As Conrad sees it, Putin's order to have Russian troops pull back from the Ukraine border last week was not a goodwill gesture in the ongoing dialogue with Ukraine PM Poroshenko, but the result of pressure put on Russia by Saudi Arabia!
Conrad's musings in the National Post are a toxic stew of Islamophobia, Putin-bashing and wishful thinking.
- ISIS is fading and will be beaten by the Kurds
- Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel will join forces to liberate Iran
- more bombing will bring peace and democracy to Iraq and Syria
- Iran is the main cause of conflict in the region... and so on.
In fact, Mr. Black pretty much gives you the standard PNAC/Likud boilerplate in one condensed easy-to-read article... I didn't have to run for the dictionary once!
And that doesn't happen very often when I'm reading anything by CB.
And that doesn't happen very often when I'm reading anything by CB.
Mr. Black, in spite of the many set-backs he has suffered over the past two decades, remains an entertaining spokesman for the smug and self-righteous Western elites.
Too bad he gets so much so wrong!
Ten years ago, with oil under $50, western companies were pouring billions into the Russian oil fields because it was profitable for them to do so at that price. Now that the infrastructure is in place Russia isn't going to be crippled by a price of $70, but the fracking industry behind America's petrol-renaissance will be.
There goes America's so-called economic recovery.
There goes America's so-called economic recovery.
"Demented theocrats" in Tehran aren't the biggest obstacle to peace in the region; that would be the demented theocrats in Washington who truly believe, in their hearts, in America's God-given exceptionalism.
The Arab people have been mis-governed for the past 65 years because American power has propped up corrupt and repressive governments, and forced repeated wars on the region to affect regime change whenever the vassals strayed too far from their script.
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