WW3 Starts In The Middle East: 30k Saudi Troops On Iraqi Border, Israeli Forces Massing On Gaza Border, Green Berets Sent To N. Iraq (Video)

via Antiwar

According to Saudi-owned al-Arabiya TV, the Saudi Arabian military has dispatched 30,000 troops to their border with neighboring Iraq, saying they need to secure the border crossings more after Iraq withdrew from the area.

The report included a video which it said showed the 2,500 troops withdrawing from the Iraqi side of the border, and quoted an unnamed officer saying they were “ordered to quit their posts without justification.”

Meanwhile, a group of special forces has been sent northward into Kurdistan to set up a second “Joint Operations Center” in Irbil.

Setting up a center in Kurdistan is an odd choice, since the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is nearing secession from Iraq, and certainly wouldn’t allow Iraqi ground forces in for “joint” missions with the Americans.

AND!! A number of Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip may be just the beginning of a new round of escalation, as the nation has confirmed adding ground troops and tanks to the border area.

The Middle East is on fire as prophesised.  Events are unfolding at a relatively rapid pace.   Here are my opinions on this:  Independent Kurdistan is the only good thing that will come out of all of this.  The jihadists are right, this is the end of the sykes-picot line.  Those borders were never gonna last.  What we are seeing is the evolution of nation states in the middle east at the very least.