Saturday, August 19, 2017

World Peace “Lennon Ivan Style” – Part 260

World Peace “Lennon Ivan Style” – Part 260 





During the week ending on Sunday, August 20, 2017, TURKEY retreated from their days of aggressive sieges of CIZRE, SILOPI, DIYARBAKIR and NUSAYBIN, predominantly KURDISH, which TURKEY had converted into a suburban war zone area as TURKEY was on the defense as they were subject to an internal military “Coup D’État” that failed as gunfire and explosions erupted in which 265 people died, 161 of them civilians during July of 2016. As a result of the failed “Coup D’État”, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a state of emergency, extended the period during which suspects can be detained without charge to 30 days, closed more than 1,000 private schools and closed more than 1,200 associations. A wide scale purge led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his governing AKP re-escalated this week as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan focused his attention on another purge of the Fethullah Gulen opposition movement supporters on the heals of celebrating the victory of the YES side in the referendum that was held on Sunday, April 16, 2017 whereby the majority of the TURKISH population voted in favour of TURKEY’s parliamentary system to be converted into a presidential system effectively consolidating power into one executive branch with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as its primary executor. Therefore, those opposing the vote say the proposed constitutional changes will give “Free Reign” to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who has already been pushing the boundaries of his power as his governing AKP has been utilizing an increasingly authoritarian style since the failed “Coup D’État” attempt which led to an intense crackdown leading to the arrests of over 47,000 government critics, academics, journalists, military officials and civil servants. Nonetheless, TURKEY ignored all criticisms from foreign powers and went straight ahead this week with further crackdown measures as TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Germany’s ruling politicians enemies of TURKEY who deserve to be rejected by GERMAN-TURKISH voters. It is important to note that GERMANY will hold a general election on September 24, 2017 and about one million ethnic TURKS living in GERMANY can vote, a majority of who had previously backed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the April referendum to effectively consolidate power into one executive branch with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as its primary executor. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan conveyed his message to GERMAN TURKS via reporters in ISTANBUL with the clear message that they should not vote for the Christian Democrats (CDU) or Social Democrats (SPD) in GERMANY. As a friendly reminder, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right CDU has been governing in coalition with the centre-left SPD although recent opinion polls suggest the CDU has a strong lead over the SPD. Contemporaneously with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan referring to the ruling GERMAN parties as enemies, relations with IRAN were sizzling as TURKEY and IRAN agreed to boost military cooperation after talks held in TURKEY with the IRANIAN armed forces. 

Moving on to IRAQ, IRAQI and ALLIED forces have pushed ISIS militants back from MOSUL, their last major stronghold in IRAQ, whereby IRAQI special forces first liberated the eastern half of MOSUL from ISIS in its entirety subsequent to ALLIANCE forces seizing complete control of most of western MOSUL from ISIS. It is important to note that IRAQI forces put pressure on ISIS to the point of ISIS relinquishing control of MOSUL as the world watched the scenes of jubilation as IRAQI forces liberated the OLD MOSUL City from ISIS. However, with 40,000 plus dead in the battle to take back OLD MOSUL City from ISIS, the scale of civilian casualties reveals a massacre with many bodies still buried under the rubble and the level of human suffering immense. However, ISIS is far from eradicated in IRAQ as several strongholds still remain such that the final battles to push ISIS out of these places will be more complicated than the previous straightforward fights in places such as FALLUJAH and TIKRIT. Today, ISIS still controls three towns consisting of TAL AFAR, west of MOSUL; HAWIJA, south of KIRKUK; and AL QAIM, west of ANBAR whereby each fight will have its own set of complicated political, military and foreign policy issues. In addition, many ISIS militias have taken to the hills and began to wage a classic rural guerrilla war, while some ISIS sleeper cells have also been activated at the border of Baghdad, the IRAQI capital. Thus, ISIS has now returned to the status of an insurgent or terrorist group as the Islamic State of IRAQ and SYRIA can no longer call itself a state as ISIS has lost all capacity to act as a state but rather ISIS now stands exposed as a GANGSTER sham. A perfect example of ISIS omnipresence in IRAQ was felt this week as ISIS militants killed a police officer and seven of his family members after invading his home in north-western KIRKUK with a sneak attack in the early dawn hours of the morning. Ironically, ISIS is still seen as the biggest threat in the world despite the ISIS expected defeat in IRAQ according to the survey results released by the Pew Research Centre. It appears that sickening images released by ISIS showing how their children have effectively been brainwashed by their parents to attack Westerners has traumatized the world in the sense that the world could still be fighting ISIS for decades with the sowing of such seeds of hatred in ISIS youth. 

