Russian Foreign Ministry hints at establishing a federal republic in Syria
The Russian Federation’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson indicated on Monday that the Syrian Arab Republic could turn into a federal republic after the war concludes.
More importantly, this federal republic would be ideal for the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (YPG), who seeks domestic autonomy over the areas they govern, but not from Syria itself.
Hezbollah commander’s body has been retrieved in southeast Aleppo By Leith Fadel –
Last week, rumors began to spread across Lebanon that one of Hezbollah’s top field commanders was killed during the battle for Khanasser in southeastern Aleppo.
These rumors went from “confirmed” to “unconfirmed” in a matter of hours, as the fate of ‘Ali Fayyadh (AKA “Alaa Al-Bosnia”) was debated by both supporters and opponents of Hezbollah.
Among the rumors that were swirling around Lebanon and Syria was the alleged capture of ‘Ali Fayyadh by the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS); these rumors were denied by pro-Hezbollah outlets, but spread by their opponents.
On Monday morning, the Syrian Arab Army’s “Tiger Forces” and Hezbollah put these rumors to rest when they retrieved the body of ‘Ali Fayyadh and the bodies of several other Syrian soldiers that were killed at the battle for Al-Hammam in southern Khanasser.
Hezbollah media relations confirmed that the body of ‘Ali Fayyadh was in their possession and being returned to his hometown for a proper burial.
Bashar Assad’s family is Alawite, a Muslim sect widely perceived as aligned with the Shiite camp. “Bashar Assad was never supposed to be president,” journalist Seymour Hersh told me in an interview. “His father brought him back from medical school in London when his elder brother, the heir apparent, was killed in a car crash.” Before the war started, according to Hersh, Assad was moving to liberalize the country. “They had internet and newspapers and ATM machines and Assad wanted to move toward the west. After 9/11, he gave thousands of invaluable files to the CIA on jihadist radicals, who he considered a mutual enemy.” Assad’s regime was deliberately secular and Syria was impressively diverse. The Syrian government and military, for example, were 80 percent Sunni. Assad maintained peace among his diverse peoples by a strong, disciplined army loyal to the Assad family, an allegiance secured by a nationally esteemed and highly paid officer corps, a coldly efficient intelligence apparatus and a penchant for brutality that, prior to the war, was rather moderate compared to those of other Mideast leaders, including our current allies. According to Hersh, “He certainly wasn’t beheading people every Wednesday like the Saudis do in Mecca.”
On September 4, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry told a congressional hearing that the Sunni kingdoms had offered to foot the bill for a U.S. invasion of Syria to oust Bashar Assad. “In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing, the way we’ve done it previously in other places [Iraq], they’ll carry the cost.” Kerry reiterated the offer to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.): “With respect to Arab countries offering to bear the costs of [an American invasion] to topple Assad, the answer is profoundly yes, they have. The offer is on the table.”
Saudi intelligence documents, published by WikiLeaks, show that by 2012, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia were arming, training and funding radical jihadist Sunni fighters from Syria, Iraq and elsewhere to overthrow the Assad’s Shiite-allied regime. Qatar, which had the most to gain, invested $3 billion in building the insurgency and invited the Pentagon to train insurgents at U.S. bases in Qatar. According to an April 2014 article by Seymour Hersh, the CIA weapons ratlines were financed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
These are intelligent, informed and realistic pundits but I get tired of the talk and impatient for some unknown reason.
The rhetoric seems stuck in some kind of repeat mode. I think it’s useful and necessary but not very fulfilling for me.
I miss something that has more juice and spirit in it, without resorting to “hurrah patriotism” or copy-cat westernism in an eastern flavor. Nor do I want speculative conspiritorialism.
I’d like to just love Russia and wash the mental chatter off the plate.
Russia is a land of love, fertilized with its own blood. In recent centuries it has survived Napoleon and Hitler, fronts for the same powers that failed twice using symmetrical warfare.
The third try is asymmetrical and proxified. It makes me sick to think about it but think about it I must.
The hatred aroused by Russian love is symmetrical and unfettered. The asymmetrical tricks are fettered to make Russia hate its own love in favor of loving something else.
Russian love is linked to its land base which is massive and energized by North magnetism. The US drives a wedge between the inseparable bond between land and people.
Far from being a mother hen brooding over the earth from a northern perch in the mode of a mother saker overlooking her vineyard, the US is a sandwich between Canada and Mexico with a stolen bit of Russia to the NW and a limp penisula to the SE. Sakervilla excepted. It’s humiliating and hence the land-groomed hatred and jealousy.
