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Syrian Presidential Adviser Bouthaina Shaaban believes Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s surprise meeting in Damascus (07-01-2020) forms part of the ‘Resistance Axis’ response to the assassination of Iranian General Qasim Soleimani.
Source: Al-Mayadeen TV
Date: 07/01/2020
what was said about illustrating the “ethics” of the resistance: one must note that while the Captain of the Vincennes never apologised for his mistake in shooting down a civilian airliner ( indeed, he was honored with a medal), the Iranian responsible for a similar mistake is begging forgiveness before G-d and mankind.
It is said that the highest spiritual and ethical response to a sincere and remorseful apology is to accept it with grace (recompense is another issue). I have no hopes to see such attitude from the leaders of Canada or Ukraine.
But sometimes one can be pleasantly surprised. these sacrificial victims to the fog of war deserve to be honored and not fought over with the blame game.
The resistance has shown ethics. Now is the time to demonstrate class
Before any acceptance of the apology for this tragedy is entertained, pipsqueak Trudeau will have to receive his permission and talking points script from the Hegemon. Vassals don’t get to choose what they say or do.
Not wanting to quibble over the numbers but Trudeau et al should be tried for war crimes for indirectly killing 30,000 Venezuelans with his ‘Queen of regime change’ handler’s meddling and sanctions on that country.
Thank you so much – this is a stunning claim from Bouthaina Shaaban, and her smile says much about her excitement. Her expectations that the “response” will be greater than anything we currently imagine opens up a world for us.
Indeed, she is speaking of a new era, and West Asia will complete for its part what we have seen elsewhere in the world in history, the total independence from colonialism.
None of this actually has to involve violence. Will alone could be enough. But the military force is there if that’s what the old colonial powers insist on bringing down on themselves. What Shaaban is revealing, it seems, is that the consultations are still continuing, and there is no hurry or timetable because parties are acting within a new paradigm of determination, and are suffused with the excitement of the gathering of regional will to expel the colonizers.
The will is developing. All the cards are in the hands of the Resistance – and those who may think otherwise should go live on a US base in the region, or perhaps the Golan Heights, and see how safe they feel.
What about Trump Heights? Seems like a cozy tourist destination.
You are correct, Grieved, if we just look at how Idlib has been confronted by Russia and Syria. Putin and Assad have worked military, diplomatic, triad relations (Russia, Turkey, Iran) as well as US, Kurds and UN relations.
For nearly two years we have seen Aerospace and SAA pound al Nusra and the Uyghurs, stop for ceasefire passage of refugees, use Military Police to enforce de-escalation zones, deliver humanitarian aid and medical services while squeezing the sectors free of terrorists.
All tools of power and influence are used to get Syrian control of all its borders and land within them.
This flexible approach undermines Erdogan’s grasp for control, shunts aside US efforts to foil the strategy and gains turf for Syria with minimal losses and costs. Town after town, village after village, high points, roads, highways have come to Assad by way of Putin’s toolkit of strategies and tactics.
The ME is gravitating to Moscow because Putin and Lavrov talk straight, keep their word, and aren’t there to destroy and rule the nations. They came to kill terrorists so they won’t have to fight them in southern Russia or the Central Asia borderlands. They came to help old friends (Syria and Egypt). They came to be a humanitarian service to the true victims of American hegemony, of Western greed and of radical Islamic terrorism.
Iraq now is reaching out to Russia for missile defense weapons like it previously asked and got gunship helicopters when the Iraqis had dire need for them, as ISIS took control of Mosul and ravaged the country, and the US wouldn’t deliver any.
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Yes, that’s all very true and I hadn’t even thought of the ways and means yet, merely the will to achieve it. But Syria provides a perfect example of how the land is cleansed and brought to sovereignty: kilometer by kilometer, day by day, and the children inherit the final product.
China also – as you know, as well as anyone, and better than most – is part of this of course because it is not seeking to enslave nations through debt but to create new wealth.
It’s a new world. The US will be the last to embrace it, perhaps decades from now, but embrace it finally it must. Meanwhile, no one is waiting around. The world has changed, and is moving on. A major tipping point has been crossed.
China is just as ruthless as other imperialists, only their approach is different.
it is important not to be trapped into the illusion that spirituality means naivety, Where this come’s from who knows, the holy fool of Russia with his simplicity and lack of guile, the good and naive child ?
Spirituality is not an escapist route from reality, but about trajectories where reason and thinking advance knowledge through the highly unpleasant task of recognizing evil wherever it is manifest.
There is no escape, wisdom and peace will have a payment yet to be made.
The same way that US and western sanctions upon Russia and syria have forcefully developed their defenses and their autonomous growth, the childish but huge, crude military and human error of Iranian defenses will force their
reshaping their national defense ranks and sieve up the personell.
Because they have started from the scratch which was recoginizing the flops in their entirety.
WOW – what a fantastic video – I have always loved this woman..and she speaks my heart now.
I used the word ‘hegemony’ in a college communications course many, many years ago as it related to Reagan administration’s actions perpetrated on the Nicaraguan people. I, being unfamiliar with the term mispronounce it in my speech and was duly criticized by the professor. Now, with a wealth of instances where it most certainly applies, my understanding of that term runs deep and my pronunciation of it is flawless. This Syrian woman’s use of it fits tightly with my worldview.