Excellent commentary on Syria

Eric Draitser and Mark Sleboda appear together with Don de Bar in some of the best, up-to-date commentary on Russia’s campaign in Syria, the American reactions and the geopolitics of the situation.

One of the big take-aways of this conversation was just how much Russia has achieved with a small contingent and with one-tenth of the expenditure of the United States. Russia has been able, not only to test its high-tech weaponry but send a clear message to Washington which is in as much a sense of shock as when the Soviet Union launched its first Sputnik.

It seems that the United States is making a transition to a position where they are giving overt support to al-Qaeda-affliliated jihadists, something suggested openly by David Petraeus a short time ago.

While Russia’s bombing has been (up-to-now) precise and aimed at avoiding the civilian population and targets such as mosques the US has managed to bomb a hospital in Afghanistan, bomb electricity infrastructure in Syria and carry out airdrops to terrrorist groups in Northern Syria.

The Empire is revealing itself to all but the most blind.

Russia in Syria, US Geopolitical Countermoves, and the Reality of the Deep State

Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on CPR Sunday (October 18, 2015) with security analyst Mark Sleboda and journalist/broadcaster Don DeBar. Eric, Mark and Don discuss the war in Syria: shifting propaganda, US intentions, Russia's moves, and the international significance of Moscow's mission. They also examine how the US is responding to the changing situation in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Obama's announcement that US troops will remain in Afghanistan. The conversation also touches on the nature of the deep state, what it actually looks like, and how it functions. All this and much more in this far-reaching conversation.

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