I know you can’t find these without a labeled map, and you have no idea what’s going on there, yet you fully support your taxpayer-funded exploits in these regions. Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey…. US bombs, interventions, election meddling, toppling of leaders, funding and arming of one set of currently-in-favor rebels (terrorists) to do clandestine US Gov bidding in these lands and many, many others. All of these are within easy reach of Russia. And your Gov would have you believe that Russia is the aggressor, that Putin is crazy. What would your response be if Russia were doing all of the above in the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada? If every land around you was being manipulated, occupied, destabilized? Your exploits create debt, death, destruction, destabilization, refugees, and angry terrorists that want to harm you for all of the aforementioned. And you’re not even embarrassed.
You really don’t know what you’re doing in Syria, or any of the countries thousands of miles away. You haven’t improved anything in the past 50 years of blustering around the globe. How do think this one will end? And at what cost along the way? How many terrorists can you create by blowing up things, killing people, interfering in their elections and governments, funding and arming terrorist rebel groups to help you with your designs which then turn against you? You never learn, despite this perpetual cycle of destabilization and destruction… unless the destabilization is, in fact, the desired result. Destabilized governments cannot resist, cannot withhold resources, cannot serve as allies to other governments over whom you seek total dominance.
From the AP this week: “Russia warns against US attack on Syrian forces”
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b1dff53fa4664a28ad9fbd6d4949fe71/russia-warns-against-us-attack-syrian-forces?nc=1475411110940
And from the excellent Paul Craig Roberts, and the Institute for Political Economy, on the perpetual warmongering. Bring Back The Cold War? “Pundits have declared a ‘New Cold War.’ If only! The Cold War was a time when leaders focused on reducing tensions between nuclear powers. What we have today is much more dangerous: Washington’s reckless and irresponsible aggression toward the other major nuclear powers, Russia and China.
“During my lifetime American presidents worked to defuse tensions with Russia. President John F. Kennedy worked with Khrushchev to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis. President Richard Nixon negotiated SALT I and the anti-ballistic missile treaty, and Nixon opened to Communist China. President Carter negotiated SALT II. Reagan worked with Soviet leader Gorbachev and ended the Cold War. The Berlin Wall came down. Gorbachev was promised that in exchange for the Soviet Union’s agreement to the reunification of Germany, NATO would not move one inch to the East.
“Peace was at hand. And then the neoconservatives, rehabilitated by the Israeli influence in the American press, went to work to destroy the peace that Reagan and Gorbachev had achieved. It was a short-lasting peace. Peace is costly to the profits of the military/security complex. Washington’s gigantic military and security interests are far more powerful than the peace lobby.”
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/09/30/bring-back-the-cold-war-paul-craig-roberts/
Paul Craig Roberts has done and continues to do some great thinking and writing on domestic and foreign policy, having previously been exposed to the inner elements of Gov as a Treasury official in the Reagan years, and also having worked on the dark side of Wall Street,… but Reagan does not get a pass in his analysis of where the country has gone wrong in spending, debt, foreign interventionism, monetary debasement, the erosion of civil liberties. And the bankster corporatists are appropriately maligned for their gov-assisted distortions of the economy for their benefit at everyone else’s expense.
I recommend his recent book, The NeoConservative Threat to World Order.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/
book link: http://www.claritypress.com/RobertsIII.html