There is some good news today for some! No economic commentary this week! For obvious reasons. Those who read our meagre commentary know that we’ve been as anxious about the escalation in the global geopolitical sphere as we have with economic mismanagement, especially in the last couple of months. So, we’re not surprised at the escalation. The location was a raffle.

As with any war, respects must be paid to the fallen. And this “War on Terror”, threatening to boil over any day, is no different. In fact, it is arguably long past this point in time.

Unlike wars of the last 15 years, the public has to start asking some serious questions about what is going on, whilst simultaneously swallowing the barrage of mainstream media “truths” that have reached your nodes. A difficult task.

It’s not really possible to be unmoved by the carnage, even if you’ve been watching movies and TV your entire life.

And yes, it’s easier to go with the info flow and the flow is really the go, however, the stage that is currently being set in the middle east is such that we really owe it to ourselves to ask some questions before moving forward.

Do we now have the French bombing “priority targets”, given to them by the US, that the US have missed/failed to bomb over the last 12 months, that the Russians have recently bombed over the last 4 weeks?
Where did ISIS come from, and who the hell has been supplying all their military hardware, humvee vehicles and basketball boots?
How can a  bunch of “rag heads” whose main weapon seems to be Toyota 4WD’s with a heavy machine gun in the bed actually take territory and hold it for 2+ years, with no air force, no heavy armour and little artillery?

Why do the US keep missing what the Russians and, maybe, the French have hit in recent times? Who the hell is buying ISIS oil ($80m per month??)?? With all the high tech NATO intelligence apparatus, how can they possibly not know who is buying?
Has Saudi Arabia really been funding that many Wahabi Mosques throughout Europe without anyone knowing? Aren’t they a US ally? Aussie ally?

And the big one, do the “terrorists” from Brussels and France now all have connections to Syria? Did Syria do all this and now they must be invaded??? Again, when does this end?

We thought this quote captured another side, right or wrong, posted on a well known news blog.

“Anyone with memory retention better than a goldfish will remember that the “Terror made in Syria by Assad” meme that is being sold by the MSM right now is completely ridiculous considering that the ONLY army that has been seriously battling against ISIS/Daesh has been Assad’s Syrian army ever since ISIS popped into existence out of the blue 2 years ago after the US Govt’s failed attempt to invade Syria in 2013. Almost every broadsheet newspaper in the UK is selling the disgusting lie that Assad is to blame for the Paris attack, so we know where this is heading.”

Whatever you think now, finally, as we warned a few months ago, lest we forget what this is all about (the 3rd chart below). Join the dots if you dare.

The red circles below are recent Russian targets In the circle are Russian air and naval assets. Damascus, importantly, is Iranian controlled. Anyone remember Hezbollah? See any East/West issues in this chart?

Raqqah is what the French hit today! Poor people of Raqqah!

Economic commentary programming to resume next week, as normal.