Talk:U.S. missile strike on Syria (2018)

Poisoning of Sergei Skripal = land-bridge to Israel
I have an outlandish theory about the Poisoning of Sergei Skripal‎ that I will start outlining here.

Russia, Turkey and the United States have come to a tacit agreement that the final settlement of the Syrian civil war will include population transfers where isolated problem populations are "ethnically cleansed" and moved to larger, economically and logistically more viable larger units. The relationship of these "cantons" to each other and the Syrian state will be a matter for the political process.

The United States did not protest the ethnical cleansing of Afrin of its almost exclusively Kurdish population. These Kurds are needed to strengthen the U.S. occupation zone east of the Euphrates. America nor Israel has any use for Afrin, especially since dreams of a Kurdish or ISIS corridor to the Mediterranean have permanently been curtailed. On the other hand, the U.S. has shown its willingness to massacre hundreds of Syrians and Russians to demonstrate its ownership of some key points of Syrian geography. The locations of these points of contention might reveal a grand geopolitical scheme of the U.S. and its allies. The points:
 * Everything east of the Euphrates, including the eastern bank of Deir ez-Zor.
 * The oilfields east of Deir ez-Zor.
 * Al Tanf border crossing and surrounding area on the main road from Damascus to Baghdad.
 * The Daraa border crossing, just south of Daraa.

Several key places are held by ISIS, possibly with the support of USA.
 * The T3 (and earlier T2) pumping stations along the abandoned Kirkuk–Tripoli pipeline (Now Kirkuk–Baniyas pipeline)
 * East bank of the Euphrates south of Deir ez-Zor.

It is claimed that the reason the U.S. need to occupy the Al Tanf border crossing is to block the land corridor between Iran and Lebanon and thus prevent Iran from supplying Hezbollah. The real reason may be different. If pro-U.S. and pro Israel forces managed to take control of the Syrian side of the Jordan–Syria and the Iraq–Syria borders then it would enable Israel to supply a a Kurdish protectorate in eastern Syria. The area from the rebel enclave around Daraa to Amu Kemal on the Euphrates is mainly desert. If pipelines could be build on this strip of land then Israel could steal oil from "Kurdish" oilfields and even water from the Euphrates.

The United States may be about to start a land invasion of Syria. The offensive would start from the U.S. base at the Al Tanf border crossing and extend through Abu Kemal to the American and Kurdish-held areas on the eastern bank of the Euphrates. The troops would be supplied through Jordan. It is possible that Britain would also take part in this operation.

-- Petri Krohn (talk) 09:39, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Un-bridging
Preventing Iranian bridge to Lebanon, yes, oil, maybe. With the new Sec. Stat in town they need to figure out what they are up to. Trump, unlike Tllerson, said US is there to fight IS only, but it may be conditioned on something happening by itself (by Saudis, say) --10:23, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

There was (some claim) that Gladio B thing, but the Turks got rotten, so Gladio C of sort is needed. Ukrainians too far to be of help in the ME, unless their GM version is successfully developed. --Resup (talk) 10:29, 19 March 2018 (UTC)