Syria – An Update – Item One: RT Says Russia Holding On S-300 Delivery

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The black hole that is today’s official Syria and Syrian Civil War — a state so dense with evil and steeped in blood that it attracts its own kind and drowns them too — has continued sucking at humanity’s heels.

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This is a long clip from Al Jazeera, and I post it with mixed feelings — for length, for “carrying someone else’s water” as some may put it — but the Hezbollah story is integral to my view that events in Syria channel back to Iran, it’s nuclear and missile programs, it’s deeply anti-Semitic / anti-Zionist stance, and from Evin Prison stories back to the “chain murders”, and it’s own inherent evil and hypocrisy demonstrated in both its contempt for human rights and its grandiose ambitions.

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In addition to those still most recent YouTube videos, I continue scanning the war news — sadly, there’s more of that around the world than any geek at a computer might look over in a day — and in Syria, the conflict has achieved an odd kind of stability, a sort of infernal stalemate cordoned a bit by Russian forces, perhaps orchestrated some too with Putin’s hands on the really interesting levers — incumbent relationships with Syria, those ghosts of the Soviet-era; the Russian military presence at sea; the contracts and delivery schedules between Russia and Syria — and otherwise drawing fighters to its agony and struggle on behalf of two diabolical systems: an absolute dictatorship dispossessing and murdering its own constituents at will and with impunity; an equally absolute theocratic design representing a privileged few no less inclined to exploit minions.

Which of those two would you gamble on?

Place your bets.

Mine: Syria is it’s own anachronistic, self-destructing demolition project, the burning, energy-sucking black hole of global conflicts — and with close to 95,000 dead, 1.6 million refugees, and 2.4 million internally displaced persons, the Assad’s Syria — the state and the cities and marketplaces and neighborhoods that were — is no more.