Trump Cuts the Head off the Snake

Trump Upends the Chess Board in the Middle East

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The Middle East has been completely transformed.

From day one, Trump and Jared Kushner began planning the transformation of the Middle East.

Terror creates fear, which is used as justification for going to war.

Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud has gotten very wealthy off the wars in the Middle East. He funded and controlled the terrorist groups we were fighting and was also laundering money from the military industrial complex. I don’t think most people have a clue how much money has been laundered through the wars in the Middle East.

This is just a portion of Q post 117 from Nov 6, 2017, the day after Al Waleed’s arrest:

Christopher Wray is important because he specializes in money laundering investigations. For those who doubt Christopher Wray’s role in this war, here’s Q drop 2555:

Wray is a patriot and doing exactly what Trump needs him to do, in my opinion.

What was the single biggest event to generate billions in payouts from nations?

‘WAR’

Who audits where the money goes?

If the military is paying $15,000 for a toothbrush, then clearly nobody is keeping track of the money.

Al Waleed was profiting from both sides of this war on terror in a huge way.

As Q said in post 133 after Al Waleed’s arrest:

Public wealth disclosures – False. Many governments of the world feed the ‘EYE’. Think slush funds (feeder). Think war (feeder). Think environmental pacts (feeder). Triangle has (3) sides.

Al Waleed’s public wealth disclosure recognized him as one of the wealthiest men in the world at the time of his arrest, but as Q stated, those disclosures were false. Al Waleed controlled much more wealth than what was public and it was distributed throughout the world in the hands of his proxy puppets.

In my last article, I wrote about how Saudi Arabia, led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was joining Trump in a war against any nation that supported Islamic Extremism. It was all centered around one nation and everyone knew it. That nation was Iran. It was constantly portrayed in the media as a rogue state and an enemy of the United States. But Al Waleed controlled the leaders of both nations.

To Al Waleed, it was just a game.

For almost fifty years, the Middle East has been the center for Islamic extremism. The cabal divided us by creating the very terrorism that everyone feared. They make us hate each other, so that we’ll be constantly divided and at war.

How many years has the media told us that Iran is our enemy?

But is Iran really our enemy?

Who controls Iran?

We’ve been told for years that Saudi Arabia and Iran are also enemies, because one is Sunni and one is Shia. Even though Sunni and Shia Muslims have lived in relative peace for many years up until the 20th century.

How do we know that the Sunni/Shia division was just a cabal trick?

Wasn’t Iran at the center of all the terrorist groups in the Middle East?

Weren’t they Shia?

Then why were so many Saudi Princes who were Sunni, supporting them?

Why was Al Waleed not just supporting them, but controlling them?

In my last article I talked about the big events that led up to the mass arrests of Saudi princes, including Al Waleed.

But I only told you half the story.

There were some major events that happened, which expose the cabal’s game of division. These events expose the lie between the Sunni and Shia division amongst Muslims.

There was a huge story that happened the day before Al Waleed and hundreds of Saudi’s were arrested.

I bet nobody remembers it at all.

What was it?

Lebanon Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, abruptly resigns, while in Saudi Arabia.

This was a huge deal. Lebanon is controlled by Hezbollah which is controlled by Iran.

According to the BBC:

Iran says the surprise resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri is part of a plot to stoke tensions in the region.

An adviser to Iran's supreme leader accused the US and Saudi Arabia of being behind the move.

Mr Hariri, in a televised broadcast from Saudi Arabia, accused Iran of sowing "fear and destruction" in several countries, including Lebanon.

He said he was stepping down because he feared for his life.

Mr Hariri's father, former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, was assassinated in 2005.

Correspondents say his sudden departure plunges Lebanon into a new political crisis and raises fears that it may be at the forefront of the regional rivalry between Shia power Iran and Sunni stronghold Saudi Arabia.

Following the statement on Saturday, Iranian politicians lined up to denounce Mr Hariri's assertions.

"Hariri's resignation was done with planning by [US President] Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia," said Hussein Sheikh al-Islam, adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kahmenei.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi, quoted by the official Irna news agency, said Mr Hariri's departure was aimed at creating tension in Lebanon and the region.

