Saudi Arabia Exposed as Secret Hand Behind Ongoing Syrian Regime Change Operation
While the security services of the United States, United Kingdom, and France have played a pivotal role, Saudi Arabia is the ultimate driving force behind the push for regime change in Syria.
By Jay Syrmopoulos
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
April 18, 2018
Washington, D.C. – A revealing report by the Foreign Policy Journal from 2016 lays the groundwork for explaining many of the geopolitical manifestations we are currently seeing at play between the triumvirate of the United States, United Kingdom and France, and Russia—and how it relates directly to the Saudi role in the ongoing Syria regime change operation.
An internal cable from within the Saudi Arabian government, released by WikiLeaks in the summer of 2015 as part of “The Saudi Cables” explained that the Kingdom feared Russian intervention and Syrian retaliation, but was set on Assad’s violent ouster “by all means available,” even if U.S. support waivers for “lack of desire.” Furthermore, Saudi Arabia miscalculated that the “Russian position” of preserving the Assad government “will not persist in force.”
Below is an excerpt of the Saudi cable:
“The fact must be stressed that in the case where the Syrian regime is able to pass through its current crisis in any shape or form, the primary goal that it will pursue is taking revenge on the countries that stood against it, with the Kingdom and some of the countries of the Gulf coming at the top of the list. If we take into account the extent of this regime’s brutality and viciousness and its lack of hesitancy to resort to any means to realize its aims, then the situation will reach a high degree of danger for the Kingdom, which must seek by all means available and all possible ways to overthrow the current regime in Syria. As regards the international position, it is clear that there is a lack of ‘desire’ and not a lack of ‘capability’ on the part of Western countries, chief among them the United States, to take firm steps…”
By all measures, the Russian military’s intervention in Syria has been a resounding success for the Assad government and staved off the forces set loose upon the Syrian government by Saudi Arabia and its numerous terror proxies—one of which is Jaysh al-Islam—the Islamist rebel group that was holding Douma when the alleged chemical attack blamed on the Assad government took place.
Without question, the Syrian government, while not in control of all the physical territory of Syria, has essentially won the war—although the United States and Kurd proxies hold vast swaths of land that hold oil, gas and water resources vital to the rebuilding of a contiguous Syrian state.
So let’s rewind to November of 2017. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, widely known as MBS, ordered the mass arrest and detention at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton of more than 300 Saudi princes and business leaders. The move was widely touted as a way to recover billions in lost revenue—but largely served as a means of consolidating power due to his recent unexpected succession to the throne. Although the Saudi government claimed the accusations of brutality were “absolutely untrue,” shares in several Saudi-owned enterprises plummeted.
To bolster his legitimacy, MBS undertook a major “charm offensive” in an attempt to prime the U.S. market for the upcoming initial public offering (IPO) of Saudi state oil company Aramco, which experts predict will have a valuation in the range of $1 trillion to $2 trillion. The sale of a 5 percent stake in the company could take place at the end of 2018 or early 2019, depending on market conditions, Prince Mohammed told Reuters in an interview.
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