Moving on to SYRIA, a ceasefire across SYRIA appears to be broken after its brokers, RUSSIA, TURKEY and IRAN obtained approval of the plan from the UN Security Council overriding all previous failed peace proposals and finally ending the six-year conflict. Although these talks represented the most serious diplomatic efforts in months, U.S. President, Donald Trump’s authorization of the firing of 59 TOMAHAWK cruise missiles at the SYRIAN Armed Forces in response to what the U.S. believes was a chemical weapons attack that killed more than 100 people authorized by President Bashar al-Assad has derailed the entire peace process. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could not agree on who was responsible for the chemical attacks. Although the 80 plus deaths from the chemical attacks have been widely blamed on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, RUSSIA has denied the SYRIAN regime carried out the chemical attacks. Therefore, the U.S. and RUSSIA agreed for the moment to disagree as the war raged on this week although TURKEY, IRAN and RUSSIA signed an agreement at the SYRIAN cease-fire talks in KAZAKHSTAN several weeks ago calling for the creation of four de-escalation zones in SYRIA that represent the latest attempt by all key players in the region to reduce the violence in SYRIA including the commitment by President Bashar al-Assad that the SYRIAN air force will halt flights over the designated areas in SYRIA. Unfortunately, the new cease-fire deal including the four de-escalation zones have been the subject of numerous violations from the outset as tensions seem to continue to erupt albeit Russia and the U.S. continuing to discuss the situation in round-the-clock mode anticipating that eventually the de-escalation zones will be fully under control. However, tensions seemed to de-escalate this week as the SYRIAN Army under the control of President Bashar al-Assad and allied LEBANESE militant group HEZBOLLAH fighters captured several ISIS positions on strategic hilltops along the SYRIAN-LEBANESE border. These captures on strategic hilltops along the SYRIAN-LEBANESE border come ahead of an anticipated LEBANESE offensive to clear the ISIS extremists from the LEBANESE side of the border. Contemporaneously, RUSSIAN fighter jets were providing cover for additional SYRIAN Army initiatives in central SYRIA to take back territory from ISIS. In particular, the area taken includes several hilltops in the western QALAMOUN mountain range on the SYRIAN side of the border as SYRIAN government forces literally fought their way up the hills under the cover of heavy artillery fire. 

On a positive note, U.S. backed fighters have surrounded the Syrian city of RAQQA as they try to oust the ISIS militants from their de facto capital in SYRIA whereby the ALLIANCE fighters consisting of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a mainly KURDISH and ARAB coalition, have cut off all routes into and out of RAQQA. As a friendly reminder, nearly 200,000 people and 5,000 ISIS militants live in RAQQA such that the efforts to retake the SYRIAN city has now drawn dozens of U.S. military advisors deployed directly inside RAQQA city itself with U.S. Marines providing artillery support against ISIS from the surrounding countryside. It appears that these coordinated efforts are paying off as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have made yet another huge advance across the southern countryside of RAQQA liberating approximately half of the RAQQA enclave. Fighters of the U.S. backed, KURDISH led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continue to punch their way through ISIS lines in RAQQA city as KURDISH forces are literally shooting their way through the streets of RAQQA, concentrating fire on ISIS positions hidden in the urban ruin of RAQQA city while ISIS fights back hard. Unfortunately civilian deaths in RAQQA have surged as ISIS has increasingly commenced to utilize tactics of guerrilla warfare by increasing ISIS usage of suicide car bombs, snipers, drones and tunnels to slow down SDF advances with the fight becoming a matter of life and death for both sides. In addition, ISIS has increased its intentional usage of innocent civilians as human shields by forcing civilians to remain in their homes so ALLIANCE forces avoid airstrikes in those areas. 