The Prime Minister of Lebanon had been summoned to Saudi Arabia and dropped everything to go to Riyadh. His televised resignation while in Saudi Arabia, shocked the entire Middle East and angered Michel Aoun, the President of Lebanon who is backed by Hezbollah. Saudi Arabia was accused of holding the Lebanese Prime Minister hostage and forcing him to resign on national television. After about a week and a half, he made his way back to Lebanon and eventually rescinded his resignation too.

But the whole event was Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman putting Hezbollah on notice, that things have changed. They would no longer have a free reign in the Middle East and garner support from anyone in Saudi Arabia.

What happened within hours of Lebanon’s Prime Minister resigning?

According to the BBC:

Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Yemen, after a loud explosion was heard near Riyadh airport on Saturday evening.

The missile was destroyed over the capital and fragments landed in the airport area, officials quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency said.

A TV channel linked to Houthi rebels in Yemen said the missile was fired at the King Khalid International Airport.

That missile was fired by Houthi rebels that are backed by Iran and Hezbollah.

Q mentioned it in post 121:

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What provides power? Fear.

Q suggests that we shot the missile down for Saudi Arabia.

Why does Q ask if it was really from Yemen?

I believe it was provided by Hezbollah and Iran, which is why Q then asked, “who are the puppets and who are the puppet masters?” Iran was supplying Yemen with missiles and weapons in their war with Saudi Arabia just like they supply Hezbollah.

Those two events happened the day before Al Waleed was arrested and paint the picture of all the conflict in the Middle East and Iran at the center of it.

What other huge event happened on the day of the mass arrests?

Saudi prince killed in helicopter crash near Yemen border

According to the BBC:

A senior Saudi prince and seven other officials have been killed in a helicopter crash near the country's border with Yemen, state media report.

Prince Mansour bin Muqrin, the deputy governor of Asir province, was returning from an inspection tour when his aircraft came down near Abha late on Sunday, the interior ministry said.

It did not give a cause for the crash.

The incident came hours after a major purge of the kingdom's political and business leadership.

An anti-corruption body led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 32, ordered the detentions of dozens of people, including 11 princes, four ministers and dozens of ex-ministers.

Was this really an accident? Close to the Yemen border, hours after mass arrests? Was he fleeing to Yemen, the country that Saudi Arabia was fighting a war against and who had launched a missile at Riyadh?

There were other reports that suggested it wasn’t an accident at all.

According to India Today:

By India Today Web Desk: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's purge push in Saudi Arabia took another curious turn after new reports coming out of the region suggested that the helicopter crash that killed Prince bin Muqrin was not a crash, but an assassination attempt, a successful one.

A Saudi warplane shot down the helicopter that Prince Mansour bin Muqrin and his seven other senior aides took that day, the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

The helicopter had crashed near the border with Yemen. The newspaper, however, did not disclose its source of information. Prince Muqrin was the son of Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the powerful former Saudi intelligence chief.

Bin Muqrin had apparently sent a letter to over a thousand princes, asking them to not support Mohammed bin Salman's succession to the throne, Middle East Monitor quoted the New Khaleez as reporting.

I find it hard to believe that this was just an accident that happened on the same day that Al Waleed and hundreds of his supporters got arrested. What are the odds of that? He was asking other princes not to support Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s succession to the throne? I think he was fleeing to Yemen and it wasn’t a coincidence he died on the same day that the mass arrests occurred.

Saudi Arabia, under Crown Prince Mohammed, was fighting a proxy war against Iran, in Yemen. Yemen rebels were being supplied by Iran and Hezbollah.

Then two major events happened that would trigger a massive change in the Middle East.

First big event:

Drones Strike Big Saudi Refineries, and Houthis Claim Responsibility

According to the New York Times:

The war that has devastated Yemen reached into Saudi Arabia early Saturday, with drone strikes on two major Saudi oil refineries, and a claim of responsibility from Yemen’s Houthi rebel faction.

A Houthi spokesman, Brig. Gen. Yahya Sare’e, said in a statement broadcast by Al-Masirah, the faction’s news organization, that the group’s forces “carried out a massive offensive operation of ten drones targeting Abqaiq and Khurais refineries.”

