In an effort to tamp down Western media reports that they had decided a rebel victory was “inevitable,” Russian officials today insisted that their position on Syria has not changed and that they remain determined to find a negotiated settlement to the ongoing civil war.
That didn’t stop US officials, and particularly government-funded outlets, from pushing the narrative that Russia was poised to abandon Assad and embrace the rebel fighters.
The uproar started yesterday when the Deputy Foreign Minister told officials that a rebel military victory “cannot be ruled out.” US State Department officials took this to mean that rebel victory was inevitable, and are already pressing Russia to join them in backing the rebels. Others have speculated the comment was a “misstatement” by the Russian official.
Absent from the discussion is the possibility that the comment was a frank assessment of the ongoing civil war, and the reality that since neither side seems to be able to win in the near term, the war remains undecided.
US STOP WARMONGERING
Same senario with the US and Japan that caused war between Japan and america FDR did everything possible to push Japan to the brink of the disaster that unfolded.
Um, if my history is correct, Japan bombed American territory at Pearl Harbor. How did FDR make the Japanese nation launch an agressive act like that? That's like the inevitable arguments about gun control which will come out of this latest tragedy in Conneticut. Give factual assertations that are at minimum believeable before you make accusations like that.
Well, when one harkens back and realizes that Uncle Scam reneged on the Philippines and their desire for freedom from Spain, and thus murdered tens of thousands of Filipinos in subjugating the islands to turn it into an American colony, and the fact that there would have been no Bataan death march had there been no American colonial troops stationed there, it's hard to feel sympathy for what occurred to the Yanks at Pearl… yet another imperial outpost at the time. There were warnings well in advance of what happened and even the newspaper in Hilo reported as much days ahead of what occurred. There was no "surprise" except to those outside the loop in DC. And it wouldn't come as any surprise that the events in Conn. will be used to push for a prearranged outcome at the expense of those who suffered a horrendous loss. One this is certain: if words are coming out of the mouths of politicians, and specifically American ones, then you're most definitely being lied to.
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Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short were hung out to dry, scapegoated, despite the fact that both asked Washington for more support and reconnaissance planes to patrol the area surrounding Hawaii. The "history" you were fed in school(odds are it was run by the government) would lead you to believe here was poor little old innocent America, viciously attacked by the Yellow Peril…nothing could be further from the truth. Remember the Maine?
US didn't "make them". Imperialist Japan was foolish enough to respond to American covert operations with preemptive attack. Japan treated America like a warring country -which it was, at least "covertly". For sometime, the US ferried logistics and weapons through nefarious channels. This is a fact of history. Imperialistic Japan responded with what they wrongly assumed was an equatable form of aggression. Rather, they wrongly assumed they could justify it.
Many empires buy into their own propaganda to justify warfare, Japan isn't allow. Take for example main theme. Syria is currently being baited by US-NATO and misconstruing language of Russians to propagate message in the US is clearly repeating previous model. There is nothing new here. Yet for some reason people buy it. New face, same suit. Russia disputes claims. Assad disputes accusations he kills Syrian civilians (and the civilians are not revolting and joining mass). Propaganda against Qaddafi, there was no Viagra fueled mass rape, no mass murder, no jets strafing citizens, no threat of genocide. The only evidence of ethnic cleansing in Libya was against black African Christians –and that was carried out by Obama's covert support of Islamic nutjobs.
Its amazing how Russia is the only Power supporting a brave President fighting Islamist scum in his homeland the Western media penciling the Syrian Govt as a regime and Assad as murderous dictator
Sorry Syria a pawn in the Israeli Zionist agenda to get closer to Iran with the US doing what asked of them