In my opinion, TURKEY’s participation in the military battle against ISIS is a positive addition to the ALLIANCE albeit TURKEY’s negative stance against the PKK that in my opinion is currently unwarranted and deteriorating. However, with the majority governing AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it appears that TURKEY’s future is heading for more war and bloodshed. Unfortunately, the governing AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have chosen the path of war with the PKK as opposed to diplomacy via the KURDISH HDP political party which secured close to 11% during the last TURKISH elections. Therefore, in my opinion, the governing AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will learn the hard way that nobody on the outside world looking in is stupid but rather everyone chooses to close their eyes and allow TURKEY to continue with its ethnic cleansing campaign of the KURDS in exchange for TURKEY signing a deal with the European Union (EU) to stem the flow of refugees arriving in GREECE. In exchange for reducing human trafficking and improving living conditions for 2.5 million refugees within its borders, TURKEY was supposed to receive Euro 3 billion in financial aid in return, the possibility of visa-free travel for its citizens, and a reopening of EU membership talks. In my opinion, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the governing AKP will learn the hard way that the failed “Coup D’État” exposes the deep discontent within the TURKISH military ranks as the governing AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan persist with their quest to annihilate the HDP and the KURDS as the AKP is converting itself into a majority fascist regime with its house cleaning exercises whereby virtually all dissidents have been fired. In my opinion, the European parliament vote to halt TURKEY’s EU accession backed by a resolution condemning the TURKISH government’s disproportionate repressive measures after the failed “Coup D’État” in July was long overdue as TURKEY has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, with its repressive measures over all opposition, that TURKEY does not share common values, morals, principals, ethics and views as the EU such that TURKEY does not fit into the EU mould. However, in my opinion, TURKEY still represents a major player on the European economic stage such that the EU will nonetheless have to negotiate deals with TURKEY as an independent NON-EU member country regarding the huge refugee crisis. In my opinion, in exchange for reducing human trafficking and improving living conditions for 2.5 million refugees within its borders, TURKEY should only receive Euro 1.5 billion, half of the initial proposed 3 billion, in financial aid along with visa-free travel for its citizens who do not pose any significant risks outside of TURKISH borders. 

Finally, the wide scale purge led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his governing AKP re-escalated this week as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan focused his attention on another purge of the Fethullah Gulen opposition movement supporters on the heals of celebrating the victory of the YES side in the referendum that was held on Sunday, April 16, 2017 whereby the majority of the TURKISH population voted in favour of TURKEY’s parliamentary system to be converted into a presidential system effectively consolidating power into one executive branch with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as its primary executor. Ironically, TURKEY ignored all criticisms from foreign powers and went straight ahead this week with further crackdown measures as TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Germany’s ruling politicians enemies of TURKEY who deserve to be rejected by GERMAN-TURKISH voters in their upcoming general elections on September 24, 2017. In my opinion President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would have been better off referring to GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkels’ Party as opposition as opposed to enemies given that the two countries are major trade partners and allies in NATO. As a friendly reminder, GERMANY and TURKEY have deep economic and cultural ties with millions of ethnic TURKS living in GERMANY, millions of GERMANS flocking to TURKEY’s beaches and historic cities and almost 7,000 German companies establishing operations in TURKEY such as giants such as DEUTSCHE BANK, SIEMENS and VOLKSWAGEN to tiny importers of textiles and food that translates into trade between the two countries in excess of $ 36 billion per year. Therefore, in my opinion, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s aggressive stance against GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkels’ Party was overly provocative in light of trade between the two countries in excess of $ 36 billion per year as you cannot refer to the hand that feeds an important part of your economy as your enemy albeit the possibility of still being considered an opposition. In my opinion, the GERMAN government refusing to allow some of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s allies to campaign for him in GERMANY before the April referendum has triggered his furor. In addition, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furious at GERMANY for what he perceives as GERMAN sympathy for the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen movement after the failed “Coup D’État” whereby he accused GERMANY of protecting GULENISTS. In my opinion, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s furor is comparable to that of HITLER, MUSSOLINI, TITO, SALAZAR, PINOCHET, SADDAM and GADHAFI who all had their fair share of tirades such that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is at risk of following in their footsteps. In regards to TURKEY and IRAN agreeing to boost military cooperation after talks held in TURKEY with the IRANIAN armed forces, this in my opinion signals a turning point in favour of increased TURKISH-IRANIAN relations as this represents the first visit by an IRANIAN military chief of staff since the 1979 ISLAMIC revolution in IRAN. As a friendly reminder, the 1979 ISLAMIC Revolution refers to the events involving the overthrow of the PAHLAVI dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi who was supported by the U.S. and eventual replacement of 2,500 years of IRANIAN monarchy with an ISLAMIC Republic regime under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution. Thus, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be developing closer relations with IRAN based on his furor once again over U.S. support for KURDISH YPG fighters leading the assault on ISIS in the SYRIAN city of RAQQA. TURKEY claims the YPG is indistinguishable from the outlawed KURDISH PKK that has been waging an insurgency in southeast TURKEY for more than 30 years while the U.S. sees the YPG as a vital ally in the fight to defeat ISIS. In my opinion, this reflects the new geopolitical realities whereby everybody seems to only care about what have you done for me lately as can be seen with TURKEY turning their back on the GERMANS and the U.S. for refusing to support TURKISH policies which have grown increasingly more authoritarian over the years such that TURKEY seems to be repositioning itself in line with IRAN and RUSSIA who now seem to share personal, financial and political interests. 

