Comments on: The Saker: Putin withdrawing from Syria because he won

By: louisproyect

louisproyect — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:16:30 +0000

The Saker is a 911 Truther. You people really know how to pick ’em.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:31:34 +0000

“There is a lot we don’t know” is about all I can agree upon within the article. Mr Putin is one man, like Mr Obama representing a ‘collection of interests’. The general population doesn’t appear to be one of those interests. What is apparent is the notion of nation states or collectives therein are mere labels of convenience. Our evaluation of world events are fed daily via a dictionary of 19th century beliefs. We attempt ethical, moral understanding where ethics and morals, as we have been taught don’t exist. Our opinions and views are as inconsequential to the ‘collection of interests’ as the fate of the Syrian people.

By: susannapanevin

susannapanevin — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 03:24:51 +0000

Reblogged this on Susanna Panevin.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:29:15 +0000

In reply to Empire Of Stupid. You are absolutely right. The US government has taken away most of the money from the cities of America's infrastructure, social services, health benefits, etc,,,, what many people see in the streets of New York and San Francisco is just the mask but millions of people lack of the most basic means to fight hunger and lack of opportunities, homeless abound in every city in the US, many people who lost their jobs in the 2010 have not been able to recover, unemployment is high no matter what our government say. The only people, or the 1% are richer every moment, the gap in between the rich and the poor is bigger and bigger every time. With the 19 TRILLION dollars in debt the US government is going to default in the payments only for the INTERESTS, forget about the Principal. They keep borrowing more and more money to the Jewish banks who are the only beneficiaries of all this scam because we are also fighting for the Jewish entity of Israel and buy the military equipment from the Jewish owned Military Industrial Complex. The PETRO-DOLLAR has no value. All the apparent richness in based on money which has no gold to back it up. The richness is just a facade and will collapse any minute.

By: Seamus Padraig

Seamus Padraig — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:59:46 +0000

In reply to bill. Huh? Mosul is in Iraq, not Syria. The relevant question is what happens to Raqqa--ISIS' provisional capital. That's in Syria.

By: Empire Of Stupid

Empire Of Stupid — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:31:50 +0000

” … walking around in downtown New York or San Francisco you would never think that you are visiting a country which just lost two major and long wars … ”
Not so fast. Walk around the Wall Street area.
* Major construction site, still only half finished after 15 years;
* Road surfaces that would disgrace Albania;
* Infrastructure, exposed in gigantic repair holes that never seem to get filled in, older than most African countries;
* Building after building standing empty, while occupied ones find rents tripled and quadrupled;
* Homeless, disabled or mentally ill beggars on every block;
* A subway system that 16th century London would envy;
And zombies too mesmerized by shiny technology to notice any of this, in “the greatest city in the world”.

By: bill

bill — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:10:17 +0000

The Masters of the Universe may well not see Iraq or Afghanistan as the abject failures the average person believes which this article advances but rather being about securing specific assets/achieving specific aims whilst sewing a wider chaos, which have to an extent been achieved, despite public horror and at whatever cost. Likewise, what appears a disaster in Libya where people actually get to read about it may similarly be understood quite differently, as a success for Africom,a platform for greater influence in subSaharan Africa,the removal of an African leader with a vision for a more independent Africa with a new currency,the cherry-picking of Libyan assets by Western companies etc etc….. If its true that the Russian AF is leaving, Putin may well have had limited options in Syria with elections at home and concerns/criticisms about being more deeply drawn in.He may well want to hold Western peace initiatives up to the light and even have underestimated the perversions of the MSM,but having invested $billions in regime change in Syria,the West will go all out as deftly as possible to fabricate the conditions on the ground for Plan B and will offer Putin an eventual fait accompli around Mosul which he may later have no choice but to accept.