Fall of Syria
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Not if they kill all the prisoner first.
The New York Times ran a story yesterday headlined, “U.S. hopes for peaceful transition of power in Syria after Assad’s ouster.” Joe Biden described the shocking, warp-speed collapse of Syria’s government a “moment of historic opportunity,” and pledged to rush U.S. aid to the failed state. Western North Carolina, not so much, but there’s not so much “opportunity” there either.
CLIP: Joe Biden celebrates Russian losses in Syria (6:11).
Slurring and stumbling through his short, six-minute speech, and repeatedly clearing his throat, Biden claimed credit for Syria’s collapse. "Our approach has shifted the balance of power in the Middle East,” President Cabbage bragged, adding “We now see new opportunities." I’ll bet they do.
Then, Biden confirmed the Proxy War link I’ve been suggesting, in his patented circumloqutious style: “This is a direct result of the blows that Ukraine, Israel delivered upon their own self defense with unflagging support of the United States.”
Biden said U.S. forces started airstrikes in Syria yesterday —an exciting new conflict!— hitting any holdout enemies opposing the loosely named, ill-defined, and mysteriously provenanced “rebel groups,” many of whom currently occupy slots on U.S. terror group lists. Corporate media has not explained or even expressed any curiosity about how the U.S. could so quickly tell the good guys from the bad guys with sufficient clarity to start dropping bombs on people.
Biden then launched the big announcement: the United States —not the U.N., the World Bank, or for Hades’ sake, not the BRICS— would help “the Syrian people” create an independent —Joe started coughing uncontrollably right when he said “independent,” presumably to cover his laughter— an independent new government and a spanking new democratic constitution that would be just “for them,” the people. And it will be so progressive; just wait and see.
Now, when Biden promised that the United States would “help the Syrian people” create a new government for them, the people, he meant just the Syrians we’re not bombing into the stone age, of course. The good ones, in other words. Those other ones are dead men.
On Saturday, as Syria fell and Bassad fled, Trump tweeted, “THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT!” and urged the U.S. to stay out of the conflict. Amusingly, the article quoted Jake Sullivan saying the U.S. would not get involved — one day before Biden announced U.S. airstrikes there and our intent to “help” build a brave new Syrian government for the right people.
Underscoring the significance of Syria’s sudden collapse within the larger Proxy War, the WaPo reported that deposed Syrian President Bashar Al’Assad was not, in fact, killed in a plane crash as was rumored over the weekend, but rather landed in Moscow, evidenced by videos circulating on Russian war blogs. The Times article stressed that Russia is losing regional influence, because the coup will probably sink Russia’s large naval base in Syria, and the future of Russia’s trans-Syrian national gas pipeline to Europe seems shaky. Conversely, the U.S.-backed, trans-Syrian pipeline now has a future so bright it needs to wear shades. Iran also loses, because everyone seems to expect the new Syrian government to be much more friendly to Israel.
So the Fall of Syria appears to be a major victory for the neocons, a last-minue win snatched from the jaws of defeat in the darkening twilight of Biden’s lame-duck term. The most suggestive remaining unexplained questions surround the inexplicable reason why the Syrian army simply melted away, allowing the “rebels” to snatch up the entire country in about ten days with almost no opposition, and why Russia and Iran more or less stayed out of the fight and let just it happen.
I can’t shake a wild theory I came across on social media this weekend: Russia traded Syria for Ukraine. There’s zero direct evidence, but it offers lovely explanatory power. We don’t know, and we will never know. So, we shall wait and see what happens next on the Ukraine front in the Proxy War. But I sense this is bad news for Zelensky.
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