A brief history of Sleepy Joe's warnings to the world

As we all know, America is the undisputed leader of the world.

OK, maybe not the actual "world" world, but the free and democratic world; the "good guys." Being global supremo is a heavy burden. It's a lot like herding cats. It takes a lot of stern warnings to keep a lid on things. Allies and adversaries alike need frequent reminders of who's in charge.

Here's the Biden admin warning its Middle East allies not to play footsie with Bashar al-Assad, the evil dictator of Syria. Result? Assad just wrapped his Middle East Friendship Tour of US allies.

Here's a stern Biden warning to NATO ally Turkey to cease and desist ignoring previous warnings, or else!

Result? Business as usual.

Even before he took the oath of office, Sleepy Joe warned India against buying weapons from Russia. Result? India still buying Russian weapons. Also ignores Biden warning not to buy Russian oil by buying Russian oil.

Here's Biden warning China of consequences for support of Russia. Result? China still supporting Russia.

Here's Biden warning the European allies a year ago that America is back. How's that working out for them?

Iran has of course been thumbing their nose at US warnings since 1979, and life goes on.

And here's the most ominous Biden warning of all, warning Putin against invading Ukraine. Result? Putin invades Ukraine.

I think I'm starting to detect a pattern here. Maybe Sleepy Joe isn't the right guy to be leading the world.

Uncle Sam has a serious credibility deficit, and it's making the world a more dangerous place.

Syria developing nuclear weapons!

That's according to German news site Spiegel, who talked to lots of anonymous sources to get their story.

You'd think Bashar has his hands more than full without trying that kind of monkey business, wouldn't you? After all, that four year "Arab Spring" we sprung on him has pretty much had him in a corner, hasn't it?

Sounds like a bad dose of Sadam redux to me.

I smell a new anti-Assad propaganda campaign. Our dump-Assad project has gone completely off the rails. Here's a new banner under which we can regroup. The Nations of Virtue will need to mount a ground offensive after all!

Not 24 hours after Obama's new declaration of war, Canada's FM Baird inadvertently reveals NATO's true agenda

Regime change in Syria.

Yes, the entire "we gotta get ISIS before it's too late" scare scenario has been cast into question by pip-squeak NATO underling Canada declaring that Assad is slaughtering his own people with poison gas.

We've seen that story before, have we not?

And obviously, when an evil tyrant is slaughtering his own people with poison gas, and we're in the neighbourhood anyway, fighting evil-doers and terrorists and all that good stuff, is it not incumbent upon us to fix the problem once and for all?

So bombs away on Assad!

Let the projectiles of democracy rain down on the evil-doer!

Nations of Virtue decide Bashar al-Assad not so bad after all

Sorry there Bashar old chap; seems it was all a misunderstanding. We feel bad about the 190,000 dead in that little shit-storm we've been stirring for three years, but no hard feelings...

UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond went out of his way today to deny that Britain would in any way support, cooperate with or otherwise be in league with the guy they've spent three years demonizing.

Such an outspoken denial can only mean it's true.

Meanwhile, The Independent  reports that's already happening.

And if you watched the hysterically over-the-top Chuck and Martin show yesterday you got the impression they were priming us for some big news. (By the way, does anyone besides me get the impression that Chuck may not be one of the sharper tools in the shed? His script writers kept the sentences short and the words shorter, and still the man struggled.)

So maybe when Obama gets tired of golf or there's a rainy day, he'll inform the nation, and the Free World, that it's official.

"I stand before you this evening to inform you that America faces a new challenge, and to help us meet this new challenge, we embrace an old foe. It is my great privilege to introduce our new ally in the War on Terror, Bashar al-Assad."

US declares war on Islamic State - buckle up for blowback

The Nations of Virtue have been neck-deep in fomenting the anti-al Assad insurgency from the beginning. The brave but largely fictional Syrian Free Army was supplied by the US via various middle east proxies. Volunteers from around the world flocked to jihadi training camps in Turkey and Jordan and were then spirited into Syria with the full connivance of the US.

Alas, as Bashar al Assad's "last days" became weeks, then months, and now years, it became increasingly obvious that the imaginary democratic and moderate opposition we had created in Syria had morphed into something quite different; an extremist Islamic army trained and equipped by the US and NATO. Gradually the narrative shifted from "how long can al Assad hang on", to "how long before those foreign jihadis are back in Boston, Stockholm, or London, wreaking havoc on the soft white underbelly of the West?"

However hypothetical that question may have been yesterday, it takes on far greater urgency today. The news that the US Air Force has bombed ISIS assets in Iraq opens a new front in America's war on Islam. Now that we have raised a radical Islamic fighting force, by far larger, better equipped and more competent than anything seen before, it's only a matter of time until yesterday's paranoid fantasies become reality.

Where is the West's outrage as Poroshenko slaughters his own people?

You remember the "slaughtering his own people" meme, I'm sure.

Bashar al-Assad was slaughtering his own people, or was about to, or the thought had crossed his mind, and the editorial writers and TV pundits were unanimous in their outrage, clamouring for the Nations of Virtue to play the "responsibility to protect" card.

Gaddafi was "slaughtering his own people"... well not actually. Well, he might have, had we not stepped in with the R2P gambit... of course we don't know what he might have done, crazy maniac that he was. But thank God we got in there and saved the Libyan people.

