COINCIDENCE DETECTOR LIGHTS UP AS UK BLAMES PUTIN & TRUMP SACKS TILLERSON

by Duns Scotus

Without being an "Insider" it is difficult to know exactly what is going on in the world of politics and geopolitics today. In fact, you only have two options—either to be a dupe or a crank, namely to believe everything our "highers and betters" tell us or else to be stubbornly suspicious of it. I prefer the latter.

But one way we have of seeing inside the walls of power is to look at the odd coincidences that frequently occur in the news agenda. These can often be very revealing, especially if they all point in the same direction, as they appear to be doing at the moment.

There are a number of interesting things occurring at present, which seem to have a strange synergy or inverted synergy.

Right now in Syria, the government of President Bashar al-Assad is crushing the Ghouta Pocket,  an enclave of rebel-held territory almost at the heart of Damascus. His past reluctance to attack this awkwardly-sited rebel pocket was because it would inevitably involve a large number of civilian casualties and provide an easy pretext for the West to up its intervention. After various successes elsewhere in the last year, Assad calculated that he was now strong enough to make this dangerous move, which if successful will greatly strengthen his power.

Of course Assad's main supporters in this endeavour, as well as his struggle to remain in control of Syria, are Iran and Russia. So it is interesting to note what appear to be two coincidental events, one pertaining to Iran and the other to Russia.

Tycoons Trump and Tillerson 

According to the mainstream media, Trump's reasons for sacking Rex Tillerson from the post of Secretary of State, and replacing him with some flunky from the CIA, are various or purely personal. But the important difference between the two men appears to be their views on how to deal with Iran.

Tillerson was much happier to accept the status quo of the deal made with Iran by President Obama, while Trump seems to be taking an increasingly Neocon and aggressive stance towards Iran, that also ties in rather well with his recent decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

In fact, this difference on Iran is the only solid reason that really explains this sudden dismissal.

Coinciding—and indeed synergising—with this is the shitstorm currently underway over the attempted murder of an ex-Russian intelligence operative, Sergei Skripal, in the sleepy English town of Salisbury. He had spied for the UK in the past, been caught and convicted in Russia, and then exchanged in a spy-swap. BTW, Salisbury just happens to be adjacent to the UK's biggest chemical weapons centre at Porton Down. How convenient!

The British government has quickly come to the conclusion that this attempted murder was almost certainly the work of the Russian government, without going to the bother of proving this or getting to the bottom of the case. The government of Prime Minister Theresa May is now pushing for all kinds of sanctions against Russia, as well as raising the possibility of deplatforming the Russian news channel Russia Today.

It seems that what they have done to the Alt-Right they are now attempting to do to Russian supported media.

It is significant that this act of apparent poisoning occurred in the run up to the Russian presidential election—just as the murder of MP Jo Cox happened a few days before the Brexit vote.

It was always obvious that Putin was going to win this election, and he still is, but the Western Deep State’s game plan here is to try to hamstring the re-elected Putin by building up more international pressure and promoting colour-revolution-style opposition at home.

Painting Putin as a pissed-off, presidential poisoner who ruthlessly removes his opponents and dispatches dissidents is essentially a way to delegitimize him as much as possible. Such a move is intended either to stoke up enough opposition at home to destabilise his administration and bring him down, or, failing that, to push him on the defensive as much as possible, so that he loses his wider potency and ability to effectively support key allies like Iran and Syria.

It is hard not to see similarities between this and the efforts made to weaken and undermine Trump himself in his first year in power with the fake "Russia-gate" allegations.

With Russia weakened and destabilised in this way, and with a sensible moderate like Rex Tillerson cleared out of the State Department, the path towards a more proactive anti-Assad policy in the Middle East is greatly smoothed.

Now whose interests does that serve?

One more interesting coincidence is the fact that the British government needs a major distraction from yet another massive Muslim paedophile grooming scandal right now. A diplomatic war with Russia—along with a threat to the England football team participating in the World Cup to be held there later this year—serves that purpose perfectly.