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avoiding an outright revolutionary victory, Divisions within the Trump administration?, Drifting into confrontation with Iran … in a very strange way?, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry?, Michael Karadjis, pro-Assad orientation, Russian Federation, Strikes on Assad: Entirely circumstantial, Syria, the armed opposition, the evolving policy of the Trump administration, The Shariyat strike and its aftermath, United States
Michael Karadjis is an independent writer and lecturer at the University of Western Sydney
Bashar Assad, “nationalist” leader, held afloat by the intervention of both imperial superpowers and the rest of the world, hereditary ruler of a country now occupied by 36 foreign military bases, image from Radio Free Syria https://www.facebook.com/RadioFreeSyria/photos/a.382885705129976.91927.363889943696219/1477942602290942/?type=3&theater
By Michael Karadjis
The deepening American intervention in Syria under the administration of president Donald Trump has been both far bloodier than that under Barack Obama, and also more openly on the side of the regime of Bashar Assad, as has been clarified by a number of recent official statements and changes.
Emphatic pro-Assad orientation of Trump regime
First was the recent declaration by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that the only fight in Syria is with ISIS, that the US and Russia must work together on Syria, that Assad’s future is Russia’s issue and that the US is largely agnostic about “whether Assad goes or stays.” Tillerson also made one of…
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I’m leaving Syria alone, since I don’t know who to believe.
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Sorry, Norm, I accidentally hit send, or something else happened. I wasn’t finished commenting.
As with Turkey, Syria and the rest of the middle east is too screwed up (being nice here) to know what is actually happening there. And I just don’t know who to believe anymore, about this issue and all others as well.
This guy could be right, but as with the others, how do I find out if he’s right?
Hell, I can’t find out what is really happening, for certain, in my own backyard.
As you know, Norm, I have been all fired up recently, about the U.S. vs Russia routine. The thought occurred to me, a couple of weeks ago and last night again, that maybe this entire world war three routine is just that, a routine; another way to keep we the individuals in a constant state of fear and confusion.
So, I need to narrow down, once again, what I am going to blog about. Because all of a sudden, I feel like I’m chasing after marsh gas. And this isn’t the first time I’ve felt this way.
Does truth even exist anymore? Did it ever?
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It’s called “cognitive dissonance,” Dave. There is what you believed until now, and new “information” that contradicts what you believed, and intuitively you sense that the basis of the new information is as solid as what you formerly believed. It’s jarring and unsettling. Our first impulse is to retreat away from the discomfort of the confusion. Perfectly natural. Perfectly human. And there isn’t only Syria in the world to be concerned about. I hear you.
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Thank you, Norm, for discerning what I was trying to convey here!
Yes, it seems I have had a pretty steady diet of cognitive dissonance, for the last two decades or more. Like I told you the other day, The only thing I am certain of is that I am certain of not one damn thing!
Now I know what they meant by, Life is a _itch, and then you die!;-)
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