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Russia's Propaganda Blitzkrieg
The Finns should have gotten a laugh out of that photo. That's a Finnish Tikka he's holding. When Vladimir Putin spoke before the UN General Assembly last week, he proclaimed the need for an international coalition to destroy ISIS. But when Putin then went to war in Syria, his fighter jets began by rocketing everyone opposed to the regime of Bashar al-Assad except ISIS. At a superficial level, this discrepancy is explained by Moscow as follows: There is no such thing as a moderate opposition in Syria and that includes the U.S.-backed rebels. In fact, as Putin darkly insinuated at the General Assembly, ISIS was "initially forged as a tool against undesirable secular regimes," and the unnamed smith here was not terribly hard to discern. The jihadist army rampaging through the Middle East was therefore America's Frankenstein monster and it was now up to a confident Russia, a year into a failed U.S.-led coalition campaign, to deliver this reanimated corpse unto eternity. Anyone not willing to join with Russia, Assad, Iran, and Hezbollah was a "terrorist" or a covert sponsor of terrorism, who'd do well to get out of Putin's way. He arrogated to himself a very broad martial remit to bomb whenever and whomever he pleased, which is precisely what he did a mere 48 hours later, hitting several Free Syrian Army targets, including those which have received advanced U.S. weaponry courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency. We've seen this movie before--a mere 18 months ago. When the Euromaidan protests rocked Kiev in response for the Ukrainian government's failure to sign an association agreement with the European Union, it was announced on Russia state television that those demanding the resignation of Viktor Yanukovych were neo-Nazis in the pay of the U.S. State Department or the CIA. They, too, were rampaging through Ukraine and perpetrating pogroms against embattled Jewish and ethnic Russian minorities, who demanded Moscow's fraternal assistance. That these minorities demanded no such thing didn't matter. Posted by: Besoeker 2015-10-05 |
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