Russia has learned some dangerous lessons from the West’s inaction in the past. Here’s how to avoid a grimmer tragedy in Ukraine.
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The War in Ukraine is Beginning to Look More and More Like Syria
“War is too serious a matter to be left to the soldiers,” said the French First World War prime minister Georges Clemenceau. But the evidence of most wars in history is that they are also too serious to be left to the politicians. This failing is not yet evident in Ukraine only because fighting is still raging on the battlefields of the Donbas and is likely to escalate.
Source: The War in Ukraine is Beginning to Look More and More Like Syria – CounterPunch.org
Russia’s Success in Syria’s Civil War Doesn’t Mean Much for Its Chances in Vast, United Ukraine
In Ukraine so far, Russia does not appear to have succeeded in mobilising local support outside the Donbas self-declared republics of Donetsk and Luhansk where fighting is expected to escalate in the near future. But one parallel between Syria and Ukraine which works all too well is that modern urban warfare everywhere inevitably involves heavy civilian casualties, and this is true regardless of who is doing the attacking.
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But a popular drug is doing damage at home
All Trump’s Cover-Ups: From Syria Airstrike on Civilians to US COVID Genocide
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US Founding Fathers had a cynical side. They did not think people in government …
Source: All Trump’s Cover-Ups: From Syria Airstrike on Civilians to US COVID Genocide
Shattered Lands: A Short History of the Syrian Conflict
When the Arab Spring came to the Middle East ten years ago, most on the left welcomed the protests, except in Libya and Syria largely out of geopolitical concerns. If the world was made up of opposing camps, you had to support Washington’s enemies even if their secret police were torturers and their governments little More
Source: Shattered Lands: A Short History of the Syrian Conflict – CounterPunch.org
Imperialist musical chairs
“We simply cannot believe anything the Trump administration says—and neither can our allies.”