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It’s more “here I go” . . . .
Syria has become a confused battlespace either inappropriate or improperly presented to Americans and other westerner.
I’ve suggested that Iran is the centerpiece, rightfully, and Syria’s woes degrade that state’s capabilities, primary and proxy.
But that’s not enough.
The Russian story seems to me also a western story — it’s not fun watching resident Russian affiliates of the regime take their hits in this warfare, although sympathy for them need not carry over to support of the Assad dictatorship.
For a whole nation to want to wrest control from a dictator and his anachronistic outlook seems a laudable thing; however, presenting the same with enabled forces just as bad or worse seems nothing short of asinine.
Russian post-Soviet neglect of Syria — or enjoyment of its services in trade! — has become the middle east’s political Chernobyl, and it is burning through its space and sucking into energy and interest from every party on its borders and outward around the world.
Russia vs. NATO x Sunni vs. Shiite rivalries are starting to look like swarms of white, yellow, black, and red wasps stuck in a bell jar, fighting over the air, and consuming it as they do.
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