The Real, Real Target is SyriaMike Whitney wrote:Is North Korea a diversion for a US-Jordan invasion of Syria?
by MIKE WHITNEY
“Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said that his country has information that Jordan is planning to send its troops into southern Syria in cooperation with the United States….’Jordan is not an independent country. Whatever the United States wants, it will happen,’ said Assad.”
— Middle East Monitor
“In the event of a de-facto partition of Syria, the US and its allies will get a strategically important region. It is through Deir Ezzor that the proposed gas pipeline from Qatar is supposed to run….The Deir Ezzor province is also home to Syria’s largest oil deposit, the Al-Omar. …the city and the province are of particular value since the deposits there contain the highly valuable light sweet crude usable in the production of gasoline and diesel fuel.”
— South Front, “The Stronghold of Deir Ezzor; What You Need to Know”
The United States is not going to launch a preemptive attack on North Korea. The risks far outweigh the rewards and, besides, the US has no intention of getting bogged down in a conflict that doesn’t advance its geopolitical objectives. The saber-rattling is just an attempt to divert attention from the Syria-Jordan border where the US and Jordan are massing troops and equipment for an invasion of Syria. That’s what’s really going on. The Korean fiasco is a smokescreen.
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There are few resources to steal in North Korea, though the author of the above article posits that North Korea is being used as a justification to implant missile defense to protect the USA's pillaging behavior from an eventual wrath from China.
So, he suggests that all this smoke is being used to divert attention from a troop buildup on the Jordanian border. The author says that Jordan is not an independent country but a mercenary one that does whatever Western interests say.