USA Vicepræsident Joe Biden spiller en meget speciel rolle i den mørke udenrigspolitiske side af Obama administrationen, én som er næsten overset, idet han er sådan en ansigtsløs personlighed. Det lader til, at hvor end Washington planlægger at starte en krig, så sender Obama Joe dertil for at få tingene sat i værks. Han er værd at kigge nærmere på i lyset af hans besøg i Ankara fornyligt ,og hvad han sagde der.
Den 24. januar kom Joe Biden til Ankara for intense møder med Tyrkiets Præsident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan og premierminister Davutoğlu. Hvad der var af betydning i samtalerne af det, som er blevet offentliggjort, er det forbavsende faktum, at Biden, som repræsenterer den amerikanske regering, som påstår, at det er engageret i en krig for at besejre IS, den såkaldte Islamiske stat eller på arabisk, DAESH, ikke en eneste gang med de tyrkiske ledere diskuterede forhandlinger om en politisk løsning i Syrien, ifølge en ikke navngiven amerikansk embedsmand, som var til stede.
I stedet for støttede Washington Erdoğan's fortsatte etniske udrensning, dårligt skjult under dækket af at være en krig imod terroristiske PKK, imod den tyrkiske kurdiske befolkning og deres kurdiske allierede i Syrien. Derudover, annoncerede Biden, der optrædte sammen med de tyrkiske ledere, at hvis de diplomatiske samtaler i Geneva i denne uge om Syrien mislykkedes, så vil en militær aktion i Syrien følge: "Vi ved, at det ville være bedre, hvis vi kunne komme til en politisk løsning, men vi er parat - vi er parate, hvis det ikke er muligt - til at have en militær løsning til denne operation med at fjerne Daesh."
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Joe Biden's seduction of Erdoğan
Moreover, he indicated that Washington would not pressure Turkey to stop its military troop placement inside Iraq near the rich oilfields of Mosul, presently held by DAESH, leaving it as a matter between the governments of Iraq and Turkey, meaning de facto US endorsement of Turkey's illegal invasion of Iraq. In fact, Biden discussed US military support, unspecified, for a Turkish military move to take the oilfields of Mosul. Further, the US Vice President apparently said not a word about the continuing illegal smuggling of Iraqi and Syrian oil by ISIS into Turkey where Erdoğan's son ships it to world markets, financing the ISIS terror inside Syria Biden claims to oppose.
Now Joe Biden, a nasty corrupt fellow by many accounts, knew well that Erdoğan and his head of the Turkish MIT intelligence, Hakan Fidan, openly support DAESH, train them, and arm them to wage the war in Syria by the DAESH or ISIS that Washington claims to be fighting against. In an October 18, 2015 interview with the Turkish news agency, Anadoly, Fidan stated the open Turkish support for DAESH: "The Islamic Emirate [IS-w.e.] is a reality and we must accept that we cannot eradicate a well-organized and popular institution as the Islamic State is. Therefore, I urge my colleagues in the West to revise their mindset on Islamic political currents, to put aside their cynical mentality and thwart Putin plans to crush the Islamist Syrian revolutionaries."
The Great Seduction
As I have written previously, what is shaping up in the Middle East today, far from a diplomatic resolution of the US-backed war by ISIS to destroy the legitimately elected government of Syrian President Bashar al Assad, is a covert behind-the-scenes Washington seduction of the grandiose, ambitious Erdoğan, backed by the equally grandiose and stupid Saudi regime of pro-ISIS King Salman and his hot-headed, militarily incompetent son, Defense Minister and de facto King, Prince Salman.
The Washington game seems to be to give the Saudi-Turkish duo enough rope to hang themselves in a mad power grab of Syrian and Iraqi oil riches and perhaps, if they are really mad enough, of Iran's oilfields too. Few realize that it was King Salman who organized the Saudi money for the CIA that financed their creation, going back to when Salman, as Prince, organized financing of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda Mujahideen in the Afghan war against the Soviet Red Army in Afghanistan in the 1980's.
There is today an obscene military and economic alliance between Turkey's grandiose, ambitious Erdoğan and the Wahhabite Saudi monarchy. For their part, the Saudi monarchy of Salman and Prince Salman is eager to grab more oilfields to boost their wealth. That, not because the Monarchy is destitute, but because they seem to have the delusion that if they become the possessor of the world's most oil, they will finally be allowed to "sit at the Master's table" and not be treated by arrogant Western oligarchs as primitive Bedouin camel herders in Rolls Royces.
The Grand Sultan?
In March this year, as a result of collusion between the Saudi monarchy of Salman and Erdoğan, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi was coerced to hand over a vital political post to Erdogan. Erdogan will soon lead the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), considered to be the Muslim 'UN,' coming second to the United Nations in size and global power.
Saudi Arabia arranged the Turkey-Egypt talks setting the framework for a peace deal between Turkey and Egypt, to be finalized before April when Al-Sisi will hand over the leadership of the OIC to Erdoğan. In 2013 Turkey's Erdoğan condemned the toppling of the Muslim Brotherhood regime by Al Sisi, refusing to recognize Al Sisi's legitimacy. Now, under terms of the Saudi-brokered deal, Al Sisi will not only surrender his Presidency of OIC, no doubt a deal greased with Saudi money to needy Egypt. He will also turn over to the pro-Muslim Brotherhood regime of Erdoğan hundreds of Egyptian Muslim Brothers sitting on death row after Al Sisi's overthrow of the Brotherhood's President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
The OIC was founded in 1969 by 57 member states, to be "the collective voice of the Muslim world". It was set up as result of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Caliphate after World War I, which left a vacuum for a pan-Islamic institution. The OIC represents the association today of 56 Islamic states. This is much the same group of Islamic states invited to Riyadh last month by Prince Salman to form the Saudi an "Islamic Anti-Terror Coalition."
Step by step the grandiose, ambitious Erdoğan, current international "protector" of the Muslim Brotherhood, backer of DAESH, aka ISIS, is nearing his long-held dream of restoring the Islamic Caliphate, but not with some character called Al Baghdadi, who may even be only fictional. The new Grand Sultan will be...Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Or so he believes, especially after the latest visit to Ankara of devious Joe Biden.
It's becoming clearer by the day that the schemers in Washington and their oligarchical backers in Wall Street and Big Oil are setting the stage for something very big and very dramatic in the coming few months in the Middle East. The outcome could surprise the entire world. It will not benefit the cause of world peace and harmony if Joe Biden and his patrons have their way, we can be sure.
Kommentar: The leaders of Turkey, the US, and Saudi Arabia - the whole lot of them - are a bunch of conniving, maniacal, pathological megalomaniacs. In this geopolitical drama of As the World Burns, we continue to wait, watch and see which of these groups turns on the other. And how their respective ships continue to sink ever deeper in the morass of greed, lies and aggression they are all so deeply steeped in.