Washington to Moscow: Stop Targeting al-Qaeda in Syria – You'll Kill Our Moderates! … The Associated Press is reporting this afternoon that the Obama Administration has requested that the Russians cease and desist from bombing al-Qaeda's Nusra Front in Syria because Washington's "moderate" rebels are fighting together with al-Qaeda in Syria and any attack on al-Qaeda could kill Washington's "moderates."   – Ron Paul Institute

This article (excerpted above) was recently posted at the Ron Paul Institute website. It shows us the difficulty that the "Anglosphere" is having in creating and sustaining wars in the 21st century.

If one looks back on the wars of the past centuries, starting at least 300 years ago, it seems they've all been waged with a certain purpose.

This idea has been elaborated on recently by Michael Rivero in a video, All Wars Are Bankers' Wars. You can find the video at his website, WhatReallyHappened.com.

Certainly in the modern era, wars have been waged by the West to consolidate power and create ever-expanding internationalism.

The wars have drained the West, especially the US, economically and militarily.

And some of them, like the Vietnam war, were started under false pretenses.

But in the Internet era, the reality of modern warfare has increasingly been exposed. It is not after all a series of defensive maneuvers by the West.

Modern wars are usually started by a small group of fabulously wealthy individuals who see war as a mechanism to reshape society.

In the past decade or so, the West and especially the US and Britain have been fighting a "war against terror."

By definition such a war cannot be won.

Worse, both Al Qaeda and now ISIS have reportedly been created, cultivated and supplied by the West, particularly, the US, Britain, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

More from the Ron Paul article:

The Obama Administration thus continues with the fiction that there are completely separate, vetted, moderate rebels who are dedicated to creating an inclusive, multi-cultural and multi-confessional, secular, and democratic Syria as soon as both ISIS and the Assad government are defeated.

The fiction is repeated constantly, in the manner of all state propaganda, by straight-faced US White House and State Department spokespersons.

Why is no one asking why such moderates would want to associate themselves with al-Qaeda in the first place? Why do they seek to integrate into al-Qaeda command structures? How are they not to be considered ducks when they walk like ducks and quack like ducks?

You see? There are no "moderates" – not really.

Washington's plea to Russia is therefore one that simply seeks to protect its supposed "enemy."

This of course brings up a larger point, which has to do with whether Russia itself is an enemy of the US.

Certainly there are forces in the US that are attempting to position Russia as such an enemy, and China too.

This is one way to bring back the Cold War that so empowered the US military-industrial complex.