalry of 732, President Trump will find the right battlefield to eradicate the radical Islamic terrorists of 2017.  For while there are many fronts in which we face today’s radical Islamic terrorists, President Trump has hired the right man in General Mattis to lead those battles.  General Mattis will leverage America’s advantage and begin to turn back the terrible radical Islamic terror scourge that Obama encouraged and allowed to run rampant over the Free World in the last 8 years.

In sum, we all must pray every minute of every day for President Trump’s absolute and unalloyed success.  Hopefully, we will be able to crown President Trump, Donald “The Hammer” Trump.  Our every freedom and hope rides on his, and hence our, success.

At the outset of the American Civil War in 1861, the aging, wise, soon-to-be-retired-too-soon Union General-in-Chief Winfred Scott came in direct strategic conflict with George B. McClellan, the Union general who would recklessly and catastrophically lose the Union’s first phase of the US Civil War.

General McClellan believed in a direct attack into the south, and he failed. Scott believed in  a slow general blockade comprising a western smothering blockade slithering down the Mississippi, paired with an eastern naval blockade of the South’s ports.  Given the image of a slow-crushing of the South, Scott’s plan was, at first, ridiculed and derided, and came to be named after a slow, but deadly snake: the “Anaconda Plan.”  In time, Scott’s Anaconda Plan came to be the core blue-print for the North’s eventual Civil War victory over the South.

The plan’s use, however, is not limited to the good guys.

Today, for many of the same tactical reasons Scott advocated for his indirect, Anaconda blockading plan, Iran is successfully embarking on a modern-day Anaconda Plan for annihilating Saudi Arabia and capturing the Mesopotamian Black Gold Triangle that holds 54% of the world’s known oil reserves.  However, in today’s military parlance, Iran’s strategy has a fancier name, “A2/AD” which stands for “Anti-Access, Area-Denial.”

In fact, one can understand all of Iran’s seemingly disparate Arabian Peninsula/Levant Theater actions as really one-seamless Anaconda A2/AD attack plan with Saudi Arabia and the Sunni Gulf kingdoms as its one and only target. Iran plans to encircle and smother Saudi Arabia to death by insuring the United States will be incapable of defending the Sunni kingdoms when Iran strikes for their heart.

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In the West, General Scott envisioned going south down the Mississippi River to “cut the Confederacy in two.”  Today, in the north-east, Iran is going north upstream on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers with the goal of reaching the Mediterranean through Iraq and Syria and Lebanon and cutting the Sunni Turkey/Levant battle-space in two.

We were warned by Mitt Romney in the last election campaign. Everyone laughed and claimed that the candidate’s 2012 Obama/Romney-debate truism that “Syria is Iran’s only ally in the Arab world. It’s their route to the sea.” was a gaffe.  The “genius” Washington Post and Guardian “fact-checkers” were too myopic to understand that Romney meant the “Mediterranean Sea” not the Arabian Sea.

What this Iranian Shiite land-bridge Crescent from Iran to the Mediterranean Sea really does is not just create an Iranian “route to the Sea,” it creates a strategic topological disconnection between the NATO bases of Turkey and the scenes of Iran’s ultimate point of attack: the Persian Gulf Sunni Kingdoms.  The Iranian Crescent cuts the NATO/Mesopotamian battle-space in two.  With this critical swatch of land spanning west and east in Iran’s operational control, in the event of an Iranian attack on the Saudis, Iran can erect an east-west anti-air missile cordon that will present any mustering Turkey-based NATO force with a perilous path to save the Sunni Kingdoms from a blitzkrieg Iranian attack.

Unlike Saddam Hussein at Kuwait, or Hitler at Dunkirk, the Iranians won’t stop and wait at Kuwait for the Sunni’s allies to re-group. Instead, the Iranians will run the Western Persian Gulf coast all the way to Oman sealing the Sunnis fate in one sweep. With an Iranian air-defense curtain across the Shiite Crescent to the Med, any Turkey-based NATO saving-force will arrive too late, and suffer catastrophic losses in order to stop the Iranian juggernaut from running the Persian Gulf table.

Back to Scott: Along the Confederacies’ eastern coast General Scott planned a naval blockade of the South’s ports. This naval blockade starved the Rebels of urgently needed ammunition and trade from Europe because the south didn’t possess real industrial might. Today, to the south-west of the Arabian Peninsula, Iran is sinking its teeth into Yemen, and through the thinly veiled proxy of the Houthis, it is creating an ultimate strategic naval choke point at the Straits of Bab El-Mandab.

In the event of an Iranian attack, the range of Iran’s anti-ship missiles is so long that Iran can be deeply embed hundreds of hardened Iranian anti-ship missile batteries far from the Yemeni coastline. An American saving force may be able to ultimately break-through. But, by the time such an American force broke through, it would still have to fight its way through the Straits of Hormuz. Thus, the Iranian game would be over in the Persian Gulf before the Americans would ever get through the Straits of Bab El-Mandab, let alone the Straits of Hormuz.

In sum, the Iranian military is successfully effecting a modern day Anaconda-style A2/AD strategy which mixes the topological aspects of the Japanese game of Go, along with the balance of chess aimed at total victory over Saudi Arabia and the West.

In the meantime, the current American Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral John Richardson is pompously declaring that the A2/AD strategy is “dead.” Instead of planning how to defeat Iran, under the idiotic “leadership” of Obama, the American military is busying itself with “protocols” for the Pentagon to pay for sex change operations for American service-persons. (And, I kid you not, about this.)

Whoever gains the White House will face a waxing Iranian tidal-wave funded with $150 billion US dollars that will soon wipe the Sunnis off the face of the earth. And only too late, the world will realize the Obama Administration’s only “legacy” will be the creation of an Iranian Islamic Terrorist Nuclear-armed superpower empire with 60% of the world’s oil supply.

Obama's real legacy is going to be the catastrophic result of his ignoring Iran's Anti Access Area Denial (A2/AD) plan. A wake up call. Share on X