Russia is reluctant to kick out the land thieves for fear of losing the western eye-candy bag. And so it’s left holding the bag after the mirage dissipates.
Russian land is common to all but it’s easy to forget when you live in high rises and palaces. To his credit Putin said he would not mind moving back into a commoner apartment. It’s a step in the direction of having your own cottage on land that is held in common.
Unless this gut feeling for land can be kept or restored, I fear the consequences. Of course getting from here to there without going off course needs a nation of putins.
I’m lucky to be able to rent a piece of land in the country where I literally carry water and chop wood. I sleep outside under the stars, moon, satellites and planets where they make their sad pilgrimage to the western edge. Actually I’m turning to the east to greet the stationary sun. There’s a lesson in there somewhere about directional politics.
Anyway late in life the land is giving me a refresher course in Russian landology. Whether Russia slips into the western sea or stands tall to meet the eastern sunstar is critical to my mental health. I’ll die with a smile if I know Russia has proved to be a faithful lover to her land.
I started by observing that the crosstalk talk is intelligent but lacking in Russian idiomatics. I’m Irish by blood and Russian by love. My grandfather was born in a thatched roof one room stone house on land also fertilized by blood. He came to the US at ten, cattle-prodded out by the preceding empire. I got the feel of Russian land love from him.
I could cry over the westernization of Russia which strangely is carried forward by the language of political correctness. I stand to be corrected but somehow my feet are in touch with the ground even as I sit above it.
One of the poorer S.american countries, who’s president sold his car for like 100k so he could donate it to a good cause and he lives with chickens and rides a bike to work.. So not all of high office live in an opulent lifestyle on a ranch with a million cows and mansion cum bomb shelter and heart pace/dialysis machine with 200 rooms with autonomous guns to shoot anyone who disagrees..
erdo is only an extreme version of this office.. he is just too greedy and opportunistic.. problem is he being a gangster only knows how to take things by force. Usually this is done by coercion and threats. Very few get into office to improve things for others. that’s human nature.. But once you start openly offing your opponents, its time to take them out of power before they start a war that would kill millions. And as we know, many times the wars these guys start have nothing to do with anyone else besides themselves. Like the guy who started WW1 and killed so many just wanted to show his manhood to impress all the ladies and even after he was fired he was pissed they did not give him another million men to slaughter because if only. And his biggest achievement besides getting all those people killed were the paper cut he wrote about.. his war injury..
drawn and quartered was there for a reason.. but that is just too kind..
Good show. Gilbert Doctorow was a top-notch guest.
There was something very important said by Dimitry there, and this is the first time I hear him say that, I’m paraphrasing, he said that the current Russian elite, unlike the Soviet one, are still under the impression that they can “negotiate” with the West. To me it sounds like even an eternal optimist such as Dimitry (bless him, nothing wrong with being an optimist) is starting to come around and admit the blatantly obvious.
Well, there you go! That’s why this idiotic term “partners” is not being dropped as it should have been, despite all the anti-Russia openly belligerent rhetoric coming for the Yanks & Co.
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In other news…
I see the Russian are also enjoying the delights “multicultural” enrichment brings…
[btw, I’m starting to get sick and tired of RT Political Correctness. “Woman in black“? Seriously RT?????!!!!]
Poor sweet little girl. Once again vulnerable females are the main target of these sub-humans.
The only comfort I can take is that I hear the Russian are not too keen on Human Rights when it comes to despicable filth like this. This vile creature will get her just deserts sooner or later in Russia.
Because if this happened in Europe, they would give her immunity, citing religious-freedom of expression or some nonsense like that, they’ll give a five star accommodation and free cash for life to help her get over the trauma of being forced to behead an innocent child.
I noticed the same thing in Babich’s statement. And also think it was “very” important. It says a great amount. Even with all that has happened over these last years. Still the Russian elite will not wake up.I really don’t know what its going to take to change that. But I have the idea that very soon either the current Russian elite must change their minds. Or that elite will need to be changed instead.Its coming to the point that they will be the only choices available.Its seems like that is a common theme in Russia’s history.The elites become to concerned with their positions and relationships with their enemies. And as soon as the common Russian population understand that. They replace that elite. And the cycle starts all over again. But at least there is a period in-between when the new elite works more for Russia than for themselves.
