Retribution

Central Russian Motive:

And the supreme allied commander in Europe, Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, reached this conclusion again in March of 2018: “Russia seeks to change the international order, fracture NATO, and undermine U.S. leadership in order to protect its regime, re-assert dominance over its neighbors, and achieve greater influence around the globe.”

Russian wants:

A. Natural gas pipeline to Turkey
a. Turkey wants Kurds annihilated by US in return
b. The pipeline will go through Russia, which is a puppet state for Russia (Turkey and Russia are only separated by Georgia in a direct route).

B. Syria protected from US incursions, but also help beating back growing Kurdish uprisings.
a. Syria wants this too
b. They both desire America to be distracted away from Syria and into the Kurdish areas.

C. America to get bogged down in the middle east more.
a. Russia believes that the American public hates these “forever wars”, but a bad enough attack will cause enough public (American) support to invade another middle eastern country.
b. America must be kept busy so that Russia can invade the Baltics.

Possible Outcomes in favor of Russia:

1. With the income from Turkey’s sale of Nat’l gas Russia can survive an angry Europe. Once the dust settles, Europe will again come to Russia for cheap Nat’’l gas.
2. Germany and Italy buy half of the EU’s gas that comes from Russia, and may continue to do so anyway. Especially, with the inevitable collapse of NATO.
   a. Russia assumes the US will be reeling from the terrorist attack too much to worry about NATO, which it (America) already has one foot out the door anyway.
   b. After the terrorist attack Russia will be so generous and empathetic that Americans will not wish to turn on the Russians, who were kind to them:
   i. Americans will want revenge
   ii. Americans will ignore NATO alliance
3. Because someone in the Cabal, a prominent Belarusian will state live on 60 minutes that the terror attack on America was earned, they reap what they sow, by their interference with foreign regimes.
   a. He will be given lots of money and Germany will close a huge deal, publicly, on Russian gas the next day.
   b. Russian interests:
   c. Gets US to ignore Ukraine and Assad. Russian need to maintain its only Mediterranean base at Tartus, Syria. Wants Kurds out so that he can run natural gas pipeline and oil from Russia through Kurdish held territory and into turkey and Syria for export from Tartus to Europe who needs it.
4. Russia wants the Kurds to sell them oil and connect in to their “Blue Stream” Pipeline in Turkey. Turkey wants this too.

D. Senator McKinsley wants America to be back in the middle east.
a. America looks weak by retreating.
b. Now is the time to get back in, before we completely remove all our troops.
c. America needs a rival
d. Only Russia is strong enough to fit that bill
e. A rival and War in ME provide huge income for his weapons and black ops investments