The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
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Re: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
#2The better link is the whole project page:
https://www.occrp.org/en/makingakilling/
>Since the outbreak of war in Syria, weapons from Central and Eastern Europe have flooded the conflict zone through two distinct pipelines – one sponsored by Saudi Arabia and coordinated by the CIA, and the other funded and directed by the Pentagon.
>A series of investigations by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have brought to light these multi-billion-dollar weapons deliveries -- exposing the misleading and potentially illegal documents on which they rely, the shady dealers at its heart of the trade, and the governments that have profited from the war.
Re: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
#3The better link is the whole project page: https://www.occrp.org/en/makingakilling/ >Since the outbreak of war in Syria, weapons from Central and Eastern Europe have flooded the conflict zone through two distinct pipelines – one sponsored by Saudi Arabia and coordinated by the CIA, and the other funded and directed by the Pentagon. >A series of investigations by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and t…
Anyone got a tl;dr about the motive behind all this? What does the US government gain by flooding the middle East with weapons?
Re: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
#4The same documents confirm the CIA has been arming Al Qaeda in Syria. Scroll down to the last map[1] which shows CIA weapons went directly to Idlib province (northwest section in green) and the Golan border region (south). Both of these areas were and continue to be occupied by Al Qaeda. Idlib specifically is where genocidal cleansing of religious minorities was confirmed to be conducted by Al Qaeda "rebels" directly assisted by CIA weapons.[2]
[1]https://www.occrp.org/assets/makingakilling/MapOfSyriaIraq.p... [2]https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2016-01-19/ass...
Re: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
#5The US is literally sponsoring Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Syria to fuel the proxy war against Russia and Iran and to hinder their fight against ISIS and other jihadi groups. It's 1980s all over again and a 16th anniversary of 9/11. No lessons learned.
Re: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
#6The better link is the whole project page: https://www.occrp.org/en/makingakilling/ >Since the outbreak of war in Syria, weapons from Central and Eastern Europe have flooded the conflict zone through two distinct pipelines – one sponsored by Saudi Arabia and coordinated by the CIA, and the other funded and directed by the Pentagon. >A series of investigations by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and t…
Anyone got a tl;dr about the motive behind all this? What does the US government gain by flooding the middle East with weapons?
> What does the US government gain by flooding the middle East with weapons?
A bigger market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military–industrial_complex
Re: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
#7The US is literally sponsoring Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Syria to fuel the proxy war against Russia and Iran and to hinder their fight against ISIS and other jihadi groups. It's 1980s all over again and a 16th anniversary of 9/11. No lessons learned.
So all Russia and Iran are doing is just trying to defend against ISIS? That's certainly one interpretation I suppose.
Re: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
#8The better link is the whole project page: https://www.occrp.org/en/makingakilling/ >Since the outbreak of war in Syria, weapons from Central and Eastern Europe have flooded the conflict zone through two distinct pipelines – one sponsored by Saudi Arabia and coordinated by the CIA, and the other funded and directed by the Pentagon. >A series of investigations by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and t…
Anyone got a tl;dr about the motive behind all this? What does the US government gain by flooding the middle East with weapons?
The war in Syria is a proxy for a battle between two countries: Iran on the one side, which supports Assad's regime, and Saudi Arabia on the other side, which supports the Sunnite rebel groups ISIS and Al Qaida.
Saudi Arabia is an ally of the US and Iran an enemy, so therefore the US supports the rebel groups that fight Assad's regime. What's more, US's close ally Israel is right at the border of Syria and Israel is a long time enemy of Iran as well.
Re: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
#9The better link is the whole project page: https://www.occrp.org/en/makingakilling/ >Since the outbreak of war in Syria, weapons from Central and Eastern Europe have flooded the conflict zone through two distinct pipelines – one sponsored by Saudi Arabia and coordinated by the CIA, and the other funded and directed by the Pentagon. >A series of investigations by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and t…
Anyone got a tl;dr about the motive behind all this? What does the US government gain by flooding the middle East with weapons?
Proxy war against Russia and Iran.
Re: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
#10The better link is the whole project page: https://www.occrp.org/en/makingakilling/ >Since the outbreak of war in Syria, weapons from Central and Eastern Europe have flooded the conflict zone through two distinct pipelines – one sponsored by Saudi Arabia and coordinated by the CIA, and the other funded and directed by the Pentagon. >A series of investigations by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and t…
Anyone got a tl;dr about the motive behind all this? What does the US government gain by flooding the middle East with weapons?
The answers to the question "what is there to gain?" are fairly obvious, don't you think?