On another note,the other day was around the 3rd or 4th time an “accident” happened after Russians win an international contest. And “someone accidentally” messes up the award ceremony. They either “accidentally” put up the wrong flag,or have it upside down. Or they “accidentally” play the wrong anthem. All by “pure accident” of course. The latest was in South Korea where they played the US anthem instead of Russia’s at an award for a sports event. I think “accidents” like that should be considered Russophobic actions and not “accidents”. And the next time it happens Russians in the team or crowd should “accidentally” beat the living daylights out of the people doing that. As I keep saying an “object lesson” is the best preventative for Russophobia being shown. Some might argue that that would prove the Russophobes correct for hating Russia. But that argument is worthless. Whether Russia does anything or not the Russophobes act the same. It reminds me of a Hungarian talking to a Croat general in the 1850’s. The Croats had supported the Austrians in a war against Hungary. After the war was won by Austria. They imposed Germanization on Hungary “and ” Croatia. The Hungarian said,”you got the same punishment for supporting Austria ,as we got for opposing them”. Its the same for Russia. If she does nothing she is attacked.If she does something she is attacked. Its not possible to deal fairly with the West. They have no concept of fair dealing. And Russians should fully understand that,and act accordingly.
“[..] I think “accidents” like that should be considered Russophobic actions and not “accidents”. And the next time it happens Russians in the team or crowd should “accidentally” beat the living daylights out of the people doing that.”
=D You crack me up, Uncle B.
Jokes aside: you’re not wrong though!
“As I keep saying an “object lesson” is the best preventative for Russophobia being shown. Some might argue that that would prove the Russophobes correct for hating Russia. But that argument is worthless. Whether Russia does anything or not the Russophobes act the same [..]”
*Sigh* so very true. It’s bad if they do, bad if they don’t. When our good folks the Russians will get this? I donno… *shakes-head*
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Going back to your concept of “accidents” other nations commit against the Russian Federation… how about this one…
^ Sweet mother of god!!!!
Seriously! You can’t tell me that’s not on purpose! Those guys are supposed to be, pro, or semi-pro musicians! How can anybody get it that WRONG ‘unintentionally’?
I felt so-so sorry on Putin’s behalf there, having to keep a poker-face all the way through…
Unlike him, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have been able to keep my cool.
“Sunni kingdoms had offered to foot the bill for a U.S. invasion of Syria to oust Bashar Assad. “In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing, the way we’ve done it previously in other places [Iraq], they’ll carry the cost.” Kerry reiterated the offer to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.): “With respect to Arab countries offering to bear the costs of [an American invasion] to topple Assad, the answer is profoundly yes, they have. The offer is on the table.”
In other words America acting as a hired gun to the highest bidder but nobody as far as I know, even in the alternate media, picked up on the implications of what John Kerry said back then.
I fully agree with the gentleman from Brussels. We keep hearing an endless litany in western MSM about being in a new “cold war” with Russia, but what we currently have is a situation which is far more dangerous than any we had during the previous cold war, because back then the west still had limits and a healthy respect for the capabilities of the then Soviet Union, because they had capable analysts and genuine Russian experts all of which have now gone. Like the guy from Brussels said we are now in uncharted territory as the west is currently being led by evil corporate morons who are chosen more for their venality and ability to lie than for any intelligence they might display, and the west no longer has any limits to its behaviour and actions as they are carried away by hubris and arrogance and a reliance on extremely mediocre “Russian experts” and “think tank analysts”, which is what I find rather worrying as God only knows what serious miscalculations the evil psychopaths might make next.
They were caught off guard by president Putin´s actions in Crimea, they were again caught off guard by his actions in Syria, these people are hardly the sharpest tools in the tool box. They have gotten so used to beating up on small countries that couldn’t defend themselves and so used to having their own way all these years they don’t know when and how to stop. It is indeed true, those whom the gods wish to destroy they first drive insane.
Russian Foreign Ministry hints at establishing a federal republic in Syria
The Russian Federation’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson indicated on Monday that the Syrian Arab Republic could turn into a federal republic after the war concludes.
More importantly, this federal republic would be ideal for the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (YPG), who seeks domestic autonomy over the areas they govern, but not from Syria itself.
Hezbollah commander’s body has been retrieved in southeast Aleppo By Leith Fadel –
Last week, rumors began to spread across Lebanon that one of Hezbollah’s top field commanders was killed during the battle for Khanasser in southeastern Aleppo.
