Update: Iran, Iraq and the clown empire that occupies your land, steals your oil, murders your leaders and refuses to leave when your nation is in uprising to throw them out.... because they are a force for good there by your invitation whether you like it or not!??

Clearly words have lost all meaning in US diplomacy. As a result things are not getting better for the US Imperial war machine and their Desert Storm Troopers in Iraq following the illegal assasination of General Soleimani on January 3rd. 

Iraq has just witnessed the largest civil uprising in its history, demanding the US get thrown out and burning US flags. If they continue to take the current position and refuse to leave, the blood of the servicemen will be added to Trumps list following the shootdown of the Ukrainian airliner in the fog of war following Trumps unprovoked attack on Qasim Soleimani. 

The Pompeo lie machine is so transparent and pushy that if it was not set up to be that way then it rivals the US Department of Clowns during the time of John Kirby, Jen Psaki and Co when they first lost ascendancy to Russian diplomacy following the coup in Ukraine following the US colour revolution over there. 

Please read this post for highlights of their days of comic relief: 
https://dwahts.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-us-department-of-clowns.html?m=1

With sideshow McFibbypants on the scene we can rest assured that nothing will get done, tensions will be maximized, troops and civilians will be placed in danger and media will run around like chickens without heads trying to work out which lies to tell. 

Pompeo gives a speech at his lifetime achievement award at the biggest shits in politics awards. 

U.S. forces have committed serious crimes in Iraq: according to Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi, the US Ambassador in Baghdad informed him of Israel’s responsibility for the five attacks against Iraqi security forces in mid-2019 and the drone assassination of a security force commander on the Syrian-Iraqi borders. These Israeli attacks were carried out with the knowledge and permission of US forces in Iraq, who allowed Israel to violate Iraqi air space and kill its security members. That attack made the US – who maintain control over Iraqi air space – an accomplice of Israel in attacking the US host country, Iraq.

In December 2019, the Trump administration committed another crime, disregarding the Iraqi government and killing more Iraqis intentionally and without any legal basis. US jets attacked Iraqi forces’ positions on the borders with Syria, killing and wounding 79 officers and members of the Iraqi Army, the Federal Police and the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) brigades 45 and 46. The US singled out an encampment of the Iraqi Security Forces, who are based on the borders to hunt down ISIS militants moving through the Syrian-Iraqi deserts.

These forces are under the direct command of Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi. The US accused Iraqi soldiers at this encampment of attacking its K1 base 540 km away. The US had no proof that the dozens of officers its Air Forces killed in its subsequent bombing attack had been behind the killing of an Iraqi born US contractor at the K1 base.  The US even refused to provide any evidence of this when requested to do so by the Iraqi Prime Minister prior to the attack.

Thus, already in 2019, the terms of the US mandate in Iraq had been violated. Then the US very recently committed another crime against Iraq by assassinating an Iraqi commander, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes and three Iraqi officers at Baghdad airport. It further showed its contempt for international law by assassinating an Iranian Major General, Sardar Qassem Soleimani, and four Iranian officers (Brigadier General Hossein PourJafari, Colonel Shahroud Mozaffarinia, Major Hadi Taremi, and Captain Vahid Zamanian) even though the US had not declared war on Iran. Trump boasted provocatively about the assassination, bragging about “killing two for the price of one”.

Further evidence of US contempt for diplomatic protocol was provided by Prime Minister Abdel Mahdi, when he declared that President Trump had phoned him to ask his mediation to de-escalate tension with Iran. Abdel Mahdi said that “Soleimani arrived in Iraq at my request to receive a response from Saudi Arabia to Iran’s peace initiative. Trump killed a foreign officer on a territory he is supposed to protect and an envoy of peace who landed at the request of the Prime Minister”. But that is not all: it was public knowledge, as announced by Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari (11 June 2016), that Soleimani enjoys immunity in Iraq as an advisor – at the official request of Iraq – to fight ISIS.

