Climas

Lo que sorprende en estos días es el clima de fin de época (¿fin del mundo?) por parte de tantos analistas occidentales, en particular en temas militares y de estrategia. Lo que sigue viene del sitio web Sic Semper Tyrannis, a cargo del ex militar estadounidense Pat Lang. Presten atención al tono:  


Título: Kerry threatens a Security Council silliness
  
Texto: "Staffan de Mistura, the UN's special envoy for the Syrian crisis, appealed for fighters from the rebel group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham - formerly known as the Nusra Front - to be able to leave Aleppo with their weapons.

Eastern Aleppo, held by rebel forces, has been subjected to a constant campaign of air strikes by Syrian and Russian forces in recent weeks. About 275,000 people still live in the eastern part of the city.

He said he was prepared to personally accompany the jihadists out of the city if it would stop the fighting.

Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, backed the plan "for the sake of saving Aleppo."

The jihadist faction, however, has already rejected the proposal as a "surrender".

Russia and Syria say their forces are attacking Jabhat Fateh al-Sham. Western powers dispute this, pointing to the high proportion of civilians being killed.

Mr de Mistura said only about 900 of the estimated 8,000 fighters in eastern Aleppo were members of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham."  BBC

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I once asked the boys and girls from the WINEP and ISA/Kagan thinkeries where they got their information.  That is an awkward habit I have that can be summed up as "how do you know that?"  In the case of these citadels of exalted brooding the information is almost all sourced to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (an activity of MI-6).  This of course makes all the numbers suspect. Nobody knows how many civilians and rebel fighters are in Aleppo. 

The UN will investigate Russian activities in Syria? So what?  The Russians will veto anything they don't agree with.  That's real life folks.

The war party in the US is growing steadily in the halls of supposed power.  The American people, to the extent that they think about distractions from actual life, do not want war with anyone.  Least of all do they want war with Russia, but, it may happen, provoked by the chauvinists in both US political parties. 

The Israelis now realize that the Russians have already shot down a couple of their aircraft and that they now do not command the skies over Syria.  This is a game changer.

Natanyahu has asked Putin to mediate the Israeli/Palestinian dispute.  This is another game changer.  The US and especially our useless, arrogant and impotent State Department has clutched the ownership rights over the Palestine Question to its bosom for decades refusing to let the Europeans have any role at all. 

The war party; McCain, Lindsay Graham, their staffers et al are doing their best to provoke a war in the insane belief that the Russians will back away from us before that happens and that if they don't back away we can destroy them without being destroyed.

I am old.  I lived through the great days of the US.  I am ready for the cataclysm that may come soon.