The problem that many people will have a hard time accepting the reality of is the nature of geopolitics, more specifically the common trait of international actors outside the periphery of accountability and (s)elected political figures. What does this uncanny situation imply? It implies the element of deception, specifically the fact that a person's own individual ambitions and self determination was or has been part of a by-product of strategic actors who have been trained, payed for, and benefit entirely from the art of utilizing certain segments of populations and their aims and to play them on the international stage for their own strategic interests most notably beyond the peripheral understandings of the people who have essentially been played without their knowledge.
Most people do not look favorably at such a reality despite the fact that this is exactly how our current global imperial secular order operates.
The nature of geopolitics is basically a birds eye envisioning of the centers of power and to manipulate situations against adversarial powers many times pitting groups, nations, organizations, or individuals against the intended target without the foreknowledge of such groups of people even knowing their pawned status within the grand chessboard scheme of things.
Based on this format, all of geopolitics has no concern whatsoever about individuals desires or aims. To bring to life a seemingly understandable example of such power maneuvering to understand more accurately this phenomenon is to explain, in brief, the nature of the Syrian conflict
One the one hand, we have a ruthless dictator that many of the Arab populace have been desiring to remove for years. From this sector, we have our mujahideen who desire to accomplish this objective.
One slight problem that we, as Muslims firstly and as devout Mujahid supporters, have been lacking in is to exit from the local political climate and enter the geopolitical sphere. Entering the geopolitical sphere examines the benefactors and ultimate losers of a plausible outcome, essentially, the effects of a win or loose outcome. However this examination must not just analyze the combatants, but the actors that have the power to instigate, finance, or to affect the situation from abroad.
The geopolitics of Syria is one of the most strategic battles of this decade because while we as an ummah understand the necessity of removing the mushriks from power like Assad and their rule as being invalid and not recognized, our actions actually have far more devastating consequences than in the pre-modern informational warfare age.
So, for example, we have the US, Russia and China as key periphery states that all have key objectives in the region. Part of wise counsel and review is to analyze the most detrimental towards the Muslims and what is the most beneficial towards the Muslims.
So while on the one hand we have the Muslim populace contending with Assad's power, the unfortunate reality is that the US has the same objective albeit for clearly corrosive satanic purposes. But because these objectives are aligned, we must understand that fulfilling our ambitions in this specific aspect of the conflict inadvertently strengthens the power of the American empire in the region.
Part of our solution, I believe, is to fulfill our objectives WHILE thwarting off the objectives of multifarious actors in the region if we desire to see fundamental change in the Muslim world in general, and Syria in specific.
Likwise another hard pill to swallow will be to understand that whenever our actions have been carried out to fulfill our objectives, and the greatest benefactors of such actions happen to be one of our enemies, then we must come to an understanding that our immediate locally political objectives have essentially been manipulated by far reaching geopolitical objectives most notably beyond our knowledge.
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