It is difficult to overstate the effect of Russia’s military victory against the Georgian/Israeli forces last year. The Israeli’s have been checked for the first time in her existence in an overt military way, forcing the Jewish state to come to terms with the growing power of Russia and her anti-Zionist political alliance worldwide.

As the United States continues to overstretch its already fragile economic and military potency, the rest of the world is arming against it and her imperial designs. The growing Russian-led bloc against American and Israeli imperialism is the only hope Americans have against the New World Order.

A key player in this bloc is Russian longtime ally Syria. Since the fall of the USSR, the Syrian government has drifted more into debt and economic stagnation, but after the US, among with the Israelis, armed the Georgians and other separatists in th former Soviet Union, is rebuilding the Syrian economy and is creating a relationship with Damascus similar to the Israeli relationship to America. Russia has made certain the American sanctions against Syria have had no effect, leading to a highly complex global economic setting the hapless new American president is in no position to understand or influence.

After the war in Georgia, the Russian Black Sea fleet began moving some of its equipment to the Syrian port cities of Tartus and Latakia. Since that time, substantial Russian-led renovations to those ports have proceeded apace, and the head of the Russian navy, Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky and his Syrian counterpart, General Talib al-Barri have been spending much time together, working on naval exercises aimed at NATO, whom the Russians claim have been keeping more warships in the Mediterranean than international agreements permit, an issue that may have global repercussions in the very near future. Israel’s freedom of action has been substantially hamstring by the now permanent presence of the Russian navy in the Mediterranean.

Furthermore, after both the Georgian war, as well as during Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, the Russians have sold Syria the S-300 Iskendar anti-aircraft missiles along with the newest, state of the art 30N6E TOMB radar system. At the same time, substantial advising from Russian forces has been put into place, and the Russian government has said that its own forces would be operating the new equipment. Making the Israeli’s nervous, the Russians have also concluded an agreement with the Syrians to assist in building several nuclear power stations, as well as investing heavily in the hydro-electric field (and they have similar deals in place with Iran). The Russians are making Tel Aviv and Washington pay dearly for its support of Georgia and anti-Russian movements universally.

Since 2005, Russia has been building Syria up as a counterweight to Israel in the region. In 2005, the Russians brokered a $370 million natural gas deal with Damascus, rising to $1 billion by 2007. At the same time, Russia has weaned Syria’s off it traditional oil dependence on Iraq and Saudi Arabia and geared the Syrian economy, especially its energy sector, to itself. As all this is going on, Russia in 2007 wrote off the entire $13 billion dollar Syrian debt in exchange for privileged investment opportunities in the country.

Syria has been governed since the 1950s by a variation of the National Socialist political ideology modified by the Ba’ath political movement. Syria combines the best elements of socialism and nationalism, ultimately seeking a united Arab republic where secular nationalism, rather than Islam, is the center of the state. In accordance with this view, private banking at the national level is forbidden, and the state is in charge of all decisions concerning currency and trade treaties with the outside world.

With its French ally (and former colonial master), the European Union has brokered a free trade deal with Syria to be in place by 2010, something vigorously opposed by the US and Israel, and both powers see France as increasingly pro-Arab.

While the Syrian oil sector is a full 25% of the economy, new Russian, Chinese and Iranian investments have taken that stagnating industry and placed on a new, high tech footing to compete with all comers. Since 2007, Venezuela has also built oil refineries in the country, as well as the Indian ONCG oil giant. It is clear that the strategy frm Damascus is to defeat Zionism by the economic integration of all anti-Zionist forces: Iran, Armenia, Venezuela, China, Russia and, increasingly, India.

Natural gas is in the same category, with the Russian Stroitransgaz firm spent a huge amount of money in developing the natural gas fields in Palmyra, near Damascus. Since Gaza sits on a huge natural gas field, and explain much of Israel actions in recent months, the Syrians now have the means of countering Israel’s expansion, and, more importantly, now register a healthier and more dynamic economic system than the US supported Israeli state.

All of this investment has paid off. Even under the rule of American sanctions and dealing with thousands of Iraqi immigrants, the Syrian economy under Russian supervision has grown in 2007, by a very respectable 6.2%, with a still problematic 11% inflation. However, the Russian forgiveness of Syrian debt should continually lower this figure.

Russia has placed Israel in a very serious position. Countries such as Belarus, Venezuela and now, Syria, have proven that the US and the major global banking firms are no longer necessary for rational economic development. Thanks to the rule of Putin in Russia, that country is now in a position to finally set its face against the Amero-Zionist entity and its machinations throughout the world. A slowly disintegrating American economy is now faced by the dynamism of the Russia-Armenia-Iran nexus, supported in its turn by China, Venezuela and Belarus, all major economic actors in th energy field.

Major General Eliezer Shkedi of the Israeli Defense Forces, back in 2006, wrote “In the past we prepared for a possible military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, but Iran’s growing confidence after the war in Lebanon means we have to prepare for a full-scale war, in which Syria will be an important player.” In 2009, this strategy has been rendered completely void by Russian moves in the region, and guaranteeing that the Zionist state can not win its war against the Arab world.