These rumors went from “confirmed” to “unconfirmed” in a matter of hours, as the fate of ‘Ali Fayyadh (AKA “Alaa Al-Bosnia”) was debated by both supporters and opponents of Hezbollah.
Among the rumors that were swirling around Lebanon and Syria was the alleged capture of ‘Ali Fayyadh by the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS); these rumors were denied by pro-Hezbollah outlets, but spread by their opponents.
On Monday morning, the Syrian Arab Army’s “Tiger Forces” and Hezbollah put these rumors to rest when they retrieved the body of ‘Ali Fayyadh and the bodies of several other Syrian soldiers that were killed at the battle for Al-Hammam in southern Khanasser.
Hezbollah media relations confirmed that the body of ‘Ali Fayyadh was in their possession and being returned to his hometown for a proper burial.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/hezbollah-commanders-body-has-been-retrieved-in-southeast-aleppo/
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Bashar Assad’s family is Alawite, a Muslim sect widely perceived as aligned with the Shiite camp. “Bashar Assad was never supposed to be president,” journalist Seymour Hersh told me in an interview. “His father brought him back from medical school in London when his elder brother, the heir apparent, was killed in a car crash.” Before the war started, according to Hersh, Assad was moving to liberalize the country. “They had internet and newspapers and ATM machines and Assad wanted to move toward the west. After 9/11, he gave thousands of invaluable files to the CIA on jihadist radicals, who he considered a mutual enemy.” Assad’s regime was deliberately secular and Syria was impressively diverse. The Syrian government and military, for example, were 80 percent Sunni. Assad maintained peace among his diverse peoples by a strong, disciplined army loyal to the Assad family, an allegiance secured by a nationally esteemed and highly paid officer corps, a coldly efficient intelligence apparatus and a penchant for brutality that, prior to the war, was rather moderate compared to those of other Mideast leaders, including our current allies. According to Hersh, “He certainly wasn’t beheading people every Wednesday like the Saudis do in Mecca.”
On September 4, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry told a congressional hearing that the Sunni kingdoms had offered to foot the bill for a U.S. invasion of Syria to oust Bashar Assad. “In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing, the way we’ve done it previously in other places [Iraq], they’ll carry the cost.” Kerry reiterated the offer to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.): “With respect to Arab countries offering to bear the costs of [an American invasion] to topple Assad, the answer is profoundly yes, they have. The offer is on the table.”
Saudi intelligence documents, published by WikiLeaks, show that by 2012, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia were arming, training and funding radical jihadist Sunni fighters from Syria, Iraq and elsewhere to overthrow the Assad’s Shiite-allied regime. Qatar, which had the most to gain, invested $3 billion in building the insurgency and invited the Pentagon to train insurgents at U.S. bases in Qatar. According to an April 2014 article by Seymour Hersh, the CIA weapons ratlines were financed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/rfk-jr-why-arabs-dont-trust-america-213601?o=2
Kerry’s behavior is very clear from the above report.. He knows whos paying for his kountry klub membership dues..
bwhahahahahahahhahahahhaa
https://twitter.com/EjmAlrai/status/704288915331665921
These are intelligent, informed and realistic pundits but I get tired of the talk and impatient for some unknown reason.
The rhetoric seems stuck in some kind of repeat mode. I think it’s useful and necessary but not very fulfilling for me.
I miss something that has more juice and spirit in it, without resorting to “hurrah patriotism” or copy-cat westernism in an eastern flavor. Nor do I want speculative conspiritorialism.
I’d like to just love Russia and wash the mental chatter off the plate.
Russia is a land of love, fertilized with its own blood. In recent centuries it has survived Napoleon and Hitler, fronts for the same powers that failed twice using symmetrical warfare.
The third try is asymmetrical and proxified. It makes me sick to think about it but think about it I must.
The hatred aroused by Russian love is symmetrical and unfettered. The asymmetrical tricks are fettered to make Russia hate its own love in favor of loving something else.
Russian love is linked to its land base which is massive and energized by North magnetism. The US drives a wedge between the inseparable bond between land and people.
Far from being a mother hen brooding over the earth from a northern perch in the mode of a mother saker overlooking her vineyard, the US is a sandwich between Canada and Mexico with a stolen bit of Russia to the NW and a limp penisula to the SE. Sakervilla excepted. It’s humiliating and hence the land-groomed hatred and jealousy.