It is inaccurate to say “Soleimani was plotting against US citizens just as he had done for years”. President Trump and his administration provided no evidence for such a claim. warmongering politicians and academics recall only the US occupation of Iraq and the support of Soleimani for the Iraqi resistance, accusing Soleimani of “having the blood of US soldiers on his hands during the US military occupation of Iraq”.

However, “the Security Council has not explicitly condemned attacks upon coalition forces—that would undercut the inherent right of self-defence against foreign invasion and occupation.” It is argued that “the invasion of Iraq was an illegal act (war)of aggression, and that those responsible for it are war criminals” (Mandel, 2004: McGoldrick, 2004).

Therefore, armed resistance against the occupation forces in Iraq at that time was entirely legitimate. The response of resistance, and its consequences for the US-led occupation forces, who in 2003 acknowledged their status as an occupation force, cannot be called an act of terrorism. Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani cannot be responsible for crimes against an occupier who never found the “Weapons of Mass Destruction” that it had used as a pretext for invasion. The US invaded Iraq with no legal basis, causing mass destruction to the Iraqi population and the country’s infrastructure, killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

We have now learned from the horse’s mouth why Trump killed Soleimani: the Iranian Major General was “saying bad things” about the US. “How much of this shit do we have to listen to? How much are we going to listen to?” Trump told his donors.

The US continues to allow Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to violate Iraqi airspace by permitting Israeli jets to bomb Syria from the Iraqi-Syrian borders occupied by the US forces at al-Tanf. Officials in Baghdad said “the US forces have no respect for their agreement with Iraq. For some time now, they have been behaving like an occupation force. This is not the first time this has happened. We inform Syria about it every time this takes place”.

The many crimes committed by the US in the Middle East, its violations of international law, and Iraqi sovereignty, in particular, did not begin with President Trump. But Trump and his team took things to a new level in 2018 when he renounced the nuclear deal known as the JCPOA that is part of UNSC resolution 2231. He didn’t like it because it was “ Barack Obama’s agreement”. Trump thus made the Middle East even more unstable and has brought the region to the brink of war. As he insists on keeping US forces in Iraq, he will one day soon have to explain to Americans why in the face of local resistance to the US occupation US soldiers are dying.

https://ejmagnier.com/2020/01/22/immediate-us-withdrawal-due-to-its-violation-of-the-agreement-and-iraq-sovereignty/

And finally since Pompeo is stealing his thunder, lets pay homage to the real king of lies and sincerety that makes the scene in 8mm where Nicholas Cage discovers the disturbing footage seem believable. 

https://dwahts.blogspot.com/2020/01/benjamin-nethanyahu-lying-psycopathic.html?m=1

How the Romans perfected Divide and Rule with the first known PsyOp: Christianity.

 

I have received a bit of feedback on various forums regarding disbelief as to the scope and extent of the "divide and rule / divide and conquer" strategy used to both build empire and socially engineer home societies. I use that term as a generic reference for all the precedent strategies leading to the school of thought that advocates modern globalisation as an engineered process designed to centralise the operational functionality and concentrate influence/ wealth in the hands of special interests. In this context history must be viewed in terms of financial transaction and detective work centered around re-evaluating motives around who stood to gain what.

As a reminder, this globalist engineered society reveals maliceand misdirection as standard practice when special interests seek to influence the playing field outside the purview of democratically elected representative government.  this myth has governent accountable to public oversight, these power structures are an illusion, reality stands in stark contrast to the global village school of thought which perceives large multinational conglomerates, complex shareholder arrangements, mergers, acquisitions, share buybacks, boom and bust cycles and technocracy as the way humans react organically to a world being made smaller by technology. Using this cognitively aware perspective, a self understood "confirmation bias" is implicitly called for when reevaluating conventional wisdom. Once done we should then set about falsifying our own interpretation which realistically factors in human nature. It is from that perspective that history must be rejected even last weeks history in the form of the TV news, where ideological reasoning, overthrow of "brutal dictators", reasons for fighting wars, role of religion, partisanship and ethnic strife must be rejected as a matter of policy owing to unforgivable naivety.

