Personal reflections on the Syrian situation

I have been following events quite closely in the Middle East, so when I hear coverage on our local media (when they DO actually deign it important enough t cover) it does my head in. These days western media has come to resemble the Pravda or Radio Moscow of the Cold War.

Today they were saying that Moscow does not have the right to be involved because they suppressed their own internal insurrections (in Chechnya and the Caucausus).

To me the Chechen war says the opposite.

There is no doubt that Moscow was brutally suppressing what some might call a national liberation struggle.  At the time the West did not criticize Moscow overly much because we had our own 'war on Terror' and Putin's suppression of the Chechens was part of that.

But imagine a situation if the West had not only criicised Moscow but called for Putin to stand down and be replaced by a 'democratic' government; not only that but given material assistance to the Chechens.

Well, that is what we are looking at in Syria's case.

In this case the insurrectionists could well be Muslim fundamentalists and 'al-Qaeda' elements.  All of a sudden Qaddafi and Assad are worse than al-Qaeda and Iran was co-ersponsible for 9/11!

One final point. Mike Ruppert seems to have swung from warning of WW111 to optimism.  I am not so sure - is it all rhetoric because the West has been largely outsmarted for the time being - or is there still a real risk of war?  I don't think we are dealing with political realists in the West (unlike in Moscow and Beijing) - anything could happen.  I don't think myself, that the danger has passed yet - precisely BECAUSE of Peak Oil and collapse - this is the ONLY way that TBTB know how to respond.

I can recommend this interview with Pepe Escobar.