Moving on to IRAQ, the new IRAQI offensives in MOSUL whereby IRAQI government forces put enough pressure on ISIS to finally force ISIS to relinquish control of MOSUL has shattered the ISIS dream for its self declared caliphate albeit the challenge now facing the IRAQI forces to make the victory over ISIS in MOSUL last. That is, after almost nine months of fierce fighting, the campaign to recapture MOSUL from ISIS has drawn to a bitter end but the struggle for IRAQ’s future is far from over as the fall of MOSUL exposes ethnic and sectarian fractures that have plagued IRAQ for over a decade. That is, the victory risks triggering new violence between ARABS and KURDS over disputed territories or between SUNNIS and SHIITES over claims to power fuelled by outside powers that have shaped IRAQ’s future since the 2003 U.S. led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein’s SUNNI minority rule and brought the Iran backed SHIITE majority to power. In my opinion, it will be extremely difficult to eradicate ISIS completely from IRAQ as ISIS still controls three towns consisting of TAL AFAR, west of MOSUL; HAWIJA, south of KIRKUK; and AL QAIM, west of ANBAR whereby each fight will have its own set of complicated political, military and foreign policy issues. Therefore, in my opinion, the last three strongholds in IRAQ consisting of TAL AFAR, HAWIJA and AL QAIM will be the most brutal and savage wars yet fought in IRAQ as ISIS has laid the foundation for martyrdom. That is, ISIS has in essence sent the message to its remaining conclaves that their only choice is to fight until death at the hands of the ALLIANCE, as the only other option is to choose to be killed by ISIS itself. Therefore, in my opinion now that ISIS has entered the final realm of one of the most brutal civil wars in history, ISIS has in essence elevated its game to complete and utter Barbarian, Neanderthal, Self-Centered, Egotistical, Narcissistic, Masochistic, Sadistic, Idiosyncratic, Sociopathic and Psychopathic maniacs. In regards to the ISIS psychopaths killing a police officer and seven of his family members after invading his home in north-western KIRKUK, ISIS has shown many signs of desperation to maintain control of its areas in KIRKUK whereby ISIS militants have already executed hundreds of police officers and civilians collaborating with IRAQI or KURDISH troops in addition to executing any civilians caught attempting to flee KIRKUK such that although their actions may be reprehensible, they are not surprising. In regards to ISIS still being seen as the biggest threat in the world, despite the ISIS expected defeat in IRAQ, I believe this is partly due to the sickening images released by ISIS showing how their children have effectively been brainwashed by their parents to attack Westerners. In my opinion, the images are disturbing as ISIS has effectively sowed the seeds of hatred in ISIS youth that could very well explode all around the world for decades to come which is unfortunate for the youth as I believe that children should be excluded from the atrocities of wars to the extent possible. However, ISIS seems to have the opposite opinion whereby they desire to poison young children minds to one day become killing machines of the mentally disturbed kind. 

