Sorry, wrong thread. On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Brenda Fernández <[email protected]> wrote:
> USG incompetence is hard to understand in these matters. I have no idea > why they fuck up like this, getting involved in a conflict, supporting a > side their are against to fight against the other side they are supposedly > also against, but always on paper, they will never go there be killed. So > why involve yourself in the first place other than to destroy what remains > of your reputations, what remains of your money and relevance? But it's > interesting nonetheless, to watch and see them fall, which they've been > invariably doing since Vietnam. > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Razer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 09/22/2015 05:26 AM, rysiek wrote: >> > They are both fucked up, in many *different* (systemic racism in the US; >> > systemic homophobia in Russia), and several *similar* ways (oligarchy >> running >> > things). And yet they are able to play us, because predominantly we >> simply >> > cannot see the bigger picture and cannot seem to understand *anything* >> more >> > complicated than the simplified beyond belief "USA BAD RUSSIA GOOD" (or >> the >> > other way around) worldview. >> >> For so many years now the geopolitical 'grand game' has been "Good >> Cop/Bad Cop", "Mutt and "Jeff" played on the typically indigenous >> people-d extractive resources nations (and in other ways against the >> west's manufacturing satraps) by the US AND Russia. Either you pick one >> side or the other or we have a war in YOUR country where YOUR people get >> killed and your society/way of life destroyed. There are no "nice guys". >> On the other hand I bristle when Syria's ally is accused of warmongering >> for doing what allies are supposed to do. Come to their defense in the >> traditional manner against an army of mercenaries that the West claims >> on one hand to be fighting, and on the other, had a large part in it's >> creation. >> >> Americans just sat idly by with their thumbs up their asses in denial >> while the State Dept and CIA created AQv2 from the Libyans we hired to >> sodomize Muammar al-Gadaffi with swords, and if the Russians want to >> eradicate that threat to Syria and the region, have at it. >> >> > > > -- > Brenda Fernández > [email protected] > GPG: CE5BEE6C81FCA4D4 > <http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCE5BEE6C81FCA4D4> > -- Brenda Fernández [email protected] GPG: CE5BEE6C81FCA4D4 <http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCE5BEE6C81FCA4D4>