Russia is reluctant to kick out the land thieves for fear of losing the western eye-candy bag. And so it’s left holding the bag after the mirage dissipates.
Russian land is common to all but it’s easy to forget when you live in high rises and palaces. To his credit Putin said he would not mind moving back into a commoner apartment. It’s a step in the direction of having your own cottage on land that is held in common.
Unless this gut feeling for land can be kept or restored, I fear the consequences. Of course getting from here to there without going off course needs a nation of putins.
I’m lucky to be able to rent a piece of land in the country where I literally carry water and chop wood. I sleep outside under the stars, moon, satellites and planets where they make their sad pilgrimage to the western edge. Actually I’m turning to the east to greet the stationary sun. There’s a lesson in there somewhere about directional politics.
Anyway late in life the land is giving me a refresher course in Russian landology. Whether Russia slips into the western sea or stands tall to meet the eastern sunstar is critical to my mental health. I’ll die with a smile if I know Russia has proved to be a faithful lover to her land.
I started by observing that the crosstalk talk is intelligent but lacking in Russian idiomatics. I’m Irish by blood and Russian by love. My grandfather was born in a thatched roof one room stone house on land also fertilized by blood. He came to the US at ten, cattle-prodded out by the preceding empire. I got the feel of Russian land love from him.
I could cry over the westernization of Russia which strangely is carried forward by the language of political correctness. I stand to be corrected but somehow my feet are in touch with the ground even as I sit above it.
One of the poorer S.american countries, who’s president sold his car for like 100k so he could donate it to a good cause and he lives with chickens and rides a bike to work.. So not all of high office live in an opulent lifestyle on a ranch with a million cows and mansion cum bomb shelter and heart pace/dialysis machine with 200 rooms with autonomous guns to shoot anyone who disagrees..
erdo is only an extreme version of this office.. he is just too greedy and opportunistic.. problem is he being a gangster only knows how to take things by force. Usually this is done by coercion and threats. Very few get into office to improve things for others. that’s human nature.. But once you start openly offing your opponents, its time to take them out of power before they start a war that would kill millions. And as we know, many times the wars these guys start have nothing to do with anyone else besides themselves. Like the guy who started WW1 and killed so many just wanted to show his manhood to impress all the ladies and even after he was fired he was pissed they did not give him another million men to slaughter because if only. And his biggest achievement besides getting all those people killed were the paper cut he wrote about.. his war injury..
drawn and quartered was there for a reason.. but that is just too kind..
Hi Saker, what is happening with Kadyrov ? I like to ear what you have to say about it.
Good show. Gilbert Doctorow was a top-notch guest.
There was something very important said by Dimitry there, and this is the first time I hear him say that, I’m paraphrasing, he said that the current Russian elite, unlike the Soviet one, are still under the impression that they can “negotiate” with the West. To me it sounds like even an eternal optimist such as Dimitry (bless him, nothing wrong with being an optimist) is starting to come around and admit the blatantly obvious.
Well, there you go! That’s why this idiotic term “partners” is not being dropped as it should have been, despite all the anti-Russia openly belligerent rhetoric coming for the Yanks & Co.
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In other news…
I see the Russian are also enjoying the delights “multicultural” enrichment brings…
[btw, I’m starting to get sick and tired of RT Political Correctness. “Woman in black“? Seriously RT?????!!!!]
RT – Moscow ‘child beheading’: What we know about the ‘woman in black’
https://www.rt.com/news/334013-moscow-woman-severed-head/
Decapitated in her cot: Horrific details emerge of how burka-clad nanny left child’s body in cot before parading through Moscow streets with little girl’s head
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3469100/Woman-black-burka-holding-child-s-severed-HEAD-shouting-Allahu-Akbar-shuts-metro-station-Moscow.html
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Poor sweet little girl. Once again vulnerable females are the main target of these sub-humans.
The only comfort I can take is that I hear the Russian are not too keen on Human Rights when it comes to despicable filth like this. This vile creature will get her just deserts sooner or later in Russia.
Because if this happened in Europe, they would give her immunity, citing religious-freedom of expression or some nonsense like that, they’ll give a five star accommodation and free cash for life to help her get over the trauma of being forced to behead an innocent child.
