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Yes, I think they most definitely set things up to take Iran, thus, the "surrounding" maps.
However, the vid ends with "the U.S. and its allies" about to attack Iran. What allies? The so-called "coalition" countries in Iraq couldn't bail fast enough. The U.S. is on its own.
Secondly, the EU doesn't want to be upwind of Cheney's Armageddon. So, attack Iran with what? And, attack Iran, then what? They'd have to nuke it and nuke it good--to subdue such a big, well-fed, prosperous and well-defended country. Say, they nuke a quarter of it. They've still got millions of people to subdue. With what troops? Our already exhausted troops in Iraq? If they nuke it, neither the EU nor England will participate. How do you control Iran, with Iraq still very volatile, and Afghanistan nearly lost, and the U.S. military maxed out already?
These realities are why our military itself is against attacking Iran. If you use conventional weapons, you can knock out a lot of infrastructure, and kill a lot of people, and take losses, but then what? You have to have a boffo occupying force. We don't have it. If they don't use nukes (and don't just devastate the place with mushroom clouds and radiation spreading everywhere, creating millions of sick and dying refugees, for one thing), they might have a few allies, but not many--none willing to commit whole armies, or even significant numbers of troops. What do you do with millions of sick and dying refugees (the burden will likely fall on the EU!), and a hornets' nest of millions of others, not sick and dying--and not just Iranians--prepared to do literally anything to get back at you?
How are you going to swipe their oil in these circumstances? How are you going to keep Iran, after you attack it?
Attacking Iran is not viable. And I haven't even mentioned China or Russia yet. China owns a big portion of our debt paper. They don't have to respond to an attack on Iran with weapons. All they have to do is call in our loans.
As for Russia, I think Georgia was punishment of Russia for its part in a coalition of countries who are the main deterrent to the Bushwhacks attacking Iran. The coalition includes Russia, China and India, at least. They are using economic levers, for now. All three are nuclear powers.
I admit that the maps began to look very compelling, with Georgia added in--and were compelling before that. But I think the evidence and arguments against an imminent attack on Iran are also compelling.
Finally, our own Corpos don't like this nutso plan. That's why Rumsfeld is gone, in my opinion. Maybe somebody got the goods on him, too. (Of all the Bushite evildoers, he is the worst.) But I'm pretty sure that the main reason he resigned was because the war against Iran was nixed, and Bush-Cheney were curtailed on this issue, or he was pushed out because he wouldn't give it up. Curtailed by a combination of Corpos, military and other mucky-mucks in our political establishment, as too insane (can't use nukes), too unviable, and bad for business. Can we handle a boycott by the whole world? No.
There are a lot of other bad things that could happen--Bushite horrors--before they're out, or if they won't go--which I don't think is viable either (we're too big a country, too difficult to control)--or if they Diebold McBush and Dingbat into puppet positions (very possible), and even if the Corpos permit Obama to win--and among these are a Bushite plan to split off the oil rich state of Zulia, in Venezuela (on the Venezuela-Caribbean coast), by using their client state of Colombia--its compliant military, its death squads, Blackwater, and local fascist militias, and the newly reconstituted U.S. 4th Fleet (now roaming off the coast of Venezuela), to support a fascist secessionist movement there (secession from the Chavez government, taking the oil with them). Colombia might simultaneously move against the leftist government of Ecuador, to the south. Thus one big fascist oil state would be created. They have fascist cells in Venezuela and Ecuador, planning such a move--and an active, on-going secessionist plot in Bolivia (among the white separatists in the gas and oil rich provinces).
None of these countries is well-defended. They are improving defenses, and the continent is becoming very united on goals not only of social justice, but also self-determination, and Latin American independence and sovereignty, and they seem to have each others' backs. The only outliers are Colombia ($6 BILLION in military aid thru Bushite fingers), and Peru (a 'free trade' mess--the next government will be leftist). The whole region is going leftist, up into Central America. And the South Americans are swiftly moving toward a South American "Common Market" (not including the U.S.), which might well extend quickly into Central America (already signs of it). A "Common Market" with a common defense, recently proposed by Brazil. But they are not well-defended yet.
The Bushites and our Corpos really, REALLY want to stop this whole thing--Latin American sovereignty (control of their own resources and economies; democracy; cooperation, unity). The Bushites have failed--and failed miserably--thus far. Nothing worse for the Corpos than democracy, and it is spreading all over the place, to the south of us, in our own hemisphere. They can't really attack and conquer South America, but they could possibly "divide and conquer," stoke some civil wars, cause a lot of trouble, suffering and grief, and hack pieces of it off, or try to--the ones with the resources they want, and the ones that are easiest to pick off.
