‘Middle Eastern Union’: West Redrawing Map of Middle East at Will
- ‘Middle Eastern Union’: West Redrawing Map of Middle East at Will
by http://sputniknews.com/
The West will facilitate the “balkanization” of the Middle East until a “new local order emerges” – designed by and for Western interests, Scottish researcher Steven MacMillan stresses.
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For years the Middle East has been engulfed in civil wars, carnage and sectarian strife, Scottish researcher Steven MacMillan noted, adding that from Afghanistan to Libya Western foreign policy was aimed at instigating or exacerbating the chaos and instability in the region.
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“In July of 2014, the former director of policy planning for the US Department of State and the President of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Richard Hass, compared the Middle East of today to 17th century Europe, in his article “The New Thirty Years War.” Hass proclaims that the Middle East will likely be as turbulent in the future unless a “new local order emerges,” Scottish geopolitical analyst and editor of The Analyst Report Steven MacMillan emphasized.
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Although the Thirty Years War historic parallel has nothing to do with the current state of affairs in the Middle East, it has become a “talking point” among Western geo-strategists. But what is behind the flawed historic parallel?
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According to MacMillan, there is an agenda, at least among some influential US decision makers, to destroy nation states in the Middle East and turn the region into a bundle of separate “mini-states.”
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“Ubiquitous evidence indicates that there is an agenda by at least some strategists within the US to destroy the nation state and balkanize the region into feuding rump states, micro-states and mini-states, which will be so weak and busy fighting each other that they will be unable to unify against foreign colonial powers — most notably Western multinational corporations,” MacMillan explained.
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After a long period of bloodshed and destruction exhausted nations will accept a Western imposed “new local order” in a form of, for instance, a “Middle Eastern Union.” And they will accept it regardless of the fact that the very same Western forces bear responsibility for “much of the intolerable chaos,” the researcher remarked.
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