India probeert China de loef af te steken met een militaire basis op de Seychellen, weer een conflict 'in de dop...'

India gaat een grote overzeese marinebasis bouwen op de Seychellen, eerder heeft India de Seychellen al geholpen met een geavanceerd radar systeem, marine schepen en helikopters. Bovendien zal India de territoriale wateren van de Seychellen beschermen tegen illegale visserij, hoofdzakelijk door Chinese trawlers en grote Chinese visfabriek schepen, momenteel kunnen de Seychellen op dat gebied nog geen deuk in en pak boter slaan.....

Tevens is dit het antwoord van India op een grote Chinese marinebasis die dit land op Sri Lanka bouwt* op de door haar verworven haven Hambantota (met een contract van 99 jaar, mede als een gedeeltelijke compensatie voor de enorme schulden die dit land heeft bij de Chinezen), bovendien heeft China een marinebasis in Djibouti...... 

Deze bases, dus die van India en China controleren daarbij ook nog eens uiterst belangrijke en druk bevaren scheepsroutes, waar o.a. gigantische hoeveelheden olie worden vervoerd.......

Over olie gesproken, rond de Seychellen schijnen zich enorme voorraden olie te bevinden, waarmee dit land poogt 'op te stomen in de vaart der volkeren', waarbij India 'uiteraard' deze voorraden deels zal overnemen tegen een zachte prijs. De melding van deze olie komt overigens niet van Tyler Durden, de schrijver van het volgende artikel, maar van 'Cosmos' die reageerde op dat artikel, zoals geplaatst op ZeroHedge (deze reactie is onder het zo volgende artikel weergegeven)

Het is wat betreft wereldpolitiek wel duidelijk dat China en India het voortouw willen overnemen van de VS en haar hielenlikkende oorlogshonden (NAVO landen)...... Jammer genoeg is e.e.a. wel weer 'het fundament' van een groot conflict tussen India en China, laten we maar hopen dat het zover niet komt, immers het gaat hier kernmachten.....

India To Build Major Overseas Military Base Off Africa To Combat China

    by Tyler Durden

                 Wed, 02/21/2018 - 00:30

India is preparing to construct a significant overseas military base on an island in Seychelles, an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, off East Africa to counter growing Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean.

Last month, Seychelles and India signed a twenty-year agreement, permitting the Indian military to build an airbase and naval installations on Assumption Island, a small island in the Outer Islands of Seychelles north of Madagascar, said Seychelles News Agency.

“This [agreement] reinforces our commitment to not only further deepen India-Seychelles relations, but to also take our partnership to another level,” Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in a statement.

“The [mutual] co-operation is exemplified by the operationalization of the Coastal Surveillance Radar System [CSRS] in March 2016, and our commitment to augment the defense assets and capability of Seychelles,” he added.

The agreement enhances India’s military capabilities and maritime surveillance of Seychelles’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 1.37 million square km. Assumption Island will serve as a strategic staging area for the Indian military, as the island chain resides between crucial global shipping lanes.

This is key as in 2016 alone, “approximately 40 million barrels of oil per day — equivalent to just under half of the world’s total oil supply — traveled through Indian Ocean entry and exit points, including the Straits of Hormuz, Malacca, and Bab el-Mandeb,” said CNN.

The EIA classifies the region as a significant chokepoint for maritime transit of oil. More specifically, the EIA calculates roughly 5.8 million barrels per day travels directly by Seychelles, which then ultimately flows to the West. This would indicate India does not just recognize Seychelles as a critical part of its global energy security, but perhaps, India’s push to control the island is a proxy of Washington.

India has already provided Seychelles with military aircraft, helicopters, and naval boats. It has installed a coastal surveillance radar system on one of Seychelles’ islands to conduct intelligence gathering activities. Throughout the years, the waters around Seychelles have seen an abundance of Indian warships conducting anti-piracy patrols

Senior Indian naval officials have stated that the development of military installations on Seychelles is to offset China’s maritime Silk Road strategy in the Indian Ocean.

As CNN notes, India is attempting to better posture itself in the Indian Ocean despite its neighbor and long-standing rival China, who is already situated with military installations in the region.

Under Chinese President Xi Jinping, China’s naval reach has grown considerably, expanding far beyond its immediate coastline into areas not previously considered within its sphere of influence.

In July last year China established its first overseas military base in Djibouti, near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, among the world’s busiest shipping lanes and one of three crucial Indian Ocean arteries.

The strait, which is only 29 kilometers (18 miles) wide at its narrowest point, connects the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal, and the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean beyond.

The opening of the Djibouti base was followed several months later by the country’s controversial acquisition of the Hambantota port in Sri Lanka, just 22.2 kilometers (13.8 miles) by some estimates from the primary Indian Ocean sea lane that links the Malacca Straits to the Suez Canal.

