Tonight President Trump delivered 59 Tomahawks holding one ton of explosives each directly against the Shiite/Aliwite Bashar al-Assad.  Critically, President Trump gave the real message to the evil Iranians and the lunatic North Korean dictator.  It is a tragedy that  it is  6 years too late, that it needed elections for a new leader, President Trump, to make good on Iranian-stooge former-President Obama’s red-line.  We have now entered a new age where Iran will be defeated and defeated badly, and North Korea will realize its time is up.

President Trump is all action and no talk.  President Trump is the anti-Obama.  Obama was held hostage to some unknown hold on him by Iran either from his Hyde Park Fraud deal with Rezco, or some imagined “legacy” of an Iranian deal.  President Trump is clearly not beholden to anyone or anything.  He is going to act and act boldly.

President Trump is not a “to-be-or-not-to-be” President. This is a President who may just save the United States and save the world from evil. Share on X

The anti-Iranian Judeo-Sunni Coalition against the Iranian evil was born today.  The 59 missiles were the American signature on the dotted line of the Middle East’s future, including Israel as its cornerstone.  The Trump attack showed that the United States will stand behind a complete roll-back of the Iranian cancer that Obama allowed to metastasize throughout the Middle East and beyond.

Third, Bashar al-Assad is dead-man walking.  The Alawite generals around him now understand that if they don’t liquidate Assad themselves, and engineer a soft-landing of Syria to save an Alawite safe-zone, there will be the hard-landing of Assad’s liquidation and the Alawite sect will be wiped off the face of the earth.  If the Alawite and Russian generals continue their chlorine barrel-bombs, they will be met with hundreds of Tomahawk missiles, denuding them of any ability to control the Syrian battle-space.

Russian’s Putin, and China are now on notice regarding their respective pet-genocidal al-Assad and Kim Jong-un.  Putin and China had better control those psycho-pathological lunatics, or Trump will control them with raw brutal focused military action.  Russia and China will realize that escalation with Trump to protect petty dictators will lead to catastrophic consequences for their own countries.

The Islamic oppositional rebel groups in Syria now have a decision to make on whether they stay an Islamic crazy force, or renounce Islamic craziness and focus on becoming non-Islamic statesmen.  With Obama’s betrayal of the Sunnis, the Syrian Sunni opposition was left with only the radical Islamic card.  With Trump’s Tomahawk strike, he has given the Syrian Sunnis hope that they can find salvation in President Trump and not in Allah.

In short, overnight we have entered a Trump world. Perhaps there can truly be peace in our time.

When the Oslo Accords were signed, everyone heard Rabin, Peres, and their coterie of messianic left-wing generals say:  If anything goes wrong in Judea and  Samaria, we’ll go back in and wipe them out. Ariel Sharon did go back into Judea and Samaria and saw to it that  the IDF took back security control of the cities there after the Park Hotel Passover Seder massacre – sadly, over a thousand Israelis had been murdered by then –  but then, a short while later, Sharon said the same about Gaza.

Well, it didn’t turn out that way.  Instead, Gaza turned into a terrorist cancer firing tens of thousands of rockets into Israel, and there was no Israeli reinvasion, just operations to try to stop the rockets..  That’s because Gaza only really threatens the relatively poor Israelis and sparse kibbutzim around Gaza, not the immensely rich and powerful Tel Aviv elites.  The Gaza Belt Jews are Israel’s expendables.  But the same way Fatah and Hamas easily smuggled in parts and manufactured the rockets in Gaza, they will smuggle in and manufacture weapons in a demilitarized Palestinian Arab ‘West Bank State’.

And when those rockets lay waste to Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport, there will be an Israeli reinvasion.  The problem is that by the time there is an Israeli ‘West Bank’ reinvasion, there will be another million or more armed Palestinians.  In short, the 2-state solution makes the Palestinian demographic problem infinitely worse.

If you thought that the “Palestinian demographic problem” was a left-wing nuclear argument, you could not be more wrong.  The Palestinian demographic problem is actually a right-wing argument that the Israeli right-wing simply never understood how to use.  The “demographic problem” has always been a left-wing hammer that the left-wing would swing when they didn’t have an answer for the fact that unlike the Israeli sparsely populated farmland around the Gaza Strip,  small terrorist rockets from Judea and Samaria will pummel the densely populated Tel Aviv-Netanya corridor where 70% of Israel’s Jewish population resides.

Were a Katyusha rocket to be fired into Montana, nobody would get hurt.  But if the same rocket were fired into Manhattan from Brooklyn, many deaths would be guaranteed, and Manhattan would be paralyzed.  Likewise, a Palestinian Arab ‘West Bank’rocket barrage into Tel Aviv would necessitate a full Israel re-invasion of the Palestinian Authority.

