Thoughts on the past two weeks: America not being able to put al Qaeda on their terrorist list because of how much they financially support them in Syria highlights the absurdity of it all and why Canada should withdraw from NATO (US is afraid of lawsuits). If you're America and you can't place al Qaeda on your terrorist list, then your war on terror is a sham.
Excluding Qatar for the exact thing Saudi does is hilarious. Also, giving them a shit ton of weapons after Trump threw them under the bus is incredible. Dude couldn't even wait a week.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by Russians and the US media has barely mentioned it. Because it's all bullshit. They don't care. So much for Hillary's theory that if you kill him, like an end boss in a video game, Daesh would fall.
Thoughts on today's tire fire: Anyone who said Trump wouldn't escalate in Syria is an idiot. Anyone claiming Clinton wouldn't have, didn't listen to what she & her allies said. The moral hazard whereby Trump not killing Russians is evidence he's Putin's pocket is leading exactly where anyone with foresight could see. Now, the neo-liberal version of Fox news, MSNBC and its viewers, are in the awkward place of having to oppose a war that's the logical implication of everything they've been saying for over a year. Technically years if you review everything they said during the Obama administration.
I agree completely. Trump is not that different than Clinton in this regard - the puppet strings on him and the GOP go to the same place - to Netanyahu and to the Saudis. It's not a "fog of war" coincidence at all; it's a long-standing policy - "Deep State" stuff that any NeoCon or NeoLib follows like the holy gospel. The US does not want to "win" versus Al Qaida (now under its 4th brand name since the Syrian civil war began), not with these so called "moderate" jihadis working as allies to knock over any secular or Shiite regime in the region.
Where Trump's rhetoric does paint itself into a corner is his pronouncements regarding Russia. That comes from the "Alt" guys in his cabinet, and they have been getting whittled down by the NeoCons since the day he took office. Russia's been acting with more common sense about dealing with the actual terrorists out there - the same ones who attack us (The West).
We Canadians have been fed bullshit from the same herd though. Under Harper, we were conditioned to ignore the connections between those jihadi SOB's we fought in Afghanistan and the bigger SOB's who supported them from the Gulf monarchies. Just like the US, we've been selling their masters armaments by the billions, and denouncing
their enemies as if they were our own.
It would have been nice to say things changed once Trudeau replaced Harper, but nope. We are still selling armaments to the Saudis. We are still pretending that the Syrian rebel movement is not just another iteration of Al Qaida. We are still marching into a Second Cold War with Russia. Our current foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, is one of the most anti-Russian diplomats in the world, so don't expect any foreign policy renaissance from the Liberals.
To anyone who thinks NATO is still about defending the West, guess again. It spends more time antagonizing the very people who have the same enemies that we do. If only our own leaders could finally admit it.
