…as Trump plays with his new war toy.
Last week, in an attempt to divert attention from the
ongoing car crash of his own administration, Donald Trump indulged in a little
bit of death in Syria.
Pundits and commentators – who insist on behaving as
if he is a real person – commended his actions. Frankly – if you are a
psychopathic murderer like Assad – wealthy, unopposed, unchallenged by your rich
neighbours and your country is the centre of the latest war games played out by
the world’s current crop of delinquent, personality disordered leaders – it
must seem like your birthday every day.
Assad’s latest atrocities allowed human sewer Donald
Trump to indulge in a little bit of death.
Not only is it a great way to distract from the political carnage at home, it’s
a fabulous way to stage a fake disagreement with Russia as the investigation into
the Trump election campaign’s links to Putin fail to go away. And while the
people of the Middle East continue to suffer and suffer and suffer – Trump is
flown, on Airforce1 between his new pad – the Whitehouse - his golf courses and
his holiday club Mar a lago where he happily exposed sensitive government
information in public.
Dump both echoed and crapped on the Obama position on
Syria in 2012. This side of the pond where all energies are – and will be for
years to come – mopped up in the cold, mouldy sponge of Brexit (see last week’s
post) – there was some fawning over the American attack. Which is odd – because
it was the 2013 UK Parliamentary vote – lost by David Cameron (then PM and
architect of the BREXIT debacle) that sealed the fate of action then. As the
consequences of the 2003 invasion were still evolving, no one dared look head
on at Syria. Congress refused to back Obama which meant the US could not follow
through against Assad when Obama wished to. Odd because Blair was able to
follow the war monger and idiot – G. W. Bush into an illegal war with no basis
the decade before. Once again, we have to say that the consequences of the
illegal 2003 invasion are long and wide and deep and will continue to skew
international reactions for the foreseeable future.
Weirdly, everything seems to be coming out opposites
at the moment. The situation shows the UK is already irrelevant on the world
stage – the total opposite of what the Empire mob who rode the BREXIT horse
into a ditch wanted. Trump – in dabbling with a bit of death in Syria - has
alienate the only people who really supported him – the extreme right-wing
white supremacists.
And while the UK Eton twonk, former Mayor of London
and our racist Foreign secretary Boris Johnson jumps on the Trump bandwagon –
the former head of MI6 and permanent secretary to the UN John Sawyers believes –
and I agree – Trump is also posturing for North Korea (the other country with a
spoilt brat leader with bad hair). Yum.
To add irony to injury, immediately after the US
strike – Assad’s planes were able to take off from the very air base targeted
by American missiles.
As the other miserable conflicts continue –
overshadowed by the Syrian mess – Ukraine, Yemen, South Sudan, Iraq etc – the
spoilt rich boys carry on chucking bombs from the safety of their privileged
life styles. The worry is that Trump may have enjoyed playing his new war game
and the US / Russia proxy war in the Middle East spreads to be the real
world-war we dread.
And who pays the price for these global war games
started by inadequate men with small personalities, distended egos and bad hair?
Always, always, always – innocent civilian men, women and children…
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See also blogs; 43 - Killing them Softly 172 – Syrian Pogrom and 200 - Suffer the little children – again…
(Syria)