My weakness and moral standing, and indeed those of many humans and countries including the so-called powerful, were severely put to the test during the destruction through the act of war, of a significant portion of the Middle East. For more than a year, the worst type of terror was visited on Syria and the countries around it. Infrastructure that took thousands of years to build and maintain, and that became part of the culture of a people were systematically destroyed. Most importantly, humans were slaughtered, many through the most obscene methods. Then the floodgates of refugees turned towards Europe. Now, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), an estimated 9 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of the civil war in March 2011.
Daily, we saw on CNN how thousands of refugees attempted to cross the Mediterranean to Europe using small and unsafe dinghies, and how many including women and the young drowned in the process. Yet, we watched! Weak and powerless!
Washington, dissatisfied had decided to rout the regime of Assad. But the scale of destruction, human suffering and misery became so unacceptable, going by whichever standard that the U.S lost every moral justification to continue to say or do anything about Syria. Then a few days ago, Vladimir Putin rallied his troops and sallied to Syria and within seven days attacked, destroyed and secured strongholds of ISIS and forces disloyal to Assad. He achieved in 7 days what the U.S could not achieve in 365 days! Putin has one reason, to wipe out anyone threatening Assad. Although late in coming, this intention is exhilarating! It should be seen that Assad´s sins are not as black as should warrant such scale of destruction as the U.S want us to believe.
My happiness knew no bounds and I required calling Putin on the telephone to thank him, to encourage him and to tell him that he assumed the moral leadership of the world and that he chose a path of honour by so doing. But again, I remembered my position in the power pyramid. I have since chosen another route!
Putin accused the U.S of causing chaos and disorder in the world, of exporting revolutions, establishing, manipulating and using extremist groups for its own gains, of arming all sides of wars, and of destabilizing the Middle East. Putin said he became convinced of U.S “exceptionality and impunity†which is dangerously undermining world order. So, he proposed to the UN to “help the legitimate government of Syriaâ€. The U.S and the NATO have since defended their respective positions and even accused Putin of dubiety.
But does Obama, barring other possibilities, know the workings of the U.S military-industrial complex, the network of industrialists, banksters, gangsters, mercenaries, economic hitmen, oil coup plotters and government officials who provoke wars all over the world, and who profit from wars? If he knows, does he have the capacity to force this network to rein in their greed? So, is it possible that Putin aware of this network and its power concludes that Obama is incapable of this much needed control and stepped in to save the world this disgrace?
The forces that keep the U.S fighting war after war against other nations, wasting American lives and diverting so much of U.S wealth and resources to military build-up (U.S military spending per annum is more than that of all countries put together) have been on for at least 214 years (the tempo only just increasing) and have been a major source of worry and exasperation to U.S presidents, senators, and elites in the U.S, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun (vice-president), Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), J. Edgar Hoover, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, senator Daniel K. Inuoye, senator William Jenner, Louis T. Mcfadden (congressman), John F. Hylan (New York City Mayor), Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler and many others have repeatedly issued warnings that the U.S government is under the control of an invisible government that is deeply involved in war racketeering. An unsuccessful attempt on Jackson´s life and the coup plot against the administration of FDR had their roots in this knowledge. Lincoln and Kennedy were not that lucky!
To buoy these claims, Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler says that war especially those provoked by the U.S is a racket and that it is the intention of the racketeers to make wars perpetually for profit. Karlvon Clausewitz agrees no less. He estimated that about 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the U.S during WWII. The war in Iraq and the oil deals of the bush administration confirms this. Are billionaires not also being made from the war in Syria?
A former Carter administration national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski said “Russia launched air attacks at Syrian elements that are sponsored, trained and equipped by the Americans, inflicting damage and causing casualtiesâ€, and asked Washington to convey to Moscow “the demand that it cease and desist from military actions that directly affect American assetsâ€. Now the question, could these assets mean ISIS and the mercenaries Putin accused Obama of arming?
This is what Putin knows and this is what he accuses Obama of. Let Obama say (no speechifying) if it is not the ravenous businessmen with the tacit agreement of U.S officials that supplies arms to both sides of the conflict in Syria, if it is not the U.S that buys oil from ISIS and if it is not they that facilitated the entire Middle East war! In the end, Putin may even be helping Obama, for Obama may be doing the bidding of the banksters and shadow government officials without knowing it. For more often than not, the servants do not know who their masters are and they have no idea what the real agenda is!