Whether it's the  Arab Spring, Vietnam, The First World War, The Russian Revolution, the Crusades, The Inquisitions, The Imperial wars of Rome, The Peloponesion Wars or the Conquests of Alexander The Great it matters not. The historical accounts must always be considered to have been sanitised as some or other form of propaganda or spin in need of a critical eye. It is on this basis that I do not spend time squabbling with the one-eyed kings in the land of the blind, those trained or educated formally by tertiary educational institutions in the Neoliberal Globalist institutions. If I wanted the wrong, establishment sanctioned account of how we ended up in such a mess I would simply consult the Encyclopedia Britannica or even Wikipedia. I refer to this post, which must be read to appreciate this follow up:

https://dwahts.blogspot.com/2018/06/how-to-defeat-most-effective-social.html This is a must read!

The biggest point of contest I encounter is the fact that this strategy is not presented as such a package in either mainstream quick-check sources (Wikipedia) or in the involved courses of history as taught in the Neoliberal, globalist captured universities of today.  Well, I have news for those that simply accept narratives and resist postponing understanding until the story makes sense commensurate with our understanding of human nature... and the old adage "money makes the world go [a]round".

Broaden your gaze, you will not get it spelled out for you in such a fashion and you cannot rely on such conclusions being spoon-fed to you. History, much of science, economics and many other things are taught in narratives.  That is PRECISELY what got us into this mess. If manufacturing consent were not an agenda these subjects would not each cotemporary consensus, they would present competing hypothesis to students and allow them to major WITHIN a subject and still graduate by allowing a reasonable variance of divergent interpretation instead of conflating successful grades with how closely ones knowledge conforms with the narrative of the status quo. This is logical apart from anything else because we all know consensus is ultimately overturned 100% of the time.

Narratives include historical narratives including the history of art and specialist studies centered around motive, Egyptology, theoretical physics and all publically funded sciences and political science, economics and even philosophy and psychology.

This would not include historically verifiable source documents or archaeological evidence (which must always be subject to review with new methods and technology). It would obviously not include languages, mathematics and science or technical studies based on engineering or industry which are self correcting by the self evident premise that faulty design does not produce results. In other words:

• Cars internal combustion engines work to highly specified standards stemming from principles of thermodynamics and chemistry.
• The power grid is functional thanks to electrical engineering stemming from Maxwell's Equations, the work of Faraday, Gauss, Tesla and others
• Planes fly, probes explore mars and the outer solar system and rocket capsules reach the moon based on aeronaughtical engineering, orbital mechanics and classical mechanics dating back to the classical physics of Newton and Galileo.
•  You are reading this on a functional device, its therefore not feasible to teach a competing hypothesis that doesn't work unless it somehow adds value to know where and why past thinking produced which dead ends, possibly with a view to revive old ideas with new perspectives.

Examples of historical resources from different angles: 

https://www.jesusneverexisted.com/

It is very likely that these tactics go back much further and the elites behind them (or just the tactics themselves) hop from empire to empire. They hopped from the version of Rome they modelled on the ancient Greeks and stole from the Etruscan's,  to the Christian Rome, the Byzantine, or Holy Roman Empire.  Far earlier than that the mysterious figure of Phillip II of Macedonia is the earliest modern globalist I can trace, with his League of Corinth. His son Alexander (The Great) great surely had the quickest success in a world not yet ready to resist such a nuanced and multifaceted assault. The financial tricks were likely developed fully when Alexander made it to Babylon.  This would become "Babylonian money magic" somewhat related to usury, or the "money renting" practised by the Knights Templar.  The financial aspect is vital and I cover it in depth here in this post.  Ultimately it translates more into a globalist tool against sovereign entities through deficit spending, starting in the temples, the Mints and now central banks.

The history of Macedonia before Phillip II and Alexander The Great. 

The supranational and supernational diplomatic genius of Philip II of Macedonia was ahead of any of the other civilational powers of the time, along with his much more sophisticated use of military. 

