These are a few interesting videos showing what the Russians are actually doing in Syria:
Ka-52 helicopter attacks against various armored vehicles
Russian Air Force wipes out ISIS convoys near Palmyra:
Russian Special Forces in combat operations:
Saker Message:
The ISIS Inc oil revenue operation that has not be delved into much detail by available news sources. For example, we see in the videos a convoy of approximately 30 vehicles.
I assume the fuel tanks of all these trucks had to be filled by gasoline tanker trucks nearby. I say this because I’m pretty sure there’s no central Wahhabi rest stop where the drivers can get a meal and a shower while their trucks are serviced.
Crude oil has to be refined into gasoline somewhere near the oil fields of Deir ez-Zor, That requires an oil refinery complex (see: http://ig.ft.com/sites/2015/isis-oil/ ). ISIS has procured “portable mobile refineries” to make gasoline and hired engineers to manage its oil and gasoline production (see: https://www.ft.com/content/b8234932-719b-11e5-ad6d-f4ed76f0900a ).
This had to take a great deal of planning by individuals who are working behind the crazy jihadists. ISIS is a defacto corporation comprised of at least two components: an oil revenue division and a war-fighting division. It’s clearly a black market operation that provides jobs to locals as well as competing for local oil revenue.
Saudi Arabia laid the foundation for the war-fighting division of ISIS and seeded it with “startup money”. A financial analysis of ISIS estimates it generates $1,000,000 USD per day from its illegal oil revenue division. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ISIS leaders have branched out and created a small public company selling its common stock on some foreign stock exchange to attract global investors to obtain further capital for its radicalization business.
Maybe this offers one explanation why the U.S. has done a poor job of destroying ISIS’s refinery business because it gets a “piece of the action”, so to speak.
Few know that everybody’s favorites – the Pirates – were not the romantic, rum drinking freeloaders as portrayed in uncountable ‘adventure stories’, but semi-officially licensed raiders of the British crown.
It worked like somewhat like this:
The British East India Company (a private Jewish owned corporation) sold, let us say 10 million £ worth of gold or opium, to a customer, and 5 minutes later, the British crown licensed a Pirate outfit, let us say for 9 million £, to legally steal the gold/opium back, GPO coordinates and a little help by the navy included. Plain, old mafia business.
ISIS has exactly the same business model. It is – among other things – simply a much hyped* MI6-Mossad-CIA mafia front shop, like hundreds, probably thousands, of others.
* The hype, by the way, is always a giveaway. All Hollywood bio-pics and movies of historical events immediately raise red flags. Your first question should be: What are they trying to hide, to spin, to overwrite with a false narrative?)
Well, what a coincidence.
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Eimear on May 28, 2017 · at 2:18 am UTC
In 2002, one of the biggest global investment companies renamed itself ‘Isis Asset Management, as homage to the Egyptian goddess.
It was then the fourth – largest investment firm in Britain.
http://www.fuelcellmarkets.com/fuel_cell_markets/member_view.aspx?articleid=811#
The above link is a brief intro to one of its areas of investment.