In my opinion, taking out ISIS in TAL AFAR will be complicated because TURKEY is worried that SHIITE militias will also take revenge on ethnic TURKS living in the town. That is, both SUNNI Muslim and SHIITE Muslim TURKS lived in TAL AFAR before ISIS took over while the SUNNI Muslim TURKS who remained are considered by many to be supporters of ISIS such that they may also be attacked as part of the liberation of TAL AFAR. In my opinion, taking out ISIS in HAWIJA will be complicated because it is located in KIRKUK that is known as a disputed territory because IRAQI KURDS believe HAWIJA should be part of their nearby semi-autonomous region but IRAQI ARABS believe it is part of IRAQ. That is, if the SHIITE Muslim Arabs stay in HAWIJA after ISIS is expelled, this dilutes the KURDISH claims on the area. In addition, the SUNNI Muslim tribal leaders in this area are worried that if the IRAQI KURDISH military or the SHIITE Muslim militias take part in the battle against ISIS for HAWIJA, then the SUNNI Muslim tribes will be attacked as well as they are considered by many to be supporters of ISIS. In my opinion, taking out ISIS in AL QAIM will be complicated because AL QAIM is located on an international border, between IRAQ and SYRIA such that due to its strategic geographical location, AL QAIM is by far the most secure city held by ISIS. Thus, both SYRIA and IRAQ would have to coordinate a military campaign against ISIS in AL QAIM. However, with ISIS inevitably nearing its downfall in IRAQ, IRAQI security forces need to be prepared for a different kind of war against ISIS, shifting away from ground offensives to intelligence work and surgical airstrikes to counter an expected move by ISIS away from holding territory and back to a more terrorist role of a dispersed underground terror organization. In my opinion, ISIS is already laying the groundwork for a new terrorist strategy of hiding in remote areas, carrying out attacks in IRAQ and abroad and resorting to organized crime to bankroll future operations. 

Moving on to SYRIA, the SYRIAN government forces recapture of the entire former rebel stronghold of east ALEPPO in an offensive that left bodies in the streets and sparked global outrage managed to lead to a ceasefire across SYRIA that appears to now be broken after its brokers, RUSSIA, TURKEY and IRAN obtained approval from the UN Security Council. In my opinion, RUSSIA that invested much political time and energy in ending the fighting after bombing the opposition relentlessly for 15 months was the critical player in this ceasefire as RUSSIA managed to control the uncontrollable consisting of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, IRAN and SHIITE militias like Lebanon’s Hezbollah whereas TURKEY managed to control the Free Syrian Army (FSA) along with their affiliated rebel factions. Meanwhile, peace negotiations have stalled after TURKEY and ASSAD’s two main allies, RUSSIA and IRAN, initially backed these peace talks as guarantors of a fragile ceasefire. However, the allegations by Amnesty International that over thirteen thousand people were hanged at a SYRIAN prison in a secret crackdown on dissent by the current regime under the authority of President, Bashar al-Assad were excluded from the agenda for the fifth round of negotiations that concluded at the end of March. In my opinion, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's future should be off the agenda for now and the main focus of the talks should be governance, a new constitution and elections as the primary goal of these meetings should be to end the war in SYRIA and to implement a long-term sustainable solution for peace. 