The problem is, if a ‘West Bank State’ is created, or even if substantial contiguous pockets of Palestinian Arab control are really created, and the PA is granted the sovereign right to import population, the PA would clearly be able to bring many of the so-called 8,000,000 Palestinian refugees into its state.  And the Palestinian Arabs can invite anyone else they want into their state, including thousands of Hezbollah and tens of thousands of Iranian volunteers for Palestine.

So, at some future time Israel will most assuredly have to reinvade that Palestinian ‘West Bank State,’  There won’t be just the growth of the baseline Palestinian population to observe.  At that point in the future, the area will hold not only the baseline Palestinian population extant when Israel retreated, but also all the extra additional terrorist population that the government of Palestine invites in.  And, guess what else?  They will all be armed to the teeth with every manner of small easily smuggle-ready weapons such as anti-tank weapons, and IEDs.

So, every one must understand that the messianic leftist-generals are perpetrating a fraud on the Israeli public when they claim the “demographic argument” necessitates a 2-state solution.  Just the opposite, it requires Israel to never give another inch of land on which the Iranian cancer can grow and threaten the 6 million Jews of Israel with another Holocaust.

In 333 B.C.E., while wintering in the lands of Phrygian, Alexander the Great was confronted by the Gordian Knot, a supposedly unsolvable knot puzzle.  Various legends abound.  But, the most dramatic story is that Alexander simply took out his sword and cut the Gordian Knot, thereby “solving” the otherwise unsolvable puzzle.

Today, the US Secretary of Defense under the command of President Trump is on his way to cutting the Gordian Knot of Syria.  The vague outlines of SecDef Mattis’ strategy are apparent. Critically, it is clear Sec Def Mattis is not only on his way to solving the Syrian conundrum, but is setting the structural foundation for a Pan-Sunni/Israeli/Kurdish regional mutual defense against Iran.

Firstly, the opening reference to Alexander the Great is not merely a rhetorical flourish.  SecDef Mattis is a student of military history.  Then, Gen. Mattis was quoted in a letter stating: “For all the “4th Generation of War” intellectuals running around today saying that the nature of war has fundamentally changed, the tactics are wholly new, etc, I must respectfully say … “Not really”: Alex the Great would not be in the least bit perplexed by the enemy that we face right now in Iraq, and our leaders going into this fight do their troops a disservice by not studying (studying, vice just reading) the men who have gone before us.”

In the 300’s B.C.E., Alexander the Great’s only job was to defeat the Persian Empire.  In 2017, SecDef Mattis main job is to defeat the waxing Neo-Persian Iranian Empire.

But Didn’t Obama try to defeat ISIS? There is a critical difference between the Obama Regime’s Syria approach, and the Trump Administration’s Syria approach.  Obama talked the Sunni talk, but walked the Iranian Shiite walk. That insured ISIS would grow rather than wither. Obama never wanted Iran to lose Syria for all his anti-Assad bluster.  In fact, just the opposite, the anti-British Colonialist Obama wanted Iran to conquer the Sunni oil states and create the United Islamic States of Persia as a world superpower rivaling the United States itself.

In contrast, Trump really wants Iran defeated, and understands Syria is where their dreams of absolute Persian hegemony over the Arabs and their oil can be defeated. AKA, with Trump, the gloves are off when it comes to defeating Iran, and defeating it badly.  Militarily, ISIS is really the easy problem.  It’s Iran that’s the more difficult strategic puzzle to solve.

All of this brings us back to Syria.  Alleged pundits such as Sen. McCain should just be quiet and let SecDef Mattis and Central Command have some elbow room.  McCain’s recent statement about Trump’s Syria policy that “Unless something changes, I foresee a train wreck here, and I’m not sure that the administration recognizes how seriously, particularly, [Turkish] President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan views the threat that the Kurds pose.”

Come on Sen. McCain, SecDef Mattis doesn’t know about Turkish-Kurdish tensions??  Of course he understands the problems.  Maybe, just maybe, Turkey’s aggressive Syrian stance was based on the existence of Gen. Flynn as National Security Advisor, where Flynn was also a designated lobbyist for the Turkish Government to the tune of $500,000.

It’s clear Turkey has to come to grips with the reality that the United States is not going to betray the Kurds.  McCain would be wiser to counsel Turkey to get with the program rather than attack President Trump on Syria.  Sen. McCain should be threatening Turkey to be part of the solution, rather than the problem.  Sen. McCain should understand that these are first moves of what is a thoroughly thought out plan to defeat ISIS, defeat the Iranians, delimit Russia to Western Syria, and stabilize Syria all at the same time.

And as candidate Trump has admonished, President Trump is not going to publicly announce his strategy.  Trump is going to execute it, and destroy ISIS, and Iran first, and then talk about it later.  So, you’re not going to see me remotely explain what Sec Def Mattis is doing.  All I’ll say is I believe SecDef Mattis is unfolding a brilliantly planned strategy.