They thought Bolivia would be easy pickens (white separatists in the gas/rich states want to secede)--especially with rightwing Paraguay next door as a staging area. Then Paraguay elected its first leftist president, ever--this year. He has a 92% approval rating, is aligned with the Bolivarians and wants the U.S. military out of his country.
So, Bolivia--deeply embedded in the continent, land-locked, and now surrounded with leftist democracies--is likely going to weather that Bush-blown storm.
There are a number of possibilities for the Bushites first big hostile move in South America. I think the very intense, long standing, propaganda campaign against Chavez--more intense now than ever--and several other factors (including proximity of the 4th Fleet right off Venezuela's oil coast) points to Venezuela. The Bushites tried to start a proxy war between Colombia and Ecuador earlier this year, but Chavez (a very savvy guy, with very savvy advisers) headed it off (--for which Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, called Chavez "the great peacemaker"). (Lulu also recently said, of Chavez: "You can criticize Chavez on a lot of things, but not on democracy." The Bushite accusation that Chavez is a "dictator" is total bullshit.)
I think location on the Caribbean will be the deciding factor. A defensible chunk of Venezuela--and its biggest oil state--would be a great prize, indeed. They'll have to kill a lot of Venezuelans, but it's a rural area, sparsely populated, and the fascists there are ruthless and would put death squads into action (with help from neighboring Colombia). It's a feasible--if entirely lawless, immoral and heinous--war plan. They might also try to grab--or at least disable--Ecuador at the same time. Ecuador, also a member of OPEC, with huge oil deposits, is a strong Chavez ally, and would, without question, help Venezuela in this situation, if it could, but it sits on Colombia's south border, very vulnerable, not well-defended. Ecuador's leftist president has vowed not to renew the U.S. military lease on its base in Manta, Ecuador, next year. In a move on Venezuela, the Bushites would want to at least neutralize Ecuador, and, at best, sweep it up at the same time, and create one large, fascist-controlled oil region covering the northern hump of the continent.
I don't think they will succeed. But I think that's the plan. And I think that Donald Rumsfeld--frustrated in his lust to attack Iran--is the master-mind behind it.
Why I think they won't succeed? The growing unity of South America. As with trying to bring the nazi boot down here, it's just too much trouble. Chavez's many allies will go nuts--Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Venezuela itself--PLUS even right and center-right governments in Latin American countries these days are into the notion of Latin American SOVEREIGNTY. It will be an unforgivable blow to Latin American dignity, and will alienate the northern and southern parts of our hemisphere, possibly permanently. If the Bushites grab Zulia, the other Latin American countries will not rest until it is returned. They may not be able to return Zulia to Venezuela with the weapons of war. But they will do it.
The Bushites may have their strategies, but they don't understand people. They don't understand--and can't understand--how passionate the South Americans are about their hard-won democracy revolution. They make a similar mistake about Iran, not regarding democracy, but regarding Iranians' pride in their ancient Persian culture, and their sense of coherence as a culture and a country. Iraq was a cobbled together country--by the U.S. and the U.K. It was very vulnerable to "divide and conquer." Iran is not. Nor is South America, as a whole--as a group of countries that are now in increasing accord with other, and have a common history, a common language, a common religion, a common problem of racial bigotry against the indigenous (which they are making great strides in overcoming), and have suffered a common fate at U.S. hands--dictatorship after dictatorship, brutality, murder and exploitation, for over a hundred years. They are determined upon their peaceful, democratic, social justice revolution. And they know--although the Bushites and most of our people don't know--that it's time has come.
As usual, the Bushites have only brutality to offer. They can walk all over an inherently fractured society like Iraq's, and a very weak country, after 12 years of sanctions and no-fly zone bombings--a somewhat artificial country held together by a dictator. They cannot do the same to a country like Iran, nor to a continent that is on the cusp of realizing Simon Bolivar's dream of a "United States of South America."
Anyway, that's my best guess as to where they're going to strike. Venezuela's oil coast may look like a sitting duck to them. But they are a notoriously stupid bunch of people, Bushites, for all their wealth and power. They can bribe some people (local fascist elites), and torture others, and kill many, and run rampant through the world, and steal us blind (until we stop them), but they are completely bankrupt when it comes to ideas that truly inspire most people. They are like the global corporate predators they serve--empty souls on a meaningless path. They cannot win against people with full, rich souls, who have got hold of the ideas of self-determination and unity.
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