ABC News:
Using apocalyptic images, three presidents and seven foreign ministers warned Thursday that a warmer world is also a more violent one.
At a ministerial meeting of the Security Council, the officials urged the U.N.’s most powerful body to do more to address the security implications of climate change and make global warming a key part of all U.N. peacekeeping operations.
The leaders and ministers pushing for more U.N. action said warming is making the world less safe, pointing to Africa’s conflict-plagued Sahel region and Syria and Iraq as examples..
The Security Council first discussed the impact of climate on peace and security in 2007 and has held a number of meetings about it since, most recently in February. But it remains off the council’s agenda because of divisions among members. That means there can be no legally binding resolutions or official requests for action.
For years, academics who study conflict and climate change have been highlighting how events like a once-in-a-millennium Syrian drought have exacerbated conflicts without being the sole causes. It’s a more nuanced approach to understanding conflict — and to developing tools that reduce its impact on societies.
Russian and Chinese diplomats reiterated their countries’ objections to putting climate change on the agenda of the council, which is charged with maintaining international peace and security, when other U.N. and international forums are addressing the entire climate issue.
According to the theory now being peddled by the same Western leaders who started all the wars, the real culprit is Global Warming. They say Global Warming caused the “once-in-a-millennium Syrian drought” of 2007-2010, which caused mass migration from rural communities to Syria’s cities, which caused the civil unrest, which turned into a decade of civil war.
What actually happened in real life is that after 2001, Syria’s secular dictator Assad was our ally in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). After various shenanigans on both sides, the US and Syria broke ties in 2005. The trouble stemmed from the fact that Assad would not allow his secularism to break the Shiite Crescent. Assad, and many in Syria’s ruling elite, are Alawite Shiites. They are not Twelver Shiites like the rulers of Iran, but they are Shiites, and so are a majority of people in Iraq. The ruling elite of Saddam Hussein’s government mostly belonged to Iraq’s Sunni minority. When we destroyed Saddam Hussein’s government in 2003, we effectively delivered Iraq to Iran on a silver platter. We quickly realized our mistake. No later than 2006, the Bush Administration devised The Redirection–a foreign policy arc in which the US would switch sides in the GWOT and use al-Qaeda as our ground force to break the Shiite Crescent. The Bush Administration began pouring millions of dollars into Syrian opposition groups in 2006. The Obama-Biden Administration continued the policy but they also gave Syria one last chance. Although Syria was on the list, the Obama-Biden Administration wanted to skip ahead to Iran. In early 2010, Hillary Clinton went on a whirlwind tour throughout the Middle East with the goal of isolating Iran. She asked Syria to cut ties with Iran, and Syria said no. The Obama-Biden Administration beat the drums of war throughout 2010. Yet the Shiite Crescent was still too strong. It was not yet time for Operation Iranian Freedom. We had to get back to the list. We could not march to Tehran with Assad in our flank. Likewise, the secular Arab dictators in Libya and Egypt would have also caused problems. And so the State Department-financed “pro-democracy activists” started a simultaneous wave of civil unrest in the last remaining secular Arab republics. We put the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of Egypt, we used NATO as al-Qaeda’s air force in Libya, and in Syria/Iraq we launched Operation Timber Sycamore to transform al-Qaeda into a multi-national Salafist caliphate. The Obama-Biden Administration’s jihadi terrorists lynched Gaddafi and plundered his arsenals, spreading chaos and conflict throughout the Sahel. Our schemes in Syria were soundly thwarted by Russia and Iran, however we continue pouring resources onto various combatants, just to keep the death and chaos going. President Trump attempted to end our absolutely insane policy in Syria, but the Establishment revolted. Now the same cast of characters from the Obama-Biden Administration have returned for service in the Biden Administration. The same people who deliberately orchestrated the greatest humanitarian catastrophe since World War II want you to believe that it was not their policies which got hundreds of thousands of people killed, tens of millions of people displaced, and countless thousands of people raped and enslaved by Western-backed jihadi terrorists who continue running amok. Nope, it was Global Warming that did all that.
