Thought Iâd post this in here. A lot has been going on don here of late, and this article sums up the Guradianâs analysis. I wonât comment on that.
What is true is that Iraq WAS the balance in the web down here and the US did drop an almighty clanger.
Now more than anything this part of the world stands to be somewhere to keep an eye on.
What I would say is how much of this stuff has happened SINCE Trump visited Saudi, but no I wonât speculate.
From what I have read neither the US nor Israel are keen on war in Lebanon.
I would be more worried if I was living in Qatar. The crown Prince will want to flex some muscle and having bombed the fuck out of Yemen I reckon the tanks could have a run out in Qatar.
Letâs not forget that Priti Patel had _agreed _to _fund _the _Israeli Defence Force _in occupied terrority, not least because it makes this easier to swallow.
I guess one manâs extremistâ is another manâs freedom fighter. Personally I think we tend to forget that when it comes to Israel in the occupied territories but the mainstream media doesnât like to put it that way.
That article mentions nothing of Russia being in Syria at the request of the legitimate Syrian Government.
Nor of the Western (UK/US/EU) support for terrorist (read moderate) opposition groups.
It mentions the Russian/Assad bombing of Idlib but does not say that it was US forces which supervised the withdrawal of Nusra Front/Al Quaida fighters from Aleppo and elsewhere to Idlib. There is no mention of regime change which is what itâs about.
Which, considering it is from the usually Left leaning Grauniad is odd.
But the final line is still much pretty much the case.
Other tales emerging now from Tunisia about how Regime Change there is failing the population and protests are again spreading.
All around the same time Iâve been asked to prepare a synopsis for a Paper at a high end Academic Uni conference in EU later in the year about conflict. me? Academic? I canât even use a spell checker properly
I have just been reading an account (by Robert Fisk) of the suffering of civilians (and particularly children with various cancers caused by the use of depleted unranium shells) in Iraq.
It paints a pretty bleak picture of how the US and allies sacrificed innocents to promote regime change.
Iâll pop a review in the What are you reading thread sometime but in the meantime, whilst reading about todayâs âself-defenceâ US bombing raid in Syria, I came across this:
Can we include Western governments and the terrorist state(Israel) in that description? These people were small scale, but our western (and terrorist) governments, like the beatles, dealt in millions.
We are the ones that starve and burn innocent women and children on an industrial scale and have been doing since we discovered what they have and we desperately need, to keep our unsustainable, ecosystem destroying lives, in the deluded bubble we presently live in. Syria(all for a pipeline) and Yemen are hideous cases, but then look at Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya(what was the real reason behind that one?), Palestine(whatâs left) and particularly for me, Gaza(whatâs abundant just off the coast line?).
The whole western system is a lesson in total addiction to murder and destruction(as long as itâs not on our doorstep), so addictive that we canât even start to think about the change(scientifically proven beyond doubt) thatâs coming whether we like it or not, so we keep on burning women, children and life itself, all because we like the easy life and are too conceited to admit whatâs inevitably coming to our own doorstep.
Indeed. Just study the Gulf war (the real Gulf war, the one between Iraq and Iran 80-89 ish).
A war in which the US + alllies supported Saddam against Iran. Sold him billions of dollars/pounds of weaponsâŚ
A war in which Saddam invaded Iran. Used chemicals (bought from Germany) against Iranians . Flew French Mirage jets targetted by US battlefield satellite intelligence.
We have no moral high ground in the middle east or anywhere else.