 Elsewhere Genghis Khan would a thousand years later rule supreme, possibly (and this is not well known) the richest man in history, with yet another form of globalism/ empire more similar outwardly to Alexander than the Romans. Yet Philip prepared Alexander, who preparwd Ghengis? The Mongols were who exactly?  The only other empire to have been officially larger, the British Empire, seemed vastly different. 

In reality these empires were more similar fundamentally than represented purely on the basis of concentrating wealth and power. This is accomplished by demanding men for armies, having the colonisation logistics and militaries used for plunder financed by the same people exploited in its sevice or vitims of its conquests or obligatory tribute and slavery. What differs is how it represented. Is it open conquest, declared in the name of the Crown/ nationalism etc? Or ... or is it a secretive empire like the empire of today'.

How the tactics of empire formed the Mongol Horde is the begining days. 

All 3 of these approaches were, however, already combined by the time the Roman empire practised it not too after Alexander but before the Mongol Horde. What relics of Rome were spread far and wide Before a shadowy cult (The Imperial Cult) hijacked Rome they were a republic, but a republic has its military focused on defence.  An Empire is much better to focus on conquest to support the imperial system (now globalism is starting to resemble this). They were a new kind of king suited for multiple conquest lands rather than just one, an emperor, and ruled supreme (or at least those behind these figureheads did) .

Back to the Romans
 In terms of actual evidence we are left scratching our heads. Titus Flavian set the time of Jesus to the previous dynasty 40 years earlier to allow for prophecy to be fulfilled, which he was doing, such as destroying the temple and then destroyed all other competing texts. That is why the dead sea scrolls are so important, they were hidden when the Romans took back Roman Palestine from the Rebellion, the only example of writings from the time. 

Not too much later in history the Vatican sought control over most sovereign nations and this then persisted with the Knights Templar and the Jesuits.  The globalist versus sovereign struggle is almost as old as civilization itself.  This is as clear as it can possibly get but history can NEVER reflect this narrative since the interests behind it are still in operation today.  The Vatican has deleted so much of our history that it should count as a crime against humanity.  I suspect that much of this evidence is still partly recoverable, hidden somewhere in the Vatican or in the vaults the very highest echelons of today's elite. This may even explain the extensive fraud permeating archaeology and Egyptology today although that is just speculation.

The roman Psychological Operation to invent Jesus for purposes of divide and conquer over the Jews in Judea / Roman Palestine would later be used domestically by Constantine who would turn the cross into an upside sword and use it for divide and rule at home and for empire building.  The Romans were ruthless and effective at this and no trace of similar operations or societies survives as they obliterated Carthage (spawned by the trade of the Phoenicians , modern day Tunisia but they had a trade-based empire all over the Mediterranean basin and had to go).  They also obliterated the Greek City State of Corinth, where globalization was possibly born under Phillips ll, and left no record whatsoever of the Druids of England.  Under Titus Flavian they had similar success in some ways in Palestine, massacaring the Jews mercilessly as punishment for an earlier rebelian. They waited until passover and committed the attack, destroying the temple and fulfilling a backdated prophesy. Titus had Josephus, one of the Jewish rebellion leaders and now a turncoat, along with the Herods and the Alexanders write and set the books of the New Testament. In the end giving rise to both Christianity and Rabinical Judaism which is another story. 

Later empires swallowed what is left of the original Hebrews and Israelite's of the bible, such as the Assyrians invading Sumer in the north and the 10 lost tribes. The Romans took one hundred thousand slaves from Jerusalem. The only Jews left are the later European converts from the Ottoman Turkish regions and the steppes of Russia where the descendants were not from the Tribe of Judah.  These groups make up the largely European/Eurasian descended Ashkenazi population of Israel today.  

They took the first great agricultural societies farming myth based on the rising of the sun, the months of the year, the zodiac and the seasons which had become anthropomorphized into a literal story by dozens of societies who already had a Christ figure rising from the dead for purposes of redemption. There was no actual person called Jesus, history only reflects certain Christ like cult leaders, of which there were many. Here is comprehensive evidence of this archetypal myth.