The attack on Saturday appeared to be an escalation — General Sare’e said it was one of the largest operations the Houthis have mounted in Saudi Arabia, and it reached deeper than before into the kingdom, some 500 miles from Yemeni territory.

The attack by Iran-backed Houthi rebels happened on September 14, 2019.

The next big event happened a few months later on December 31, 2019.

According to CNN:

(Reader note: All CNN quotes are from this same article.)

Trump threatens Iran after protesters attack US embassy in Baghdad.

President Donald Trump threatened Iran Tuesday, warning the country’s leaders they will be held responsible for any death or destruction after protestors attacked the US embassy in Baghdad.

“Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities,” Trump tweeted from Florida. “They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat.”

And later Tuesday, while speaking with reporters as he entered a New Year’s Eve gala at Mar-a-Lago, the President said he doesn’t want war but that if it comes to conflict, Iran wouldn’t last long.

“I don’t think that would be a good idea for Iran,” Trump said, adding later that a potential conflict “would go very quickly.”

This turned out to be a very significant event in the transformation of the entire Middle East.

Why would Trump threaten Iran over protesters in Iraq?

Who were the protesters?

From CNN:

The pro-Iranian demonstrators were mostly from Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a coalition of predominantly Shiite militias. Formed in 2014 to fight ISIS, the PMU were recognized under a 2016 Iraqi law as an independent military force that answers directly to the prime minister.

Despite the Iraqi law, most observers see many of those groups, including Kataib Hezbollah, as maintaining strong links to Iran and its security forces, from which they receive funding and other support, as well as some direction.

Three leaders of powerful militia groups were also seen at the protest, including Kataib Hezbollah leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Remember that name—Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, leader of Kataib Hezbollah.

Why were they attacking the US embassy in Baghdad?

From CNN:

The US carried out five airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Sunday on facilities controlled by Kataib Hezbollah, killing at least 25 people and wounding 51, in the first significant US military response to weeks of deadly rocket attacks by the Iran-backed group on US-Iraqi targets.

Protesters attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, scaling the walls and forcing the gates of the compound, as hundreds demonstrated against American airstrikes on an Iran-backed militia group in Iraq.

But there is a very interesting connection to this group that is important to understand.

This Hezbollah-backed group in Iraq supposedly sits under the control of Iraq’s prime minister.

From CNN:

The attacks on the embassy are a response to US airstrikes on Sunday against an Iran-backed militia that formally sits under the control of Iraq’s prime minister. The airstrikes have caused tension with Baghdad, where officials accused the US of attacking without sufficient evidence, violating Iraqi sovereignty and threatening the country’s security.

There was a lot of tension between Trump and the government of Iraq following the attack on the embassy. The Iraq government has a responsibility for keeping our personnel safe in there country. But did they?

From CNN:

Baghdad warned Monday that its relations with the US were at risk following the strikes. Questions have also been raised as to whether Iraqi forces allowed the protesters to reach the US Embassy, a highly fortified building in an area that is usually restricted.

Trump gave the government of Iraq a warning himself and then tweeted about it.

From CNN:

This official added that Trump emphasized in a call with the Iraqi prime minister that Iraq has a responsibility to protect the US embassy and personnel.

Trump warned Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi about his responsibility.

Trump had warned every leader in the Middle East that you were either on our side against Islamic extremism, or you were on the enemy’s side.

It’s important to remember these three connections: Iraq-Iran-Hezbollah.

That attack on our embassy happened on December 31, 2019.

How serious was Trump when he threatened Iran and warned the prime minister of Iraq?

Guess what happened three days later?

Maybe the biggest event to happen in the Middle East to promote peace for decades.

The Assassination of Qasem Soleimani

According to Wikipedia:

On 3 January 2020, Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general, was targeted and killed by a U.S. drone strike near the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq while he was on his way to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi.

He was scheduled to meet the very prime minister that Trump had warned about taking responsibility.

But why was Soleimani in Baghdad?

According to Reuters Insider:

Qassem Soleimani had recently arrived at Baghdad's airport early on Friday when a Hellfire missile blew up his convoy, killing him and nine others, courtesy of US President Donald Trump.