Saddam Hussein was just a-slaughtering his people all over the place so often that it's a miracle we found so many more to slaughter when we went in there to save them. Yes, R2P is a serious obligation on the Nations of Virtue; why should we stand by and watch some tin-pot dictator slaughter his own people when we could be doing it?

Yes, it's been slaughterers and slaughterees and our virtuous meddling in joyous abundance... till we get to Poroshenko,not just thinking about slaughtering his own people, but actually following through.

And the Nations of Virtue are not threatening sanctions, not threatening no-fly zones, not threatening to invoke R2P...

The silence is deafening.

NEWS FLASH: US has been funding "al Qaeda" for years!

This blog about Ghassan Hitto from well over a year ago pretty much spells out how the US is funding its own enemies.

Why?

So it can have enemies!

After all, the death merchants who profit so handsomely from one US war after another have zero interest in peace.

If they can influence foreign policy with respect to Iraq or Ukraine or Georgia or anywhere else that a little local disagreement can be blown into a potentially world-threatening catastrophe, they are good to go.

When you read the various points of view about how ISIS came "out of nowhere" to threaten the imaginary stability of the Middle East, you will realize that no matter which narrative finally triumphs, it is the American/NATO war profiteers who will win in the end.

Even when they lose on the ground they will win on the balance sheet.

And that, from the point of view of the American capitalist war profiteers, is how you spell "victory".

Canada congratulates Syria on successful election

Looks like uber-windbag John Baird has at last come to his senses; he is finally showing some respect for the impossible situation we, the Nations of Virtue, have forced on Bashar Al-Assad. Read the full text of Minister Baird's statement;

Statement on Syrian Election Results

June 4, 2014 - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement on the release of the official results of Syria's presidential election, which confirmed Bashar Al-Assad as president-elect:

“We congratulate President-elect Al-Assad on the results of the election. As we all know, difficult challenges face the president-elect in leading Syria toward a more democratic, inclusive, secure and prosperous future, but such a future is in the interests of all Syrian citizens. We continue to stand with Syria in its efforts to confront terrorism, including throughout the Syrian heartland, where Syrian security personnel are confronting a dangerous insurgency sponsored by the Nations of Virtue.

“Canada remains committed to supporting Syria in making a peaceful and meaningful transition to democracy, based on respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law.

“This transition represents an important opportunity for Syria, one that can provide the Syrian people with the stability and prosperity they desire.”

Syria's ship of state listing dangerously

Here's how we know this.

The Syrian Arab News Agency is more or less the official government propaganda outlet.

What's interesting about this story is that it appears that the Assad government is relying on Agence France-Presse for its intelligence on the rebels. Note the reference to AFP a few paragraphs in.

I'd read the story about that particular smuggler on AFP's English language service France 24 before I saw it at SANA.

This is a government that was so sure of itself that it offered to do the out-sourced torture for Britain and Canada and the USA. A police state so confident that it knew it had every possible source of opposition well in hand.

Now they rely on foreign media to find out what's going on in their country.

Is this a good thing?

If you listen to the official nonsense emanating from London and Paris and Washington you'd be tempted to think so. After all, Assad is an evil tyrant who slaughters his own people while he's not busy doing our out-sourced torture for us, and we've been telling him for a year and a half he has to go.

So good riddance.

But then what?

As the Doha debacle this week showed, there is no such thing as a unified Syrian opposition. They've come up with a Christian communist who is going to direct the Salafist rebels on the ground in Syria?

Good luck with that.

If the Assad government collapses, there will be 10 million Syrian refugees fleeing the country instead of half a million, and the country will be the proxy battlefield for the war between the US and Iran for the next twenty years.

Ruskies pull a fast one, sneak 60 tons of ammo into Syria

With friends like Nikolia Patrushev, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be able to hold off his enemies, at least for the time being.

My morning paper tells me that Patrushev is the head of the Russian Security Council, and he's quoted as having inside info that NATO is plotting a "Gaddafi Solution" to the problem of this latest Arab dictator trying to prevent Spring from blossoming in his land.

So Patrushev authorized the shipment of 60 tons of ammo to the evil dictator, which would have gone undetected had not the cargo vessel Chariot  been forced into port in Cyprus due to stormy weather.

There a great hoo-ha ensued when the Cypriots discovered the ammo, the shipment of which is a violation of the EU arms embargo of Syria, which Cyprus is obliged to honor but Russia is not.

This left the Cypriots with a dilemma. Do they piss off their EU cohorts? Or do they curie favor with Europe and piss off the Russians instead?

After a day or two of head-scratching, a brilliant cover-our-asses compromise was hatched up. The Cypriots released the shipment after having the Russian captain sign a pledge that he would deliver the 60 tons of munitions to Turkey instead.

The captain had of course been crossing the fingers of his other hand even while signing the pledge, so he immediately changed course for Syria the moment he was over the horizon.

So the news media got a great story and al-Assad got 60 tons of ammo, which by my calculation works out to about 1,500,000 rounds.

Not nearly as newsworthy was the visit to the same Syrian port only a few days earlier by three Russian warships.

No word on how many rounds they dropped off.