Carl Jung, the renowned analyst, made a keen observation regarding aggressors: in order to justify an attack the aggressors are planning against their selected victim, they first blame the victim for aggressive intentions. Then, the aggressor has every excuse to attack the victim - because the aggressor is merely acting in self-defense.
Generally speaking, the aggressor will craft his language in such a way that his attack achieves what was originally intended.
In the case of Syria, President Bashar Assad - urged on by Russia's President Vladimir Putin - is building the case that Israel is about to attack Syria. Since Israel has no intention of opening up a northeastern front with Syria, Assad is nevertheless building up a public case for protection through preemption. That speaks to a combined attack by Iran and Syria, with Putin safely on the sidelines applauding the actions of his prot?g?es.
Assad believes that a quick military thrust will capture the Golan Heights and, once again, afford him a superb firing position over Israel's Galilee valleys. It would also reverse Israel's electronic ability to watch Damascus and Syrian military installations. Presently, Israel can detect any start-up of tank engines or aircraft jets, and can watch for troop movements out of their bases. This is what keeps the peace between Syria and Israel: the State of Israel controls the visual observation at that border.
By reoccupying the Golan and Mt. Hermon, Syria (with Russian backing) could observe Israel in the same way. The aggressor wants the advantage returned and Putin is helping Assad to achieve this goal.
By the way, the importance of the Sheba'a Farms section of the border is not that it is a farm, but that it has full, strategic view of the Mt. Hermon and Golan Heights electronic observation posts, and can act as a springboard for a Muslim Arab attack.
In the next full scale war, you can put the blame on President Putin as instigator and provocateur. Putin wishes to return Russia to its earlier days, when the Soviet Union was a tyrannical superpower, through sheer fear and threatened terror. While he is using Iran and Syria as pawns to reach out with projected power, Putin will become more aggressive, more confrontational against America and American interests.
But first, he will hit at American allies like Israel (especially Israel), because for him that is a safe move. The big question is: When will Putin begin to threaten Europe, as in the old days of the Cold War, when NATO had to keep nuclear weapons at the ready against the huge Soviet army and their nuclear arms? They called that policy MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).
In the meantime, however, Putin can stir the pot in the Middle East, using Iran and Syria as his front lines. And for those who think of the Biblical map of the wars of Gog and Magog and Armageddon as flights of fancy, you may wish to reread those sections.
Generally speaking, the aggressor will craft his language in such a way that his attack achieves what was originally intended.
In the case of Syria, President Bashar Assad - urged on by Russia's President Vladimir Putin - is building the case that Israel is about to attack Syria. Since Israel has no intention of opening up a northeastern front with Syria, Assad is nevertheless building up a public case for protection through preemption. That speaks to a combined attack by Iran and Syria, with Putin safely on the sidelines applauding the actions of his prot?g?es.
Assad believes that a quick military thrust will capture the Golan Heights and, once again, afford him a superb firing position over Israel's Galilee valleys. It would also reverse Israel's electronic ability to watch Damascus and Syrian military installations. Presently, Israel can detect any start-up of tank engines or aircraft jets, and can watch for troop movements out of their bases. This is what keeps the peace between Syria and Israel: the State of Israel controls the visual observation at that border.
By reoccupying the Golan and Mt. Hermon, Syria (with Russian backing) could observe Israel in the same way. The aggressor wants the advantage returned and Putin is helping Assad to achieve this goal.
By the way, the importance of the Sheba'a Farms section of the border is not that it is a farm, but that it has full, strategic view of the Mt. Hermon and Golan Heights electronic observation posts, and can act as a springboard for a Muslim Arab attack.
In the next full scale war, you can put the blame on President Putin as instigator and provocateur. Putin wishes to return Russia to its earlier days, when the Soviet Union was a tyrannical superpower, through sheer fear and threatened terror. While he is using Iran and Syria as pawns to reach out with projected power, Putin will become more aggressive, more confrontational against America and American interests.
But first, he will hit at American allies like Israel (especially Israel), because for him that is a safe move. The big question is: When will Putin begin to threaten Europe, as in the old days of the Cold War, when NATO had to keep nuclear weapons at the ready against the huge Soviet army and their nuclear arms? They called that policy MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).
In the meantime, however, Putin can stir the pot in the Middle East, using Iran and Syria as his front lines. And for those who think of the Biblical map of the wars of Gog and Magog and Armageddon as flights of fancy, you may wish to reread those sections.