Winners and losers of regional proxy wars

Sara Mehrabian:

The emergence of Islamic awakening movement in December 2010 that was launched in Tunisia quickly diffused across the region. Compounded with the financial crisis in the West, the developments prompted the US and other Western governments to avoid direct confrontation with a debut Islamic civilization that was being born out of the awakening movement and instead embark on inciting internal warfare in the Muslim community.

The Obama Administration then followed a new foreign strategy that was going to be carried out by its proxies that included a violent, reactionary Takfiri current (containing ISIS and Nusra terror groups) and a regional governmental front, led by Saudi and Qatar.

Commissioned with the project, Pentagon teamed up certain regional states and the terror groups before launching a proxy war in Syria, veritably tracked as the strategic depth of Iran that has already inspired the currently dormant wave of Islamic awakening. The war was in the next step expanded to Yemen, Iraq and Bahrain, each with its own nature and style but al with the single goal of drawing conflicts to Iran borders so as to contain the discourse of anti-imperialism that was exercised by the Islamic awakening movement.

Former CIA deputy, Michael Brunt was once quoted as saying: “we instead of the proverb of ‘divide and rule’ follow the policy of ‘divide and ruin.’” Brunt talked of a long term project for pitting Shia and Sunni in the region by fanning the Takfiri views that consider Shia as infidels.

The main goal of the proxy wars was then to undermine the axis of anti-imperialism resistance, led by Iran. Takfiri terror groups had already set Iran as their next target after Iraq and Syria.

Russia and the forcer of resistance, led by Iran may thus be considered as winners of the project today with the Takfiri groups having sustained the heaviest ever defeats, culminated in Aleppo, Syria. The Aleppo victory was actually the last shot at the states and groups that were engaged in the proxy war in favor of the West that was the ultimate loser of the project that aimed to contain the force of anti-imperialism resistance.