Missing the Soviets

 Anyone who follows the events in Syria can see US imperial criminality hard at work trying to support Al Qaeda-linked terror squads in order to overthrow the secular government of Bashar Al Assad.

I have predicted more than a year ago that the longer this fake western-sponsored 'rebellion" in Syria continues, the more people will see the ugly and fiendish nature of the so-called freedom fighters, who have degenerated into death squads intent on killing, raping, massacring, hacking up, summarily-executing, and lately, cannibalizing (literally) the bodies of dead Syrian army soldiers.

This on top of a recent report released internally by NATO, from data gathered by humanitarian organizations in Syria, that the Syrian government retains the support of roughly 70% of the population.

This is the big elephant in the room, so to speak. And it is that for any rebellion to be successful it must have genuine grassroots support from the majority of the population. This is the number one requirement for a successful revolution. Look at successful revolts which have survived intact in other countries and you will see this very fact.

This is the main reason why the so-called rebellion in Syria has not succeeded, and will not succeed, because it does not have popular support. The western media can lie, omit and obfuscate and ignore reality and facts, but this will do no good. The only reality that matters is the reality experienced in the hearts and minds of the Syrian people, and their hearts and minds are against this fake revolutions, and rightly so.

The west is trying to force upon Syria a group of corrupt and inept Syrian puppet expatriates who are unknown by the Syrian people and have no support whatsoever. Plus, some of them are actually ex-officials of the Syrian government who were sacked for corruption years ago by Assad.

Russia is also waking up from it's western-induced coma of the nineteen-nineties. President Putin has reasserted Russia's power and is working to reestablish Russian influence in old client states and some new ones. He has shipped S300 anti-missile batteries to Syria and may reverse course with supplying these to Iran as well, since the US has recently said that the S300 was not part of the UN sanctions against Iran, that the US recognizes the S300 as a defensive weapon, and that Russia's decision not to supply the S300 to Iran was Russia's own decision.

This was a major betrayal by the US and Russia is fuming. This is why the time when the US can run amok wreaking havoc on the world is over. In Syria and Iran the US empire will grind to a halt. Russia will not allow these two very red lines to be crossed.

Whatever one may think of the Soviet Union and their policies, one fact is indisputable: the presence of the Soviet Union was a stabilizing factor.

This is why the end of the Soviet Union was not such a good thing. The Soviet Union's foreign policy was assertive and naturally, and rightly so, suspicious of US and western intentions. The US has committed a lot of atrocities and horrible acts of violence, theft and murder in the post-war period, but without the Soviets there, the US would have committed even worse crimes. There NEEDS to be a counter weight to US power, that is why I'm glad to see Russia and China rising.

These two latter countries are certainly no angels and I disagree with them on some of their policies, but pound-for-pound, the US has both of these countries beat when it comes to the amount of misery, death and cruelty committed on the world by all three.

This is why I miss the old Soviet Union.