October 11, 2016
By Oliver Bullough
...Otherwise, (click here) the picture is broadly the same. Mr. Putin knows now, like he
knew then, that he and his proxies can’t win on the ground, so they are
trying to solve their problem from the air. Where infantry won’t go,
he’s dropping explosives....
If there have to be bombs to solve the civil war in Syria, it best is done by Russia which can discern a hospital from other buildings and has a budget for bombs and not chlorine.
No one actually believes this is an unjust war, do they? A civil war sparked by the renegade Deash militia that wanted a caliphate. One might ask Europe what they really believe about Russia's role in Syria.
There is an entry on this blog; the date I am unsure of; when the American neocons lead by "W" wanted to bomb Syria, too. Damascus then had a population of 2 million people.
Don't preach what you don't know and there are dearly few Westerners that look at Syria honestly for the outcome of ultimate stability.
Most often The West is smiled on for ending WWII. The war was nearly lost and it wasn't The West that secured the initial final blow.
... Those of us who visited the city afterward were stunned by the
destruction. It had become acres of shattered buildings, scrunched
factories and shredded fences. Today some suggest — as Russia has done
in the last week — that Western states are just as bad. But they
aren’t. They can’t be: Any Western government that did what Mr. Putin
did to Grozny, or is doing to Aleppo, would fall, and would deserve to....
Baghdad, Iraq still has layer after layer of blast walls. The only difference between Western aggression and Russian aggression are those making the film for the nightly news.