Malcolm Davis, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Sydney, described the Hambantota deal — which saw Sri Lanka grant China a 99-year lease on the port to service some of the billions in debt it owes to Beijing — as part of a “determined strategy by China to extend its influence across the Indian Ocean at the expense of India.”

“That port then gives them not only a strategic access point into India’s sphere of influence through which China can deploy its naval forces, but it also gives China an advantageous position to export its goods into India’s economic sphere, so it’s achieved a number of strategic aims in that regard,” said Davis.

Indian military officials said Seychelles and Assumption Island are a powerful combination in extending the reach of India’s naval operations, which it intends to rotate aircraft and ships throughout the region.

“The development is a clear indicator that India’s geostrategic frontier is expanding in tandem with China’s growing strategic footprint in the Indo-Pacific,” Captain Gurpreet Khurana, of the Indian Navy’s National Maritime Foundation, said.

As India fears encirclement by militarist China in the Indian ocean, it only leaves us to believe that these nuclear-armed neighbors could be headed for another military conflict. The last time this occurred it was the war of 1962, which India is making the needed preparations on Seychelles’ chain of islands that will ensure another defeat is not an option.

Hier de reactie van Cosmos:

COSMOS Wed, 02/21/2018 - 00:33 Permalink

Seems like a play towards Africa.  There certainly are a lot of Indians in Africa.  This would put the Indian military closer to protect its diaspora.  I guess its to blunt the Chinese inroads into Africa. 

http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/4448/Two+oil+exploration+c…

Maybe the Seychelles foresee conflict over deposits with their African neighbors

........The Seychelles archipelago in the western Indian Ocean with a vast exclusive economic zone is believed to have large quantities of untapped oil.

The 115-island nation depends heavily on tourism and fisheries for its economy and government is hoping to add hydrocarbon to its economic base.

An assessment in 2012 by the U.S. Geological Survey in the western Indian Ocean region which included Tanzania, Madagascar and Mozambique estimated a total of 793 million barrels of oil present in the Seychelles rift area.

Also the Chinese are notorious for illegal fishing and factory trawlers.  The Indians can shoo them away.  The Seychelles dont stand a chance alone.

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* Overigens is India met deze laatste Chinese basis op Sri Lanka omsingeld door Chinese bases, zoals Durden in zijn artikel opmerkt......

Zie ook een eerder bericht van deze dag over de VAE die de zeestraat Bab el Mandeb vanuit Jemen onder controle wil krijgen, deze zeestraat is de verbinding van de Rode Zee met de Golf van Tadjoura en de Golf van Aden: 'De Verenigde Arabische Emiraten hebben de regering van Jemen opzij gezet en niemand bericht erover........'

VS commando's vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog.........

In het volgende bericht van Darius Shahtahmasebi geeft de VS letterlijk toe ook speciale troepen te hebben in Midden- en Zuid-Amerikaanse landen..... Dit was al bekend, maar een officiële bevestiging daarvoor was er tot nu toe niet. Waar deze speciale troepen (commando's) zijn, adviseren ze niet alleen, maar vechten ze ook en in dit geval zou dat tegen acties van Al Qaida of IS zijn........ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! En dat door een 'land', de VS, dat het beste is aan te duiden als de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde...........

Shahtahmasebi legt in zijn artikel uit, dat de VS ook de gewone troepen wil gaan inzetten als speciale troepen, ofwel de geheime terroristische acties van de VS, zullen worden uitgebreid met gebruikmaking van onderdelen uit het gewone leger als speciale commando's.......... Dit naast de openlijke terreur die de VS uitoefent middels illegale oorlogen.....

In Afrika zou de VS in 20 landen bezig zijn met speciale troepen, wat tot nu toe tot 100 operaties heeft geleid......

Arme mensen, die met deze gehersenspoelde (en onder invloed van o.a. psychofarmaca), psychopathische moordenaars te maken krijgen........

Overigens zou de NAVO intussen een militaire bases in Zuid-Amerika hebben (Colombia), uiteraard onder direct bevel van het Pentagon..... Zo mogen wij via de NAVO meebetalen aan VS-terreur in steeds meer landen...... Eén van de redenen waarom meer van de door ons opgebrachte belastinggelden naar de NAVO moeten.......

Department of Defense Announces Major Changes to US Military Operations in 2018

January 4, 2018 at 2:00 pm

Written by Darius Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA) — An interesting overlooked development taking place within the U.S.’ ever-expanding military is the recent announcement that conventional forces will begin blurring their roles with those of Special Forces, according to the Department of Defense.

At the end of last year, Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis told Pentagon reporters that the experiences of war since the 9/11 attacks have blurred the lines between the two forces, noting that general purpose forces will eventually shoulder missions of their Special Forces counterparts.

