Here's a good question: How often have we heard Wolf Blitzer or Anderson Cooper on CNN, Chris Matthews or Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, or Shawn Hannity and Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, warning the American people about this highly volatile potential Russia/U.S. military confrontation? Perhaps I haven't been paying enough attention but I can't recall even one time that I've heard them say anything of the sort. But the one thing we do see is Trump continually being at the center of attention.
Ever hear a discussion about how tensions are growing between Turkey and the U.S.? Turkey is supposedly a close ally of the U.S. and a member of NATO but recently it has moved closer and closer to aligning itself with Russia. Nope, haven't heard that either but these shallow-thinking news organizations have plenty of time to report on how Trump is attempting to dismiss his own sexual dalliances by showing that former President Clinton's are far worse.
The learned CNN hosts don't talk about the crisis in Syria because they are busy playing and replaying the video and audio of that conversation on the bus between Trump and Billy Bush in which The Donald brags about how he can, anytime he wishes, grab some part of a woman's body.
Why is it that this media is not informing the American people about how its government recently announced that it is considering conducting direct attacks on the Assad government and the Syrian military; and that, thereafter, a Russian spokeswoman made it clear that if the U.S. followed through on that threat that it could result in total war and ignite the Middle East?
This counter threat by Russia should not be taken lightly because Russia has deployed very powerful, highly sophisticated S-300 and S-400 air defense missile systems in Syria; and it has said that "if U.S. warplanes attacked either Russian installations or Syrian troops they would be shot down immediately."
Mr. Obama's highly questionable strategy in Syria resembles Bush's senseless, misguided one in which he decided to remove Iraq's Saddam Hussein from power. It's kind of a "Deja vu all over again", pretty much using the same playbook as Bush but this time the target is Assad. Assad, in the eyes of many, is a tyrant but that doesn't give Mr. Obama the right to remove him.
However, he has been targeted for removal because he is an impediment in the continued quest by the U.S. and other Western nations to control Middle East resources, namely oil and natural gas. And since he won't play ball with those who are hell bent to maintain this control he has to go.
Russia is never, ever going to leave that country as long as conditions remain the same. It and its allies fighting on the ground, Iran and Hezbollah and the Syrian Army, are not going to allow Assad to be removed. So if President Obama and the military could see and digest the handwriting on the wall they would know that what they are trying to do is an exercise in futility.
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