Strategy of tension

Flashback to the post from last week:NATO Fracturing at Manbij? US Reinforces Manbij to Defend From Turkish Attack?? Was I was really the only blogger to have caught the reports of the US being present in Manbij? Obviously signalling flagrant US backstabbing of a NATO ally, Turkey.... As has been posited here for so very long now..Reiterating the simplistic synopsis:

I like Tim Kelly. He does very interesting, fairly in depth interviews, considering the time constraints everyone of us deals with."Our Interesting Times" will be perma- linked in the sidebar.  Just got to hear this interview today and it is a MUST LISTEN interview, the perfect partner to the post covering the fallacious concept of safe zones as anything having to do with safety.  It's not an easy interview- but it's better to understand the reality of warfare as a business model.

What party "orchestrated" the performance? Who requested this take place? How did this come about?

Lengthy but worth reading.. Or it wouldn't be hereInspired by the vileness of Votel and far too many evil psychopaths: Syria safe zones ‘a viable concept’ top US military commander says Washington Post Feb 23/17

Necessary background since most people still believe Turkey & theUS are lovers. They aren't. Turkey is the betrayed party in the tryst the US is having with Kurdish terrorists. Though Turkey has tried to win back US affection. The US has repelled Turkey in favour of it's new love... (simplistic breakdown)  Last week Turkey cleared ISIS out of Al- Bab.Feb.23/2017By all accounts it was a tough fight.

 3 R's: Rounding Up Related Reports  I'll relink previous posts regarding the border wall construction below this latest news reportDW: Turkey's wall more then half done

I forced myself to watch the Beatty/Dunaway presentation. There was no mistake made. Beatty and Dunaway were reveling in their joke, on the audience, who are all in La La Land. A state of unreality What is La La Land?La La Land is a very loaded term. It has a number of meanings. A reference to Hollywood.

Propaganda won the night. In every way imaginable. Sweeping not just the awarded (e)motion pictures but the very ceremony itself. Typical As the father of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays wrote:       “The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world to-day.

Before we get to the report regarding the Trump effect changing perceptions, ponder this..Asch Conformity Experiment

I don't bother with the bogus SDF label whatsoever!Votel is in northern Syria, meeting with PKK/YPG,  when "ISIS" targets Turks in Syria's al Bab, immediately after Turkey claims success