Photo From time.com ISIS Moves Into Libya
Red Pill View readers know that at this moment ISIS represents militant Sunni nationalism in the MENA. (Middle East, North Africa). And because the US has forbidden the regional powers of Turkey and Iran to divide up the Levant, (Syria for Turkey and Iraq for Iran) ISIS is effectively growing in a vacuum with little resistance.
Long term Red Pill readers also know that ISIS Is militarily weak, especially in Sh’ia dominated Iraq but it is not that strong in Syria either. The proof of this is that they have failed to take Kobani from the massively outnumbered and outgunned Syrian Kurds and a reworked Iraqi army has stopped their move towards Baghdad.
The most important military objective now for anti Isis fighters, is to take back the oil fields and refineries that they took in their original successful operations particularly in Iraq. By doing that ISIS’s financing will be greatly damaged. The first step of doing that is just what the Iraqi army accomplished two days ago in Biaji.
Rebuilding the Iraqi army will take some time, but ISIS is not strong enough to prevent it from from happening and then being able to push it back even further, if not completely out of the country.
But what ISIS can do and is doing, is to consolidate its position within the territories it now controls. Kurdish estimates that ISIS now has a 200,000 fighting force are probably highly exaggerated. It is in the interest of the Kurds to give an unrealistic public estimate of the threat that they face, as they are looking for US funding and arms.
On the other hand the numbers of ISIS fighters is surely now more than the 31,500 that the CIA estimated in September. And that estimate was two to three times higher than the estimate of just 10,000 just three months earlier.
Some of the new recruitment has continued to come from foreign sources, but it is reasonable to expect that the bulk of it has come from the Sunni areas of the Levant ISIS has conquered.
As Red Pill readers know ISIS was primarily a group of foreign mercenaries. That meant that winning the hearts and mind of the local Sunnis of the Levant would prove a challenge.
In the end the only way ISIS can do this, is with what is seen as good governance. That isn’t hard since the Sunnis of the region have been unfairly and even viciously treated by the Alawite government in Syria and the Sh’ia government in Iraq.
While it hasn’t been reported by the media ISIS is certainly following the formula of Hamas, by giving food and medical care to people in the regions it controls, in order to win their minds and hearts. To the degree that ISIS is successful, young Sunnis are going to join up in order to help them liberate their fellow Sunnis in the region.
And of course as they advertise, ISIS is capable of getting men to join by threats to them or their family as well.
So if we were to estimate that ISIS’s real numbers now might be 50,000 plus, the strength of their fighters will depend on whether the new comers were effectively volunteers or conscripts. Numbers of conscripts only serve to inflate the numbers of boots on the ground, as these people will tend to be the first to throw their guns away and run when the going gets tough, at least if they feel that their families are safe.
The fact is however that ISIS is consolidating its position, even if it cannot take much in the way of new territory and may even have to give back some of its past gains. And in this consolidation process they are doing what they need to do to become a functioning government including creating their own money.
So the number of ISIS fighters, either volunteers or conscripts, should continue to mushroom over the coming weeks and months. The 200,000 figure given by the Kurdish leader is surely a fiction today, but may well be a reality by this time next year.
And as ISIS is creating what many Sunni Muslims will see as the only independent Sunni entity in the MENA, many, many will see it as a unifying force.
That is now happening in Libya where Red Pill View readers know that the neo Colonialist forces, (centered at the UN) that overthrew and murdered Qaddafi are now struggling to take power against rag tag groupings of nationalists and Jihadhi militias.
ISIS is now moving into Libya and may well prove to be a unifying force for popular Sunni resistance there. This has to be frightening for Egyptian dictator and Washington supported General Sisi, as he is sitting on and repressing a powder keg of over half his population, who because they support the Muslim Brotherhood, (MB) he has deemed to effectively be “terrorists”.
These millions of supporters of the MB’s democratically elected president Morsi, many of whose leaders and activists have been jailed, tortured and murdered by Sisi, are a perfect breeding ground for new ISIS volunteers.
Sisi knows this however and can be expected to act against ISIS in Libya, if it becomes strong enough and he feels he has no other choice.
People who absorb the propaganda of Empire are dumbfounded as to how such a group, (ISIS) of what they view to be murderers, criminals, rapists and thugs can actually attract so many people? Here we get a “warning” about ISIS from non other than the UN which says; “ISIL Committing War Crimes in Syria”. The article goes on to say; “The, (UN) commission called on the perpetrators to be brought to justice, for instance, before the International Criminal Court.”
Well when Westerners see all of the be-headings and hear about the enslavement of women and the rapes they say “Oh my. How horrible”! “Something really needs to be done”.
But people throughout the Sunni Muslim world ask what happened to the war criminals Bush, Blair Cheney and now Obama, Clinton and Kerry who are responsible for killing over a million in Iraq, over 200,000 in Syria and tens of thousands in Libya? Where are their trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity?
And exactly why hasn’t Netanyahu been brought up for his war crimes against crimes against humanity?
While these be-headings and horrible deeds against civilians by ISIS may seem like “terrorism” to the peoples of the West, to many young angry Sunnis who live in countries controlled by Western puppet dictators, they see these “victims” as probably being traitors having gotten what they deserved.
This is a case for endless angry Sunnis, of dramatizing to Western peoples a small part of the terror they have created throughout the MENA in over a century of colonialism and neo colonialism of which the UN hypocrites, (as per its role in Libya) has been a part.
It is important that people who imbibe the anti ISIS propaganda from the West, understand that millions upon millions of Sunni Muslims globally will interpret things in exactly the opposite way as the media wants you to view it.
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