Left-think!

Let’s all be friends, unfurl the rainbow flag and dance off into the sunset.

More crates of cash in US dollars, gifted to the enemies of the West: Great suggestion, and how did the appeasement process workout with Iran?

We wait for Trump in a couple of weeks, and hopefully Israel will be given the US support so lacking under the radical leftists Obama/Biden, to eliminate the ominous Iranian nuclear threat left hanging over Israel from the above, from their love affair with the enemy.

The abysmal output of higher education could not be better displayed than with this author.

Thank God for the return of Trump!

What a ridiculous article! As if the US has not already interfered in Syria. And as if the fall of the Assad Government occurred all by itself … as a result of some organic uprising of the Syrian people ... and not because of the regime change interference of an outside power.

From the time Obama covertly authorised Timber Sycamore in 2011, the US has been deliberately weakening and destabilising Syria in order to realise its longheld ambition of bringing down the Assad Government and gaining Western control over this resource rich and strategically valuable part of the Middle East.

The US applied crippling starvation sanctions to hurt the Syrian people and turn them against their own government. It conducted proxy warfare by arming and training the Free Syrian Army rebels. It carried out constant and lethal bombing operations. It set up a military occupation in the country's north east in 2014 and cut Syria off from its own oil and wheat, strangling its economy and extinguishing all hope of reconstruction. Several thousand US troops are stationed there to this day, purely in order to maintain this illegal and ruthless control of resources their country has stolen.

This so-called liberation of Syria will not end well. As in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Ukraine, this latest US-orchestrated regime change will leave a power vacuum which rebel groups and foreign powers will fight over with increasingly disastrous results. And as always in these situations, the suffering of the local people will continue.

One can only hope Trump stays true to his word. Without US interference, Syria might at least have a slim chance of rebuilding and of regaining its sovereignty.

Hi Bronwyn,

This journalist has quite a different take on things. Hatred of Assad is now open and widespread in Syria, and the citizens are still euphoric about their freedom from his Russian aided torture and tyranny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6AgvAutZc

Hello Fester

Caolan is a naive young kid who knows as much about Syria as he does Russia. Russia only intervened in Syria in 2016 at the request of the Assad Government. It was defending Syria against constant and destabilising incursions by the US, Israel and Turkey.

Russia has no expansionist ambitions … in either the Middle East or in Europe. Its military operation in Ukraine is about defending Russia from NATO’s missiles and the West’s regime change plans.

And yes, of course, there are vocal enthusiasts in both Syria and Ukraine of their countries’ efforts to move closer to the West. The US spends billions every year courting these people and fomenting colour revolutions and coups to orchestrate regime change to a less socialist and more compliant government. Some people are fooled by this. But a lot see right through it. And who do you think naive Western journalists are most likely to interview on the streets?

Large numbers of Ukrainians have just marched in the streets, as they do every year, to honour Nazi collaborator, Stepan Bandera. Dancing in the street is not necessarily a spontaneous and innocent expression of hope and joy. It can be far more sinister and often the dancers have no idea they’re being played.

It's a problem that Russia is friends with China. Russia had a chance to become less authoritarian and become a real western nation rather than a Machiavellian Turkish Dictatorship.