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johnycomelately's avatar

Isn’t it odd that the West punished China by not buying cotton, the primary income of Uyghurs? Obviously the tortured logic was meant to foment social and economic disruption in the region.

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Enduring Oak's avatar

I've got to say I wasn't expecting this today. A fountain of information to continue looking at the world and our place in it from another perspective. ML I had to look up the 'ecco luce' reference and decided I see 'ecco MIH'- Cheers !

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Mark Hazard's avatar

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)

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Margaret's avatar

A couple of weeks ago I finished reading the book "Operation Gladio", by Paul L. Williams - there is some info about the Uyghurs used to instigate a color revolution in China. Chapter 22 focuses on Abdullah Cath, "the Gladio contract killer involved with the attempt to assassinate Pope Joh Paul II', and pg. 268-271 provides more detail on how this operative was sent to Xinjiang province in China to stir up trouble among the Uyghurs. According to the author, militants were sent from Xinjiang to Afghanistan by the CIA for guerilla warfare training.

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Dao Gen's avatar

Thanks for the reference. I should read the book. Yes, I think stirring up some of the Uyghurs and introducing them to Wahhabism, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, etc., was part of a more general US policy of stirring up Muslim peoples living in or near the "soft underbelly" of the USSR, a plan for overthrowing the government of the USSR that gained explicit official support from Zbigniew Brzeziński (Mika's father), who was Carter's Russophobic National Security Advisor and a figure who had a baleful influence on US cold war foreign policy. In the 1990s this plan was integrated with the Neocon plan to Balkanize post-Soviet Russia and, later, China.

I believe there are still a number of Uyghur fighters who are even now living in the part of Syria still controlled by Al Nusra (Al Qaeda). and these fighters are now in a very difficult situation. As usual, the US leads people on with vague promises and then just dumps them. Turkiye doesn't want the Uyghurs anymore, and Al Nusra in Idlib province in Syria won't be able to hold out much longer, and if the fighters return to Xinjiang they'll surely be arrested. I suppose they could smuggle themselves into Ukraine, but they would be sent directly to the trenches, and their lifespan there would be measured in terms of hours.

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Margaret's avatar

The book is a masterpiece, I highly recommend, focused on Vatican ties to the mob, CIA, banking, and secret societies, inc. freemasons. It appears to me, the whole of Op. Gladio was set up to – as you say – overthrow the government of USSR, and prevent any spread of “communism” to the west. Doubtful to me that Gladio’s victims were even communists, just people wanting control over their own countries. They used ex fascists/Nazis after WWII to set up clandestine bases throughout Europe, assassinating political opponents in color revolutions. Needed money to fund these vast operations, to pay for arms and trained killers– so they produced heroin originally using Vatican banks as “laundries” since they were exempt from audits by the Italian govt. Truckloads of cash that needed to be made legit. Poppies grown in the “…stan” countries and Türkiye, moved by the mob/gangsters, labs in Corsica/France, and the original target market for sale was the black jazz community in USA in late 1940’s! As years went by though, operations got bigger with expanded markets and more drug products; they owned their own shipping lines and airports with fleets of planes, and all the biggest international banks got involved for “a piece of the action”. Goes a long way to explaining how the world we live in today became so corrupt.

You mention the Taliban – according to what I’ve understood from the book – the CIA declared war on them because the Taliban banned poppy production and the CIA couldn’t afford to give this up. Türkiye also got rid of the poppies, and so the gangs formed there had to be used elsewhere, or as you say "dumped".

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paraDiGmS's avatar

Thank you all 3 for this illumination

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ML's avatar

As with any subject, with Mark it’s “ecco luce!” A great service. If only our FP “blob,” to quote Cassander, would get this memo - in particular the word “civilizational.” Unfortunately, as we are in decline and have no use for that word, chances are slim the blob’s blundering ideologues will change course!

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I do.

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