Why was the Iranian major general in Iraq, a country that Iran had fought in a bitter war three decades earlier?

Soleimani was on a not-so-secret trip to Iraq to meet with politicians and military allies. And we now know that it likely had a secret component: to coordinate an intensifying campaign of rocket strikes to maim and kill some of the 5,000 American troops based there.

Soleimani was Iran's most powerful military figure, a leader of commandos and spies across several countries tasked with achieving the aims of Iran's supreme leader through whatever means necessary. His operatives fought adversaries like ISIS, trained insurgents like the Houthis in Yemen, and provided support to terrorist groups like Hezbollah. In 2007, the US declared the Quds Force that Soleimani led a state sponsor of terrorism.

It's also likely that the trip had a more lethal purpose. In mid-October, Soleimani secretly met with Shiite militia leaders to coordinate attacks against the US in hopes of triggering a US reprisal that would refocus public anger from Iran to the US, Reuters reported on Friday. Soleimani delegated this campaign to Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a head of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces and the commander of the Kataib Hezbollah militia.

Muhandis was killed in the same strike that killed Soleimani.

Trump took out Soleimani, Muhandis and the leader of the Kataib Hezbollah along with other militant leaders in one strike.

Qasem Soleimani was the one man connected to all the Islamic terrorism in the Middle East going back several decades. He was also one of Al Waleed’s biggest puppets. Soleimani was not taking orders from the supreme leader of Iran who was just a figurehead. Soleimani’s task, under Al Waleed’s control, was to keep fomenting terror and the need for war in the Middle East as a way of laundering money.

The entire war on terror was a massive money-laundering operation.

By killing Soleimani, Trump cut the head off the snake in the Middle East.

Soleimani controlled Iran’s Quds Force which was the driving force of war in the Middle East.

What did the Quds Force control?

According to another Reuters Insider article:

One method the Quds Force uses in destabilizing the Middle East is the use of military aid and funding. The group was discovered to have funded numerous organizations designated as terrorist groups by the US, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

Within Iraq, the Quds Force trained militant groups that attacked the US through the use of sophisticated explosives.

One such explosive, the explosively-formed penetrator (EFP), was particularly devastating for US troops and coalition allies because its metal projectile shattered even armored vehicles. Roughly 861 US troops were wounded and 196 were killed by Iranian-made EFPs in the last decade, according to a Military Times report citing the US military. 

Soleimani was personally responsible for many American soldiers deaths and dismemberments with those specialized bombs Iran produced. Trump tweeted about it on the day he was killed.

Don’t miss that last part.

Trump stated a fact—that Soleimani should have been killed many years ago.

Why wasn’t he? Because Al Waleed protected him by controlling the four previous presidents. I’ll make that case throughout this series.

You would think everyone would celebrate the fact that Trump killed this enemy of the US and source of terror.

Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

Soleimani was the real leader in Iran and a puppet controlled by Al Waleed. So it shouldn’t surprise anybody, that the usual puppets from the Obama administration and in the media would bash Trump for this action. Trump is fighting a real war and is dealing with our enemies accordingly.

According to The Federalist:

Ben Rhodes Attacks Trump To Obscure Obama’s Complicity In Iran’s Forever War

Peevish Obama national security official Ben Rhodes of “we can tell journalists anything and they’ll believe it” fame recently published an editorial in The Atlantic ripping the president’s recent dealings with Iran. Rhodes’ ripostes flow from the president’s game-changing retaliatory strike on the Obama administration partner — and leading terrorist of the leading terror force of the world’s leading terror regime — Qassem Soleimani.

Trump had just killed the guy in charge of Iran and all the terrorism in the Middle East.

Why would that cause people in the Obama administration to panic?

Two huge reasons:

1. The Iran nuclear deal.

2. Pallets of cash sent to Iran.

Everything is connected and it all has to do with money laundering and control. The keystone is money.

Who else was panicked?

According to the Jewish News Syndicate:

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power also condemned the action by pointing to the uncertainty of the outcome, and specifically the allegedly precipitous manner in which the decision was made: “Trump is surrounded by sycophants (having fired those who’ve dissented). He has purged Iran specialists. He has abolished NSC processes to review contingencies. He is seen as a liar around the world.”