Caesars Messiah

The Flavian dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 AD and 96 AD, encompassing the reigns of Vespasian (69–79), and his two sons Titus (79–81) and Domitian (81–96). The Flavians rose to power during the civil war of 69, known as the Year of the Four Emperors. 

The creators of this PsyOp were the Flavians, who filled out the the core structure of the above myth, which would have made a lousy PsyOp, with all the finer points of a brilliant psychological manipulation as well as the narcissism of a Caesar and the drama and construct of great theater.

Rod Blackhirst, PhD, analyst of the Flavian/Jesus connection using the lens of modern geopolitics and realpolitik.

Here is an excellent documentary which I was delighted to find, and never knew existed until this week. Surprisingly, it uses more traditional forms of historical interpretation yet it affirms everything I have come to suspect and more. Claims it has been "debunked" are weak  and ignore the obvious impossibility of wholesale narrative rejection. Its well worth the watch.  Since it is over an hour long I will post the YouTube link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmEScIUcvz0

The Roman destruction of Carthage: An Insight into the Roman origins based around a suspiciously fast rise around its shadowy cults and merchant geneses of today's multinationals.

The Collapse of the Roman Empire was a controlled destruction based around deficit spending, just as is being done by globalists today who have not changed strategy.

https://dwahts.blogspot.com/2018/11/empires-only-collapse-for-one-reason.html

Sources/Citations

Historical Context

Caesars Timeline

27 BCE - 14 CE

• Reign of Augustus Caesar. Athens and the Agora restored.
• 18 Sep 14 CE - 16 Mar 37 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Tiberius.
• 18 Mar 37 CE - 24 Jan 41 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Caligula.
• 25 Jan 41 CE - 13 Oct 54 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Claudius.
• 13 Oct 54 CE - 11 Jun 68 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Nero.
• 68 CE - 69 CE

  Year of the Four Emperors: Civil war in Rome.
• 8 Jun 68 CE - 15 Jan 69 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Galba.
• 15 Jan 69 CE - 16 Apr 69 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Otho.
• 17 Apr 69 CE - 20 Dec 69 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Vitellius.
• 26 Dec 69 CE - 23 Jun 79 CE

  Reign of Roman emperor Vespasian.
• 24 Jun 79 CE - 13 Sep 81 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Titus.
• 14 Sep 81 CE - 18 Sep 96 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Domitian.
• 18 Sep 96 CE - 27 Jan 98 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Nerva.
• 28 Jan 98 CE - 7 Aug 117 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Trajan.
• 11 Aug 117 CE - 10 Jul 138 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Hadrian.
• 10 Jul 138 CE - 7 Mar 161 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Antonius Pius.
• 10 Jul 138 CE - 9 Mar 161 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius.
• 7 Mar 161 CE - 17 Mar 180 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
• 9 Mar 161 CE - Mar 169 CE

  Marcus Aurelius rules with Lucius Verus.
• Mar 169 CE - 177 CE

  Marcus Aurelius rules alone.
• 177 CE - 17 Mar 180 CE

  Marcus Aurelius rules with Commodus.
• 17 Mar 180 CE - 31 Dec 192 CE

  Commodus rules alone.
• 9 Apr 193 CE - 4 Feb 211 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus.
• 1 Jan 193 CE - 28 Mar 193 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Pertinax.
• 28 Mar 193 CE - 1 Jun 193 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Didius Julianus.
• 198 CE - 209 CE

  Reign of Caracalla with his father Septimius Severus.
• 209 CE - Dec 211 CE

  Reign of Caracalla with his father Septimius Severus and his brother Geta (Feb - Dec 211 only with Geta).
• 209 CE - 26 Dec 211 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Geta.
• Dec 211 CE - 8 Apr 217 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Caracalla.
• 11 Apr 217 CE - 8 Jun 218 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperors Macrinus with his son Diadumenian.
• 8 Jun 218 CE - 11 Mar 222 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Elagabalus.
• 13 Mar 222 CE - 18 Mar 235 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Severus Alexander.
• Mar 235 CE - May 238 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Maximinus Thrax.
• 22 Mar 238 CE - 12 Apr 238 CE