Iran should retreat from Syria fast before it is militarily embarrassed and annihilated.  Iran is catastrophically over-extended, and has burned through over 100 Billion dollars betting Obama could deliver Syria and the entire Levant to them.

Reality check/real news flash for Iran: Trump ain’t Obama.   Iran’s imperial neo-Safavidic plan has failed.  Iran had better fold up its tent, and quick, or Iran will get folded up, and buried deep by Sec Def Mattis and President Trump.

Nearly 8 years ago, just when Turkey was about to invade Iraq and kill the Iraqi Kurds, I sent a letter to then-PM Erdogan, now President Erdogan, warning him the Iraqi Kurds were Turkey’s ally and the Persian Iranians were Turkey’s enemy.  Today, Turkey is threatening to close its southern NATO-base, Incirlik to US military flights that support the Kurds and its Syrian militias are about to attack Kurdish forces to their east.  But, from 8 years ago to today, it is even more urgent for Turkey to ally with the Kurds to fight the Persians.

The text of my letter to then-PM Erdogan dated June 4, 2007, ran as follows:

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Embassy of the Republic of Turkey

2525 Massachusetts Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20008

Re:  Turkey’s Security

For the security of Turkey, I beg you not to attack or invade Northern Kurdish Iraq.

Ask yourself one question: Would Turkey rather have the Peshmerga as a suicidal enemy against a Turkish invasion to the south, or have the Peshmerga as a suicidal ally against a future Iranian invasion from the South.

The Kurds are your indispensable, reliable, and sole indigenous ally in your present and future strategic battle against Iran.  By accommodating the Kurds, Turkey will gain, at almost no cost, the entire northern Iraq as its forward deployed defense line against the Iranian northern encroachment that is undoubtedly on its way.  By fighting the Kurds, Turkey will not only lose a tactical tripwire to an Iranian push, but also lose the Kurds as a strategic battle-hardened military backbone which be first to absorb Iranian advances.

In fact, by not attacking Northern Iraq and building a Kurdish alliance instead, Turkey will, without a shot, project a strategic threat against Iran: namely, Iran’s 5 million Kurds.  By treating the Kurds as allies, Turkey will put the entire Iranian Kurdish population in play, to Iran’s detriment,.

The strategic calculus is so compelling; I believe it is absolutely vital that Turkey carefully triple-check and completely re-analyze its military intelligence of the recent terrorist attacks.  The Iranians, Syrians, or even al-Qaeda may have committed the attacks so as to falsely create a strategic wedge between Turkey and the Kurds and Turkey and the US, and provoke the very reaction Turkey is committing.

Don’t allow the Iranians to bait you into a losing tactical game of checkers against the Kurds, when you have a winning strategic game of chess against the Iranians.

Don’t look at the Kurds as Turkey’s past enemy, but as Turkey’s future ally.  Treat both Turkish and Iraqi Kurds as brothers in battle.  Very soon, Turkish and Kurdish soldiers will be dying side-by-side against the waxing Iranian Mahdish menace.

I have enclosed my article Iran: The Fourth Reichastan 2.2 for your review.  I have also enclosed a 1993 Jerusalem Post article about me.  If you want to see a small part of my presentation with an old version of my 3-D topographic map, go here “Mark Langfan Shalom America.”

Thank you for your consideration.

Very truly yours,

Mark Langfan

 

Comment: 

The letter above, for some reason, was leaked, by someone close to PM Erdogan, to the Turkish press and a Mr. Burak Bekdil, a Turkish journalist with Hurriyet Daily News, wrote about my 2007 letter.

1. First, if there weren’t the Iraqi Kurds, Pres. Erdogan would have had to invent them.  The Iraqi Kurds are protecting Turkey’s entire south-eastern front from the Persians.  Yes, they represent some future threat to Turkey.  However, the issue is not a future problem with Turkey’s Kurds, but the immediate existential threat of Persian contiguous empire from Iran, through Iraq, and Syria, to Lebanon.  The key is Turkey – it controls the oil flow from the Iraqi Kurds and is where the Kurds get hard cash.  Any oil sent through the Iraqi Government means the Kurds will see pennies on the dollar for their oil.  So, Turkey shouldn’t worry about the Kurds of Iraq, or the Kurds of Syria.

2. Second, Turkey has a tough slog in Syria against the Islamic State and the Iranian-backed Syrian Puppet Government.  The last thing Turkey needs is to waste its order of battle against the Syrian Kurds.  It would only enrage the Kurds living in Turkey.  Leave the Kurds alone and deal with the one true threat: The Persians.

Eight years of events have proven my advice of 2007 was sound and in the best interests of Turkey.  Please accept my current advice. I believe it will prove just as accurate and just as proper for Turkey.

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.