- Orwell would have loved this Archived Message
- Orwell would have loved this - Raskolnikov June 14, 2019, 9:44 am
- Excellent analysis Raskolnikov, as usual. Thanks nm - Tomski June 14, 2019, 12:41 pm
- Re: Orwell would have loved this - Si June 14, 2019, 12:53 pm
- Excellent analysis Raskolnikov, as usual. Thanks nm - Tomski June 14, 2019, 12:41 pm
Posted by Raskolnikov
on June 14, 2019, 9:44 am
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https://www.dumptheguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/13/british-special-forces-to-get-new-mission-to-counter-state-actors The fraudian is beating the war drums ever more frantically and this piece is close to insane. British special forces are hoping to be given a new remit to counter Russia and other state actors as secret missions against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq become less necessary. Casually admitting that there have been "boots on the ground" in Syria for a long time, also no mention of why they are now less necessary. Underlying the plan is a belief that the nature of modern warfare is changing, with less emphasis on conventional military action and instead a shift towards a more subtle conflict between nation states. Two tankers were targeted in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday morning, a sophisticated covert attack that the US blamed on Iran. Tehran denied responsibility and its foreign minister suggested others could be trying to provoke a conflict. Just throw the new Gulf of Tonkin incident in there to paint it with the brush they are using. Then there's this.... Last week, Gen Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, the chief of general staff, talked about the emerging thinking in British circles, saying that peace and war were “two increasingly redundant states”. And there you have it; finally one of them has come out and said it....."War is Peace"....Truly through the looking glass. Then it carries on with more of the usual bullshit: Concern about Russia has soared in the aftermath of the poisoning of the Skripals in Salisbury last year. That was blamed on Russian military intelligence, the GRU, whose activities a restructured special forces hopes to counter. Over the last decade and a half, British special forces have been active on covert missions in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. But with Isis losing the last of its territory in March, the military believe it is time to move on. Ha! Is that meant to make it look like they achieved what they wanted? They are really ramping this stuff up now; perhaps the Raytheon/Lockheed shareholders need some more death dollars, but they are definitely heating things up. |
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