I want your two cents ... How does the "conflict with Syria" play out as we move forward?

Yep sounds about right to me, I just hope when (uk) parliament meet on Thursday common sense prevails and they vote against taking action. If it goes ahead then I can only see very bad things happening!! The fact that the public (worldwide) can see this and are voicing their opinions may hopefully help to stop this lunacy!!

I see this playing out with the UK and US plowing on , determined to start another war ( to underpin the us empires failing economy with the petrodollar)

I see them (both) ignoring public opinion to do so and ultimately signalling the death knoll for their own continuation in the process -ignorance has arrogance and is blind to it's own demise

cameron has neither the political nor moral mandate to govern the UK let alone to take us in to another illegal war - 'strategic' or otherwise

I see society has woken up sufficiently to revolt at this action and - in the UK -voting the tories into the history books- taking their place amongst the whigs - removed for failing to reform in order to hold on to power that was rightfully no longer their


I see the americans stuck between a rock and a hard place

supporting obama and temporarily saving their paper thin economy or doing the right thing and allowing their economy to fail and to take the hit

( should they do this they can eventually rise from the ashes as the nation they were incepted to be - burying the corrupt empire they became and going to way of all corrupt empires before them )

that would be my 2 euros ;-)

It's wag the dog all over again. Lobbing a few missiles and jdams because Obama made the "red line" comment and now has to save face.
The fact of the matter is that the war will be status quo by Monday.
Going forward, I look for Egypt to release the proof they claim they have about Obama's involvement in the Muslim Brotherhood and the Syrian govt releasing reports of the DNA of the gas that was used.
It's a bad war for Obama. Every egotistical ruler has a Waterloo moment and this will be Obama's!

It seems to me that while logical and plausible your scenario is a bit one dimensional.
Move 1 US/WEST bombs Syria, move 2 IRAN bombs US assets in retaliation.
If that happens, what do you think will happen to the world stock markets ? Right now, just on the threat of war they are reacting by falling, and by putting their money into the classic safe havens oil/gold.
A strong body of GLP opinion claims that the US/PTB are out to make this war because if they don't their economic system will collapse.
IMO it will certainly collapse the minute Iran attempts anything against the US.
The fear factor alone would do it, again IMO,if Iran committed itself so, then logically, it would also attempt to destroy Israel, Iran is probably nuclear capable, and Israel certainly is. Israel is not going to wait to be destroyed,blink and you'll miss it.
Therefore any point in your scenario after point 2 is anybody's guess, isnt it ?
How do you conduct a war against a background where all civil norms have ceased ? On the money supply/commodity front in the West it would take no more than 36 hours at most for the full effects to kick in. What about power supplies logistics and all the rest ? For every military unit there must be ultimately hundreds if not thousands of civilian workers/suppliers. No pay and no food no workers. Simples.

its all about the MB and Iran... Go read Daniel 11 about the king of the west and the King of Persia in the final war..

I'm with you on Egypt possibly releasing their information on Obama's involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood soon. There will never be a better time in their eyes. Should this happen, most of the world will see it for what it is ... bullsh#t. Americans will continue to not listen/care.

Agreed. A bad war for Obama. Unwinnable. No reason to start it in the first place.

For sure, you will see gas prices go up.

It's effect on the world stock markets would depend on many factors. Starting a war, and profiting from both sides is an age old American way of stimulating the economy. Therefore, if you are in the RIGHT stocks, in the RIGHT nations, it'll be profitable.

I'm with you on it's anyone's guess after Iran gets involved. To me this is the stickiest point in the mess. I think Iran getting involved could easily bring in Russia, and would certainly bring in Israel. If that happens, it's a powder keg. Simple as that.

Good call!! Went up a dollar a gallon when we bombed Libya. Still hasn't budged down. How much do you expect them to rise. From an average of $3.75 a gallon in the US now to what 6 months from now?

Apparently Syria accounted for 0.48% of the world's oil production, Libya is at 0.59%. Similar producers...

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Brief attack. May last 1-2 days (at most). Syria won't do anything in response. They don't want to commit suicide. They will see this as a slap on the wrist.

Iran will do nothing. Sure they will huff and puff. Nothing more.

Russia will watch and do nothing. They will complain to the U.N.

Israel will watch. Nothing more.

This will begin and end before most people even realize what happened.

Assad will not be removed from power.

Well, from a financial standpoint, this really has potential to throw some serious rocks into the worlds financial machinery..

Russia has a lot of natgas, upon which europe is seriously addicted to. Europe could be looking forward to a cold winter.

Or they cut down on oil deliveries.

An oil price surpassing 200 USD/barrel will probably do the world economy in...

Even if this never escalates outside of syria, there is plenty of potential side effects that could make the coming winter really tough, and especially for poor people.

But most of all, the syrians, in the smack middle of everything going down, are in for a shitload of pain...

Even if this isn't the preferred GLP-doom, no matter how I look at it, what's going to happen in the next couple of weeks, will mean doom on a personal level, for a lot of people, and likely not only syrians.

same as Iraq, Vietnam, Korea and other countries that are referred to in the sense of conflict and war, in short it will destroy said country and affect other countries not a whit.

reply to my mordant and trenchant remark appropriately

My 2 cents is this.

Pressure mount around Syria. Assad flee, talk broke out btwn the exile gov. it fail. new clash. Retalk with a new leadership inside syria. Pressure of outisde move out, things settle.

I hope you are right.

The West attacks and not one goes according to plan and the world laughs and kills our dollar and by next spring 90% have died because of the weather, the other 8% are intentionally killed, the rest don't matter. The power play still goes on as far as who is the manufacturing base and the world gets sucked in again to allowing 'middle men' to create false supply and demand issues and profit when they have zero input as far as being 'worthwhile'. So it ends, so it begins.
The other options are not as cheerful.

Wish I knew my Bible better. Where can this be found in the Bible?

The fraudulent state of Israel started this, and when the truth comes out about their lies, it is not going to sit pretty for all of us that have been duped. Sadly, the world will hate the USA for another illegal war that ends up killing innocent people, along with fawn and flora. The satanist Zaddikim enemies of humanity are taking us down, and will end up destroying the idea of fairness and justice of the American world power.

Just the bold part and nothing else will happen.

The same "prophecy" also states that Israel will be destroyed. I guess you'll get to see that to.

Sigh leave your fantasy world.

OMFG that baby's funny!

Again, good call, Brent Crude Oil up 3.17% already today.

I see Obama backing down and telling the US public his ear in in tune with the average American.

We lose and win, hard to figure out, but you can bet your left nut that Obama will come out smelling like a rose.