“I anticipate more general purpose forces being used for some of the missions,” he said. “In the past, we used only special forces to do it. The general purpose forces can do a lot of the kind of work that you see going on and, in fact, are now.”

Specifically, Mattis expects this to happen within Iraq and Syria (bear in mind that U.S. troops, whether or not they are Special Forces, do not have the legal basis to operate in Syrian territory).

“I mean, there was a time when the only people who ran drones were the Special Forces,” Mattis also said, as quoted by Military.com. He said the use of drones is now widespread in the conventional force.

Special Operators have complained that they are overstretched, having been deployed almost everywhere across the globe. In 2017, fourteen of the 33 U.S. troops killed were assigned to Special Forces operations, several of whom died in battle arenas where the Trump administration has expanded counter-terrorism operations over the past year.

“We are not the ultimate solution to every problem, and you will not hear that coming from us,” Gen. Raymond “Tony” Thomas (III), SoCom commander, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in May 2017.

“We operate and fight in every corner of the world,”  Thomas also reportedly said. “On a daily basis, we sustain a deployed or forward stationed force of approximately 8,000 across 80-plus countries. They are conducting the entire range of SOF [Special Operations Forces] missions in both combat and non-combat situations.”

Special Forces are typically tasked with carrying out 12 core missions, including counterinsurgency and unconventional warfare to hostage rescue. As the Washington Post established, these Special Forces are frequently on the ground to coordinate fire support, acting as an “observation element for what appears to be US airstrikes carried out by A-10 ground attack aircraft.” According to a report by Vice News, at any given time, U.S. Special Forces are conducting nearly 100 missions across 20 African countries. According to the Nation, Thomas also said:

“Special Operations Forces are the main effort, or major supporting effort for US VEO-focused operations in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, across the Sahel of Africa, the Philippines, and Central/South America—essentially, everywhere Al Qaeda (AQ) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are to be found…”

The recent change seems likely to indicate that the U.S. will be stepping up its involvement in areas it deems hotbeds of terrorism, perhaps opening up the door to something more confrontational.

It also seems likely that we will see the increased presence of Special Forces — as well conventional forces who have been trained to act like Special Forces — in places well outside the Middle East and Africa, including the Philippines.

According to Mattis, this change will most likely affect the dynamics in the Afghanistan theater, as well. The Army’s new “Security Force Assistance Brigades” (SFAB) is expected to deploy in the spring to Afghanistan to train, advise, and assist the duties of the Special Forces with the conventional Afghan forces.

“We’re going to be putting more American forces, advisers, in the more conventional force in the Afghan army. As you know, they have not had them, and they’ve not — they were not ready to fight in the way we want them to,” Mattis said.

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'9 'ex-FARC rebellen' vermoord door leger Colombia: FARC-EP opgericht'

'Mensenrechten- en milieuactivisten worden massaal vermoord in Brazilië en Colombia, waar het laatste land NAVO bases heeft.......'

'Koenders heeft vrijlating gegijzelde Spoorloos makers in Colombia bewerkstelligt....... AUW!!!'

'Paus Franciscus in Colombia om vrede te prediken......'

'People of Brazil: my sincere condolences with 'your' fascistic, psychopathic president Bolsonaro......'

'NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO.........'

'NAVO naar Zuid-Amerika? Weg met dit agressieve, terroristische bondgenootschap, NU!!!'

'Bolton geeft toe dat de VS een fascistisch beleid voert......'

'Bolsonaro, de fascistische nieuwe president van Brazilië, werd volgens Avaaz en fake news brengers als de NYT gekozen door manipulatie via WhatsApp'

'Bolsonaro wint Braziliaanse verkiezingen >> weer zijn we een fascistisch geleid land 'rijker...''

'Braziliaanse verkiezingen: democratie versus (neo-) fascisme, ook een groot gevaar in Europa'

'Katy Sherriff (Radio1 correspondent Z-Amerika) brandt socialistische partij Brazilië af......'

Voor meer grootschalige VS terreur zie:
'VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen..........'

'List of wars involving the United States'

'VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII........'

'NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO.........'

'De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan over het algemeen gedacht'

'NAVO militair bevelhebber wil verdere uitbreiding troepen in Europa in kader van oorlogvoering tegen Rusland............'

'Terreuraanslag in Iran moet acties uitlokken die de VS tot een oorlog met Iran 'dwingen''

PS: vergeet niet de coup tegen de democratisch gekozen regering van Honduras in 2009, dit o.l.v. de VS (Hillary Clinton speelde ook daar een heel smerige rol) en de economische oorlog tegen Venezuela, waar de VS directe banden heeft met gewapende groepen in dat land en hen ondersteunt........