This Wolf does pride himself on being way, way ahead of the curve. So while Matt Gaspers and Kennedy Hall, concerning current events in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East, have recently demonstrated a complete lack of clarity while narrating the latest chain of events on Clown Planet, this Wolf is going to cut right to the proverbial chase, but to do so, first, a cursory look at how we got here. Barely had the dust settled from the epic events at Fatima Portugal in that seminal years of 1917, when on November 2nd a letter from Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, head of the Zionist Federation in Great Britain and Ireland, the support of the Crown for "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. Shortly thereafter, the Treaty of Versailles awarded the British a "Mandate" in Palestine and the French a "Mandate" in Syria. Fast forwarding past Article Six of the British Mandate and the Transfer Agreement with Nazi Germany- this was a REAL TEAM EFFORT, folks- we come to the bombing of The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on the 22nd of July 1946, by the "militant right-wing Zionist underground organization Irgun" headed by future Israeli "Prime Minister" Menachem Begin. This began two years of mayhem which culminated in the "founding" of the State of Israel in 1948. Exit the British, enter the Truman Administration.
We next fast forward to the 1967 Israeli conflict, where a completely fake and ghey military operation... well, at any rate, the Official Narrative was that the scrappy little Israeli Defense Force, the Underdogs of the Century, defeated the mighty alliance of Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia with a breathtaking series of preemptive air strikes, mainly against Egypt. The situation continued to simmer even after the alliance sued for peace, with the famous Arab Oil Embargos of 1973,1974, and 1975 until Egyptian President Anwar Sadat tossed in the proverbial towel and promised Israel in the historic Camp David Accords- which the official narrative deemed so important that, the ink being barely dry, all prime time television was summarily halted about ten thirty o:clock on the evening of Saturday, September 17th 1978 so the Sheeple could be impressed with the momentousness of the occasion- that the world would now be safe for Israel.
Afterwards, there were some tense moments, such as Operation Opera, a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on the 7th of June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad, but the real Sea Change began after Saddam Hussein decided to invade the rinky-dink country of Kuwait in retaliation for the latter stealing its oil by horizontal drilling. At this point, it matters little whether Saddam was a useful idiot that went rogue, part of a completely fake and ghey Deep State Deep Fake, or in collusion with the Russians. What does matter is that Iraq, which up until now had had a population that was a bastion of peace and stability in the region, was utterly destabilized, and transformed into a quagmire and a breeding ground for "Islamic Jihadic Extremists", which would provide ample cover for the coming CIA Black Operations in the region. And, after a decade of preparation, the Intelligence Community was able to launch all the various branches of Al-CIAda into action, following the False Flag of the Century conducted on the Island of Manhattan on that fateful September Day in 2001. The Shrubbery's second war against Iraq, following thirty days of shock and awe, finally allowed that country to be used as a base of operations to destabilize the entire region.
The next phase was Syria, which began in 2011 with the sudden emergence on the scene of another division of Al-CIAda, the "Islamic State" more commonly known by the acronym of "ISIS". By 2015, with the help of obvious donations from the United States, "ISIS" held a large portion of Western Iraq and Eastern Syria governed by a broad coalition of "jihadists" of every stripe. Then the United States and Russia began what amounted to a proxy war in the region, with the "Jihadists" caught in the middle, and subsequently melting away. Syria seemed to be back on the road to stability under Bashar Assad, but, as in Iraq, this was just a case of two steps forward and one step back, until now we have come to the latest sea change.
The Crews over at Central Casting are not even trying very hard these days. We don't have some glamourous Islamic Liberator suddenly emerging on the scene. (Obviously, the days of Lawrence of Arabia are long gone.) They have just recycled The Bearded One of "Al Nusra" into a respectable politician with a less unkempt appearance and instead of burning tires for News Interviews they are stacking more respectable objects, such as logs and pallets, to allegedly keep warm. Meanwhile, as expected, Israel is bombing the crap out of the region, massing forces in the Golan Heights, and getting ready to obviously create a larger "buffer zone" between the "Jihadists" and Israeli Settlements, which have a persistent habit of encroaching on lands not granted them under the United Nations Charter. No surprises there. Going forward, this Wolf does fully expect Israel, under the usual pretexts of Security and "Interests", to eventually occupy Damascus, the greater part of Lebanon, and the West Bank before its final push to the Euphrates River. Meanwhile, in the South, this Wolf does expect Egypt to concede the entire Sinai Peninsula to Tel Aviv, while the Muslims are pushed out of Jerusalem. He expects the final phase of this operation to break out suddenly and come to a breathtaking conclusion, while the Evangelicals are cheering on the sidelines.
Of course, if the Narrative plays out as expected, Tehran is not going to sit on the sidelines. We have already had several sneak previews of coming attractions with "missile strikes" on Israeli Targets that have overcome the theatrical "Iron Dome". And when the expected Israeli Iran war goes live, the Russians will not be far behind. (It's quite possible that Vlad Putin has told Mr Assad to just sit tight, like Gen MacArthur, he might be returning...)
The Donald has even been inaugurated yet, and already the Narrative and the News Cycle are undergoing a Sea Change and Escalation.
Gotta hand it to ya Wolf, you're king of the metanarrative!