RE: Why all people think that Assad and ISIS are the only choices?
December 1, 2015 at 2:12 am
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2015 at 2:29 am by Anomalocaris.)
We may be able to develope a coalition of 4/5 of permanent membership of US security council.
But 2 of the 4 really are small fry with small heft and almost no staying power. The 3rd so happen to be the very one whose existence, to say nothing of its interest in the area, is so obnoxious to us that our persistent attempts to irritate it, annoy it, encircle it, sting it, detach its satellites, and remove its influence from the region is precisely a main reason for the Isis mess there in the first place.
US sees Russia as a far bigger and more persistent impediment to the maintenance of its own hegemonic position in Euroasia than ISIS can ever be.
Russia sees the US as a far bigger and more persistent threat to its own existence as major power with freedom to act on the international stage in Euroasia than Isis can ever be.
So this coalition is clearly a natural coalition that is bound to stick together and end well.
But 2 of the 4 really are small fry with small heft and almost no staying power. The 3rd so happen to be the very one whose existence, to say nothing of its interest in the area, is so obnoxious to us that our persistent attempts to irritate it, annoy it, encircle it, sting it, detach its satellites, and remove its influence from the region is precisely a main reason for the Isis mess there in the first place.
US sees Russia as a far bigger and more persistent impediment to the maintenance of its own hegemonic position in Euroasia than ISIS can ever be.
Russia sees the US as a far bigger and more persistent threat to its own existence as major power with freedom to act on the international stage in Euroasia than Isis can ever be.
So this coalition is clearly a natural coalition that is bound to stick together and end well.