In regards to the derailed peace talks, the derailment is obviously due to U.S. President, Donald Trump’s authorization of the firing of 59 TOMAHAWK cruise missiles at the SYRIAN Armed Forces in response to what the U.S. believes was a chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 people authorized by President Bashar al-Assad. That being said, RUSSIA has now formally denied any involvement by the SYRIAN Armed Forces and RUSSIA in these chemical attacks and has gone so far as to accuse the SYRIAN rebels to be behind these chemical attacks on their own people. Therefore, the U.S. and RUSSIA agreed for the moment to disagree as the war raged on this week while officials from TURKEY that backs the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and IRAN and RUSSIA that backs the current regime under President Bashar al-Assad watched as the cease-fire agreement that establishes four de-escalation zones was violated once again. In my opinion, although the new cease-fire deal including the four de-escalation zones have been the subject of numerous violations from the outset as tensions seem to continue to erupt, I believe that RUSSIAN and U.S. round-the-clock discussions anticipating that eventually the de-escalation zones will be fully under control should be welcomed as a positive development in fully implementing the de-escalation zones. In my opinion, it is better for RUSSIA and the U.S. to try to work together to implement something in terms of de-escalation zones as opposed to sitting back and insuring that both parties achieve nothing. In regards to tensions de-escalating this week as the SYRIAN Army under the control of President Bashar al-Assad and allied LEBANESE militant group HEZBOLLAH fighters captured several ISIS positions on strategic hilltops along the SYRIAN-LEBANESE border, this strategic shift in focus by the SYRIAN Army on ISIS is key to overall peace in the region as the only issue that everybody in the region seem to agree upon is that ISIS needs to be contained to an underground organization without any significant control of land particularly along any major borders. Thus, to the extent the SYRIAN Army and HEZBOLLAH focus their efforts on ISIS as opposed to the Free Syrian Army (FSA), there is hope for peace in the region. In my opinion, other initiatives in central SYRIA to take back land held by ISIS have also been successful largely due to RUSSIAN air support as the Syrian Army was able to seize key heights in the area, cutting off key transport lines for supplies previously used by ISIS. Furthermore, RUSSIAN drones patrolling the area round-the-clock directing air strikes on ISIS have essentially forced ISIS militants to flee toward DEIR EL-ZOUR, the largest city still under ISIS control. Therefore, in my opinion, when the four de-escalation zones can be successfully implemented, there will be hope for peace in the region as after over six-years of one of the most brutal civil wars that has left more than 300,000 people dead and displaced more than 11 million others, it is hard to fathom how there cannot be a line drawn in the sand of enough is enough as the blood shed can no longer be absorbed by the land. 

In regards to U.S. backed fighters surrounding the Syrian city of RAQQA as they try to oust the ISIS militants from their de facto capital in SYRIA, capturing RAQQA would be a major achievement in the battle against ISIS and help bring an end to ISIS’s reign of terror trying to create a so-called Caliphate. In my opinion, ISIS has used RAQQA for over three years to stage deadly attacks on the Middle East and further overseas such that capturing RAQQA from ISIS would significantly reduce ISIS’s terrorist capabilities in the future. I believe that the coordinated efforts are paying off as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have made yet another huge advance across the southern countryside of RAQQA liberating approximately half of the RAQQA enclave. In my opinion, the current strategy whereby U.S. airpower drops a barrage of bombs to suppress ISIS movements behind and towards the front-lines within the city, while KURDISH forces on the ground let loose with a barrage of small arms fire to break up ISIS fighters at sight will be less effective moving forward as ISIS has now adopted guerrilla warfare tactics including the intentional usage of innocent civilians as human shields to avoid air strikes by ALLIANCE forces. In addition, the increasing ISIS usage of suicide car bombs, snipers, drones and tunnels to slow down SDF advances with the fight becoming a matter of life and death for both sides has inevitably reduced the pace of advancement by the SDF in RAQQA. Despite ISIS guerrilla warfare tactics, the SDF was able to advance slightly from the southeast of the city, as SDF forces were able to rescue nearly 250 civilians along the way. In my opinion, the rising death tolls among civilians in RAQQA is inevitable due to the guerrilla warfare tactics utilized by ISIS out of sheer desperation to hold onto RAQQA. However, in my opinion the civilian casualties caught in the crossfire of the war in RAQQA are inevitable and represent unfortunate collateral damage that cannot be avoided. 



In summary, I refer to “World Peace Lennon Ivan Style – Part 260” as the belief that IRAQ and SYRIA victories are critical to ISIS decimation but SYRIAN ceasefire between ASSAD and FSA also key while SYRIAN negotiations must result in peace albeit new realities of the geopolitical stage whereby everybody seems to only care about what have you done for me lately as can be seen with TURKEY turning their back on the GERMANS and the U.S. for refusing to support TURKISH increasingly authoritarian policies while repositioning TURKEY in line with IRAN and RUSSIA who now seem to share personal, financial and political interest synergies. 






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