It’s time that Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russia and put this out on the line. Direct your forces to destroy the Islamic State in Syria and we’ll hold off on attacking Assad’s regime. When IS is done we can/will negotiate on the future of Syria and Assad. It’s totally ridiculous that we find our selves in a face off in another small country when we actually do have a common adversary.
2 thoughts on “Syria, Islamic State and Russia”
Comments are closed.
I see this as more about Putin’s problems internally in Russia with an economy that is struggling given oil revenue downturns. This is a royal mess in Syria and Putin does have a stronger hand to play now that he has decided to act. I agree Putin should direct forces to smash IS but his first aim is to secure Assad a stronger hand. The only thing we differ on is allowing Assad a future in a nation that he barrel-bombed..And a place where his troops used chemical weapons. Then when we did not follow our own threat of action if those chemical weapons were used—and now we are were we are.
First off, no one can pin the use of chemical weapons you mention on Assad and there were indications of CIA backed rebel factions (initially backed to oust Assad, who then morphed into various rebel groups one eventually emerging as ISIS) were involved in false-flag operations to pin the supposed chemical weapon use on Assad 2-3 years ago. I lose track of the exact time line.
Not attempting to defend Assad, but just as the US (Nuland, McCain, Biden et.al.) initially helped mobilize the neo-nazi Ukrainian rebels, to the tune of $5B, to disrupt Russian family-relational and sympathetic Ukrainians, threatening Russia with further NATO expansion for “Western,” corporate control of natural resources (agriculture, Monsanto) in the Ukraine and to control/protect/profit from gas supplies to Eastern Europe, there is much more going on here than meets the eye through present day tragedy.
Much of the US long term plans within today’s picture of “relationships,” with Russia stems from world financial lords protecting the US dollar as fiat currency for world trade. (See BRICS) Corporate media isn’t providing the whole story, only their owner’s story. Who’da guessed?