-TL2Q
I noticed the same thing in Babich’s statement. And also think it was “very” important. It says a great amount. Even with all that has happened over these last years. Still the Russian elite will not wake up.I really don’t know what its going to take to change that. But I have the idea that very soon either the current Russian elite must change their minds. Or that elite will need to be changed instead.Its coming to the point that they will be the only choices available.Its seems like that is a common theme in Russia’s history.The elites become to concerned with their positions and relationships with their enemies. And as soon as the common Russian population understand that. They replace that elite. And the cycle starts all over again. But at least there is a period in-between when the new elite works more for Russia than for themselves.
On another note,the other day was around the 3rd or 4th time an “accident” happened after Russians win an international contest. And “someone accidentally” messes up the award ceremony. They either “accidentally” put up the wrong flag,or have it upside down. Or they “accidentally” play the wrong anthem. All by “pure accident” of course. The latest was in South Korea where they played the US anthem instead of Russia’s at an award for a sports event. I think “accidents” like that should be considered Russophobic actions and not “accidents”. And the next time it happens Russians in the team or crowd should “accidentally” beat the living daylights out of the people doing that. As I keep saying an “object lesson” is the best preventative for Russophobia being shown. Some might argue that that would prove the Russophobes correct for hating Russia. But that argument is worthless. Whether Russia does anything or not the Russophobes act the same. It reminds me of a Hungarian talking to a Croat general in the 1850’s. The Croats had supported the Austrians in a war against Hungary. After the war was won by Austria. They imposed Germanization on Hungary “and ” Croatia. The Hungarian said,”you got the same punishment for supporting Austria ,as we got for opposing them”. Its the same for Russia. If she does nothing she is attacked.If she does something she is attacked. Its not possible to deal fairly with the West. They have no concept of fair dealing. And Russians should fully understand that,and act accordingly.
@ Uncle Bob 1:
“[..] I think “accidents” like that should be considered Russophobic actions and not “accidents”. And the next time it happens Russians in the team or crowd should “accidentally” beat the living daylights out of the people doing that.”
=D You crack me up, Uncle B.
Jokes aside: you’re not wrong though!
“As I keep saying an “object lesson” is the best preventative for Russophobia being shown. Some might argue that that would prove the Russophobes correct for hating Russia. But that argument is worthless. Whether Russia does anything or not the Russophobes act the same [..]”
*Sigh* so very true. It’s bad if they do, bad if they don’t. When our good folks the Russians will get this? I donno… *shakes-head*
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Going back to your concept of “accidents” other nations commit against the Russian Federation… how about this one…
Egyptian orchestra FAIL | Putin visits Egypt | Russian national anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yHbAhFnfrA
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^ Sweet mother of god!!!!
Seriously! You can’t tell me that’s not on purpose! Those guys are supposed to be, pro, or semi-pro musicians! How can anybody get it that WRONG ‘unintentionally’?
I felt so-so sorry on Putin’s behalf there, having to keep a poker-face all the way through…
Unlike him, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have been able to keep my cool.
-TL2Q
mmriww wrote :
“Sunni kingdoms had offered to foot the bill for a U.S. invasion of Syria to oust Bashar Assad. “In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing, the way we’ve done it previously in other places [Iraq], they’ll carry the cost.” Kerry reiterated the offer to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.): “With respect to Arab countries offering to bear the costs of [an American invasion] to topple Assad, the answer is profoundly yes, they have. The offer is on the table.”
In other words America acting as a hired gun to the highest bidder but nobody as far as I know, even in the alternate media, picked up on the implications of what John Kerry said back then.
I fully agree with the gentleman from Brussels. We keep hearing an endless litany in western MSM about being in a new “cold war” with Russia, but what we currently have is a situation which is far more dangerous than any we had during the previous cold war, because back then the west still had limits and a healthy respect for the capabilities of the then Soviet Union, because they had capable analysts and genuine Russian experts all of which have now gone. Like the guy from Brussels said we are now in uncharted territory as the west is currently being led by evil corporate morons who are chosen more for their venality and ability to lie than for any intelligence they might display, and the west no longer has any limits to its behaviour and actions as they are carried away by hubris and arrogance and a reliance on extremely mediocre “Russian experts” and “think tank analysts”, which is what I find rather worrying as God only knows what serious miscalculations the evil psychopaths might make next.
They were caught off guard by president Putin´s actions in Crimea, they were again caught off guard by his actions in Syria, these people are hardly the sharpest tools in the tool box. They have gotten so used to beating up on small countries that couldn’t defend themselves and so used to having their own way all these years they don’t know when and how to stop. It is indeed true, those whom the gods wish to destroy they first drive insane.