Trump had purged all the Iran specialists of the Deep State who were all controlled by Al Waleed. They were in the dark on anything Trump was doing and not happy about it.

Who is Samantha Power?

According to Wikipedia:

Power joined the Obama State Department transition team in late November 2008. She served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the National Security Council from January 2009 to February 2013.

She is considered to have been a key figure in the Obama administration in persuading the president to intervene militarily in Libya.

Don’t miss that last part. I will be talking about the military intervention in Libya, and more importantly, Benghazi, later in this series.

Who else was panicked because of the change in Iran?

The CIA-controlled media.

According to the previous Jewish News Syndicate article:

Higher up on the Echo Chamber food chain, The New York Times’s Max Fisher’s expressed concerns are not about the decision-making process but about the nature of the Iranian-American relationship: “If reports are true, assassinating Iran’s Soleimani would represent a major, overt act of war. Functionally and legally, it’s not a ‘risk of war’ or ‘tantamount to war.’ It is war outright, and against a country that has invested years of preparation into enduring just that.”

Washington Post columnist and CIA leak conduit David Ignatius warned ominously about “An eerie feeling reading this news, reminiscent of when the US invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple a brutal dictator—and set in motion a chain of consequences for which America was utterly unprepared.”

Why was the CIA panicked?

For the same reasons that the Obama administration was. They feared their massive money-laundering operation would be exposed. They were actually hoping for war with Iran as a way to distract from their treason.

But why didn’t a war break out between the U.S. and Iran?

Wasn’t the entire Washington establishment fearfully warning everyone about Iran’s coming retaliation after Trump killed the guy in control of Iran and most terror groups in the Middle East?

What happened instead?

This is an eye opening contrast between appeasement and strength when it comes to your enemies, but it’s so much more.

Trump took down the puppet master first, which left the puppets more vulnerable and desperate. Now Trump was hunting down the puppets and Soleimani was one of the bigger chess pieces left on the board. Removing him did the opposite of what the Establishment predicted. It actually freed Iran of the cabal controls. It was no longer controlled by Al Waleed, Soleimani or the CIA.

How do we know things have changed massively?

How about this headline?

‘Truce between Iran and Saudi Arabia, brokered by China’

According to the New York Times:

Finally, there is a peace deal of sorts in the Middle East. Not between Israel and the Arabs, but between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which have been at each other’s throats for decades. And brokered not by the United States but by China.

This is among the topsiest and turviest of developments anyone could have imagined, a shift that left heads spinning in capitals around the globe. Alliances and rivalries that have governed diplomacy for generations have, for the moment at least, been upended.

The key to the agreement, according to what the Saudis told the Americans, was a commitment by Iran to stop further attacks on Saudi Arabia and curtail support for militant groups that have targeted the kingdom. Iran and Saudi Arabia have effectively fought a devastating proxy war in Yemen, where Houthi rebels aligned with Tehran battled Saudi forces for eight years.

This happened on March 11, 2023.

This came as a total surprise to the cabal and all their puppets around the world. None of them expected this, and trust me, with Iran no longer under their control, it leaves all their crimes in the Middle East exposed.

Guess who was particularly blindsided by this huge development in the Middle East?

According to the Middle East Eye:

CIA complained US was blindsided by Saudi outreach to Syria and Iran: Report

CIA director Bill Burns told Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman that the US feels "blindsided" by Riyadh’s moves to restore ties with Iran and Syria as part of the kingdom's increasingly independent foreign policy streak.

The CIA was especially panicked, and for good reason.

Peace is breaking out in the Middle East.

Trump transformed the Middle East completely by taking down the king first. By removing Al Waleed from the chess board, it made all his puppets weaker and more vulnerable. Soleimani became the next biggest enemy chess piece on the board in the Middle East. By eliminating him, Trump freed Iran of his control and control from the CIA.

But guess who had hinted to us that this was coming?

This Q post reveals more than people know, and will lead us into the next article, where I will try to explain its importance.

Iran was the centerpiece of Al Waleed’s global dominance in more ways than one.

My next article dives into the real reasons behind the Iran nuclear deal, pallets of cash and the deep ties between Hezbollah and the CIA.

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