Foreign Affairs
In reply to the discussion: Can Putin pull off the miracle? [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)MSM U.S./Allies News is calling for miscalculation by Putin and Catastrophic Loss by Russia with this Intervention.
It's hard to hear all that MSM/MIC NOISE and not be convinced that Russia wasn't going into Syria on MACHO/Bravado with ambitions to be the Power Broker in the Syrian situation to regain it's "Stature & Power in the World Power Axis."
I think we are led to believe that Putin is either a "Fool of his Own Ego" set to "fall on his face in humiliation" or that WE in the US have used our well connected Think Tanks of the "MIC" to entrap him in a situation which will cause so much Blow Back to the Russian Economy that there will be "Regime Change" coming in the near future for Putin/Russia for daring to intervene in our "U.S./Allies/NATO Affairs."
Therefore, our somewhat brutal and erratic Foreign Policy in the ME and North Africa might hobble on long enough to get us through the Next U.S. Election and then it will be time to pass the whole festering mess of a situation off to someone else's worry
Whatever is coming up now...will continue until there are obvious people to take the Blame before we pass the baton in late January 2017.
That's the Dark Scenario.....But, What IF the New Russia/Iran Alliance to Stabilize the Syrian Situation has Some Success? I don't hear anyone seeming to say there might be hope for that. And, maybe they are correct. Russia Overstepped and will fail as they did in Afghanistan...
But..........Then... It's such a mess its hard to make much sense out of any of it...but, we keep reading and trying to make sense of it. Nothing wrong with keeping informed as citizens, though.