  Reign of Gordian I and Gordian II in Rome.
• 238 CE - 244 CE

  Reign of Gordian III in Rome.
• 244 CE - 249 CE

  Reign of Philip the Arab in Rome.
• 22 Dec 245 CE

  Birth of Emperor Diocletian.
• 249 CE - 251 CE

  Reign of Decius in Rome.
• 253 CE - 260 CE

  Reign of Roman emperor Valerian with his son Gallienus as co-emperor.
• 253 CE

  Reign of Aemilianus in Rome.
• 253 CE - 268 CE

  Reign of Gallienus in Rome.
• Sep 270 CE - c. Sep 275 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Aurelian.
• 284 CE - 305 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Diocletian.
• 306 CE - 337 CE

  Reign of Roman Emperor Constantine I.
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*Source Material where possible has been located if presented with enough freedom from narrative baggage) in the form of easily digestible and widely accessible multimedia and embedded in my synopsis above at that point where it lends itself to context. This is not always possible so here are the most important sources to scrutinise when assessing my angles and conclusions:

 

Tragedy and Hope Carol Quigly

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au Archived 25 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine

^ “Dell’arte della guerra: testo – IntraText CT”. intratext.com.

“Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews, Book I, section 159”. Perseus Project. Retrieved 27 August2011.

“Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 7, section 1”. Perseus Project. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

“Constitutional Government: James Madison to Thomas Jefferson”. Press-pubs.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

“The Federalist #10”. constitution.org.

“Immanuel Kant: Perpetual Peace: Appendix I”. Constitution.org. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

Kant: Political Writings, H.S. Reiss, 2013

Hall J It’s You and Me Baby: Narcissist Head Games The Narcissist Family Files 27 Mar 2017

Ilia Xypolia. ‘Divide et Impera: Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of British Imperialism’. Critique: journal of socialist theory, vol 44, no. 3, pp. 221-231, 2016. P. 221.

Boddy, C. R. Corporate Psychopaths: Organizational Destroyers (2011)

“HISTORY OF NIGERIA”. historyworld.net.

BUELL, PAUL D. (1979). “SINO-KHITAN ADMINISTRATION IN MONGOL BUKHARA”. Journal of Asian History. Harrassowitz Verlag. 13 (2): 137–8. JSTOR 41930343.

Shashi Tharoor – Inglorious Empire What the British Did to India

Jon Wilson, 2016, India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the chaos of empire, cited in a review of Tharoor’s work by Elizabeth Buettner in “Debt of Honour: why the European impact on India must be fully acknowledged”, Times Literary Supplement, August 11, 2017, pages 13-14.

Markandey Katju. “The truth about Pakistan”. The Nation. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2019.

Pernin, Christopher G.; et al. (2008). “Unfolding the Future of the Long War” (PDF). US Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Army Capability Integration Center – via RAND Arroyo.

“The Pentagon plan to ‘divide and rule’ the Muslim world”. Middle East Eye. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

“France: The Roman conquest”. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 6 April 2015. Because of chronic internal rivalries, Gallic resistance was easily broken, though Vercingetorix’s Great Rebellion of 52 bce had notable successes.

“Julius Caesar: The first triumvirate and the conquest of Gaul”. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 15 February 2015. Indeed, the Gallic cavalry was probably superior to the Roman, horseman for horseman. Rome’s military superiority lay in its mastery of strategy, tactics, discipline, and military engineering. In Gaul, Rome also had the advantage of being able to deal separately with dozens of relatively small, independent, and uncooperative states. Caesar conquered these piecemeal, and the concerted attempt made by a number of them in 52 bce to shake off the Roman yoke came too late.

Grob-Fitzgibbon, Benjamin (2011). Imperial Endgame: Britain’s Dirty Wars and the End of Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 285.

Jordan, Preston Lim (2018). The Evolution of British Counter-Insurgency during the Cyprus Revolt, 1955–1959. Springer. p. 58.

“International Justice: The Case of Cyprus”. Washington, D.C.: The HuffPost. Retrieved 1 November2017.