by Declan Hayes, Strategic Culture:
We have a saying in Ireland that, though we may not have gone to school, we have met the scholars coming back. With that in mind, the above quotes are given to say that, though I may not have not been seduced with the dulcet words of Lord Ram, Vishu or Krishna as they returned from school, I have met many patriotic Syrians and Armenians who are far more knowledgeable than those who use this site to denigrate them.
As regards retired USMC Col Black, many folks like him understand the art and science of war much more deeply than those like me, who never went to Boot Camp, could ever hope to. Syria, as one patriotic Alawite explained in a nutshell to me over a decade ago, was like a giant buffalo, which was brought down by an unending number of spears being rammed into its vitals. The question with Syria then and Russia now is how to endure.
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As regard the uninformed gutter sniping at Asma Assad, let me just say that I keep in touch with her family and, once Asma and her better half settle in Russia, I would hope to avail of his professional services as well as those of Fawaz Akhras, her Harley Street cardiologist father. I would also like to discuss with Asma how we can continue to support Syria’s military and civilian heroes. Call it my bourgeois prejudices but I love cultured women like her, who are a cut and more above their European equivalents, as they are above the rest of us.
Although Lord Ram, Vishu and Krishna might think the Assads betrayed Syria and Asma caught a bad dose of cancer as part of that charade, Kaouthar Bachraoui explained to me years ago that they were the biggest prisoners of the lot, at least so far as the war for Syria’s survival went.
Switching to Russia, we see its President issuing executive orders to its army and making all kinds of pronouncements on BRICS. The dismemberment of Syria and the coming war on Iran’s doorstep should be enough to put that concoction and those who endlessly prattle on about it on ice for the next decade.
Before Putin again turns his mind to that, he must first win the existential war Russia faces in Ukraine where, not unlike Assad, he thought NATO would play by the Queensbury Rules. As NATO is cockahoop about Syria’s destruction, Russia must expect the worst in the form of more assassinations (as in Tehran and Damascus).
Russia boasts of all its new weapons and it warns Rheinmettal about hiding behind Romania’s Ukrainian border. Fine! Turn those factories into ash and turn parts of Ukraine into a car park. Then return for the double tap. Although Russia’s High Command has no doubt worked through all such scenarios, they must act resolutely if Russia is not to become another Syria.
The IRA had a unique approach to issues like this. They would simply assassinate British politicians and blow up their financial infrastructure to catch their attention. Not the Queensbury Rules but it worked. As far as Ukraine is concerned, that is a risk free NATO bet as Ukrainian canon fodder is of no consequence to them. Unless Russia destroys Ukraine, Russia will be finished in the same way the secular Syrian Arab Republic, Iraq and Libya were. As Russia is not going to win any Western popularity contest any time soon, it would be much better off making its point, as the IRA did before it. Russia, like the IRA of decades ago, must call the shots
Russia cannot be deflected by the pie in the sky of BRICS, not at least until the Zelensky regime is hung, drawn and quartered and the punk states of the Baltics learn the hard way their neo-Nazi posturing is not worth the candle.
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