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The Most Pathetic Display of Diplomacy in History

Never in all of the history of international diplomacy has a man who holds all the cards caved so cravenly to the most desperate, the most prostrate and the most vulnerable military aggressor with absolutely nothing with which to bargain in such a short time. The opening paragraph of the Reuters story says it all:

In a few short hours in Alaska, Vladimir Putin managed to convince Donald Trump that a Ukraine ceasefire was not the way to go, stave off U.S. sanctions, and spectacularly shatter years of Western attempts to isolate the Russian president.

 What “mainstream media”–those now completely subservient to the man who wields the FCC as a weapon–will conveniently omit is the fact that American prestige was the most valuable asset traded away in Alaska. American prestige was obliterated in Alaska. It is now plainly manifest, painfully obvious and irrevocably established that the United States will cave to any show of force and that the United States is no longer a leader in the world: the US is now a pitiful lackey of ruthless, insane despots who engage in murderous campaigns against their own people and the world.

See no evil, hear no evil but speak a lot of evil shaking hands with evil.
See no evil, hear no evil but speak a lot of evil shaking hands with evil.

Source: Putin wins Ukraine concessions in Alaska but did not get all he wanted | Reuters

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“Humanitarian” Among Dictators

Reuters reports that

Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow with his family after Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds, a Kremlin source told Russian news agencies on Sunday, and a deal has been done to ensure the safety of Russian military bases.

The two claims made in this short paragraph are staggeringly inaccurate and infinitely ironic. First, only a ruthless dictator who has killed a million of his own soldiers and about as many civilians and soldiers in Ukraine could ever offer asylum on “humanitarian” grounds to a dictator who, with the aid of Russia and Iran, killed a million of his own people and caused 8 million of his own population to flee the country, creating the largest refugee crisis since WWII. The notion of “honor among thieves” absolutely pales in comparison with “honor among dictators”.

Second, it is hard to imagine that Russia actually believes that the rebels who have taken over Syria will follow through on their promise to protect the Russian port in Tartus, Syria. It is hard to imagine that the rebel armies who were laid to waste indiscriminately by the Russian forces on those bases will grant these ruthless murderers forbearance as a practical consideration for building power in the state they now control. Keeping the Russian foothold in Syria will, after all, pose a risk to the new regime that he rebels form in the future.

Exhausted financially and militarily, Russia will, apparently, spin any story to pretend that its disastrous defeat in Syria is a graceful exit. No one will shed a tear if the Russians in the Tartus military base are laid to waste.

Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow with his family after Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds, a Kremlin source told Russian news agencies on Sunday, and a deal has been done to ensure the safety of Russian military bases.

Source: Syria’s Assad is in Moscow after deal on military bases: Russian state media | Reuters

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Too Much Press for the Craven and Cowardly

If one is not comfortable with employment in a company whose CEO is fawning over the chief competitor’s CEO, then why would one vote for a politician who fawns over the nation’s mortal enemy? Nigel Farage’s unalloyed admiration for Vladimir Putin makes him nothing short of a traitor to his nation and to humanity. Were the UK dominated by a sensible government like that of Winston Churchill’s, Farage would have been isolated as Oswald Mosely was. Instead, Farage is granted every courtesy of a normal politician, rather than jail time. Prison is the only appropriate dwelling for craven reprobates who worship despots. The United Kingdom is another bastion of freedom dangerously close to losing its way and its privileges.

The Reform UK leader told the BBC that “of course” the war was President Vladimir Putin’s fault.

Source: West provoked Ukraine war, Nigel Farage says